I think we can all agree that our world is changing. For me personally, I couldn’t be happier about this change because it it fuled by Love! Intense solar and cosmic energies are affecting all life on earth, but so is something else, the placement of the heavenly bodies around us commonly referred to as…astrology!
I AM including an article here by Carl Boudreau, and eminent astrologer who gives me a sense of ease with his srticle I have included below. Yes…the astrological signs point to rapid change of our world, but more importantly…in us! But, astrological signs (well explained by Boudreaus) inidcate this change is not without our growing realization of who we are.
Isn’t it nice to witness many ideas and pieces of information coming together like the various planes of a faceted diamond to cause the Earth, with human inhabitants, shine from the Light (truth)? Please read this astrological essay from Carl Boudreau, consider how you are reacting to change in your workd, and…
Injoy!
On this day when Mercury turns retrograde to travel backwards (from our point of view) for the next three weeks — while continuing to square (90°) Neptune, thus amplifying and intensifying the subtle confusion, disorientation, and boundary dissolution that Neptune, during these many years (2012-2025) when it slogs through its home sign of Pisces, guarantees — we, of course, continue to be surprised by seemingly endless shocks to the global system and to our personal, familial, tribal, and national boundaries and structures that the Uranus/Pluto square (2012-2016) which, though its seven exact aspects are done, is itself, in terms of continued effects, by no means done! All these years, we’re being softened up for continuous transformation. And it does seem to be working!
Here’s astrologer Carl Boudreau, with a marvelous overview of this tumultuous, tsunami-riddled voyage we all decided, as souls, to embark upon, by incarnating on this intensely alive Mother Earth at this seemingly climactic point in her planetary, solar systemic, and galactic story.
“The stuff of the outer world has been softened and supercharged, making it far more reactive and malleable and amenable to radical change. The stuff of human nature has also been softened and supercharged. It, too, is reactive and subject to sudden and radical transformation.”
Moreover, there’s good news. Read on, the whole thing — at least once, probably more! Especially during this Mercury Rx time (May 17- June 11). It might help to integrate all that you have been experiencing/thinking. Indeed, I dare you to NOT find resonance with immense ongoing struggles in your own wild and beautiful life.
May 11, 2015
by Carl Boudreau
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What is All This Intensity About
This post presents my understanding of why things are so intense on the psychological and spiritual fronts. I also suggest why we can expect continuing, gradual relief from this non-stop intensity.
Please Note: This post is to explain what has been happening, not to predict more of it, not to predict the worsening of a difficult situation. Quite the contrary. As I will explain below, help has already arrived.
Successive Waves of New, Unfamiliar Energy
Psychological and spiritual issues, both new and old, have been arising with unusual frequency and force. Some of these inner challenges are doubtless the result of energetic overload from a series of energetic tidal waves. These do seem to have served as a setup for spiritual and psychological crisis, though not, I think, as the direct cause of these crises.
Between 2008 and 2011, the three powerful outer planets all changed signs. Each ingress brought a wave of new and challenging energies.
These successive energetic bursts affected our inner state both directly and indirectly. Directly, by stimulating our subtle bodies and indirectly by triggering psychologically and spiritually challenging events in our lives and in the wider world.
Pluto Enters Capricorn – 2008
Pluto entered Capricorn in January 2008. Historically, Pluto’s transits of the Cancer/Capricorn axis release immense amounts of energy, more than you would realistically expect from a simple transit.
Pluto, for example, was in Capricorn during the American Revolution. It was in Cancer from just before World War I, until the beginning of World War II. That transit also coincided with the Russian Revolution, the rise of dictators like Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini and the rise of militarism and expansionism in Japan and The Great Depression.
Accordingly, Pluto’s 2008 Capricorn ingress coincided with a wave of strong shocks to the world’s social, economic and political systems that has not fully subsided. On the energetic level, the ingress barraged our nervous system and subtle bodies with a wave of raw, spiritual evolutionary power.
Uranus Enters Aries – 2010
Uranus entered Aries in 2010. This transit, powerful in its own right, was intensified by a lengthy Uranus/Pluto square. This square enlarged upon and extended the disruptive social, economic and political effects of Pluto in Capricorn. Energetically, inwardly, it brought another blast of raw – and difficult – psychologically and spiritually transformative power.
Neptune Enters Pisces – 2011
Neptune entered Pisces, its home sign, in 2011. Neptune in Pisces began dissolving the foundations of prevailing worldviews, adding more social, economic and political unrest. Energetically, its energies hit our subtle bodies with an influence guaranteed to soften and dissolve the spiritual and psychological foundations of our personality.
The End of the Mayan Calendar – 2012
An ancient prediction focused everyone’s attention on the winter solstice of 2012. In that chart, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto were linked by very exact midpoint contacts with Uranus.
This inclusive network of close midpoint contacts made all five of the outermost planets agents of Uranian energy. That, in turn, increased the breadth, scale and rate of change in the world. It also added to the overall volume of energy our subtle bodies had to process.
The Diamond Tetrahedron – 2013
On the morning of July of 2013 UT, a Star, or Diamond, Tetrahedron took shape in the heavens. In my opinion, such structures, although certainly important, are not particularly well-understood.
Suffice it to say, a massive, inclusive field of intricately coordinated astrological energies added to the quantity and complexity of energy already affecting individuals and the world.
Outwardly, it would dramatically facilitate social, economic and political transformation and probably render these changes unstoppable and completely irreversible. I believe it would function like a wormhole through history, moving us with unusual speed from one historical era to another, very different era, by rapidly accelerating the rate of change on all levels.
Inwardly, it would further accelerate an already dramatically accelerated process of psychological and spiritual transformation.
However you slice it, you don’t just go back to a previous status quo after such a series of astrological events. The world not only changes, it not only stays changed, it continues to change and as a direct result of these aspects. The energies and processes unleashed during such a time continue to flow and ripple through subsequent history.
The Usual Astrological Suspects
The big ingresses are done, now. There are no major anomalous events on the horizon. Major supportive aspects are taking effect (see last month’s statushttp://on.fb.me/1F4E786). The world shows signs of putting itself back together.
Meanwhile, Grand Squares, conjunctions, oppositions, eclipses and such continue. Regardless of their relative power, the over-reactive state of the world stuff amplifies their effects. But given the state of the world stuff, even minor squares can stir things up enough to give us all the jitters.
Future Shock – Abnormal is the New Normal
Given all of the above, given our new starting point, it will be a long while before we even begin to approach anything you would call “normal.” And given the state of the world, it would be very hard to imagine what that new normal would look like when it finally arrives, except to say that it would be very different.
The stuff of the outer world has been softened and supercharged, making it far more reactive and malleable and amenable to radical change. The stuff of human nature has also been softened and supercharged. It, too, is reactive and subject to sudden and radical transformation.
I think it fair to say that we need to get out there and meet the challenges because they aren’t going way. And seize the opportunities. This is a get in on the ground floor situation. Don’t get left behind.
Clearly, this long series of energetic bursts was a setup for psychological and spiritual crisis. However, I think all of the above only partly explains the frequency and intensity of psychological and spiritual crises we are experiencing. But there is a grouping in Pisces that has a much more specific and direct causal relation to that issue, IMO.
Along Came Nessus – Nessus Enters Pisces
So, in my opinion, the trio in Pisces is at the root of the persistent intensity.
Chiron was already in Pisces when Neptune arrived. Nessus first entered Pisces in late May of 2014, which is when reports of spiritual and psychological crisis began pouring in.
Nessus re-entered Pisces for the full transit in February of 2015, which is when the intensity began picking up again. Neptune, Chiron and Nessus will all be together in Pisces until Chiron leaves in 2018.
With its natural effect on our spirituality and our worldviews, Neptune’s energy essentially targets our inner lives directly. Chiron and Nessus, for their part, are both known as drivers of spiritual evolutionary change.
They are also known for adding a painful edge to the process of change. Chiron is known to use illness and injury to overcome our resistance to needed change. Nessus is known for translating spiritual evolutionary lapses, especially moral lapses, into physical or psychosomatic illness. In the event, Chiron and Nessus would seriously compound each other’s effects.
Neptune, powerfully situated in its home sign, Pisces, liquefies toxic emotional sediments in the subtle bodies, releasing them into awareness, demanding they be dealt with. It also release painful things locked in the unconscious.
In so many words, Neptune dissolves the blocks that keep old traumas, guilt, shame, bitterness and anxiety locked in the unconscious. All of the things that block psychological and spiritual growth and, by the way, fuel the work of Chiron and Nessus, come into consciousness.
Vesta, faster moving that the other bodies in Neptune, also directly effects inner, spiritual and psychological conditions. For the sake of brevity, let’s just consider Vesta a transient intensifier of the processes governed by the other bodies in Pisces.
The Good News – Help is Already Here
As I hope I made clear, this post is to explain what has been happening, not to predict more of it, or the worsening of a difficult situation.
There really is a lot of good astrological news. But we want to avoid thinking that there will be a quick fix for the psychological and spiritual challenges we are facing.
The toxic contents of the unconscious accumulated over a rather long period of time. They will not be released all at once.
Once released, they will not be dissolved all at once. We will have to study up on and perfect the spiritual skills and techniques required to deal with them.
But there is good news. The same positive aspects now showing up in the heavens, and which are helping us put the material world back together, will facilitate the purging and healing processes being triggered by the bodies in Pisces.
These supportive aspects will help relieve psychological and spiritual discomfort by providing direct energetic support to our subtle bodies. They will also help with the outer challenges that add to stress levels and impede the changes required for healing.
As I reported previously, the Jupiter/Saturn/Uranus trine relationship, in effect until August, is providing synchronicity and positive traction. Saturn in Scorpio/Sagittarius, Pluto in Capricorn, Neptune in Pisces and Uranus in Aries are forming an added series of sextile and semi-sextile relationships.
This bracelet of positive aspects will be in effect for years into the future. It will augment the power of the fire sign trine while it is in effect. When Jupiter leaves Leo, the big fire sign trine will break up. However, Saturn and Uranus will remain in trine relationship and Jupiter will form a new trine with Pluto. All of these planets will continue to participate in the bracelet of sextiles, semi-sextiles and form new trines, also.
In effect, all of the outer planets, from Jupiter to Pluto are involved in supportive, protective, facilitating aspects and will remain so for years into the future. Please take a moment to stop and register that good news.
Spiritual and Psychological Relief, Too
Generally speaking, the bodies in Pisces will also participate in the benefits brought by these supportive aspects. We can renegotiate the terms of our contract with the world to benefit our healing process and make the changes our healing process requires.
More specifically, and more immediately, Venus is making a series of trines to the three bodies in Pisces.
Venus in Cancer trines Nessus in Pisces on May 10th.
Venus trines Neptune on May 16th.
Venus trines Chiron on May 27th.
Venus trines Vesta on June 4th.
As I said last time, these trines will allow us to harmonize our healing process with important relationships processes, our social life in general and our spiritual aspirations. On another, deeper level, we can coordinate our healing work with the profound psychological and spiritual processes governed by Cancer. As the months pass, other favorable aspects will further assist us in the healing process.
http://exopermaculture.com/2015/05/18/carl-boudreau-overview-of-current-astrological-intensity/
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23 comments:
I so agree with your words. To support your comment I would like to draw attention to the fact that on the day 9/11 occurred there was a huge solar flare from the sun. Many scientists argued that the solar flare may have been a catalyst for the 9/11 events, but I knew straight away, to my very core, that the solar flare was a direct reaction to the anxiety and heightened emotions of collective humanity, which was a direct result of the televised vision of those planes hitting the Twin Towers. It was the emotional trauma that humanity suffered that day which directly effected the sun. The elite manifested the entire thing! They are playing God and that can’t be good!
As usual Vis you have your finger on the pulse.
Luv Kazz
by Kevin Barrett January 31, 2015
A review of “Methodical Illusion” by Rebekah Roth HERE
Interesting Comment:
Martin Maloney February 1, 2015 at 5:38 am
“@Alesandro :
‘How is it that THIS BOOK would be allowed to be published…’
You’ll find the answer to your question here:
http://www.ktysmedia.com/
It’s a small, independent publishing house.”
What I wanted to share with someone tonight was something I found that i had copied years ago from Faustina’s diary. After reading the insightful and even daring comments above on materialism
( someday I will write about the very rich man from LA who found his way to DC — homeless, paranoid, schizophrenic; but as his therapist I heard repeatedly only about his boat and homes and cars and possessions…for many weeks until they stopped possessing him…)
It appears this is the place to share her mighty words:
“…
…How fleeting all earthly things are, and how everything that appears great disappears like smoke and does not give the soul freedom but weariness.
Happy the soul that understands these things and with only one foot touches the earth…
When I left the altar, an extraordinary peace and power filled my soul, and the storm that was raging broke against my soul as against a rock;
and the foam of the storm fell on those who had raised it….
..Then I heard the words, Do Not Fear, I am with you…”
Thank you for these spaces you provide.
katy
No need for the turbo-charged postings, like you were James A. Michener crossed with Phillip K. Dick, Vis.
Am still chewing and ruminating on the last one and its comments; thoroughly enjoyable.
So that’s what happens when I lose it. Brilliant! A priest / counselor / poet for the ages. May Viz be lifted up.
Yes, they are hijacked. A horrible example is the perception of cancer. Though cancer was shown to be cured in 1934 to chief scientists who could verify (a la Royal Raymond Rife), the Rulers (they apparently now like to be called Olympians [as in Greek gods] [gag]) have managed to continue selling the worthless chemo and radiation therapies to the ignorant. Medical people maintain an undeserved status THAT CAN KILL YOU.
The disfunction is acute, especially among the slow and ignorant (where I currently live). Moving among them reminds me of Seven of Nine whose normal functioning terrified even the advanced non-Borg.
I am comforted to learn that tablet technology is Android (a form of Unix). We can get away from the evil Windows marketer. I have used Unix (Linux) before (very fast and powerful, enormous and stable). If I’m not mistaken, most of the world uses it. Cheaper too. We advance….
Get thee behind me XV.
Love,
Magdelena
Source or true Cause is Eternally Indivisible, and yet our human consciousness is a facet of a fragmented disintegrity in which coercive power seems to divide and rule in power OVER Life.
In the wish-attempt to control Life is the reflection of dissonance and disorder which reinforces its own ‘foundation’.
The more coercive or fear-defined control is asserted, the more out of control one’s self-world experience.
Relinquishing a phoney power allows spontaneous yielding to true harmony of a wholeness of being in resonant relation within all that is presencing itself.
The abyss can symbolize the nothingness of destruction or insanity – but it can also indicate the not-knowing through which Life Knows Itself Truly. For the belief one already knows is the dark lens by which one sees nothing truly.
An unyielding point of view operates ‘denial’ and wars not with reality but within itself as a denial of awareness of reality – of what is true to the reality that You Are. To fit or limit oneself to a machine is a chosen condition, but to persist becomes a self-conditioning. But self-definition remains a creative acceptance of true function and not a coercive imposition of power upon powerlessness. Nor a hiding of the illusion of power within a belief in powerlessness.
humanity rages
destruction in stages
of everything under the sun
the birds and the bees
the rivers and trees
it seems like the end has begun
a population of people
turned into sheeple
conditioned to crave more and more
life based on greed
want, desire and need
leads to nothing but war
the planet is dying
the animals crying
the forests all being cut down
the climate is hot
except when it’s not
and some say we’re all going to drown
living in fear
something is near
now we are all scared to death
chaos and change
can often feel strange
please just take a deep breath
we eat poison foods
take meds for our moods
we’re so ill we cannot take action
to keep us asleep
the tendrils run deep
with all manner of lies and distraction
we cut the tops off the hills
down below oil spills
for us to progress, it is said
it’s hard not to believe
if we do not grieve
soon we all will be dead
so what can we do
just me and you
to turn this whole thing around?
one way to recall
our connection to all
is to put our bare feet on the ground
now feel the Earth
remember its worth
let the energy run through your soul
look deep in your heart
that’s where you start
to connect yourself to the whole
this cannot be solved
if you don’t get involved
start now, there’s no time to wait
change how you’re living
stop taking, start giving
please, before it’s too late
and so there you are
if you’ve made it this far
three last things I will say if I may
begin with a bow
stay here in the now
and remember to breathe every day
The Eucharist, holy communion comes to mind. Material, my dear Les, is part of it, no more good or ‘bad’ than the spiritual. During communion the physical is united with the physical – no “either/or”.
And it is certainly a “shared knowledge”, participated in by a commune “ity”.
People keep talking to me about ‘prophecy’..but are things really worse than ever before?? I don’t think so, “we” just think so…history repeats.
Sadly.
The “gestalt”, oh yes. My Wife and son piss me off, often.
So what? It teaches me. I piss them off as well. One day we will appreciate this. The interplay is necessary.
God bless you Les, Namaste.
Perchance by God’s grace we meet some day across Lethe, we’ll have a good laugh, eh?
Thanks, many thanks
-the beggar, who does not shrink from dumpster diving for treasures both spiritual and material.
I’m okay, as long as one foot touches the earth, like one foot (or more 🙂 touches my loved one (so earthy)
in bed at night.
– your beggar, at your service.
Everyone gets what they want; forever.
Srila Prabhupada: “Karma means to fulfill my desires, and bhakti means to fulfill Krsna’s desires. That is the difference. Now you make your choice, whether you want to make your desires fulfilled or if you want to make Krsna’s desire fulfilled.
This is the difference between material and spiritual.”
Not that it matters in the whole scheme of things but it was entertaining.
And I did say on that day, “It looks like a Die Hard movie”, even if I was somewhat in the dark back then.
The more coercive or fear-defined control is asserted, the more out of control one’s self-world experience.
That statement reminds me of the scene in Pan’s Labyrinth where the girl has to draw a chalk door and go through it. She succumbs to temptation by eating at the banquet and in doing so awakens the monster who promptly places his eyeballs in the palm of his hands and goes on a rampage after the girl destroying all enchantment while it mechanically goes about attacking anything that it views as a threat to all it could never eat in one sitting. Notice that this particular eyeball in the hand symbol is rife through advertising. A hallmark trait of the dark ones and their constant main stream media spell casting. This is unfortunately still the state of the bulk of humanity today though. Greed and materialism summed up to the eyeballs, CONSUME, CONSUME, CONSUME -sigh-
Viz – I didn’t say the Patriots cheat I read that somewhere. But I don’t care if they do or don’t. This is the Kali Yuga and cheating is the order of the day.
Kazz – lovely display of humility back at Origami. Hey with regard to the elite, they don’t manifest anything – their minions and the brain dead do it for them. It’s refreshing to see that it now looks to be the case of 911 being the last almost successful false flag. They are failing in an outstanding manner these days with their piss poor attempts. The harder they try the more people they wake up. Oh the irony is lovely.
first there is something I want to get off my chest. I called you “a whining little bitch” a little over two years ago, and I have numerous times thought myself as strong as you, and arrogantly sought to steer you according to my limited mind. For this I apologize, and should it happen again, please know that it is simply my mad ego talking. I have begun to get an idea of what kind of integrity, will-power and endurance it must have taken to SPEAK THE UNVARNISHED TRUTH for so many years, and I wonder if I have that kind of stamina too. Time will tell. By the grace of the Lord. I have learned much from our interactions, and your words, and you have given me the greatest of all gifts, by repeatedly saying “GOD IS REAL, AND I KNOW IT”, and lead me to find Him/Her/It myself (well, found and found, but gotten into contact with ;)).
I have been looking at diggerfortruth.com (thanks Galen for pointing that out), and that “guy”/being seems to be the really real deal. I must research it slightly more, but it rings so so true. To read his simple prayers, and him saying “it’s the jews!, don’t use any other words”. And his dedication to NOT HATE. The root cause of our troubles is “them who CALL themselves jews”, the synagogue of Satan, and unfortunately they are protected by their lesser, ignorant brethren, some of who are good people. Thus, “the jewish elite” is more correct, but DO NOT SHY AWAY FROM THE J-WORD. HATE feeds the darkness, and we should Love them, but who knows what Love is? In this case, it is to do all that is in our power to STOP THEM! EXPOSE THEM IN ALL THEIR WICKED WAYS! This is a spiritual WAR! Well, Vis, you’ve been doing this for years. Awe-some!
I do not believe like you do, though, Visible, that we are necessarily entering a golden age. Science tells us that there are 30000 billion billion stars in the visible universe (yes, that is a number we can’t grasp, hehe – “WOW!” TO GOD!). With so many worlds, I simply cannot believe that Satan cannot get a whole planet, that will then stagnate and die, or otherwise rot away. But I hope you are right, Visible, I do.
In any case, this is a truly beautiful existence, underneath everything. Just seeing a piece of wild nature tells us something about the mind-stopping magnificence of the Lord. Add to that the sayings of the saints that tell us that the higher worlds far surpass this plane in beauty, and I don’t know what to think, except that it’s best not to think anything about it. Just let it come as it comes. Now there are more urgent things to consider, seeing it is wartime.
Respect, Mr. Visible!
(I might still try in my dry way to tease and provoke you, but please take it more as sport ;))
Godspeed, all my fellows! May we be blessed with Strength to endure, Courage to face all fears and speak TRUTH, and the Power of Love to Hate nothing.
re:
the touch of a foot ….
Oh.
My-
Yes.
katy, at yours
It’s a bit long, so I’m more comfortable linking it.
Haven’t read past that one yet, but, knowing this place, I anticipate good stuff.
I would love, by the way, to see Visible’s closing salutations from the radio show put into print somewhere. Just as text somewhere on these pages would do it. Even once. I could type them out myself. I wanted to here, but I didn’t want to miss any or get them in the wrong order and I don’t feel like listening to an old show just now.
Visible, I really hope you get the new radio show done. I miss your voice. Be well!
Excellent!
I know you to be a kind, thoughtful, spiritual man.
Each and every time I come here I am blessed.
I wanted to say that I think we are not all alike, despite what the American and European media and governments insist we believe.
I’ve read the sort of outrage that I am linking to hundreds of times before and I do not go and seek such out. Whether Africa, Asia, or Latin America, I find a disregard for animals, and that includes torturing them for fun, even here, in the USA we have seen horses murdered for FUN by new immigrants from south of the border. Well I think we need to perhaps REJECT what the mainstream media of Canada, England, USA and etc spew day and night and what the government will PUNISH you if you do not accept it.
Cats Smuggled from China Buried Alive in Vietnam
Guardian, February 4, 2015
Vietnamese authorities have buried thousands of seized cats–many believed to have been alive at the time–that were smuggled from China to feed the illegal cat meat trade.
A truck carrying three tons of live cats crammed into bamboo crates was impounded in the Vietnamese capital, Hanoi, on Tuesday. On Wednesday a police officer said they had been buried in accordance with Vietnamese law on smuggled goods.
Seems there’s more work ahead ’cause Brandon said this:
“Surely, there is a need for people with a talent to inspire others to thought and to action. But these men and women are nothing unless they can motivate individuals to eventually take their own initiative without orders. A true leader is a teacher — nothing more. And if he really cares about the future prosperity of the people he is teaching, that teacher’s objective will be for his students to exceed his own capabilities and to become independent in their accomplishments. … All that matters is how effectively and efficiently we can get the facts to the public. … Without risk, there can be no organization against tyranny and, thus, no chance of success. If you are afraid to be put on the naughty list in the National Security Agency database, if you are afraid you might lose your job, if you are afraid you might be labeled an ‘extremist’ or if you are afraid of uneducated public perception and this has prevented you from building mutual aid and defense groups where you live, then you have already lost everything. Fear leads to inaction, and inaction is death. … Risk is inevitable. It is unavoidable. All anti-establishment, anti-tyranny movements depend on it. THE MORE PEOPLE WILLING TO TAKE RISKS, THE MORE EFFECTIVELY ‘SAFE’ THAT RISK BECOMES.”
— Brandon Smith, “Organizing Against Tyranny,” 2/4/15
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I know you weren’t attempting to slander me concerning the thought that The Patriots cheat’ that is WHY I wrote the following disclaimer comment. But I’ll admit I can react sometimes and of course I’m sorry about that but… it happens.
In any case, here’s the latest on that affair and it looks likely to me http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/02/06/new-deflategate-theory-colts-deflated-ball-after-jacksons-pick/
It made no difference in the game. The Pats crushed the Colts but some of The Colts were pretty upset about it. Anyway, I’m writing a post, back to it.
Hope all is well out there- new post in the morning.
Personally, I am my own leader, my own Priest and my own scientist. I will follow someone but only if they are going to a place I want to be and only if I think they can get there faster.
Leaders suck and I wish they would all go to hell. Fuck the first son of a bitch that crawled out of the forest and called himself a king. They are all arrogant. They are all stupid. They are all viscous.
High Priest, King, Sovereign, President, Pharoah, Emperor, whatever. We don’t need them. But, we have been fooled into thinking we need them.
Bastards!
McCob
McCob, I understand; I detest all forms of hierarchy. Yet I think back to this old adage though I forget who said it:
“What’s the difference between a ruler and a leader? Answer: A ruler says, ‘Go!” A leader says, ‘Let’s go!’
So the true leader is willing to be with you in the trenches, no matter the danger, no matter the sacrifice, and they’re usually endowed with great doses of courage. And in a sense, that is what a real teacher is too; he/she teaches by modeling. The rest is all ego-game or money-game.
Even in nature we see the development of natural leadership: the alpha dog; and in the geese
flight-formation, there’s that one at the helm. But those geese also take turns at leadership. I don’t think their mind-set is that any is lesser than another, they just have found a way to get the job done. I love the idea of rotating leadership.
I think a true leader would welcome criticism and challenge. I’ve mentioned this before, but one teacher told me: “It’s the teacher’s job to get the student to pass him up.” In other words, he’s not invested in remaining the teacher but rather in advancing the teaching. Anyway, I do see that teaching and leadership have their place. Imagine trying to set a broken leg without having been taught the best methods for advancing healing?
McCob, I too, was scarred by some false ones who’d exploit me. And you are right: many leaders are NOT teachers, and especially today, serve the dark side. But I’m thinking about those who’ve lifted me, taught me: the many brave journalists, artists, activists, etc. They will forever be teachers to me and their leadership cleared the path for my improvement. None disempowered me, but rather helped me tap into everything I saw in them and aspired to become. They were/are so very humble; I guess that quality helps discern who’s the genuine item and who’s the ‘sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal.’
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McCob, ps: Come to think of it, sometimes there were leaders/teachers who weren’t all that humble, who were actually proud; they knew their value and worth and stood in that truth. Teresa of Avila once said, “Humility is truth.” I guess it’s all about the proof in the pudding, about what they’re bringing, and I bet each was flawed and sometimes uncertain.
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