Topic: Analysis of the Petty Tyrant

While the warrior-sage up against the petty tyrant can admit and work to transmute his own inner darkness, the petty tyrant cannot and will always see the problem in the other.
This is a manifestation of the negative ego.
His choice or self made curse, if you will is one of denial.

StarCat

Re: Analysis of the Petty Tyrant

So should the warrior sage destroy the pt, or command it?

I think it is the the personal tyrants job to live on the warriors back, waiting for any chinks in the armour, to attack, at times of weakness.  And, while that seems a bad thing, it is in actual fact, a good thing.

A bit like having Yoda on your back, although it never feels like that at the time.

Re: Analysis of the Petty Tyrant

Starcat wrote:

While the warrior-sage up against the petty tyrant can admit and work to transmute his own inner darkness, the petty tyrant cannot and will always see the problem in the other.
This is a manifestation of the negative ego.
His choice or self made curse, if you will is one of denial.

Yes, and even pettier tyrants exploit this understanding by playing victim and arguing that people who call them out on their manipulation are themselves petty tyrants projecting their own negative egos.

Acquiring fringe knowledge is like digging for diamonds in a mine field.

Re: Analysis of the Petty Tyrant

montalk wrote:
Starcat wrote:

While the warrior-sage up against the petty tyrant can admit and work to transmute his own inner darkness, the petty tyrant cannot and will always see the problem in the other.
This is a manifestation of the negative ego.
His choice or self made curse, if you will is one of denial.

Yes, and even pettier tyrants exploit this understanding by playing victim and arguing that people who call them out on their manipulation are themselves petty tyrants projecting their own negative egos.

That is sooo true Montalk!  What's good for the goose, aint good for the gander!

In man's analysis and understanding of himself, it is as well to know from whence he came as whither he is going.   Edgar Cayce

Beliefs are tools for social conditioning, rather than expressions of inner realization or inner truth.   unknown
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Re: Analysis of the Petty Tyrant

Yes Montalk, I see the cycle as perpetual.


"The winner will ultimately be the loser"
~~carefulcarpenter

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To know love is to know trust; to know oneself is to know truth
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1+1=1

Re: Analysis of the Petty Tyrant

While I tend to see myself in the "warrior" role, is it possible that I'm at times playing the petty tyrant for another, as they do for me?

Or would warrior and petty tyrant classifications be mutually exclusive?

Just wondering out loud....

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great and would suffice.  ~Robert Frost

7 (edited by titmouse_ 2006-09-04 09:41:56)

Re: Analysis of the Petty Tyrant

Aquarius wrote:

While I tend to see myself in the "warrior" role, is it possible that I'm at times playing the petty tyrant for another, as they do for me?

Or would warrior and petty tyrant classifications be mutually exclusive?

Just wondering out loud....

From my view, the petty tyrant must win at all cost. The warrior triumphs from the the participation in the quest through honor and valor, and dies but once. The petty tyrant fears death(ego) and fallibility(perfectionism), therefore will not concede to a higher authority--and thus hides cowardess behind pretense.

Fun fact: Great Tits are common in Europe

To know love is to know trust; to know oneself is to know truth
~~carefulcarpenter


1+1=1

8 (edited by tillibullu 2006-09-14 22:45:51)

Re: Analysis of the Petty Tyrant

Aquarius wrote:

While I tend to see myself in the "warrior" role, is it possible that I'm at times playing the petty tyrant for another, as they do for me?

Or would warrior and petty tyrant classifications be mutually exclusive?

Just wondering out loud....

In my experience, whilst I have wanted to believe I was always the "warrior", in dealing with petty tyrants you can also become one. 

I can move into a difficult situation with the best of intentions, yet still end up playing stale, old, reactionary roles...just like a petty tyrant.

Perhaps we can ask, "Was that really me or was it another entity coming through---perhaps I vacated my body and in the vacuum another used me as a mouthpiece?"

But even when I am totally present there are times when I fail, in word thought or deed, to communicate and/or reflect my highest self.

For me it has been dangerous to label myself as "the warrior" or as "enlightened" or as "above these sleeping zombies" because it blinds me to the painful fact that I am guilty of many of the same crimes as "they" are.

Even those humans who are channeling/running the most nasty energies were once innocent children.  But perhaps something terrible happened and their technique for survival was to leave the body and shoot to the astral, allowing other entities to come through their physical being.....messing up their life situation even further, and making a return to the body even more painful and unbearable.  A vicious cycle.

I am not saying that such people don't have a responsibility.....but I am saying that I believe that even the petty tyrant, in their real, fully-present state, is a loving being.

This, for me, has been the hardest thing to accept.  I would rather label and give up on those who aren't "awake" enough for my liking.  But I have to stop and look at the ways in which I still fall short of my ideals and this gives me pause....


So I can't believe in the clear-cut labels and categories.  We are works-in-progress, after all.