Polarity

[JustLikeYou]

By and large, I think one issue is that some people still conflate "positive" with "good" and "negative" with "evil." To a certain extent, Ra may have -inadvertantly- encouraged this with his heavy emphasis on positivity and his desire to see Earth polarize that way. While I don't think this was his intent, it makes it easier for people who tend towards absolutist thinking to start seeing the situation in terms of Us vs Them. And that's totally contrary to the Law of One.


It especially bugs me when I see people start self-righteously declaring certain arguments -or certain people- to be "negative" as a way of dismissing them. The irony, of course, is that such exclusionary thought is itself somewhat controlling and negative in basis. But if someone is being tribal about the polarities, that's the last thing they want to ponder - the negativity in themselves. I think it's also easy, in general, to overlook how quickly morality can turn into oppressive control systems, no matter how well-intentioned someone is.

In my own writing, I make heavy use of the terms "good" and "evil". I do so because they are already embedded into our cultural mind and are, as such, much easier concepts for casual access than STO and STS. I agree with your complaint, but my own approach has been not to dissociate STO from good and STS from evil, but to dissociate good from right and evil from wrong. In conversation with a person who has never read literature on STO and STS, it is much easier to convey your understanding if you reinforce the attitude: "I believe in good and evil, but I don't believe in right and wrong." This opens up the conversation to moral polarity without allowing moral judgment to enter into it.

If STO and STS do indeed lie at the foundation of the 3D experience, then all of our cultural stories should already be talking about them. That is, we should find it impossible to remove these concepts from our minds. Such is precisely the case with the concepts of good and evil: no matter how our literature attempts to sidestep these concepts, they remain fixed within our species mind.