Duality World
"Every exit is an entrance somewhere else."-- Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
There are infinite ways to encounter and contemplate the bipolar nature of Reality. A common one is the Yin Yang symbol. Equal portions of the figure are black or white. The larger body of the one is perforated by a wormhole of the other.
https://society6.com/product/white-and-black-tree-of-life-yin-yang_print
The Seven Hermetic Principles lists Polarity as number four:
- The Principle of Polarity:
Everything is dual; Everything has poles; Everything has its pair of opposites; Like and unlike are the same; Opposites are identical in nature, but different in degree; Extremes meet; All truths, are but half-truths; All paradoxes may be reconciled. https://medium.com/the-mission/the-hermetic-revival-7-ancient-principles-for-self-mastery-9399e523648d
This ancient wisdom has challenged adepts and shamans for millennia to walk the Middle Path and balance their knowledge of the nature of reality with compassion for the frail humans struggling along this mortal coil to promote healing.
It has also been harnessed by less scrupulous among us who are like Hungry Ghosts or the Wetiko whose appetites can never be satiated. These make deals with the flipside of Truth in exchange for material Power.
This book describes a psychological virus that is so pervasive that it isn't even regarded as such, but instead, is understood to be the natural working order of 'reality'. A disease that invades our psyche at its most vulnerable moments: when we experience horror or trauma or fear, wetiko then feeds on us from the inside out while we refuse to face its grim existence. Why? Because wetiko infiltrates the space in our minds where we cannot accept something, a space created when we project our horror or trauma or fear out into the world rather than bravely face it head on. As long as we keep projecting that which we cannot look at or incorporate into our selves, wetiko has room to feed and grow and make us a shell of ourselves and our world...https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13642726-dispelling-wetiko
Splitting is a psychological term often used when describing Borderline Personality Disorder, or as I prefer to call most instances of this designation, Complex PTSD.
Splitting is a relatively common defense mechanism for people with borderline personality disorder.[6] One of the DSM IV-TR criteria for this disorder is a description of splitting: "a pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation".[9][10] In psychoanalytic theory, people with borderline personality disorder are not able to integrate the good and bad images of both self and others, resulting in a bad representation which dominates the good representation.[11] This school hypothesizes that they consequently experience love and sexuality as perverse and violent qualities which they cannot integrate with the tender, intimate side of relationships.[12] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splitting_(psychology)
Splitting is an induction method of Neurolinguistic Programming in the hands of cults like NXIVM:
Thus psycho-religious practice revolves around ideas of the conscious and unconscious self and communicating with and accessing the hidden resources of the unconscious self—the transcendent other. According to Bovbjerg the notion that we have an unconscious self underlies many NLP techniques either explicitly or implicitly. Bovbjerg argues, "[t]hrough particular practices, the [NLP practitioner qua] psycho-religious practitioner expects to achieve self-perfection in a never-ending transformation of the self." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-linguistic_programming
People seeking to manipulate you will employ the Double Bind:
A double bind is an emotionally distressing dilemma in communication in which an individual (or group) receives two or more conflicting messages, with one negating the other. This creates a situation in which a successful response to one message results in a failed response to the other (and vice versa), so that the person will automatically be wrong regardless of response. The double bind occurs when the person cannot confront the inherent dilemma, and therefore can neither resolve it nor opt out of the situation. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_bind
Anyone can look around at life today and clearly see Double Binds at every choicepoint. We are all too often having to rob Peter to pay Paul just to keep our heads above water and, in the immortal words of George Dubya, "food on our families.
Did you know that people who experimented with torturing animals discovered that if you shove a rat under water enough times, it will cease to struggle to find a way out? Learned Helplessness:
Learned helplessness is behavior that occurs when the subject endures repeatedly painful or otherwise aversive stimuli which it is unable to escape from or avoid. After such experiences, the organism often fails to learn or accept "escape" or "avoidance" in new situations where such behavior is likely to be effective. In other words, the organism learned that it is helpless. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness
Compare this trained compliance Beyond Freedom and Dignity, as B.F. Skinner titled his book...with the outlook on personal agency expressed by Chief Looking Horse:
Know that you yourself are essential to this world. Understand both the blessing and the burden of that. You yourself are desperately needed to save the soul of this world. Did you think you were put here for something less? In a Sacred Hoop of Life, there is no beginning and no ending. https://newsmaven.io/indiancountrytoday/archive/important-message-from-keeper-of-sacred-white-buffalo-calf-pipe-gVwRRwE1gESVo45I21E8Sg/
It is said that if you stare into the abyss, it might just stare back at you. But in my opinion, there is a kernel of truth, a truthseed, in Catholic doctrine on the Seven Deadlies. Every human is born with our 46 chromosomes (plus or minus) and similarly, we inherited
People have always been immoral, shiftless, and self-gratifying. For ages, humankind struggled to find a conceptual system to operationalize their spiritual shortcomings.
Pride is excessive belief in one's own abilities, that interferes with the individual's recognition of the grace of God. It has been called the sin from which all others arise. Pride is also known as Vanity.
Envy is the desire for others' traits, status, abilities, or situation.
Gluttony is an inordinate desire to consume more than that which one requires.
Lust is an inordinate craving for the pleasures of the body.
Anger is manifested in the individual who spurns love and opts instead for fury. It is also known as Wrath.
Greed is the desire for material wealth or gain, ignoring the realm of the spiritual. It is also called Avarice or Covetousness.
Sloth is the avoidance of physical or spiritual work.
Just like dogs bark and cats meow, humans are prone to human foibles. At the same time, we are gifted with godlike powers of mercy and creation: the Creation of Care as a lifeway and a sacred flame which kindles open hearts and minds.
Duality!
Where is the truth of the pendulum? Is it left or right, up or down, black or white? If you keep holding a pendulum still and won't let it swing, your clock will cease to tell the time. This is trauma crystallized into the permanent now:
Pendulation is the natural pulsation between states of expansion and contraction in the nervous system. This is a basic principle of life, seen in the ebb and flow of the ocean tides, the wings of birds opening and closing in flight, etc. A resilient nervous system is one that can move back and forth between alertness and action, and calm and rest without getting stuck at either extreme. Pendulation introduces “resourced,” states into awareness to help us develop confidence in the ability of our nervous systems to move between inverse states. We can then practice moving back and forth between more and less resourced states. https://medium.com/@sarahrossphd/resourcing-pendulation-and-titration-practices-from-somatic-experiencing-a3dd4909376
The Truth of the pendulum is in its swing.
Evidently, it is necessary for us to take a walk with the shittier side of facts like Siddhartha Guatama if we wish to achieve Enlightenment. To bring a light into our own darkness and hence, increase the Lovingkindness sum total in the world.
That's the definition of Magic: to yield oneself, to become Absolutely Willing to do the work of Lovingkindness on the material plane.
On the other (sinister) hand, there's sorcery. The Willfulness to coerce the symphony of the universe to play your tune. To introduce cacophony. To utilize the Principle of Polarity to enrich yourself at the expense of your kin. And we are all kin.
I recently saw a comment on a blog wondering if the epidemic of homosexual youth getting channeled towards sterilization wasn't a "transgender cult worshipping an androgynous god", and I thought to myself, this person gets it. They didn't have to visit voat pizzagate to understand that some people are dragons sitting on hoards of gold and hailing baphomet, who send out flying monkeys to destroy Radfems and Conservatives alike with Double Bind Icepick Lobotomies like "suck my ladydick, TERF!"
The vast majority of humanity cowers under the threat of noplatforming.
Learned Helplessness.
Privately, we seethe as a collective unconscious. We must be ever so mindful of what Tulpas we will thereby birth.
We must be ever conscientious about slipping more tablescraps to the Wolf of Light than his sable antithesis at our side.
Evil, the grungy lefthand wolf, deserves not narcissistic supply, but rather... grokking. From Philip Zimbardo, author of the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment:
There are seven social processes that grease "the slippery slope of evil":[16]
Mindlessly taking the first small step
Dehumanization of others
De-individuation of self (anonymity)
Diffusion of personal responsibility
Blind obedience to authority
Uncritical conformity to group norms
Passive tolerance of evil through inaction or indifference https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Zimbardo
Hmmm, I wonder how many of these items are similar to the ills of social(ly engineered) media, and what type of "influencers" might be willful enough to induce Evil in the global populace?
And I wonder if we the individuals making up the " huddled masses yearning to breathe free" might to well to take a deep breath, and Pendulate one more time from the slog of learned Helplessness, grabbing the scruff of that Wolf of Light and allowing Him to launch us once more into Personal Agency!
More, perhaps, in the future. I am an owl who hasn't coughed up a pellet in a long time, for the fur and bones scare me sometimes. And it feels so shameful to be a nightflyer when I affiliate with the daylight.
Love,cat
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