Dragon Power: Meditations on Sex, Money, Power
All the juicy good stuff
POWER is a huge theme that’s come up for me the past few days during this ridiculous activation I’m experiencing.
Raw, primal, primordial power. It felt like this activation unleashed dimensions of my (sexual) power that I had no idea I was blocking/repressing.
It feels like I have been unconsciously repressing these energies due to on some level feeling guilt/shame about them and fearing the sheer (uncontrollable) dragon-like power of what would be released if I allowed them to come forth.
I’m reminded of archetypal images of the dragon hiding in the underground cavern, guarding the treasure.
“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”
— Joseph Campbell
Power is a funny thing. For many it’s one of the most triggering concepts / dimensions of human experience.
Along with money and sex, which are both simply sub-domains of Power.
In fact, everything could be said to be a sub-domain of Power, for Power is one of the best names for God, the All, the Almighty.
We All Want Power
Deep down we all want Power, for POWER is *WHAT WE ARE*.
Nietzsche’s “will to power” is therefore one of the greatest psychological insights of all time, imho. Not surprising, as he’s one of the greatest OG legends ever to walk the Earth.
See how easy or hard it is for you to say these words:
I love Power. I want Power. I am Power.
I love Money. I want Money. I am Money.
I love Sex. I want Sex. I am Sex.
This is a good litmus test of where you’re at in terms of admitting to yourself what/who you are and what you want.
I’d be surprised if there is a human alive today who does not want power, money, and sex.
This shit is hard-wired. We all want to feel empowered because again, POWER is *WHAT YOU ARE*—you are literally the throbbing God Dick of Creation, Goddess Pussy of Creation, that births infinite multiverses effortlessly.
We all want money because it makes life on Earth way easier, cooler, more epic, and more fun—fucking duh. Why is it so hard for us to admit this?
We all want sex because it feels amazing and it’s literally how we all got here and how we keep the whole legendary human game going, mahfucka. Why are we so scared of sex?
(Hint: Because we’ve been enslaved. Because the powers-that-be don’t want a bunch of wealthy, sexually-empowered Wild Men running around. Not easy to control.)
It’s so funny, I’m FINALLY seeing with resounding clarity that my work has been about POWER since day fuckin’ one.
Story Time
When I started blogging in 2012 on www.passionatefreedom.wordpress.com and jbhopsthepond.wordpress.com and then later that year on Refine The Mind and then on HighExistence, it was because magic mushrooms and LSD and MDMA and cannabis and booze and partying and studying abroad and reading crazy authors and meeting wild motherfuckers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln were doing something funny to me…
THEY WERE ACTIVATING MY MOTHERFUCKING POWER.
THEY WERE SHOWING ME I WAS A SLAVE.
AND THEY WERE BEGINNING TO SHOW ME THE WAY OUT OF THE MATRIX.
And I was like, “Damn, wow, these epiphanies I’m having are fucking crazy. It seems like most people don’t understand this stuff. I need to start sharing this shit somehow and damn, maybe sharing this wisdom I’m receiving could actually end up somehow leading to me getting paid to live my dream of just traveling the world and creating cool shit and just doing my thing 100% of the time.”
And that’s exactly what happened. At age 24, I retired—in that I quit my last day job and told myself it was time to do my damnedest to get paid to simply be who I am and do what I want to do. 7 years later, here we are. These lyrics from my song MELT THE MOTHAFUCKIN’ CAGES tell the story quite well:
“24 years young, the day I retired
Retirement the moment that you truly choose, kid
To only do what you wanna be doin’
Callin’ shots had me feelin’ like a umpire
Quit my day job, had to keep it movin’
Next thing you know, we was, we was goin’ BIG
Philosophizin’ on the net, they said the words was wet
Got creative, had to MONETIZE that shit
Started sellin’ courses, ay, cut a few checks
Next came retreats, coaching, and the masterminds
Deltron, Automator, he the mastermind
Meanwhile, all along, you know I had to rhyme
Reborn on ayahuasca then I had to shine— Goku the Wizard King
Charge Up
So yeah, I can now see clearly that ever since my early enlightenment experiences in college that led me to start blogging…
ALL I WANTED TO DO WAS EMPOWER MYSELF & OTHERS.
ALL I WANTED TO DO WAS CREATE EMPOWERING MAGICKAL ARTIFACTS & EXPERIENCES.
And that’s what I’ve done.
I’ve been activating God Power since day one.
It actually goes back even further than that though.
I’ve always been doing this.
As a young kid I was spending endless hours creating epic stories in my own head and playing them out, running around outside pretending to be a pirate, or playing with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle action figures, or building crazy shit with LEGOs, and so forth…
I was reading and re-reading the Harry Potter books like 7 times each. I was watching Dragonball Z all the time and drawing pictures of Goku and other DBZ characters, just straight up CHARGING MYSELF UP. I gotta dig those drawings up…
As a kid I also started writing and speaking poetry very early, then once I discovered rap music around age ~12, bumping some Eminem on like NOW 16 or whatever that CD was, I WAS HOOKED.
Instant love affair. That was when I started rapping. For years it was just rapping along with my favorite artists and reciting their songs, then it turned into making cult-classic local Iowa rap songs like CRUISIN’ IN MY ‘04 in high school…
Then starting to freestyle around age ~18, then making some songs as final projects for college courses, like this one called THE EPIPHANY sharing the epiphanies I had on Ecstasy during a legendary night with an Iowa homie in Iowa City (I also wrote a 15-page document about those epiphanies that I should try to dig up)…
Or this one sharing for a Shakespeare class sharing the story of Othello but from the perspective of IAGO, the villain, over an Eminem beat and in an Eminem rap style:
Then, finally, not long after I started blogging, when I moved to South Korea in 2013 at age 22, LOSTBOYEVSKY was born… : )
And so on and so forth, up to the present day…
Destiny
So yeah, I can see that it was always my destiny to CHARGE THE FUCK UP and CHARGE UP OTHERS in turn.
I mean, I just look at my own baby picture and I’m like DAMN THAT KID POPPED OUT THE WOMB FEELING *CHARGED* AS HEAVEN, WHAT AN OG:
It’s funny that a lotta non-dual teachings sorta implicitly or explicitly encourage you to “drop your story,” “forget your past,” and so on and so forth…
I’ve seen the power in doing that but also THERE’S SO MUCH FUCKING POWER IN REMEMBERING & FEELING & VIBING WITH & SHARING THE MYTHOLOGY OF YOUR OWN MOTHERFUCKING LIFE.
GOD DAMN.
I remember the great trickster-artist-shaman Jiro Taylor trying to show us that in Shambhala Warrior. Dude is an OG, and he knew.
CLAIM YOUR STORY!
WRITE IT!
TELL IT!
SING IT!
RAP IT!
PAINT IT!
DRAW IT!
MAKE LOVE WITH IT!
HAVE SEX WITH IT!
**IT’S SO FUCKING POWERFUL!!!!!!!**
OWN THE FACT OF YOUR OWN FUCKING LEGENDARY NATURE.
YOU ARE A HERO.
YOU’VE BEEN THROUGH SO MUCH CRAZY SHIT.
*OWN IT*.
*OWN YOUR POWER*.
*ALL THAT SHIT YOU’VE BEEN THROUGH IS EXACTLY WHAT HAS MADE YOU A POWERFUL FUCKING WARRIOR*.
*KNOW THIS*.
The Holy Grail: Heart-Opened Power
So yeah, all of this is to say that I’m very fucking glad I’ve now realized on a new level just how fundamental POWER has ALWAYS been for me and my work-play on this planet.
POWER is what I’ve always been and been about. I just forgot for a while.
Oh yeah, and one more SUPER FUCKING IMPORTANT THING.
POWER without LOVE will FUCKING DESTROY YOU.
BECAUSE *LOVE* IS ALSO WHAT YOU ARE.
GOD KNOWS NO SEPARATION. GOD IS ONE. ONENESS IS LOVE. TRULY.
In this tweet I’m in dialogue with my amazing sister Anna Bates, legendary animal healer and all-around badass magnificent hero—shoutout Anna Bates!!!!!!! I love you!!!!!!!
As I allude to in the tweet, a lot of extremely powerful-yet-violent beings, real or “fictional,” KNEW SOME SHIT ABOUT LIFE AND POWER…
BUT THEIR HEARTS WERE CLOSED. THEY DIDN’T KNOW LOVE.
There’s a lot you can learn from them by studying their gifts and their openness to their own Mystical God Power, AND by studying how their closed-ness to Love ultimately immiserated and destroyed them.
As I say in the above tweets, I actually wrote a short book called VOLDEMORT SPEAKS in late 2020, may have to publish that on here soon. Hit ‘reply’ and let me know if you’d like me to publish that.
But yeah, all this is to say that the TRUE HOLY GRAIL is HEART-OPENED POWER.
Without the Heart, Power just eats you alive and you end up a zombie shell of yourself doing unspeakably violent things.
And conversely, without Power, the Heart will sorta flounder and feel all sorts of compassion for the ills of the world yet feel helpless to really ACTIVATE AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
We need both. This is some yin-and-yang shit. Love & Power.
In Sum
All right, okay, I think that’s what I have to say for today.
Moving forward, you can expect POWER and MONEY and SEX to be much more explicit themes in my work—so much juiciness for anyone willing to look into these sacred mirrors.
Thanks for listening.
Say, I’m feeling like it’s about time for me to go on more podcasts. If you have a podcast with a decent (or massive) following, or know someone who does, and if you think I’d be an epic podcast guest (I am), reply and hit me up and help me amplify the signal, fam. Thank you.
On a similar note, I really wanna visit a legit epic recording studio soon to record an album. If you know the place, let me know.
Aight, fam, this has been DRAGON POWER. Hope you enjoyed it, it was fun to write this sacred scroll.
Love & Power,
J
Activator of God Power
www.jordanbates.life
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