Why Young and Baby Souls are Stuck on Trump?
#1 in “An Essay a Day Challenge”
By Eric Blair
Everyone familiar with the Michael Teachings knows something about the hypothesis of Soul Age evolution. Michaels’s attempt to reduce or paraphrase to aphorisms, concepts about the mentality of a soul stage of development, has probably heard that Young Souls enjoy: domination, competition, contest, and status. Culminating in the use of that 1980’s credo of acquisition: “he/she who dies with the most toys wins.”
Such a statement is misleading because they don’t want to die, they want to be seen as successful, as winners – in the game of life, as victors over ‘lesser foes’ by their own reckoning. Add the Baby Soul tendency which views difference as threat, then challengers to their position become ‘opposition’ if not morphed more hostilely into enemies and eventually combatants. It is only a Mature Soul view that sees disagreement as a mutual enterprise amongst equals where “winning” can only be achieved through invention and compromise, not defeat of the “other.”
Hence, it is a common refrain, particularly from Baby and Young partisans who identify so dearly with status, or their painful lack thereof, to want to line up behind a “winner” and thus symbolically reveal their mindset by simply saying to others, “well we won, and you lost…get over it.” This statement has appeared by many times in social media as the opposition has expressed their shock and dismay about the character and actions of the Trump Regime. Therein lies the shallow adolescent truth they hold so dear: it was just a contest! He/they were the victors and everyone else are the losers, the defeated, and hence should be vanquished (however that might look) – because…they don’t know – they haven’t had the experience yet; hence Soul Age evolution.
In the extreme and sometimes even desperate sense of the negative pole of these early developmental Soul Age, defeat, and loss, are personalized and seen as the ultimate shame and demoralization. The backlash from these emotional states can be inwardly psychologically traumatizing but generally stirring of resentment and bitterness that lead to reactive retaliations, rather than proactive growth and understanding. This is also the recipe used to manipulate and enflame a herd mentality or mob.
Yet very few of this ilk understood, or were willing to extrapolate, the complicated consequences that could result from such a win. No, their primary mindset was on the surface affect – a swelling of ego pride from a belief that their identification with him, made them equal to him. A mistake, that is being revealed at glaring costs to all yet still is met in some partisans with resounding denial!
And, as denial is the primary mechanism of an Ego trying to rationalize its decisions, especially detrimental ones, the arguments for Trumps (and Musk’s) actions will move into first, personified brilliance and then into deification religious mysteries of power that only Ayn Rand’s version of Nietzsche’s Übermenschen’s of wealth might conjure. Not Howard Roark nor Zarathustra mind you, but a Gandolf figure – though more like Sauron. No wonder fanatics need to elevate him to the “Chosen One.” Emotionally, as the waves of dissonance drown them, and evidence undercuts their facades, the “freakout” that ensues will be both terrifying and crippling to watch. All will be caught up in it to some degree. The challenge will be to confront and mitigate it.
All because “WE WON” in the battle! No, everyone loses in the actual aftermath. Simplistic thinking is usually based in the addictive need to have a thrill of victory, a jolt of euphoria, a payoff to the brain with faith confirmation, a dopamine hit. And not, by contrast, in the assessment of the long-run ramifications of one’s actions, in advance. Because decisions from the calming and clearer measure of serotonin might blunt the zings of cheers or jeers. Emotion, not thought, reign supreme!
As a final example current in human society of this Young Soul World View in action, one need go no further than ANY type of Professional Sports. The glamour of identification with a team or star player, the mania roiled for in a “game”, the amount people invest/spend in the distraction – memorabilia, ticket price, or most accessible – pay-per view, demonstrates the sheer addictive and deceptive qualities of modern bread and circuses. Even the names of the venues resound the term that the Roman’s used: a Coliseum. The modern, highly physically skilled gladiators can provide vicarious excitement to the brains of onlookers who gain nothing from the interaction but a shot of adrenaline and perhaps an excuse to have multiple shots of their favorite intoxicants. Sports provide little but “emotional zings” to a passive audience who is vastly sedentary, tired, bored, or addicted to stimulus like Pavlov’s dog. Associate that with fashion, violence and in entertainment, and domineering sexual attitudes, and other outgrowths of the Baby/Young Souls most structural cognitive learning stages: status in a hierarchy that seeming physical prowess of beauty or strength, bestows with it…even if merely by mental identification!
So Trump won. A Pyrrhic Victory, at best. Now, as tens-of-thousands of jobs are terminated from our government services, and the reverberations of lost purchasing power, diminished stock and pension portfolios, and rising prices of “eggs” but let’s not forget: gasoline, utilities, rents, and interest rates; hasten collapse. I wonder how long the “I won” mentality will sustain them? Blaming Liberals is hollow ego-diversion, and like beating a dead horse. Avoiding what is happening in the present, by the vermin, vampires, and vultures of a wealth corps’ of so-called ‘elites’ (more like ultra-privileged), is hypocritical of them to say and bitterly cynical to hear.
“But HE/WE WON!” Perhaps this is the line of an epitaph for America? Maybe the Earth as it is consumed? And by the way, the analogy of “swamp” they programmed you to rebel against, is mistaken. For it is actually living breathing ecology necessary for a living system…it wasn’t perfect, but it DID work! What this closed, single-minded attitude mistakenly released, was a cesspool. An anerobic mass of rotten ideas festering with parasites and toxic to all. It is the Golgothan (i.e. movie “Dogma”), rising out of filth. If you still believe you deserve congratulations, please excuse me as I instead assist in trying clean-up the incomprehensible mess you’ve unleashed, rather than join you in the bleating of blame and self-pity. Homer Simpson might now say “DOGE!” instead of “DOH”, as an expression of that idiocy.
Homo Sapiens, are trying to evolve out of this paradigm’s need for Ego-driven palliatives for our animal nature, and into mature Human Beings of a spiritual soul. It is those Mature and Old Souls who must lead the course of action and move forward. But naming the impediments, the “problem children”, and their attitudes is a beginning of rectification, not of selfish hand-wringing. That too, would be the adults and elders, acting like entitled teenagers.