Clearing the air...

I haven’t blogged in a few days. Not sure why I haven’t. I guess I am reconsidering why I am doing this. Examining my goal. It’s fun and all that. I like writing. But I want this blog to be my gift to you and I want it to mean something.

My goal, you see, is not to promote power but to expose it. To reveal, to anyone with a desire to know what it really is, how it works. I think the world will change when we all start to see through it.

I know these ideas are not always well received. Some of you are resentful. You don’t like the premise that power is a crappy way of interacting with people. I am painting your dream in grey and black. I am suggesting that to seek power is to seek the ability to use peoples’ needs against them.

It’s like my CSR class on chocolate and how it is picked by little kids in West Africa who have been abandoned by their parents because they cannot afford to raise them. So the plantation owners buy the little kids and use them for labour.

Sure they feed them and at least they have someplace to sleep, but knowing this, your chocolate never tastes sweet again.

Power is the emotional manipulation of people by using their needs against them. Without need, there is no power. It may be successful. But it is a bitter kind of success.

I am not trying to help anyone lose or gain power. If you want it, have it. In the end you only need to experience it once - use it once - to know the truth of it.

It is a rush. A temporary feeling of superiority. If you are lucky it lasts a few days. For most of us however, it lasts about five minutes. Sometimes, after you use it, people start to look at you differently. That’s when the truth sets in.

I am not innocent. I know how to use it. I have used it well. That’s where my knowledge comes from. I still use it sometimes. Sometimes I can’t stop myself.

Because of my experience and my post-dynamic self-examination, I know where it leads and how empty it is in the end. We want it so bad and we hate it when others have it.

When others use it on us – especially those we love – we lose our ability to trust.

But the only reason exposing power is unpleasant, is because you have been convinced that it is the only way for you to have what you want and be happy. You think without power you will never get what you want or be who you want. You will never be happy.

The problem with my exposee is that I kill off your dream and leave you without a sexy alternative.

That’s because the alternative will not leave you feeling like you are better than others. You won’t feel like your life is better. Like you are smarter and more capable. Like you are superior.

The alternative will leave you feeling good - just not better than others.

I want to expose power but I also want to remind you of something you may have forgotten. I want to give you that reminder.

You are a child of the universe. A gifted, talented, capable and resilient being. You are god incarnate.

We are all a little bit lost. A little confused. But you are a creative, infinite well of love.

The beauty of the whole experience is figuring out how to have what we want while we help everyone else get what they want too. Figuring out what you want is not simple. But if we want that great symbiotic experience of compassion, we need to be clearer about what we want and how we should get it.

We have spent thousands of years seeking and using power. And if we look we can see how it works and what it gets us. It’s not pretty. If we don’t recognize that it is not pretty, we will just keep using it. We will continue to delude ourselves into thinking that world is better because the right people have and use power.

But it is not. You don’t have to look long or hard to see it ain’t working.

So I will keep pointing out the obvious and sounding like a broken record - going on about choice, needs, abilities and the experience of control, influence and seduction.

I won’t do it to wreck your dreams. I will do it so that the accomplishment of your dreams can be fulfilling in the truest sense. I will do it because deep in me, I have the hope – the sure belief – that we all want something more than just getting a little power.

We want light. We want joy. We want redemption. We want creation. We want to find our way to the greatest experience this life can offer – happiness.

I hope that, in the end, this blog helps.