Follow the leader…

I’ve got several thoughts going here at once so please bear with me as I work to draw all of these together simultaneously.

For as long back as history dates, there has always been some form of a “self-appointed” ruling class, mostly pronounced by some “divine right” or in the very rare cases by an actual individual who through years of self-sacrifice and service to others were elevated to such positions. Since the former is by far the majority, I want to focus on that first. If you ask most people would tell you that any manager, boss, CEO, King, etc. is the person in charge of telling others what to do and most people’s lives are spent in servitude to these people or themselves clamoring to move up the “company ladder”. In times of old, they were soldiers seeking rank or scribes and dignitaries all trying to elevate themselves above others. If you look around you everywhere, you know and see the apparent “structure” all around us. Get a better position, make more money, and in a lot of cases, earn the ability to tell more people what to do. Our civilization reeks of it and media, stories and culture seem bent on fostering this competitiveness within us so that this form of “succession” will continue. The supposed dream within all of this is fostering the hope that the harder we work and the higher we go, the less we will actually have to do and the more we will have.

I used to own a construction company and despite the fact that it appeared to be a failure on my part it was one of the greatest learning experiences I ever went through. I was the commander in chief, so to speak, and all things fell to me ultimately, and it was no small operation, for me at least, at one point I was responsible for over 60 employees and included their families as well. For me, talk about a heavy load. The absolute number one thing all that taught me was what nature of a good manager is. What I learned was that the best managers were not the ones who could point fingers and tell people what to do from the standpoint of what the “manager” felt was always right. A good manager was someone who saw the “needs” and “wants” of his charges and helped as best he/she possibly could to facilitate in every way possible the best solution to any emerging problem or the best way to implement new ideas based on the actual needs and intention of the people carrying out the work. It made me realize that being a boss wasn’t sitting around saying “I want you to do this or that” based on my desires, but in actually getting down and finding out what’s going on from the people in the middle of the task and then doing what I could to make their jobs and lives easier and in turn the whole process becomes win/win. You see, that is the nature of responsibility.

Let’s break that word down, responsibility means our ability to respond. It does not mean lording over people and having a whole new group of stooges to command because I’m somehow better than everyone else. In fact, it’s just the opposite. My position should be earned by the manner in which I conduct myself in the service to others. My “response-ability” should be measured on how well I’m able to meet the needs and wants of the people I’m gifted with the ability to serve. “Hey you do a great job helping us, you’re good at this, could you help us more by facilitating this…etc.” Now take that model and hold it up against the structure of our society, and most societies at large. I’m sure you’ll agree that despite the picture that tries to be painted on paper more or less it in no way resembles how it comes out. The problem with this whole attitude, and it’s just that, is that what happens is we are taught ultimately that selfishness is king and that the meaning behind our lives and work is ultimately to serve ourselves and not our fellow man.

In ancient Egypt the “Pharaoh” was considered to be the closest thing to divinity to walk this plane. So let’s look at that. Once you reach that state what you are saying is I’m a doorway between this world and the source of all life. One would think that that entity or personage then would be in close contact with that part of ourselves, our-selves, all of us, that is the source of divine love, abundance, and will to good. So that person then would be the channel and source of inspiration that to the mass of developing souls would help to shepherd them out of darkness and into the light. Well based on the truest teachings of love and light development that person would have earned that “response-ability” only through lifetimes of self-sacrifice and service to those around him, unfailing in their ability to see the goal in sight and that is ultimately the liberation of us all. Ultimately, that is heaven on earth. That person would want nothing more than the betterment of all people based on the timeless knowledge that ultimately none of us will pass until we all have passed. These ideas are understood and contained within the model of the bodhisattva and countless avatars that have walked this plane.

So going back to my earlier point, what I see today in our world is this faction of people on two sides of a spectrum concerning this: On one side we have this group of self-appointed leaders and regardless of being voted in or not and divine right humans who believe that are the ones to tell us what to do. They want all the wealth in the world and want to do nothing for themselves and those they deem worthy enough to have their pittance of allotment. At the supposed top of this chain are the ones we call the illuminati and they are ruthless in their quest for control and slavery of this world, and for what? To have stuff? To go anywhere they want? To control ultimately the direction our human race goes? It’s based on fear and lack of knowledge of our divine heritage.

The other side of this spectrum there are a larger faction of seemingly grass roots people who foster this same idea. They are the leeches on society, the ones who constantly take from others, abusive welfare sycophants and populations of prisoners who feel no need to work except to commit crimes so that they can live off the public dime. These are the people that hunt down lawsuits and are constantly scamming others so that any true hard work is done only by those of us who feel a call to grow in our lives and so we labor each day to find meaning in our lives and ultimately aspire to those divine ideals of community, service, growth, giving, sharing, learning, and above all, love.

These two opposite factions are the vampires that suck the growing divine life from us. Their idea of service is “what are others doing for us?” You see, all of this is hand in hand with a very negative and inverted sense of guidance. There is no divinity in the wisdom of leaders who do not see this fact, and the so called leader who in any way acts from anything contrary to the idea that being in such a position requires them to do anything but serve his fellow man to the absolute highest good and the good of all involved is definitely not divinely inspired at all. The same goes for the “regular” guy who wants nothing more than to emulate these ideas but on the opposite end. So what happens is that the rest of us are caught in the middle footing the bill and breaking our backs in the hope of ascension while all the while we are being wholly misled.

I want you to take a moment and envision, if you will, just one leader, just one true and seriously divinely inspired person who through tireless service to see things work for the good of all. A pharaoh type if you will, in a position of real power, who under absolutely no selfish motives, was tirelessly working to “serve” others. No aggrandizement, no pomp, no show, just being a servant, wholly looking to help and would not stop. “What can I do for you?” he would ask, and knowing the struggles in the spiritual life would “see” because he’d been there, the absolute best way to inspire, help, cultivate, and enact the most good. Now imagine if all of us carried this in our hearts and minds. It’s not an impossible thing because there is no one elevated by right over any of us, and I do not care how you spin it. Each and every one of us can carry this ideal within, carry that truth of existence and in turn begin to carry this light and action. We have that power. I know I do. So the question begs; what have you done for someone else today? Are you living the way you would love to see the world work? It’s very simple, really. Think it, want it, love it, do it. It’s that easy. Espavo