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THE POSITIVE NEGATIVE
In Honor of The Primal No!


Skepticism, doubt and negativity are the inherent basis upon which anything positive is built, because we are told in the teachings of our faith not to accept what does not pass by our reason, so things that pass by our reason are going to increase our reason. Our Reason is the Crowning Gift of God. It teaches us to Distinguish what is True from what is False. And our Reason is going to choose what it accepts and what it rejects based upon it's increasing stage of development. So basically it's saying no to everything except that which fits into its already established knowledge base. It accepts only what it accepts, Only what passes the test, so to speak, of our negativity. So our negativty is the basic positive attraction from which we draw our conclusions of everything else. This is upheld by several evident truths and can be gone into to great depth. Just ask!

More on the Positive Negative and the Power of Radical Reversal

Ego is automatically negative since it's built upon the rejection of the soul. It thinks itself to be the positive one, however, as it is always seeking and adding to itself more positives, but what it seeks is just reinforcements. Ego is also logical and rational, it just makes sense of everything as that is its job, its raison d'etre, so to speak. It is entirely left-brained as it is rational, perceptive and sense making of the outside world.

Soul is entirely positive as it is there and cannot be moved or changed, simply added to and thought about, or not. Completely neglected for the most part, yet nonetheless loving, caring and persistent. Right-minded, she is the source of all intuition, loving support and nurture.

Do you not see how we turn things around, how things are not as we think they are? Do you not see why the mystics focus on the loss of the "Divine Feminine"?

Soul is Atman. It's Your Portion, neither increased nor decreased.
If you're content with it, you're Krishna! (The Khalif)

Liberation is Freedom. It's freedom from controlling or being controlled.
Our feelings, are they controlling us or do we control them?
Do we control them because they control us?
So that everything becomes a control issue?
That's not Liberation.

Recognition and acceptance, practiced properly,
leads to freedom from control -
from control, controlling or being controlled.

Loss of Inner Dignity Causes Grief and Rage.
(A definition of trauma.)

We study a sect or a branch of knowledge
for the purpose of integrating it,
not for the purpose of proving it's superiority over others.
Integrating it into universally acceptable truth.

I may feel bad, but I feel, and that's good.
Feeling is Good.

We must be the masters of nagging doubt and emotional hooks.


The Death of the Fighting Spirit

You won't give it up your habits until your physical body no longer finds comfort in them. But the search is for comfort and the belief is that you cannot find it or do not deserve it except under the excuse of a habit. And there's a suspicion that you're still using them as a ploy for love, and certainly for understanding. But you have to respond to that ploy yourself. Give yourself the compassion, the love and the understanding that you need in order to understand why you are doing it to get what you want from it without doing it any longer.

You're doing it for a reason, and if that reason is that you want something, i.e. love and understanding, then you have to give yourself that love and understanding by finding it in yourself..  If you feel love coming from you then that feeling is for you.


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