I hope
everyone enjoyed Castaneda's chapter on Petty Tyrants. And now I will
tell you that, in contrast to the 3 email complaining that the subject
was not worthy, we have also received dozens of others from readers
who are suddenly "seeing" the petty tyrants in their own lives. What
is important about this subject is that the "petty tyrant" dynamic is
the fundamental "feeding" mechanism of 3rd density, and as such, is
the "real reason," or the psychological reason that is the interface
between the Theological Drama and the events of our lives. Don Juan
has just told a story that caricatures the interaction so that we can
"recognize" the chief features easily by association.
Just to
review the "classifications" of petty tyrants, Don Juan tells us that
the "primal source" of energy, or the ruler of the universe, is The
Tyrant. This resonates with Gurdjieff's Sufiesque idea that our world
is run by an "Evil Magician." It also fits with the C's presentation
of the STS hierarchy that dominates our world from 4th density. It is
in comparison to this Matrix Control System, The Tyrant, that even the
worst of the despots and authoritarians of our reality are "Petty Tyrants."
These Petty Tyrants would be someone such as Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin,
Torquemada, and others with the power of life and death over other people.
Below them are the "minor Petty Tyrants" who do not have the power of
life and death over others, but who do persecute and cause misery, or
who are exasperating and bothersome, as Castaneda phrased it. These
are "little petty tyrants" and "teensy weensy petty tyrants."
Don Juan
then tells us that the "little petty tyrants," are further subdivided
into four additional categories: one that torments with brutality and
violence; another that does it by creating unbearable apprehension through
deviousness; another which oppresses with sadness; and the last, which
torments by making warriors rage. What we will be noticing is that the
same Petty Tyrant can, at different times, operate through any of these
modes.
And of
course, the purpose of the petty tyrant in our lives is to teach us
detachment. It is a challenge to deal with impossible people, but by
doing it, we acquire sobriety and serenity. In short, out of the fire
comes light.
Don Juan
described the steps of utilizing a Petty Tyrant to achieve a state of
expanded consciousness. The first step is to consciously decide to seek
Truth. As Gurdjieff noted, the question must be a "burning one." Neo,
in the Matrix, had a "thorn in his mind." The C's have said that it
is a result of being "at that point on the learning cycle."
The next
step is to change one's views about themselves and the world. This means
to no longer accept the party line of the Matrix, and to begin the work
of digging beneath the surface. This process reveals to the seeker that
there is evidence everywhere of the hyperdimensional reality in which
our own is embedded. Once this realization is made, the individual must
decide if they wish to access that reality, or if they are simply content
with the present one. The Matrix presented this as choosing whether
or not one wishes to take the red pill, or the blue pill.
This is,
essentially, the choice to become a warrior. A warrior, in mythical
terms, is an individual who is capable of self-discipline and control
over himself because this is what is necessary to take the next step
of becoming a person of knowledge. This is knowledge that is only accessible
by integration of the higher mind into the 3rd density reality. This
then becomes the mustard seed of the growth of the self INTO 4th density
whereby the knowledge can be directly accessed. Unfortunately, this
understanding has been seriously derailed by many New Age teachings
wherein the "intelligence of the heart" has been completely twisted
to mean "feelings" or "emotions" or "love."
Gurdjieff
describes this process as "fusion." He remarks that inner unity is obtained
by means of "friction," by the struggle between "yes" and "no" in man.
And this is where we find the usefulness of the Petty Tyrant. Petty
Tyrants produce friction in our lives. They are annoying, irritating,
aggravating. They can drain our energy with their demands on our time
and attention through the hooks of pity and manipulation. They can lie
about us, have fits and give performances of righteous indignation that
is based only on their own illusions, violate our privacy, our Free
Will, and just a host of fun activities. But, what is important is that
they are like sparring partners who teach us forbearance and timing.
Of course, that is not their intention. But as Mephistopheles told Faust,
"I am he who constantly intends evil, yet does good."
The machinations
of STS in our world are like that. The Matrix, the Predator, the Evil
Magician, the 4th density STS Control System, by whatever name you call
it, intends to drain us of our energy, use us for food, and manipulate
us for further purposes unknown, and they do it through STS agents:
Petty Tyrants.
Thus it
is that in our "sparring practice" with these Petty Tyrants we are enabled
to take the fourth step: to become SEERS.
And here
we don't mean a psychic who looks into a crystal ball. The meaning is
one who SEES what is real.
And so
it is that when we discover a Petty Tyrant in our lives, a strategy
is necessary to induce them to spar with us, a systematic harassment
that not only engages them, but also causes them to expose themselves
for what they are to other people. In this way, not only are they helpful
in honing our skills, they are rendered unable to inflict their tyranny
on others.
Importantly,
Don Juan tells us that Forbearance means holding back with the spirit
something that the warrior knows is rightfully due. It doesn't mean
that a warrior goes around plotting to do anybody mischief, or planning
to settle past scores. Forbearance is something independent. As long
as the warrior has control, discipline, and timing, forbearance assures
giving whatever is due to whoever deserves it.
A key
fact to remember is this: in the deepest sense, we are NOT sparring
with an individual, it is with a program, it is with the "Agents
of the Matrix," or the "mechanicalness of the world,"
or the 4th density controllers pushing the buttons and pulling the levers
behind the scenes. As Paul wrote:
"For
we are not wrestling with flesh and blood, contending only with physical
opponents, but against the despotisms, against the powers, against
the master spirits who are the world rulers of this present darkness;
against the spirit forces of wickedness in the heavenly, supernatural
sphere..." [Ephesians 6:12]
And in
the dynamic of Castaneda's account of dealing with the Petty Tyrant,
we discover how it is that Knowledge Protects. Give the lie what it
asks for: Truth.
