In this dialogue, OT/MP focuses on the relationship of C/consciousness and the dimension of ego driven power and control agendas as they affect any "human system" regardless of level of complexity. Adequate dominance over aspects of a perceived reality is essential to protect and nurture the life of any human system.  But under certain conditions, the nature of dominance serves the goal of power for its own sake. Such an ego inflamed agenda can destroy the innate validity of one's quest for reasonable dominance to negotiate with other living systems. 

In this dialogue, the ingredients that combine to determine the effectiveness of a human systems' power and control are the ego traps of the intellect. [dialogues 2-4] These are: agendas, communication, and HIP.  Because the intellect is slave to the ego,  in the pathological quest for power and control, these ingredients can combine in highly destructive ways.  Not only are they destructive to the needs and personal freedom of others, but also to the long term interests of the perpetrator(s) themselves.  But providing knowledge about the dynamics of this particular pathology is not a part of this nation's current educational priorities. A viable level of Spiritual Consciousness is first required to inoculate both the abuser and the victim for them to detect the presence and effects of this defect. Only then can they take the steps required to counter such pathological expression of ego. 

Instead, the reverse is now True.  In western society, certain norms celebrate and promote these ego defects of the human psyche.  Under the guise of celebrating "personal freedom," certain entities, e.g., corporations, are allowed to exploit their unconstrained power and control agendas.  This license adversely affects many aspects of our society and its victim citizens.  From the innocuous need to prevail in traditional games of baseball, football, and golf, to the extremes  expressed in persons who live the role of power monger and his political and institutional extensions, these forces harm our society and way of life. 

Power mongers covet power for its own sake.  They ruthlessly act to acquire excesses of power and control for its own sake as in the serious game of "King of the Mountain."  And, paradoxically, for that game to be played, there is a complimentary pathology that appears in the person of the victim who aligns himelf/herself to benefit from the protection of the power monger "king."  For this they commit themselves to the serious game of "Emperor's New Cloths."  Then they become collaborators, whether willing, unwilling, or unwitting. Then they become the actual instruments used to carry forward abuses of power of every scale. 

The symptoms of those social pathologies are the topics of the three part introductory dialogue.  The recipe for, and dynamics of this pathogenic process is the focus of this dialogue. This sets the stage for the Spiritual grounded remedies required to address the sources of the growing abuses of power.  For it is the results of these invisible (to the public) processes that have begun to manifest as problems at every human system level.

The interacting complex causal sources of the pathologies of personal power in the world are conditions presently invisible to most citizens of our world. We detect only the most symptomatic manifestations.  While we may even directly suffer their effects, we remain oblivious to the cause. We also remain oblivious to the steps available to overcome it.  But instead, we only experience its effects while we haven't a clue how to eliminate or heal them at their source.  Even those most caught up as competitors in these serious life games remain oblivious to what they are a part of and the destructive forces they help energize against their own long term interests.   Thus we remain vulnerable to chronic manipulation by the power monger and his lackeys, even as we attempt well meaning but misinformed and incompetent means to eliminate their pathological presence. 

The ingredients of the recipe for creating the power monger include: 

strong genetic predisposition to exercise dominance and control, 
early years of parental abuse and/or neglect, 
family conditions that produce low HIP,  and 
perceived unreasonable or unjust exclusion from valued in-groups.

Early experiences of success in dominating others  reinforces the developing power monger's will and ruthlessness in imposing his/her control over susceptible targets.  This section examines the nature of those seeds and how the take root and grow.  Dialogue 6 presents the nature of the perfect Justice that awaits the power monger for the harm he/she does, and dialogue 7 proposes the Spiritual antidotes.

If the power monger psyche and intellect successfully dominates to win the game of "King of the Mountain," then that person (system) requires a sufficient number of those with less dominance needs to play the game of "Emperor's New Cloths."   In these serious game of life, the "king" can do no wrong in the consciousness of those playing "The Emperor's New Cloths" and is to be served at all costs.  In one of the most chilling studies of human behavior done in the 20th century, Yale University Professor Stanley Milgram conducted an extensive series of experiments to determine under what conditions an average American citizen could be influenced to unjustly do serious harm to an innocent, non threatening individuals placed under their control by a credible autocratic authority. 

The experiments proved that it took very little.  The significance of these findings are important in revealing that any autocrat capable of successfully imposing her/his will over any group, organization or government, can fully expect to have large numbers of "average" American [or European, Middle Eastern, Russian, Asian, Latino, etc.] citizens willing and able to do his/her bidding. These average persons, it turns out, are fully capable of doing serious harm to any citizen found or suspected of being in opposition to the autocrat's power and control.  The chilling nature and the dynamics of Stanley Milgram's "Obedience to Authority Syndrome" are the topics of this section of OT/MP.

In the following section of OT/MP the ingredients and dynamics of the power monger are examined as found in today's society.  The nature of both both capitalism and historical communism are shown to be two sides of the same pathological coin.  The capitalist  face of the coin celebrates the myth of individual achievement and equal access to opportunity.  The communist side of the coin celebrates the myths of egalitarian ideals of being your brother's keeper, insuring that the wealth created by the work of all will be equally shared by all.  However, this coin is defiled on both sides by its nature being expressed as an addiction to ego grounded projections of power and control in the absence of any moderating Spiritual Consciousness. 

Spiritual Consciousness is the only type of C/consciousness capable of moderating the natural addiction to power and control.  Insights from this section of OT/MP should place a powerful light on the "why" of knee jerk reactionary right wing opposition to the need for government regulation and control over aspects of corporate power, and the scale of threat and contempt expressed by them toward the presence of genuinely liberal values. 

In the prior section, the dynamics of non Spiritual, low consciousness agendas, communication, and HIP combine to build the childhood foundations for the power monger.  The dynamics of prejudice and how it is nurtured, combine with Milgram's "obedience to authority" syndrome to create vulnerability of passive citizens to overtly serve a world of negativity and struggle.  Because there are an insufficient number of Spiritually Conscious individuals to create a critical mass of Spiritually empowered interventions [ref Hawkins' power and force paradigm], our society has remained powerless to recognize the roots and nature of abusive corporate power. Thus we remain blind and deaf to possible strategies that can guide us to control its malevolent expression. 

We may feel the effects, experience anxiety,  but we cannot identify the Real cause.  Then we chase shadows and illusions.  We are vulnerable to investing in the big lie. We remain vulnerable to the three traps of mind as orchestrated by the power mongers to take control of elections.  The topics of the previous sections are continued here, but now they are applied to the dynamics of power and control in ways that empower you to recognize when they are pathogenic for the ongoing health and stability of our society, and for the peace of the world.  This information lays the foundation for how the dynamics of perfect justice (K&R) wait for those who abuse power, and to suggest why and how Spiritual Consciousness, manifest as Love made visible, must be introduced to heal and correct these negative conditions.

In this section, the concept of a "power gate" is defined in a way that will make visible the presence of that gate in every sector of modern society where it can be found.  This power gate is present at every level of social complexity, beginning within yourself, in groups, organizations, institutions, and governments, including international systems of government. 

By understanding the nature of these gates, and detecting their presence in their various guises, you become empowered to reveal them to the public for what they actually are.  You can then mobilize the public to intervene in the pathological expression of power and control by those who operate these gates.  The power broker and power mongers who are attracted to, and who compete for control of these gates in order to survive and thrive,  must (by the established rules of capitalist competition) apply full scale ruthlessness in order to conquer the perceived source of their fear. By such applications of force do they indulge their ego's need for power and control agendas.  Then the public's capacity to detect these agendas are further confounded by communication pathology and insufficiency, and by the additional limits imposed by their less than sufficient  HIP competence. 

The more you understand how these gates appear to observers in the material world, and can detect the dynamics by which they operate in society, and the more you understand the nature of the power broker/mongers who compete to control them, the more visible and impressive become their real threats to our society in the context of current day realities. 

Then you will discover why no intellectual solution can be identified or implemented for any social problem unless there is first a wide spread Spiritual awakening among all affected elements of our population.  A critical mass of the public must be caused to awaken to the realizations that only a Spiritually grounded approach can hope to prevail over any social problem that is symptomatic of the presence of power mongers and their ruthless out of control egos.