[BobbiDrake]

...but I have to say something.

I was really upset after I read this article, and had arguments for several points made. The one section that stood out was the paragraph about people who aim for balance in their lives. I 100% disagreed and believe that balance is incredibly important in one's life, especially considering how "unhealthy" selfishness to the exclusion of all else is, and vice versa. So I went to the posts to see if I can get some clarity...

I think the biggest issue is that many of us (myself included) are getting WAY too hung up on the labels here. Someone on the posts (I don't remember who) made the astute point that the concept of polarity was originally introduced in relation to the LoA. The terms lightworker/darkworker are used to boil an abstract concept into a simple term -- and I think the abstract concept is getting lost. The way I think about it is like this: if someone were to ask want you wanted out of "this life," how would you respond? If your answer is self-centered (in some way life ultimately comes back to you -- even to say "All I want is to be happy" or "I want to know that I made a difference"), you're leaning toward darkworker-tendencies. If your answer is universe-centered ("I want to leave this world in a better place than it is today"), you're leaning toward the light. If you're the darkworker, this life is about you -- making sure you get what you want and/or need. This is where fear comes into play, because your mind knows that you are the only thing you can control in life; everything else is external and out of reach. The lightworker looks at the world differently -- "me" is just part of the bigger picture. For lightworkers, life is a web of relationships. There's less fear because you know that life is self-sustaining; putting out energy means that there's more avaliable to sustain this life (including yours) and to create more positive energy.

I think most of us stand on the dark-side looking toward the light-side. The dark-tendencies are a product of our Western culture, a culture that ironically idolizes the light side (really think about "The American Dream" -- the new TV show The Riches pokes fun at the idea). Don't like the way you answered? Start changing your perception of reality, as Steve talks about in his post about "dark love". But ultimately, if you polarize (ie, you embrace whatever direction you face) you're likely to get the best results out of "this life." You see the world clearly, which ever end of the binoculars you look through.

What's interesting from these 2 perspectives is that universal truths like "Life is what you make of it" take on different meanings in the different contexts of reality. I believe that the arguments and frustrations that I'm seeing in the forum stem from the fact that some of us are just worried about figuring out which one we are and whether or not that's a good thing. And I believe my original distaste for the article came from the fact that I was sensing judgement on the part of Mr. Pavlina about polarization vs. non-polarization. Our light/dark leanings are what they are, and Steve's article is what it is.

The question now is: What are we going to do about it?