We always have some of our fellow humans lives in our hands
If only more humans realise that every time you meet a new person you have, according to the danish philosopher K.E. Løgstrup, a fundamental obligation to meet your fellow human beings on an Ethical level. You have a responsibility an Ethical “Requirement”, because we always have some of that persons life in our hands. It’s all about meeting the other persons trust of being met by you. It’s a “silent” expectation of living up to the trust that is in the moment we meet another person. Our society and sense of meaning requires that we live up to the responsibility that we have in that spontaneous moment we meet another person. K.E.Løgstrup as an ethical intuitionist insists that morality is not about logical categories and principles, to him “morality is not about rules, but about sovereign expressions about life”. I often think of this “sovereign expression” when I observe people in a café. The other day I observed a couple in a café were the middle-aged man was sitting with his eyes fixed on his phone, and at the same time his wife was talking to him about something. I observed that her voice trembled, and she suddenly looked around in the café as if she wanted to be sure that others had not seen this rejection of her existence she just experienced. I quickly looked away so I did not embarrass her, but I could imagine what went through her head in that moment. What her husband actually was doing to his wife, being occupied with his phone, is to me rude and unacceptable. Sadly this kind of rude behaviour has become a norm in our society, and it separates us from each other – there is no sovereign expressions about the person right beside us only a sense of rejection and meaningless interaction. It is not just the man I observed in the café the other day – it is all of us. We are becoming “well trained humans” in a world ruled by algorithm – it’s time to wake up and claim our rights to sovereign expressions in life.
The Existential Vacuum
Our attention to the interaction with other humans is distracted by constantly digital entertainment notifications. Viktor Frankl was talking about The Existential Vacuum in his book Man search of Meaning. The challenge in modern society with a suddenly stop in external entertainment we are forced to reconnect with ourselves and with other people, but in modern society we try to avoid the fear of emptiness, and that leads to compensatory behaviour – a need for conformity. No coincidence in my opinion, that there is an interest in keeping people occupied with entertainment, then they don’t notice what is actually going on in political agendas of social control. What is the antidote you might ask? Well the funny thing is – coincidences sometime show us the way. The situation some month ago, where France, Spain and Portugal were out of electricity in almost 24 hours, turned out to be the a possibility for people to actually connect with each other. A majority of people actually enjoyed the feeling of going back to the time before digital connection. People enjoyed each others company with families, friends, in parks, in neighbour hood etc. What does that shows us? That what K.E.Løgstrup and Viktor Frankl were talking about was true – a meaningful life is connected with sovereign expressions.
The consequences of gaslighting
According to the philosopher Hannah Arendt the essential role of entertainment and political propaganda is to gaslight people. Gaslighting is a deliberate psychological manipulation of people in a subtle way to gain power and control. The consequences of gaslighting is that people starts to have psychological problems, lack of self confidence etc. Hannah Arendt says “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule (…) is people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist”. Fortunately more and more people are waking up and understand what is actually going on in our society today, and as I see it – we have an obligation and responsibility to clean up the mess in modern society today, so that future generations don’t have to spend their lives doubting humanity. One of the ways is to understand that oppression of people does not only happen vertically from authority, but it also happens horizontal. What does that mean? Well as Paulo Freire says “The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors”. I can recommend the movie “The Wave” to get an understanding the danger in gaslighting. The movie The Wave is about how a social experiment gets out of control, and the movie shows in very specific psychological terms what is happening when the oppressed become oppressors.
If you’ve been following me for a while you know that I work with a holistic approach to humanity. To me everything and everyone is interconnected in a Quantum Field of energy. So it is no coincidence that gaslighting people through misinformation on a subtle energy level is taking place in modern society through technology and it is no coincidence that phones, I pads etc is available to kids and young people. When you in a subtle way gaslight and double-bind people, you mess up peoples understanding of inner/outer information, and at the same time you mess up peoples trust in inner/outer energy e.g. themselves and others. What we end up with is cognitive dissonance,
In tune with the Infinite
I can assure you that there is a solution. I’m absolutely optimistic about the future without ignoring the dysfunctional parts of todays modern society, I intuitively observe a subtle change in the mass energy where a part of humanity is evolving in resonance with each other and our planet. It’s like observing a huge stream of birds changing direction at the same time. It is like a sentence I once read in a book “In Tune with the Infinite” by Ralph Waldo Trine “There is something in the Universe that responds to brave, intrepid thought. The Power that holds and that moves the stars in their courses, fights for the brave and the upright. Courage has Power and Magic in it“. If your intuition tells you that something is either right or wrong it would be wise of you to listen to it. If your energy drops and you’re feeling “low” and exhausted to some information it is your energy body telling you that this is not for you, but if your energy body feels joyful and in flow it is. Tune into your own personally guidance and avoid gaslighting and cognitive dissonance.
