02-27-2016, 01:59 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-27-2016, 02:00 PM by APeacefulWarrior.)
Yeah, definitely. Trying to deny or totally repress one's darker side will never make it go away. At "best" it still stays there, waiting to be dealt with, and at worst it festers and manifests in outright harmful ways. Dealing with it means looking into a place a lot of people would much rather not look, but it's gotta be reckoned with one way or another.
But on the up side, I feel like the modern world offers a lot more ways for people to investigate darker impulses that are pretty karmically neutral in the grand scheme. Watching a nasty horror movie or playing a violent video game or whatever... they aren't exactly catalyst-free, but they're going to be a lot less depolarizing than most of the options on the table even just a few decades ago.
Actually, it's a little funny. Some time ago I came across the section of the Ra Materials that talked about the attack on Carla by the 5D negative. I queried my higher selves about what would happen if one tried that on me. The answer I got back first noted that it would be incredibly unlikely, but then answered with "We/you would absorb it and then you/we would look for a video game it would like."
In other words, if I had to absorb its personality or energies, it would depolarize me somewhat -but not drastically- and it would be something I could "deal with" just by accepting its presence and looking for a behavioral compromise. So in the same way, I tend to think that many people with some self-awareness could adapt to and accept their own darker sides without spiraling into darkness or some other melodrama.
Whatever negative "itch" someone has, just look for a way to scratch it that causes the least actual karma to accrue. Our world today offers plenty of options.
But on the up side, I feel like the modern world offers a lot more ways for people to investigate darker impulses that are pretty karmically neutral in the grand scheme. Watching a nasty horror movie or playing a violent video game or whatever... they aren't exactly catalyst-free, but they're going to be a lot less depolarizing than most of the options on the table even just a few decades ago.
Actually, it's a little funny. Some time ago I came across the section of the Ra Materials that talked about the attack on Carla by the 5D negative. I queried my higher selves about what would happen if one tried that on me. The answer I got back first noted that it would be incredibly unlikely, but then answered with "We/you would absorb it and then you/we would look for a video game it would like."
In other words, if I had to absorb its personality or energies, it would depolarize me somewhat -but not drastically- and it would be something I could "deal with" just by accepting its presence and looking for a behavioral compromise. So in the same way, I tend to think that many people with some self-awareness could adapt to and accept their own darker sides without spiraling into darkness or some other melodrama.
Whatever negative "itch" someone has, just look for a way to scratch it that causes the least actual karma to accrue. Our world today offers plenty of options.