(10-04-2019, 10:24 PM)peregrine Wrote: Interesting line of inquiry; what's your reason for asking? Is to to better understand the manipulations in the world around you? Is it to better understand your own potential for polarization?
I just want know. To know the negative polarity is part of my study of the reality. Of course this must be done for educational purposes only.
(10-04-2019, 10:24 PM)peregrine Wrote: Yet, from the sto perspective, skillful "blocking" combined with tricks of the trade is what increases polarization. That is, spiritual power is accumulated by opening one's consciousness to the deeper self in the context, not of the natural ad seriatum energy flow, but from creating a web of energies which ensnares vicitims from which the sts spider may draw energies for its own purposes of increasing polarization. From the sto point of view, the sts dude has blockages preventing him seeing other beings as self, but from the sts perspective, the operative energy centers are juicy and wonderful, and they help him provide a nice meal for his family.
A bit complex, but I understood your point.
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A little off-topic, but I want share this interesting text from a book about the left-hand path:
Quote:THE RIGHT-HAND PATH AND THE LEFT-HAND PATH
The central question now becomes: what is the way in which this conscious, free soul is going to relate to, or seek to interact with, the objective universe or the universe as a whole? The right-hand path answers this question simply by saying that the subjective universe must harmonize itself with the laws of the objective universe—be that envisioned as God or Nature. Humanity is to seek knowledge of the law, and then apply itself to submitting to that law in order to gain ultimate union with the objective universe, with God, or with Nature. The right-hand path is the path of union with universal reality (God or Nature). When this union is completed the individual self will be annihilated; the individual will become one with the divine or natural cosmic order. In this state the ego is destroyed as "heaven" is entered or a nirvana-like existence/nonexistence is "attained." This is clearly the goal of all orthodox Judaic, Christian, Islamic, or Buddhistic sects.
The left-hand path considers the position of humanity as it is; it takes into account the manifest and deep-seated desire of each human being to be a free, empowered, independent actor within his or her world. The pleasure and pain made possible by independent existence are seen as something to be embraced and as the most reasonable signs of the highest, most noble destiny possible for humans to attain—a kind of independent existence on a level usually thought of as divine.
Just as most humans go through their natural, everyday lives seeking that which will give them maximal amounts of such things as knowledge, power, freedom, independence, and distinction within their world, those who walk the left-hand path logically extend this to the nonnatural realm. They eschew right-hand-path admonitions that such spiritual behavior is "evil' and that they should basically "get with the program" (of God, of Nature, etc.) and become good "company men." The self-awareness of independence is seen by many as the fundamental reality of the human condition: one can accept it and live, or reject it and die. By accepting the internal, known reality of human consciousness, an eternally dynamic—ever moving, ever changing—existence is embraced; by rejecting it and embracing an external, unknown reality of God/Nature, an eternally static—ever still and permanent—existence is accepted. From a certain enlightened perspective, both paths are perfectly good, it is just a matter of the conscious exercise of the will to follow one of these paths in an aware state without self-delusion.
Essentially, the left-hand path is the path of nonunion with the objective universe. It is the way of isolating consciousness within the subjective universe and, in a state of self-imposed psychic solitude, refining the soul or psyche to ever more perfect levels. The objective universe is then made to harmonize itself with the will of the individual psyche instead of the other way around. Where the right-hand path is theocentric (or certainly alleocentric: "other-centered"), the left-hand path is psychecentric, or soul/self-centered. Those within the left-hand path may argue over the nature of this self/ego/soul, but the idea that the individual is the epicenter of the path itself seems undisputed. An eternal separation of the individual intelligence from the objective universe is sought in the left-hand path. This amounts to an immortality of the independent self-consciousness moving within the objective universe and interacting with it at will.