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Originally Posted by Eric Revelin

To get caught up in polarization is utter nonsense. I believe in yin and yang. I believe both are absolutely necessary and the healthiest approach for most people isn't to be pure yin or pure yang but rather to embrace the middle ground. That's where most of us fall anyways.

There are times when one strongly embodies light or shadow but there is never a time when he's completely rid of one or the other. That's a good thing; to accomplish that feat would mean becoming less than human. People who can lead healthy and fulfilling lives while constantly on the extreme end of one polarity are rare, if they exist.

most of the examples of the extreme are in the syndrome of their workerness.

This is somewhat off-topic, but the core issue is perfection, or rather our skewed definition of it. It stems from religious and societal conditioning. There's this idea that only half of what we are is good and praiseworthy and the rest needs to be scorned and tossed aside. While I don't see one side bashing the other on this forum (at least not to the same extreme I've seen in other places) there's a strong tendency within the human species to attack whatever embodies the things we dislike in ourselves. Arguing over polarity and the precise definition of light and dark only strengthens that tendency.

also that is projection of our shadow selves. to try to be a lightworker or darkworker may require us to deny part of us and then project it outside of our persona, which then make us see it in others, when they might not be that way. I can't seem to use the polarity idea, and when I try to I end up projecting and seeing something outside of myself that is my shadow self, which I really need to claim and become whole and move on.

We've already got a strong idea of what "good" and "evil" are. It seems that every discussion on these subjects raises the same points and eventually winds around in a circle. What's far more important is where and how they overlap. That angle has been explored just as thoroughly but it hasn't broken into the mass consciousness.

glad someone else is finding it kind of circular to try to make polarity "work". The overlapping is very apparent to me in how but the DW or LW can not do too much of their tendency or method/way or they become syndrome candidates.

As cliché as it is, every light casts a shadow. I'm glad many people here are willing to acknowledge that. However, if these concepts are so flawed, it may be better to do away with them and create something new that accounts for more aspects of the same ideals. Rather, people are too complicated to be neatly labeled and tucked into specific categories. The ones that aren't are usually the ones who whittle away at their own personality until they fit a specific definition, at which point they aren't even themselves anymore.

yeah, no need to use polarity if I don't get it. then Steve's saying I'm going to have difficulty making decisions and be not as effective. Why would it be bad to seek wholeness instead of trying to get somewhere/be effective (produce gains for self or others) by fitting my behavior into a definition?