Melekh as Psychic Organizer

Melekh as Psychic Organizer We often resist the concept of God being an external Being acting in history like some kind of disembodied melekh. We need to find new understandings of God that feel more true to our neshamot. I beleive that study of the hologram and fractals will prove helpful in generating new metaphors for our relationship with the Ayn Sof. At the same time, we must continue to abstract and find the depths of ancient metaphors, such as that of the melekh. Rather than resist the patriarchal and dominative aspect of this image, perhaps we can find in the melekh a sense of organizer, enlightener, support medium, conflict mediator, and inner negotiator. Without a governing body or central authority, there is no means for communication or accountability within an organization, and overall guidelines for the system (country or corporation or even the self) may be lacking. Disputes between states can erupt in violent longlasting feuds such as is the case in Bosnia, or the countries which used to comprise the old Soviet Union. In the teachings of Psychosynthesis, the lack of a Melekh corresponds in the Psyche to a situation of early spiritual development where the different parts of the personality, called subpersonalities (each constellated together from a distinct group of elements such as drives, desires, needs and energy levels, etc.), are in conflict with each other, and one finds oneself in a state of inner civil war. Different needs strive against each other and different agendas of the self are rewarded or stifled at different times, exhausting one's energy and potentially causing breakdown. Luckily, there is an awareness center, which is not so much a collection of drives or subpersonalities but rather a pure awareness of the self (and ultimately the Higher Self) which can grow stronger and begin to subsume and transform the inner forces and subpersonalities until a person acheives more and more inner peace and clarity of direction. This process is called synthesis and is the end result of a negotiation process passing through stages of Recognition, Acceptance, Co-ordination, Harmonization, and, ultimately, Synthesis. When you tune into melekhyou are saying, I invoke my deep center to transform my inner conflicts.