05-02-2016, 11:36 PM
(05-02-2016, 06:24 PM)ricdaw Wrote: 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?
personal asceticism definitely plays into that. The limiting of one's own personal desires as somehow being indulgent or extravagant. There's something to be said about an orange ray suppression there for sure.
(05-02-2016, 06:24 PM)ricdaw Wrote: 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.
this is true - with the examples that you gave.
At the end of the day, the way we relate to our 'society' is how we are relating to one of the roots of mind - the 'planetary mind'.