by Renee Lindstrom, author of Somatic Archetypes

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A few years back, I posted about becoming aware of someone using Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs to attack other people to keep them in challenging positions. Of course, it was self-motivated to get ahead themselves, or appear ?, better than? At first, I was surprised yet slightly amused. I had already created my method for integrating dialogues and was exploring with it through real and live events, with extremely good results. From a personal perspective, it didn’t phase me in the way this person intended. This is someone in the local business community with a background of speaking using words in an old system that will have to be replaced in the near future.

I did use it as an educational opportunity as I bided my time getting my materials together and organized. I am not sure when I became aware of the potential of projections that this community was using came into my consciousness, yet it didn’t escape me. I posted about it a bit, not in too much detail, just to let them know I knew what they were doing. It must have seemed odd for those not in the know, yet I suspect with what is emerging globally, it’s not something hidden in anyone’s consciousness any longer. The witchcraft and demonic behaviours have more than surfaced in the past year and a half. It’s been outed on a scale that is fantastical and rolls off people’s tongues. I have never practiced witchcraft ritualism on the spectrum of the dark arts, as it is not my thing. At one time, I went in afterwards and cleaned the mess it left.

There is a darkness that can be felt like an energetic entity, and I have witnessed it overtake people’s ability to function on a conscious level. The person is so out of it that it’s ridiculous. By that point, they are heavily addicted to substances and behaviours that seem to weigh them down to the point of being in anger, rage, depression and despondent 100 percent of the time. I don’t know personally if the addictions are a result of the dark arts or if they open the door to them, yet I observe them as going hand and hand. So, when I heard that a person was using the scale of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs to control people, and specifically trying to use it against me, I did what I do. Used it as a learning opportunity based on the model of somatic dialogues I was investing in. So, for example, the demonic dark arts would be used to keep people in survival. The base level of the scale. The strategies they would try and attempt are a loss of income, shelter and the ability to provide the basic needs. She tried this on me! Only using an old model based on her belief system. She gathered a community to do their best in destroying my ability to work through gossip and slander, etc. Going into the community to slowly influence the other levels of the scale.

It is unfortunate for her and this group that I was aware of their behaviour and had the skills to not be distracted by it. The curious thing for me is I didn’t consciously know this until I was in it and observing my responses and the lack of them to this. Something in the past that would have been a concern and distressing. Oh, I played along and posted for educational purposes, yet I was more interested in why I wasn’t bothered by it. I can only put it down to the model of communication that I had been developing and the clarity that came with it. I had no energy imprint for it to land anywhere in my experience. In otherwards I didn’t go into agreement with it consciously, or unconsciously. There was nothing in me that went into agreement with the projections. Even the dark arts that were performed. I am sure at some point I will write about it, yet that is not the focus now.

Only, I am shocked by the marriage of the dark arts and their profession. Stunned actually. I do have a background of understanding in energies, etc., yet I chose to turn towards practical and logical forms of interactions to stay firmly planted on the earth when in the pursuit of understanding human behaviour. I am aware of it and somatically sense it, see it, etc., yet my focus of attention is on the human interactive experience with people, places and things in living situations. I do use intention with objects and lifestyle patterns to support protection, and clearing the space and myself, yet the biggest support has come from the clarity in function through the somatic senses. It gives me the motivation to stick with the intention to get this model out and share it. If anything, it became the driving force. What I learned is that this model is what I was looking for as a somatic empath and couldn’t find in our society. This somatic patterning is the source of courage, strength and confidence that was missing. It is a natural leadership available in us that is our birthright. It is what was taken away from us, the inner connection to our very own core value system. In this case, I refer to as spirit within or godliness. No connection to this at a core level opens us up to corruption, as we are looking externally for answers to the self-doubt and confusion that comes from a lack of connection to our own inner foundation. A foundation I find in a personal value system, inside and looking outside. It is from this foundation that one can see clearly into another’s intent, motivation and the energies, etc. Only it all comes through as clarity, not as something to be fearful of.

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