Polarization and Polarity

[Tenet Nosce]

However, polarization is also a step toward separation from those who polarize oppositely.

This where we disagree.

The Law of One blinks neither at the light or the darkness, but is available for service to others and service to self. However, service to others results in service to self, thus preserving and further harmonizing the distortions of those entities seeking intelligent infinity through these disciplines.

Positive polarization is a result of application of the formula "I AM THAT". I AM.. love. I AM wisdom. I AM... you. I AM... that tree. Each I AM... that we make is taking another one of those "identity particles" and bringing it into alignment with our higher consciousness... that already knows that it is one with all things. It also means accepting those I AM's that make us uncomfortable, or that we would perceive as "negative".

There is no separation. The moment we believe in separation is the moment we have stopped polarizing.

The moment we say I AM NOT... we depolarize ourselves. And we set in motion a chain of events that will inevitably make us out to be hypocrites. The inevitability of this is the actual proof that we do not have as much Free Will and Choice as we would like to believe.

If we say I AM NOT STS- we are lying to ourselves. We are further fragmenting ourselves. We are separating ourselves. This cannot result in spiritual growth, but rather stagnation and confusion- if we are on the positive path. And even if we are on the negative path, these separative ideas will only take us so far and eventually we will need to abandon them if we want to progress any further.

Which is why... if we insist on using the STO/STS meme... we need to accept that serving others amounts to serving the self. All that has changed is that we have enlarged our concept of what constitutes the self.

Thus:

A person will never have the energy to commit her resources to a constant act of service unless the internal resources were not also coherently organized into a will to serve.

Exactly. But what you are referring to as a lack of "energy" is actually a lack of will, and therefore a lack in the ability to choose. The energy is there- it is always there. Rather it is being expended in too many directions simultaneously and the net result is nothing.

The coherent organization of internal resources is the polarization. That's exactly why it has very little to do with activity. In order to take meaningful action, we must first become polarized... otherwise we might as well be chickens clucking and flapping our wings in a cage thinking that we are "free" to cluck and flap as we please. All of the clucking/flapping in the world will never amount to anything if we do not first set our aim to be free from our cage.

Time and again- when confronted with spiritual concepts people assume that it comes down to taking ethical actions. We must eat like this. Or walk like that. Or dress this way. Or speak that way. Or attend these meetings. Or say these mantras. Or put our bodies into these positions.

Or even worse... we must NOT eat this way, and NOT dress that way, and NOT speak as such...

And yet- nobody can seem to agree upon what the "right" actions are supposed to be. And yet- even though we are eating the "right" way, walking the "right" way, dressing the "right" way, etc., we somehow fail to notice that this is NOT creating the desired result.

Months, years, and decades go by- entire civilizations rise and fall over the course of millenia- and we are hardly better off than we began. Yet, rather than question the premise that spiritual growth results from what we are doing, we simply try harder, or perhaps find a new guru in order to tell us what to do next. We just think to ourselves... oh I must have had the "wrong" ethical system, and now I need to find the "right" one.

Non-sequitur:
Why do you import the good/bad concepts into STO/STS?

Because that is how they are used in the context of discussion. Nearly everybody when they first come to the material projects good/bad into STO/STS which is precisely why I think it is a counterproductive tool.

Elsewhere, I have given my personal interpretation of the two paths of polarization, which has little to do with ethics or activity.

The positive path is taken by application of the formula: I AM THAT.

The negative path is taken by application of the formula: THAT I AM.

Now- I don't mean to say that you have to accept my interpretation. However, I am highly confident that if you pondered upon this, you would see how application of these formulas results in what we normally think of as STO/STS behavior. Only without all the unnecessary entanglements and confusions that we have been discussing above, and all around this forum again and again ad nauseum.

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A magnet cannot do work until it has become polarized. And the more polarized it becomes, the more work it can do. Would you agree with this statement?