’Aion’ Wrote:The idea is that because the state of reality is like a mirror which is reflective of many distorted states then any point you are perceiving evil you are really perceiving a distorted part of yourself. 'Empty' and 'Void' are just words attempting to grasp at that state of 'silent' equilibrium when the cognitive dissonance between opposing concepts is resolved. Thus suggesting the extremes of polarity are held only as far apart as you choose to hold them.
"Cognitive dissonance" in the context of balancing would be incorrect, because cognitive dissonance is the discomfort a person experiences by regarding two opposing realities, one false and one true, to both be true. Just out of interest, the term was first used by Leon Festinger when they infiltrated a UFO cult, to observe the cult members when their leader’s prophecy failed (when saucers didn't land on the lawn to take them away).
When you do the balancing exercises Ra speaks of, you are not attempting to make a truth and a falsity both true. You are balancing characteristics and behaviours which you approve or disapprove of within yourself with their antitheses, both of which are true and real.
’Aion’ Wrote:That is funny how you say 'one who is balanced isn't oblivious to evil, they accept the opposite polarity without judgement', thus creating a further separation by creating a duality of 'balanced' and 'evil'.
Not at all, acceptance of that which you disapprove of doesn’t create further separation, it smoothes out the duality within yourself, it balances the two. The duality already exists in 3D, there’s no getting around that. Rejection creates separation, disharmony and blockages, or "resistance", as per the thread's title.
’Aion’ Wrote:My only point is that what you perceive in reality is either a distorted perception of yourself a distorted perception of another self. I think that trying to polarize things by labeling them as this or that is the exact opposite of this exercise, which I see as an attempt to resolve opposites in to unity. Thus, for me, I would not like to say something is good or evil, I say it is empty or void because for me those are terms which are 'polar-neutral'.
If you don’t "label" or rather identify things as per Ra’s example (male/female + patience/impatience) how are you going to identify it’s anti-thesis in order to balance yourself?
’Aion’ Wrote:That being said, again, that does not mean I 'negate' or ignore evil or good for that matter, it is that I see a point of resolution for them.
Resolution, as you say, would be the goal of these exercises, although I prefer to use the word “harmonise”, which is just the opposite of “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil”.
I also just feel like mentioning that when I use the words “good” and “evil”, I use them in the Ra context, one belonging to the positive polarity and one belonging to the negative polarity, not in a “worldly” sense where the church has bastardised these terms and made one the other and so on, according to their control tactics.