The Polarity of Non-Duality

[APeacefulWarrior]

The positive polarity attempts to see through the illusion to the Creator in each mind/body/spirit complex, but for the greater part is concerned with behaviors and thoughts directed towards other-selves in order to be of service. This attitude in itself is full of the stuff of your third-density illusion.

That's an interesting quote, implying that there's something about the illusion and manifesting the underlying unity within it through our actions that is important.  But, again, I think the ultimate telos of existence is probably something we don't approach with the intellect.

That's so dissatisfying.  I suck.

It is sort of a perplexing quote, I think one which I can see both supporting the positive polarity/non-duality viewpoint, but perhaps even negating it. I appropriated it to support my argument, but maybe there's more to it.

You don't suck  :exclamation:

My take on that quote is that it's more or less saying "Positive 3D entities tend to judge others based on their outward behavior." Rather than trying to distinguish what is truly at the "heart" of an entity they're observing -the underlying impulses- they instead attempt to judge resulting actions as being pos or neg. But actions simply are as they are, while true positivity or negativity is in the soul, so to speak.

I think a good example of this might be the subset of so-called SJWs who become completely fixated on language, which is very literally the thoughts directed at Other-Selves. Rather than examining a person's background and philosophy and mindset, they attempt to determine whether someone is racist or sexist or such based only on which words they use. So while these folks undoubtedly desire to be of service to others, they pick a very poor standard of comparison for determining which services to offer. After all, words are almost entirely ephemeral, and "preferred nomenclature" changes nearly as often as the weather these days.

Like, I remember one post in particular that ended up on Reddit's "/r/SRS" community, which is rather infamous for this point of view. An older gentleman (in his 70s iirc) had written a rather lengthy post that detailed how he had been born into a hugely racist time and place, and the struggles he had faced over the course of his life coming to recognize and respect black people as people, rather than seeing them as a scary other/non-person. However, because he still used the word "colored" in his post, he was roundly derided as a racist sh*tlord. All his actual content and meaning was ignored, and he was judged only on a piece of outdated terminology he had never replaced.

That, I think, basically illustrates what Ra was talking about.