Yesterday, March 5th, I offered a blog post that explored the challenge facing Asgardia as a 'utopian' vision.
I also outlined what was necessary for all Asgardians to do, if they were intent on preventing the failure of Asgardia by learning from the mistakes of other start-up societies.
For those who have not read this post, you can find it here, along with the link to my campaign platform and to my campaign video:
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Blog Posting:
Why 'Utopian' communities fail - and what Asgardians will need to do, to prevent it.
https://asgardia.space/en/elections/candidates/English/21000/ > Campaign platform for Geoffrey West
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMvS4q6OY0Q
> Campaign video via YouTube.
https://vimeo.com/258445366
> Campaign video via Vimeo.
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In bringing together so many people, from so many nationalities, all claiming to want to create and live in a better world, there are going to be challenges, because whether we like it or not, every human has been socially conditioned to see the world from the perspective that was fed to them through their lifetime.
With this social conditioning, there are also the 'control dramas' that were put into us, first by our family and then by friends, and then by school, work, colleagues, personal relations and more.
For anyone who has read books by Eckhart Tolle, you may be familiar with the term 'pain bodies'. For those who have read 'The Celestine Prophecy' by James Redfield, you may recall the term 'control dramas'. For the purposes of this discussion, I am going to refer to 'control dramas', although both terms are describing the same process, more or less.
From a very young age, we try to express our desire to communicate what we want or what we need. There are times when that desire or necessity cannot always be met.
In those situations, children develop reactions to not getting what they want or need. It is a reaction that is designed to try to convince another that they should get whatever this desire or need is.
First parents, and then other family members, use their own control dramas, that they learned through their lives, as a reaction to the control dramas being used by children. Children will one of four dramas, to find out which drama works for them, and then they begin to develop a pattern of using this drama with others, unless it doesn't work, and then they try something else.
The human LIFE story is about learning to recognize 'control dramas' within oneself, and then within others, as a means of exposing it, so it can be acknowledged, and hopefully healed and released, because the drama no longer serves a purpose in the LIFE path of that individual.
James Redfield has stated that the ROOT source of all conflict in the world is a competition for precious and vital human energy. It could also be expanded to include planetary energy as well, for our Earth is a sentient, energetic living entity. Therefore, we all seek, consciously or unconsciously, intentionally or unintentionally, to manipulate others into getting our way.
An election campaign is a loose example of this. Politicians in the western world have fought, cheated, bribed, threatened and blackmailed others into getting into their positions of power and control. Even the honest politicians have to some degree attempted to manipulate others into getting that they want.
Redfield describes the control dramas as follows:
1. Intimidator drama > This is the classic 'bully' drama. When things do not work for these individuals, they use all forms of intimidation: physical threats, verbal threats, or any trick that attempts to scare an individual into surrendering and giving the individual what he/she wants.
Abusers are classic examples of this.
2. Interrogator drama > This individual will resort to making other people 'wrong' for their choices and actions, so that they will question themselves, and ultimately surrender to giving the individual what he/she wants.
3. Aloof drama > This word will be hard for non English speakers to understand probably. Some words that are similar include: indirect, unclear, vague. These individuals try to feed off the energies of others. You may ask someone a direct question, but instead of answering it, they give answers that do not give you the full answer. As a result of this, you have to ask one, two, three or more questions to try to get the answer you want. The individual is trying to get energy from you, by forcing you to continue interacting with that individual.
4. 'Poor Me' drama > This is the one who tries to manipulate others using guilt or by claiming to be a 'victim'. "You never give me what I want" or "You are never there for me when I need you", or "This person, or the 'the world' has hurt me, and you are not agreeing with or supporting me." These are a few examples.
A child who grew up in a physically abusive household for example, may first try being a 'poor me', to see if this will get an abusive parent to stop. IF that drama does not work, the child may try making the parent 'wrong', and become critical of the parental behaviour. IF this drama does not work, then the child may be forced to use the threat of physical violence against the parent. This could also happen in reverse, starting with threats of violence, and then becoming a 'poor me' victim.
Handling a situation requires each of us to recognize within ourselves which control drama we are using in a situation. It also requires us to observe the control drama reaction in the individual one was trying to get consensus or surrender from.
Anytime an individual feels attacked, a reaction will take place, and it comes from the conditioned and learned patterns of the individual.
The human ego plays a starring role in the movie of the control drama. The human ego seeks to justify and control; to judge others (and oneself) as 'right', 'wrong', 'good', 'bad', 'evil', 'kind', 'generous', 'jealous', 'controlling', 'vengeful', and on and on and on. We then have to take into consideration the definitions of these words according to each culture, and even according to law. What one individual feels is a definition of one word, MAY not be quite the same according to law, or to another culture, gender, personal belief, and so on.
The humans who have been enslaving humanity and controlling our planet do not believe that they are 'bad', or 'evil'. They believe they are kind, generous, philanthropic and more. In their interpretation of the world and of themselves, they cannot see what they are doing to humanity and our planet, or they know exactly what they are doing, and trying to convince the world that they are not that.
As future citizens of Asgardia, we are going to have to deal with our emotional baggage, as I wrote in the blog posting from yesterday. We are also going to have to learn to recognize and release the dramas we use to manipulate others, while also gently and peacefully calling out others in their dramas, so that people cannot be manipulated by them.
As we learn to act with greater integrity and transparency, we can learn to live without the need for control dramas.
This is easier said than done! :) I am the first to admit this! I still use control dramas, but I do try to see when it happens, and try to correct it. Sometimes I do, and sometimes I don't.
This is part of the human journey > to learn who we ARE, through the experiences of being who we are not.
A functioning government and parliament of Asgardia will need to address this issue and work towards healing our emotional, mental, physical and spiritual issues, so that we can try not to create unnecessary turmoil moving forward in cocreating the society that we are all claiming to want to live in.
Again, I am not saying that this will be easy! However, I would like to create that the reason we are all being called together to serve in this project because we all have the desire and willingness to at least try to work on ourselves, while being gentle with others as they work on themselves too!
In peace,
G
