Thank you, grazia, thank you so much
That cleared up sooooooo many questions I've had regarding how to reconcile the two paradigms, Hawkins and Polarity. I'm also a student of Dr. Hawkins and I was really trying to figure it out, since this site is full of very high LOC people (Courage to Unconditional Love), and a mistaken or incomplete ideology can wreck absolute havoc when channeled through this select group of influential people.
Coincidentally this was what I intuitively perceived while typing up another post:
"I'm still not sure if I fully buy the polarity concept -- IMO, and this is based on my own personal experiences, darkworker represents the levels of consciousness from Fear/Desire on up to Reason, which is where darkworking really dominates over lightworking as a viable source of intentions and motivation. But beyond that seems to be complete lightworker territory, which is where love dominates over everything else. I don't think Steve's concept of darkworkers' self-love and respect cuts it, either
I don't see it as a polarity as much as say, stages in consciousness.
I can see how it may seem like a polarity, since LOC is logarithmic (not specifically denoting power in terms of quantity, but also quality), and so 500-600 can seem just as wide as 100-499, and I think most of the conscious darkworkers are around 400+ and have just as much visible success as lightworkers in the 500s, which makes it seem like if you're darkworking you can keep raising your consciousness and stay a darkworker. However, this doesn't seem to bear out in reality, which explains why there aren't any enlightened darkworkers, or even the darkworking equivalent of unconditional love, which is unconditional self-acceptance."
Of course, there are lots of holes in my explanation and I didn't mean it to be anything concrete -- there are lightworkers with LOC below 500, for one -- but the main idea is there. The duality of lightworker and darkworker isn't resolved by the fact that both lead to the same place, but by the fact that they are gradations / levels of only one Love. Or as grazia said, every LOC has its upside and downside.
I would also like to add that as human beings we can only perceive the physical plane, or if more evolved, the astral/celestial planes, but that is our limitation. A darkworker and lightworker can appear to have the same outward manifestations, but the ramifications in formless consciousness can be drastically different. I recognize the mind's limitation in discerning truth from falsehood, which is why I rely heavily on Dr. Hawkins' work and calibrations to guide me, as the answers spring forth from the collective consciousness / Akashic Records / Matrix / Reality and not on human conceptualizations of physical form.
Calibrations on Hitler, Castro, Lenin, Arafat, Napoleon Bonaparte, etc. show that they started out with noble intentions and LOC of ~450, then dropped all they way down to below 200. You could make the argument that this drop was due to their darkworker "polarization". Hey, Hitler nearly succeeded with his power-grab -- I think he is the ultimate darkworker in recent times. We can't say that he was being a low-level "halfassed" darkworker, either. All this stems from the fact that they were at the level of Reason and the mind cannot tell truth from falsehood. Likewise, the polarity concept also makes sense at the level of mind, but I am not sure if it can stand up to spiritual scrutiny.
Would love additional discussion on this, I think it is critically important to fully understand all of it, in all of its ramifications, before people start "polarizing" one way or another. I especially wish to hear Steve's comments and how he addresses these points.