06-24-2020, 12:00 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-24-2020, 12:00 AM by StormShadow.)
I was reading the latest blog post just now, especially the part where Ra talks about how any choice is balanced out with the equal opportunity to choose what is opposite or other than the choice under consideration.
And it came to me that the choice to be positive or negative, due to the limitations of our language, may have been misunderstood, at least by me, until now. If i am reading this right, then the “choice” to be positive or negative, isn’t strictly a choice at all - at least not as far as our grammar allows.
Choices are made: you see two alternatives in front of you, you realize you cannot have both, and you pick whichever one suits you better. The choice is made, and you are done and off to the next.
The “choice” of polarity, however, is not something you “make”. It’s more like holding a small magnet between two other strong magnets, with identical poles facing each other. If you make no effort, the small magnet will be repulsed evenly by the two fixed magnets that it sits between and stay in the middle.
It takes a continued effort to push against the field in either direction, and if that effort is relaxed, the magnet springs back to the center. What’s more, on it’s way back to the center, it will typically OVERSHOOT to a degree concomitant with the distance it started from before the effort was relaxed.
What this means is that the choice to be positive or negative is not a choice at all, but a continuous effort, and the farther you get to either side, THE HARDER IT GETS. Not only that, but if you relax your efforts, you risk swinging back, and over-correcting into the OPPOSITE polarity more and more, the further you make it away from the center (or, in polarity’s case, roughly the 75-25 point).
But this explains, or gives a better metaphor for, Ra’s assertion that greater polarity yields greater potential to do magical work. Just as holding a magnet close another magnet with the same pole, the closer you can hold yourself to pure positivity (or negativity), the greater the compressed wall of energy you stand against (and thus are in control of), and you put yourself in a position where that potential of stored energy can be released in a controlled manner, to perform “magic”.
This is kind of a breakthrough for me. Just wanted to share.
And it came to me that the choice to be positive or negative, due to the limitations of our language, may have been misunderstood, at least by me, until now. If i am reading this right, then the “choice” to be positive or negative, isn’t strictly a choice at all - at least not as far as our grammar allows.
Choices are made: you see two alternatives in front of you, you realize you cannot have both, and you pick whichever one suits you better. The choice is made, and you are done and off to the next.
The “choice” of polarity, however, is not something you “make”. It’s more like holding a small magnet between two other strong magnets, with identical poles facing each other. If you make no effort, the small magnet will be repulsed evenly by the two fixed magnets that it sits between and stay in the middle.
It takes a continued effort to push against the field in either direction, and if that effort is relaxed, the magnet springs back to the center. What’s more, on it’s way back to the center, it will typically OVERSHOOT to a degree concomitant with the distance it started from before the effort was relaxed.
What this means is that the choice to be positive or negative is not a choice at all, but a continuous effort, and the farther you get to either side, THE HARDER IT GETS. Not only that, but if you relax your efforts, you risk swinging back, and over-correcting into the OPPOSITE polarity more and more, the further you make it away from the center (or, in polarity’s case, roughly the 75-25 point).
But this explains, or gives a better metaphor for, Ra’s assertion that greater polarity yields greater potential to do magical work. Just as holding a magnet close another magnet with the same pole, the closer you can hold yourself to pure positivity (or negativity), the greater the compressed wall of energy you stand against (and thus are in control of), and you put yourself in a position where that potential of stored energy can be released in a controlled manner, to perform “magic”.
This is kind of a breakthrough for me. Just wanted to share.
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