The Choice

[Tenet Nosce]

I would not agree with this. In my understanding, the left hand path is known in most of the eastern cultures as the divine Feminine path of seeking the Goddess within.

I think the modern usage of it as selfserving has resulted in the modern occult followings saying that they follow the left hand path and they do so inappropriately and in defiance and ignorance of ancient teachings. the left hand path would have as its goal the sacrifice of self in order to achieve transcendence from the physical.

Just my thoughts and opinions, not preaching any particular religion.

I think it is just a matter of perspective. For example, a spiral which appears to be rotating clockwise from one side, will appear to be rotating counterclockwise from the other side.

But in a universe of natural duality how can one claim success without stating that they somehow altered the universe into a state where it is no longer one of duality?

By shifting one's perception to BOTH/AND in contrast to EITHER/OR. It is the ability to look at both sides of a duality and see that they are both true.

Here is an example. Pick any one place and time on the earth is it wet or dry? It is going to be either one or the other, right? But now zoom out to include the entire planet in one's consciousness. Now, is it wet or dry? It is both. Some parts are wet, some parts are dry. Simultaneously.

Now imagine that we picked one place, but looked at it from a vast perspective of time, say over ten thousand years. Is it wet or is it dry? The question doesn't even make any sense! It is both wet and dry.

Growth all comes down to the contextual field. Am I thinking only of myself, and my immediate needs and desires? Am I considering my family? My colleagues? My nation? My planet? What is the contextual field in which we are making these decisions? And which contextual field is most relevant to which types of decisions?

Duality is a useful tool for growth. But it is a tool, not the growth itself. Eventually, one outgrows the need for tools.