“If you want more power in your life, raise your hand.”

I’m just kidding. I won’t do that to you.

Power. What a subject. Do you think about it ever? Or do you assume that that stuff is for somebody else?

Why would some pursue power and others not? Ever think about that? Maybe it’s because of who they were raised by or who their parents were?

The answer is because most people operate in reactive survival mode. Meaning that they are busy with immediate demands and needs. Things like bills their family status entertainment–all of those modern distractions–the social media, the consumerism–keep them in a low agency haze. Evolutionary psychology programs us for small tribe living and abstract reflection on power feels unnecessary or uncomfortable. Maybe daily life feels manageable enough. There’s also a cultural taboo in some circles; if you gain power openly some believe it to be seen as evil or “dark triad”. Denial preserves a comforting illusion of fairness or meritocracy existing in society. It does not.

however, those obsessed with obtaining power are those who have been burned by powerlessness oftentimes. That means due to pass trauma or poverty or betrayal by another person they have become wired for high ambition. Certain personality traits like high extroversion or low agreeableness and narcissism can play a part. Some of our most notable leaders such as Alexander Caesar Napoleon many modern CEOs and even revolutionaries in civil uprisings were frequently consumed by the acquisition of power. Obsession can drive extraordinary achievement but it does risk corruption, isolation, or self-destruction. As Lord Acton said power tends to corrupt. The healthiest stance is awareness without obsession; respect power as a neutral Force, pursue it ethically as a means to meaningful ends, and guard against its psychological traps.

in short, power is like fire. Ignore it and you stay cold. Or you get burned by others. Worship it and you get consumed. Master at wisely, and you can create light, warmth, and progress.

You know I can’t cover a subject without covering it’s taxonomy. I find it helps Me think with clarity so I often start there.

• Personal Power. That means discipline, emotional self-control, clarity, health and resilience.
• Social Power. That means status, charisma, networks and reputation. The ability to persuade, attract allies, or impose costs on others.
• Economic:: You’ve got money. Or you can control the flow of it; you have productive assets. This gives you options and independance where others have to accept whatever theu cam get.
• Political or Institutional.: Authority. Legal maneuvers. Campaigns and voters.
• Intellectual Power: You know. You have expertise or control the narrative. You can see what’s just up ahead.
• Coercive Power: Raw force, credible threats, the ability to outlast.
• Moral or Symbolic Power: This is influence through legitimacy, ethics, vision or cultural resonance.
• Polar and/or Worrisome Power: Did you know that some occult groups find that worrying is so valuable as a trait because it makes you paranoid of everyone and everything and if that’s the case then you’ll be aware of everything and everyone areound you? So for this reason they will often make innuendo right from the stage of having ripped off the audience or fellow contestants in some regard–and they do this intentionally–so as to run off the stage and high-tail it back home! Now they’re peeping out the windows looking for vigilantes. But how about you? There’s power in paranoia and there’s power in draining power from others. This I call the reverse of power; like reversing a polarity.

That will almost wrap it up for today’s DS but we will continue the subject tomorrow as part of My make-up call to you. I will leave you with one more tidbit of gold that you can reflect upon and find to make use of. Maybe. Maybe you should and maybe you shouldn’t.

There is one more framework for power that I think you’ll find useful. It’s very simple. There are only two types of power. The first is voluntary. You voluntarily go along with someone on something or defer to them.

The second, is coercive. Means that you are forced, or that you fear consequences for not going along with it or them or whatever the issue is.

And there is a profound lesson in this. Look at the title of this post. What do you see?

Is it possible to achieve? Could you really have “unlimited power”? Could anyone?

Unfortunately, that answer is “Yes.”

For you must know that anyone posessing a power that allows them to coerce another person or persons into doing something that they don’t want to do, has power that is only limited by whatever limits his weapon has.

So there’s the pistol, the nuclear missiles….there’s….psychotronics.

That is where you will find “unlimited power”. It’s the ability to replicate a weapon that is both invisible and untraceable (for those of you who remember the podcast I did on weaponry a while back) and REPLICABLE to an infinite number of people so far as I can tell–the ability to do that, to communicate with them remotely, to choke or stop the heart remotely, to have the specter of a supervisor or boyfriend in your nervous system with you 24/7/365–that is where you will find people “coerced” into all sorts of things from adaptive behaviors to concessions that they don’t want to make to refusing to speak up for themselves.

I think that’s it. Have a great day.

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