Special and Important —-> Entitlement
By Steve Beckow
Posted on September 5, 2024
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I’m just allowing the ideas to flow because … I can’t stop them!
We spend so much of our life recovering from early childhood trauma and we often do it by reinforcing our own propaganda and that of family and friends, that we are somehow special and important.
Then the moment that we start to believe we actually are special and important, a real pain for other people sets in: Entitlement.
Well, if I’m so damn important, then I must be entitled to this or that.
I’m watching my own entitlement come up. But now I’ve changed my vote from the troll under the bridge to loving kindness. (1) That means that now I’m not donning entitlement as if it’s a suit of armor and striding forth among … I guess, the peons of the world.
Hey, isn’t that the cabal’s territory?
So I’m no longer coming from entitlement. That doesn’t mean entitlement doesn’t go off in me. It does. It means, as Jesus through Pamela Kribbe once described so beautifully, (2) that I can now watch entitlement go off as an objective observer and not latch onto it and ride it to my doom.
I do see the linkage between early assurances of specialness and importance and the rise of entitlement. Interesting.
We have an additional tool. By now we understand how deeply we need to reach within ourselves to actually change our vote on something.
But we’ve been getting more and more practice as the lovelight energies rise. It’s getting easier and easier to change our vote.
So here, now, again, we change our vote on the notions of importance, specialness, and entitlement.
Let’s consider an alternative for those whom won’t change their vote without having an alternative to go to (optional behavior):
***I’m again in a flow of ideas. There is no way of connecting this thought with the last. It’s just … next.
The Peter Principle warns us that we can be promoted to our level of incompetence. If you took a writer like me and made me manager of a department full of writers, you would have promoted me to the level of my incompetence. That would be total foolishness. I’m a writer, not a manager.
I have a new “principle” to add to that:
We … alright, alright … I … often take solutions that work at one level and assume they’ll work at larger and larger levels. I keep expanding and applying them until I reach one where they utterly fail. What works at one level may not work at another.
Hitler’s blitzkrieg worked in western Europe with its network of highways, compact distances, and forgiving weather. But when he expanded it to the whole of Russia east of the Volga, the logistics of it escaped him. He envisioned a war of a few weeks duration before the Soviet state crumbled. In fact the inappropriateness of his blitzkrieg model in Russia led in large part to his final defeat.
Here’s an example from my humble doings. I speedily produce a compilation of articles in perhaps a day. But in pondering the start-up of what promises to be a very large humanitarian organization, this same addiction to speed will not help me. At that level of creation, speed may not be a desirable feature. It may cause the whole thing to collapse and fail.
If I assumed it was desirable and tried to speed through the creation of an organization, I might produce a train wreck. I learned that preparing for the last Reval false start. Seeing this resulted in me focusing in, taking things one step at a time, and alleviating my stress.
For me to be able to go with that level of self-control, I must have made the change of vote from troll to loving-kindness. Otherwise – Bah humbug! – the thought of not speeding wouldn’t even occur to me.
Footnotes
(1) See “Squeezing the Orneriness Outta Me,” July 10, 2024, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2024/07/10/squeezing-the-orniriness-outta-me/
(2) The quote is so long that I’ll reproduce it here rather than in the body of the text:
“There is a third way – a third way to experience your own human emotions. The first way was to totally identify with your anger, as in the previous example. The second way was to crowd it out, to suppress it and to condemn it.
“The third way is to allow it – to let it be and to transcend it. That is what consciousness does. The consciousness of which I speak does not judge – it is a state of being.
“It is a way of observation that is at the same time creative. Now, many spiritual traditions have said: be aware of yourself, that is sufficient. But then you wonder: how can that be? How can the mere awareness of myself bring about change in the flow of my emotions?
“You have to realize that consciousness is something very powerful. It is much more than a passive registering of an emotion – consciousness is an intense creative force.
“Now imagine again that something in the outside world evokes a powerful emotion in you – for example, anger. When you deal with it consciously, you observe it fully in yourself. You do nothing about it, while at the same time you keep observing and watching.
“You no longer identify with the anger, you do not lose yourself in it, you just allow the anger to be what it is. This is a state of detachment, but a detachment that takes great strength, because everything you have learned seduces you into being drawn into your moods, inside the emotion of anger or fear. And to make it more complicated, you also get drawn into judgment about that anger or fear.” (Jeshua: The Third Way,” April 20, 2024, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2024/04/20/jeshua-the-third-way-3/.)
