I Refuse to Play the Fool

[Nagual Menagerie]

The best method to ensure those around you underestimate you is to make a fool out of oneself.  Manipulative people will portray many characters, but there's one character ego will always avoid.  People with ego will not play the fool.  It's too low a standard, they refuse to allow people to laugh at them.  There is too much vulnerability in being laughed at and so there's that one role controlling people avoid.  

Helpful things to ask oneself:
-do I know someone who belittles others for their beliefs?
-do I know someone who tells me what to think?
-do I know someone who tries to make me feel guilty about my choices when they are different than their own?

Now, perspective can become somewhat muddy.  To gain clarity consider this: do you want to be close to someone who has such fixed beliefs that they push others down to support themselves?  Or would you rather be close to someone who appreciates everyone, in their own special way?  Everyone has positives and negatives about their personalities.  Yet, it's easy to be nice to people we agree with; but how do we behave when people disagree with us?

Do we know people who repeat patterns?

There are a few amazing people who use Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) to help others manifest internal peace.  Kris and DokGreen both use EFT.  Wolf, I believe uses EFT too, as he's supported and worked with Dok.  It's nice when a group of friends get together to serve others.

[glance left]

I remember taking a class for a roommate in college, because he couldn't pass and needed it to complete his degree. I thought I was being helpful...and adventurous. Looking back, maybe was a foolish thing to do in terms of interfering. Anyways, in the class I deliberately put on the mask of stupidity, with a goofy southern accent whenever asking questions and participating in the class. It was good practice, but there was this sense of control, however, that made the lesson perhaps less effective.

In comparison, I get to play the fool frequently at the hands of the spirit...during moments when there is no preamble to the experience. Spirit sets it up and springs it on me and thus, I'm caught in a spotlight suddenly, looking foolish. That's the better lesson, I feel. The message there, from infinity, is to become intensely aware during those moments of inadvertently looking foolish...being embarrassed. To maintain coherence without reacting to the best of my ability. To avoid the compulsion to the cover up (this compulsion is almost insatiable, I've found), to spare face. To sit in it, awake and aware.

To me, being willing to play the fool mean giving spirit permission to bring this lessons home, perhaps when totally unprepared...until I am prepared...perennially aware.

[Nagual Menagerie]

Sometimes we never know what is most effective for others; staying out or becoming involved. Even after we choose our path the answer of the "road not taken" isn't always revealed. What do you think might occur if people learned to take on the role of the fool, intentionally, not only when the fool happens to present itself? How about when we intentionally become the fool to prevent others from having to take that role...?

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