situations that
may help to clarify the issues at play.
First, humans desire security. The human condition is insecure. From birth, or particularly at birth, the human is
acutely aware of its insecure position. Nude, tiny, unable to navigate, utterly dependent on others. The human
infant wants to dominate those it is dependent upon. It is natural for the human to want to dominate its
environment. The human wants to control the climate, the seasons. Homes are structured to provide summer
warmth year round. Food is grown or at least provided as though harvest season were year round. Storms have
no effect, nor do catastrophes have effect. There is social security, the umbrella of government aid. Floods and
hurricanes are but another reason to open the government coffers. All this is evidence that the human wants to
dominate its environment.
Second, the desire to dominate goes outside of inanimate factors. The human wants to dominate the other
humans in its vicinity. Starting with the infant's desire to dominate its mother, all her attention, and on to the
stage of public opinion, the human desires to be the focus of attention. The infant wants its cry to bring
immediate attention. The adult want its comments to bring rapt attention from others in the conversation group.
No difference. Those who can command attention will get their needs met - so goes the logic. The infant
displaced by a younger sibling is insecure, as it is no longer the focus of attention.
Third, love comes into play. Love, or empathy, is something felt at an early age. Empathy is not an emotion
reserved for the intelligent, sentient being alone. Love and empathy are felt by all forms of life, even plant life,
to some degree. It is a factor of life. It is intrinsic to life. Love and empathy pull the human into a conflict
situation with its desire for security, to be the center of attention. Decisions are made to share the spotlight, to
share resources. These decisions vary greatly, among humans. Some humans consider others on the same plane
as the self. Other humans rarely, if ever, consider others, and never on the same plane as the self.
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Among humans, the issue of being overpowered and losing control is not simple. This is because of your state, as you
reside among humans on all levels of spiritual development and inclination. The extremes are present, from the sadist
who looks for opportunities to torture others, mentally or physically, for the sense of power that this brings him - to the
saint who would share a blanket in a snowstorm with another, equally. Has the saint been overpowered by the need of
another? What of lovers, who desire the physical union such that they describe the merging in passion as drowning in
love? Is this not being overpowered? What of the mother of a young child, who seeing the child in danger would
without thought put herself in its place. Is not this mother overpowered by her desire to protect? Should someone
decide to rush to help others, putting themselves in front of the flood, and thus being overpowered, feel themselves
wronged?
This has no easy answer. In the 4th Density Service-to-Others, this
circumstances, but not by other entities. When one is overpowered by circumstances, it is as with weather or storm or
accident. Service-to-Other entities do not desire to overpower each other. We desire to see each have the freedom to
decide their own outcome, their own path. We support personal decisions, utterly. The personal decisions of the
entities in the Service-to-Others orientation are not such that other entities are harmed. Only the entity itself is affected.
Thus they have freedom.
However, in your human condition, where you are surrounded by other humans of all levels of spiritual development
and orientation, it is possible to be overpowered not by circumstances, and not by a choice of your own, but by
another's desire to dominate for their own personal sense of security or desire for power. This is another matter, much
dramatized in the movies and in your literature. How to recognize when the line has been crossed? Is the infant's cry
domination? You decide not. Is the child's dance in the center of the gathering domination? You view this with
affection. Is the wife's demand for time away from family and work concerns domination? You consider this sexual
and emotional need, and take it as a compliment, a form of desire.
When do human demands become domination, and when does human response to demand cease to be concern, but
submission? A difficult call. To shield yourself from domination, it would be wrong to block all empathetic response.
The child cries without respite, as the parent will not be dominated. You see our point. Likewise, the overgrown child
who cries for attention, demanding a front place for attention when others are likewise hurting, can be treated as the
child this person is, or can be brushed aside. Which is the path of greater spiritual growth? And is this domination?
In sum, this question cannot be answered for the human condition, where you are asked to sort out the various
demands on yourself, according to the proper priorities. Each situation differs. The line between being
