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DECEPTIVE ASSIMILATION
By CinnamonMoon
Deceptive Assimilation…what
is that? It's self-deception, ego-led theories of 'knowing'
what's
going on when the practice arena of newfound skill or knowledge
includes testing it out on
others. How do we learn to recognize it? As we receive our lessons
and assimilate what they
have added to our growth in knowledge or abilities we face a
time of testing. (Please see the
article on Assimilation in the Main Library.) The first series
of tests (usually between 1-3 of
them) begins with us…not someone else. Proper testing is
going to call for us to apply that
knowledge and hone our skill in an arena that affects no one
but us. We're to use it to resolve
personal issues, to manifest personal needs, to learn to work
with the knowledge gained in our
own way and jiggle things into place. In this way we develop
our skill with the abilities enhanced
by the new knowledge and we harm no one in the process. If we
make a mistake we pay for it,
no one else does. We learn through trial and error this way
and as we experience the results of
our efforts we begin to master the skill in ourselves. Then
we're tested again…someone close to
us comes to us with a need and asks for help. Key word: they
ask us. The help they require will
be directly relative to our newly mastered ability or knowledge
and calls for that to be applied in
some manner. In this way we bring the spiritual into the mundane
and we learn to walk with it.
So many people keep to the duality of spirituality and mundane
life, they can't see how to
combine the two and therefore deceptive assimilation can seep
in.
Deceptive assimilation begins when we assume because of an experience
or circumstance has
taken place and presented us with the knowledge or ability enhancement
that we know all there
is to know and can just run about wielding it willy-nilly. We
don't test it out personally, we just
run with it and we start testing it out on others. Deceptive
assimilation begins to form when we
don't see someone asking for that help and start to go about
quietly recruiting anyone who is
willing to be experimented on. We may see where they could use
the benefits of our newfound
wisdom but do not stop to consider whether the timing for them
is right or not. We're eager to
share what we've learned and so we justify what we perceive
as their need as a cause for an
experiment. We justify our subtle approach thinking that by
seeing the need we're the ones to fix it. Wrong.
Deceptive assimilation begins when we become drawn into creating
experiments for our theories
without asking for someone's permission. Or sometimes it appears
when we feel the urge to say
to someone "trust me, I'd like to conduct an experiment
and I need you to ______" (based on the
trust of a friendship or acquaintanceship). That essentially
sets the person up for a hit they are not
prepared for. This is extremely dangerous ground when we begin
to draw others into our
experiments without their permission or without fully informing
them of what we're going to
attempt to do. And it's very dangerous ground for us if we allow
someone else to do this by
opening up to them. We should never open blindly. It's wrong
to intrude on someone's free will
because they are not given a clear choice in the matter. We
put them at risk because we have not
mastered ourselves first. If we've mastered ourselves then there
is no need to test a theory on
another. We know what works and what doesn't, we know what can
go wrong and so we also
know how to correct it. We know when a situation calls for that
knowledge or ability and when
or when not to apply it. We know how to moderate that application
to fit the circumstances.
In this light of experimentation the individual doing the testing
enters into a lesson about selfdelusion
and into deceptive assimilation practices. They do not see their
ethical responsibility
and you can bet that an energetic whiplash will occur because
all energy work returns to its
creative source…in this case that's the self-deceiver…and
the results of that energy will come
back in the form of the outcome and all its complicating consequences
not to mention becoming
the source of harming another. I have seen this over-eagerness
and blind-sidedness time and
again with those who do not understand the spiritual pattern
of unfoldment. It's the wannabe
practitioner that thinks they know what they're doing who deceives
not only others but
themselves. When we draw others into the theoretical experiment
we create we are not being
tested by guidance and we are intruding on their life. In that
we can disrupt their path, complicate
or hinder their growth, cause emotional or spiritual upheaval
in their lives, and unwittingly cause
a great deal of harm.
Imagine how you'd feel if someone pushed their test onto you
without any training in that
particular arena. What if you're not ready to experience the
results of what their abilities can
bring forth? It can be very traumatic and lead to debilitation,
and this inexperienced practitioner,
because they are taking the wrong approach, will not have learned
how to correct their mistakes.
You become their guinea pig for their experiment and any complications
that may arise will be
yours to contend with-they've finished with you and you're left
high and dry. No one has the
right to impinge on you this way, but people do it all the time.
We are responsible for our actions
and in one way or another will be held accountable for them
but there can be a lot of damage
done in the wake of irresponsibility. Not only is it our responsibility
not to fall into this trap of
experimentation with others, it's our responsibility to not
allow others to entrap us. The choice in
either case is up to us and it's important to know the level
of experience of anyone we allow to
do any spiritual energy work on us.
The path of another does not belong to you and their lessons
in life are not your private 'testing
arena' for whatever emerging abilities you are currently developing;
that's using people. Let's say
someone read a popular book on soul-retrieval, and during that
process they experimented with
some exercises in the book that walked them through some basic
processes. Now this person
'thinks' they know what they're doing because they had the experience
that awed them and they
'think' they can 'help' others with this new knowledge. What
they aren't recognizing is that they
were prepared for the timing of that stage of growth in walking
their own path, the interest was
there and the desire to work through something existed. The
book became the tool but one
experience is not mastery, it initiates understanding that needs
to be pursued further. The
deceptive assimilator is going to assume that's all there is
to it, that it's easy to do, and then set
out to prove that theory to themselves at the expense of others.
No book or single experience can
completely prepare you for what will develop in the days, weeks
and months post retrieval. (This
includes any other area of spiritual development, remember the
retrieval is merely an example.)
Now while that individual has chosen of their own free will
to experience a portion (and I do
mean portion) of soul-retrieval by no means do they know all
the ins and outs. To then draw
someone unwittingly into this exercise with a "trust me"
statement puts that person at
considerable risk with the deceiver's own incompetence. The
ego has taken over and they have to
prove their theory at the expense of another. If it backfires
oh well, mistakes happen right?
Wrong! If this individual says to a friend: "Trust me,
I want to try an experiment with you" and
that friend trusts them and opens to it, deceptive assimilation
has begun on both their parts. The
unsuspecting friend opens to a retrieval process they have not
prepared for, are not ready to
embrace, and traumatic events may be relieved that cause serious
psychological and/or emotional
consequences with the potential for even more complicating factors
to enter into things. They
may show immediately and they may come later, but by then the
deed is done and well-meaning
or not, the deceiver opened a can of worms and has gone their
merry way believing that the
experiment was a success. And if they do stay around how do
they get those worms back in the
can where they belong? Oh yeah, grab the book there must be
a chapter on that! Oops, the author
didn't discuss that part, now what? Major crisis, that's what!
How do you know when someone is doing this? Generally the approach
is to create a level of
trust and then use that to draw you into the experiment. Instead
of informing you of what the
experiment is going to be you're asked to 'trust' them and just
go with it. It appears to be a game
of sorts and quite innocent. In truth when it begins this way
the first betrayal is present because it
is not only demeaning to the 'victim' but it is demeaning to
the 'perpetrator' too. It's selfish desire
that drives someone to do this type of thing at the expense
or potential expense of another. Why?
Just to prove it can be done and feed their ego? It's behavior
that begins to take you off a path of
Light into Darkness and corrupts the spirit within you. It becomes
a temptation to control and
abuse one's power and in that your own ethical character is
going to be tested. It's embracing the
abusiveness that walks with those who get caught in their egos
and self-gratifications. While the
entrapment of that temptation may seem innocent it's not a minor
thing. It's setting the stage for
the continuation of that type of behavior in the future and
it becomes a way of doing things each
time that individual learns something new. It's pure manipulation
of the will of another to serve
your needs and when that happens the trap is set and the consequences
are waiting…for you both.
Let's use a different example. Someone encounters a new Totem,
let's say it's Wolf. Whether
Wolf comes as a solitary Totem or with the pack won't matter
here. Wolf, or the essence of Wolf,
does. Now Wolf Medicine is the Medicine of the Great Teacher.
If, because Wolf has appeared,
that individual presumes they have the attributes of Wolf they're
correct, they certainly do…but
those attributes have not been mastered, only brought to the
individual's attention that they exist
and it is time for lessons on self-mastery to begin. If the
individual does not see it this way they
enter into those lessons by experience and trials by fire. They
begin to assume they have
permission to use that Medicine with others and they assume
the role of teacher. They start to see
what others need to learn according to their inexperienced perceptions
and justify teaching them
those lessons by force-feeding them. This is deceptive assimilation
of that Totem and the first
thing they will learn is everything they need in the concepts
of its Contrary Medicine….how
*not* to teach others. Wolf is going to appear and teach the
individual 'how' to teach others as
they get to know one another. Wolf prepares one to teach before
setting you on that path
independently. It's not automatic but the individual who is
inexperienced with Totems is likely
going to react that way at first. It's one of the little traps
we tend to fall into.
We can pull on the Totem Black Panther here too…without
a thorough study of its Medicine and
an in-depth study of oneself, deceptive assimilation leads someone
into the Contrary Medicine of
being the Know-It-All and the path walked would be again a trial
by fire experience. Someone
coming to Snake Medicine and assuming they had that mastered
ability without proper training
from Snake would be spewing venom at others and slaying relationships
with hurtful words
wondering why no one wanted to be associated with them. The
individual that masters Snake
would know when to strike and why that strike was needed. They
would know when to shed
their own old skin and grow recognizing the time for transformation
had come. The one who has
mastered Snake Medicine would know what the transformation process
entailed, how to help
others through it, and would never try to force someone to experiment
with the shedding. Totems
are not pets and they are not handing you toys to play with
in the abilities that surface when they
begin introducing themselves. A good year or more is required
to walk with any Totem to get
even the foundations of full understanding in place. To act
on that Medicine before then is irresponsible.
Claiming false pride comes from deceptive assimilations, it
dishonors our teachers…be they a
spiritual teacher, a physical teacher, an author, or someone
sharing topical knowledge, it's
important to honor that source and just as important to hone
the knowledge gained…to work
with it for a time and test it out on yourself in many different
ways…the key here is 'yourself',
not others. It's harmful to those who assume that what we are
projecting is truth when it's tainted
with a deception. In this false experiment we feel justified
because we needed to see how the
results manifest so we can validate our skills. On the surface
it may seem benign or even helpful,
but one retrieval can lead to subsequent reactions over time
and in those to more retrieval
experiences. The deceiver, thinking the experiment is over in
one session walks away and leaves
that individual unprepared for what will follow, totally incapable
of handling the flashbacks and
traumas that may be attached to them and sets them on a path
of harmful experiences.
Now knowing there is deceptive assimilation that exists who
is responsible when it strikes?
Naturally the deceiver is, but so are we. If we trust someone
enough to blindly enter into their
experiments we're giving ourselves into the repercussions of
that experience. We are responsible
for recognizing when the information or suggestions others present
us with are incomplete. We
are responsible for accepting or rejecting the offers made to
us. At the same time we do not
always look to a friend to be putting us at risk and if trust
levels are high we can easily walk into
these types of entrapments. It's far better to ask how much
experience someone has with what
they are asking you to learn with them this way. Even the most
seasoned pathwalker is going to
be learning new things as they go. Do not assume that because
that person has walked a spiritual
path for the majority of their life that they are masters of
all their abilities. Sometimes that
individual may fall prey to their ego, the wannabe in them is
intoxicated by the new strength or
power they are wielding and they lose sight of where they're
going with that. If someone asks
you to trust them and let them conduct an experiment ask about
it and their ability to do so. And
if you're tempted to ask someone to 'trust' you as you conduct
an experiment then stop right
there. If you can't explain what's going on, how you came to
the knowledge, what you want to
test and theorize, then you're turning the can-opener and it's
full of worms.
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Nations, Symbology)
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