Woke Leftists, Black-Pilled Truthers, Divine Grace, And The Hero Archetype
The Trump Shooting From A Higher Perspective
By Bernhard Guenther, July 15, 2024
Introduction
On July 13th, Trump was shot. Some people believe it was staged and fake; others think that it was an inside job by the Secret Service/Deep State and anything in between.
In this article, I explore the idea of the shooting being staged, as many “truthers” claim. Interestingly, this is the same view as many people on the Mainstream Left. There seems to be an underlying connection and similarity between Woke Leftists and negative-oriented “black-pilled” truthers, which I’m exploring from a psycho-spiritual perspective.
Beyond the staged or not-staged argument, I look at this event from a higher perspective of the collective psyche, revealing an archetype to help inspire humanity and the necessity of a more nuanced spiritual vision in the context of the evolution of consciousness and Divine Will.
Trump is a very controversial figure. He triggers people on the left and the truther community alike. The one side sees him as Hitler and a dictator, while conservatives see him as the savior who can’t do wrong. The other side sees him as a controlled op or Illuminati. This article aims to provide a higher view—a “third” option—besides the black-and-white either/or view most people have. [also see “Facing The Deep State And Psy-Op Within Yourself – The Essence Of Shadow Work” ]
Lost in Plato’s Cave
It’s fascinating how the mindset and level of consciousness of woke far leftists and a certain fraction of self-proclaimed “awake” truthers have become very similar over the past few years. Both are caught in the victim/blame trap and have lost [higher] meaning. They have descended into a paranoid labyrinth of their own minds augmented by Wetiko.
The armchair truthers who see psy-ops, controlled ops, and staged events everywhere are perhaps the most lost and deluded, for they believe themselves to be “awake” [and see everyone as “sheeple”] as if they have figured it all out – as if a mental “understanding” of what they think the matrix is has anything to do with a true awakening.
The more neurotic ones project their unconscious father/mother wound on any authority in an unconscious knee-jerk reaction to the point of not even recognizing and seeing positive higher symbols and assisting forces anymore.
Instead, they see everything as a trap, to the point that some even believe that Earth itself is a prison planet and reincarnation is a trap. Everything is an artificial simulation, scripted and planned. This view of reality is similar to a regressive materialistic view denying the Divine and a higher Divine Will with a benevolent purpose and meaning in the context of the evolution of consciousness.
They can’t perceive anything good in the world anymore but have become prisoners of their own internalized hell and cynicism. But it’s unconscious and mechanical.
Over the years, I’ve seen many people disintegrate psychologically and spiritually in the so-called “truth movement.” It’s a sad picture. It shows how easily an awakening impulse can get hijacked in the “truth movement.
They have lost their connection to the Divine and even their soul being. They can’t even recognize when the collective psyche is gracing them with a most potent symbol and archetype of a hero.
Both the woke left and the black-pilled “everything is staged & scripted” truther crowd have rejected the hero archetype and instead have torn him down, just like Jesus was crucified. I’m strictly talking about archetypal symbolism here beyond religion.
They need to reject the hero because they strongly identify as the victim, even if only unconsciously. A chronic victim doesn’t only blame the outside world for his/her misery, but the “truther-victim” mentality also lives in a perpetual state of paranoia, believing there are controlled ops and traps everywhere. The archetypal hero threatens their identity. It is the opposite of who they are; hence, they get triggered by it. Yet, ironically, integrating and embodying it would be the antidote and cure for their self-imposed misery and help the world.
Interesting side note: David Hawkins mentioned that according to his model of the “map of consciousness,” people who are living in a victim/blame state have a very low level of consciousness and cannot perceive Truth and reality accurately at that level. They will only see what will justify their victim/blame state, projected externally on the world. See his book “Power vs. Force” for more.
The woke left and fractions of the truthers also suffer under severe TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome), each in their own way with all the shadow projections and oversimplified black-and-white perceptions involved. The one side sees him as Hitler and a dictator. The other side sees him as a controlled op or Illuminati or is overly fixated on the vaccine issue or whatever confirms their biased projections.
There is no nuance, wisdom, or understanding of how even the Divine can do His work through an imperfect instrument like Trump [more on that topic below].
The Divine even uses YOU as His instrument the best He can despite your ignorance, stupidity, distortion, imperfection, selfishness, laziness, all the lies you tell yourself about yourself, and many other traits we all carry and often only project externally.
Yet, you, too, have something to provide and give to the world—a specific purpose that is unique to you. It connects you to pure Joy and the truth of your soul being—to stand up for something greater than you and not just point out what you think is wrong with the world. But can you even hear or sense the divine impulse within you, or are you so entrenched in your outer crust that you even reject His call?
“The only free will in the world is the one divine Will of which Nature is the executrix; for she is the master and creator of all other wills. Human free will can be real in a sense, but, like all things that belong to the modes of Nature, it is only relatively real. The mind rides on a swirl of natural forces, balances on a poise between several possibilities, inclines to one side or another, settles and has the sense of choosing: but it does not see, it is not even dimly aware of the Force behind that has determined its choice. It cannot see it, because that Force is something total and to our eyes indeterminate.
Behind this petty instrumental action of the human will there is something vast and powerful and eternal that oversees the trend of the inclination and presses on the turn of the will. There is a total Truth in Nature greater than our individual choice. This apparently self-acting mechanism of Nature conceals an immanent divine Will that compels and guides it and shapes its purposes. But you cannot feel or know that Will while you are shut up in your narrow cell of personality, blinded and chained to your viewpoint of the ego and its desires.
For you can wholly respond to it only when you are impersonalized [embodied] by knowledge and widened to see all things in the self and in God and the self and God in all things. The state of ignorance in which you believe that you are the doer of your acts persists so long as it is necessary for your development; but as soon as you are capable of passing into a higher condition, you begin to see that you are an instrument of the one consciousness; you take a step upward and you rise to a higher conscious level.”
– Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga
The Woke Leftists and Black-pilled truthers are so disconnected from that divine creative impulse that they can only complain, blame, and see negativity everywhere. They have become a black hole feeding ground for occult hostile forces.
From a Jungian perspective, it results from psychological splitting – an internal fracture projected externally. In their unbalanced and disconnected attempts to reject any possibility of goodwill, they also reject or don’t recognize the necessary hero archetype that helps to inspire people with courage, love, and determination.
In their chronic cynicism, they see it as a fake staged event and a manipulated photo-op to sell the savior image and manipulate people even more. But that is just their internalized loss of meaning and loss of connection to Self, projected on the world stage (no pun intended) as they are stuck and imprisoned in the basement of Plato’s cave.
Lost in the darkness, they lack vision.
On July 13th, we saw the rise of a powerful archetypal hero image that is NOT to be confused with a savior image.
This image has already inspired millions in just one day to step into their OWN POWER with COURAGE, as exemplified by Trump himself, with and despite all his imperfections.
Divine Grace gave humanity what it needed for most people during these dark times, which are going to intensify even more: THE POWER OF COURAGE and BRAVERY—something woke leftists and black-pilled truthers completely lack in their disempowered victim state.
They keep blaming the world and external forces – projecting their internalized misery and unconscious pain – while contributing nothing creative or productive to the betterment of this world and humanity. They have become unconscious forces for the matrix.
As Gurdjieff once said, ‘they have become their own punishment’.
There is no need to project the savior image on Trump or identify with any political party. This is not about pro-government vs. anti-government. It’s not about Anarchism vs. Statism, not even Left vs Right, or many other dualities people get caught up in without realizing the third force by the INTERNAL alchemical process of holding the tension of opposites.
That’s when sincere and deep inner psycho-spiritual work comes in, something the vast majority of “truthers” are not engaged in, and it shows. As a result, the mentalized black-pilled truther stuck in the labyrinth of the conspiracy abyss, disconnected from Essence and disembodied, becomes a vessel for occult forces feeding the matrix consciousness through his wetiko-sized mind – the ultimate irony. Even worse, they believe in being “awake” – a devastating form of self-delusion.
Again, I’m not taking myself out of the equation. I’ve been there until I needed to face myself and break down that false foundation. It’s a humbling and painful process, nothing short of a rebirth. But it does require effort and will to face the lies you are telling yourself – much harder than pointing out the lies in the world.
Let this image of Trump INSPIRE YOU [infused with Spirit] to BECOME THAT and BE THAT YOURSELF – the hero in your own life, for your family, and the human family in everyday life.
If you’re lucky, you are already inspired, connected to your deeper purpose, and able to sense the Divine Force acting through you.
Regardless, this is the time to stand up and fight for freedom, truth, love, and beauty. It’s WITHIN YOU.
This is a spiritual war, and you are the one you have been waiting for.
Going Beyond Staged Or Not-Staged And How Many “Truthers” Align With The Mainstream Narrative
Many conspiracy folks claimed that the Trump shooting “was staged!” Many truthers claimed that whoever doesn’t recognize that this was a staged and fake event is deep asleep while they have figured it all out and are “awake.” It created a lot of argumentive hostility on the internet. It’s no surprise, considering the recent astrological “weather” with Algol (also called the Demon Star) activated by Mars and Uranus. This transit also directly affected Trump’s chart.
Check out the complete interpretation of the assassination by this astrologer HERE.
I understand that some people may get triggered by referencing astrology, or they dismiss it as New Age nonsense. If you are one of them, I have nothing to say to you other than you will never understand something you don’t study in depth before dismissing it. I’m lucky to have a wife who is an astrologer. Her insights have helped me tremendously, including many people we work with in our “Embodied Soul Awakening” program.
I question everyone who says within a few hours that “it was staged” with zero evidence other than “they always do it,” and “they never miss” (Reagan?), or “what are the odds of the bullet just hitting his ear?” (people escape close death every single day thanks to Divine Grace; maybe even you did, and you don’t know it. I know I did in my life and I thank the Grace that I’m still here)
None of these are arguments, let alone evidence that it was “staged.” But I would not begin to claim to know what exactly happened.
Based on most recent information, it seems more likely that the Secret Service allowed it to happen or even planned it as part of the Deep State agenda; the shooter was maybe a 3-letter-agency (CIA/FBI) patsy or an MK-Ultra asset; there could have been another shooter, etc.
However, the idea that it was “staged,” as in “fake” (i.e., fake blood, no actual victims, no shooter killed, or people were killed but still all actors), is on the very bottom of that list, and there is zero evidence for it other than speculation. It would have also been a master Oscar-worthy performance for Trump and all involved.
The biggest irony is that it’s not just many “truthers” pushing the “it was staged!” narrative; many on the left are doing and implying the same. Just look at Twitter/X at all the #StagedByTrump and similar hashtags. The vast majority of those posts are by woke leftists, some with pronouns in their bio and with the Ukrainian flag and pro-jab emoticon next to their name.
Many “normies” and consensus people who suffer from TDS and only watch CNN and legacy media, including hardcore TDS-infected actor Mark “Luke Skywalker” Hamill (who got taken over by the dark side), also insinuated that the Trump shooting was “staged with fake blood.”
Folks, if your views align with those of the mainstream left, it’s time to take some time off and reflect.
Here’s a clip of regular folks claiming it was “staged” and stumbling when being asked to prove it:
Nuanced thinking is not making assumptions or hasty conclusions and not seeing things in superficial black and white. I also repeatedly said I’m not taking myself out of the equation. I used to do the same often in my adolescent years of “truth-seeking,” calling any shooting and terrorist event “staged,” and I had to eat my words afterward many times. Yes, some are, but not all.
But my point is beyond the “staged” or “not-staged” argument.
If anything, life has taught me – based on my lessons of “truth-seeking” and inner work over the past 30 years – that things are way more complex and nuanced than our limited perception of what we “think” is happening in the eyes of the Divine and Trump’s fundamental role in it (or any other person) beyond the superficial 3D linear “cause and effect” mental tunnel vision interpretation.
That’s my experience and opinion. It doesn’t imply that I “know it all.”
In my current view, Trump is neither a “savior” nor a “false savior” or “controlled op,” it’s not a “staged event,” he’s not “the lesser evil,” “one wing of the same bird,” “antichrist,” “part of the swamp,” Illuminati, or any other oversimplified projections/judgments.
I don’t see him as all good or all bad. But he plays an important archetypal role, and it’s neither a simple, sinister, deceiving, negative nor a “perfect, holy savior” one. As mentioned above, he represents an archetypal symbol from the collective psyche.
Over the years, I’ve seen a lot of superficial black-and-white either/or views and projections. I’ve seen it in pro-Trump, anti-Trump, and anti-government (anarchist) circles; I’ve seen it in Truther circles, and I’ve seen it in myself, doing just the same [again, not taking myself out of the equation.]
The Necessity For A Higher Spiritual Vision
I suggest a higher spiritual vision. What I mean by that is to recognize that there is a higher plan, a Divine Plan, and a Divine Will that overrides any human-made plan or agenda and that none of us (including you and me) can see with the “eyes of the Divine.” It means recognizing that the Divine can use any human instrument for his work, despite the distortions and imperfections, including Trump, you, and me, as I described before.
Hardly anyone can see with the “eyes of the divine,” but this Divine Will acts through our own lives in ways that we can, at best, only see retrospectively. What we see happening on the world stage right now, the result is yet to be seen.
But most of us can at least agree that this is a time of epic change, a death/rebirth process, and a magnificent opportunity. And what we align with decides the course of this journey. If we align with God or a higher power, we will align with the Divine plan regardless of human plans and conspiracies.
We may then realize that everything is in perfect order and alignment – a perfect balance. There is no error or mistake in creation. Realizing this, not just philosophically or intellectually but entering that state of consciousness via direct experience, doesn’t imply just sitting back and doing nothing in passivity.
No, by giving yourself to the Divine in active surrender, you will embrace life even more fully engaged in action but guided from a higher place instead of from the stumblings of your conditioned and wounded ego-personality, which you mistake for the true Self.
The irony and paradox is that, despite your stumblings, errors, and imperfections, the Divine is still doing His work because all is the Divine and all is One. Or do you believe yourself to be perfect and all good and fully “awake” in the true meaning of the world: self-realized in union with the Divine? I’m certainly not.
What people see in Trump as egotistical defects may be beneficial, considering his role and task from a Divine perspective. The trap I see is the black-and-white thinking (fallacy) of “Trump the Savior” and “Trump is a Lightworker sent by God” vs. “Trump, the vile arrogance narcissist who can’t do anything right” or “Trump the controlled op, liar and deceiver.”
The only person who can express this “spiritual vision” more accurately is someone who has achieved higher levels of enlightenment and can “see with the eyes of the Divine,” which isn’t me, so I leave you with these words by Sri Aurobindo. [I recommend reading the whole chapter from the book this expert is from for mroe context]:
“[…]There is then no real division or limitation of being, no fundamental contradiction of the omnipresent Reality; but there does seem to be a real limitation of consciousness: there is an ignorance of self, a veiling of the inner Divinity, and all imperfection is its consequence.
For we identify ourselves mentally, vitally, physically with this superficial ego-consciousness which is our first insistent self-experience; this does impose on us, not a fundamentally real, but a practical division with all the untoward consequences of that separateness from the Reality. But here again we have to discover that from the point of view of God’s workings, whatever be our reactions or our experience on the surface, this fact of ignorance is itself an operation of knowledge and not a true ignorance.[…]
All that is thus hidden is an occult store of light and power for the All-Consciousness to draw upon for the evolution of our being in Nature; there is a secret working which fills up all the deficiencies of the frontal Ignorance, acts through its apparent stumblings, prevents them from leading to another final result than that which the All-Knowledge has decreed, helps the soul in the Ignorance to draw from its experience, even from the natural personality’s sufferings and errors, what is necessary for its evolution and to leave behind what is no longer utilisable.
This frontal power of Ignorance is a power of concentration in a limited working, much like that power in our human mentality by which we absorb ourselves in a particular object and in a particular work and seem to use only so much knowledge, only such ideas as are necessary for it, — the rest, which are alien to it or would interfere with it, are put back for the moment: yet, in reality, all the time it is the indivisible consciousness which we are that has done the work to be done, seen the thing that has to be seen, — that and not any fragment of consciousness or any exclusive ignorance in us is the silent knower and worker: so is it too with this frontal power of concentration of the All-Consciousness within us.
In our valuation of the movements of our consciousness this ability of concentration is rightly held to be one of the greatest powers of the human mentality. But equally the power of putting forth what seems to be an exclusive working of limited knowledge, that which presents itself to us as ignorance, must be considered one of the greatest powers of the divine Consciousness. It is only a supreme self-possessing Knowledge which can thus be powerful to limit itself in the act and yet work out perfectly all its intentions through that apparent ignorance. In the universe we see this supreme self-possessing Knowledge work through a multitude of ignorances, each striving to act according to its own blindness, yet through them all it constructs and executes its universal harmonies.[…]
We may say then that this action of the ignorance or nescience is no real ignorance, but a power, a sign, a proof of an omniscient self-knowledge and all-knowledge. If we need any personal and inner witness to this indivisible all- consciousness behind the ignorance, — all Nature is its external proof, — we can get it with any completeness only in our deeper inner being or larger and higher spiritual state when we draw back behind the veil of our own surface ignorance and come into contact with the divine Idea and Will behind it.
Then we see clearly enough that what we have done by ourselves in our ignorance was yet overseen and guided in its result by the invisible Omniscience; we discover a greater working behind our ignorant working and begin to glimpse its purpose in us: then only can we see and know what now we worship in faith, recognise wholly the pure and universal Presence, meet the Lord of all being and all Nature.
As with the cause, — the Ignorance, — so is it with the consequences of the Ignorance. All this that seems to us incapacity, weakness, impotence, limitation of power, our will’s hampered struggle and fettered labour, takes from the point of view of the Divine in his self-workings the aspect of a just limitation of an omniscient power by the free will of that Power itself so that the surface energy shall be in exact correspondence with the work that it has to do, with its attempt, its allotted success or its destined because necessary failure, with the balance of the sum of forces in which it is a part and with the larger result of which its own results are an indivisible portion.
Behind this limitation of power is the All-Power and in the limitation that All-Power is at work; but it is through the sum of many limited workings that the indivisible Omnipotence executes infallibly and sovereignly its purposes. This power to limit its force and to work through that self-limitation, by what we call labour, struggle, difficulty, by what seems to us a series of failures or half-baulked successes and through them to achieve its secret intention, is not therefore a sign, proof or reality of weakness, but a sign, proof, reality — the greatest possible — of an absolute omnipotence.[…]”
– Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Book Two, Part I, Chapter IV: The Divine and the Undivine
To understand this topic and view it in more depth, I recommend listening to the podcast in which I talk to Neelesh Marik about the ultimate riddle of the world: the problem of evil, the Divine, and the Undivine from the perspective of Sri Aurobindo’s Integral Yoga.
We discuss the exoteric (outer) events in the world in light of the esoteric (inner) work, the occult domains of evil and how they manifest in the world and within us, and what needs to be done during this critical time of human history to avoid extinction.
Listen/watch here: The Divine and The Un-divine: The Problem of Evil
Lastly, Satprem beautifully explains the workings of the Divine, the limitations of the mind, and the trajectory of our evolution. I encourage you to reflect on this in the context of current and future events, for everything will intensify.
Prepare your body, mind, and soul accordingly by going within, engaging in the psycho-spiritual work, and connecting to the truth of your Being—your connection to the Divine—so you can become more receptive to the higher Will. This Great [inner] Work is more necessary and helpful for YOU and the world than figuring out any “conspiracy” mentally.
“Each thing, each being, each force on the earth moves toward a special absolute, expressing it more or less accurately and often perversely, but despite all the flaws and perversions it obeys an intimate law that impels it towards the one truth of its being – even the leaves on the same tree are all unique. If it were not for that absolute and unique truth at the center of each one of us, we would crumble.
But the mind, which sees only the present surface of things, seeks to trim off all the rough edges, purify by exclusion, and reduce its world to a uniform, righteous and equitable truth. It decrees, “This is good, that is bad; this is friendly, that is hostile.” It might want to eliminate all the Nazis from the world or all the Chinese, for instance, thinking they are quite unnecessary calamities. And the mind is right, by definition, since it is designed to be reasonable and since it, too, expresses a mental or moral absolute that has its place and purpose.
But this is not the whole truth; it is only one point of view. Some will say that our partiality, our mind, our morals are necessary instruments for living in the world as it is now, and this is true. We do need to be partial. But this is also why the world is not whole. We should never lose sight of the fact that these are transitory instruments, and that we must aim at replacing these stopgaps, as Sri Aurobindo called them, with a consciousness that is vision and power.
Finally, this is why we lack power, for if we possessed power, we would, with the best of intentions, precipitate a catastrophe through ignorance or shortsightedness. Our shortcomings are necessary shortcomings. Not only does the supramental consciousness capture all the points of view, but also the deeper forces at work behind each thing as well as the truth within each thing: it is a Truth-Consciousness – and because it sees all, it automatically possesses Power.
We are powerless because we do not see. To see, and to see totally, necessarily means to have power. But the supramental [divine] power does not obey our logic or morality; it sees far into space and time, and it does not try to do away with evil in order to save the good, nor does it work through miracles; it frees the good that is within the evil, applying its force and light on the dark half so it consents to its luminous counterpart. Wherever it is applied, the immediate effect is to touch off a crisis; that is, to place the shadow in front of its own light. It is a stupendous evolutionary ferment.”
– Satprem, “The Adventure of Consciousness”
