The Macrocosmic Function of Dictatorship... According to my Ayahuasca Journey

[Emerald]

I was hesitant to share this with anyone before Election Day, as I believe it's important to speak into existence the outcome that you want. And I didn't want to manifest another Trump presidency... in case there's something to making predictions and speaking predictions into existence. I can be a bit superstitious that way.

But I had toyed around with idea that Trump may again be president because of an experience that I had in my most recent medicine journey from March of 2024... and the general theme of it.

The theme of my medicine journey was limitation and embracing the contracted nature of human existence. So, it's very wrapped up in connection to the Earthy and the Feminine, which means embracing the finite life... which are always a big part of my journeys.

And I had to many times affirm that "I'm choosing to be limited" as there is a pattern in me that is always obsessively moving towards expansion of knowledge. 

And my biggest neurosis is my appetite for infinite knowledge, which stemmed from a God Complex that I developed at the age of 3... and feeling like I can't trust God or my parents... and that I have to be the one that's perfect and in control. 

And in all of these insights about the value of limitation, there was a visual that arose that transmitted to me as a clear intuition the function of dictatorship within the context of human societal evolution.

It was a multi-colored neon contour line image of the contiguous United States on a black background. And all the states were outlined as well as the outside barrier of the country.

And standing in front of the contour line image of the US, there was an image of a contour line drawing of a man (in the same neon colors) who was very powerful and larger than the country itself.

The man looked a little bit like if you mixed Vladimir Putin with Elon Musk.

And upon seeing this image, I knew he was supposed to represent a dictator that rules over a country.

And the intuition that was transmitted was that the function of a dictatorship is to limit people when they don't have connection to their own sovereignty enough to consciously choose to limit themselves in the ways they truly wish to be limited in their heart of hearts.

There are so many archetypally patriarchal societal values that amount to the idea that contraction=bad and expansion=good... as we are very Masculine principled that way.

Expansion is the Masculine side of the polarity, while contraction is the Feminine side of the polarity. And societally, we love the idea of expansion and hate the idea of contraction.

And in the rejection of Feminine principled values like contraction, limitation, and finiteness.... and in the inability to value and choose our limitations that we prefer from a place of Feminine empowerment and sovereignty... a tyrannical un-integrated Masculine force comes in and forces everyone into a powerless lesser Shadow Feminine position of abject limitation where we are disconnected from sovereignty.

So, it was clear in the journey that I had to choose to be Feminine and choose to limited in order to continue exercising my own sovereignty.

And I kept saying "I'm choosing to be limited." and "I'm choosing to be Feminine." to cut away from the infinite knowledge I was exposed to on the journey because I really didn't want the burden of infinite knowledge I had always been seeking to gain more and more certainty... for the sake of safety. 

And without this sovereignly chosen limitation and contraction, the forces of nature coalesce and give us a dictator to do the dirty job of limiting and constricting us... albeit with plenty of damage and tyranny along with it... and in a way that strips us of our sovereignty. 

And it has popped into my head from time to time during the election cycle that the Ayahuasca may have shown me a dictator to indicate that Trump would become president and rule as a dictator.

So, if you guys could consciously choose to integrate the Feminine value of contraction and consciously limit yourself in the ways you really want to be limited, this may be quite valuable in the prevention of big destructive macrocosmic problems that dictatorship causes.

And really... what is the underlying principle of our economic system but infinite Masculine expansion on a finite Feminine planet?

So, if you find yourself hyper-valuing expansion and maximizing knowledge, strength, talent, responsibility, power, doing, achieving, earning, etc. to the exclusion of mystery, weakness, ordinariness, surrender, and being... then you may want to consciously integrate these values to let yourself off the hook so that external forces don't need to do it instead. 

[LordFall]

I had a vision of Trump winning as well. According to this vision he will indeed be the last president of the united states as during his term the very notion of countries will be collapsed and humanity will unite into a united empire and end war with itself once and for all. 

[Etherial Cat]

Very interesting.

Thanks a lot of sharing.

I've had similar thought as I have noticed that emotions and patterns such as blame and scapegoating have to do with deflecting responsibility.

I think you really are into something here.

[Whitney Edwards]

@Emerald

What specific actions or practices can individuals take to integrate feminine values and consciously limit themselves?

[Etherial Cat]

1 minute ago, LordFall said:

I had a vision of Trump winning as well. According to this vision he will indeed be the last president of the united states as during his term the very notion of countries will be collapsed and humanity will unite into a united empire and end war with itself once and for all. 

Why do we have to be on a timeline where this type of outcome is seen as possible.

[Etherial Cat]

44 minutes ago, Emerald said:

The man looked a little bit like if you mixed Vladimir Putin with Elon Musk.

Makes me think of JD Vance. Though, he has always appeared to me as clumsy and too lame for the bid. But his backed by Thiel and his network.

Also, you'd have recognized him from now, right?

Trump is rather old. There will be a need for a successor eventually. Maybe he is still not in the picture yet.

Or the representation was just symbolic. Idk.
 

Edited November 7, 2024 by Etherial Cat

[Emerald]

9 minutes ago, LordFall said:

I had a vision of Trump winning as well. According to this vision he will indeed be the last president of the united states as during his term the very notion of countries will be collapsed and humanity will unite into a united empire and end war with itself once and for all. 

That's scary.

But at the same time, the thing that I've seen in my medicine journeys is that humanity will not go extinct and is moving in the direction of love and greater levels of world peace and unity. And something huge has to shift that isn't currently happening in order for the human race to transcend the current state of things and continue.

The reality is that Kamala... and even a progressive like Bernie Sanders... would just preserve and prolong the current political structure. It's kind of interesting and funny that being a Bernie-style leftist is the most conservative thing you can do. It's the way to most effectively preserve our current societal structure by tweaking it to make it more livable and sustainable.

And if I were choosing, that's what I would pick because I don't want to crash and burn with all these so-called conservative shaking the entire political system apart and shaking apart the nation in an attempt to be hyper-nationalistic. It's just too dangerous, and I fear for my children and my husband.

But since now there is no other option, my hope is that Donald Trump's tyrannical reign is relatively short and just chaotic enough to shake the majority of people awake and spur them into action. 

[Emerald]

8 minutes ago, Etherial Cat said:

Makes me think of JD Vance. Though, he has always appeared to me as clumsy and too lame for the bid. But his back by Thiel and his network.

Also, you'd have recognized him from now, right?

Trump is rather old. There will be a need for a successor eventually. Maybe he is still not in the picture yet.

Or the representation was just symbolic. Idk.
 

I had thought about JD Vance as I was writing it. But it definitely didn't look like him.

It was like an 80% Putin look-alike. So, a very stern and somewhat angular face... while JD Vance has a rounder face and not as stern a countenance. 

I interpret it more as symbolic because I sensed this image of the dictator was meant to give off Putin vibes but not actually be Putin. And Putin is who I think of when I think of a modern day imperial autocrat. 

I have seen Peter Thiel once before. I'll have to look at him again to see if he's reminiscent of the figure I saw in my journey.

[Emerald]

21 minutes ago, Etherial Cat said:

Very interesting.

Thanks a lot of sharing.

I've had similar thought as I have noticed that emotions and patterns such as blame and scapegoating have to do with deflecting responsibility.

I think you really are into something here.

You're welcome! 

On another level that doesn't have to do anything with my medicine journey, I've seen in the people who are looking most to Trump as a cult-like figure that they also tend to be on the shakiest ground with regard to their own sovereignty.

And sovereignty is the ability to be aware of what you want and to act from it while also taking responsibility for the ripple effect of your own actions. So, it is a full centering within ones own power and responsibility where those things are both equally high.

And people who are really de-centered from their own sovereignty are always looking for someone who appears certain and powerful (who almost never actually is) to glom onto so that they can relinquish the burden of power and thus abdicate personal responsibility for their own actions.

So, the less sovereign a person is, the less powerful and responsible that person will be open to being.

And they will look for a cultish figure to give up their power to so that they have someone to take responsibility for their irresponsible actions.

For example, during the Nuremberg trials so many Nazis on trial gave the excuse "I was just following orders" as the reason why they did the heinous things they did.

It was very rare for anyone to take responsibility for their desires to kill and torture the ones labeled other. Probably many never admitted it to themselves that they had such a propensity for evil in them and that they enjoyed the act of harming.

Instead, they felt comfortable because they could always just blame Hitler or the Nazi party itself for their crimes against humanity. And of course Hitler was responsible for all this issues too. But it was average people who allowed themselves to be willingly weaponized by him that did the vast majority of  the dirty work.

And people will convince themselves that "the father will take the fall for me" which further emboldens them to follow the siren song of their murderous lesser devils.

[Emerald]

1 hour ago, Buck Edwards said:

@Emerald

What specific actions or practices can individuals take to integrate feminine values and consciously limit themselves?

A big part of the Feminine principle is sovereignty... with its Masculine principled counterpart being leadership.

Leadership is the ability to lead and influence other people, while sovereignty is about self-governance and centering in ones own power and responsibility.

And of course, you need both if you want to be a great leader... though dictators only have the leadership part without the sovereignty (and they suck of their followers' sovereignty like a hungry ghost because they lack their own).

And there are three keys to sovereign power which is less about the power to dominate or lead others and much more about the power to go towards what is wanted and away from what is unwanted.

Here are the three keys to sovereign power...

1. Discover what you REALLY want in your heart of hearts. (This is 90% of the battle and the hardest part)
2. Become aware of the levers of power you have at your disposal to bring about what you want as well as which levers of power are not at your disposal.
3. Be bold enough to utilize the levers of power you discovered in step 2 which are at your disposal AND agree with your own ethical compass, so as to bring about your wanted outcome or to get away from what is unwanted.

So, a big part of connecting to the Feminine is to develop enough sensitivity, intuition, and self-trust to discover what you truly want in your heart of hearts and to use your own inner subjective compass to navigate toward what is wanted (and away from what's unwanted.)

And one thing that gets in the way of our ability to know what we want and what we don't want, is what our mind believes that we SHOULD want... or that we have to do in order to "earn" or "deserve" what we want.

The concept of "earning" and "deserving" is antithetical to Feminine sovereign power because it relies on the illusion of an external authority figure who sets standards we have to measure up to. It makes us project reality onto the masks that our leaders and rule systems wear, when they're actually just the man behind the curtain.

So, in relation to my post... there is this sense that many people share because of our Masculine-principled cultural values that "I SHOULD want expansion because expansion is better than contraction." or "If I'm going to be good enough to deserve _____, I have to expand and become more than what I am."

But these are not a reflection of sovereignty, nor is anything with the sense of "have to" or "should" or "should not"... or a sense of needing to justify one's self relationally to external people, leaders, and systems of authority. These are a reflection of the illusion of an external standard that must be matched up to. It is believing that the man behind the curtain is truly a wizard, instead of following your own inner compass.

And it is an abdication of personal sovereignty and responsibility onto external people, rule systems, deities, etc... which decanters us from our Feminine sovereign power.

But when we discover what we truly want in our heart of hearts, we will find that there are naturally ways we want to expand and ways we want to contract. 

And when we find those ways we want to contract and act from it, this is part of the integration of the Feminine side of the Feminine value of sovereignty. And vice versa, when we find the ways we want to expand and act from it, this is part of the integration of the Masculine side of the Feminine value of sovereignty.

So, with regard to this post... it is recognizing the boundaries and limitations you want to have (not that you SHOULD want to have) that enable you to connect to your sovereignty.

In Thelema (Occultism), there is a quote that goes "Do as thou wilt shall be the whole of the law."

And this quote is antithetical to everything most religions teach as most religions see our sovereignty and will as inherently negative and bad... which is a reflection of patriarchal religious values that put humanity into opposition to our nature (which is our Feminine side... aka Mother Nature.)

For example, the concept of original sin puts us into an inherently non-trustful state with our own sovereignty.

And this has evoked in humanity a very combative domineering relationship with Mother Nature and the Feminine in general over the millennia. 

So, there is a lot of mistrust in our own nature and the statement "Do as thou wilt shall be the whole of the law" because we have been conditioned through thousands of years of religion and philosophy to believe we are bad at our core and that our sovereignty is inherently devilish... and to see the Feminine sovereign nature as inherently evil (evil = Eve-like).

But I have seen that this is just a result of our coping mechanisms, which doesn't reflect our true will. And I have seen in my journeys that our will is always 100% benevolent, though ignorance, traumas, and circumstances can cause our will to be mangled and disconnected from our deeply loving core. 

It is only when our will because twisted away from our truest deepest will that what starts out as benevolently-intended becomes harmful.

So, a big part of Feminine sovereign integration is to work through all the barriers to discovering our truest deepest will and from expressing our truest deepest will.

And a big part of that is to get rid of the sense of should, should not, have to, deserving, not deserving, earning, etc. AND instead becoming as conscious as possible of what you really want in your heart of hearts.

And if you dig deep enough and become aware of your truest deepest will and get in touch fully with your Feminine sovereignty, you will find a deeply conscious and loving Masculine spirit rippling like a current through your nature.

And only then can you be a truly conscious sovereign leader.

Edited November 7, 2024 by Emerald

[Whitney Edwards]

56 minutes ago, Emerald said:

A big part of the Feminine principle is sovereignty... with its Masculine principled counterpart being leadership.

Leadership is the ability to lead and influence other people, while sovereignty is about self-governance and centering in ones own power and responsibility.

And of course, you need both if you want to be a great leader... though dictators only have the leadership part without the sovereignty (and they suck of their followers' sovereignty like a hungry ghost because they lack their own).

And there are three keys to sovereign power which is less about the power to dominate or lead others and much more about the power to go towards what is wanted and away from what is unwanted.

Here are the three keys to sovereign power...

1. Discover what you REALLY want in your heart of hearts. (This is 90% of the battle and the hardest part)
2. Become aware of the levers of power you have at your disposal to bring about what you want as well as which levers of power are not at your disposal.
3. Be bold enough to utilize the levers of power you discovered in step 2 which are at your disposal AND agree with your own ethical compass, so as to bring about your wanted outcome or to get away from what is unwanted.

So, a big part of connecting to the Feminine is to develop enough sensitivity, intuition, and self-trust to discover what you truly want in your heart of hearts and to use your own inner subjective compass to navigate toward what is wanted (and away from what's unwanted.)

And one thing that gets in the way of our ability to know what we want and what we don't want, is what our mind believes that we SHOULD want... or that we have to do in order to "earn" or "deserve" what we want.

The concept of "earning" and "deserving" is antithetical to Feminine sovereign power because it relies on the illusion of an external authority figure who sets standards we have to measure up to. It makes us project reality onto the masks that our leaders and rule systems wear, when they're actually just the man behind the curtain.

So, in relation to my post... there is this sense that many people share because of our Masculine-principled cultural values that "I SHOULD want expansion because expansion is better than contraction." or "If I'm going to be good enough to deserve _____, I have to expand and become more than what I am."

But these are not a reflection of sovereignty, nor is anything with the sense of "have to" or "should" or "should not"... or a sense of needing to justify one's self relationally to external people, leaders, and systems of authority. These are a reflection of the illusion of an external standard that must be matched up to. It is believing that the man behind the curtain is truly a wizard, instead of following your own inner compass.

And it is an abdication of personal sovereignty and responsibility onto external people, rule systems, deities, etc... which decanters us from our Feminine sovereign power.

But when we discover what we truly want in our heart of hearts, we will find that there are naturally ways we want to expand and ways we want to contract. 

And when we find those ways we want to contract and act from it, this is part of the integration of the Feminine side of the Feminine value of sovereignty. And vice versa, when we find the ways we want to expand and act from it, this is part of the integration of the Masculine side of the Feminine value of sovereignty.

So, with regard to this post... it is recognizing the boundaries and limitations you want to have (not that you SHOULD want to have) that enable you to connect to your sovereignty.

In Thelema (Occultism), there is a quote that goes "Do as thou wilt shall be the whole of the law."

And this quote is antithetical to everything most religions teach as most religions see our sovereignty and will as inherently negative and bad... which is a reflection of patriarchal religious values that put humanity into opposition to our nature (which is our Feminine side... aka Mother Nature.)

For example, the concept of original sin puts us into an inherently non-trustful state with our own sovereignty.

And this has evoked in humanity a very combative domineering relationship with Mother Nature and the Feminine in general over the millennia. 

So, there is a lot of mistrust in our own nature and the statement "Do as thou wilt shall be the whole of the law" because we have been conditioned through thousands of years of religion and philosophy to believe we are bad at our core and that our sovereignty is inherently devilish... and to see the Feminine sovereign nature as inherently evil (evil = Eve-like).

But I have seen that this is just a result of our coping mechanisms, which doesn't reflect our true will. And I have seen in my journeys that our will is always 100% benevolent, though ignorance, traumas, and circumstances can cause our will to be mangled and disconnected from our deeply loving core. 

It is only when our will because twisted away from our truest deepest will that what starts out as benevolently-intended becomes harmful.

So, a big part of Feminine sovereign integration is to work through all the barriers to discovering our truest deepest will and from expressing our truest deepest will.

And a big part of that is to get rid of the sense of should, should not, have to, deserving, not deserving, earning, etc. AND instead becoming as conscious as possible of what you really want in your heart of hearts.

And if you dig deep enough and become aware of your truest deepest will and get in touch fully with your Feminine sovereignty, you will find a deeply conscious and loving Masculine spirit rippling like a current through your nature.

And only then can you be a truly conscious sovereign leader.

Thank you so much for the detailed answer Emerald. 

[Alex4]

We definitely need more feminine energy in politics and positions of power. But go and tell this to a right-winger,  they’ll see you as soft and incapable of managing the real world. 

[Happy Lizard]

Hey @Emerald love you content on YT! Awesome stuff! 

If I can offer my view as relatively new  American citizen, what I see in the US is   as an imbalance is Hyper individualism, lack of connection (connecting to people is a feminine thing) and lack of empathy. This goes for many people not necessarily one group and not the other. There need to be a culture shift. Idk what’s my role though, Idk if I need the opposite, but I generally feel an urge to expand and know, so for me it could be about finding my way to balance.

[Consept]

@Emerald 

Very interesting insights 

11 hours ago, Emerald said:

The reality is that Kamala... and even a progressive like Bernie Sanders... would just preserve and prolong the current political structure. It's kind of interesting and funny that being a Bernie-style leftist is the most conservative thing you can do. It's the way to most effectively preserve our current societal structure by tweaking it to make it more livable and sustainable.

When Trump won in 2016 I was shocked but I also found it hard to like Hilary, although I wouldve voted for her if I was American. Reason being I felt the system just wasnt honest, it felt like people were putting on an act and trying to just keep the status quo despite the multitude of issues like crazy military spending, impoverished areas not getting good education etc. Obama was a good leader but i felt he was hampered by the system and also being a democrat and keeping donors happy. Bottom line something did need to change in politics, was Trump the best way to shake things up? I mean it wouldve been nice if there was another way but this seems to be the way that presented itself. What we can see Trump does well is bring a plain speaking (even if it is incoherent) being himself persona, at least thats how people take him. I think with establishment politicians, they do lack a real human connection. On the other side AOC is very good at connecting with people and i think that is because shes grown up in her area, not rich and just a normal (but quite brilliant) person. This is the shift politics needs, it needs normal but brilliant leaders, deeply entenched politicians with poitical families like Clinton and Bush are just not gonna cut it anymore, people want reality, even if its just a feeling of reality. 

So whatever we want to say about Trump, politics will not be the same after him and politicians really need to learn from that going forward. 

[Happy Lizard]

1 hour ago, Consept said:

This is the shift politics needs, it needs normal but brilliant leaders, deeply entenched politicians with poitical families like Clinton and Bush are just not gonna cut it anymore, people want reality, even if its just a feeling of reality. 

So whatever we want to say about Trump, politics will not be the same after him and politicians really need to learn from that going forward. 

But isn’t Trump a millionaire himself ? He is a gang like figure and people like to vote to their level of developmental (there are also multiple or other reasons). 
 

I think I read that you mentioned you are form the UK. The thing is,  you all are saints probably even the worst of you compared to the worst of the US. You all have been to wars and serious development like most nations have, The US have not had serious system threat and Trump is the worst way to put pressure on the system, equal to training how to handle a sword with an actual sword. 

[Consept]

10 minutes ago, Happy Lizard said:

But isn’t Trump a millionaire himself ? He is a gang like figure and people like to vote to their level of developmental (there are also multiple or other reasons). 
 

I think I read that you mentioned you are form the UK. The thing is,  you all are saints probably even the worst of you compared to the worst of the US. You all have been to wars and serious development like most nations have, The US have not had serious system threat and Trump is the worst way to put pressure on the system, equal to training how to handle a sword with an actual sword. 

He is terrible don't get me wrong, but if your democratic structures can survive it you will be stronger for it. 

I do agree though in terms of war in the US it's almost like they cosplay internal civil wars because they've never really been attacked from the outside. Obviously Europe has been in two world wars in the last century, which was an insane threat on people's way of life and the results of the led to the EU and relative peace in the region. It's an interesting observation the the US has just never really had something like that, they've always been the big power. So almost like this situation has manifested because of their hubris and not being able to recognise historic patterns that didn't happen to them, but that would be the case for any country in that situation. 

It's kinda like the rich kid that thinks he's a tough guy but has never been to the hood. The thing is whatever existential threat that could cause change could there even be? It's not like anyone would invade the US, Trump is a massive test but actually Putin is pretty big, he is basically at war with the US but it's a war of infiltration  and agitation , most dint even realise what's going on to learn lessons from it. 

[LordFall]

@Etherial Cat It's how humanity reaches unity. Post scarcity. All our issues stem from scarcity. AI is an unlimited system and it will be powered by unlimited fusion power soon enough. The only part left to playout is the governance issue over it. 

@Emerald That's a good point, we need a revolution more than we need small steps in the right direction. 

[Etherial Cat]

10 hours ago, Alex4 said:

We definitely need more feminine energy in politics and positions of power. But go and tell this to a right-winger,  they’ll see you as soft and incapable of managing the real world. 

What have they put in the water in Spain during the last year? 

 (Also no pun intended with the horrible actuality , bad time to use that expression I guess...)

[Etherial Cat]

12 minutes ago, LordFall said:

@Etherial Cat It's how humanity reaches unity. Post scarcity. All our issues stem from scarcity. AI is an unlimited system and it will be powered by unlimited fusion power soon enough. The only part left to playout is the governance issue over it. 

@Emerald That's a good point, we need a revolution more than we need small steps in the right direction. 

I get that, but the path towards the goal is what doesn't excite me.

[Happy Lizard]

1 hour ago, Consept said:

The thing is whatever existential threat that could cause change could there even be? It's not like anyone would invade the US, Trump is a massive test but actually Putin is pretty big, he is basically at war with the US but it's a war of infiltration  and agitation , most dint even realise what's going on to learn lessons from it. 

It doesn't have to be an invasion, it could be losing something dear to you like a job a family member or you kid's education, maybe some serious collapse of some sort in government, I mean what can we expect from the person that incited Jan 6th?  basically the theory is when someone shows you that you seriously fucked up by trusting them or shows you a deep flaw in your character that invites you to change it, it has to be painful either way, maybe the same can be said to liberals and progressives too basically the whole country.