Roots of War, Domination and Violence – IV

A Dream Teaching on “Dark Forces”

Are there secret dominator forces and groups within human civilization? As I’ve indicated, a huge body of literature on secret societies, as well as numerous ancient myths of dual deities suggest a positive answer to this disturbing but inevitable question. I will begin by relating the following extremely vivid dream, that I had a few years ago. While in the dream state I felt no fear, but thinking about it in retrospect, I found the implications terrifying. At the same time, I also felt it offered some insights into the questions of domination, war, violence and evil that I had been thinking about.
I find myself in a gathering of human-like beings that I understand to be a dark force council. There are no discernible facial or other bodily features: I am seeing only the upper torso and heads of about a dozen hooded figures, arranged as if around a table. No lower bodies or legs are visible, nor any differentiating individual features, such as male or female. The faces and torsos of these beings are uniformly shrouded in dark grey veils. For a moment I am questioning myself as to the reason for my presence in this group. Why was I invited, if I was invited? The beings did not seem to notice me or address any communications to me personally. They just emanated a very coherent set of thought-forms, whose meanings I seemed to be able to register telepathically.
The primary thought-form that I picked up was that the sole and exclusive focus of the beings in this council was to accumulate more power and more wealth. More wealth to get more power, more power to get more wealth. To this end they dedicated all of their will power and all their concentration. They prided themselves on their power of concentration, which did indeed seem formidable. There were no distractions and disruptions in the coherency of their mental energy-field.

On awakening, I remembered reading an interview with the CEO of Enron, prior to that corporation’s crash into bankruptcy, and their officers’ indictment on fraud charges. In the interview, the CEO said that they prided themselves on their “laser-like focus” on increasing earnings-per-share, and nothing else. I have come to think of the beings I saw in my dream vision as “dominator spirits”. They apparently exist at the mental level of reality, not at the ordinary, material time-space level. But they can inspire and guide the ruling elites, whether monarchical and feudal, or military and corporate, with their single-minded focus on power and wealth. It is important to recognize that the intention to accumulate wealth and power in these ruling elites is only for their group, not the wealth and well-being of the whole society, or the general population.
Perhaps they are also the guiding spirits behind the various legendary occult secret societies and brotherhoods, such as the Illuminati, said to manipulate world events behind the scenes, through their direct influence on mass-mind images. In his book Secret Brotherhoods, the esoteric philosopher Rudolf Steiner has written about the malevolent influence of hidden forces in human history, particularly the modern era. William Bramley, in his book The Gods of Eden, has accumulated an impressive amount of documentary evidence for the existence and activities of such secret groups in world history. I am not making absolutist claims here that all corporate leaders are criminal gangsters, or all political leaders would-be tyrants. There are many honest, sincere, intelligent people, working for peace, well-being and justice, at all levels of society. I’m thinking about what it would mean for the survival of our civilization, if such hidden power influences do in fact exist.
Reflecting on the dream vision, I was at first dismayed at the thought that in order to counter the onslaught of these dominator groups’ destructive predatory assault on the rest of humanity and the entire biosphere one would have to match their truly formidable power of concentration, and what a challenge that would be. On further reflection, however, it became clear that the dominators have a much easier concentrative task, since they only have one goal to focus on. They literally don’t care about any other values, such as respect for human rights and dignity, justice, equality, preserving the quality of the environment, and so forth. Those human beings and groups that wish to support the unfolding of life, human and non-human, in all its diversity, and the building of sustainable, cooperative societies, have a much greater variety and multiplicity of purposes, and therefore a much more difficult task of concentration. Therefore there is an inappropriate element of arrogance in the dominators’ claim to superior powers of concentration.
I also realized that the arrogant one-pointed concentration of the dominator spirits and their human vassals, may lead to their undoing. They may not perceive internal failings or external threats to their system of power, before it collapses. “Pride comes before a fall”, according to the ancient proverb. Certainly the testimony of history is clear: no empire or tyranny in world history has failed to eventually collapse, either from internal weaknesses, or by external attack, or by exhausting their ecological habitat.
The forces or spirits that I’m calling dominator spirits, are called “dark force” or “counter-evolutionary”, in some esoteric formulations. What does it mean to be working with a counter-evolutionary agenda? Evolution, as we know, involves organisms and species finding habitats or niches in which they can unfold their potentials and use creative strategies to meet their adaptive needs. The dominator spirits and the human beings and groups guided by them, are takers, predators or plunderers, who use force to get what they want, basically by stealing from others and killing those who resist or obstruct them. Their goal is to accumulate wealth and power for their own select group, not the welfare of the whole community or society.
When I was writing my book The Well of Remembrance, I discovered historical literature that pointed out that the oldest myth of the original Indo-Europeans, who were nomadic herders, is the myth of divinely guided cattle stealing – a myth that lived on in the American Old West, with its endless stories of ranchers and rustlers. Some historians trace the early beginnings of capital accumulation to the enclosures movement in 16th century England, when powerful landowners, supported by soldiers, put a fence around grazing land that had previously been considered the wealth of the commons, and started charging rent for its use. Different groups of gangster capitalists (“robber barons”) compete and fight with one another: Spanish ships that sailed to the New World, taking gold from the natives, could be assaulted on the high seas by pirates, who found it convenient to add to their hoard by stealing that of another. Imperialism and colonialism basically involve one state or nation taking the resource base of another, and imposing their rule on the subject population, exacting tribute or taxes. Genocide, from the perspective of the dominators, is a strategy for removing an entire population from a certain area, and replacing it with another population, which then takes over the existing resources. In our time, we have economic imperialism, dressed up in the camouflage terminology of “free trade”, which takes the form of privatization – where large multi-national corporations take over the common wealth of a society or country, like its water, utilities, infrastructure, etc. Privatization of the Iraqi oil-fields is the basic motivation behind the aggressive invasion of that country by the American empire, as is well understood around the world.
The dominators want to grow by accumulating and concentrating wealth, rather than growing by fostering the creative unfolding of diverse populations and their varying adaptations. In that sense, it is clear that capital accumulation, fascism, militarism and war are “counter-evolutionary” forces. Those who want to continue supporting diversity and evolutionary unfolding resist such authoritarian domination agendas, and may be moved to take up arms to fight against them. But violent resistance and armed struggle are doomed to ultimate failure, since violence only breeds further violence, and in the end everyone loses, civilization is destroyed and whole countries are made uninhabitable. The dominator spirits and their human intermediaries apparently thrive on war and profit from it. Indeed, this is precisely the danger of which President Eisenhower spoke in his retirement speech, in1960, when he warned of the “growing, unchecked influence of the military-industrial complex”.

The foregoing reflections have led me to a view that recognizes two kinds of archetypal forces or spirits guiding and inspiring the lives of individuals and societies. One group are those who support the peaceful, creative unfolding of life’s evolutionary potentials and the preservation of the planet’s life-support system. The pursuit of knowledge and the development of technology is integrated is integrated with respect for all living beings, and reverence for the spiritual reality of the universe. The other kind are those who have chosen the adaptation of accumulating and taking from others, using violence and war, and can thus be aptly described as counter-evolutionary. This by no means a original conception, and I would like now to examine some mythic and legendary prototypes of this kind of dualistic heritage. World mythology is filled with stories of rival brother gods, such as the Egyptian Osiris and Seth, the Sumerian Enlil and Enki, or the Zoroastrian Ahura-Mazda and Ahriman. Some myths tell of feuding groups of deities, such as the Aesir and Vanir of the Norse people, and of battles between “gods” and “titans” or “monsters”, found on planet Earth in earlier times. In both Hindu and Buddhist mythology, we have the conception of devas and asuras, – the former beneficent light-beings, the latter violent dominators. Both are supra-human spirits, inhabiting their own worlds, which nevertheless intersect and interact in consciousness with the world of humans. The persistent legend of the high civilization of Atlantis, which is said to have collapsed in a catastrophic flood, about ten thousand years before our time, also has this theme of a struggle between highly advanced beings, some creative and constructive and another group on imperialistic and exploitative path. I wish now to examine some of these more esoteric and mythic accounts of the roots of war and domination. In our time, such myths have been given new formulations in the literature on UFOs and ETs, where the rival “gods” of ancient times are technologically highly advanced beings from extra-terrestrial civilizations who have been intervening in human affairs for a very long time.