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Originally Posted by Bruce Achterberg  What I think you're missing, Paul, is that Steve originally wrote about polarity in relation to using it with the Law of Attraction (or "intention-manifestation" if you want to call it that instead -- whatever works). Basically, polarity has to do with becoming an effective conduit for universal "Source" energy (which is supposedly unlimited and always readily available, and can neither be created nor destroyed -- it can only change state) such that you can get the content of your intentions "charged" with energy so that they can begin to manifest. Much like a car (read: an intention) will not drive unless it has a battery (read: energy) powering it.
What Steve is basically saying is that the more you master using one particular polarity to energise your intentions, the more effectively your intentions will manifest. And an analogy I like to use in understanding why that works is as follows: Think of a character from an RPG (role playing game). The character starts off at level 1, and has very few abilities available to him (or her, but I’ll just keep saying him since it’s easier) and doesn’t have very high attributes (ie. an attribute might be “strength”, “stamina”, etc). He may be able to do “Sword swing level 1” and have 1 “strength” and 1 “stamina”. But as he gains in-game experience, his levels rise. The more experience he gains, the more his levels rise. A level 99 RPG character will have many more abilities, more powerful abilities, and higher attributes then a level 1 character (eg. Sword swing level 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, as well as advanced sword swing levesl 1 to 5, and 99 strength and 99 stamina). For example, a level 99 character might be able to chop down a tree with his high level of strength and carry it home for firewood, while a level 1 character might struggle with chopping down much smaller tree, and may not even be able to carry it yet at his level of strength.
So bringing this back to polarity, the more you master working with polarity (which is what is the key here -- learning how to control the energy, not so much “polarising”, which is merely a step in the process of learning how to work with it), the more options you have available, and the more powerful those options are. Now these options will manifest in physical form somehow and won’t always remain conceptual (ie. if your intention is to have more money and you eventually manifest 5 million dollars, you’ll have more options/power then someone who has 5 bucks), but your ability to control this energy is what’s important. Whatever you manifest in physical reality is merely a reflection of you’re the energy you already know how to control and use to energise your intentions (which consist of content until you energise them).
The funny thing is it seems everyone's gotten so confused with the polarisation concept, that they forgot "why" Steve was writing about it in the first place (again, for use with the LoA -- correct me if I'm wrong, Steve). The good news is that even if you don't believe in the LoA and all that stuff, you can easily replace the word "intention" with "goal", and "energy" with "motivation", and the concept of polarity still holds strong (a sign of a good concept -- universality).
As for whether or not all of this actually plays out in reality, as with most of what Steve writes, I’d advise you to experiment with it yourself. Instead of trying to figure out whether or not it works by looking at the concept, figure out if it works by trying to get some results first (it's kind of hard to know if you can chop down a tree in an RPG if you don't try it first and see if it's even something you can do in the game, let alone something you can do at your level of strength). Read-fire-aim.  |
See, I get what you're saying. I believe in LoA. I have been using it effectively for YEARS, and have had a lot of success. I would equate my level of success in life to that of Steve's (although I'm a few years younger), just that for me I didn't use blogging to make money. Besides that everything else is the same.
Now, having said that, I understand everything except the concept of polarizing in one direction. What I mean is WHY? I can understand polarizing in one direction PER intention, but why must we polarize our whole lives in one direction to speed up transcending levels of consciousness?
Let's say that I decide to pursue 5 intentions with the polarized intention of a darkworker, meaning with energy flowing into ME from the universe. Then I also decide to pursue 5 intentions with the polarized intention of a lightworker, meaning with the energy flowing OUT from me to the universe. If I did that, why would I be transcending levels of consciousness SLOWER than Steve who decides to just focus on 10 lightworker intentions or 10 darkworker intentions?
The reason I don't get this is because I see real life examples of exactly the opposite being true. Meaning, I see that the true fastest path of moving through the levels of consciousness is to tap into BOTH powers of darkworker AND lightworker and increase their magnitude while being balanced.
Meaning, lets look at it mathematically.
Let's say we have 10 energy units to "spend" on our character.
Steve would setup his character like this:
Darkworking: 0
Lightworking: +10
I would setup my character like this:
Darkworking: +5
Lightworking: +5
Then lets say over the next 3 months we each work on stuff and doing that stuff we both move up to the level of having 30 energy units each. Now Steve's character would look like this:
Darkworking: 0
Lightworking: +30
Mine would look like this:
Darkworking: +15
Lightworking: +15
Now, my point is that we both have 30 energy units invested in our character and with each unit invested, we move up on the consciousness path. What I don't get is why does spending all your energy units in ONE DIRECTION make things go faster?
In an RPG scenario it's like building up a specialty class character, versus a utility class character. Yes, you can built a specialty class who can maybe do a lot of DAMAGE or a lot of HEALING, but it is JUST AS EFFECTIVE to play a utility class that does decent DAMAGE and also can do decent HEALING.
If you don't believe me, try playing World of Warcraft for a while and you'll see just how powerful utility classes can be. No, they aren't as good at dealing damage (darkworking) as a specialty class, but they still kick butt because their healing abilities (lightworking) give them an extra edge. In combat, it might take a bit longer for them to kill you, but they will be healing themselves along the way so it's really hard to kill them too.
I know we're just going off topic here with video games, but all I'm trying to say is WHY are we making the assumption that picking one polarity makes you go faster up the consciousness tree? I don't get it. It seems totally counterintuitive to me that it would work that way.
Imagine these scenarios:
1) Everyone on earth becomes a lightworker and they all start a blog and offer free articles to the world. Who's left to read them? Everyone's busy writing, nobody is reading them.
2) Everyone on earth becomes a darkworker and they all start looking for free articles to read. Since nobody is writing any articles, there's nothing to read!
3) Everyone on earth, in a balanced way, spends time writing articles that they feel provide value to the world in their unique way, and also spend time reading articles of others who wrote things.
Doesn't scenario 3 intuitively feel like the best scenario?