Arrogance
_I: Every day I try to read the comments of all the people who write on YouTube, on social networks and on the Blog, to get an idea of whether what I am sharing is understood or not, if there are doubts, questions that I can resolve later during the talks, etc. And when I do this, I can't help but think about how exposed I am. That is, my life, my shadows and lights, sharing a large part of me. Two questions arise that I have always asked myself when I questioned the way in which I should communicate: on the one hand, exposing my life as an example of everything I say, and on the other hand, positioning myself in the center of attention. My big theme was always neutrality. I always maintained in my spiritual existence, before I was born, that the most important thing is neutrality, and throughout my life I have made the effort to be neutral, over and over again, eliminating my essence from many things in order to be neutral, and still not I never did it. Well, life always led me to be more of a fictional character than someone external who tells things from the outside.
_AM: Well, your concept of neutrality was a little confused in dimension.
_I: What do you mean?
_AM: Being Neutral in the Ninth dimension is not the same as being it in the Fifth, and much less being it in the Third, the ways are different. Imagine that Neutrality is Photosynthesis (the process of assimilating light in the plant kingdom to create sugary foods). The way in which this process will be carried out is not the same in fungi, as in trees or phytoplankton, since the ecosystems are different, and the way of carrying out this process is diverse. Thus, in a world based on excessive polarity like that of the Third Dimension, duality generates a central point where the tension of the two extremes can be discharged. Thus, neutrality is not located in the observer, as it would be in the Fifth Dimension, but in the Observed, the object or Subject. Therefore, in this dimension, neutrality does not lie in going outside of oneself to see everything, but rather focusing fully on oneself to reference oneself in everything. Self-Reference is the neutrality of the Third Dimension.
_I: This makes sense of everything my guides said about going to the Center. When in the North Orkney Islands, in Scotland, I was reminded of the importance of placing myself in the center. Neutrality lies in placing oneself as a self-referent in the process of self-observation.
_AM: This can be confused with Egoism. Well, a person who begins to refer to himself has no other option than to recognize that all the things he contemplates outside are projections of what he perceives inside. Thus self-analysis is constant. Stop judging the external world or pouring your will into helping others, to find the coherence of the internal world and strengthen others, reflecting on the outside.
_I: When I was on Mount Tabor, Israel, I had a crisis about showing myself on camera. We were filming the documentary “The Recorder,” and I felt dirty talking about myself, like I wasn't being neutral, but just talking about myself. I went to the mountains alone, and there a being, a teacher, gave me a very hard talk. He told me: “You are nothing more than a tool, your face does not belong to you, your story belongs to the world. Stop wanting to feel sorry for your individuality, when your Ego is useful to your Spirit and the Network for which you were born.”
_AM: Harsh but accurate words…
_I: On the one hand, the human part of me felt disappointment, I think, it was as if they were telling me that I was worthless on my own, or that what I think I am is nothing more than a small piece in a larger gear. And on the other hand, my entire being felt a gigantic relief, an enormous liberation that returned my soul to my body, a soul that sought to escape. I understood that I could not escape from a reality that I myself had created... Matías is just a character created by my Higher Self. That is, my only truth, to be able to show a path of his consciousness. It is as if I were a reflection in a mirror, and all the reflections that are seen in me find the truth or the spirit through that reflection, then, I am a means, a tool. It was difficult for me to accept it as a human, the fact that life and spirit put me at the center of attention, and I think there are still details to polish in this regard.
_AM: What is your fear?
_I: Well… I am Argentine.
_AM: ...And what does that mean?
_I: Everyone in the world, and even Argentines themselves, knows that one of the characteristics of our national culture is arrogance, petulant egocentrism...
_AM: And why do you think that is so?
_I: It's the typical thing they call "stereotypes." It's not that everyone is like that, but it's like the common view. We have a reputation for “believing ourselves to be the center of the world”, for being “know-it-alls”. There are phrases like “An Argentinian solves all the world's problems by having a cup of coffee.”
_AM: Or “mate”…
_I: …Yes, that is more feasible. It is also said “God is everywhere but he serves in Buenos Aires.” There is a feeling of a strange national pride, as everyone at the same time tends to refer to others, be it the United States or European countries, since we are all immigrants.
_AM: Well, you must remember the formation of the Argentine spirit, just like many of the American countries. Due to being countries with short histories and made up of many nationalities, in the mid-1880s, a nationalization of the spirit of the people began to be generated to unite people with different origins. To create the spirit of a non-existent nation, without a common history, it was necessary to strengthen confidence in a new concept. Schooling functioned as a way to generate love for a country that did not fully exist.
_I: Sure… Spanish and Italian immigrants especially; Germans, Yugoslavs, Poles, French, Irish, and a few more mixed ones like Greeks, Turks, Syrian-Lebanese, all had to be united in some way.
_AM: And they were forcibly taught that they should have pride in the country. All countries born in America since 1776 were forged in the idea of National Pride.
_I: I have seen it in Chile, in Mexico, Brazil, in the United States, it is very strong there... But despite this, we Argentinians have a reputation for being arrogant.
_AM: Argentina was the first country in America with the greatest nationalist schooling in the 19th century. Do you remember Sarmiento?
_I: Ugh… Yes. Domingo Faustino Sarmiento. For some a hero, for others the worst in history. President around 1880, father of education and school. He brought French women to teach throughout the country, and his idea was that all the people had to be educated to be like Europe. He proposed bringing all the immigrants to populate Argentina with Europeans, giving away land, houses, education, and opportunities. Thus he made sure to create a country of European culture in South America. He in turn said that the problem was the natives and mestizos, whom he ordered to kill, persecute, eradicate so as not to contaminate his ideas. So, Sarmiento is a somewhat dual character who could be both revered for his educational work, as well as repudiated for his racism and encouragement of genocide.
_AM: His ideas made Buenos Aires known as the Paris of South America. His work for the Europeanization of Argentina generated resentment against the most native peoples with large populations in all the neighboring countries, generating an idea of superiority over the Native. Thus, in schools, the idea of superiority and arrogance was forged that permeated your culture. Do you know what arrogance means?
_I: No... I mean, I know the feeling: believing yourself superior to others.
_AM: Arrogance comes from the Latin “ad-rogare” which means “to take ownership of something.” It comes in turn from the Indo-European “Reg”, which gives rise to the word “regnus”, that is, “That which belongs”, and to its owner and possessor the “regis”, who “registers” his belonging, words that in Spanish give origin to “king”, “queen” and “kingdom”. In English, “King and Queen” could come from “cynn” in Germanic languages, related to “clan, family, race”, with “Kingdom” being the “domus” (house) of the father of the clan.
_I: So arrogance arises from the sense of belonging to something.
_AM: And above all, to defend that something with courage and vigor, which brings us to the key word: Pride.
_I: What does it mean?
_AM: In Spanish “orgullo”, the word comes from Franco-Germanic languages, “ur-gul”, which means “petulant and lush”, that is, someone with strong convictions about himself, to the point of discrediting others, and that appears vigorous, vital, energetic because of it. In English, “Pride, Proud” comes from the Latin “prodis,” which gives rise to prodigy, meaning “useful and with remarkable qualities.”
_I: So being proud of something, from Spanish etymology it would be negative, and from English etymology it would be positive...
_AM: Well, both have their pros and cons. But let's summarize it this way: to be proud of something is to recognize that you have remarkable qualities and that you are not afraid to show it and share it with others. On the positive side, this is recognizing yourself, self-referring, valuing yourself and bringing out the best in yourself. In a negative aspect, it can make you believe that others are less, and that they will be under your power, which will turn you into an arrogant person, someone who believes that he has rights over others, considering them almost his belonging.
_I: When I say: “I am proud of…”, I am referring to the fact that I value someone's quality, the gift that the other or that I myself possess, which would say “I arrogate or he arrogates”, becoming arrogant. Now, if I put what I “arrogate” in a position of superiority, that is where the negative connotation awakens.
_AM: Neither pride nor arrogance, as you will see, are negative qualities. But they talk about the ability to recognize what you are capable of as an individual, to position yourself where you belong and without fear to share and say: “yes, this is me and this is what I can give of myself.” Both are concepts of self-reference, of empowerment, of discovering that each individual has something, a gift to share, and that if I do not go within myself, I will never be able to find it and activate it. In a natural mechanism, pride and arrogance become the natural action of showing without prejudice what I know how to do. The spider is proud of its web. The butterfly is proud of its wings. The eagle is arrogant because of his vision. The bear lives proud of his strength. The lion is arrogant of his dominion. The tree is proud of its roots. The flowers are proud of their fruits. Why can't humans be proud or arrogant of their gifts and abilities?
_I: …Morals. Globalized Christian traditions have a communist basis: no one can be more than the other, since arrogance and pride are sins that God punishes. Many monotheistic traditions have punished originality as witchcraft and heresy, stoning the concepts of personal growth, of showing what one is capable of. This is how spiritual feudalism was ensured, the control of the masses through poverty. No one aspired to more, because “the Kingdom of Heaven will belong to the Poor.”
_AM: Thus culture demonized originality, turning it into arrogance.
_I: Until capitalism arrived and took it to the other extreme…
_AM: And that's where we find the other side. Leaving God aside, the success of individuals was deified, placing the Arrogant as an idol, Pride as the only path to personal empowerment. Glorifying the Ego over the Self.
_I: What's the middle ground?
_AM: Neutrality.
_I: Back to my conflict.
_AM: In the Third Dimension, it involves recognizing the power you possess and making it useful to others to discover their own power. The Pride of your Arrogance at the service of the Community.
_I: It all seems so contradictory…
_AM: When it is not at all. For the only way you can show others how to find the Center of themselves is by going into that Center yourself. By finding your Center, you can show others that Center.
_I: How not to fall into extremes?
_AM: Identifying them. You live in a world of water based on vibration waves, there is no straight path, that is a fallacy. You will always fluctuate between positives and negatives. Balance does not lie in straightness, but in the ability to move. That is, in the capacity for observation and transformation that prevents you from stagnating in one aspect or another. Life is a constant transformative oscillation, so there is no straight path. Learn to dance.
_I: Everything that lives in me is my power. I chose to be born in a land that refers to itself with pride and arrogance, and perhaps that is a tool that allows me to keep showing my face and speaking without fear of speaking my truth. “Solving the world over a cup of coffee”…
_AM: Be proud of what you arrogate.
_I: So I can help others to be proud of their arrogance.
_AM: And find that the power of Being lies in the Center of oneself, and in the appreciation of said center in the hearts and capacities of others.