(05-23-2019, 10:08 AM)Jade Wrote: [ -> ]The problem with allowing alt-right ideology like Jordan Peterson(...)
I used to spend many hours watching material by Jordan Peterson. I used to be a big fan of the man. Not so much now, as I disagree with him on a few key points, but I still think the man has an enormous amount of wisdom, and many of his teachings can be truly invaluable for us on the STO path. I consider his analysis on why people fall into negativity and into "evil" to be spot on, it creates a lot of awareness and compassion as to how "evil" (STS) behavior is, in the end, a product of a perception of lack of love. Furthermore, he teaches personal responsibility, and urges people to take a long and hard look at themselves, to recognize our own shadow side and potential for evil. This is completely in line with the notion that each of us is the infinite, that we are all things, all situations, all emotions. An essential part of the STO path, and indeed, the main challenge of it, is to learn how to love our friends that choose the opposite polarity. This includes first recognizing within ourselves our own potential for darkness, and getting to love this side of ourselves.
To call Jordan Peterson a right-winger (let alone an alt-right) is something that I see as a huge misrepresentation. But even if he were on the right, the mainstream left, in all it's supposed compassion, doesn't teach the kind of love this work of his teaches. Much that I see from the left today as coming from a supposed place of compassion is just selective compassion; and not very good compassion, at that. Teaching other people to be angry at the system, or at their perceived oppressors, is not compassion. In fact, that kind of mentality has the greatest dangers of all, which is to turn the tables and to justify acts of aggression against a perceived oppressor.
I realize that this is a complicated subject, and it's not my intent to ignore the reality that some groups can be or are under hard situations caused by a different group. But we forget how ridiculously easy it is to dehumanize a person once we have decided, in our minds, to label him or her as an aggressor. By doing that, we are telling our most basic and primitive instincts that it's open season. Jordan Peterson brings awareness to these things in a world that is not teaching personal responsibility very much these days.
I realize I may be giving unsolicited advice, Jade, but I would urge you to consider whether it was gratuitous or not to put Jordan Peterson together with alt-rights, Pepe, anti trans, anti muslims (etc) and what within you could have prompted this.
I see this quote of yours:
(05-23-2019, 10:08 AM)Jade Wrote: [ -> ]The left isn't murdering people in the streets over politics and religion. The right is.
And it just seems so divisive to me. I understand the temptation to demonize the right as a whole (as someone who leans towards the left myself, I can relate). But I think it's crucial to consider the right in its archetypal form to have great value of its own. This is also something that Jordan Peterson talks about, and something that I consider a pearl of wisdom, and it's that the left, in its pure form, is about change, it's about moving forward, sometimes at the expense of moving things too fast, or of changing things that didn't need to be changed whatsover. Whereas the right, on the other hand, is about knowing what works, what has worked in the past, honoring those things and sticking to them; the weakness being a complacency, a reluctance to change a tradition or model that has overstayed its welcome, of being afraid of anything new, even if it's better.
I believe we can put this in strong connection with the divine flow of evolution in the universe. Everything is always changing in the universe, all of Creation is heading towards a goal or destination, which gives validity to the archetypal left. On the other hand, there needs to be acceptance of where an entity, SMC or planet is at in its current state of evolution. Evolution is inevitable, but it is slow; literally millions of years slow; so we can't be expected to change at a faster pace than we can handle, and for that, it's essential to know what works for us in our current state, to know our foundation, biases and tendencies, both at the individual and collective levels. Ra themselves advised extreme caution and patience in regards to the notion of polarizing more rapidly than the mind/body/spirit complex can handle. "To know your self is to have the foundation upon firm ground".
So, I believe that the correct answer, both in the political sphere and in the divine flow of Creation, is a balance between the left and the right. When either of them is demonized, not only is that a fertile ground for negativity, but an important part of the flow of Creation is denied.
Going back to Jordan Peterson, I have a feeling he's a 5th density wanderer, because I really believe that he has just so many pearls of wisdom that can be directly connected to the material that Ra teaches, even if Peterson doesn't realize this himself. What I see in him is a considerable lack of love, first and foremost, of love and compassion towards himself. You can tell that this is a man who is extremely hard on himself. As such, this lack of love shows in some of his perspectives about life. Nonetheless, this doesn't negate to me all that he offers. And to be quite frank, I consider it very unsettling that any kind of discussion even has to be had about "allowing" his teachings.