I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that one cannot have a chicken in one’s pot every Sunday. Kindness out off until tomorrow may become only a bitter regret. Hegemony is the power or dominance that one social group holds over others. This can refer to the “asymmetrical interdependence” of political-economic-cultural relations between and among nation-states or differences between and among social classes within a nation. However, hegemony is ore than social power itself; it is a method for gaining and maintaining power. Historically, economic position is the strongest predictor of social differences. However, technological developments in the twenty-first century also have made the manner of social domination much more complex than before. Social class differences in today’s World are not determined solely or directly by economic factors. Ideological influence is crucial now n the exercise of social power. Society’s super structure, its ideology-producing institutions, in struggles over meaning and power have created a shift in critical theory and has this made away from a preoccupation with capitalist society’s base (its economic foundation) and towards its dominant dispensaries of ideas. Attention has been given to the structuring of authority and dependence in symbolic environments that correspond to, but are not the same as, economically determined class-based structures and process of industrial production. #RandolphHarris 1 of 20

Such a theoretical turn seems a natural and necessary development in an era when a communication technology is such a pervasive and potent ideological medium. Hegemony is used by the mass media as tools that ruling elites use to perpetuate their power, wealth and status [by popularizing] their own philosophy, culture and morality. The mass media uniquely introduce elements into individual consciousness that would not otherwise appears there, but will not be rejected by consciousness because they are so commonly shared in the cultural community. Owners and managers of media industries can produce and reproduce the content, inflections, and tones of ideas favourable to them far more easily than other social groups because they manage key socializing institutions, thereby guaranteeing that their points of view are constantly and attractively cast into public arena. Mass-mediated ideologies are corroborated and strengthened by an interlocking system of efficacious information-distributing agencies and taken-for-granted social practices that permeate every aspect social and cultural reality. The person who lets oneself be warmed by Sunshine will be able to radiate some of its effect to others. However, they ought not to claim in consequence that one is the Sun! One is not the originator of those effects but only their mediator.  #RandolphHarris 2 of 20

Messages supportive of the status quo emanating from schools, businesses, political organizations, trade unions, religious groups, the military, and the mass media all dovetail together ideologically. This inter-articulating, mutually reinforcing process of ideological influence in the essence of influence in the essence of hegemony. Society’s most entrenched and powerful institutions—which all depend in one way or another on the same sources for economic support—fundamentally agree with each other ideologically. Hegemony is a not direct stimulation of thought or action, but, is a framing [of] all competing definitions of reality within [the dominant class’s] range, bringing all alternatives within their horizons of thought. [The dominant class] sets the limits—mental and structural—within which subordinate classes live and make sense of their subordination in such a way as to sustain the dominance of those ruling over them. Similarly, the most potent effect of mass media is how they subtly influence their audiences to perceive social roles and routine personal activities. However, the ocean does not rise any higher when streams flow into it, so the true master does not swell with pride when many disciples attach themselves to one. One takes it as a matter of natural course; for one knows that they come to seek out the true Light, not merely one’s body. #RandolphHarris 3 of 20

Humility will not let a person teach others until one knows oneself what one tries to teach them. The controlling economic forces in society use the mass media to provide a rhetoric [through] which these [concepts] are labeled, evaluated, and explained. Television commercials, for example, encourage audiences to think of themselves as markets rather than as a public, as consumers rather than citizens. I trust I have made it clear that over the years I have moved a long way from some of the beliefs with which I started: that humans were essentially evil; that professionally they were best treated as objects; that help was based on expertise; that the expert could advise, manipulate, and mold the individual to produce the desired result. Let me, in contrast, try to summarize the learnings in which I currently believe and by which I would like to live. As I have indicated, I frequently fail to profit by these learnings, failing many times in small ways and occasionally in enormous blunders. I will list the learnings, not in order in which they occurred in me but in what appears to be a more natural order. I have come to prize each emerging facet of my experience, of myself. I would like to treasure the feelings of anger and tenderness and shame and hurt and love and anxiety and giving and fear—all the beneficial and negative reactions that crop up. #RandolphHarris 4 of 20

Patiently and perseveringly, the true teacher established in oneself awareness of the truth before offering to lead it into others. I would like to treasure the idea that emerge—foolish, creative, bizarre, sound, trivial—all part of me. I like the behavioural impulses—appropriate, crazy, achievement-oriented, those that deal with pleasures of the flesh, and aggressiveness. I want to accept all of these feelings, ideas, and impulses as an enriching part of me. I do not expect to act on all of them, but when I accept all of them, I can be more real; my behaviour, therefore, will be much more appropriate to the immediate situation. One who is to act as a guide to others should oneself have reached the goal toward which one proposes to lead them. If the faith of such a person stimulates those who receive one’s message, they in turn stimulate one’s own. If they feel inspired by the contact with it, one feels awed and humbled by its power over them. Only that person who has overcome the lower nature oneself can help others to overcome it in their turn. The capacity to receive truth is one thing; the power to communicate it to other people is another. Moreover, only one who has oneself lived near to our own experiences of the quest, our own falls and slips and tumbles, who oneself remembers how one struggled step by step along it to reach one’s present height, can best help those one has left far behind one. #RandolphHarris 5 of 20

On the basis of my experience I have found that if I can help bring about a climate marked by genuineness, prizing, and understanding, then exciting things happen. Persons and groups in such a climate move away from rigidity and toward flexibility, away from static living toward process living, away from dependence toward autonomy, away from defensiveness toward self-acceptance, away from being predictable toward an unpredictable creativity. They exhibit living proof of an actualizing tendency. Only one who has securely established one’s own realization can safely guide to others to theirs. Automatic progress on the quest can be guaranteed by nobody. Like all human enterprises it is subject to ups and downs. One who is unhappy in oneself, or whose home is discordant and unhappy, can show the way to happiness only out of intellect, not out of experience. If one’s counsel is to be effective enough to help others, it must spring from a mind which has faced and resolved the same problems within itself. However, it need not necessarily have done so in external conduct. It may have done so in imagination or in intellect only. The quality of the mind will measure the value of such a course. However, hegemony does not mature strictly from ideological articulation. #RandolphHarris 6 of 20

Dominant ideological streams must be subsequently reproduced in the activities of our most basic social units—families, workplace, networks, and friendship group in the many sties and undertakings of everyday life. Hegemony connects ideological representations to culture. Hegemony requires that ideological assertions become self-evident cultural assumptions. Its effectiveness depends on subordinated peoples accepting he dominant ideology as normal reality or common sense…in active forms of experience and consciousness. Because information and entertainment technology is so thoroughly integrated into the everyday realities of modern societies, mass media’s social influence is not always recognized, discussed, or criticized, particularly in societies where the overall standard of living is relatively high. Hegemony, therefore, can easily go undetected. Hegemony implies a willing agreement by people to be governed by principles, rules, and laws they believe operate in their best interests, even though in actual practice they may not. Social consent can be a more effective means of control than coercion or force. The idea of hegemony, in its wide sense, is especially important in societies [where] electoral politics and public opinion are significant factors, and in which social practice is seen to depend on consent to certain dominant ideas which in fact express the needs of a dominant class. #RandolphHarris 7 of 20

Thus, one class exercises hegemony to the extent that the dominating class has interest which the subaltern classes recognize as being in some degree their interests too. Still, the true teacher assists one’s disciples to find their own spiritual feet so that they can walk increasingly without leaning on one or anyone else. It is the duty of an honest disinterested spiritual guide to point out to one’s followers that their dependence on one is a weakness to be overcome, but a virtue to be cultivated. The false teacher, seeking to profit in some way by the situation, makes them utterly dependent on one. The true teacher seeks to bring one’s disciples to learn how to guide themselves. So one patiently explains and willingly discusses one’s own counsel where the false teacher leaves it wrapped in obscurity and involvement. The true guide directs them continually toward that place where in the end they must realize the truth—within themselves—for there is its only source. One is a proper guide who gives each disciple a chance to develop according to one’s own individuality and does not try to make one a copy of the guide. However, such a tutor is rare, and would not even call anyone “my disciple.” Just as the ego-led teachers seek publicity so the egoless teachers seek anonymity. #RandolphHarris 8 of 20

When I am exposed to a growth-promoting climate, I am able to develop a deep trust in myself, in individuals, and in entire groups. I love to create such an environment, in which persons, groups, and even plants can grow. I have learned that in any significant or continuing relationship, persistent feelings had best be expressed. If they are expressed as feelings, owned by me, the result may be temporarily upsetting but ultimately far more rewarding than any attempt to deny or conceal them. I have found that for me interpersonal relationships best exist as a rhythm: openness and expression, and hen assimilation; flow and change, then a temporary quiet; risk and anxiety, then temporary security. I could not live in a continuous encounter group. A true teacher will practise the utmost self-abnegation and will seek and work for the day when one’s influence or interference are brought down to nothing. The ordinary kind of guru points to oneself, one’s necessity and importance; but the rare kind points away from oneself, o the seeker’s own higher self, its reality and availability. It is only the half-baked, half-finished masters who have this craving for power over others, whose little egos need a following of adorning disciples. #RandolphHarris 9 of 20

The fully developed ones—and they are quite rare—remain unaffected but not indifferent. For they recognize in each person who comes to them a heeding of the inner call, a response to the pulling power of their own divine Source. One desires not to win disciples but to lose them! One wants them to seek and follow not mortal humans but the light that burns serenely within their own hearts. For me, being transparently open is far more rewarding than being defensive. This is difficult to achieve, even partially, but enormously enriching to a relationship. It is necessary for me to stay close to the Earthiness of real experience. I cannot live my life in abstractions. So real relationships with persons, hands dirtied in the soil, observing the budding of a flower, or viewing the Sunset, are necessary to my life. At least one foot must be in the soil of reality. I like my life best when it faces outward most of the time. I prize the times when I am inward-looking—searching to know myself, meditating, and thinking. However, this must be balanced by doing things—interacting with people, producing something, whether a flower or a book or a piece of carpentry. I have a deep belief, which can only be a hypothesis, that the philosophy of interpersonal relationships which I have helped to formulate, and which is contained in this paper, is applicable to all situations involving persons. #RandolphHarris 10 of 20

I believe it is applicable to therapy, to marriage, to parent and child, to teacher and student, to persons with high status and those with low status, to persons of one race to person relating to persons of another to promise nothing as a gift but emphasize how necessary it is to apply the teachings to their personal lives honestly and continuously. If the true master imposes no obligations towards oneself on those one helps and demands no rewards from them, this is because one wishes to retain one’s freedom, one’s independence, one’s detachment as much as it is because one gives out of compassion and goodness. The person wo can sometimes make other people aware—however momentarily—of their divinity is a true master. The guide will not only point out the way to spiritual maturity but also will encourage the pupil to follow it. One seeks no other recompense than your loyalty, no better payment that your faith, no superior satisfaction than your own spiritual progress. I am even brash enough to believe that it could be effective in situation now dominated by the exercise of raw power—in politics, for example, especially in our dealings with other nations. I challenge, with all the strength I possess, the current American belief, evident in every phase of our foreign policy, and especially in our insane wars, that might make right. #RandolphHarris 11 of 20

That, in my estimation, is the road to self-destruction. One who imposes oneself has the small, manifest might; one who does not impose oneself has the great, secret might. The mark of real depth is the road of simplicity. If you should say, “This is too profound for me; I cannot grasp it,” you are self-deceptive. For you ought to know that nothing of real importance is too profound for anyone. It is not because it is too profound, but rather because it is too uncomfortable, that you shy away from the truth. Let us not confuse the sophisticated things with the deep things of life. The sophisticated things do not concern us ultimately and it does not matter whether we understand them or not. However, the deep things must concern us always, because it matters infinitely whether we are grasped by them or not. There is a more serious fact about the road to the depth which can be used as an excuse by those who wish to avoid it. The depth in religious language is often used to express the dwelling place of the evil forces, of the daemonic powers, of death and hell. Is not the road into the depth a road into the realm which is controlled by these forces? Are there not the elements of destructiveness and morbidity in the longing for depth? When an American friend of mine expressed to a group of German refugees his admiration of the German depth, we asked ourselves whether we could accept that praise. #RandolphHarris 12 of 20

Was not that depth the soil out of which the most daemonic forces of modern history sprang? Was not that depth a morbid and destructive depth? Let me answer these questions by telling you and old and beautiful myth: when the soul leaves the body, it must pass over many spheres were daemonic forces rule; and only the soul that knows the right and powerful word can continue its way to the ultimate depth of the Divine Ground. No soul can avoid these tests. If we consider the battles of the saints of all times, of the prophets and the reformers, and of the great creators in all realms, we can recognize the truth of that myth. Everyone has to face the deep things of life. That there is danger is no excuse. The danger must be conquered by knowledge of this liberating word. The German people and many people in all nations did not know the word, and therefore, missing the ultimate and saving depth, were caught by the evil forces of the depth. There is no excuse which permits us to avoid the depth of truth, the only way to which lies through the depth of suffering. Whether the suffering comes from outside and we take it upon ourselves as the road to the depth, or whether it can be chosen voluntarily as the only way to deep things; whether it be the way of humility, or the way of the revolution; whether the Cross be internal, or whether it be external, the road runs contrary to the way we formerly lived and thought. #RandolphHarris 13 of 20

That is why Isaiah praises Israel, the Servant of God, in the depths of its suffering; and why Jesus calls those blessed who are in the depth of sorrow and persecution, of hunger and thirst in both body and spirit; and why He demands the loss of our lives for the sake of our lives. That is why two great revolutionaries, Thomas Muenzer of the sixteenth century and Karl Marx of the nineteenth century, speak in similar terms of the vocation of those who stand at the limit of humanity—in the depths of emptiness, as Muenzer calls it; in the depth of inhumanity, as Marx calls it—those of the proletariat to whom they pointed as the bearers of saving future. And as it is in our lives, so it is in our thought; every element seems to be reversed. Religion and Christianity have often been accused of an irrational and paradoxical character. Certainly much stupidity, superstition and fanaticism have been connected with them. The command to sacrifice one’s intellect is more demonic than divine. For  if humans cease to be an intellect, humans cease to be human. However, the depth of sacrifice, of suffering, and the Cross is demanded of our thinking. Every step into the depth of thought is a breaking away from the surface of former thoughts. When this breaking away occurred in men like Paul, Augustine and Luther, such extreme suffering was involved that it was experienced as death and hell. #RandolphHarris 14 of 20

However, they accepted such suffering as the road to the deep things of God, as the spiritual way, as the way to truth. They expressed the truth they envisioned in spiritual words—that is, in words which were contrary to all surface reasoning, but harmonious with the depth of reason, which is divine. The paradoxical language of religion reveals the way to the truth as a way to the depth, and therefore as a way of suffering and sacrifice. One alone who is willing to go that way is able to understand the paradoxes of religion. The last thing I was to say about the way to the depth concerns one of these paradoxes. The end of the way is joy. And joy is deeper than suffering. It is ultimate. Let me express this in the words of a person, who, in passionate striving for the depth, was caught by destructive forces and did not know the word to conquer them. Friedrich Nietzsche writes: “The World is deep, and deeper than the day could read. Deep is its woe. Joy deeper still than grief can be. Woe says: Hence, go! But joy wants all eternity, want deep, profound eternity.” Eternal joys is the end of the ways of God. This is the message of all religions. The Kingdom of God is peace and joy. This is the message of Christianity. However, eternal joy s not to be reached by living on the surface. It is rather attained by breaking through the surface, by penetrating the deep things of ourselves, of our World and God. #RandolphHarris 15 of 20

The moment in which we reach the last depth of our lives is the moment in which we can experience the joy that has eternity within it, the hope that cannot be destroyed, and the truth on which life and death are built. For in the depth is truth; and in the depth is hope; and in the depth is joy. Jacob continues reading from Isaiah: In the last days, the Lord will comfort Zion and gather Israel—the redeemed will come to Zion and great joy—compare Isaiah 51 and 52:1-2. About 559-545 Before Christ. “Hearken unto me, ye that follow after righteousness. Look unto the rock from whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit from whence ye are digged. Look unto Abraham, your father, and unto Sarah, she that bare you; for I called him alone, and blessed him. For the Lord shall comfort Zion, he will comfort all her waste places, and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord. Joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving and the voice of melody. Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation; for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a light for the people. My righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth, and mine arm shall judge the people. The isles shall wait upon me, and on mine arm shall they trust. Lift up your eyes to the Heavens, and look upon the Earth beneath; for the Heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the Earth shall wax old like a garment; and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner. #RandolphHarris 16 of 20

“However, my salvation shall be forever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished. Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart I have written my law, fear ye not the reproach of people, neither be ye afraid of their revilings. For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool. However, my righteousness shall be forever, and my salvation from generation to generation. Awake, awake! Put on strength, O arm of the Lord; awake as in the ancient days. Art thou not one that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon? Art thou not he who hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over? Therefore, the redeemed of the Lord shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy and holiness shall be upon their heads; and they shall obtain gladness and joy; sorrow and mouring shall flee away. I am he; yea, I am he that comforteth you. Behold, who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of man, who shall die, and of the son of man, who shall be made like unto grass? And forgettest the Lord thy maker, that hath stretched forth the Heavens, and laid the foundations of the Earth, and hast feared continually every day, because of the furry of the oppressor, as if one were ready to destroy? And where is the fury of the oppressor? #RandolphHarris 17 of 20

“The captive exile hasteneth, that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the spit, nor that his bread should fail. However, I am the Lord thy God, whose waves roared; the Lord of Hosts in my name. And I have put my words in thy mouth, and have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the Heavens and lay the foundations of the Earth, and say unto Zion: Behold, thou art my people. Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the Lord he cup of his fury—thou has drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling wrung out—and none to guide her among all the sons she hath brought forth; neither that taketh her by the hand, of al the sons she hath brought up. These two sons are come unto thee, who shall be sorry for thee—they desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword—and by whom shall I comfort thee? Thy sons have fainted, save these two; they lie at the head of all the streets; as a wild bull in a net, they are full of the fury of the Lord, the rebuke of God. Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, and not with wine: Thus saith thy Lord, the Lord and thy God pleadeth the cause of his people; behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again. #RandolphHarris 18 of 20

“However, I will put it into the hands of them that afflict thee; who have said to thy soul: Bow down, that we may go over—and thou hast laid thy body as the ground and as the street to them that went over. Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city; for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean. Shake thyself from the dust; arise, sit down, O Jerusalem; loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion,” 2 Nephi 8.1.25. My Father, if Thy mercy had bounds, where would be my refuge from just wrath? However, Thy love in Christ is without measure. Thus, I present myself to Thee with sins of commission and omission, against Thee, my Father, against Thee, adorable redeemer, against Thee and Thy strivings, O Holy Spirit, against the dictates of my conscience, against the precepts of Thy word, against my neighbours and myself. Enter not into judgment with me, for I plead no righteousness of my own, and have no clock of iniquity. Pardon my day dark with evil. This is night I renew my patience. Every morning I vow to love Thee more fervently, to serve Thee more sincerely, to be more devoted in my life, to be wholly thine; yet I soon stumble, backslide, and have to confess my weakness, misery and sin. #RandolphHarris 19 of 20

However, I bless Thee that the finished work of Jesus needs no addiction from my doings, that His oblation is sufficient satisfaction for my sins. If future days be mine, help me to amend my life, to hate and abhor evil, to flee the sins I confess. Make me more resolute, more watchful, more prayerful. Let no evil fruit spring from evil seeds my hands have sown; let no neighbour be hardened in vanity and folly by my want of circumspection. If this day I have been ashamed of Christ and his word, or have shown unkindness, malice, envy, lack of love, unadvised speech, hasty temper, let it be no stumbling black to others, or dishonor to Thy name. O help me to set an upright example that will ever rebuke vice, allure to goodness, and evidence that lovely are the ways of Christ. Sovereign Lord, our God, Almight, Who willest that all people should be saved, and come to a knowledge of the truth; Who desirest not the death of a sinner, but rather that one should be converted and live; we pray and beseech Thee, loose the soul of this Thy servant from every bound, and free it from every cruse. For Thou art He that loosest the fettered, and raisest up the crushed, O Thou Hope of the hopeless! Command, therefore, O Lord, that the soul of Thy servant be released in peace, and go to rest in Thine eternal tabernacles with all Thy Saints, through Thine Only-begotten Son; with Whom, and with Thy Holy and life-giving Spirit, Thou art blessed now and ever, and unto ages of ages. #RandolphHarris 20 of 20

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