The Dying Pattern

Midwifing a culture of death

Today, I’m feeling called to do some automatic writing around the Iran War. As I’ve shared in the past, I ascribe less importance to where this comes from as it’s more of a practice to access a wider perspective than my ordinary mind has. Whether it’s valuable is up to each person reading. So here goes…

The Iran war represents a flaring forth of the dying pattern in your culture. The core belief that needs to dissolve is that solutions emerge from force and that dominance is the key to safety. This is at the core of the patriarchy. It is the distortion of the sacred masculine by fear.

A fearful man is afraid of becoming a victim and lashes out to establish some form of dominance. But the fear in itself leads to a breakdown of trust and alignment. Fear enacted corrodes safety rather than producing it. Violence is a form of impatience writ large. It produces a degradation of its environment. Wars are a fear response writ large.

The last version of American culture requires a public failure for it to release its collective grip. The Iran War will provide this, combined with the Epstein saga, which is another form of the distressed pattern in which wounded men are predators on the vulnerable. American culture has raised distorted men and given them the reins of power. Seeing what they do with that power is key to the dissolution of the pattern.

The long-term solution to this pattern is not to entrust distorted men with power, nor the women who have been shaped by this psychology. You need a balance of mature men and mature women in positions of power and influence in the culture and to get there, America is collectively creating an experience of what happens when immature men and women wield power.

First, they wield that power selfishly. They abuse the public trust. They take public resources for themselves. They use public goods for private benefit. They weaponize their power atop the information ecosystem. All of these flow from a developmentally arrested psychology that has been given more power than it can wield with wisdom.

Second, they seek arenas in which they can establish dominance. Dominance is related to the selfish use of power as it is a way to inflate a sense of self-importance by contrasting one’s power with another. The uninitiated masculine seeks inflation of self-importance rather than surrender to their true sacred importance, which is to be in service to all. Iran represents an attempt by the United States and Israel to establish dominance over a perceived threat but it is also quite personal in that Donald Trump is perceiving the waning of his physical and political power and war represents a way to re-establish this.

Third, dominance enables and leads to predation. Financial dominance in the Epstein orbit enabled them to engage in sexual predation of minors and avoid consequences. Because predation is tempting to those who have established power, it’s vital that a healthy society have a functioning rule of law and systems of justice to ensure there are clear, universally applied consequences to prevent predation, which in itself undermines the core sacred truth of sovereignty.

Fourth, the distorted masculine will tend to enact its internal imbalances on women, seeking to remove their power. Out of its insecurity, it seeks to treat women as inferior.

All these distortions are not just individual distortions but cultural distortions. The culture of the United States has been one that raised developmentally arrested men who are insecure in their power and seek personal aggrandizement, wealth, and dominance to compensate for underlying inadequacy and fear.

So this war will lead to public cultural failure. The supposed glory of decapitating another country’s power structure - even one with as distorted a history as Iran’s - will turn into its opposite. Fear enacted through violence results in destruction and the opposite of security. Your country will experience the consequences of the distorted masculine rule of force.

Short-term, that will summon the rise of the counter impulse - the culture that is more whole, balanced, and conscious - to take the reins of power through protest, voting, and institutional power. This will not be an easy process.

In the middle-term, this will require disillusionment with ideologies based on deception and dominance. The exposure of the Epstein universe of dark forms of predation will not only topple many distorted men who use their power for predation, it will also lead to reforms to re-establish the rule of law over all. America will realize that it is even more important for the rich and well-connected to be held accountable to the same ethical standards as others. Disillusionment will also happen with more fundamentalist Christian movements that betrayed the instructions of their founder to follow an unethical leader into darkness. Soul searching will be required.

In the long-term, it will be important to lay the foundations for a culture of healing for men so that they are not raised with distortions as well as women, who heal the damage from the time of physical and sexual violence towards them. This is ultimately what shifts the distortion in the culture but it can only happen at a wide scale once power has been taken from the predators and the rule of justice is re-established. The destruction must be stopped for the healing to begin.

Your evolutionary movement can play a role in all three stages if it understands them. Political organizing has often been seen as beneath your movement as it requires entering into spaces that are polarized, which can be dissonant for more harmonious souls. But the healing cannot happen on a cultural level without the other two stages. Similarly, the emphasis on positivity, love, and light in your subculture is laudable in certain ways but renders you inadequate in the face of evil. So you need to engage in personal shadow work to be more useful in the facing of the collective shadow that is required in the first two phases.

By the time you have entered the current phase of a self-destructive war as an expression of the distortion, the path back into cultural wholeness is long. You cannot avoid the steps required. Each is foundational for the next. Now is the time for protest and refusal to support the war machine. You gain moral standing when you raise your voice and disentangle from what is destructive. Movements to divest from corporations that support the war machine are effective as they can shift the pattern and channel support to those who are committed to serve birth versus death.

You are facing a culture of death. It cannot be killed with force. It must be midwifed into its own natural death, while retaining a focus on what is to be reborn.