[...] We all recognize that attempts at control are all eventually destined to fail. But we do recognize that 'negative' forces, which by their inherent nature are incapable of comprehending that they are merely an aspect of the light that manifests all, believe they can dominate and do seek perpetual control (i.e. the extinction of the light that made them). This is the subtle difference between what you think we think and what we actually do. This dominance seeking by the dark can rise dramatically for a period and give all the appearance of managing to wrestle control away from the light - and that darkness can appear to last for enough time to produced increased suffering - but everything is merely a lesson and the sun will rise once more and balance will be restored - and lessons will have been learned. But no amount of thinking that this can't happen because of love and light not allowing it to be so will ever bare scrutiny against the fullness of reality itself. So good luck to you with trying to maintain that illusion over the next while. Its going to take an awful lot of self-delusional mental gymnastics to sustain.
Do you have an ETA as to for when the sun will rise again and balance be restored?
See, the problem with this view of ‘temporary dominance’ of forces of evil, but everything will fail, we just have to lay low and defend against evil? -- there’s no participation needed for changing the state of affairs. It’s just a way to trick your mind and feel in control of the situation.
You can try to build a philosophy of based on spotting STS interferences at every step of the way, become an expert in it like the Essenes, but that’s not a sound practical philosophy. Reality catches up one way or another - you have to make a living and conform to some social and thinking norms, you have to do business and relate with people of different persuasions, plus you risk falling into the trap of seeing evil and “psychopats” at every corner. There’s a fair amount of STS-polarization that needs to be incorporated and manifested in every aspect of life. Unless you opt for a split personality. Better create a unified view of the world that incorporates STS and STO influences, with a positive outlook in it.
Being preoccupied with psychoanalyzing and dissecting evil is not a good way to fill your time with. Concerning yourself with evil or wrongs is the path of least resistance, since you either lose any hope or pin your hopes on a future salvation with a “sit and wait” or “wait and see” attitude...That doesn’t give you any impulse or motivation to do something meaningful, just the illusion that you got it all figured out.
The “learning requires suffering” is contentious, at best. Many have stuck their teeth in trying to explaining suffering, yet it’s still debatable. A better way of framing it is that learning is a corollary, but not the reason for suffering. Evil doesn’t have an existence of its own, yet it becomes manifest through suffering, that’s a fact. So in order to avoid having to think about evil, eliminate suffering, work for a better world.
My erring towards the side of positive outcomes is similar to Pascal wager, depending on one's beliefs.
As for achieving the balance between light and dark and suppressing wishful/magical thinking in order to avoid delusion...it’s not just wishful thinking. It’s the spark that moves us. In fact, if you look at the Universe there’s more dark than light...That’s where we come in. It’s the imagination that has led to differentiation of man from animal and the qualitative jump from 2D to 3D. Similarly, if you’re yearning for 4D, you gotta keep working and have open mind and update your consciousness, we are not done yet... Since the cave men paintings, humans have manifested their imagination. Creative imagination is arguably the most significant element in the evolution of consciousness, without which you and I wouldn't even have this conversation here today…
We are now at the point where we can influence reality with our thoughts more than ever before. Yeah... it’s been said before it’s wishful thinking, new-age stuff, brainwashing, nothing happened.
Well, actually it did happen.
I mentioned in a previous post the idea of “progressive society” or
logocracy as referred to by Lobaczewski. If you think of it, it’s the United States that has influenced and set the course of civilization in the world for the last two centuries, for better or worse. I can argue that it is the American ‘positive thinking’ - as articulated through the New Thought movement of the 19th century and later representatives such as Neville Goddard and Joseph Murphy - and the ‘can do’ attitude derived from that thinking that has been the driving force in coalescing and exerting this power. It’s not the ‘American exceptionalism’ but the ‘American positivism’ that has forged the world's most progressive nation over the last two centuries. Positive thinking has shaped motivational speakers, business leaders, politicians, even marketers and thus reached masses...Because it worked all along, and it works today even better. It did help of course that ‘the pursuit of happiness’ and not ‘the pursuit of doom and gloom’ was inscribed in the Declaration of Independence.