Leadership is front and center for me after seeing a resurgence of wildfires in northern LA. I’m saying to myself, how come people cannot see what’s happening?
This is not climate change. This is a combination of arson, directed-energy weapons, apparently from Area 51, and whatever is causing the “Santa Ana winds.”
It’s aided and abetted by purposefully leaving the reservoirs empty, taking money from the firefighting budget, impeding critical responses to the fires, and other tactics.
I assert that it’s in aid of clearing the land around Pacific Palisades to become a fifteen-minute city as well as destroying the evidence of child sex trafficking and adrenochrome production in the Getty Museum, Playboy Mansion. and various connected celebrities’ houses.
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I need to wake up at another level now, I’m saying to myself. I’m now willing to lead. I’m willing to play. And I’m willing to step up the game I’m willing to play.
In my books, to be willing to play is perhaps the chief characteristic of a leader. They’re available. They step forward when the call goes out. But it’s not the only one.
What I’d like all of us to do, if you don’t mind me saying so, is to look at our lives and see if there’s anywhere where we can all offer leadership. Lightworker, wayshower, pathfinder leadership.
Being willing to lead doesn’t alone make a leader, in my view. Then the work begins.
Does being a leader mean that I can lay down the law? Probably not. Does it mean everyone has to always do what I want? Indeed, more the opposite.
Does it mean I have to have a good rap? Not at all. Lead by example. Does it mean people need to kowtow to me? Run the other way if they do.
If I were as self-possessed a leader as JD Vance or Tulsi Gabbard, I’d be happy. So we even have living examples now of what really-able leadership looks like. Big change. Big improvement.
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In reality, I’m asking us all to be a leader, to step forth in whatever game we’re involved in – if it was on social media, X/Twitter, Telegram, Instagram, Tik-Tok, to do our research on anything that’s happening now and write about it.
To report anything strange in our own community – fog, tornado, wildfire, sharp-edged clouds, etc. We won’t find news of these things in the mainstream media.
I think our impact on social media will bring a whole new outlook to what we now think of as “reporting” (if it hasn’t already).
In community organizing, in getting supplies to people in need, as I said earlier, big rigs, helos, Cajun boats, you’re all invited to get moving again.
Now that President Trump is in office, I don’t believe we’ll end up in jail again for helping. Common sense and fairness have returned, I believe. We’ll be applauded. And probably assisted. (I send this thought out with love into the collective consciousness.)
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So from the first step of being willing to lead, I go to the second of on-the-job learning, probably forever. There was a quote which I can’t quite recall. I believe it went: I don’t want to lead sheep. I want to produce lions.
In my view, a good leader produces good leaders. Period. And whatever unfortunate tendencies they have may or could get passed along. Whether they do or not is one indicator, I think, of … good leadership.
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I feel a little like Indiana Jones taking a step across a bridge that does not previously exist. The bridge materializes one step at a time.
Or St. John of the Cross:
Without a foothold you must seek Him out-
no face nor form, alone –
tasting there something I dont know
that one may come on randomly. (1)
Without a foothold. As a friend used to say: And when I leapt, I flew.
The thoughts run by me like a ticker-tape….
Into the unknown. I had two Ph.D. dissertations turned down because they were outside the existing paradigm. In my mind, I’ve paid my dues.
I feel a little like my Dad has let me be President of his company for a day and I’m sitting in his chair. What do I do next, Daddy?
I have this intuitive sense that a person strapping themselves into the seat of leadership is in for a wild ride. And a really good leader, I think, will stick it out to the end. I think that that’s what is meant by valor, is it not?
Being willing to lead is like buckling oneself into what turns out to be a never-ending rocket ride. Now that I’ve arrived at being willing, really, where do I go next?
Footnotes
(1) “St. John of the Cross: For All the Beauty There May Be (Repost),”