Shared Briliance

Journal Entry: 1-11-2012: As we individuate, becoming much wiser, more knowledgeable, very skilled and talented, and if we are good enough, the fruits of our labor and development may display flashes of brilliance, virtuoso and insight--at least these heights are what we aspire too, and some of us will make it too. As we evolve to higher levels of accomplishment, we have become very self-empowered, powerful and influential. We have joined the ranks of God's angels walking about on earth.

We humans, as capable individuators, are God's representatives on earth. How we comport ourselves reflects directly on De. Being great or even celebrated does not relieve us of that obligation incumbent upon all individuators to lead humble, mundane lives while doing impressive things. Doing marvellous things and leading an exceptional life require that we avoid being distracted, waylaid, corrupted or destroyed by something akin to the Hollywood celebrity lifestyle.

Working a regular job, being married with children, mowing the yard and volunteering for the neighborhood block watch club are all ways to keep us decentralized from vitiating start-worship. To be great and yet middle class and ordinary is a way to stay realistic, rooted, sensible, practical, not taking the self too seriously. One may have one's head in the clouds when one's feet are firmly attached to terra firma.

We aspire to be powerful, but not power-hungry. We want to be proud and confident of what we have done without descending into a pose of arrogance and smugness. Addiction to fame and star-status changes how one views the masses. One begins to hate them, to look down upon them, to believe that one is better than they are.

Where 92% of our middle class neighbors are as talented and respected as we have become, becoming powerful and very skilled likely will not lead to craving amassed power. We want our power without resenting our muscular neighbors for going after, acquiring and enjoying their power. Such thousands of dispersed centers of powerful persons wielding real powers keeps the power so decentralized so that the powerful masses cancel each other out. That is a good, workable distribution of political, social and economic power.