A proposal

[Jade]

If you have followed a path of negative and wish to switch you must sacrifice your dark power. If you have followed a path of positive and wish to switch you must sacrifice your light power. This is actually seen as archetypal and both stories are told throughout history. The good turning to a path of evil sacrifices all that is good in themselves and their lives. Those who turn from the path of evil to a path of good must take extreme labours to sacrifice the evil they have harboured, often through much suffering. These are tropes that have existed for ages.

Yes, but what we are talking are people who want to be STS today, STO tomorrow, and STS again next week. Eventually there's nothing left to sacrifice upon the altar to show that your intentions are pure. What is being presented in this thread is just a game and a perversion of the pure intentions that Ra also says are important for accruing "power". What I see, is people (GR and sjel who also made basically this same thread but with a very different tone) asking those who want to be of service to others to martyr themselves to allow the OP who needs to let off steam be mean to them. Personally, I feel that as beings already very injured by third density, that there is plenty enough experiential catalyst and daily mirrors to reflect back our shadows. I think it takes deliberate effort to ignore one's shadow while being spiritually aware on the positive path, and I see that projected a lot. As moderator of this forum, I feel that I should help create a space to protect people from being asked to put themselves into positions where they are being abused by someone who may or may not have extreme polarity and the ability to switch back and forth, who knows. What we're talking about might be "cathartic" but it's also just plain mean. There are other means to catharsis that may take longer, but again, on this forum, this is the path that we seek: the slow, deliberate path of making every effort to open the heart - and certainly attempting to avoid indulging in blatant whims to completely close it off.