Overall, it is hard for people to get themselves out of the position of needing approval from their authorities. If they were easily able to:
1. see that they were reliant upon approval
2. find a way to get out from under that need without suffering ferocious attacks from superego --
we would be able to have a much more humane society.
But these two things are the most difficult of all things to do.
And they are both linked to each other. We fear to see that we are slaves because of what this perception would require us to do as the next step towards freedom. We would have to confront our own already formed superego and bring petitions against it as to why we should be “free” to do something different.
But superego never values any argument to do with “freedom”. One can only become free by asserting one form of mastery against another.
The other aspect to be aware of is not being interpellated into a dominance and submission relationship, on the basis of subtle psychological cues. For instance, watch out when somebody insinuates that you are trying to dominate them, when you are really only interested in communicating something in a far more open-minded way. Or alternatively, the other person talks down to you whilst subtly implying that you are the kind of person who needs and desires pats on the head. In such instances, you have to really see clearly enough, and have enough mental acuity to observe their dominance and submission orientation and stick only to the facts.
A person who is invested in authoritarianism in one way or another is capable of infecting you with their perspectives, via their lizard brain convictions. (You pick up on the cues with the deepest part of you mind, and feel interpellated into different roles, depending on how the authoritarian sees you.) You need to deflect, like you were deflecting a punch in sparring. You may also need to realise that it is not friendly, but that it isn’t necessarily consciously intended on the part of the other person either, to involve you in a their own power dynamics. Many people do not function consciously in the world. From a shamanic perspective, they are sleeping.
1. see that they were reliant upon approval
2. find a way to get out from under that need without suffering ferocious attacks from superego --
we would be able to have a much more humane society.
But these two things are the most difficult of all things to do.
And they are both linked to each other. We fear to see that we are slaves because of what this perception would require us to do as the next step towards freedom. We would have to confront our own already formed superego and bring petitions against it as to why we should be “free” to do something different.
But superego never values any argument to do with “freedom”. One can only become free by asserting one form of mastery against another.
The other aspect to be aware of is not being interpellated into a dominance and submission relationship, on the basis of subtle psychological cues. For instance, watch out when somebody insinuates that you are trying to dominate them, when you are really only interested in communicating something in a far more open-minded way. Or alternatively, the other person talks down to you whilst subtly implying that you are the kind of person who needs and desires pats on the head. In such instances, you have to really see clearly enough, and have enough mental acuity to observe their dominance and submission orientation and stick only to the facts.
A person who is invested in authoritarianism in one way or another is capable of infecting you with their perspectives, via their lizard brain convictions. (You pick up on the cues with the deepest part of you mind, and feel interpellated into different roles, depending on how the authoritarian sees you.) You need to deflect, like you were deflecting a punch in sparring. You may also need to realise that it is not friendly, but that it isn’t necessarily consciously intended on the part of the other person either, to involve you in a their own power dynamics. Many people do not function consciously in the world. From a shamanic perspective, they are sleeping.
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I've spent the day at graduation ceremonies. They really are a large festival of approval by authorities. We know this of course, but it is still interesting to watch.
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Dominance and submission relationships -- yes. I really think I attract attempts at these due to some independent quality I have. I've tried to underachieve so as to be less scary (or whatever) but I am not able to lose whatever that independent quality is.
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