12-06-2009, 02:47 AM
Here is the continuation of my essay about how I relate Cesar's ideas to the Law of One.
The animal part of human nature, the up-from-the-apes part of our constitution, is also a pack animal. I read somewhere that 80% of people essentially have a pack mind. This makes sense to me.
Pack animal thoughts: Who is the leader? Oh, so this pack has a team of alphas, OK, what do they want us to do? Is it safe to give them our unconditional devotion, or must we utterly overthrow them and create a new alpha? (The only two choices for a pack animal.) Now what about the other pack animals, what's up with what the pack likes to bark about now? Where are we all going? How do we all feel about that? Do I need to be anxious about all this?
Certainly seems to me that this describes 80% of our news, entertainment, culture, advertising ("If you're like most people..."), business and daily encounters, doesn't it?
This is not STS, it is pre-choice, awake as an animal but oblivious to a higher potential of truly individual mind that's not defined by the pack at all.
The post-pack person is not a follower, not a pack leader, not a rebel against the leader. Instead, the person who's made the choice is someone for whom the pack animal thoughts are totally irrelevant.
If our mind has nothing to contribute to the situation, then our body can act naturally. If there's a clear need to follow a temporary pack leader, we effortlessly do so. For example, when river rafting, my natural path to survival is to do just whatever Alpha (the experienced guide) tells me. And in my favorite jobs, the boss was Alpha about what to do, I was a skillful Alpha about how to implement my part, other Alphas guided their parts well, and the pack went "woof!" on a regular basis!
An STS-polarized entity has two uses for people with a pack mentality. Until each pack member wakes up to their choice, the pack is easily guided and manipulated. While that can be handy for the alpha in the short term, it doesn't help the "score" of the STS entity. The polarity only increases if a pack member person can wake up to an awareness they have a choice, and then make the choice to give over their free will submission to the STS leader.
This is why all the fear is dumped into our society about the terrible consequences of going our own way. The fear is not needed to control the pack, but it's an attempt to get people to wake up and IMMEDIATELY use their choice to make a voluntary offering of their human status as an obedient slave. At this point the STS entity has captured another piece it can now play as it wishes, on whatever chess game it is working on.
If a pack-member person wakes up to choice and says, I don't need any pack leader at all unless I temporarily choose to join a pack going my way, then the person is free to love, accept, help, and serve whoever they wish at any time. This independence makes it possible to freely choose to serve others with an open heart, or to move on when one can better serve elsewhere, or simply needs some time to rebalance one's own self - without any manipulation of others in the process.
One of the things I love about Carla and Jim's work is that they seek only to make information available, not to create a cult in which they guide the lives of others. I swapped private messages with another member here about another apparently Law of One oriented group that seems to have a hidden agenda. As I see it, without mentioning any names, swirling around the key person in that other group are STS entities who use mixed messages of fear, anxiety, hope and disempowerment to lure in those who can be manipulated into abdicating their free will choices. They seem to be barking up the wrong tree in an attempt to build their own pack who will follow unquestioningly.
The animal part of human nature, the up-from-the-apes part of our constitution, is also a pack animal. I read somewhere that 80% of people essentially have a pack mind. This makes sense to me.
Pack animal thoughts: Who is the leader? Oh, so this pack has a team of alphas, OK, what do they want us to do? Is it safe to give them our unconditional devotion, or must we utterly overthrow them and create a new alpha? (The only two choices for a pack animal.) Now what about the other pack animals, what's up with what the pack likes to bark about now? Where are we all going? How do we all feel about that? Do I need to be anxious about all this?
Certainly seems to me that this describes 80% of our news, entertainment, culture, advertising ("If you're like most people..."), business and daily encounters, doesn't it?
This is not STS, it is pre-choice, awake as an animal but oblivious to a higher potential of truly individual mind that's not defined by the pack at all.
The post-pack person is not a follower, not a pack leader, not a rebel against the leader. Instead, the person who's made the choice is someone for whom the pack animal thoughts are totally irrelevant.
If our mind has nothing to contribute to the situation, then our body can act naturally. If there's a clear need to follow a temporary pack leader, we effortlessly do so. For example, when river rafting, my natural path to survival is to do just whatever Alpha (the experienced guide) tells me. And in my favorite jobs, the boss was Alpha about what to do, I was a skillful Alpha about how to implement my part, other Alphas guided their parts well, and the pack went "woof!" on a regular basis!
An STS-polarized entity has two uses for people with a pack mentality. Until each pack member wakes up to their choice, the pack is easily guided and manipulated. While that can be handy for the alpha in the short term, it doesn't help the "score" of the STS entity. The polarity only increases if a pack member person can wake up to an awareness they have a choice, and then make the choice to give over their free will submission to the STS leader.
This is why all the fear is dumped into our society about the terrible consequences of going our own way. The fear is not needed to control the pack, but it's an attempt to get people to wake up and IMMEDIATELY use their choice to make a voluntary offering of their human status as an obedient slave. At this point the STS entity has captured another piece it can now play as it wishes, on whatever chess game it is working on.
If a pack-member person wakes up to choice and says, I don't need any pack leader at all unless I temporarily choose to join a pack going my way, then the person is free to love, accept, help, and serve whoever they wish at any time. This independence makes it possible to freely choose to serve others with an open heart, or to move on when one can better serve elsewhere, or simply needs some time to rebalance one's own self - without any manipulation of others in the process.
One of the things I love about Carla and Jim's work is that they seek only to make information available, not to create a cult in which they guide the lives of others. I swapped private messages with another member here about another apparently Law of One oriented group that seems to have a hidden agenda. As I see it, without mentioning any names, swirling around the key person in that other group are STS entities who use mixed messages of fear, anxiety, hope and disempowerment to lure in those who can be manipulated into abdicating their free will choices. They seem to be barking up the wrong tree in an attempt to build their own pack who will follow unquestioningly.