… that all other languages are built on.

It begins with knowing the difference between respect and trust. All people, animals, and things deserve our respect – and it is to our own folly that we might take anything for granted – but all of those same things must earn our trust. To presume someone deserves trust without direct experience, for any reason at all, is where languages fall apart 

Strength

In my mind I have a scene from the movie “Band of Brothers” playing. It is the scene where Easy company was entering Carentan, I think. They were walking along a road towards town when, in an instant, all hell broke loose. Reflexively, the soldiers all jumped into the ditch along the road and hunkered down. Their Captain, while exposed out in the open, began yelling at them to move forward towards their objective. Eventually, the soldiers got up moving again, but what did it? Was it the logic of the phrase “keep moving”? Or was it something else.

All logic is fleeting. Emotions are eternal.

Instead of sitting in a stagnant pool of their own fear, they chose to connect to the flow of energy coming off of their Captain. The word ‘choice’ here is inaccurate. The average person, especially with heavy repetitive training, will instinctively connect to flowing energy rather than sit alone and disconnected. It is, after all, the reason why the battle tactic of “chopping off the head”, or removing the leadership of an enemy works. It disrupts the flow of energy,.. not the flow of logic.

Maturity 

Cults are not built on logic. Fads and popularity are never about logic. Neither is mass panic. It is all a rapid conflagration of emotion energy. People choosing to “go with the flow”, as it were, because the feel of the massive torrent is better than the small trickle of energy they had before. It is not wrong for a person to want to improve their situation, but it is important to base choices on experience and training instead of fantasies and promises.

Emotions build images in our mind the same way sounds do. A salesman will use a lot of words and tactics to create an image in the mind of their target. All of these words and tactics are intended to evoke emotions that, in turn, construct a certain image. An image that they control for their own leverage. But these evoked emotions are just memories of past emotional experiences, not current emotions in the energy flow of life itself.

Imagine a platoon of soldiers out on patrol. They begin receiving conflicting orders from several different sources. There is no way for them to know which is more authentic or more accurate. They must choose their path. The best choice, regardless of the logic, is the most efficient and effective path for the energy of the entire effort. This can be known by feel, but it takes maturity; the willingness to be unpopular and misunderstood.

Vision

General Eisenhower, the supreme allied commander, had to wrestle with the bloated egos of those around him. Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Patton, Montgomery, Halsey, and MacArthur are the familiar names. Eisenhower’s task was only a little different than a Captain trying to get his men out of the ditch. The difference is that a Captain tries to get his men to connect to the flow of energy and move again, while a General has to keep those around them from distorting the flow of energy to their own interest. It is common for a person who is successful to get confused. They develop the idea that they are the sole reason for success, rather than them simply being the right conduit at the right time. Anyone else could have been within that flow of energy and been successful.

The vision that is needed to be maintained to accomplish this is not an idea of what should be done, to be asserted with iron-fisted authority, but the idea that everyone, even Presidents and Generals, are a part of one large machine. And the only way that machine can be successful is to maintain an efficient and effective flow of energy to all who are included. and that energy does not begin with us, it only flows through us.