A question concerning the negative polarity

[Sacred Fool]

I feel a crystallized being is one who is more concerned with seeing themselves in all others, experiencing themselves, therefore evening/balancing experience out..making it regular.

This thread began by questioning how negatively oriented other-selves could be so stupid as to do things which are inherently destructive, not merely to their cause, but to their own survival. It seems to me that we all nurture a very generous capacity for self deception, whereby we tell ourselves that our motivation is one thing when, underneath, it's quite clearly something else. How do you know when you're BSing yourself? How deeply can you detect this? How do you deal with that when you find it? To my mind, spiritual maturity begins here. Without clarity in this department, blather triumphs.

Therefore, I would add to the quote above that a crystallized being also is one with a disciplined capacity to know her own self to very deep levels and great facility for reconciling the inherently opposing and confused forced therein.