Remarkably the predator is behind bars. For now. Everyone is shaking. An eye witness to the arrest said, even the predator was shaking, the one who never batted an eye at any sudden startling sound or event, who taught the value of being Okay in Auschwitz which meant a person of purity and higher awareness could be okay psychologically even in a gruesome system of control and abuse.
I once asked someone who knew him well in his early days, before he became a teacher of truth, is it possible he will be undone by his own teachings, falling on his own sword as it were? She looked deeply into me, very much like the predators own leveled gaze, so I wondered, maybe he had absorbed her power into him. She said, There are no teachings.
Of course not. It was all guile and pretense and the use of mysterious concepts, never fully flushed out, but oh so alluring. How often did I see him holding out a conceptual carrot to draw us past the current ruse of spiritual mythology we were enmeshed in and on to the next mystery. Nothing was ever flushed out and given real form. We were led wily nily into the next and the next and the next fake representation of his branded reality. His best material came from his followers who were sincerely devoted to a higher consciousness and the love of bringing that into manifestation.
You may read the news, its everywhere today, and wander into the comments of the secular readers. Find any number of opinions that point at us fools who fell for his artifice. Take a moment please and zoom out into the larger system of craftiness. The whole world is being conned by less than 1% of the population of the world, less than 1% that holds over 50% of our worldly resources. Vandana Shiva writes of the club of modern Mughals, in her latest book Oneness vs. the 1%, about the men who control our planet through wealth and greed. Tell me you recognize their authority and their machinations. Tell me you dont believe what the media wants you to believe while the earth is in shambles as a result. What fools we all are!
Shortly after my unusual conversation with the psychiatrist (see previous post Popping out of one cult) there was another unusual synchronicity. I was a subscriber of Academia.edu and it wasnt rare that I received an inquiry about a certain paper by an author who also used my name. Usually I deleted the mail but something stopped me to read a paper about William Shakespears Macbeth, a story of a good man who falls and betrays those he loves to fulfill his greatest ambition. How did Macbeth do it? Through trust. Inspiring trust is the prelude to a predators evil acts. Evil is not able to exist without people trusting and believing the perpetrators. Macbeth could not have committed his crimes if his victims did not believe in him and trust him. A cult leader does not entice young women into his lair if he has not first groomed them and prepared them for the very special promise of betterment to come.
According to the law, “if the accused induces the complainant to engage in sexual activity by abusing a position of trust, power, or authority, the complainants consent is legally invalid.”
Thankfully, I was too niave to respond to advances from the cult leader. I trusted him with all I had. If a gesture or look was made that spoke of an invitation I would look away, paralyzed with shock. I would tell others of what happened, reaching for some explanation, and I would be dismissed. Even though I am older than he, I was a child in relation to him. In the end, every conversation I had with him I would be in tears. I found it impossible to equilibriate the feelings I had for him and the treatment I received.
Theres a very old black and white cartoon called Crazy Cat, about a black cat that fell in love with a mouse but every time the mouse saw the cat it would hurl a brick and hit the cat in the head. The cat would see stars, and lose balance, and start to swoon for the mouse all the more. This pretty much sums up my relationship with the cult leader. Zoom out. As a society we are not fairing much better. Our relations with our world are as children to ambitious fathers. They are never there for us when we need them and ingratiating themselves when they want us, using us as they will, and playing with us because they can. For what but to increase their power while committing more acts of violence and destruction. See Macbeth.
Or any cult leader.
Alternatively, look at the possibility of not being duped by the powerholders in this world. See us changing our relations with things and with people. What is essential? Will it end up in a land fill somewhere sooner than later? I dont need it. Will it make bezozuckerbergates more money? I dont want it. Will it feed my need for dynamic conversation that stimulates cell growth, healthy and happily differentiated? Yes, please. Will it bring me closer to another human and allow us to create together? Please, I would love that.
Beautiful. Toto pulls the curtain back and exposes the shaking fraud!