1. Power is double-edged.
2. Rules, Expectations, Assumptions.
3. Potential Benefits.
4. Frequent Errors.
5. Good intentions; Bad results!
6. Demands of Teamwork.
7. Managing your SuperEgo.
   • SuperEgo Domination, One example.

Power is double-edged.

SuperEgo power is POLITICAL POWER.
It is the influence of group values projected through systems of authority. Institutionalization of this form of identity has expanded in number of sources and in size of shared value groups for millennia. As infants and children, we look to parents and other significant others to provide us with a shortcut to contentment through the answering of our anxieties and concerns.

WE QUICKLY LEARN TO OBEY, who to avoid, who we should fear, and who and what we should respect. Humans are the only Earth lifeforms which take 15 to 20 years to reach maturity. Some writers and history suggest that "civilization" has delayed emotional and self-esteem maturity until age 40, if it ever develops. Co-dependency and economic slavery are the core behaviors required of all participants in capitalist and communist political systems: politics of the masses who provide the technology, capital, pride, fear, abuse, greed, vengeance, possessiveness, paranoia, and media manipulation that make wars possible ... even necessary. No other Earth lifeform spends its time and resources planning for the mass destruction of its own species.

WE QUICKLY LEARN TO either CARE ABOUT OTHERS, or, ONLY OURSELVES.
The larger the social grouping, the larger are its institutions and its need to collect revenues and reduce expenses by way of taxes, duties, low wage workers, and penal enterprises. The USA has one of the largest per capita penal colonies. Germany has one of the largest per capita social assistance populations. The CIS (formerly USSR) has one of the largest per capita populations of low income and chronically diseased populations. China has one of the most politically suppressed populations. Yet in each of these countries there are equally large populations involved in counselling, retraining, volunteering, ecological awareness and reclaiming, religious practice, alternative medical care, nursing homes, and service to the ill and homeless. SuperEgo vales and power define the most constructive and the most destructive actions of organized humanity.

IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY North Americans and other industrialized cultures have increasingly become dependent upon theoretical truths rather than on personal experience or guided spiritual truths. Theoretical truths are the interpretations, judgements, assumptions, mandates, and best guesses of other persons who have more power than we do or to whom we surrender our personal power. This pattern of SuperEgo dominance seems to occur somewhere on the Earth at least once in every 500 years. Sources of SuperEgo values are these:

1. any written materials assumed or expected to be true & relevant;
2. political parties, platforms, leaders, supporters, writings;
3. legislated laws, by-laws, regulations, requirements, sanctions;
4. parental rules, standards, example, criticism, shame, reward;
5. standardized religions --- their texts, churches, and followers;
6. words, actions & offers of encouragement from friends/associates;
7. professional and career centered associations and organizations;
8. any reference which suggests an historical importance/relevance;
9. scientific, academic, and research journals and newsletters;
10. any mass media newscast, report, article, survey, or notice;
11. projections of our own dislikes/likes assumed shared by everyone;
12. films and movies presented as documentaries or common values;
13. television programs which receive network & advertiser support;
14. labor and employee unions and their schedules of demands;
15. statements made by business affiliations, mergers, partnerships;
16. training provided to law enforcement and military forces/units;
17. action groups, crowds, demonstrations, marches, riots, lobbies;
18. peer groups, gangs, fraternities, clubs --- by age, gender, wealth;
19. coincidences, predictions, channelings, economic cycles/trends;
20. prophesies, revelations, divinings, trances, psychic readings.

A STRONG SUPEREGO can continue to try and direct your life when its direction is irrelevant and incorrect. SuperEgo values are often expressed as "best intentions." More people have been abused, murdered, deprived, or otherwise ill-treated by the virtue of good intentions than by bad intentions. This has occurred because bad intentions are always acknowledged as Ego-directed and selfish or amoral ... and the masses do not support such individualized aims.

GOOD INTENTIONS attract the support, and power, of the masses because of the persuasiveness of the authority credited to the cause and the truth or ignorance which is held by most of the participants. Colonies have been created, aboriginal peoples have been marginalized and decimated, and water supplies and land masses have been polluted --- always --- with good intentions. Some persons make Higher Self contact, released some blocks, and yet have conflict with their SuperEgo. Adolph Hitler believed that he was a good person who was freeing his Germany from the economic and political domination of other nations. There are no political dictators who lack the support of the masses.

ONE'S GREATEST EMPOWERMENT arises from the knowledge of being able to determine the accuracy of their mentoring or of their spiritual guidance. Here are some possibilities:

• ASK if the guidance is coming from your Higher Self;
• ask a Mentor who is balanced to ask their Higher Self;
• ask a companion who is balanced to ask their Higher Self;
• ensure that you have privacy for your testing/asking;
• ensure that you are not rushed or feeling fear or anxiety.

SELF-MANAGEMENT means that your Personal Spirit has chosen to put Higher Self guidance before all else. It has accepted the HUMILITY required to temporarily follow the confirmed guidance on a FEW decisions from another source. IF your Personal Spirit fails to be strong enough to act on this and act on it quickly --- it will lead to the generation of more and new Energy Blocks and a self-deception which has threatened to re-degrade your health and potential success. Fortunately, this level of challenge is not common.

Rules, Expectations, Assumptions.

IF YOU KNOW AND UNDERSTAND the responsibilities of your SuperEgo, it is much easier than otherwise to evaluate, assign, and acknowledge the benefits and disadvantages of choices and decisions favored by the SuperEgo.

CAPABILITIES and TENDENCIES of a SuperEgo.

1. Judgementalism: right vs. wrong
   may assume authority over all issues, plays a God role;

2. Intolerance:
   commitment & loyalty, or, disobedience, betrayal, guilt, shame;

3. Cultural authority:
   "everybody" does it, so it is acceptable and "Right";

4. Religious authority:
   our institution or group demands that we "should";

5. Political authority:
   actions which our laws sanction as legal or illegal;

6. Peer authority:
   actions required to demonstrate solidarity to others.

Potential Benefits.

HOW does our SuperEgo best ASSIST us in our lives.
Do you really want to give up any of these?

• ... usually predictable, automatic, acceptable;
• ... can be energizing, stimulating, obsessive;
• ... can motivate rationalization (Ego gratification);
• ... offers definitive belief >> demands commitment & action;
• ... encourages sacrifice for the benefit of and sacrifice from others;
• ... promises acceptance, affiliation, loyalty, and pride;
• ... can be very powerful.

TO GET RID OF YOUR SUPEREGO is to become anti-social.
The challenge is to manage, not eliminate.
To assertively and responsibly carry out that goal, one should clearly recognize both sides of the benefit-disadvantage scale.

Frequent Errors.

IF WE KNOW THE WEAKNESSES OF OUR SUPEREGO we can guard against them. Without self-awareness we can have no effective self-direction. Without self-direction, there is little success.

• ... can't tolerate opposition and negotiation,
  "objective" idealism: no true compassion or empathy;

• ... other-centered, other person's needs
  self-awareness replaced by self denial and projection;

• ... confuses reality with denial,
  produces confidence through excuse, blame, justification;

• ... authoritarian
  overly intellectual, demanding, defensive and insecure;

• ... power seeking
  always wants to receive mentor acceptance to avoid shame;

• ... absolutes of law replace respect
  reality of personal circumstances and capability is denied;

• ... always wants
  what is status quo and perceived correct by those in authority;

• ... perfectionism and co-dependency
  often made destructive by toxic shame & emotional immaturity;

• ... doesn't want change or challenge
  assumes standards and rules which are not to be questioned;

• ... supports elitism
  prejudice, privilege, intolerance, racism, genocide, and wars;

• ... often over-dramatic
  can turn everything into a life-and-death struggle.

THE POWER TO CONTRIBUTE to the success and good of the majority is equalled by the power to do harm to the individual and the environment.

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