Can True Power overlap spiritual political distinctions minus Dough Boy Mentality?

You are the judge, let’s first explore political and see what distinctions mainly surface.

Political Power is essentially the capacity to Force or Influence others to do what you want them to do.

It is the function of structure of organizations. 

Political Power does not actually reside within the person but rather the position held in Anarchy or in the Money one happens to have to create organizations to do what one wants to be done. 

Political power is always “Temporal”. One may have it for a while, but eventually it will be wrestled away.

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Spiritual Power, on the other hand, has little to do with organization or structure. It resides not in position or in MONEY but in the person’s being. It is the capacity to influence others, often by example, simply by VIRTUE by the kind of person one is.

Those that are politically powerful usually do not possess much in the way of Spiritual Power.

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Conversely, the Spiritually Powerful are as likely to be found among the Poor and Disenfranchised.

Executives are subject to the very same TEMPTATIONS that Jesus confronted in the desert.

Unlike Jesus, many are likely to flunk the Test, they harden and lose their capacity.

They are reflections of Lord Acton’s famous maxim: “POWER TENDS TO CORRUPT AND ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY”.

A mature professional executive worth their weight in position are exceptionally self-reflective individuals with extraordinary insight, concern for others and suffer deeply in their work.

By necessity they Wept with One Eye, but maintained their capacity for vulnerability the mark of true great leadership. Perhaps the best measure of a person’s greatness is their capacity to suffer.

The greatest Power a Top Executive has is the Ability to determine the Spirit of the Organization.

If their Spirit is Mean in some way, that Meanness will pervade the Entire Organization or simply administration modeled after the Spirit of “DIRTY TRICKS “virtually everywhere.

Political Power is generally attainable by only a relative few, SPIRITUAL POWER CAN BE OBTAINED BY MOST. PEOPLE CAN STILL CHOOSE TO NEGLECT OR CULTIVATE THEIR SOULS.

WHEN YOU MAKE THE CHOICE FOR CONSCIOUSNESS, LEARNING, AND GROWTH, THEN YOU HAVE CHOSEN THE PATH OF SPIRITUAL POWER, WHICH RESIDES IN YOUR BEING AND NOT IN YOUR POSITION.

Throughout the centuries, Theologians, in considering the Dichotomy between being and doing, have invariably come down in favor of being. 

In other words, who you are-what kind of person you are-is much more important than what you actually do. A hard concept to grasp in our New Millenniums action oriented culture.

The problem: tendencies to come back as nothing had happened and when asked what about it followed by memory refreshers New Millennials often virtually scratch their head, commenting, “I VAGUELY REMEMBER SOMETHING ABOUT THAT”.  

The best Psychotherapists learn, if they hang in there long enough, to stop trying to heal their patients.

What they can realistically set their sights on is building the best possible community, healing will naturally occur without their having to “DO” anything. The power to heal, a spiritual heal comes from God. It is a Gift. The Giver should have intent that it should be used in such a manner as to ultimately give it away. In other words, the best reason to have any kind of Power – Spiritual or Temporal – is to use it to Empower Others.   

 New School Culture versus Old School Integrity.

Old School Knew where to draw the line.

Culture may be defined as the interlocking system of norms and values, implicit or explicit, within an organization. 

Every organization has its own culture.

The subject of culture in business is much written about. One of the most influential books of prior century was Ruth Benedict’s Patterns of Culture.

The message of this book was that NO CULTURE IS BETTER THAN OTHER.

Benedict’s book put forth the concept of cultural relativism, whose underlying PRINCIPLE IS WHAT IS CONSIDERED GOOD FOR ONE CULTURE MAY BE CONSIDERED BAD FOR ANOTHER.     

IN OTHER WORDS, “ETHICS” ARE TOTALLY RELATIVE TO CULTURE.

SOMEWHAT LIKE SITUATION ETHICS, CULTURAL RELATIVISM HOLDS THAT JUDGMENTS CANNOT BE MADE ABOUT ANY CULTURE EXCEPT FROM WITHIN IT.

The concept of cultural relativism has done much to broaden our minds – minds that very much need broadening. Unfamiliar conceptional compatriots in cultural relativism generally demonstrate arrogant JUDGMENTALISM that can be inappropriate to withhold such as in senior care industry.

Industry holds two different types, one type raves about beauty and efficiency while the other type lives horrified by the poverty, but also by INCREDIBLE HIGH PRICED INEFFICIENCY.

DAILY THEY ARE FORCED TO WITNESS AND ENDURE ROUTINELY THINGS BEING DONE POORLY THAT COULD OF JUST AS EASILY HAVE BEEN DONE WELL SUFFERING THE CURSE OF VICE IN “EXCESS OF TOLERANCE” AS VIRTUE.

I often wondered how gracefully, as all eventually arrive, doers of excess tolerance would gracefully accept their poetic justice; many probably would not fit in with their own system.

What is the Genesis of all this, simple, every inefficiency modeled is the result of CASTE SYSTEM that is deeply embedded into culture and governs the lives of every one of its citizens.

Industry would insist that there is nothing INHERENTLY WRONG, I DISAGREE!   

It will be estimated, this is a SERIOUS CULTURAL FLAW, not only because of its INHERENT INCIVILITY but also because of its HIGH FEE EXTRAORDINARY INEFFICIENCY and its DEGRADATION OF AN ENTIRE COMMUNITY IN WHICH I WILL REMIND BOOMERS, WE ARE NEXT IN LINE.

OUR GREATEST CHALLENGE IS CULTURAL BREAK UP many of our community are increasingly unsure about how to behave. The future of our community seems increasingly obscure.

Norms are generally established or reestablished, upheld or overturned, by those in POWER IN ORGANIZATIONS, whether they are families or Businesses.

Earlier, we covered point in case that one of the greatest Powers business Executives have, through their spirit, is to create the Spirit of the Organizations of which they are in CHARGE.

The other great Power is an analogous one; it is to create the Culture of the Organization.

NO ONE HAS MORE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE CULTURE OF AN ORGANIZATION THAN THOSE IN THE HIGHEST POSITIONS OF AUTHORITY; CHANGE ONLY BEGINS AT THE TOP.

RESPONSIBILITY IS OFTEN ABDICATED BACK TO THE FAMILY WHICH MANY TIMES DOES NOT KNOW WHAT TO DO OR HOW TO BEHAVE; FAMILY SHOULD NOT BECOME BUSINESSES DESPOTS. 

THE POWER TO CREATE THE SPIRIT OF AN ORGANIZATION IS MORE THAN ANALOGOUS TOE THE POWER TO CREATE ITS CULTURE OF AN ORGANIZATION THAT ITS SPIRIT BECOMES EMBODIED.

WHY IS THEN DYSFUNCTION, VERY FASHIONABLE THESE DAYS?

·         Simple, the word is rapidly descending into meaningless as all are dysfunctional parts of the norm though some are more clearly dysfunctional than others.

How do clearly become this way?

·         They have been layered. 

Why would authority undercut whenever deems fit?

·         Many times one cannot discern reason(s) for distrust within an agency rather than entire culture so severe, that it could properly be termed as culture of Paranoia.

Sounds like state in shambles?

·         Dysfunctional and Culture of Paranoia are abstract terms. Less abstract is Morale Performance understandably Poor as a result as norm.

There are two Morals Here, the most Civil use of Power is to give it away, in these scenarios it is suggestive those in Highest Positions of Power were not giving it away, THEY WERE TAKING IT AWAY.

Scenarios first Moral is that such INCIVILITY is not COST EFFECTIVE. TO THE CONTRARY, IT IS VICIOUSLY EXPENSIVE AND WASTEFUL.

The other Moral is that it is extremely difficult to change a Culture, no matter HOW UNCIVIL and UNPRODUCTIVE or DYSFUNCTIONAL IT MAY BE. THAT IS WHY WE HAVE FREEDOM IN CHOICE.    

THE TENET: Systems Inherently Resist Change. THAT IS WHY WE HAVE POWER BEHIND THE VOTE.

The plain fact of the matter is that most organizations, despite the blatancy of their dysfunction and despite its cost ineffectiveness, would rather remain dysfunctional than grow toward greater CIVILITY.

Why is this so?

·         Reflect on the complexity of the definition CIVILITY, namely, that it is “CONSCIOUSLY MOTIVATED” organizational behavior that is “ETHICAL” in submission to a Higher Power.

Civility does not come naturally; it takes “CONSCIOUSNESS” and “ACTION “to achieve.

INCIVILITY comes naturally to “LAZINESS”; it is simply easier to be Uncivil.

You are entitled to feel good as well as you can in this world despite odds against it.

To be as Civil as Possible in this Complex and Demanding Role is the path of Smart Selfishness and requires a great deal of Psychospiritual Exertion. While Incivility is much easier, the creation of a relatively Civil Culture is in the Long Run more Cost Effective and is not what this is all about?

IT IS ALSO THE ROUTE TO CREATING SOMETHING THAT IS MORE HEALING AND ALIVE.

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Choices of Submission.

Discipline is the means for solving life’s problems. All disciplines are a form of submission.

The Discipline to Discern what we are or not responsible for is most crucial, since we must go through the existential suffering of choosing when and what to submit and what not to submit to.

When we were young we more or less had to submit, but when we grow into adulthood, we have to make decisions about when and how no to submit toward others values. 

Not all submission is good.

We must figure out to what extent we are going to submit to society and to what extent we are going to disagree with society, just as we must choose our values every step of the way.

Ultimately, we have to choose whether or not to submit to God and, indeed, even choose the kind of God such as Dough boy that we are going to submit to.

The term “higher power” first appeared in, or at least was initially popularized by, the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. The term implies that there is something “higher” than us as individuals (Dough Boys) and that it is appropriate to submit ourselves to that something higher, be it Live, Light Truth, or God. “Thy will, not mine, be done is a glorious expression of desire for such submission, and the key word is “Will.” Submission implies an effective submission of the human will to something than (Dough) than itself. “God” is light, God is love, and God is Truth.” People need not be believers in God, but if they are to be healthy, they must submit themselves in all affairs to these attributes of God. 

Submission to the light might be defines as submission to the choice of consciousness and hence sight-both external sight and, particularly, insight. 

Then there is the choice of whether to submit to or not, the decision whether to extend or not extend oneself. This is not simplistic especially when dealing with dough boy. Love is often very subtle which is opposite of dough boy mentality and mysterious , Love is well defined as the will to extend oneself for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another’s spiritual growth. 

This definition is an acknowledgment that love is far broader than dough, Monks and nuns, for example, don’t have dough, but many are great Lovers in true sense of the word.

There are numerous paradoxes related to love of dough that test myths and common thinking in our culture. 

The best way to address this unhealthy paradox is what it is not in order to combat our cultural stereotypes. 

For instance, we have been told that it is better to give than to receive. In our unhealthy application it would be more appropriate to say that it is just as good to receive as it is to give.

Neurotic guilt over this issue promotes bitterness and more friction than love in the true sense.

For these individuals it is obligatory to discount and as destructive as to give it away.

We have been taught that “love is gentle, love is kind” – not with dough boy where many times one must display what is called “TOUGH LOVE”. Love is often ambiguous; sometimes it requires being stern.

Reality is that we cannot love well if we are constantly extending ourselves to others and not nurturing ourselves. SUBMISSION TO LOVE DOES NOT MEAN BEING A DOORMAT!

Throughout our lives we must choose what is and what is not our responsibility , so we must also choose , even if we are submitted to true love, when to love others and when to love ourselves.

The Key of loving begins with work on self. We can’t begin to love others well until we lovingly work on ourselves.  

When dealing with dough boy you most likely will find them trying to heal In the name of love attempting to convert another usually selfishly, controlling, and non loving despite all the ways we may think otherwise.

Because of New Millennium indoctrination in the name of social advancement, many people equate Love with material and feel they must live up simply due to others expectations.

The paradox is that many times just being who you are rather than constantly focusing on what you do and what you have is the more loving approach and question of importance that people ought to be able to figure out answers  for themselves. 

Now we come to the matter of truth which dough boy fears, is complex and demanding than merely accepting scientifically proven facts or following the scientific methods of a laboratory think-tank. 

Dedication to reality-to the truth- is one of the four basic disciplines of living well.

Doughboy’s occasionally withhold a portion of the truth under guise as loving thing to do, but even in this tiny bit of “fudging” with the truth become potentially dangerous compelling to offer stringent criteria for when telling white lies might be permissible.

THE FACT IS THAT WITHHOLDING A KEY PIECE OF TRUTH FROM OTHERS IS OFTEN AS LEAST DECEPTIVE AS AN OUTRIGHT BLACK LIE. SUCH LYING IS NOT JUST UNLOVING; IT IS ULTIMATELY HATEFUL.

EVERY INSTANCE OF IT ADS TO THE DARKNESS AND CONFUSION OR WORLDS, CONVERSELY, SPEAKING THE TRUTH- PARTICULARLY WHEN IT REQUIRES SOME RISK TO DO SO – IS AN ACT OF LOVE.

ITS DIMINISHES DARKNESS AND CONFUSION, INCREASING THE LIGHT THE WORLD DESPERATELY NEEDS. 

WHEN WE LIE, WE ARE USUALLY ATTEMPTING TO AVOID RESPONSIBILITY FOR OUR ACTIONS AND WHAT IS IMAGINED TO BE THEIR PAINFUL CONSEQUENCES.

I am forever grateful to my parents for teaching me during childhood a most pithy and powerful expression: “FACE THE MUSIC. 

MEANING FACE UP TO THE CONSEQUENCES; DON’T COVER UP; DON’T LIE; LIVE IN THE LIGHT.

Why “MUSIC”. Why should facing up to something potentially painful be called facing music when we normally think of music as pleasurable and Lovely? Perhaps the choice of word is deep and mystically appropriate. For when we do submit ourselves to the DICTATES OF HONESTY, we are I harmony with reality, and our lives, although never painless, will become increasingly melodic. 

We have been speaking of the choice for TRUTH as if lying were something primarily done to another.

Not so. Our even greater proclivity is lying to ourselves. Of course the two types of dishonesty feed off of each other in an EVER-ESCALATING ORGY OF DECEPTION. BUT WHILE WE CAN DECEIVE SOME OF THE PEOPLE SOME OF THE TIME, CAPACITY OF SELF-DECEPTION IS POTENTIALLY UNLIMITED AS LONG AS ONE IS WILLING TO PAY THE PRICE OF EVIL OR INSANITY AND THESE ARE THE ULTIMATE COSTS.

Self-deception is not a matter of being kind or gentle with oneself; on the contrary, it is as hateful as lying to others, and for the same reason: it adds to the darkness and confusion of self, augmenting the SHADOW LAYER BY LAYER. Conversely, the choice to be HONEST with oneself is the choice for psycho spiritual health and, therefore, the single most loving choice we can ever make for ourselves.  

In the realm of personal belief, we are faced with many complex choices, and the certainties of science cannot readily be relied upon. If we choose to believe something is TRUE, is it therefor true?

If so, submitting to Truth would be nothing more than submitting to ourselves.

Since GOD is synonymous with TRUTH, in choosing to submit to GOD we are submitting to a TRUTH HIGHER THAN OURSELVES. We are endowed with the freedom to choose, we can submit to the wrong things. 

There are only two states of being: SUBMISSION TO GOD AND GOODNESS, OR THE REFUSAL TO SUBMIT TO ANYTHING BEYOND ONE’S WILL and WHICH AUTOMATICALLY ENSLAVES ONE TO THE FORCES OF EVIL, TO “THE FATHER OF LIES.”

C.S. LEWIS BEST STATES:”THERE IS NO NEUTRAL GROUND IN THE UNIVERSE; EVERY SPLIT SECOND IS CLAIMED BY GOD AND COUNTERCLAIMED BY SATIN.”

ONE MAY FEEL THAT THEIR SUPERIOR INTELLECT ENTITLES THEM THE ABILITY TO STAND BETWEEN GOD AND THE DEVIL, UNCOMMITTED EITHER WAY.

“NOT TO CHOOSE IS TO CHOOSE”  

FENCE STRADDLING  THAT EVENTUALLY BECOMES “INTOLERABLE” AND THE CHOICE OF UNSUBMISSION NOW MAKES YOU!

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The Choice of Emptiness?

Ezekiel-Lamentations-John 1

I am here to talk in simple terms not only as reality whiteness, but survivor messenger as well.

The world as we know it is very unforgiving, it falsely builds to serve its immediate purpose then deserts into tyrannies paradox. The great among many no longer hold comforts among friends.

The father of lies will whittle you away over time though affliction, betrayal, wanderings, no one willing to help, while your enemies laugh at personal destruction.

These unfortunates are then prone to search for love in all the wrong places only to experience more pain, degradation, toward sealing the devils master plan being; to never find ones true brother’s keeper against the tyrannies and iniquity of man.

Resource: Holy Bible New International Version. 

EMPTINESS

There are many varieties of emptiness, but the most important (and the easiest to speak about without getting too mystical) is the “emptiness of not knowing” what the other side will be like.  

We live in a time of anxiety that pushes “know it all” mentality that LABELS Incompetent toward all who don’t seem to be within contract by unwritten code rule or mentality.

The most healing gift experience out of spiritual adolescence turned out to be engineered emptiness serving as role model to boot; it provided amazing grace Turing points toward courage to confront and walk away from an established WASP culture TRACK that had been laid out and was supposed to aspire into the total unknown. 

The best “Know it All” turned out to be the professional that allowed me to talk myself out then said didn’t yet understand and asked if I would just talk some more about experience, family and god (which gave permission to talk about) or anything else that came to mind. When I was done true professional inquired if I would not mind if they asked unhurried questions allowing time to explore many different things. Finally what some may consider a cold fish sat back in their chair with a pained expression on face and simply said, “I’m sorry. I can’t help you, I don’t have any advice to give you and continued “it is impossible for one person to ever completely put oneself in another person’s shoes – and I’m glad I’m  not there- I don’t know what I would do if I were you. So, you see, I don’t know how to advise you. I’m sorry that I’ve been unable to help.”

The Professional that listened minus glasses on backward is what saved what is left here.

If a Genius didn’t know what to do, then it was alright for me not to know what to do. And if I was considering a move that seemed controversial by county terms, and a Genius couldn’t tell me that it was clearly, obviously impossible – well then, maybe, just maybe, it was something God was calling me to do? 

So it was this true ethical professional, who didn’t have any answers or QUICK FORMULAS, who didn’t know what I should do and choose to PRACTICE EMPTINESS turned out to be the professional that provided the help needed. It was a professional who listened to me and did not play Devil’s Advocate, gave me their time, who tried to place themselves in my shoes, who extended self and sacrificed self for me demonstrating love for another that healed.

There are no SIMPLE or EASY FORMULAS in handling all life affairs, we must endure a degree of emptiness and the agony of not knowing.

A big part in spiritual growth is the learning of when to forgive or when one must reconsider and debate, simply put “What is or would be the right thing to do?”

It is a decision that must be made sometimes again and again, in each situation, and every different time. 

Although there is no certain formula, there is a guideline to help in such decision making; it is to recognize that the unconscious is always one step ahead of the conscious mind.
The Problem many times then becomes we don’t know if it’s ahead in the right direction or the wrong direction.
We don’t always know if that still small voice that we hear is the voice of the Holy Spirit, or Satan, or maybe our Glands.

It is, therefore impossible ever to know that what we are doing is right at the TIME, since knowing is a function of consciousness.

However, if you’re “WILL IS STEADFAST” TO THE GOOD AND IF YOU ARE WILLING TO SUFFER FULLY WHEN THE GOOD SEEMS AMBIGUOUS, then your unconscious many times will be one step ahead of your conscious mind in the right direction.
In other words, “YOU WILL MOST LIKELY DO THE RIGHT THING”.
You will not have the luxury of knowing it at the time you are doing it.

Indeed, you will do the right thing precisely because you’re willing to forgo that luxury.

If guideline seems obscure, then one might want to remember  that almost all the EVIL in this world is committed by people who are absolutely certain that they KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING.

Thank you for taking the time to learn from hardships of another.

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BE GOD-CENTERED

Luke 9:1, 2 

He [Jesus] called the twelve together, and gave them power and authority over all the demons, and to heal diseases. And He sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of God, and to perform healing

Notice how Jesus equipped His disciples for ministry. 

He knew that when they began preaching the kingdom of God and healing the sick, demonic powers would bring opposition. So He specifically gave them power and authority over demons.

Later Jesus sent out 70 of His followers on a similar mission, and they "returned with joy, saying 'Lord, even the demons are subject to us in Your name'"(Luke 10:17). These missionaries were spiritually in tune enough to know that demons existed and that they were a force to be reckoned with in their ministry. Jesus' followers had been eyewitnesses as the evil spirits opposed the Master, and they probably anticipated the same treatment. Perhaps they even started out on their mission with pangs of fear and doubt about encountering demonic resistance. But they came back astonished at the victory they experienced over evil spirits.

But Jesus quickly brought the issue of spiritual conflicts into perspective: "Do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are recorded in heaven" (Luke 10:20). Jesus sent out the 70 to preach the gospel and to heal, but all they could talk about when they came back was how they sent the demons running. "Don't be demon-centered," Jesus replied. "Be kingdom-centered, be ministry-centered, be God-centered."

That's a good warning. As you learn to exercise authority over the kingdom of darkness in your life and in the lives of others, you may be tempted to see yourself as some kind of spiritual freedom fighter, looking for demons behind every door. But it's truth which sets you free, not the knowledge of error. You are not called to dispel the darkness; you are called to turn on the light. You would have no authority at all if it weren't for your identity as a child of God and your position in Christ.

Prayer: Lord, Your light is strong enough to overcome the deepest darkness. Praise You!

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