I want to explore the negative polarity.

[Louisabell]

To be honest, I think the STS path is much more complex and varied than some make it sound like. Then again, we are in an experiment within which the biggest thematic is confusion, so it might be understandable that both what this path is and its expression is highly distorted from its actual essence.

Choosing a path to me is ultimately about building up a conviction in one's own exploration of oneself. Through distillment, it surely always leads to an embrace of all because that is what your self is and which you come to better realize as your ability of perception grows with time. Meaning, the STS path is not wrong in want it stands for, outside that it holds upon paradoxes of perception born from the multiple layers of illusions that make up our experience. Much like the STO path you could say. Both paths ultimately are equally a paradoxical dance, just that the transcendence of this play, or game, requires an internalization of completeness within the self, as inevitably comes a realization that you are truly all things. In knowledge of Oneness, it is a certainty that moving through the STS path as an other-self is actually the right choice in whatever circumstances it occurs. It might not be your current immediate right choice to yourself, nor something you like to think about, but the nuances that generate the nexus of where your other-self is, as you in external circumstances, making this choice make it rightful and reflect the truth of it to yourself. The entirety of existence, in all its forms, is already the answer to it all. The past is never invalidated, it merely transforms through growth.

Technically speaking, the only way you could "help" someone off the negative path into moving toward the positive one, is to offer them unbiased complete acceptance. If you just make fun of what it is, or render unjust to have a leaning towards it, then you are clearly just reinforcing the darkness through your own needs of distilling the shadow portions of yourself that you fail to recognize as being an integral part of yourself. On the other hand, offering acceptance of the rightfulness of where someone is at, offers this being the choice to receive this energy of acceptance and in turn touch healing.

It is fine to strive toward the light, just that one has to be wary to not cast their own shadows in the process and reinforce the darkness to seek to see disappear.

Very asute observations Minyatur. I do not deny that I have shadow aspects, that I have fears. I am human.

Just to be clear, it is not my intention to 'help' anyone off their chosen path, or invalidating the STS path altogether. It is my perception (at least) that actually, I am affording it the weight it deserves.

In my estimation, pity is wasted on the STS path adherent. Indeed this entity is facing a long path with a great deal of challenge before it. And so, if my feeble and humble challenges (which are only based in the truth as I see it) are enough to sway such an entity, then may that speak for itself.