I hadn’t intended to post again so soon, but the events of the day pricked my outrage and drew me back to my laptop. In our Republic, where we live by the rule of law, the Senate voted not to allow documents or witnesses in the impeachment trial. These same Senators vowed before God to be impartial. I guess they could only do that if they weren’t confronted by evidence of the facts. On Wednesday they will vote whether or not to remove our president from office. I hope they will take into account the amount of damage he can still do in the 11 months to come.
This is a treacherous year. I have hammered home that the choices we make this year will determine our future – the quality of our life and the viability of our planet to sustain the human race.
So which is it going to be? Ego or Soul? Because that’s what it boils down to. The choice each and every one of us has to make is whether to cling to ego consciousness, and let the ego run our lives, or to let go and allow our Souls to open our hearts. Let our Souls remind us of Truth and Beauty and Love.
We are experiencing a crisis of Soul. It has been playing out for us in our national politics. We are witnessing a strutting, boasting, lying ego tread the boards of our White House. This is the perfect metaphor for how the ego runs our lives. It isolates us, just like any abuser, by walling us in. We live within its dream, where it is the star of a great drama. The ego defends its territory fiercely. It develops automatic defense systems to repel others.
The ego recites our life story to us on a continuous loop. It tells us who we are. Some of us are told that we are superior. Some of us are told that we are victims. The ego whispers to us of imagined slights and pokes our resentment. The ego hisses fearful thoughts until we believe them and live our lives in a context of fear.
Our collective belief in “Not Enough,” is an example. The “scarcity lie” functions as a trigger for hoarding – be it resources, property, money, power. No matter how much we have, the ego tells us “It’s not enough. You are not safe yet.” And so we run out and accumulate more. Our very belief and subsequent behavior is the source – the cause – of this phantom scarcity.
There is enough in the world to feed, house, clothe, educate and provide health care for everyone, if we made that choice. If we stopped hoarding, out of fear, and began sharing, out of love. How simple is that? But the ego tells us that’s impossible. Can’t be done.” Why? because the ego would be out of a job.
Isn’t that what this whole impeachment drama is about? Jobs. The president wants to keep his and he will do anything to protect himself. He will lie, cheat, threaten, bully, blackmail, bribe, collude and even assert an alternate reality in order to protect his job. His lawyer is arguing that he believes his presidency is good for the country, and therefore everything he has done, like extort the newly-elected president of Ukraine to help win the 2020 election by smearing Joe Biden, is excusable because he did it for us!!! OMG! And apparently people are willing to go along with that. Just reinterpret reality and the crime goes away!
But the abuse will continue. He will not stop attacking our environment, threatening endangered species, giving his corporate buddies permission to plunder sacred ground and leave toxic waste behind. He will not stop rabble rousing and dividing our populace. He will not stop persecuting desperate immigrants. He will not stop lying. The Washington Post has kept track – and these are only the public lies – he is up to 16,241 since he took office! That has to be a record.
Donald Trump knows that if he doesn’t get re-elected, he will lose his power, and ultimately everything, because once he is out of office, investigators are waiting for him. He will end up in prison. His empire will collapse. And he will be a colossal failure. Imagine how terrified he is! What he will do to save himself? Here’s one guy who won’t go down with the ship.
And the Senators and Representatives who are protecting him – they fear losing their jobs too. They like their power and influence, they like living off the public, they like running the country and deciding how our lives are going to be. How upside down is that? If you recall, the whole purpose of our constitution was an agreement about how we wanted to live together. It was meant to protect us – the people. And since we couldn’t all pile into one room and make decisions on how we wanted to govern ourselves, we elected representatives. Congress was supposed to be made up of us – the people.
We have turned that dream on its head, and guess what we have now? The polar opposite – the worst nightmare we can imagine. Democracy is slowly being strangled around the world by strutting egos who want to control it all. Russia, Turkey, Brazil, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, North Korea, Israel – all of our president’s “buds.” He just met with the indicted “President” of Israel. I can see them cooking up schemes to divide up the Middle East and share the spoils. Totalitarianism is coming back unless we wake up and defend it.
And notice how he is isolating us. He is weakening us by offending all of our allies. That’s how a wife-beater behaves, walls his victim off from family and friends until she is alone and he can abuse her at will. And she becomes so afraid, because he threatens worse, that she doesn’t speak up. She doesn’t call the authorities.
But notice how the authorities have all come under our president’s spell. The Attorney General is under his thumb, the leader of the Senate, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Notice how his allies in the Senate are appointing judges in courts around the country. Notice how he is militarizing everything – he is arming the police. He has created a Space Force to militarize space. That’s the LAST thing we need. Our president is that fearful!
Despite all his crimes against humanity and our planet, Donald Trump is providing a great service. He is showing us the horror of ego run amok. We can observe him, we can learn from him – not how to be a crook, but how not to be. He is the perfect Shadow personification. We can see our greed, our fear, our hatred, our deceit, our inner bully, our defensive child. We can identify all of these traits within ourselves, admit them, own them, take full responsibility for them by not dumping them out into the world. This is what we owe each other – to give each other the best of ourselves. To wake up, to face the facts, to see the darkness and seek its counterpart within us. Every bit of darkness we reclaim in ourselves, is darkness that is not projected out into the world.
It is this very act that empowers us. The forces that impel Donald Trump are the same ones within us. Our president has emboldened dark forces and they are showing up as race hatred, homophobia, xenophobia, misogyny, religious intolerance. This darkness lies within all of us but we have the power to choose not to give that to the world. Rather, we can nourish our inner light, our better angels, and reach for the finest in ourselves. We can make that our daily gift to humanity. And that is how we evolve – one by one by one.
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