[Kingston]

I assume you know the walk and talk of investing, business and economics. If you don't understand a term or concept, look it up on the web.

This is for more polarized darkworkers, but everyone can benefit.

Dynamic says:

""how can i manage my karmic risk profile?
how should i approach relationships from this polarity/LoA perspective?
i am used to working with chaos magick and perspective shifting, how does polarity play into this? Steve seems to believe you will weaken yourself i you adopt an opposite polarity.

i have manifested is a prestigious internship (which i find im not enjoying very much lately
increase my grades, and a couple of one night stands (i actually sigilized both the desire to get with a lot of girls and also to discover girlfriend caliber women which hasn't happened yet""

OK

Remember: Darkworkers only give to gain more later. They like to give so they can feel their true pleasure, getting, even more. Giving is only an investment with an expected positive return.

First lets put the language of finance in its proper place. From the dawn of time, all living things, people included, have had to manage their energy supply. To survive they needed to get energy from the environment, and build their bodies, to keep them warm, and to move and procreate, and to compete for more energy (the physics kind of energy, the one that is measured in Joules, not the new-agey kind). Unconsciously they adapted their behavior, and their decision are always retraceable to the management of this economy of energy.

When the first city states formed, people specialized their labour and a medium was needed for the efficient exchange of energy. We call it "money", the general abstraction of created value. All value depends on energy. The last three hundred years the understanding of time, money and economics advanced. We have a stock market.

Now remember the relation between money and energy, money and value, and the role of the (stock)market (the highly conscious management of scarce energy). Now you can see how they are the same thing, and we can start applying the language of finance to the usage of energy (again, the physics kind). During the day you take in energy (food mostly), and keep it with you with clothing (which take energy to produce), and expend it by moving. Now you can see how they are the same thing, and we can start applying the language of finance to the usage of energy (again, the physics kind) Production and consumption have both positive and negative externalities. If you don't know what that is, look it up before reading further.

Here the similarity ends, and we make an analogy to make a clear definition of karma:

Finance is an abstraction of physical energy. Attention is an abstraction of karma. Attention is a precondition of consciousness and experience. We become conscious of what we attend to. If we apply the language of finance to attention, we can start speculating (hedging!) karma. WARNING: Karma is much harder to pinpoint than physical energy, so hedging karma is even more difficult than playing the stock market or doing business! But then again, the potential gain (inflow) is much greater also. The reason is that both the positive and negative externalities are so vast, that our attention can never perceive them. They are invisible because of Godel's Incompleteness Theorem.

But as with money, you can ALWAYS be certain the externalities exist, and if you are aware of a few of them involving an intention, you get a chance.

So much for theory, lets show some examples. These are little stories from varied perspectives. They are like a finger pointing to the moon. They all point in a different direction, but at the crossing of their implication lies a mystery that goes beyond language.You and I can never talk about it, but if we progress we can intuit and draw from this mystery. DO NOT keep staring at the finger!

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Warren Buffet is a famous investor, and a high class darkworker in our book. From a very early age he expressed a desire to rich, and has dedicated EVERY FIBER of his being to this goal, which he off course reached. He became the second richest man in the world, with a lot less drama than the richest, and famous and revered. A highly successful darkworker indeed. He has a wife, a girlfriend, a few kids, and a house he paid $100.000 for way decades back. And he has a beach house he goes to for studying. And all the years he worked there, he never even went for near the water. When someone asked him in the sixties, "Warren, why you drive that old, tattered Volkswagen Beetle, you are rich enough for a nice car. A good one costs only $15.000!" He responded: "15.000 dollars?! Do you know how much that will be worth in 20 years if I invest that?!"

Commentary
The positive and negative externalities are largely invisible, but you can sense the HUGE karmic debts he has paid of over the years for reaching his awesome goal: If you think away the money, all that's left is a boring, mediocre, dry person that never has an adventure outside the office, and has nothing to talk about or to show for. He might as well have been a modal worker to reach the same lifestyle. He NEVER spend any of the money he made on himself, he was to busy making money. Now he has giving most of it to the foundation of the other guy. That is positive karma, but not for him personally. He doesn't care what happens to it, because he does not enjoy giving. It is just some superficial PR, and he doesn't know how to handle it. He has no use for it. I wonder what he will think on his deathbed: Maybe, "I saved thousands of lives, but all MY life I have not lived. Now it is too late." He will see the darkness of his fate to its full extend.

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