12-17-2011, 06:45 PM
I have been exploring the Theme of Betrayal lately, and it still fires me up and makes me Rage a bit when thinking about it.
by Betrayal, I am probably referring to these type of incidents/occurences:
* a spouse leaving their partner/family for someone else
* a Spy who transmits sensitive information to the Enemy that leads to many deaths
* a Mother killing her Children
* on a more prosaic level, a basketball or baseball player who defects to another franchise for money/other reasons (think LeBron or Albert Pujols)
when such events are reported in the News, if you follow the reaction of the everyday person on places like twitter or comments on blog articles etc, you will see the instinctive rage that arises. It is a deep level Anger and thorough sense of Betrayal; how could this person do this to us??
I think what is occuring on a mental level is that we are perceiving someone changing their allegiances from Service-to-Others (and we were included in that 'Others' group) to Service-to-Self. There is also the possibility that we perceive that person changing their Service-to-Others to another group, but it is rare that we can make that distinction in the heat of the anger.
we see someone going from STO to STS and we get mad. Like really mad.
I get it when I'm not even involved in the transaction!
I guess at the heart of this is that however wide we think our own net of Service-to-Others extends, it probably still has limits that do not encompass the whole of Creation; ie our own net of STO is still a small one. We have our favourite people and beam more love to some than others.
by Betrayal, I am probably referring to these type of incidents/occurences:
* a spouse leaving their partner/family for someone else
* a Spy who transmits sensitive information to the Enemy that leads to many deaths
* a Mother killing her Children
* on a more prosaic level, a basketball or baseball player who defects to another franchise for money/other reasons (think LeBron or Albert Pujols)
when such events are reported in the News, if you follow the reaction of the everyday person on places like twitter or comments on blog articles etc, you will see the instinctive rage that arises. It is a deep level Anger and thorough sense of Betrayal; how could this person do this to us??
I think what is occuring on a mental level is that we are perceiving someone changing their allegiances from Service-to-Others (and we were included in that 'Others' group) to Service-to-Self. There is also the possibility that we perceive that person changing their Service-to-Others to another group, but it is rare that we can make that distinction in the heat of the anger.
we see someone going from STO to STS and we get mad. Like really mad.
I get it when I'm not even involved in the transaction!
I guess at the heart of this is that however wide we think our own net of Service-to-Others extends, it probably still has limits that do not encompass the whole of Creation; ie our own net of STO is still a small one. We have our favourite people and beam more love to some than others.