[ensonar]

Personally I don't understand what is so important or fascinating in leaders. I think it's quite booring to try to find out who has been a leader type and who has not - we have our responsibilities for ourselves. Let everybody else be this or that or not be. They are all gone, or if they are still living, most of them is going to the wrong direction anyway. Not to the freedom, but to the Biggest Ego there can be.

I agree, and yet I do believe that intent may have a guiding nature. Like Don Juan mentioned on several occasions, we don't need anything but the spirit. And as such, the spirit or intent seems to be a guiding force.

And also, I believe that as a being eliminates self importance and loses the human form, they become less human, and more spirit. And because of this I feel that humans can still become guiding forces in a very abstract way.

It is one thing to romanticize reaching that position... the romanticization is very obviously based soley on self-importance. But from a position of no-self, that romanticization isn't possible. In fact, considering it one way or another probably doesn't even occur. Such a being just moves like the wind in whatever direction intent drives them.

The Tao Te Ching mentions leadership in many of its chapters. I believe it is touching on the same thing. A saying such as, 'a great leader is one who's community is unaware of their leadership' [paraphrased]... is one example.