[impaul99]

I think most of us in this thread agree that SELFWorker and WORLDWorker are clear enough terms to continue with the discussion. Anyone who still wants to use Dark/Lightworker can do that if they want, but I"ll just translate and use SELFWorker/WORLDWorker in my mind.

Having said that, I will now throw something else out in support of my theory that "the middle path" is the path towards enlightenment, not polarization. In other words, I believe that we must embrace both SELF Love and WORLD Love in order to reach true love.

I want to now draw your attention to Steve's values for his Pavlina company to illustrate a point. Now, granted, I don't know the true intentions Steve had while writing this, but I will use his detailed descriptions as a hint towards what his intentions were. Take a look at my take on his company values. Remember that he's defining a corporate entity's values, so a corporate entity is just like an individual except that it can have many employees instead of just one body. So as a corporation, everyone within the corporation, all the employees are SELF. It's like cells in a body. All of the corporation's "customers" are WORLD. So within that context take a look at this:

Intelligence - consciousness, awareness, knowledge, accuracy, clarity, depth, wisdom. Pavlina makes conscious, strategic choices in order to provide tremendous value to the people it serves. It builds a staff of smart, self-aware people in order to leverage their combined intelligence, talents, and skills to serve the highest good of all.

Notice that "Intelligence" is #1 on the values list, above all others. Intelligence is the domain of the ego, since true spirit already has infinite intelligence. To me, this implies that the #1 thing that's important to the company is the attainment of intelligence and then the sharing of it with the public. Nothing wrong with that. I just wanted to point out that on the level of consciousness, this is closer to REASON than LOVE. Love doesn't come into the values until #3 spot.

Contribution - service, value, making a difference, impact, creativity. This is an outlet for creative people to make a positive difference in the world, not a hive of unconscious worker drones. Helping people comes first, and generating income is important to the degree it can increase our capacity to serve. Provide outstanding value so efficiently that people question how we can possibly be making money.

This to me still has some SELFWorker intention behind it. WORLDWorker's wouldn't even mention generating income, they would just trust that it will come anyways just like we trust the sun will rise tomorrow. I'm not saying WORLDWorker's wouldn't accept income (WORLDWorker syndrome), I'm just saying it wouldn't even enter their minds.

To me, this shows that there is a SELFWorker flavor to this company.

Unconditional love - compassion, empathy, brotherhood, caring, friendship. This is a love-polarized business, staffed by people who genuinely care about each other, the people they serve, and the world at large. No matter how big the business becomes, we treat people like real human beings, not numbers or dollar signs. We give because we’ve made a conscious decision to do so, not because it is forced upon us.

In our definitions, "love polarized" doesn't mean anything. It simply means you're moving up the LOC scale. We would have to know whether it's SELF Love or WORLD Love polarized. Reading it again, it seems BOTH. The staff care about eachother, and the world. I see both SELF/WORLD love here. Further evidence towards my theory of balancing them out.

Honor - honesty, integrity, fairness, courage. We muster the courage to do what is right, especially when it isn’t easy, popular, or profitable. Honest mistakes can be readily forgiven, but intentional dishonesty, deception, and cowardice have no place here. It’s OK to be human, but it’s not OK to hide from our humanity.

This is another way of saying "We will not go in the direction of fear" in my opinion.

Effectiveness - success, competency, efficiency, order, resourcefulness. To maximize our service, we must constantly strive to be more disciplined, organized, skillful, and productive. We push ourselves to continually develop our talents and raise our standards of personal excellence, more than anyone else would reasonably expect of us. We must strive to provide value that is received and integrated, not merely consumed and forgotten.

Transaltion: To be good WORLDWorkers, we must first be good SELFWorkers.
Further evidence to support my claim of balance.

Joy - passion, spirit, fun, humor, fulfillment. Work must be fun and fulfilling. We balance the intensity of our mission with light-hearted playfulness and a relaxed work environment. A paycheck, even a substantial one, is the least of our rewards. We must become the change we want to see in the world.

What if helping the world totally and completely involved non-fun? No go? Then at least partly the business is SELFWorker polarized. Further down "we must become the change we want to see in the world." is like basically the MANTRA of a SELFWorker. Doesn't get any more clear then that.

Prosperity - growth, improvement, expansion, abundance. To help other people create abundance, we must embrace it ourselves. This business deserves to grow, since that will increase its capacity to serve more people. If we keep our hearts and minds focused on giving, we will never know scarcity.

"This business deserves to grow" <--- SELFWorker talking... "since that will increase its capacity to serve more people" <---- Justification, or more acurately just pointing out the fact that when we HELP OURSELVES, we actually HELP THE WORLD.

From my perspective I see Steve's Values for his business riddled with WORLDWorker and SELFWorker intentions. They are both intermixed in a perfect balance that will help to form a company that will be successful.

Perhaps the whole point of this polarization thing, from the get go can be summarized in this sentence from his Unconditional Love value: "This is a love-polarized business". Which to me signifies only one thing. It signifies that Steve is POLARIZING his ascention up the Levels of Consciousness scale in one direction, and one direction only: "LOVE". He isn't picking SELF Love or WORLD Love, he's picking BOTH.

Perhaps this whole time, the thing he's been wanting to intellectually explain from his inner self was that it was time to make a decision to start going UP the LOC scale once and for all and stick to it, instead of waffling and going back and forth between FEAR and LOVE like most of us do. Not only that, it's not just good enough to do it in one area of your life, he wants to do it in ALL the areas of his life, whether that be writing articles or dealing with his kids, or dealing with a service provider who's acting stupid.

If that's the case, the two "flaws" that I see in Steve's whole Polarity theory are:
(1) Not realizing that SELFLove and WORLDLove are both needed, and do not need to be exclusive, but rather they should be combined.
(2) FEAR polarization does NOT lead to enlightenment. It moves you down the consciousness scale towards the level of 1 which I think is the consciousness level of a bacteria if I remember correctly. Unless the next level of consciousness from 1 down is 0 and 0 equals enlightenment because you become so simple that your ego disappears or something, in which case Steve is correct. That would mean that something with the consciousness level of 0 = enlightened. Would a rock be consciousness level 0? Are rocks enlightened?