01-08-2013, 04:13 PM
"More enlightened" is a judgment imposed by you upon the material. "Less distorted" cannot even be assumed based on context. "Alternate" would be more accurate. Concepts of ethics are not less enlightened than concepts of existence. They are simply differently oriented.
Magnetic polarization is an excellent metaphor for this concept. Let us explore it further.
Assume that the m/b/s complex is composed of a clustering of particles, each of which has a spin, each a polarity. When the m/b/s complex as a whole is unpolarized, these particles have an apparently random orientation, giving no particularly strong overall polarization. In terms of existence, this generates a weak magnetic field. In terms of ethics, this produces alternately motivated actions: Sometimes you are generous, sometimes stingy. Sometimes you are selfless, sometimes selfish. Sometimes you accept, sometimes you control.
A moment of discovery occurs in the overall being. A coherent pattern is discovered, whether its influence began outside or inside the self is irrelevant. What matters is that the self (the m/b/s complex) discovered within itself the possibility for something more coherent than the confused, wishy-washy, contradictory, ineffective experience of unpolarized existence and ethics. This inner discovery is a unique discovery. Nothing can predict what will cause a m/b/s complex to prefer a coherent experience, nor can anything predict which kind of experience the m/b/s complex will choose, when that complex does choose. This experience, this choice, clearly happens in time/space, where a change occurs in the metaphysical analogue of the self, reflecting down into the physical self, generating more coherent patterns.
In other words, the more powerful magnetic source which can cause further polarization is the inner choice which occurs on a metaphysical level. This is why Christians place such importance upon being "saved." They're talking about this inner change, which cannot be accurately judged by anyone except the m/b/s complex herself.
But, each particle within the self is unique. Hence, each particle within the self has free will. Thus, even though it is a matter of choice to place oneself in the stronger field of the committed (or "initiated," to use a more specific term) time/space self, there are still further choices to be made. Namely, a choice must be made for every single new particle which comes into alignment with the greater field. Even though you are "saved," you still have many, many lessons before you, each one involving a microcosmic experience of the original choice that "saved" you. Furthermore, if you repeatedly choose against the original choice (this becomes especially possible in the case of a person who has only just made the commitment to a path of coherence), you will begin to create a secondary polarity within you which can counteract the effect of the original choice.
So, for example, imagine a heroin addict who has chosen to enjoy life as it is, and not as the heroin makes it. This person now has the capacity to experience genuine acquisition of power (no longer being enslaved to the drug), as well as the capacity to experience genuine love (no longer placing the drug as a higher priority than all other-selves). If said person is on a 12-step program, she will probably choose positive. However, it will soon be discovered that there are an abundance of habits which accompanied the junkie lifestyle, all of which are contradictory in terms of polarity, but subtly so. The newly sober junkie will feel that she is freed from all bondage and will not recognize just how much work is yet to be done. Perhaps she will get a job in a kitchen somewhere. She will discover that many of her abrasive traits drive people away from her and cause her to be a repulsive co-worker. But she has been saved, so maybe it is the fault of the other. If she chooses not to take responsibility for the way in which she is repulsed from her workplace, she is being offered an opportunity to choice either acceptance or control (thus, taking responsibility for the experience), but has refused it. In this way, an individual particle within the self is given the opportunity to choose. In our current case, the choice is deferred. The situation exacerbates and the ex-junkie is fired.
Our ex-junkie swears she will never let that happen again. She remembers how she used to manipulate people into giving her money when she was a junkie constantly looking for a fix, so she decides she will just import that skill into the workplace. Now she is equipped to avoid the humiliation of being fired. She gets another job and quickly schemes to get dirt on everyone, throw her weight around, and use all her other manipulative tactics in an effort to secure her work life.
She could have chosen acceptance, but she did not. She may still believe that it was God who saved her from heroin, and the deep identification with the original choice for positive still remains, but the choice to move in the direction of negative in the workplace can potentially overcome this original choice. Either way, the cognitive dissonance in this approach will eventually cause a face-off between the positively polarized parts of the self and the negatively polarized parts of the self.
So, magnetic polarization, though an excellent model for polarity in the sense of STS/STO, is still far from a simple model.
Furthermore, the holographic nature of reality entails that there is also a metaphysical correlate to ionic polarization. I think Tenet Nosce is right to dissociate this kind of polarization from the evolutionary path of choosing to polarize. However, that does not mean it does not play a role.
Ionic polarization, or separation of the positive from the negative, also occurs within the self. I described two opposed aspects of the self in the example of the junkie earlier. This kind of example illustrates the dynamic movements of the positive and negative within the self. When there is a smooth mixture of positive and negative within the self, there is no coherence whatsoever, no consistency, and nothing indicating a direction to move. However, when therre are pockets of polarized particles within the self, some positive, some negative, this creates polarization of the ionic variety. The magnetically polarized groups of particles act as singular units, each with a charge, each attracting the other, yet kept at a distance through whatever mechanism it is that separates them (usually complex belief patterns). The separation of positive and negative is called potential, and it by the existence of this potential that kinetic is possible. In terms of the ex-junkie, the negative attitudes at the workplace in contradistinction to the positive attitudes toward the release of a potent addiction will inevitably attract each other. Their separation creates the potential for an enormous amount of work, visible in the actions that result from inner conflict, energy poured into rationalizations which are designed to maintain the contradiction, and the ultimate drama which will result when the contradiction is faced head-on. Once this contradiction is resolved, the ex-junkie will be extraordinarily empowered in whichever direction she ultimately chooses, for this experience will inevitably give her an abundance of direct experience in terms of polarizing further.
Two perfectly balanced individuals have very little to learn from each other because there is no potential difference between the two and therefore no opportunity for work to be done. This is why complimentary personalities "magnetically attract." My magnetic field is weak or more negative in areas that your magnetic field may be strong or more positive. The converse will be true of you. Thus, when we come together, the potential is released, and I benefit from your strengths, while you benefit from mine. This is the mechanism of ionic polarity at work.
This mechanism also explains the separation which occurs at the end of third density. When each m/b/s complex becomes significantly polarized internally, there is less and less potential for work if the positive and negative units are closely intermingled. Only when they are separated from each other and allowed to increase their collective polarity (again, just as in the microcosm of the self, the ex-junkie being our example), is there great potential for work. Hence, the battle between STO and STS cannot occur unless the two are separated from each other. The purpose of this separation is precisely to experience this battle and the opportunities for service that it offers.
As always, the Choice happens at every moment, through each individual aspect of your self, each having free will, choosing for itself. When the macrocosmic Choice is made (when you are "saved"), this Choice influences the moment-to-moment choices, but it does not determine them, for free will is always and everywhere preserved. This is why two 5-D positive wanderers can incarnate on Venus in an effort to increase the harvest and be surprised (and dismayed) to find out that they had polarized negative in that incarnation.
Magnetic polarization is an excellent metaphor for this concept. Let us explore it further.
Assume that the m/b/s complex is composed of a clustering of particles, each of which has a spin, each a polarity. When the m/b/s complex as a whole is unpolarized, these particles have an apparently random orientation, giving no particularly strong overall polarization. In terms of existence, this generates a weak magnetic field. In terms of ethics, this produces alternately motivated actions: Sometimes you are generous, sometimes stingy. Sometimes you are selfless, sometimes selfish. Sometimes you accept, sometimes you control.
A moment of discovery occurs in the overall being. A coherent pattern is discovered, whether its influence began outside or inside the self is irrelevant. What matters is that the self (the m/b/s complex) discovered within itself the possibility for something more coherent than the confused, wishy-washy, contradictory, ineffective experience of unpolarized existence and ethics. This inner discovery is a unique discovery. Nothing can predict what will cause a m/b/s complex to prefer a coherent experience, nor can anything predict which kind of experience the m/b/s complex will choose, when that complex does choose. This experience, this choice, clearly happens in time/space, where a change occurs in the metaphysical analogue of the self, reflecting down into the physical self, generating more coherent patterns.
In other words, the more powerful magnetic source which can cause further polarization is the inner choice which occurs on a metaphysical level. This is why Christians place such importance upon being "saved." They're talking about this inner change, which cannot be accurately judged by anyone except the m/b/s complex herself.
But, each particle within the self is unique. Hence, each particle within the self has free will. Thus, even though it is a matter of choice to place oneself in the stronger field of the committed (or "initiated," to use a more specific term) time/space self, there are still further choices to be made. Namely, a choice must be made for every single new particle which comes into alignment with the greater field. Even though you are "saved," you still have many, many lessons before you, each one involving a microcosmic experience of the original choice that "saved" you. Furthermore, if you repeatedly choose against the original choice (this becomes especially possible in the case of a person who has only just made the commitment to a path of coherence), you will begin to create a secondary polarity within you which can counteract the effect of the original choice.
So, for example, imagine a heroin addict who has chosen to enjoy life as it is, and not as the heroin makes it. This person now has the capacity to experience genuine acquisition of power (no longer being enslaved to the drug), as well as the capacity to experience genuine love (no longer placing the drug as a higher priority than all other-selves). If said person is on a 12-step program, she will probably choose positive. However, it will soon be discovered that there are an abundance of habits which accompanied the junkie lifestyle, all of which are contradictory in terms of polarity, but subtly so. The newly sober junkie will feel that she is freed from all bondage and will not recognize just how much work is yet to be done. Perhaps she will get a job in a kitchen somewhere. She will discover that many of her abrasive traits drive people away from her and cause her to be a repulsive co-worker. But she has been saved, so maybe it is the fault of the other. If she chooses not to take responsibility for the way in which she is repulsed from her workplace, she is being offered an opportunity to choice either acceptance or control (thus, taking responsibility for the experience), but has refused it. In this way, an individual particle within the self is given the opportunity to choose. In our current case, the choice is deferred. The situation exacerbates and the ex-junkie is fired.
Our ex-junkie swears she will never let that happen again. She remembers how she used to manipulate people into giving her money when she was a junkie constantly looking for a fix, so she decides she will just import that skill into the workplace. Now she is equipped to avoid the humiliation of being fired. She gets another job and quickly schemes to get dirt on everyone, throw her weight around, and use all her other manipulative tactics in an effort to secure her work life.
She could have chosen acceptance, but she did not. She may still believe that it was God who saved her from heroin, and the deep identification with the original choice for positive still remains, but the choice to move in the direction of negative in the workplace can potentially overcome this original choice. Either way, the cognitive dissonance in this approach will eventually cause a face-off between the positively polarized parts of the self and the negatively polarized parts of the self.
So, magnetic polarization, though an excellent model for polarity in the sense of STS/STO, is still far from a simple model.
Furthermore, the holographic nature of reality entails that there is also a metaphysical correlate to ionic polarization. I think Tenet Nosce is right to dissociate this kind of polarization from the evolutionary path of choosing to polarize. However, that does not mean it does not play a role.
Ionic polarization, or separation of the positive from the negative, also occurs within the self. I described two opposed aspects of the self in the example of the junkie earlier. This kind of example illustrates the dynamic movements of the positive and negative within the self. When there is a smooth mixture of positive and negative within the self, there is no coherence whatsoever, no consistency, and nothing indicating a direction to move. However, when therre are pockets of polarized particles within the self, some positive, some negative, this creates polarization of the ionic variety. The magnetically polarized groups of particles act as singular units, each with a charge, each attracting the other, yet kept at a distance through whatever mechanism it is that separates them (usually complex belief patterns). The separation of positive and negative is called potential, and it by the existence of this potential that kinetic is possible. In terms of the ex-junkie, the negative attitudes at the workplace in contradistinction to the positive attitudes toward the release of a potent addiction will inevitably attract each other. Their separation creates the potential for an enormous amount of work, visible in the actions that result from inner conflict, energy poured into rationalizations which are designed to maintain the contradiction, and the ultimate drama which will result when the contradiction is faced head-on. Once this contradiction is resolved, the ex-junkie will be extraordinarily empowered in whichever direction she ultimately chooses, for this experience will inevitably give her an abundance of direct experience in terms of polarizing further.
Two perfectly balanced individuals have very little to learn from each other because there is no potential difference between the two and therefore no opportunity for work to be done. This is why complimentary personalities "magnetically attract." My magnetic field is weak or more negative in areas that your magnetic field may be strong or more positive. The converse will be true of you. Thus, when we come together, the potential is released, and I benefit from your strengths, while you benefit from mine. This is the mechanism of ionic polarity at work.
This mechanism also explains the separation which occurs at the end of third density. When each m/b/s complex becomes significantly polarized internally, there is less and less potential for work if the positive and negative units are closely intermingled. Only when they are separated from each other and allowed to increase their collective polarity (again, just as in the microcosm of the self, the ex-junkie being our example), is there great potential for work. Hence, the battle between STO and STS cannot occur unless the two are separated from each other. The purpose of this separation is precisely to experience this battle and the opportunities for service that it offers.
As always, the Choice happens at every moment, through each individual aspect of your self, each having free will, choosing for itself. When the macrocosmic Choice is made (when you are "saved"), this Choice influences the moment-to-moment choices, but it does not determine them, for free will is always and everywhere preserved. This is why two 5-D positive wanderers can incarnate on Venus in an effort to increase the harvest and be surprised (and dismayed) to find out that they had polarized negative in that incarnation.
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