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.