Phyllis Beveridge Nissila

In two previous posts, here and another cited in its entirety below,* I discussed what I believe are key components of political psychopathy and how to resist it so as to maintain a clear mind and strong spirit.

The first post discusses what I believe to be our “original enemy’s” asymmetric forms of warfare used to destroy us if we are unaware and unprepared, as well as spiritual and practical strategies on how to be aware and prepared.

The second, below, reviews the basics of psychopathy. See how many of them have become more and more apparent on the global political scene as time has elapsed.

This post has to do with when the psy ops burrow into minds and hearts, when the hate breaks through the critical-thinking and conscience barriers and goes right for the emotions, the amygdala, or base of the brain sometimes called the “lizard brain,” where the survival mechanisms of flee, fight, and freeze are embedded.

And if the prevailing political forces can herd us inside there, so to speak, and keep us there, where energies divert to defense and survival leaving less for higher-level functions, they become the ultimate Trojan Horse because the takeover is invisible and it is silent.

In our sustained fear and distress, we remain on guard and at the mercy of whomever arrives with any kind of solution. We are far more easily led.

The worst of such memes and triggers these days, for example, due to constant repetition of accusatory words such as “racist,” “Nazi,” and “___phobic (fill in the blank),” are the most effective at keeping us trapped there. 

This kind of marketing campaign, you might put it, used to be called the power of suggestion. Today, it is aided and abetted by the Big Lie Theory**. 

But though the external enemies-that-be show themselves brilliant and formidable in wielding the ordnance of suggestion and as frustrating as it can be to see it, hear it, and particularly feel it, every person has the power to stop it at the gates of his or her mind, heart, and spirit. 

In other words, the ultimate in control of human beings and governments, resistance stilled in every corner, their goal, cannot take place unless the population agrees to it–and lets down their resistance–one. by. one.

You might say, it all boils down to each and every individual, to you and to me, and to how we acquiesce to the control-mongers by agreeing with their suggestions, their accusations, and their solutions to be imposed on us.

Or how we successfully resist them.

And we can resist them because we each have the “internal power” to do so. 

And they know it.

Trouble is, many of us do not know it–or have forgotten it.

If you are one of those discouraged by all the frustrating political hoopla, I hope to change that at least a little for you, today.

See what you think, be encouraged, and be emboldened.

Guard Your Mind, Emotions, and Spirit

There is an expression, “all politics is local,” which, according to Wiktionary, means “Ultimately, constituents and voters are concerned most about issues that affect their personal lives and home communities, and they vote accordingly.”

The kind of “personal” “home” to which I refer in this post is that which  comprises the “invisible us,” so to speak, the foundation of who we are inside our skin: our minds, emotions, and spirits from which emanate our thoughts, feelings, and core beliefs that eventually prompt or restrain our external actions.

If our foundations are weak, i.e., if we do not think critically, monitor our emotions with restraint, and nurture our spirits with wisdom, we weaken our resistance to takeover and tyranny.

Of course, in an age arguably infected with rampant narcissism (selfies, anyone?) and infiltrated by the zeitgeist of “if it feels good, do it,” such “old-fashioned” virtues of mindfulness, personal discipline, and belief in a higher power seem soooooo out of date.

However, without having determined a personal code of ethics to stand the test of shiny new–or re-packaged old–“isms and ologies” hawked by would-be conquerors, we are at the mercy of the best salesmen and saleswomen who know how to get to our core through any open door of doubt, indecision, or confusion; any unsecured gate of mental, emotional, or spiritual entry.

Consider what others say on this:

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. ― Marcus Aurelius

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
― Mahatma Gandhi

Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
― J.R.R. Tolkien

He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; And he that ruleth his spirit, than he that taketh a city. –Proverbs 16:32, KJV

And to the concern that you might appear weak to the bold, strong control-mongers, not to worry. It can serve you well as a kind of stealth operation because they will move on from you quickly, perhaps even leave you alone–and you can then continue to sharpen the highly effective tools of your inner strength. C. JoyBell C. puts it this way:

You’re going to meet many people with domineering personalities: the loud, the obnoxious, those that noisily stake their claims in your territory and everywhere else they set foot on. This is the blueprint of a predator. Predators prey on gentleness, peace, calmness, sweetness and any positivity that they sniff out as weakness. Anything that is happy and at peace they mistake for weakness. It’s not your job to change these people, but it’s your job to show them that your peace and gentleness do not equate to weakness.

Solomon’s words add one more advantage: A “gentle tongue” not only “turns away wrath” (Proverbs 15:1), it can also “break a bone” (25:15).

There are, of course, hundreds more quotes such as these from myriad fonts of wisdom offered by individuals who have themselves been tested one way or the other and have turned inward to sharpen their thoughts, control their emotions, and strengthen their beliefs to not only emerge stronger but also to serve as guides for us, now.

My hope today is that you will realize you possess the very same “inner strength”.

And that you will work it.

God knows we all need to.

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*On Combatting the “Red Flags” of Global Psychopathy