POLARITY FAQ v0.1: What the hell is darkworking? What the heaven is lightworking?

[Andrew Gubb]

The best way to learn about this topic is by reading Steve's posts on it, which I've listed below. If you want a quicker version, right after that is a brief FAQ to get you started.


STEVE'S ARTICLES ON POLARITY

Steve wrote articles about polarization in two bursts, once in early 2007 and another time in 2008. As they were coming out one after the other, these first posts read like a long conversation, which starts out making a general explanation and then moving onto concrete examples to illustrate. The general explanation, the really important posts for you to get, are these ones:

Polarity

Polarization

Now the examples.

How to use polarity in your career and life path:

Polarity and Your Career

What it really means to polarise:

Are You a Lightworker or a Darkworker?

Exploring the polarity concept in the context of health:

Polarity and Health

A real-life example of tackling a situation with different energies:

Polarized Problem-Solving

How love and fear polarities converge:

Darkworkers, Lightworkers, and Levels of Consciousness

More on that:

For Love of Evil


In April to May 2008 Steve wrote three more articles, which explore more on how to live in this time of intense conflict between the two sides. I actually cried while reading the first one.

An inspiring post about the call to defend the greater good:

Rise of the Lightworker

Are darkworkers evil?

Are Darkworkers Evil?

How to be a lightworker:

Lightworking


POLARITY FAQ


What's polarity?

In short... there are two energies that are powerfully motivating to an individual, but which are incompatible, namely, love and fear. Each energy entails a way of viewing the world and a way of living. For most people it's not intuitive that these two energies should be incompatible, but they are.

Prove it!

I can't really, but if you think, study and observe you might be able to verify this in your own experience. Really, Steve isn't trying to make just a theory or a philosophy which you can chat about in your comfy armchair. This information is supposed to be a tool which will be of use to you in your development.

Can I polarise to a "greyworker"?

No. If you think you can be half-way it means you really don't get what Steve was talking about. Read his articles again. If that doesn't work, go out and get some experience, or go in and get some insight, to see if you can fit what he's saying into the real world.

Is darkworking Evil? Is lightworking Good?

Don't get hung up on words, but yes and no. No, in that "evil" often implies a judgement, such as saying that something is fundamentally wrong and needs to be cut neatly out of our reality so that we can go back to being comfortable with ourselves. Darkworking is destructive, but nothing is "wrong" because there is no ultimate authority around to tell us what to do. We have free will.

Darkworking could be considered evil if by evil you mean the sort of people who are normally given this description: Hitler, Nero, George Bush, Henry Ford, Ronald MacDonald, all of these people are/were Darkworkers.

Don't trust clowns.

What would Steve's TLP framework look like from a darkworker perspective?

You might be interested in this post:

Darkworkers - Steve's 7 Universal Principles

In general our forum user Plato is a great source on polarity, particularly from a darkworker perspective (though as yet he hasn't fully polarised). In this thread he clears up a lot of questions, and you can also search his name for lots more. Beware, though, if you stare too deep into the abyss, they say, the abyss stares back into you...

Do you NEED fear to be a darkworker?

Yes... you do. Don't believe me though. Investigate.

Investigate?

Investigate.

But I'm too lazy!

Oh.

But really, "getting it" can be hard. If few people are really polarised in this world, not so many more people really understand what it means to polarise. When you get it, though, you see this dynamic everywhere. Read and reread Steve's articles until what he's saying makes obvious sense to you. The acid test is that your new understanding should make things simpler ("Oh! I was in a fear-based enterprise all this time! No wonder I felt so apathetic and drained of energy. This explains so much!") and not more complicated ("I'd like to go buy some sweets but I don't know if my new alignment as Lawful Neutral Beigeworker +1 with extra baubles on is going to suffer for this decision. Maybe I should think of repolarising to tealworker or even navy-blue?").

When you're ready, try asking some questions. Don't expect it to be necessarily easy, though.


Last thoughts

I hope this FAQ has been of use to you! If you have more questions please ask. Your inner guidance, that is. Then us.

Love and light,

Andrew

[Brutha]

Darkworking could be considered evil if by evil you mean the sort of people who are normally given this description: Hitler, Nero, George Bush, Henry Ford, Ronald MacDonald, all of these people are/were Darkworkers.

I don't think that it's possible from the outside to make decisions whether those people are darkworkers.
I also don't consider Hitler to be one (we even had a forum thread on that question) as he was heavily driven by principles. Those principles just aren't the ones most people consider to be good or moral.

In short... there are two energies that are powerfully motivating to an individual, but which are incompatible, namely, love and fear. Each energy entails a way of viewing the world and a way of living. For most people it's not intuitive that these two energies should be incompatible, but they are.

I think it's less confusing to call the energy light and dark.

[CroMagna]

How will we ever know if this is actually even implementable and verifiable?

[Eric Revelin]

Try it. There's no way to verify it beyond your own experience.

[nhaasch]

Can I polarise to a "greyworker"?

No. If you think you can be half-way it means you really don't get what Steve was talking about. Read his articles again. If that doesn't work, go out and get some experience, or go in and get some insight, to see if you can fit what he's saying into the real world.

Based on your definition of polarity this is true, however, your definition of polarity is actually an application of polarity.

I'll suggest you reread steve first article polarity. The concept of polarity is more abstract then :
love / fear
dark worker / lightworker

Polarity has to with the energy being exchanged from two opposites. When the two opposites(poles) are brought together they cancel each other out and there is no energy. When the two opposites(poles) are clearly separate and you polarize to one of them there is lots of energy.

The thing with polarity is the two opposite could be any opposites. In your example they are love / fear or darkworker / lightworker. They could equally be:
good / bad
black / white
creation / acquisition
abundance / scarcity
happiness / sadness
suffering / joy

Now I'll grant that perhaps you could abstract all charged opposites to be some form of love / fear polarization. There is still some merit in noticing other opposites because they have subtle differences in energy then love / fear.

With polarity there is the big thing pavlina emphasize is that there is a lot of energy when you polarize to one of these opposites and equally important little to no energy if you hold both opposites.

An example of holding two polarized thoughts:
"I will buy a car"
"I don't have money for a car"

Is there energy here? Do I know what I need to do? If so, what is it?
It's not obvious to me because it feels like indecision. The energy from each pole seems to cancel the other out.

Now what if I only hold:
"I will buy a car"
or
"I don't have money for a car"

If I hold only one of these thoughts it becomes more obvious what I will do. If I say "I will buy a car" then I will start taking all the steps toward buying a car including making money if I must. If I say "I don't have money for a car" then I will stop this thought process and continue doing other things.

Now back to the original thought of greyworkers. A greyworker is the polarizing away from darkworker/lightworker.

The two poles are:
"I will be a darkworker/lightworker"
"I will be the opposite of a darkworker/lightworker (greyworker)"

"Balance" is the guiding force of the greyworker. Their polarization is still charged with energy and causes them to take clear actions. They seek out opposites and neutralize them. And as you can see this would cause a very clear energy flow between greyworkers and lightworkers/darkworkers. Lightworkers/Darkworkers breath out polarization while they greyworker breath in polarization.

Yes, I do recall Pavlina dismissing the usefulness of balance. I think it makes sense.

[Andrew Gubb]

Well, you could be a hitler. Or you could be a jesus. Or you could be a person who dedicated his life to making sure that the number of hitlers and jesuses in the world was exactly equal at any one time. Is that what you're saying?

Not trying to steal your thunder but I really don't think your idea makes sense in the real world.

Hugs

Andrew

[nhaasch]

You seek balance both in yourself and the world. You could think of balance as the goal state.

So, in the case of yourself you could be imbalanced in that:
-You help others too much such that you don't tend well enough to your need (lightworker syndrome)
-You help yourself too much such that you don't tend well enough to others needs (darkworker syndrome)

In the case of the lightworker syndrome you help yourself more to achieve balance. In case of the darkworker syndrome you help others more to achieve balance.

In the event of world imbalance you might polarize yourself a particular direction to restore balance to the world. I find this post of Steve's to be particularly interesting on this subject:
Rise of the Lightworker

In the post Steve is advocating the polarization to lightworkers because an imbalance exists in the world. Steve is looking to restore balance.

[Sanity Panda]

That was a superb explanation on the concept and reasoning behind polarisation. Personally I think polarisation is an extremely useful concept, but I like to be polarised towards balance than imbalance.