How Do STS's View Other Selves?

[anagogy]

Nonduality integrates and does not dismiss though, to dismiss would be to separate/dualize. This is why I say the term evil hints toward a facet of good, because good integrates what the misnommer evil seek to portray.

I have decided to stop using the word 'evil', in any context. I think it just causes a lot of unnecessary confusion for people who have extraneous connotations associated with it (this thread has thoroughly convinced me). However, I still believe it is essentially synonymous with selfishness/negative polarity. I just have no desire to fight the uphill battle of peoples aversive association to it as something other than a simple behavioral description.

But in any case, all I can really say is that I don't see Wholeness or Unity as synonomous with positivity in the sense of polarity. In terms of polarity, and its relationship to nonduality, or Unity, I see Unity as neither positive nor negative. So negative isn't a subset of positive, nor is positive a subset of negative. They are both subsets of Unity.

So while I'm tempted to split hairs over your terminology and argue with you, in exquisite detail, I will just say, I think I see what you are trying to say. I don't like the way you say it, and I would say it very differently probably, but I think we ultimately mean the same thing.

I think the easiest and clearest way to conceptualize negative and positive, for me, and how they integrate into the One is to simply see the north pole of positive polarity and the south pole of negative polarity in terms of the spectrum of white light. The violet side is positive polarity, and the red side is negative polarity. They are opposites on the visible light spectrum, yet both are integrated into the white light manifestation.

As long as there is a relationship between self and others, there is polarity. I think in Unity, or the metaphorical white light, there are no selves, or at the very least, there are no relationships with others, and thus, no polarity. There is consciousness, but it has no center, or we could say its center is everywhere.

So rather than continue fussing about your way of describing it, that's where I will leave it. That's how I feel most comfortable defining it.