How Do STS's View Other Selves?

[anagogy]

The more polarized you become the more aware of truth you are.  Awareness of truth also, reflexively, and proportionately increases awareness of illusion.  The one contrasts the other.  Essentially, the line between the two becomes increasingly more obvious the more polarized you are.  The negatively polarized are just as aware of the ultimate nature of reality, and variety of ways in which you can view the self and creator, as the positively polarized are.  The only difference is, they simply *love* or favor illusion more than they love truth.  

Metaphysically, illusion is akin to darkness, while truth is akin to light.  They simply prefer the darkness, and the potentials illusion allows for (while, as I said, fully and consciously grasping the difference between falsity and truth).  If you think about it, it is not so foreign a concept to understand.  There is a *LOT* of potential pleasure in the illusion of being a separate self who has acquired so much power that they control all those in proximity to themselves.  Can you not see the appeal of living like a king?  The appeal of being waited on hand and foot?  Of getting whatever you want, whenever you want it, consequences be damned? It is all about power which is absolute control, whereas the positive path is about love or connection.

One path separates and exalts the personal egoic self, the other unifies the personal self with the greater collective self. One seeks pleasure in the outer world, and one seeks pleasure in the inner world.

I think a big part of consciously selecting which polarity you are involves seeing and understanding at a deep and visceral level, the appeal of both polarities. The choice has to become conscious.