Pferdeverhalten

⚑ Anders als raubtierhafte Katzen und Hunde sind pflanzenfressende Pferde friedsame Krafttiere, besonders, wenn sie in Herden auftreten.
⚑ Als Herdentiere brauchen Pferde die Gesellschaft von anderen Pferden oder Menschen.
⚑ Als Beutetiere sind Pferde keine Opfer.
⚑ Ihre seitlich positionierten Augen ermöglichen Pferden einen 340° Panoramablick mit winzigen Blindzonen vorn und hinten. Auch ihr Gehörsinn und Geruchsinn ist vergleichsweise besser als die menschlichen Sinne.
⚑ Ausgestattet mit hoher emotionaler und sozialer Intelligenz nutzen die teamfähigen Tiere die Kraft der Herde.
⚑ Pferde verstehen das Paradox, dass Lebewesen zugleich getrennt und nicht getrennt sind.

Pferdekopf, Zeichnung von Ralf Krampe, 12. Januar 2007
Hauspferd (Equus ferus caballus) nach Linnaeus, 1758

⚑ Pferde sind natürliche Lehrer für die Haltung der Achtsamkeit.
⚑ Mithilfe von Emotionen als Quelle ihrer Information erspüren Pferde den inneren Zustand und die Absichten der gegenwärtigen Raubtiere.
⚑ Als friedliebende Beutetiere greifen sie Raubtiere gemeinsam mit der Herde an, ohne dauerhaft nachtragend zu sein.
⚑ Gezähmte Pferde sind den Menschen ausgesetzt, die in einem raubtierhaften System programmiert worden sind.
⚑ Menschen bringen nur 10% ihrer Gefühle sprachlich zum Ausdruck, wohingegen 90% nonverbal übermittelt werden. Pferde erspüren die 90% der nonverbal ausgesandten Emotionen.
⚑ Pferde spüren die Stimmigkeit und Authentizität in Mitlebewesen. Nur wenn Emotionen und Ausdruck kongruent sind, reagieren sie positiv.
⚑ Abweichend von der Regel der Friedliebigkeit können stark traumatisierte und missbrauchte Hengste lebensbedrohliche Gewalt ausüben.

Machtkonstellationen

⚑ Dominanz kann als friedsame oder raubtierhafte Form der Macht ausgedrückt werden.
⚑ Das dominante Tier und das (meistens weibliche) Leittier in der Herde, das die stärkste Präsenz hat, am umsichtigsten und fürsorglichsten ist und die Gemeinschaft am meisten fördert, sind vielfach zwei verschiedene Herdenmitglieder.
⚑ In der Natur gibt es innerhalb und zwischen den Spezies gegenseitige Unterstützung (Kooperation), Vermeidung von Konkurrenzkämpfen und friedsame Führung. Es ist ein essentieller Faktor zur Sicherung des Überlebens und Gedeihens
aller bedeutsamen Arten von Lebewesen.
⚑ Getragen von sozialer Intelligenz praktiziert die Herde ein friedsames Macht-miteinander, das die Mitglieder der Gemein-
schaft weder dominiert noch überrumpelt, noch erzeugt es das "einsame Wolf"-Syndrom. Es gewährt allen Beteiligten eine deutlich größere Funktionsvielfalt, Kreativität und Neuerungen.

Anfang April 2009 wurde das "Human Resource-Barometer 2009" der Unternehmensberatung Capgemini bekannt gegeben. Aus den Antworten der befragten Personalverantwortlichen von 80 Unternehmen im deutschsprachigen Raum wurde erkenntlich, dass die Vorstände und Geschäftsführer ihre Kunden und Aktionäre immer noch wichtiger nehmen als ihre Mitarbeiter sowie die Personalentwicklung und -planung.

Zu vergeben waren insgesamt 100 Bewertungspunkte für drei Gruppen. Das durchschnittliche Ergebnis lautete:

• Kunden: 41 Punkte
• Aktionäre: 31 Punkte
• Mitarbeiter: 28 Punkte

Jedes zwölfte Unternehmen vergab null Punkte für den Stellenwert seiner Mitarbeiter.
Die Unternehmensberatung Capgemini wertet die Vernachlässigung des Personals als groben Fehler. Den Mitarbeitern von 15% der deutschsprachigen Firmen, die ihr Personal mit null Punkten entwerten und ent-würdigen, empfiehlt Capgemini die Arbeitsstelle ohne Verzug zu wechseln.

Der englische Wirtschaftsvisionär Lance Secretan schrieb bereits im Jahr 1997 zum Thema unternehmerische Gier. Folgende Aussage ist fundamental konträr zu dem in der Geschäftswelt vorherrschenden Tenor:

Er bringt das Thema Geld prägnant auf den Punkt:

Das Streben nach Glück ist ein in der US-amerikanischen Verfassung verbrieftes Menschenrecht und nach Abraham Maslows Bedürfnispyramide Ausdruck des Wachstums und der Selbstverwirklichung des Menschen. In diesem Sinn sieht es Secretan als Aufgabe von Unternehmen, dahingehend zu wirken, dass mehr allgemeine Zufriedenheit entstehen kann.

Im neuen Paradigma der Wirtschaft hat anstelle des Eroberns die Dienstleistung Vorrang.

Secretan zeigt auf, dass moderne, zukunftsorientierte Führungskräfte nicht mehr dem Mythos Motivation nachlaufen, sondern dazu aufgerufen sind, vorerst die notwendige "innere Arbeit" zu leisten, um sich zu inspirierenden Führungskräften zu entwickeln.
Secretans Leitsatz ist: Durch Wertschätzung zur Wertschöpfung!

Das Geheimnis von inspirierten und inspirierenden Führungskräften besteht nach Secretan darin, dass es ihnen bis zu einem gewissen Grad gelungen ist, ihre Persönlichkeit (Ego) in einen erweiterten Seinszustand zu integrieren.

Die geringe Verbundenheit der Mitarbeiter mit ihrem Unternehmen lässt sich dem Marktforschungsinstitut IFAK zufolge häufig ein Defizit in der Personalführung zurückführen. Eine verbesserte Bindung der Mitarbeiter an das Unternehmen erzielten die Führungskräfte, wenn sie deren Bedürfnisse und Erwartungen berücksichtigten.

Secretan empfiehlt Führungskräften, sich nicht mit strategischer Zielsetzung und Jahres- und Geschäftsplänen herumzuschlagen, auch keine Geschäftsdirektiven (Mission Statements) abzugeben, an die sie sich – wenn danach befragt – nicht einmal erinnern können, sondern von innen heraus zu glühen und sich einige inspirierte Menschen ins Mitarbeiterteam zu holen, die nicht in erster Linie einem äußerem Beruf (Auftrag, Mission), sondern einer inneren Berufung nachgehen. Es sind Mitarbeiter, die einem Ruf ihrer Seele mit Be-geisterung folgen.
Secretan rät den Firmenleitern, mit dem Fluss des Tagesgeschäftes mitzugehen und sich um das, was jeweils aktuell ansteht, zu kümmern.

Der Wirtschaftsexperte Secretan empfiehlt, sich das C-A-S-T-L-E Prinzip zu eigen zu machen und durch Vorbild weiter zu vermitteln. Übersetzt heißt es:

Der englische Wirtschaftsvisionär Lance Secretan hat untersucht, was einige der bedeutendsten Führungspersönlichkeiten in der Geschichte wie Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Jesus Christus, Buddha, Mahatma Gandhi, Konfuzius, Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Mutter Teresa gemeinsam ist. In seinem Buch Inspirieren statt motivieren! Mit Leidenschaft zum Erfolg – so leben und führen Sie besser [Kamphausen Media, März 2006] hat er seine Ergebnisse zusammengefasst. Er kam zu folgenden Erkenntnissen:

Mount McKinley, Denali, Alaska

• Bedeutende charismatische Führungspersönlichkeiten folgen einem Ruf, einer Bestimmung, einer Vision, einem inneren Auftrag.
• Sie leben das, was sie lehren, authentisch vor. (Walk your talk!)
• Sie verkörpern Wahrhaftigkeit.
• Sie legen kein Unternehmensleitbild, keine Firmenphilosophie, keine Wertekataloge, vor.
• Sie dienen ihren Mitarbeitern, Mitstreitern oder Schülern.
• Sie können ihre Mitarbeiter, Mitstreiter oder Schüler dazu inspirieren, sich einer gemeinsamen Aufgabe / Vision zu widmen.
• Sie motivieren andere nicht aus Eigennutz.
• Ihr Führungsstil inspiriert die Menschen, ihre innere Größe zu entfalten.
• Er beruht nicht auf Angst oder Druck, sondern drückt "magischerweise" Liebe aus, welche die Seele ihrer Mitarbeiter, Mitstreiter oder Schüler unmittelbar berührt.
• Sie vermitteln Hoffnung, Mut und Handlungsbereitschaft – unter schwierigen Ausgangsbedingungen.

Zur Jahrtausendwende hat das Institut für Markt- und Meinungsforschung und Managementberatung Gallup (gegründet 1935) eine zwanzig Jahre dauernde Langzeitstudie zu den Kernmerkmalen von Führungsbegabten vorgelegt. Unter Leitung von Marcus Buckingham und Curt Coffman ("Gallup Organization") wurden dazu eine Million Mitarbeiter und 80.000 Führungskräfte aus allen Hierarchieebenen befragt.
Ergebnis: Die talentiertesten Manager arbeiten jeweils mit eigenem Stil, wiesen jedoch eine übereinstimmende Überzeugung auf: Menschen sind mittels Verhaltenskorrekturen weniger veränderbar als angenommen. Vorhandene Anlagen zu fördern, ist bereits mühsam.

Gallup behauptet, dass die in den vergangenen zwei Dekaden weltweit veröffentlichten rund 9.000 Prinzipien und Systeme zur Unternehmensführung nicht von Nutzen waren, dem Geheimnis erfolgreicher Führung auf die Spur zu kommen. Erfolgreiche Chefs und Manager agieren nicht regelkonform in Bezug auf das gemeinhin geltende Führungswissen. Als Katalysatoren im Arbeitsprozess schätzen sie ihre Mitarbeiter und pflegen eine nährende, jeweils typgerechte Beziehung mit ihnen.

• Motivation, die auf Angst beruht, stammt aus der Persönlichkeit. Inspiration, die auf Liebe beruht, stammt aus der Seele. "Einleitung", S. 21

• Führung soll eine dienende Beziehung zu anderen Menschen sein, die ihr Wachstum inspiriert und die Welt zu einem besseren Ort macht. S. unbekannt

• Es ist ein Grundbedürfnis des menschlichen Geistes, inspiriert zu sein und andere zu inspirieren. Leseprobe

• Es ist die Realität unserer Zeit, dass Menschen in inspirierenden Unternehmen, für inspirierende Führungskräfte, in inspirierenden Industrien und Berufen arbeiten wollen und Dinge machen möchten, die Kunden und Lieferanten und sie selbst inspirieren. Alles darunter ist nur ein Job. Und im Grunde gilt das für unser ganzes Leben: Wir wollen mit einem inspirierenden Menschen verheiratet sein, inspirierende Freunde und Kinder haben und ein inspiriertes Leben führen. S. unbekannt

                 § 1. Die Führer der Massen                 

Sobald eine gewisse Anzahl lebender Wesen vereinigt ist, einerlei, ob eine Herde Tiere oder eine Menschenmenge, unterstellen sie sich unwillkürlich einem Oberhaupt, das heißt einem Führer.

Bärlauchfeld zur Blütezeit im Wald

In den menschlichen Massen spielt der Führer eine hervorragen-
de Rolle. Sein Wille ist der Kern, um den sich die Anschauun-
gen bilden und ausgleichen. Die Masse ist eine Herde, die sich ohne Hirten nicht zu helfen weiß.

Sehr oft war der Führer zuerst ein Geführter, der selbst von der Idee hypnotisiert war, deren Apostel er später wurde. Sie hat ihn so sehr erfüllt, dass neben ihr alles verschwand und dass ihm nun jede gegenteilige Anschauung als Irrtum und Aberglaube erscheint. So z.B. Robespierre, der von seinen wunderlichen Ideen so hypnotisiert war, dass er sich zu ihrer Verbreitung der Mittel der Inquisition bediente.

Meistens sind die Führer keine Denker, sondern Männer der Tat. Sie haben wenig Scharfblick und könnten auch nicht anders sein, da der Scharfblick im allgemeinen zu Zweifel und Untätigkeit führt. Man findet sie namentlich unter den Nervösen, Reizbaren, Halbverrückten, die sich an der Grenze des Irrsinns befinden. So abgeschmackt auch die verfochtene
Idee oder das verfolgte Ziel sein mag, gegen ihre Überzeugung wird alle Logik zunichte. Verachtung und Verfolgung
stört sie nicht oder erregt sie nur noch mehr. Persönliches Interesse, Familie, alles wird geopfert. Sogar der Selbst-
erhaltungstrieb ist bei ihnen ausgeschaltet, und zwar in solchem Maße, dass die einzige Belohnung, die sie oft an-
streben, das Martyrium ist. Die Stärke ihres Glaubens verleiht ihren Worten eine große suggestive Macht. Die Men-
ge hört immer auf den Menschen, der über einen starken Willen verfügt. Die in der Masse vereinigten Einzelnen
verlieren allen Willen und wenden sich instinktiv dem zu, der ihn besitzt.

In der Masse sinkt der Verstand mit der Anzahl der Versammelten.

In der Masse verliert der Einzelne seine Kritikfähigkeit, sagt oder tut Dinge, die er als Einzelner ablehnen würde.

In der Massensituation kommt es in der Regel zur psychischen Ansteckung und der Einzelne neigt zu einem affek-
tiven, primitiv barbarischen Verhalten.

Der Einzelne gibt in der Massensituation sein individuelles Bewusstsein auf zu Gunsten des Massenbewusstseins
und lässt seine Handlungen davon leiten.

Gefühle, Moral und geistiges Niveau können im Massenkollektiv höher oder niedriger sein als beim Einzelnen.

Beim Aufzählen der Faktoren, die imstande sind, Massenseelen zu erregen, kann man sich die Erwähnung der
Vernunft sparen.

Die Masse ist durch logische Beweise nicht zu beeinflussen […]. Es ist die einfache Behauptung ohne jeder
Begründung ein sicheres Mittel, um ihr eine Idee einzuflössen. Intelligenz ist als Massenphänomen unmöglich.

Noch nie haben Massen nach Wahrheit gedürstet. Von den Tatsachen, die ihnen missfallen, wenden sie sich ab und ziehen es vor, den Irrtum zu vergöttern. Wer sie zu täuschen versteht, wird leicht ihr Herr, wer sie aufzuklären sucht, stets ihr Opfer.

Die Massen urteilen gar nicht oder falsch. Die Urteile, die die Massen annehmen, sind nur aufgedrängte, niemals geprüfte Urteile.

Nur Katastrophen haben die Kraft, Licht in die Köpfe derer zu bringen, die voller Illusionen sind. S. 240

Die Massen kennen nur einfache und übertriebene Gefühle. [...]
Herrschsucht und Unduldsamkeit sind für die Massen sehr klare Gefühle, die sie ebenso leicht ertragen, wie sie sie
in die Tat umsetzen. Die Massen erkennen die Macht an und werden durch Güte, die sie leicht für eine Art Schwäche halten, nur mäßig beeinflusst. Niemals galten ihre Symphatien den gütigen Herren, sondern den Tyrannen, von denen sie kraftvoll beherrscht wurden. "§ 4. Unduldsamkeit, Herrschsucht (autoritarisme) und Konservatismus der Massen"

Personal avowals

• I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator.
  ⚡ Adolf Hitler [Führer / Reichskanzler] (1889-1945) Austrian-German fascist leader of the Nazi Party during the Third Reich (1933-1945), Mein Kampf, volume 1, chapter 2, [1925-1926] Pimlico, London, 1939, 1998

Ivy, Chanticleer Garden, Pennsylvania

Recommendations

• Don't wait for the leaders. Do it alone. Person to person.
  Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997) Albanian-born Indian Catholic nun, saint, missionary, humanitarian, founder of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity, Nobel Prize for Peace laureate, 1979

• When you want to get a herd to move in a certain direction, you stand at the back. [...] A few of the more energetic cattle move to the front and the rest of the cattle follow. You are really guiding them from be-
  hind. This is how a leader should do his work. [...]
  I try not to be a rabble rouser. People want things explained to them clearly and rationally. They recognize when someone is speaking to them seriously. They want to see how you handle difficult situations and whether or not you stay calm.
  Interview with Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) leading South African anti-apart-
  heid activist, prisoner for 27 years during apartheid, first black president of South Africa (1994-1999), The Making of a Leader, presented by the US American weekly news magazine TIME, Richard Stengel, 9. May 1994

• I hope that our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
  Thomas Jefferson third US president (1801-1809), principal author of the Declaration of Independence, 4. July 1776

• Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time,
  and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
  Thomas Jefferson third US president (1801-1809), principal author of the Declaration of Independence, The Founders' Constitution, volume 1, Epilogue: Securing the Republic, chapter 18, document 11, autumn 1778

Conclusions

• Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people – they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress. Paulo Freire, Ph.D. (1921-1997) Brazilian educator, influential theorist of critical pedagogy, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Portuguese original, 1968, English translation by Myra Ramos, 1970

Insights

• The Internet is a challenge for everyone who wants to have power.
  The Internet is a challenge for the formation of power.
  • ➤ Any hierarchy is in question,
  • ➤ any expert is in question,
  • ➤ any gatekeeper is in question, whenever a person wants to keep a powerful position

• We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society. Observation by John Naisbitt (1929-2021) US Ameri-
  can futurologist, China expert, living in Europe and China, author of Megatrends, 1982, cited in: AZ Quotes

Quotes by authoritarian ⚡ David R. Hawkins

• Adolescents respond primarily to the pressures of peers and the media and give lip service to parents. This disrespect for parents is aided and abetted by current social, educational, and political forces that derive a sense of power from disclaiming the authenticity of all authority. The error is based on the misperception of integrous, true authority as nonauthentic authoritarianism, i,e., the "postmodern" rejection of logic, intelligence, rationality, and ethics. Dr. David R. Hawkins, Truth vs. Falsehood. How to Tell the Difference, chapter 9 "Social Structure and Functional Truth",
  S. 103, 2005

• Those who fear and hate authority project it onto others via ethnic, religious, or political symbols. The basis of leader hatred is simply jealousy and envy of authority figures, facilitated by the projected dualistic perceptual distortion of perpetrator/victim (the classic Marxist pitfall). In addition, narcissism results in guilt and self-hatred that is then projected onto the country and the president. Dr. David R. Hawkins, Truth vs. Falsehood. How to Tell the Difference, S. 305, 2005

• The key to success is to study and imitate a truthful authority rather than resist or attack it through competitive envy. Dr. David R. Hawkins, Along the Path to Enlightenment. 365 Reflections from David R. Hawkins, edited by Scott Jeffrey, Kindle location 730, Reflection of June 25th, January 2011

Bad leadership

• The art of leadership [...] consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention. ⚡ Adolf Hitler [Führer and Reichskanzler] (1889-1945) Austrian-German fascist leader of the Nazi Party during the Third Reich (1933-1945), Mein Kampf, volume 1, chapter 10, [1925-1926] Pimlico, London, 1939, 1998

Literary quotes

• Men who find themselves late are never sure. They are all the things the civics books tell us the good citizen should be: partisans but never zealots, respectors of the facts which attend each situation but never benders of those facts, uncomfortable in positions of leadership but rarely unable to turn down a responsibility once it has been offered [...] or thrust upon them. They make the best leaders in a democracy because they are unlikely to fall in love with power. Stephen King (*1947) US American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy fiction, The Stand, Doubleday, September 1978

Personal avowals

• I realized that many of the challenges we currently face cannot be solved by debating and defending surface ideology. Over time, I was able to isolate four highly unproductive habits humans engage, regardless of their religious, cultural, philosophical, or political background, which I call the Stone Age Power Tools³. I argue that if we refrain from using these antiquated yet still prevalent ways of dealing with stress and trying to influence others – replacing these habits with twelve Guiding Principles⁴ that offer a non-predatory approach to interpersonal challenges, personal empowerment, and creativity – our world cannot help but change for the better. Linda Kohanov (*1950) US American riding instructor, horse trainer, speaker, author, The Power of the Herd. A Nonpredatory Approach to Social Intelligence, Leadership, and Innovation, presented by the Californian publisher New World Library, 1st edition 5. March 2013

• I thought that I could win him [my angry life threateningly dangerous stallion] over through kindness, sympathy, understanding and bodywork. He wasn't having any of that. He actually demanded that I become powerful in order to work with him. That also became a metaphor for me of what we're facing in our culture. The whole reason there are so many bullies and sociopaths in power is because the empathetic, compassionate people out there in the world have not exercised a different form of power where they can stand up to those people in a way that creates productive social change. I realized it wasn't enough to be empathetic and understanding and compassionate. I also had to have [warmhearted connecting] power in order to rehabilitate this very angry abused stallion who would threaten my life. So I think more people who are sympathetic and understanding must step in that new kind of power in order to change the world because otherwise we will keep the bullies and sociopaths in power. Audio podcast interview with Linda Kohanov (*1950) US American riding instructor, horse trainer, speaker, author, The Power of the Herd; Non-Predatory Power and Horse Sense, presented by The Rob Kall Bottom Up Radio Show, host Rob Kall, US American radio host, minute 1:05:36, 1:30:21 duration, aired 18. July 2013

• Ultimately, leadership is an advanced form of personal development. If you want to bring your vision into form in this world you do need leadership skills. Video interview with Linda Kohanov (*1950) US American riding instructor, horse trainer, speaker, author, The Power of the Herd, presented by the Californian publisher New World Library, host Monique Muhlencamp, publicity director, YouTube film, minute 11:26, 13:06 minutes duration, posted 13. June 2013

• 90 percent of the messages we [humans] send back and forth to each other are in the nonverbal range. […] We need to learn these interpersonal skills that involve nonverbal elements of communication in order to really be effective, especially as leaders. Leadership presence is really hard to define because of a lot of the elements of leadership presence are in that other 90% of the nonverbal range. Video interview with Linda Kohanov (*1950) US American riding instructor, horse trainer, speaker, author, The Power of the Herd, presented by the Californian publisher New World Library, host Monique Muhlencamp, publicity director, YouTube film, minute 6:04, 13:06 minutes duration, posted 13. June 2013

• Social change is not going to occur until people have power. And it has to be a new form of power, a non-predatory form of power. It's not just a lack of empathy that causes conflicts and suffering to continue it is also a lack of power, particularly non-predatory power and emotional heroism. Not only do we need empathy to change the world, but we need empathetic, compassionate people with emotional heroism to walk into situations where suffering occurs and also show a form of power that effects change and holds people accountable without also becoming abusive. We need more than empathy and more than ever we need sensitive, compassionate individuals to develop the power and emotional heroism to step into these conflicts. Otherwise we just get bullies and sociopaths in power. Audio interview with Linda Kohanov (*1950) US American riding instructor, horse trainer, speaker, author, A New Interview with Linda, presented by Eponaquest, multi-disciplinary educational organization, host Anthony Write, minute 50:56, 52:50 minutes duration, aired ~3. May 2013

• Over thousands of years "master herders" of nomadic herding cultures developed a multifaceted, socially intelligent form of leadership combining the five roles of Dominant, Leader, Sentinel, Nurturer/Companion, and Predator. The fluid interplay of these roles allowed interspecies communities to move across vast landscapes, dealing with predators and changing climates, protecting and nurturing the herd while keeping massive, gregarious, often aggressive animals together – without the benefit of fences and with very little reliance on restraints. Linda Kohanov (*1950) US American riding instructor, horse trainer, speaker, author, The Five Roles of a Master Herder. A Revolutionary Model for Socially Intelligent Leadership, New World Library, 14. June 2016

Auklet flock, Shumagins 1986

• You really need all five leadership roles [Dominant, Leader, Sentinel, Nurturer/Companion, and Predator] in balance in order to operate at a really successful level with free and empowered people. When you pick a favored role and overemphasize it that role also has a shadow side that is still with dysfunctional behavior, because you need these other roles to combat that dysfunctional behavior. […] When you avoid or abdicate roles you also can be really quite toxic to a professional environment that you are working in. Video interview with Linda Kohanov (*1950) US American riding instructor, horse trainer, speaker, author, Linda Kohanov talks about THE FIVE ROLES OF A MASTER HERDER, presented by the Californian publisher New World Library, host Monique Muhlencamp, publicity director, YouTube film, minute 6:29, 10:44 minutes duration, posted 19. July 2016

• A dominant animal in a herd gains influence by pushing others around. […] They have this sort of divisive energy and this also directing pushy energy. If overused it becomes very much like a bully. […] What dominant animals also do when they are in an adolescent state is that they'll attack others for little or no reason. […] It's an instinctual thing that naturally dominant people and animals will do to keep everybody a little off balance. It sort of works in the short term. People will defer to you because they are constantly nervous about when you might lash out or attack, but it destroys trust on a team. And nobody chooses to follow an overly dominant person or animal in a novel situation. So overly dominant people will often try to enforce the status quo because they have more power there, because they know instinctually that they can push others, and they can intimidate others, and they can make others yield, but nobody chooses to follow them toward a new vision. Video interview with Linda Kohanov (*1950) US American riding instructor, horse trainer, speaker, author, Linda Kohanov talks about THE FIVE ROLES OF A MASTER HERDER, presented by the Californian publisher New World Library, host Monique Muhlencamp, publicity director, YouTube film, minute 8:13, 10:44 minutes duration, posted 19. July 2016

• For thousands of years, the invisible forces of charisma, bravery, poise, focus, endurance, and conviction have been most reliably bolstered by a silent, non-predatory tutor. Recognizing the horse's multi-cultural importance, not just as a beast of burden, or even a companion of kings, but as a teacher of kings, conquerors, heroes, and pioneers, is an essential first step in wrestling this wisdom from obscurity and purposefully exercising it in the future. […]
  To become a student of the horse – rather than a calculating, disconnected master – is to master our own predatory tendencies, reclaiming our original calling to move beyond instinct in partnership with nature, tapping our potential to become visionary leaders capable of rallying the endlessly evolving, fully conscious forces of a truly empowered herd. Linda Kohanov (*1950) US American riding instructor, horse trainer, speaker, author, The Power of the Herd. A Nonpredatory Approach to Social Intelligence, Leadership, and Innovation, chapter 12, New World Library, 1st edition 5. March 2013

Groomed as king and killer – Donald Trump's leadership style

• [Paraphrased] Nomadic master herders spent most of the day in nurturing, companionship and sentinel activity. The nurturer companion way is the one that produces oxytocin, the bonding hormone. Instinctually dominant horses that act immaturely, are bullying, can be socialized to become mature dominants.

Donald Trump, CPAC 2015, Washington, DC, 27. February 2015

• Trump's so-called madness is all over the place. He is out of control. […] We continue to open to the uninvited guest, we welcome him in, we don't reject him.
  We have a need to desperately begin to look at the world through principles that are other than rational order like of aperspectival thinking in Gebser's work, like Jung's synchronistic ideas, like acausality [meaningful coincidences]. […]
  Unless that [trickster] Mercurius factor is added to our consciousness, our rational thinking is going to run us into a mess. […] Unless I am Trump in every way he is, but don't act it out, I will not be able to be in contact with the instincts it [the shadow] often has. […] If I don't wrestle with it, I will tend to act it out. […] If I wrestle with those [shadow] impulses they can inform me and help me embody my own nature on deep instinctual levels. Audio interview with Nathan Schwartz-Salant, Ph.D. (1940-2020) Swiss-American Jungian psychologist, author Speaking of Jung – Episode #26: Nathan Schwartz-Salant, pod-
  cast episode #26, presented by the podcast platform Speaking of Jung, host Laura London, minutes 52:02, 30:15, 39:28, 54:35 minutes duration, aired 30. June 2017

Trump is a test of equilibrium.

Two-scaled balance

• If you think [the undignified man] Donald Trump is a bad thing [an embarrassement] for America, you don't understand. […] Donald Trump is a test of equilibrium. He actually understands what Empire is. And he is actually working to dismantle it, which is a very painful process which has been needing to come for a good two hundred years in this country. […] No other world leader is talking about that. Is he narcissistic? Is he uncouth? Yeah. In the old days he would have been called a megalomaniac. You need that sort of rhinoceros superthickness to even do that role. [...] It [the presidency] is a test of polarization. […] When Trump wins, you realize that that's going to sort the wheat from the chaff. It's going to reveal people's fake equilibrium, people's fragile peace, their very vulnerable harmo-
  ny. […] When you are going to block out a figure like Donald Trump it is always a revealer of one's true state. Those people I know who I would classify as men and women of substance and depth, all find Trump to be a fascinating exposer of society's conceits, especially in the democratic party and the left wing and those with socialist tendencies, they are having a terrible problem with this. [...] Most [spiritually oriented] people are left wing, are liberal. That is starting to change now. People are saying, 'the left is not the answer, the right is not the ans-
  wer. There has to be something else.' [...] This figure [Trump] only gives to the society, if you approach it the right way. […] You have to control the consensus view. The consensus view is generally wrong. [...] Humility is neccessary, you can't proceed down this path to equilibrium if you're full of doctrine and dogma.  Minute 9:34/10:16
  We need this heyoka, this contrarian warrior, this figure that is going to call all the conceits of society into question. Trump is a great example of a polarizing figure, because he is not an establishment figure despite of his upbringing and his cor-
  porate backgrounds. […] He serves as the lense for the desintegration of this dream that we live in a sort of stately, re-
  fined, cultured, democratic, peaceful world. We don't. We're in the Wild West – it is – all over the world. […] Europe is
  on fire. The nations are being destroyed, racial genocide is happening across Europe. And Trump is calling that out. And so they call him a racist. He is not. He is saying, 'You don't understand what race is, you don't understand what a nation
  is.' This isn't coming from his own brilliance. […] He serves as the focal point from a nation that is asking very difficult questions, but has ignored them. Minute 16:34

Trump – a symptom of a greater illness

• Each time a major issue arises, a troubling subplot repeatedly takes attention away from the main issues. The inner conflicts of Donald Trump, his family and administration keep taking center stage and adding uncertainty and instability, not just to the country, but to the world as well. If we view the current president, not simply as the problem, but more as a symptom of a greater illness, then the troubling subplot might serve a purpose in dealing with the great crises facing all of us in the main plot. The question becomes which character are we focusing upon, the personality of the president or the psychology of the country? Essay by Michael Meade Mosaicvoices.org, US American storyteller, scholar of mythology, psychology, anthropology, ritualist, spokesman in the men's movement, author, A Pathological Presidency, July 2017

Trump – an accidental president disrupting the Deep State

• I believe that Donald Trump was an accidentally elected president. He was elected because the crimes of Hillary Clinton⁵ became too obvious to the American public. And he wasn’t ready to be president. It’s taken him a year now. He's done some great things, but he's also been severely compromised by his generals, by his bankers. He has nine Goldman
  Sachs bankers in the White House. This is insane.
  Donald Trump is a disruptor. And everybody needs to understand that Donald Trump is much smarter and much more clever than people realize. […] It is absolutely not true that Trump is mentally instable. […] He is attentive to detail, he is very disciplined, he is very personable. He knows what he is doing, but he is surrounded by the Deep State in the White House and everywhere he goes. […] Donald Trump is not actually captured by the Zionists, he is playing chess with the Zionists. [Example: Jerusalem embassy trick; Jerusalem is not part of Israel.]⁶ Video interview with Robert David Steele (1952-2021) US American activist, former Central Intelligence Agency clandestine services case officer, 20-year Marine Corps infantrist, promoter of open source intelligence (OSINT), author, Robert David Steele on Zionism, the Middle East and Central Banks, presented
  by PanOrient News TV, host YouTube film, minutes 27:17 and 5:12, 28:47 minutes duration, posted 7. April 2018

Systemic demonizing of the disruptor Donald Trump

• For sure, the power elite closed ranks and did everything possible to ensure a victory for [Hillary] Clinton. This included not only the Democratic party (which previously played dirty pool against Bernie Sanders), but the entire mainstream media machine, the financial community, the EU, and even the Republican party itself. If nothing else, I had concluded that the media alone had done a sufficient job of demonizing Trump – multiple negative headlines daily for more than a year – to make him unelectable to the American people.
  For more than a year, we have been told that Trump is a racist, sexist, xenophobe, liar, cheat, and narcissist. The attack bears all the marks of a coordinated effort among the major news outlets: CNN, NYT, WaPo, HuffPo, USA Today, and the rest. It reminded me very much of the concerted media attack against Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff which culminated earlier in 2016 in her impeachment and removal from power. In the case of Rousseff, we see what has been alternately described as a soft coup or a Wall Street coup, rather along the lines of the"color revolutions" of a few years earlier (which are now largely understood as |CIA-NGO orchestrated)⁷. In both cases, pretexts were created and hammered home by an insistent media that whipped up public opinion. In Brazil, it worked. It seemed like it would work in the U.S.
  It is important to understand why Trump was demonized. To be sure, his character makes it easy. There is no shortage of narcissistic, sexist, or otherwise offensive statements in his repertoire from which to draw. But I have never and will never believe this is why he was demonized. Ultimately, Trump is a disruptor, and his disruption falls squarely against the two key pillars of the American ruling elite's ideology: neoliberalism and neoconservatism. Removed blog article by Richard M. Dolan (*1962) US American historian, ufologist, television personality, The Disclosure Movement and Donald Trump, presented by Richard Dolan Press, 10. November 2016

Fascist Trump unleashed the dark side of America.

• [Donald] Trump is a fascist and he is running for president of this nation. A genuine fascist whose political platform is nothing more than his own bigotry and fears exposed to the public. He has tapped into the darkest side of America, that underbelly of America from which has come white supremacy and the distorted creed that the American Dream is all about money and worse, that given the roots of its racist history, it is entitled to be a nation dominated by White people. He has managed to unleash that dark side of the polarity that stands in opposition to all that is truly good and positive about the founding vision of this nation – that there could be, with great effort and toil, a nation were the rights of the human spirit were protected first and foremost by the governing body of the nation. Caroline Myss Myss.com (*1952) US American spiritual teacher, mystic, medical intuitive, bestselling author, Facebook comment, 10. December 2015

Trump's childhood trauma in a traumatic society

• There is a man (Donald Trump) who said, not verbatim, 'The world is a horrible place', and he is the president of the United States right now. And what created that world in his mind? The childhood trauma that he endured – in a family where the father was a rageoholic autocrat who demeaned his children, and a mother who couldn't protect him, and his brother who died of alcoholic disease. This man has to aggrandize himself and be very powerful and have a big penis – and everything to compensate for his actual smallness, which is what his core belief is and for which he is trying every moment of his desperate life to compensate. It's the nature of a traumatic society that such a man becomes our leader. Video presentation by Gabor Maté, M.D. drgabormate.com (*1944) Hungarian-Canadian physician, addiction expert, speaker, author, From Jungle To "Civilization" – How Plant Medicines Can Promote Health In a Toxic Culture, sponsored by 2017 Psychedelic Science Conference, Oakland, California, 19.-24. April 2017, YouTube film, minute 36:18, 1:00:38 duration, posted 26. April 2017

Trump is Obama's legacy. Trump's dysfunction reveals the soulsick system – unforgivably so.

• Any system is designed in such a way as to make change impossible but that's just the nature of any organization any system. Who forms the apex of the hierarchy in our society? It's largely traumatized people. If you believe you live in a "horrible world", how are you gonna be? You have to be aggressive, grandiose, paranoid, selfish. In other words you be the president of the United States. […] A traumatized society rewards traumatized people with power.
  People talk about Trump is destroying Obama's legacy. Not so. Trump is Obama's legacy. Obama's biggest sin was to have enrolled a lot of people on the possibility of transformation and change without delivering any of it. He was responsible for one of the greatest transfers of wealth upwards in history. […]
  When you look at American politics or economics Obama was as ready as anybody to kill people abroad. He was as ready as anybody to send troops overseas. It's no different than American history has always been. He was smoother about it, he was more urban about it, he was more articulate about it. He also knew how to speak to people's better sides. Along comes a Trump. He's egregious, he's a highly traumatized, utterly self-unrestrained troubled schoolyard bully. And so it's offensive to the sensitivity, the sensibilities of the liberal establishment that somebody like Trump represents them. When it comes to genuine policy there's no difference between these people. It's just that the system wants people who can make it more palatable, and Trump makes it very unpalatable. And so Trump has woken us up, but unfortunately a lot of the liberal outrage has been at Trump personally, rather than at the policies, and rather than at the system that he represents no worse and no better. In fact, he represents it more worse. Even a Bush or a Clinton or an Obama certainly can be much more effective in representing the system than Trump is. Trump's sin is not in what he does, Trump's sin is in his personal egregious in-your-face dysfunction. Trump reveals … and that's why they can't forgive him. Video interview with Gabor Maté, M.D. drgabormate.com (*1944) Hungarian-Canadian physician, addiction expert, speaker, author, Is Trump Acting Out His Childhood Trauma?, excerpted from episode #053, presented by the British podcast "Under The Skin", host Russell Brand (*1975) English comedian, actor, activist, radio host, author, YouTube film, minute 5:10, 00:50, 4:05, 4:33, 6:03, 6:52, 9:36 minutes duration, aired 10. October 2018, posted 13. November 2018

Trump mirrors a deeply dysfunctional society.

• I believe Trump is Obama's legacy. Barack Obama raised a lot of optimistic and idealistic hopes in a lot of Americans. For either systemic or personal reasons or a combination of both, he was not able to deliver on them or admit that he was unable to deliver on them. The resulting disillusionment caused by such a profound letdown had a whole lot to do with Trump's election. What we are looking at is a systemic reaction and not just the individual quirks of a somewhat bizarre personality.
  What's not talked about is what is behind Trump's obvious pathology. This pathology includes grandiosity, which he's clearly got; ADHD, which he's clearly got; and narcissistic personality disorder, which cannot be diagnosed without a first-hand evaluation, but he does seem to have as well. However, what I have not seen discussed publicly is that underlying these categories of psychiatric diagnosis is actually trauma. Trump is an example of a traumatized child who refuses help. [...] Trump very famously once said that the world is a horrible place; that's the perspective of a child that experienced horror and trauma while growing up.
  I do believe it's a danger to focus too much attention on the personality of Trump. He is an egregiously troubled and troubling individual. He is addicted to tweeting, power, grandiosity, the demeaning of women, and many other negative characteristics that seem to appeal directly to the worst instincts of other people. In terms of the system, he's nobody by himself. He was elected. He was a successful person according to the definition of success by our society. He represents that society. He's not just an individual that is particularly dysfunctional who accidentally became the president of the United States. Rather, he represents deep dysfunctions that reflect the society as a whole. If you remove the personality from the picture, his policies are not that surprising or beyond the norm.
  In regards to the defining wealth and power as the ultimate markers of success that deserve favor and recognition as opposed to compassion, humanity, and connection with other people, Trump didn't invent any of that. He's a product of that belief system. As a result, Trump's election is the manifestation of something that's been happening for quite a long time. Interview with Gabor Maté, M.D. drgabormate.com (*1944) Hungarian-Canadian physician, addiction expert, speaker, author, Dr. Gabor Maté on the Trauma Underlying the Stigma of Addiction: An Interview, presented by the publication The Fix, John Lavitt,
  12. December 2017

Trump is right to get along with Russia.

• Trump's right about better relations with Russia – the fate of the world depends on it, Russia did nothing of note, Russian hacking is extremely marginal, Israel is the real meddler, US democracy no longer exists, the billionaire corporatocracy runs America. Noam Chomsky (*1928) US American professor emeritus of linguistics, philosopher, cognitive scientist, social activist, author, summarized in: Article Liberal Hero Chomsky Admits "Israeli Intervention In US Elections Overwhelms Anything Russia Has Done", presented by the English-language financial blog Zero Hedge, Tyler Durden, 3. August 2018

Trickster set-up: Kissing the frog to have it turn into a prince.

• I was just distraught when Trump was elected. […] Watching his first year of presidency unfold, what we had going was a trickster set-up. You have to kiss the frog, you have to. It turns into a prince, but you don't know that before you kiss it. […] We had to elect him because he is the trigger for the change in consciousness that had to happen in order to bring about the acceptance of personal responsibility and the maturing spiritually beyond the idea of nations. […] We have gotten to this place where we have to honor one another's convictions and beliefs without going to war. That just doesn't work. That move toward personal responsibility is a step beyond democracy. We have to keep all the principles of democracy and move to personal respoonsibility. Audio interview with Penny Kelly, US American engineer, kundalini awakened psychic, science translator, teacher, lecturer, spiritual consultant, naturopathic physician, author, World Update from Penny Kelly, part 1, presented by the podcast World of Empowerment, Honest-to-God series, hosts Aingeal and Ahonu Rose, San Diego, YouTube film, minute 10:10, 35:30 minutes duration, posted 15. December 2018

Trump's trickster archetype and his stars grant him to withstand constant vilifying.

• Donald Trump […] embodies the Trickster archetype. He has Sun conjunct Uranus conjunct North Node in Gemini in the 10th house (the public house) in his natal chart. It doesn't get any more TRICKSTER than that. He's trolling you all and especially the left – ON PURPOSE – and there is a STRATEGY behind that purpose. He also has Pluto and Mars in the 12th house in Leo, giving him the necessary power/strength to withstand all these massive shadow projections he receives from millions of people. A "regular" person would literally just disintegrate and die under that amount of psychic pressure and psychic attacks by his enemies. There is power on a metaphysical occult level, even psychic abilities, unconscious on his part for the most part (occult simply means hidden in this context, nothing "evil".)
  [Trump] has his own personality defects, like his silly/amusing self-referencing narcissism; but certainly, it is not a full-blown disorder, let alone is he a sociopath/psychopath like slick "eloquent" and "nice" Obama was with his "mask of sanity" – a real wolf in sheep clothing. Trump does know what he's doing behind closed doors – yet he plays this Gemini trickster role out in the public intentionally so that people "underestimate" him. He has to play "the game" like this because he is surrounded by sharks, like Pharma whore Fauci. The fact that Trump defunded the WHO is a huge step forward. That's why he has to apply The Art of War in ways the vast majority have no clue about. Bernhard Guenther, German
  US American video maker, blogger, essayist, Facebook comment, 25. April 2020

Trump's mission statement

• "My administration will focus on ending the absolutely horrific practice of human trafficking. And I am prepared to bring the full force and weight of our government, whatever we can do, in order to solve this horrific problem." President Donald Trump (*1946) US American business magnate, television personality, politician, 45th US president, public declaration President Donald J. Trump is Working to End Human Trafficking, presented by website trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov, 13. March 2018

Trump ⇔ establishment

• The establishment and their media neighbors wield control over this nation through means that are very well known. Anyone who challenges their control is deemed a sexist, a racist, a xenophobe and morally deformed. They will attack you. They will slander you. They will seek to destroy your career and your family. They will seek to destroy everything about you including your reputation. They will lie, lie, lie, and then again, they will do worse than that. They will do whatever's necessary. Donald Trump, 45. US president, cited in article Partisan Crowds at Trump Rallies Menace and Frighten News Media, presented by the US American daily newspaper The New York Times, Nick Corasantiocti, 15. October 2016

Trump quotes – demonstrating his enneagram type 8 (Aggressive power-seeker)

• "As long as you're going to be thinking anyway, think big." D.T.
• "The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done." D.T.
• "Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war." D.T.
• "A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation." D.T.
• "Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper." D.T.
• "When somebody challenges you, fight back. Be brutal, be tough." D.T.

Personal avowals

• When I was elected President of Ireland, I was determined to show that I brought to it the fact that I was a woman and was going to do it with various skills and I felt that they were enabling, problem solving, being more inclined not so much to want to lead in a kind of a natural way, but rather to lead by discussion and empowerment of others – to lead by example, lead by nurturing.
  Video interview with Mary Robinson (*1944) Irish elder, first female president of Ireland (1990-1997), United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (1997-2002), Global Elder, founder and chair of Realizing Rights, Why Women Make Better Politicians, presented by the US American web portal Big Think, John Cookson, 19. October 2010

• In my early years, I think, as one of the first female, woman prime ministers in a Muslim world and one of the first group of women leaders on the world stage, I was so concerned with trying to appear as tough as a man and as strong as a man, and to judge myself to be a good leader by such decisions. I don't think I would have been as – I think I should have been true to what I was. The people wanted me to be there as a woman leader, somebody who was more nurturing, who could take care of our people, our women, our children, redress their needs, build them hostels and schools and provide them with basic nutrition. I wish I had focused more on that than on the more militaristic notions. All that militarization did not in the end save us at Kargil. It took President Clinton to bring an end to that particular phase. Video conversation with Benazir Bhutto, former Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, A Conversation with Benazir Bhutto, transcript included, presented
  by the Council on Foreign Relations, presider Richard N. Haass, CFR president, New York, New York, United States, minute 56:39,
  58:30 minutes duration, aired 15. August 2007

Concientious appeal

• It is very important to recognize that men in leadership positions can sexually prey on vulnerable girls and women because the people who honor their leadership, also create the space and give them the power to do so! […]
  We are each responsible for the injustices of the men we place on pedestals! And we are each accountable. Blog article Gandhi to Asaram: Who Empowers the Sex Crimes of 'Gurus?'', presented by Genderbytes, Rita Banerji, Indian philosopher, photographer, gender activist, feminist author, 4. September 2013

Shortly before he was assassinated the Indian sage and reformer Mahatma Gandhi gave his last interview in 1948.
A young reporter sent by the Times of India asked him but one question:

Gandhi's response was,

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Leadership ⇔ management – Dignity ⇔ Practical-efficient orientation