Creating a Shield

[Patrick]

My meaning is in the context of self-empowerment. Someone who smiles at all their other-selves, someone who makes all feel welcomed in their presence, someone who loves and accepts ALL their other-selves exactly the way they are. Someone like that is IMHO very much walking the STO path. Never offering to help, because the other self is seen as perfect already and do not need help. Never offering an opinion, because the other self didn't ask for one and already contains everything it needs within its self.

What I'm saying is that this someone could also be seen as very self-centered by other-selves.

That's definitely a challenge because of how others-oriented I think about becoming. I tend to think STO is exactly the opposite of what you said.

I come back to this quote in these instances.

80.11 Questioner: Could I say, then, that implicit in the process of becoming adept is the seeming polarization towards service to self because the adept becomes disassociated with many of his kind?

Ra: I am Ra. This is likely to occur. The apparent happening is disassociation whether the truth is service to self and thus true disassociation from other-selves or service to others and thus true association with the heart of all other-selves and disassociation only from the illusory husks which prevent the adept from correctly perceiving the self and other-self as one.

To put it more simply. As long as you are not trying to use others for your own benefit, you are not polarizing STS. That does not mean you are polarizing STO though. But for me, anyone not polarizing STS is STO.

That is why we often see the requirement for STS harvest at 5% STO and not at 95% STS.