By Rev. Michael R Neuert (Part 3, as published on 10-31-24)

I have a strong past life memory of being a German commander in a Polish town in the early 1940’s. My devout Catholic family and I had all voted for Hitler. As the years went on, I kept trying to ignore the obvious signs that Hitler was actually quite evil, cruel and destructive.

It wasn’t until I was ordered to select and execute five random Polish citizens from my town, that I finally protested. I refused, and was executed for disobeying orders. But my biggest grief and guilt (even today) was that they were just killed by someone else, and I could do nothing to stop it.

Remember that before he became the dictator, Hitler was elected into power – with the help of conservatives (like me in my past life) who didn’t really like Hitler, but went along with it all anyways, because we thought we needed a strong man to fix the economy. Sound familiar?

True Self Does Not Need to Bully Others

People who feel secure and whole, and a sense of their own agency and ability to act in the world, do not have to control, denigrate, or persecute or denigrate others. Healthy people with their own sense of their True Self do not need to bully others. They are already secure.

Only people who are deeply insecure inside, need to act out power trips of control and cruelty to feel like they are not so small and insignificant. It’s like in the Wizard of Oz, a false self version of ourselves  is proclaiming “I am the great and powerful Oz”, with all the smoke and mirrors that go along with it. But behind that curtain, there is this little person, the one we are afraid to show to the world.

The False Self of Ego

All of us to some degree hide our young, frightened, traumatized parts behind a protective curtain of ego. And thus to some degree, we are all estranged from our deeper spiritual core. This is normal. This is part of being human.

Trump as a Beacon of the False Self

But the degree to which we are separated from our inner spiritual selves can vary greatly. What is amazing about Trump, is that he is like the “poster child” or archetype for our modern disconnection from our true selves. He is a cartoon of how to survive via false masculinity.

Protector Parts and the False Self

Recently while watching Donald Trump speak to reporters, I saw another spirit standing in front of him – a big circle of dark energy with blue-gray swirls. It was not the spirit of Donald that was speaking. Actually he was channeling another energy through his space, what a psychic would call a “control being” or in IFS we would call a “protector part.”

This protector part would analyze what people wanted to hear, and what people were afraid of, and then just say stuff to prop up Donald in that moment. It was only about power and control. There was no room for any kind of feedback, internal contemplation, integrity or compassion. Facts don’t matter, strength does.

I Am the Victim

Then behind that, I next saw a small yellow-reddish disc of energy, that was what I would call the actual soul of Donald himself. His own energy was actually a very small, weak, young, and frightened little boy. The projected “strong man” façade is just a shield, desperately trying to protect the child within.

This is also why from Donald’s perspective, he is always the “victim.” Because it is true. At those deep levels childhood emotional trauma – growing up with his narcissistic sociopath father, Fred Trump – he literally was a victim back then.

Some People Feel Safer with Trump

In a news program, a woman was saying how much she loved Trump, how he never lies, and how she feels so protected by him. Curious, I decided to read her. I saw a circle of dark gray protection energy in her aura, surprisingly similar to the energy I had seen in Trump, except much smaller. She was also channeling a “false self ” dark spirit” as a shield, similar to Donald.

And I could see that as a young girl, she had been sexually molested repeatedly by her father. But she could not just leave her family to find safety. She had find a way to survive. So she learned to turn off her own inner awareness and deny her own emotional information, to avoid the overwhelming pain of the abuse.

So she developed a false self to literally “believe” that her father was a good, loving and protective person. (And if anything, she must be the bad or shameful one.) No wonder she thinks that Trump is great. Inside she has a similar level of low self-esteem, and a similar ego mechanism to avoid feeling the underlying pain and trauma. Trump is like her dad, what a great guy!

So she acquired a huge “false self” to survive by denying deny her own emotional information. People with low esteem are often attracted to the strong false masculinity of someone like Trump. They see that it works for him, and they want a piece of that too. A cult begins.

Why People Choose the False Self

In fear, people often shrink from the spirit of democracy. They do not feel that there is enough for everyone, and instead turn to a kind of personal or tribal version of protection and control. The energy tends to be competitive, controlling, scripted, and transactional. There is a belief that for me to get what I need, I must take it away from you.

This is a big deal. When people are in survival mode, they tend to grasp for everything in a kind of emergency consciousness. They grasp for money, power, fame, the planet and its resources, religious dogmas, nationalistic concepts, and racial ideologies. And for a sense of safety, they feel drawn to authoritarians.

The Cult of Fear

But in the long run, that grasping never brings real safety or contentment, and instead it only increases the danger and scarcity. As with all trauma, the paradigm switch from emergency mode to feeling safe again, is typically complex and difficult.

Fear and grasping are familiar, while change – even positive change – is unknown and absolutely frightening. We all know from personal experience how hard it can sometimes be to change, even when we know it is for our own highest good.

Our Antidote to the False Masculinity

The first step in dealing with the cult of false self, especially the cult of false masculinity, is to be aware of it. Like the woman who thinks that Trump is nothing but integrity and compassion, parts of us often don’t want to see or admit level of cult energy within ourselves, and others. It’s a protective mechanism, and we need to see through it.

And the rise of the restorative feminine, is all about seeing the old paradigm of the false masculinity paradigm, for what it is, and not believing it anymore. We’re not going back!

Click here to go to The Spirit of Democracy, Part 1:
Part 1 – Casting Your Spiritual Vote!

Click here to go to The Spirit of Democracy, Part 2:
Part 2 -The Rise of the Divine Feminine

May you, and everyone you encounter, be blessed.

Namaste.