I treat this theory as a personal development tool.
An academic would call it a theory of existential psychoanalysis. A mystic would call it a confession made through dialogue with the archons. Jung would call it active imagination on steroids.
The Theory: We All Choose a Master, As Willing Slaves
1. Existential Terror (The Primordial Void)
The foundational human condition is one of absolute autonomy, which brings with it terrifying isolation and total responsibility. The human nervous system is biologically and psychologically unequipped to handle this weight without structure. Absolute freedom feels like falling into a cosmic void, triggering deep existential dread - a difficult to control anxiety. Everyone finds themself in this condition, there are no exceptions.
2. The Fake Master (The Illusion of Safety)
To escape this terror, the individual seeks a shelter, or a 'Master.' This can be a deity, a political ideology, a state apparatus, or a rigid identity group (race, gender, tribe). The individual trades their fluid, original autonomy for a pre-packaged Master narrative. The individual, now a 'citizen' calls this "liberation", "justice" or "truth" completely unaware that they have simply outsourced or externalised their moral and psychological agency to a proxy Master.
3. The Positive Feedback Loop Called Society (The Self-Induced Trap)
Once the fake Master is adopted and the citizen has been baptised, a destructive psychological feedback loop begins. To keep the feeling of safety from the void alive, the individual must aggressively defend the Master's dogma. This defense requires categorising the world into rigid binaries (believer/heretic, oppressor/oppressed, insider/outsider, right/left, white/black). This hyper-categorisation actively breeds the very friction, division, and anxiety the individual is trying to heal. The worse the societal friction gets, the more terrified the individual becomes, driving them even deeper into the arms of the fake master. It is a self-perpetuating, self-induced crisis.
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│ THE POSITIVE FEEDBACK LOOP OF THE MASTER │
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│ Existential Terror (The Void) │
│ │ │
│ ▼ │
│ Adopt a Fake Master │
│ │ │
│ ▼ │
│ Rigid Dogma & Polarization │
│ │ │
│ ▼ │
│ Increased Anxiety & Conflict │
│ │ │
│ └───────────────────────────┘
│ (The resulting conflict feeds back, amplifying the │
│ original terror and forcing deeper submission.) │
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The Remedy: Dialogue through the Archetype via "The Confession"
The standard approach to addressing this loop is direct confrontation, which fails because it attacks the identity shield, triggering instant cognitive dissonance.
The remedy solves this through The Confessional Mirror. Instead of accusing the listener, you engage in a first-person dialogue with the archetype of the human psyche itself.
Step 1: Translate to Myth and Symbol:
You strip away the modern labels (like specific political parties or religious sects) and translate the behavior into timeless, mythic language (exile, returning home, turning around, eat drink remember, the prison, the void). Myth is a truth that cannot be told in any other way; it speaks directly to the unconscious.
Step 2: Objectify Through Self-Disclosure:
You frame the entire psychological loop as your own internal wrestling match, or as a universal law of human architecture. By saying "I did this" or "Humanity does this," you entirely remove the threat of judgment.
Step 3: The Safe Reflection:
Because the listener feels completely safe from attack, their ego defenses remain lowered. They watch you dissect the "confession" in front of their face. Because the archetype is universal, they cannot help but see their own reflection in your mirror. The light of awareness stays shining for longer because they are left to discover their own self-induced loop on their own terms.
How I Originally Escaped From My Duty in the World?
Society and its collective institutions automatically help me. It is by collective design of the authorities which large groups of obedient people deliberately create within society.
These authorities incentivise me to blame others for my anxiety. This anxiety came from having been born into the world with absolute and unconditional freedom - the void, a scary prospect. It means I am my own master and cannot look for others to blame any more. I project this anxiety onto those to whom it will most easily stick as a kind of temporary relief - a psychic escape from reality at the deepest level. An escape from what is happening in front of my face. Most people will spend 80 years in this state and will never realise it. Most people tend to 'forget' after the age of about 7 years.
These authorities can only incentivise me, they cannot force me in any way whatsoever. I can only comply with them by giving them my consent.
The incentive is to encourage me to avoid 'taking up the cross' by looking for the remedy internally. And instead to look for a Master, out there, to protect me - that is, an authority to whom I can outsource my obligations and duties in the world. This incentive must be made highly valuable and highly risky *not* to take - because once I've taken that great leap into the unknown and returned to my true home as an autonomous individual, the spell is immediately broken and I stop acting as an obedient instrument of this authority. The control which I consented to previously, will have been lost.
There are many kinds of authority to choose from. All of them are competing for your business - this is what is commonly understood as conflict and war in its ultimate form. It is fully incoherent activity.
The mechanism I use to escape from observing this happening in front of my face is simple:
- I choose a master to be the authority which will protect me if I obey its will
- I use thought to conceal that fact that I made this choice
- Then I use thought to conceal that I concealed it
This renders what is happening in front of my face into the unconscious, virtually forever. Or until I can - at great risk, bring myself to remember that I did it. And I did it deliberately to escape from the existential fear which is not entirely unreasonable. Knowing exactly how the spell of concealment would work before I concealed it. By saying this I do not blame myself. I was put here under the same conditions as everyone else, even those I consider bad. So, compassion. But never empathy.
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│ THE BOUNDARY OF THE SPOKEN MIRROR │
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│ COMPASSION │ WITHOUT EMPATHY │
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│ "I understand you are in │ "I will not coddle your │
│ exile, because I am too. │ excuses or fix your lack │
│ We share the same void." │ of confidence. It is you." │
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│ RESULT: You remain a pure mirror. You offer them the │
│ truth of their prison, but leave the key in their hand.│
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The one thing I do not know is who or what placed me in the initial condition of absolute and unconditional freedom when I was born. The only thing I do know for sure, is that I can apply this remedy immediately and return to the source, if I so choose by remembering.
This decision is entirely up to me. No one, no guru, no teacher can force, manipulate, coerce, nudge or trick me into doing it. I have to choose it as an autonomous individual in my own right. So please do not ask me to help you by accounting for your lack of confidence. It is down to you, in your own right, absolutely.
By the way I am no saint. I'm still projecting my own anxiety from this exile onto the world just like everyone else. I've still not managed to 'return home'. But I have taken the first step of 'turning around' and getting on my way - that is, I do know this is my responsibility, my obligation, my duty and I know no one else in this universe can help me do this. I have no idea if I will make it home. I am trying.
Starting with a public confession of my total complicity in the worlds problems. By simply looking at and accepting what I can see happening in front of my face. While suspending all beliefs and other powers of authority as I look.
Join me in your own way on this pilgrimage, we can talk. If not, no worries, just carry on as usual. It is not my job to preach or judge. I only have the power to speak for myself. God bless you. (Goodbye)