(10-20-2013, 10:56 PM)Aloysius Wrote: The STS path is not as manipulation or power centered as many here seem to think. It's self service, lessons of the self that is all, perfection of self and uniqueness of experience, rising above the thresholds formed by collectives who never escape their limits. The control aspect has to do with the universe being my body, if there is a degree of randomness forming a virus in an organ of mine such as bring4th forums, I must take steps for my own health to optimize potential for learning of self for myself by bringing control to certain parameters.
Everything you describe here fits with my personal understanding of a service to others entity with an active and vibrant orange and yellow.
Now, if the limits of the collective you wish to transcend are the limits having to do with harming others or otherwise removing their free will by manipulation or power over others, I would say that is not service to others. Similarly, if the control you wish to exercise is over other's free will, that is incompatible with service to others. These would be examples of power without unconditional love of others.
But as you describe above, unless I am missing something, you are describing balanced orange and yellow beliefs that are just as important to the service to others path. Nothing you said is incompatible with green ray, universal, unconditional love. Positives accept the present, but also exercise control as long as it does not harm others or impinge on thier free will.