I just finished binge watching succession and oh man, i am so sad... please comment what you think i should watch next cuz idk how im going to get over this sad feeling...

Suffice it to say that this show was a 5/5 blue love hearts for me. Great pace, believable characters, engaging topics that are relevant in each of our lives on the daily. The themes around patriarchy, the zeus olympian predetermined archetypes playing in the monadic arena, spiritually drowning in the game of power for power sake are all topics i like to explore deeply and this show created a space to do that whilst giving reprieve of the common black and white judgements around such a polarising dilemma we are living inside. Diving deep into the betrayal complex experienced from every angle within the system that is often called patriarchy but does nothing to protect the males within society either. So if you enjoy exploring these fallen monadic dramas enacted by these archetypes over 4 seasons and 10 episodes each then please watch and comment below what spiritual lessons you took from the story and if you agree with my take or not...

SPOILERS

Do not read from this point on if you haven't watched the show yet and you dont want the narrative spoiled.

Ok so you went and watched it all if you hadn't and now we can really chat.. 

I was hooked on the story immediately. The character of Logan Roy is enigmatic, brutish, making his softer moments even more cherishable. He reminded me of my dad but i dont just mean the zeus archetype that yes my dad occupies but i mean the character combined with the actor very much are reminiscent of my dad. His looks, his seriousness, even his comicness and cuteness. I also wasnt the only one that noticed. Not to mention i have tried to work with my dad in a number of different businesses and the themes and complexities were right on. 

The conflict and the victim / victimizer program that logan goes through trying to find a way to connect to his children as a father within the world where power is devoid of love is heart breaking, yet accurate. He cannot find that ground because in his world, it doesnt exist. He is often struggling between his image that he creates for the world, on one hand he is this benevolent family man that is building and providing for his children, he is the ideal masculine according to the patriarchy. So he wants to believe that he would like one of his children to take on his legacy, build upon it. None of this is actually true, and you can see that in his conflict with this image he likes to hide behind, he had children so he had more things he could sacrifice, more energy he could siphon but he cant admit that to himself or others, this deeply frustrates him, except finally in a very important part of the story he does just that, in the scene where he is sending kendall to be sacrificed for his actions of the past, he explicitly speaks about an aztec mayan book he read where when they were faced with destitute they sacrificed their children to the gods, and he tells kendall something along the lines of what animals, i could never do that but then he goes on to say that marcia his wife at the time responded to his disgust by saying, what is there greater you can sacrifice than a child for there is no greater love. In this way he's glorifying his actions saying that kendall is the greatest thing he could ever sacrifice because of how much he loves him. Proving his love, demonstrating his godliness, hiding behind this image of benevolent love with nothing but selfish motivations, a common tactic performed by the false-parent archetype prevalent in all walks of society irrelevant to class. 

This is the conflict of the False king of tyranny archetype. The frustration never ends, because the archetype is a selfish archetype that must present itself as benevolent. This is a deeply spiritual pain that is felt inside every one of us when our selfish negative ego desires cannot be expressed for they do not represent benevolence and are ugly but then our actions must be in alignment to negative forces behind the scenes so that we may progress materially in the resource war set up by negative alien brokers who require we become "killers" and mingle our blood with theirs so that we become more reptillian so that they reward us. This is a deep wound we experience in our masculine and the arc of our personal and inter personal lives are poisoned by its many deeply disturbing inconsistencies. 

I loved the way the curation of art was used in the story, oftentimes we are so enamoured and magnetically bound to our internal experience that we even relish it when its presented to us visually even if it is the very experience of hell itself, as if re-living the hell we are in mentally gives us a masochistic pleasure and familiarity that makes us more comfortable with where we are even if it is pointing towards certain self-destruction. The show presented this quite well, the fact that the signs and hints of our internal choices are always reflected back to us in a very concise, c ear and visual way.

Peter Paul Rubens’ Tiger, Lion, and Leopard Hunt painting was one of these pieces. Clearly outlining the choice to be in the arena of battling for the egos gratifications over the hearts needs.

Another painting that outlines and boils down the nature of the hell state is William-Adolphe Bouguereau’s Dante and Virgil in Hell which clearly shows the parasitic and vampiric nature of what it means to choose this realm of battling for resources and gratification instead of surrendering to gods plan in the shield of knowing you are eternal. Set in the eighth circle of Hell (the circle for falsifiers and counterfeiters) it is the very definition of a hell we talked about before, the patriarchal dilemma. The ego is so arrogant that it likes to be seen as it is but it never can because to get away with energy that is from the source it must masquerade, it must pretend, it must fake its way to the top pretending to be what it is not. The imposter is forever grown more and more frustrated by the very rules it must play to steal from others. This is one of the definitions of the Hell State.

The fascinating underlying and culminating theme is the story of the daughter against the brothers. Who will inherit all of it. The natural law of god is that the daughter will inherit, this is how it is organised in the dna through father-daughter codes. This is the organisational principle of how our bodies are designed. The daughter inherits whats he is born in, whilst men marry into it. It is very interesting to watch the story unfold when in the mental, mind-control narrative of the earth, the one we are told and the one enforced upon us through artificial laws is actually the reversal and the opposite of this fact.

You watch Shiv struggle to actually be able to hold this energy, the truth, the inner knowing, she continues to mess up the natural progression by playing into the fears, rivalry and patriarchal trauma. It is hers but by the time it becomes hers, it is over, she is pregnant and it is hers through her husband and the patriarchy in this way continues as a narrative that cannot be broken for it was not broken inside her mind. Watching the writers arrive at this ending that rings so true due to its archetypal truth of the planetary and dna structures.

This is the reason this was a good story that felt not only right but gave us a chance to see this all unfold in real time. The archetypes believable and the ending as predictable as the archetypes are real. Archetypes are archetypes because they represent egos, egos are filters that are made up of experience + environment + upbringing and they are predictable, they make one predictable, because one believes what they are told or not told. God consciousness of freedom from the shackles of ego/hell are anything but predictable, they are egoless, they lack archetypes, it is the pure essence of individuality that has been recovered from the core self that lacks any connections to the identity as female, male, loved, un-loved, worthy, un-worthy or any other duality or even polarity. The real self is pure love beyond the story that is reflected back to us about who we are or we are not in the place we are born.

That is the true difference between heaven and hell. It is all controlled from the inside of us and if we dont let the archetypes of drama embodied by those around us, tell us who we are, then we are able to claim what is natural for ourselves.