Yellow Ray Polarization Patterns: benevolence vs plunder

[ricdaw]

My feeling is the solitariness/hermitness in these cases is less about withdrawal, and more about finding appropriate situations to develop the inner nature of self.

I do think there are cases of 'well balanced monks' who seek a certain amount of isolation to cultivate the inner spirit.  Usually their 'benevolence' towards society, is that they are looking for some insight or realization to bring back to others.

Withdrawal from society is often balanced by an equal withdrawal from personal comfort.  See e.g. those vows of poverty.   So both orange and yellow rays are minimal in equal measure. Maybe that's how that dynamic works?

[I]n the cases of 'retreating' or 'disowning society', that is a kind of blockage in yellow ray which is polarizing in neither way. Those individuals are usually rejecting society - or the potentials and possibilities inherent in social interaction.

Yellow Ray blockages (rejection) would typically be overshyness, non-responsiveness to interactions (autism), over-self-consciousness in social settings (anxiety), etc etc.

I don't particularly see retreating and disowning society as neutral, but instead as biased toward self. These groups tend to deny the larger society in favor of their accepting only their own small groups/tribes (survivalists, members of cults, anarchists, etc.) They can be quite ANTI everyone else, in fact, and if given enough power would try to control the non-group "others" out there. (Sadly, political parties are becoming this way too; us vs. them.) So I view these groups as modestly polarizing toward STS.

Then there are the Unibombers of the world, who might just be fully blocked in yellow ray.