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Old 09-01-2008, 12:39 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Default A rehash- Is polarity (lightworking, darkworking) really necessary?

Sorry I'm a newbie and i read all these articles done years ago and still want more info. Feel free not to answer if you've moved way beyond this.

I've seen extreme low awareness darkworking. My hubby. Sometimes makes me ill since i'm the one he confides and actually tells his thought processes to. but the money power control thing definitely fits him and conquering makes him happy. were young but he will be very powerful and influential at some point. unfortunately power, influence and material excess doesnt impress me much lol it made for some lively debates until i read steves blog.

I've seen extreme low awareness lightworking though i dont have enough personal experience with a person such as this to give relevant insight. i just remember she didnt seem very happy but i dont feel comfy commenting on what i dont know.

Most people are the floundering middle contradicting their energy with both sides pulling them and not getting anywhere.

So point is for myself at least i do see a compromise. I dont feel within myself a need to polarize.

The way i work is i love to sing.
a) I consciously develop my own talents because it makes me feel great to release my creative energy. BUT i also do it because i know that when i sing it touches many people (music has always touched my heart and being able to help through song has been my mission)
b) I build my singing career to develop income. BUT i also do it because the more income i have ill be able to open shelters for the homeless, the abused, women and children, something i've always felt a call to do.
c) I do appreciate the attention. It feels good for people to acknowledge your value. BUT the same influence i have i love to use in order to raise people's awareness to the potential they have to live fulfilling joyful lives NOW. i have deep empathy. All i want is for people to be happy. I cry when anybody cries. I feel others pain as though it is my own. I want the world to be a better place.

I work both ways and honestly say that neither my benefit or theirs has more weight upon me. For me its more of a perfect symbiosis. I feed myself to feed them. They feed me and they are fed also. Make sense???

So am i a misguided lightworker, darkworker, both or none of the above? Does anyone else feel this way? Has anyone really polarized and made it a way of life?

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Old 09-01-2008, 09:45 AM   #2 (permalink)
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So am i a misguided lightworker, darkworker, both or none of the above?
Most people are neither lightworkers or darkworkers.
Polarisation is a choice that were few people make.
You probably haven't made that choice.

I also think that most people are simply not aware enough to make that choice.
If you don't see the concept making sense, it could simply be that you are not ready to make a choice to polarize.
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Old 09-01-2008, 09:14 PM   #3 (permalink)
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I agree with Brutha.


You need to know if you feel more comfortable/get more joy out of giving or taking. I think that by knowing this, you will have a better knowledge of yourself to decide on which way to polarize.
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Old 09-01-2008, 09:39 PM   #4 (permalink)
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it sounds like you are getting confused about a subject that you need not worry about, just be yourself and get on with your life, the ideas of light or dark working are not really helpful, just limiting and confusing,

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it sounds like you are getting confused about a subject that you need not worry about, just be yourself and get on with your life, the ideas of light or dark working are not really helpful, just limiting and confusing,

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Yeah, I think with most things that are polar, distribution is represetned by a bell curve and the vast majority of people are in the meat of the curve.

As for choosing a polarity, I've always been an all-or-nothing kind of guy and recently I've been ultra-light in my disposition but due to some major life changes I feel myself changing back to my natural ego-centric stance. If I end up swinging the other way, I'm not sure if I'll be in the 1% DW percentile but I'm sure I'll be up there real close - look out world .
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No that's a very poor analogy.
Polarity is about making a certain choice. To get a bell curve you need a kind of random distribution which is a completly different thing.
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I agree with Brutha here, Polarity is very much an all or nothing thing, you can't be half a Darkworker or just a little bit of a lightworker, you either are one, and you KNOW IT, or you aren't one. Simple.
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To be honest, I think all this lightworker, darkworker crap is complete bull****.

It is yet more nonsense that some of you airy fairy fruits love. But it doesn't really mean everything. I don't see the point in a constant race to label and define yourself in such narrow terms. It over complcates things.
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There is no nonsense about it, its a personal philosophy and ethic.

Besides I don't consider myself a fairy fruit, I happen to be a down to earth person. And its not narrow at all, many differnt types of people come under those labels.
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If we placed all people on the polarity continuum, I don't think we'd have all light and all dark with no one in the middle. Rather, if we looked at each individual as a discrete entity of light and dark characteristics, then judging by the large middle class and common folk, the vast majority would have a mixture of the two polarities - most light, some dark; or most dark, some light; although I'm sure there would be those who are 50-50.

And if we looked at these collective group of individuals from a God-perspective, then wouldn't their personal dispositions be a random occurrence?
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No, they have neither polarity. Polarity is about focusing.
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