within humanity,
within all cultures.
It is especially sacred
to spiritual traditions.
Now, its obvious
when you are looking around at our physical time- space realities,
inherent with all the polaritys within it,
that the well being on our planet
will be depend upon the balance between these polarities.
But that is not actually the case!
Now we are in a time-space reality
based on polarity,
based on contrast,
where we would come to know what we want
based on what we don't want.
We would come to know white, based on knowing black,
and vise versa.
Even though it is easy to assume
that the best state of being
would be equilibrium between opposites,
it is this very thinking
that is preventing the progression of our own consciousness
and preventing the expansion
of source consciousness.
So that means,
it's time to throw balance out the window.
Balance is defined as a condition
in which different elements are equal
or in the correct proportions.
Its also defined as to offset or compare
the value of one thing with another.
We are in an interesting space
realtive to collective consciousness,
because source consciousness,
which is collective consciousness,
is in fact, turned to the corner away from separation,
back towards oneness.
Now, even though I did a video about this,
even though oneness is not actually
the ultimate truth of reality,
because the truth of reality goes far beyond oneness,
we still need to, from this limited perspective,
look at oneness as if it is the ultimate truth of this universe.
Now, if we're going back in the direction of oneness,
what we are really going back in the direction of,
is full blown integration.
This is the opposite balance.
Balance is in fact, something that upholds separation.
It seeks to create equilibrium between two different things,
instead of seeking to combine them.
Where consciousness is headed
is integration.
In integration, polarities come together
to form a third thing entirely.
The sum of both.
"And Consciousness" is the progression of the collective consciousness
"And Consciousness" is our capacity to expand wide enough
to contain the maximum of opposites.
To understand this in depth, watch my video titled:
AND Consciousness (The Modern Day Replacement for The Middle Way)
Humankind does not yet understand
that a third entity exists
as the process of combining opposites.
This is why humankind has made an enemy of integration.
It is sought to either become all of one polarity,
and eradicate the other polarity,
or to try to maintain some kind of balance between them.
Now, the origin of the middle way consciousness
which is essentially balance,
is the idea that if you pull a string too tight,
then it breaks.
But if you leave a string (on an instrument)
to loose, it won't play.
So obviously, its easy then,
to assume that
the way to achieve well being
relative to the instrument, in this case,
is to find a kind of equilibrium between them,
by addition or subtraction.
So if something is too tight,
we loosen it.
If something is too loose, we tighten it,
more or less.
This is also the very limited thinking
that exists behind the concept of a work / play, or work / life balance.
As if such a thing exists.
Is the idea that if you are overworked
you need to add more play,
and decrease your level of work.
Now again, I want you to see this:
Balance is achieved through addition and subtraction.
This is really screwed.
Now, what about creating an integration
between work and play,
so that there really was no contradiction between them?
What if your work really was play?
Imagine that!
That's the difference between integration and balance.
If you live your life according to the principle of balance,
you will end up exhausted.
You will also never be able to fully actualize yourself,
because you will be trying to limit aspects of yourself,
while trying to accentuate others.
Instead of becoming the full expression of both,
and finding a way for the full expression of both to harmonize.
Balance also has to do with measuring the value of one thing,
next to the value of another thing.
But I'm gonna tell you
this is a completely limited human concept.
There is no way to objectively say
whether one thing measures up to the value of another thing.
Its complete and total judgement.
You can't say that the value of this oil
is equal to the value of this money.
You can't objectively prove that,
and it really depends on
what is valuable to what person, and why.
It depends on needs.
So you can throw that idea out of the window as well.
I am gonna give you an example of why balance
needs to be thrown right out of the window.
By give you a new example relative to parts within you.
Let's say that you have one part within you
that just wants to do what it wants to do.
And let's say you've got another part in you
that wants to do what it needs to be done,
so that it can avoid the negative consequences.
These two parts within you
will feel like rival siblings.
You will start to feel like you are being ripped in half.
Now chances are if you go at this from the approach
of trying to create balance,
you are going completely f**k it up.
Why? Because most likely what you are gonna be doing is:
"Alright I'll let you get what you want,
and do what you want,
once we do it has to be done."
So your approach to this
is basically to give them control sometimes,
and to pull the other one back,
so one can get control.
So basically you just dividing your time
between when one wins and the other gets to lose.
Imagine instead, getting to really know
each one of these parts.
Now, imagine that you really get to know the part
that just wants to do what it wants to do.
This part is really sick of living life
for something that doesn't inspire it at all.
This part is like:
"My God, I cannot being controlled by you
and feeling like the drudgery of life.
I just really wanna do what feels good."
Now let's say you get to know the other part.
and the other part also actually wants to do what it wants,
But, it thinks it cannot do that.
So, its commitment really isn't to what it has to do,
its to avoiding the consequences
that it thinks it's gonna face by not doing those things.
Now, what you've just found out,
by becoming so aware of both of these aspects,
is the third entity.
That third entity is the reality
that both parts actually want to do what they really wanna do.
Now to find an integration between these two is easy.
It's not about doing what it has to be done
so that you can do what you want to do,
its about finding a way that they can both
really do what they want to do.
You can do what you really want to do,
but minimize the risks
involved not doing what you think has to be done,
or convincing the aspect of you
that thinks that those consequences exist,
that those consequences may not exist,
or maybe much less
than the consequence of living your life
according to what you have to do.
If you create integration,
full alignment between these opposites,
in this way,
you are looking at an entirely different life.
You are looking at a life that you are really excited to get up for,
not a life where you can get through what has to be done,
so that you can finally do what you really want to do.
The people who are the happiest in their life,
create integration between their true desires
and what has to be done.
Instead of trying to balance out one with the other.
Since integration is the call of the day,
coming from source consciousness
we and the universe itself,
are throwing away the concept
of completely trying to become one polarity,
to the exclusion of the other.
We are also throwing away the concept of
trying to balance one with the other perfectly.
And nowhere is this more true,
than with the concept of good and evil,
or shadow and light.
Now, obviously for thousands of years
we've been trying to fully align with the light,
to the eradication of the shadow,
fully align with the goodness, to the eradication of evil,
or we have embraced a more balanced philosophy of:
"Good and evil will always exist in perfect balance."
Shadow and light will always exists
within all beings,
in perfect balance.
This concept is going away.
Now, love is the basic principle
of this universe.
It is the highest truth, you could say.
But what is love?
To love is to take something as part of yourself.
So to live in alignment with perfect truth, which is love,
that means...
That good must integrate evil.
Evil must integrate good.
Shadow must integrate light.
Light must integrate shadow.
When these polarized aspects integrate with one another,
a third element is created entirely.
Now, obviously,
most people alive today with their limited consciousness,
are still terrified of the idea of integrating evil.
We don't want any of that to be part of us
even though it is, and you can't escape that fact.
What we fail to see,
is that what happens when we actually integrate
things like "evil",
things like "shadow",
is that we experience the exultation of those things.
For example,
we call it evil to feed off of someone else's energy,
but if we step into a space of love
which is to take somebody else as part of ourselves,
we can't feed on them, without hurting ourselves, can we?
So suddenly this shift happens,
this is the exaltation,
where the expression of feeding on someone else's energy
no longer takes a detrimental form,
instead we begin to feed on energys
that didn't benefit that other person to begin with.
And now, us feeding off of their energy,
actually becomes a positive.
In essence, everything becomes a win- win
instead of a loose- loose or a loose-win.
It is the rejection of certain aspects
that cause them to take on such a detrimental expression.
It is the rejection of certain aspects
that makes us slip into the illusion that they are not part of us
and disconnect from them to the degree that we think
it is possible to harm them without harming ourself.
To understand more about this concept in depth,
watch my video titled:
The Secret to Overcoming Your Problems
Both polarities hold something that we desperately need.
Both polarities hold incredible gifts,
and it is only when we integrate these polarities,
these opposites,
that we will actualize those gifts inherent in both polarities.
I want to get straight at this,
I mean I'm so serious about this concept
of integration versus balance,
there are entities within this universe
that are completely or were completely
polarized up to this point.
Entities like angels and demons
that are both getting on board with this concept of integration,
because the universe itself,
which they are part of,
is so absolutely done
with polarity and separation.
Including the quest to maintain and/or create balance.
Long story short,
after that entire soap box expression
that I just gave you,
it is incredibly important for us to take balance off the pedestal.
For us to see for what it really is currently,
which is something that is preventing
our awakening, instead of enhancing it.
Have a good week.