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Originally Posted by Andrew Gubb  Hitler thought he was pretty awesome, it's true. But calling him "little more" than a narcissist would be an understatement.  |
I don't know. Wasn't he fairly short? Regardless it's obvious that he was pathetic.
He's a fascinating figure, though. I think he was a wannabe lightworker gone rogue. He really thought he was building a better world, and did what he did for Germany as opposed to himself. He cared more about its honor than he did about his own. But how did he think of himself? Did he think he was indispensable in fulfilling the vision of the Third Reich? How would he have responded had he been asked to sacrifice himself before the war was lost? That would have made him far easier to understand.
I agree he was a narcissist. Beyond that I can't say for certain.
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If you're talking about the giving and recieving of value, then it should be said that it's impossible to focus on one to the exclusion of the other. But the light is creative, while the ego is destructive.
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But ego is not darkness. Darkness is merely another aspect of the divine.
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They don't do it to be holy, they do it because it's what they are. They choose to give themselves to the light, which means accepting all the light's gifts but also being shaped by the light.
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And darkworkers don't hate without purpose, they hate when there is a threat that needs to be destroyed. Sure, what I am underneath all of this can't be harmed, but what I am here is temporal. It is balance; I become the means by which the threat is quelled. If I myself become the threat, then I too will suffer that fate. Power without wisdom breeds destruction. This is why, in my perspective, it is absurd to posit that lightworkers can exist without a true opposite. If there are spiritually service-oriented people and egotistical sevice-oriented people (egos who really think they're acting altruistically when they're not), the same must be true of the opposite polarity otherwise it is a false duality.
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No, the ego is dark. I'm not shunning it because of that. It has its place.
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But if darkness exists beyond ego, it doesn't make any sense to declare that one must be egotistical to walk a dark path. Of course neither light nor dark exist beyond ego, beyond duality, but duality is the framework within which we advance.
People on the dark road can be very spiritual, very restrained, and even compassionate. Like you said, you can't focus completely on either the in-breath or the out-breath, but you can advance while focusing mainly on one or the other. That's what polarity is. I merely contest that one can focus on the in-breath without being dominated by the ego.