The best way to learn about this topic is by reading Steve's posts on it, which I've listed below. If you want a quicker version, right after that is a brief FAQ to get you started.
STEVE'S ARTICLES ON POLARITY
Steve wrote articles about polarization in two bursts, once in early 2007 and another time in 2008. As they were coming out one after the other, these first posts read like a long conversation, which starts out making a general explanation and then moving onto concrete examples to illustrate. The general explanation, the really important posts for you to get, are these ones:
Now the examples.
How to use polarity in your career and life path:
Polarity and Your Career
What it really means to polarise:
Are You a Lightworker or a Darkworker?
Exploring the polarity concept in the context of health:
Polarity and Health
A real-life example of tackling a situation with different energies:
Polarized Problem-Solving
How love and fear polarities converge:
Darkworkers, Lightworkers, and Levels of Consciousness
More on that:
For Love of Evil
In April to May 2008 Steve wrote three more articles, which explore more on how to live in this time of intense conflict between the two sides. I actually cried while reading the first one.
An inspiring post about the call to defend the greater good:
Rise of the Lightworker
Are darkworkers evil?
Are Darkworkers Evil?
How to be a lightworker:
Lightworking
POLARITY FAQ
What's polarity?
In short... there are two energies that are powerfully motivating to an individual, but which are incompatible, namely, love and fear. Each energy entails a way of viewing the world and a way of living. For most people it's not intuitive that these two energies should be incompatible, but they are.
Prove it!
I can't really, but if you think, study and observe you might be able to verify this in your own experience. Really, Steve isn't trying to make just a theory or a philosophy which you can chat about in your comfy armchair. This information is supposed to be a tool which will be of use to you in your development.
Can I polarise to a "greyworker"?
No. If you think you can be half-way it means you really don't get what Steve was talking about. Read his articles again. If that doesn't work, go out and get some experience, or go in and get some insight, to see if you can fit what he's saying into the real world.
Is darkworking Evil? Is lightworking Good?
Don't get hung up on words, but yes and no. No, in that "evil" often implies a judgement, such as saying that something is fundamentally wrong and needs to be cut neatly out of our reality so that we can go back to being comfortable with ourselves. Darkworking is destructive, but nothing is "wrong" because there is no ultimate authority around to tell us what to do. We have free will.
Darkworking could be considered evil if by evil you mean the sort of people who are normally given this description: Hitler, Nero, George Bush, Henry Ford, Ronald MacDonald, all of these people are/were Darkworkers.
Don't trust clowns.
What would Steve's TLP framework look like from a darkworker perspective?
You might be interested in this post:
Darkworkers - Steve's 7 Universal Principles
In general our forum user Plato is a great source on polarity, particularly from a darkworker perspective (though as yet he hasn't fully polarised). In
this thread he clears up a lot of questions, and you can also search his name for lots more. Beware, though, if you stare too deep into the abyss, they say, the abyss stares back into you...
Do you NEED fear to be a darkworker?
Yes... you do. Don't believe me though. Investigate.
Investigate?
Investigate.
But I'm too lazy!
Oh.
But really, "getting it" can be hard. If few people are really polarised in this world, not so many more people really understand what it means to polarise. When you get it, though, you see this dynamic everywhere. Read and reread Steve's articles until what he's saying makes obvious sense to you. The acid test is that your new understanding should make things simpler ("Oh! I was in a fear-based enterprise all this time! No wonder I felt so apathetic and drained of energy. This explains so much!") and not more complicated ("I'd like to go buy some sweets but I don't know if my new alignment as Lawful Neutral Beigeworker +1 with extra baubles on is going to suffer for this decision. Maybe I should think of repolarising to tealworker or even navy-blue?").
When you're ready, try asking some questions. Don't expect it to be necessarily easy, though.
Last thoughts
I hope this FAQ has been of use to you! If you have more questions please ask. Your inner guidance, that is. Then us.
Love and light,
Andrew