Initiation Book mentioned in Session 41

[Turtle]

I like the book and will probably read it again in a couple years as an exercise in my own ability to discriminate the dark from the light.  I'm pretty shocked to come to the forum, search 'Haich initiation', and not find others using their intelligence to differentiate what's positive vs what ain't just sayin'.  Maybe it's on another thread this is the first and only one I checked so forgive my ignorance if that discussion I was looking for is indeed somewhere else.  After all, I'm from the lower race so you can't expect too much from me!  If only I could trace my ancestry to one of those with the elongated skulls, then maybe I could join the Illuminati?

I tend to think that -especially in western culture- a lot of people have a strong distortion towards dualism and an either/or mentality.  It's sort of the No True Scotsman fallacy writ large.  If someone diverges from Republican viewpoints in more than a couple ways, suddenly they're a RINO.  Someone has a bisexual experience once, and suddenly they're queer because straight is only 100%.  A positive-polarized person still has some negative thoughts, so they must be negative and faking the positivity.  Obama was taught in a Madrassa for a couple years in his childhood, so  he's forever "tainted" by Islam and probably a secret Muslim. There are examples of this sort of thinking all over the place in society.

Western culture really doesn't teach skills for distinguishing nuance, or for dealing with matters that are grey rather than black-and-white.  People are largely just taught to slap labels on things based on arbitrary criteria, then act as though those labels are reality.  Getting past this, trying to look beyond labels to more underlying complex impulses, is something one usually can only learn through self-study and deliberate exposure to philosophies which aren't as dualist.

Plus, of course, there's a fair amount of self-confidence needed to evaluate ideas in that way.  Someone who doesn't believe in the abilities of their own mind is likely to find it far easier and more comfortable to fall back on label-based thinking as a crutch.

But I confess I do share your frustration at times when it comes to this forum.  Nearly everything Ra said on the matter of polarity puts it on a spectrum rather than a hard either/or distinction.  The mere fact that being positively-polarized only requires 50% polarization illustrates this amply.  On Earth, a positive person is almost certain to still be carrying a lot of negativity around.  For that matter, even Jesus -surely one of the most positively-polarized humans to ever live- had moments of negativity, such as the incident with the moneychangers on the temple steps.  This makes it seem somewhat absurd to me, seeing people try to apply an all-or-nothing attitude towards positive (or negative) polarization.

I just try to remind myself that most people are the product of their upbringing/teachings and if they've only been taught to think in terms of arbitrary either/or labels, it will be very difficult for them to develop skills involving nonabsolutist spectrum-based thought.

Great post...hot damn!