{"id":179796,"date":"2021-02-22T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T12:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=179796"},"modified":"2021-02-22T04:53:42","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T04:53:42","slug":"is-transcendence-emerging-from-trumps-impeachment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/02\/is-transcendence-emerging-from-trumps-impeachment\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Transcendence Emerging from Trump\u2019s Impeachment?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Enantiodromia Methinks<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The storming of the US Capitol on January 6 was a wake-up call for many in congress, Fox News and beyond. Several Republicans, alarmed by the terrorizing mobs, changed their votes and certified Biden.<\/p>\n

This bubble-bursting moment separated \u201cthe men from the boys.\u201d It differentiated those with a terror-induced shockable conscience from immature, incorrigible Republicans, spearheaded by Senators Hawley and Cruz. Alarmingly, seven Senators and 122 Representatives voted to acquit Trump.<\/p>\n

The insurrection rapidly triggered Trump\u2019s second impeachment, leading to the Senate trial. Weeks of shifting dynamics included President Biden\u2019s inauguration and victories of Georgia Democratic Senators Warnock and Osoff.\u00a0 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wisely appointed Jamie Raskin to lead nine impeachment managers, who demonstrated transcendent leadership.<\/p>\n

Enantiodromia and the Transcendent Function<\/h3>\n

As years of escalating, fear-mongering incitement erupted into a shocking crescendo, I sensed an archetypal dynamic was set in motion.\u00a0 I texted Pythia Peay<\/a>, my only friend who would understand, \u201cEnantiodromia, methinks\u2026 Watching the Senate now. Very moving.\u201d Pythia replied, \u201cExactly the right word, Diane! The whole night has been simply stunning and I almost can\u2019t believe what I am watching.\u201d<\/p>\n

Greek philosopher Heraclitus, described Enantiodromia meaning \u201crunning in the opposite direction.\u201d Carl Jung, founder of analytical psychology applied this psychological law to individual and collective life. When things go too far to one extreme, they eventually change into their opposite, as a regulatory function of the psyche.<\/p>\n

After the November election, Trump intensified political hysteria, driving opposites to extremes with fabrications, (see Abracadabraism<\/a>) tweets, lawsuits, rallies and marches, fueling the insurrection.<\/p>\n

Jung\u2019s concept of the Transcendent Function, considered the most significant psychological factor for mediating the opposites, elucidates the process of transformation. It is akin to Galtung\u2019s Transcend Method which transcends the destructive pull to either side.<\/p>\n

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The Galtung\/TRANSCEND Conflict Diagram
TRANSCEND Method<\/p><\/div>\n

Newtonian Politics v Quantum Politics<\/h3>\n

Those who think the 57-43 Senate vote to acquit Trump was a terrible defeat are correct on the material plane. But, as Sting says in my very favorite song<\/a>, \u201cthere is a deeper world than this.\u201d In the quantum realm invisible forces, dimensions, connections, dynamics and probabilities are in flux with potential for conscious evolution.<\/p>\n

In last week\u2019s TMS editorial<\/a>, Richard Falk wrote, \u201cMy unprovable hypothesis and firm belief is that hegemony wins out today, but legitimacy triumphs tomorrow.\u201d <\/strong>Perhaps today\u2019s victory of hegemony is part of the enantiodromian movement towards legitimacy. But legitimacy doesn\u2019t triumph by itself. It\u2019s work<\/em>. Jung said, consciousness is a work against nature, an opus contra naturam.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

From the quantum perspective of psychological dynamics, although convicting Trump would serve justice and feel gratifying, his acquittal may expedite the playing out the opposites and ultimately promote a best-case scenario.<\/p>\n

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell embodied enantiodromia, flipping into his own opposite. After voting to acquit Trump he gave a powerful speech<\/a> about Trump\u2019s guilt.<\/p>\n

There was a deeper moral victory in the court of public opinion and the biggest bipartisan majority in the history of impeachments. Trump\u2019s acquittal on a technicality may have calmed some for the moment.<\/em> This provides psychological space for those struggling with defeat, humiliation and betrayal in this in-between state, allowing wise empathic leaders opportunities to process and heal. The acquittal may ultimately, portend a better outcome.<\/p>\n

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Impeachment Dynamics and Arising Transcendence<\/h3>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Saturday Night Live Weekend Update anchor Colin Jost captured the absurdities of the trial. \u201cThis has to be the dumbest trial I have ever seen… The jurors deciding the case were the ones attacked by the defendant. The trial took place at the scene of the crime. And then right after the trial ended, one of the jurors (Senator Minority Leader Mitch McConnell) who voted to acquit Trump ran out and said, \u201cSomeone should prosecute this guy. He did it. He belongs in jail. .. If you are going to impeach a president for anything don\u2019t you think it\u2019s sending a mob to kill the vice president?\u201d<\/p>\n

Many expressed outrage over the Senate\u2019s failure to convict Trump. Not I. Having spent days with goosebumps and tears, witnessing psychologically mature leaders vibrating at a higher frequency, I felt something deep evolving.<\/p>\n

Political commentator David Frum tweeted, \u201cMaybe you don’t think so. But today was a good day.\u201d He wrote, It\u2019ll Do. <\/a><\/p>\n

Blogger Umair Haque wrote<\/a>, \u201c I was deeply, deeply impressed by the Democrats managing Trump\u2019s second impeachment. Their case for the prosecution wasn\u2019t just stunning. This was everything that I\u2019ve wanted from American politics, my whole adult life. Courage, intellect, passion, reflection, history, truth. It was raw, real, and\u00a0fierce<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some Republicans changed votes. Some afraid to convict recognized absurdities. All face consequences, in flux.<\/p>\n

Splitting and the Dread of Integration<\/h3>\n

Differentiation of opposites is a function of healthy development preceding integration at a higher level, promoting individuation and maturity. With trauma, opposites split, causing a dread of integration. Leaders who integrate opposites, Gandhi, MLK, Sadat, and Rabin, are assassinated by those who split.<\/p>\n

Splitting corresponds to Galtung\u2019s\u00a0DMA Syndrome, Dualism-Manicheism-Armageddon<\/em>, dividing the world into us\/them, good\/evil, Democrat\/Republican, in a win\/lose \u201cbattle with no compromise, no transcendence, only the victory of one over the other.<\/a>[i]<\/strong><\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

Splitting is evident in the compulsion to censure, punish, and kill courageous Republicans who voted to impeach and convict Trump and chants to \u201chang Mike Pence\u201d for certifying Biden\u2019s election.<\/p>\n

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Transcendence Manifest \u2013 Jamie and the Giant Impeachers [ii]<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n

Galtung\u2019s Transcend Method entails bridging legitimate goals of conflicted parties to create a new reality.<\/p>\n

The transcendent impeachment managers, brilliantly led by Jamie Raskin, were individually and as a synergized team. They worked day and night to save our democracy, leaving no stone unturned. They raised politics to an art form.<\/p>\n

Although Democrats, they outshined old guard partisans with a deeper brand of patriotism, sense of history, humanity and love. They raised politics to an art form.<\/p>\n

They convinced mature, courageous Republicans to join them on a higher plane, opposed by immature, destructive partisans. Witnessing something superior, we tasted what\u2019s possible.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe mind, once enlightened, cannot again become dark.\u201d <\/em><\/strong>
\n— Jamie quoted Thomas Payne, for whom Jamie\u2019s son was named<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Such magnetic attraction can draw psychic energy from the opposites, not to a center between right and left but a higher place. It\u2019s not about right and left, but life and death\u2026 and birth.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe confrontation of the two positions generates a tension charged with energy and creates a living, third thing \u2026..\u00a0 a movement out of the suspension between the opposites, a living birth that leads to a new level of being, a new situation.\u201d\u00a0 — <\/strong><\/em>Carl Jung<\/strong><\/a>
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An Example of Galtung’s DPT Formula:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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What Transcendence Looks Like<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Umair Haque wrote<\/a>, \u201cThere wasn\u2019t a single moment of stupidity, ignorance, dishonesty, malice, cowardice, fakery, aw-shucksing good-ole-boyism, appeasement, complicity. It was the polar opposite of what American politics has become, was allowed to become, and what we all expect it to be, dumb, brain-dead, awful, and a big, stupid life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Arising from hate, Manager Joe Neguse<\/a> said, \u201cThis trial is born from love of country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stacey Plaskett<\/a> introduced a powerful 13-minute video, laying an irrefutable foundation for the case. They trusted people to think for themselves,<\/strong> not told what to think.<\/p>\n

Jamie made the unconscious conscious, pierced through attempts at mystification, and disarmed, rather than provoked people\u2019s defenses, and called upon higher angels. Through Jamie\u2019s opening argument<\/a>,February 10, wrap up, February 11<\/a> and closing remarks, February 13<\/a> he showed<\/p>\n