Negative Polarity & BDSM

[Ray711]

I would be careful about focusing too much upon such concepts as "vigilance" and "control"

These are concepts based in fear and struggle, which negative seekers use in their pursuit of meaning. The positice path is one of acceptance and abundance. Remember how in the Lovers card, Ra said the Right Handed path requires no protection? Give thought to that before embracing such concepts as "vigilance"

I agree with the notion of fear and struggle not being necessary, but I find it very important to analyze as much as one can the real reasons for the activities and thoughts that one engages in.

Like Jung said: "Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."

And Ra themselves said: "Those truly helpless are those who have not consciously chosen but who repeat patterns without knowledge of the repetition or the meaning of the pattern."

Patterns coming from the lower triad of chakras can have a blind spot, in the sense that they are evidently and undeniably pleasurable/beneficial to the self in one way, while carrying a subtle and less obvious inconvenience that harms the self or other-selves. Without a strong will and desire to examine these patterns, they will simply continue on.

My interpretation of the protection that we have on the positive path is different from the one I believe you have expressed. I think it's very specifically mental protection. I don't think it entails anything more. I believed in the kind of physical protection for a while, and even on the notion that the universe had changed a life-long pattern in my life circumstances as a reward for having entered into the spiritual life, until this situation changed into an even harsher repetition of the very same catalyst I had already experienced so many times before getting into spirituality. To think that we're physically protected on the STO path can entail great narcissism, which might bring about catalyst inciting towards adopting a position of humbleness. The key then, I believe, is not what happens outside, but one's internal reaction to the external. I'll quote Ra:

The seeker which has purely chosen the service-to-others path shall certainly not have a variant apparent incarnational experience. There is no outward shelter in your illusion from the gusts, flurries, and blizzards of quick and cruel catalyst.

However, to the pure, all that is encountered speaks of the love and the light of the One Infinite Creator. The cruelest blow is seen with an ambiance of challenges offered and opportunities to come. Thusly, the great pitch of light is held high above such an one so that all interpretation may be seen to be protected by light.