switching polarities / orientation

[Sacred Fool]

I wonder why an entity would make a conscious decision to pusue such a difficult path. When they say that Aleister Crowley etc. is in a place of healing I'm curious as to exactly what kind of state that is. Would someone like him likely continue on the STS path?

Why choose a difficult path? Many reasons. Ever rise to a challenge most others would pass up? There can be a profound experience of engagement in the extreme attempt. Sometimes it feels good to be bad or to feel exalted. Sometimes a being can be knocked so off-balance on this plane that it doesn't realize how distorted it's affections have become, etc., etc.

As for AC, here's my two cents worth: when you have a high powered entity screwing around with high powered energies, much havoc can ensue. If you think that distortions here on this plane are confusing, try amping them up a few notches. If one forces crystalline clarity deliberately into a distorted container and fails to get out of the way when it all melts down, it can, evidently, have serious consequences for one's subtle circuitry. Some things just don't react well together and just because the result is powerful doesn't mean it is salubrious. (I neglected to mention earlier that the dark path can be a bit dangerous.)

It's all good catalyst. However, turning around something I typed above, some things are more fun to read about than to experience.

My impression of a place of healing in the Inner Planes is a kind of psyche ward where inmates are given nurturing catalyst. It might be something like whatever you imagine is 180 degrees opposite of electrocution.

Following recovery, choices about further incarnations can then be made.

Interesting line of inquiry, by the way.

One other thing comes to mind just now. Having examples at hand of what inconceivable horror we are capable of inflicting on ourselves and one another provides us with specific vibrations we can search ourselves for in our quest to encompass all. I wonder how often an entity chooses to indulge in a negative polarity in order to teach others about their own dark capacities? Sounds like a rather indirect path to peace and happiness. But maybe if you have another 2 million years to kill before graduation it might seem like a worthwhile experiment? Not for me to say.