Contemplating recent behaviors of our President on TV I have strong concerns. He appears to govern continuously like someone with a strong sense that he has found God and it is him. He seems lost from full connection to his mortal humanity. This is a trait that all cultures have expressed a fear of and have made strong efforts to avoid. It was referred to by primitive people as a 'loss of soul.' Unfortunately it has become , in our day for now, viewed by many as the sign of a hero or savior type personality.
I seriously suspect such a felt 'god likeness' has been his repeating inner lifetime experience . This is why he truly does 'see ' and understand that anything really important is centrally about him. And his judgments and intuition may be felt to him as being that of a god.
His words and actions are consistent with such a frame of mind . He would not be at all conscious of such a psychology but only experiences it as a kind of ' god almightiness' exhililaration. He sees this omnipotence only in himself not in any others, even those closest to him. All others, he is now repeatedly showing, are easily expendable. Demanded loyalty is completely a one-way street to such a person.
An historical person with a more common and conscious self confidence can have a great and constructive encouraging effect on many people. But one that is this extremely unconscious and psychologically unaware can cause a group (previously sincerely frustrated politically, socially or economically) to lose their sense of personally responsible judgment.
This psychology is not new in history. But it must be rare such a person is given so great a power over others. A personality like this in the power role of the U.S. Presidency is potently dangerous for everyone in its influence. And this unfortunately means the whole world.
This mix can potentially create a significantly large collective mass of persons who are fully taken in and up by such an archetypal energy. They may willingly sell soul and integrity to be close to and energized by such power. They can become 'no longer themselves. ' It is the same kind of energy that persons in a cult surrender themselves to. It can mesmerize and hypnotize. And how inoculated it is against any on-going responsible self critique.
This situation can reasonably be seen as a likely death toll for a democratic nation and its human values and equal rights. But it can also be a strong enough signal which awakens a large enough part of a sleeping public to the social, economic, religious and psychological dangers that are present. Such an objective awareness of the situation is the essential thing needed to begin a cross path to a more healthy and healing social, psychological and political environment.
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