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Murph’s Musings
Breaking Free From the War Matrix
The hidden role of empaths in the Dark Triad circle
I was barely out of childhood the first time I felt the pull of the Savior. I could sense the pain of others as if it were my own, I knew when someone was suffering, even if they wore a smile. And I believed it was my duty to do something about it. This was not a conscious decision but more like an invisible tether, pulling me into the lives and wounds of others.
At the time, I didn’t understand that while this compulsion was my nature, it was also was a programmed response, deeply embedded in my psyche by an old and insidious force.
I didn’t yet see that I was playing out an ancient role in the Dark Triad of the War Matrix ~ the cycle of Victim, Aggressor, and Savior.
I spent years ~ lifetimes, perhaps ~ giving my energy to this loop. Every injustice I saw became my personal burden to bear. Every wound in another person’s heart became a wound in my own.
Every time I tried to fix the world, I became more depleted, more fractured, more lost.
It wasn’t until I reached the breaking point and stepped outside of the game that I discovered an important truth: Empaths are not here to save the world, we are here to awaken it.
