My image of the characters who inhabit both the higher reaches and the bureaucracy of the New World Order--which I also think of as the "Empire"--also owes a debt to the mythological iconography into which my view of "reality" has been organizing itself lately.
Just as my yoga teacher and spiritual mentor Swami Ramachandrananda was discussing in last Saturday's class at the library,
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the heightened awareness of reality that comes when you align your own breathing with the respiration of the universe (the Hebrew word for "Spirit" in the Old Testament is Ruach (spelled phonetically, as will be all the Hebrew words in this piece), which means "breath"). That level of awareness ushers you into what the Swami calls the "allegorical" world of archetypes. And it is in this allegorical world where we can get closer to the presence of God (think of it as an antechamber to your inner Holy of Holies).
In this archetypal/allegorical world, you also see "reality" more clearly. So for example, to me, the bankers and financiers who manipulate the lives of great masses of people, and invest in whatever ruthless and blood-soaked activity will squeeze a few more pennies of profit from their multibillion-dollar investments, exhibit a kind of reptilian nature that seems to emanate from what psychologists call the "reptile brain"--the oldest section of the evolved human brain, concerned solely with personal survival, without the altruism characteristic of an integrated human mind.
So I think of the world's rulers as "Lizard" people.
On a personal level, of course, the Lizards can be perfectly charming (an outsized charm sometimes indicating psychopathology, a not uncommon trait among what the late sociologist C. Wright Mills called the "power elite"--the relatively few humans at the top of the political, corporate and academic institutional pyramid we have built of our society). But a general coldness of heart toward the suffering masses, and the massive scale of tragedy even their slightest uptick of greed can induce at an imperial/corporate level, both add a reptilian sheen to the Lizards' basic human forms.
Think in terms of the David Rockefeller-Henry Kissinger-Zbig Bzoy axis. We older folks recall the serpentine charm with which then-Secretary of State Henry K flicked his power at breathless beauties, as he slid his blood-stained tentacles around their bare shoulders at society parties.
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