--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert Gimbel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is interesting to note, that many people who are attracted to "spiritual power" in this lifetime, were in recent past life- times associated with power/structure groups. > Superior(a pun)among them in the recent past was of course Nazi Germany. > This would explain why people with such recent memories of past quest's for power, > would be especially sensitive to "same types of feelings and archetypes in the present. This would include the tactics of the Bush administration, as well as other organizational themes... > So, when you see people concerned with power, and the abuse of power, and propaganda, and glorification of sheep/like obediance, and so on.. > one way to explain strong reactions and knowledge of these areas...
That's interesting - I've wondered about that too. Not just about Nazis though - I think it's a perennial theme. If you hold Love at the 12 o'clock position (in highest awareness) then its opposite, Power, will be at the 6 o'clock position (in the unconscious half of awareness). Whilst unconscious it will knock around causing trouble, until brought into consciousness and integrated. That's why in voluntary organisations/charities/educationsl/spiritual settings you so often get tremendous power battles - because Love (doing good, the wellbeing of others etc) - is at the top. You see more bad behaviour of people towards each other than you do in organisations where power is recognised and dealt with. Think of people who have gone into spiritual settings in order to just focus on that one aspect in their lives - and met power problems there (for instance an overbearing Mother Superior). It seems we can't get away from it. One example - Tony Blair sets himself up as an "honest kind of guy" (whilst you cringe at the mad 12th C crusader gleam in his eye) - and then gets hit by a "conman" scandal. Jung said: "it is not our business to create figures of light, but to make the darkness conscious. The latter however is more difficult, and therefore not popular". I think people will always try and move towards being figures of light - with resulting dangers of inflation and all manner of things. The Roman emperors used to have someone at their side reminding them that they were only human. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/