If MAGA isn’t a cult, then what is it? D.
(Attached to the question was a meme speaking to the sale of Trump’s Bibles.)

No, it’s not a cult, but with all the anger towards the Republican party, these voters, and Donald Trump, as well as the general misunderstanding of why MAGA adherents act as they do, it became easy to say and think so. There’s a lot of misunderstanding going in all directions.

The short answer is as I’ve written already – We believe what we want to believe, because of all the reasons we want to, including both conscious and unconscious reasons and agendas. Our beliefs have very little to do with TRUTH. We don’t believe what we don’t want to for the same reasons.

(Of this topic, humans are not simple minded by any means, and there are no simple explanations about why humans decide particular choices. Therefore, I will give a deeper explanation than most humans think about.)

First, we live in a world where human beings are supremely complex beings. Humans have many multiple layers within our consciousnesses, including many layers of unconscious and subconscious memories and mental/emotional patterns. This point cannot be avoided when asking “WHAT and WHY?”

The reasons why MAGA members choose as they do, is as complex as to why non-MAGA members choose what they do…. including…

Many souls have a personally-unremembered soul history that is beyond conscious understanding in human terms. We think of human life as a single lifetime – with nothing else ever being true. But, many of us think way beyond this one life, and even go way beyond human existence. All of our varied and UNIMAGINABLE/unremembered histories have a strong influence on how and why we make decisions during our human life.

And yet, with freewill, we can change our minds at any time.

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Second, our past lives and our past associations with different people, AS WELL AS, our past life motivations – all are extremely influential in our choosing how we live life now. This is true even though most people are completely unconscious to what these are, and we usually only get small hints to these in our life – yet still not understanding these hints – unless we undertake studying our past lives, and pre-human life.

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I’ve already written much about the nature of “Beliefs” – that we formulate beliefs based on everything that we’ve ever experienced, lived, thought, felt, desired, learned, etc. We are the sum total of all of our past lives and past living, including both living in physical bodies and time living not in physical bodies. Our beliefs are as incomplete as we are, if we were to compare our consciousness to God, the Infinite Consciousness.

So, what MAGA is, is the exercise of freewill of a diverse collection of people who disagree with other diverse collections of people–of people who value different things that others value –of people who have different ideas of how to live life different than others. Trump’s sincerity is not the issue. The issue includes one’s willingness and capacity to look beyond a leader’s or “one who is looked up to“s faults, as well as the willingness to act unconsciously – making decisions without understanding ourselves, and all these choices made with conscious, unconscious and subconscious motivators. It is a “surface” way of life, rather than a deeper way of life.

This is why it is good to learn that God alone knows what is in a person’s heart (and consciousness). Many of us see “blind following”, and some of it may be, but God sees much, much more – something very different, and with a lot deeper motivations. A truer answer to the question includes all of these.

I think the meme is about hypocrisy and delusion. D.

[If anyone has seen it, the reference is to the meme beginning, “If you are buying a Bible from a guy who had …]

Even with that, none of us know another person more than God knows them. We can only know our self. The meme also demonstrates judgment and condemnation of others who act or think differently. None of us can know the hearts of others completely and thoroughly, not even a psychic.

These meme concepts may feel satisfactory momentarily, but we think and feel them inside ourselves, and these are also what we are called to let go of, and change within ourselves. Who among us are without sin? Who among us are saying the other person needs to remove the splinter in their eye when we haven’t yet removed the plank in our own?

Who among us has been part of any group in which someone else objected to or hated?

The true followers of Christ are not judging, criticizing, ridiculing or condemning others, but rather letting them have room in the Universe to find their own ways, in the same way we find our own ways and have found our ways to God. Hypocrisy is in all of us to some extent. Delusion is in all of us to some extent. Trump is in the public eye every single day and so his hypocrisy and delusion is easily visible. We have the luxury of not having our hypocrisy and delusion being in the public eye.

This is a working exercise – for 1 day only – to let go of judging others – even those others who may be misled. Do this exercise for 1 day. If you have trouble fulfilling it, then say a prayer asking God to be a part of your effort.

Our prayers are needed and our inner work is needed in these kinds of exercises – when we remember to do them, instead of when we’re enjoying ridiculing, insulting, belittling, disrespecting and killing others. Kindness is a better choice, when we remember.

When you look at Trump, what do you see? I know you see another soul in its development, but what do you see as his motivations? Does he really believe what he says? Or is it just using demagoguery to tap a market? D.

First, remember, and this is very important. When we work to size up another human being’s faults and character, are we doing so in order to learn about ourselves? Or are we doing so, in order to judge, condemn and feel superior to them. It is always the case that what we see in others, is also in ourselves. So, it does indeed behoove us, to work on ourselves, first. This is always the case. Our judgement and criticism of others never serves any healing path. We use judgment and criticism of others to try to make our self feel better about the human being that we have chosen to become.

As we heal/change/transform our self, unique things happen. Our energy and vibration increases, and our prayers and meditations become stronger. Our prayers and meditations then, in turn, become stronger to help the person in front of us, who we are assessing. Our prayers and meditations are able to help bring the Presence of God into the relationship or the person’s environment, thus being more available for the other human being (and our self) to draw upon that Spirit as they choose in their/our life.

The work at letting go of judging others, is for all of us humans. It is the original sin – eating of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. We walk the razors edge of not judging good and evil, and we all fall off that edge quite often. As long as we get back up trying to walk that razor’s edge, we then are continuing to keep on keeping on- on our spiritual journey.

All souls are on a spiritual journey, because all souls are part of the Infinite Consciousness of God. Yet, all souls have misled, and are misled at some point, and so we try again each day, and each day pray for all souls and all life, because we all are seeking Truth. This is helped by our prayer, “Lord, teach us the Truth!”

The best of us humans still must deal with our own hypocrisy and blindness, and the worst of us are still worthy of love, kindness, patience, understanding and prayers. If any one of us could see into the very deepest aspect of another person’s soul, besides the victories, we would also see the deepest pain, the greatest suffering and continuous daily struggle deep within themselves, which they go through, and have been through in their soul journey through the Earth.

As one might guess – if we could, at our current stage of our evolution and growth – see these very same things within our self, we could easily be overwhelmed with the sadness, sorrow, grief and suffering which we experience, too, but keep just below our own level of consciousness. This sorrow, sadness and suffering – much of it comes from our unconscious belief and thoughts that we’ve lost our connection to the Infinite Spirit of Loving Kindness, Compassion, Understanding, Patience, etc, which is the God that we struggle to try to believe in. Every time we choose hatred, separation, impatience, intolerance, judgment, abusiveness, attack thoughts, disrespect, etc of others, we act from a disregard for our forgotten connection to the Infinite Spirit of Oneness with All Life.

Is it any wonder then that we experience despair, fear, and our own brand of insanity, when we believe we have no connection to the very Spirit within us that we are alive by?

So, to answer your question, when we look at Donald Trump, we will see our self. The behaviors, thoughts and feelings he has, are the very same behaviors, thoughts and feelings, all of us have, but in different arenas, different situations, different media coverage and different classrooms of spiritual learning. He believes what he thinks, the same way we believe what we think. He says what he believes, the same way we say what we believe. He is experiencing life situations that many of us have experienced in our past lives or may experience in our future lives. How many of us would like to be indicted on 91 counts of acts we might be guilty of? Would you, the questioner, or the reader? How many of us would like to be Donald Trump and in his life, with EVERYTHING that comes with his life? EVERYTHING!!! (Everything that glitters is not gold.)

How many of us envy the totality of his life, and who he is? Taught what he is taught, treating people as he treats people? If one doesn’t want to become as he is, then pray that we are willing to be open-minded and open-hearted to learning the soul lessons he also is learning, and pray that we don’t need to go the same route that he has taken. And then pray for those who are in the public eye, trying to live their life in front of 8 billion people who are watching… and judging. But, then, doubly pray for those who think they do want to live his exact life – thinking and feeling everything he thinks and feels.

I ask because i remember you looking into Putin and you saw someone who fashioned himself as a Czar (something like that.) D.

Yes, I saw the desire of an old king to continue to think that “if only I had more of xyz, I would be happy and have what I want.” How many of the rest of us humans sometimes feel the same way – “if only I had more xyz, I would be happy”? This is a statement of addiction because there is never an end to “if only I had more” – a statement of never having “Enough”. This is a hunger that is never filled – for eternity.

When I look at Trump, I see a human being with the same challenge of all human beings-with both failures and successes at one’s own challenges. I see a person with feelings and thoughts and patterns of beliefs and behaviors. I see this, because this is the truth – the reality – of every life and every human being. Yes, he has self-aggrandizement, in the same way we do with our lives – not as visible, because most of us no longer seek to build upon our own self-aggrandizement. We’re trying to diminish our egotism. But, we have it within us, and we still have inner work to do.

You ask what I see, and this is it. Nothing about him or his life makes him any better or any worse than any of the rest of us.

We are all equal. He may not know this, but he might learn it at some point in this life, especially if he reads my blog articles. (Maybe.) Otherwise, God will make sure it is a lesson he has a chance to learn in a future time, because God wants Donald to consciously grow to know the Infinite Spirit of Infinite Loving Kindness, Infinite Mercy, Infinite Forgiveness, and Infinite Patience and Understanding, just like God wants us to learn this, too. (So, we practice.)

Psychologically, he struggles with the same mental and emotion factors as every other human being struggles with. He may look different on the outside, but were any one of us in the same place, having lived the same life with the same influences and “teachers” of life, we might easily be demonstrating the same personality and mental state.

All of us who are judging, are also judging ourselves, whether we consciously acknowledge it or not. We are judging our capacity and ability for the same as we judge others. To say we would not do what he does or react and respond how he does, is saying “I’m a better soul than he. I can pat myself on the back, because I’m better than he is.”

You see how this is a two-sided coin? We judge and criticize the person on the other side of the coin, and we can only do that while being the other side of the same coin. When we judge another, we are judging ourselves. And we’ve been judging ourselves for such a long time that it is worth asking, “when will we stop? when will we let go of all this judging, and all this condemning and criticism of others?”

All of us humans have had thousands of years of many, many lifetimes of judging others, condemning others, killing others who don’t meet our standards or fall in line with our own selected aspects of life, because we tell ourselves we are capable in our consciousness of being judge and jury over another (EVERY) soul. Donald Trump thinks this way, too. See? We have something in common.

The serpent said, “partake of this fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and you will become gods.” And so we place ourselves in the position of God being judge and jury over others, telling ourselves we are gods now… but without the infinite wisdom, the infinite insight, the infinite compassion, understanding, kindness, patience, and etc, which the Infinite Consciousness of Love has.

I do the best to not judge. D.

I can relate. When working on ourselves, WE do our best to not judge. Sometimes we let it go and grow. Sometimes, we don’t let it go and stay stuck… until we come back around and try again.

Both Putin and Trump are like you and I, also. Driven by past-lives. I see some of what is driving Putin and Trump, but still, with God’s help, both of them will one day help to lead souls into the Light – also just like ourselves with God’s help, when we help lead souls into the Light.

And ultimately, in the evolution of our spirituality, it doesn’t matter what Putin and Trump do or think or say. Trying to pinpoint what they think, and feel, really is only a single moment in time – like a photo. (A muggle photo which doesn’t move-for those who know what I’m referring to.) Yet, what is the most important? Is it to know what they think in a moment in time, or is it to find ways to help the progress of his and our lives within the continuous journey of time?

Yes, in the physical world, it does matter what Putin and Trump do/think/say, and our call to address this is our prayers and our inner work. We change the world when we change ourselves.

What matters to ourselves is what we, our self, are thinking and feeling, and then what we do on our spiritual path. Again, are we open to learning and growth? Are we praying for those that are in our purview to pray for? To be so, we simply need to be willing to be open to learning and growth, and then put it in action through prayer and meditation. God does all the rest.

This is true, of all of us, and even me, of course. We are human beings and we are spiritual beings. And what we see in others, is what is in ourselves, because there is no real separation between us. Separation is not real. All the greatest spiritual teachers are telling us this – for a reason.

I also look at my past lives and see when I am setting myself up as king. When I realize it, I try to change it. Placing myself above others is not a place in consciousness I want to be, so I have to keep on keeping on with the work of walking the razor’s edge by practicing humility, patience, kindness, and letting go of judging another person. In my beliefs, the inner work I do, could help others in their inner work. In my beliefs, the effort I put in to becoming aware of Infinite Love, could help others to come to know Infinite Love.

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We do the best we can with what we have – the understanding we have, the spiritual and psychological tools we have, the insight we have, the learning we have, the feelings we have, the thoughts we have, and the evolutionary progress we have. We do the best we can with what we have.

Addendum:

At the same time, remember, the majority are not consciously practicing their spiritual paths but they may be practicing their religious paths. This doesn’t mean they are not growing and learning, but it is a slower process with many religion-based diversions. Consciously working at a spiritual path tends to help to make exponential progress and learning. I define spiritual path being an evolving of our paradigm through the dogma of any particular religion-a sort of breaking of the egg shell of our beliefs and growing beyond the religion’s boundaries of understanding. I also hold to that God/Christ is the center of all religions which teach there is one God.

It is also important to remember that part of our inner work is also the working to let go of self-criticism and self-judgment. We can only do this if we let go of the same chains of criticism and judgement we place on others. As we do TO others, so are we doing TO ourselves. As we do FOR others, so are we doing FOR ourselves.

” ‘Let he who is without sin, cast the first stone’ also applies to how we are towards our self.” (The Rainbow Cards, ©, 2008-2024, Jodie Senkyrik)

If we think any of this is impossible to do, we’re correct to think this. For human beings, this is impossible. “But, with God, all things are possible.”

How do we let go of criticizing and judging others??? Practice.

The MAGA culture is more a large example of “birds of a feather, flock together”. This culture unites politically, but not in so many other ways.
The MAGA culture is also born from citizens knowing that governments keep secrets. This is a fact of all organizations, governments and groups. (For example: even today, Coca-Cola does not reveal it’s recipe.)
The MAGA culture is also born from the fact that our beliefs are not necessarily based in the Truth, and the Truth is not born from our beliefs.

Judging another and their character is the best way for us as souls to “magnetize” ourselves to one day having a life when we walk in the shoes/walk the path, demonstrating the same things within ourselves as is in the one we judge. —– God means for us to be open-minded and open-hearted, not closed-minded and closed-hearted. Judging others is a chosen way to close one’s mind and heart. We can learn this lesson the hard way, if we need to.

We don’t save anyone by being judgmental, critical and condemning of them. Many believe we do. Unlearning this belief is part of our soul journey. If it takes 100,000 years of being in the Earth, to accept this lesson and begin practicing it in the Earth, then we will take 100,000 years. We can do it sooner if we choose to, because With God, all things are possible. But, He has given us eternity to learn what we need to learn, if we need eternity.