Polarity

Episode 62: A Deep Dive into the Archetypes, Part 3

Posted on December 16, 2024 | by jeremy

In this final installment of our series on the archetypal mind, Dr. Stephen Tyman joins us once more to help us begin to explore the spirit cycle of the tarot. We discuss the unfathomably vast scope of the spirit complex through the lens of its seven stations. Here seeking has become so refined that desire, the motive force of evolution, and its object begin to blend. Our individuated consciousness stands naked before our true identity as the Creator Itself. Perilous, subtle, and promising, work in the spirit complex involves encountering our deepest emotions, including faith and despair, joy and terror, as we balance these experiences and discipline ourselves to apprehend in some small way the colossal forces of intelligent infinity without recourse to the traction provided by the body complex and the mind complex.

Show Notes

Part 1: https://inaudible.show/episode-55/
Part 2: https://inaudible.show/episode-58/
Ra on the primacy of individual interpretation of the archetypes (Session 77, Question 23)
Ra on the adept’s dissociation with the world https://www.lawofone.info/s/80#12 disassociation from the miasma of illusion
Q’uo on fixing and loving https://www.llresearch.org/channeling/2022/0428 fixing and loving
Hatonn on seeking and transformation https://www.llresearch.org/channeling/1983/0501
Ra on the infitude of spirit https://www.lawofone.info/s/80#20
Ra on archetypes as things-in-themselves https://www.lawofone.info/s/88#17
Article on the concept of the thing-in-itself https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thing-in-itself
Ra on the origin of the tarot https://www.lawofone.info/s/76#6
Ra on the experience of spirit https://www.lawofone.info/s/80#8
The Celestine Prophecy (CelestineVision.com)
The Sixth Channeling Intensive (High Altitude Receiving Center)

Episode 57: The Shadow Self

Posted on April 17, 2024 | by jeremy

Nithin and Jeremy team up to explore Confederation messages that discuss those darker parts of the self less understood and accepted. Extremely few if any of us lack imbalances, so we always have material to work with coming through in our dreams, our biases, our catalyst, and those crazy ways we surprise ourselves. Several Confederation messages suggest that incorporating the shadow self into the greater self is part of the service-to-others path where we gain our grit and tenacity to continue walking the path when it is toughest. Jeremy ties in Monka’s recent comments on introjection and projection aspects of the mirroring effect and how it relates to the shadow self.

Show Notes

Carla Rueckert on the shadow self (Bean, Gary, Tilting at Windmills, 2016, p. 319)
Monka on Mirroing Without and Within (February 24, 2024)
Q’uo on the dark side (February 10, 2002)
Q’uo on harvest and the shadow self (September 17, 2006)
Q’uo on peace, dark, and light (December 21, 2003)
Ra on negative stimulation of green ray (Session 72, Question 17)
Q’uo on integrating the shadow self (March 10, 1996)
Q’uo on the shadow self and magical working (November 5, 2023)
Q’uo on the shadow self and authoritarian personalities (June 17, 2023)

Episode 55: A Deep Dive Into the Archetypes, Part 1

Posted on January 30, 2024 | by jeremy

Steve Tyman joins Jeremy for the first of a series of conversations on the twenty-two archetypes that provide a tool for working with the archetypal mind. In this episode they focus on the first five stations of the mind and body cycles: matrix, potentiator, catalyst, experience, and significator. Starting with a re-introduction to the very idea of what an archetype is, they discuss some aspects of these ten archetypes as well as what is meant by “mind” and “body” specifically, with some digressions into the nature of time/space as contrasted to space/time. The other archetypes—the spirit cycle as well as the transformation and great way stations of mind and body—will be discussed in future episodes.

Show Notes

Episode 16: An Introduction to the Archetypal Mind (inaudible podcast)
The major arcana images from the Egyptian Tarot (thirddensity.com)
Ra on the sevenfold nature of energy centers, densities, and archetypes (Session 78, Question 30)
Q’uo on the Matrix, Potentiator, and Significator (August 1, 2021)
Ra on the male and female concepts in the archetypes (Session 92, Question 20)
Ra on the polarized interpretation of catalyst (Session 94, Question 12)
Ra’s supermarket example (Session 33, Question 8)
Ra on the unconscious perception of catalyst (Session 93, Question 20)
Ra on the matrix and potentiator of body (Session 78, Question 11)
Yom on the material illusion as an unbiased field of experience (April 23, 1989)

Episode 54: Addiction

Posted on December 19, 2023 | by jeremy

What is addiction, and how does it interact with spiritual evolution? Nithin and Jeremy explore this topic in light of its prevalence and variety in late third density society, bringing in a number of Confederation sources for insight into addiction’s relationship with catalyst, desire, comfort, the sinkhole of indifference, and other concepts of interest to the seeker. They also address the psychology in light of the shallow emptiness of the modern “rat race” while also recognizing the catalytic, transformative promise inherent in the suffering that addiction represents.

Show Notes

Ra on polarized uses of anger (Session 46, Question 9)
Hatonn on addiction to the joy of being whole (February 13, 1983)
Q’uo on addiction as catalyst (January 7, 2017)
Ra on polarized sexual energy transfers (Session 32, Question 2)
Ra on overcoming (Session 18, Question 5)
Q’uo on addiction as the result of inner separation (March 7, 2004)
David Foster Wallace on worship (Kenyon College Graduating Class of 2005 Commencement Speech)
Q’uo on breaking habits (November 13, 2010)
Ra’s exercises for accelerating towards the Law of One (Session 10, Question 14)
Ra on fasting (Session 41, Question 21)
The Twelve Steps (aa.org)

Episode 53: Conflict and Peace

Posted on November 23, 2023 | by jeremy

Responding to the proliferation of warfare on the planet recently, Nithin and Jeremy analyze a post-9/11 Q’uo session discussing bellicosity and peace. The principle addresses several biological, cultural, spiritual, and philosophical factors that make not just our people but past third density populations in our system so warlike while also suggesting an appreciation for war’s intense potential for catalysis. Those of Q’uo direct us to look within at our own attitudes and quality of seeking so that we can discover not just the ideal of peace but how to live it and thereby radiate it to the entire planet. It is this personal commitment to unconditional peace and the sacrifices it may entail that help us confront the spiritual root causes of conflict.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Show Notes

Q’uo on conflict and peace (November 18, 2001)
Ra on toolmaking and bellicosity (Session 90, Question 18)
Q’uo on the shadow self and the authoritarian personality (June 17, 2023)
Q’uo on personality and the subconscious use of will (November 4, 2023)
Ra on the “Lovers” / Transformation of Mind archetype (Session 100, Question 6)
Hatonn on their late third density experience (November 16, 1980)
Ra on the catalyst of trauma (Session 34, Question 14)
Jesus on entering the kingdom of heaven (Matthew 19:20)
Q’uo on peace (December 21, 2003)

Episode 52: The Problem of Evil

Posted on October 31, 2023 | by jeremy

Dr. Stephen Tyman joins Jeremy for a conversation about the problem of evil and its relationship to the Confederation’s concept of polarized seeking. Steve gives an introduction to how evil has been historically regarded, ranging from a notion of evil as a mere absence of good to the idea of evil as a positive value diametrically opposed to good. They analyze the character and recognizable traits of service-to-self other selves in psychological, spiritual, political, and philosophical aspects, including how service-to-others seekers might relate to those of the opposite polarity.

Apologies for the diminished audio quality. There’s also loud noise that interrupts us around the 58:00 mark, that’s the context for our pause and joke about humility and patience..

Show Notes

The Concept of Evil (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
The Problem of Evil (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Ra on Himmler and separation of self from self (36.14)
David Graeber on Imaginative Labor (The Utopia of Rules, 2015 Melville House)
Ra on inter-polarity conflict in fourth density (Session 25, Question 5)
Hatonn on service-to-self resistance to positive service (April 23, 2023)
Subscribe to the Other Selves Working Group newsletter (Substack)

Episode 49: Individuality and Our True Nature

Posted on July 31, 2023 | by jeremy

Nithin and Jeremy discuss a 1999 Q’uo session discussing the individual self and its characteristics. We are constantly balancing between our spiritual center and this bag of biases, behaviors, and details we call our personality. As we continue to seek and grow, it is typical to feel like we’re living dual lives: a spiritual one and a “normal” one. Essentially, those of Q’uo explain that incarnation is an attempt to bring those two lives into one coherent expression of love and service through navigating the distortions inherent in manifestation.

In the imperfect curation of our total selves into a socially and personally acceptable personality, we work to accept as well as release many aspects we accrete to this self. In the present moment, we understand better our true nature as infinite, free, and secure without relying on the artifice of ego or the reductive power of intellect. We then can better appreciate the distortions of evolution in all their variety, providing one sensory organ for the Creator’s infinite exploration of itself through our unique, individual self.

Show Notes

Q’uo on our true nature (May 23, 1999)
Ra on infinity and the self (Session 1, Question 7)
Hatonn on accretion and release of elements of self (May 1, 1983)
Hatonn on power, polarity, and evolution (Aug 9 1978)
Ra on the center to infinity (Session 82, Question 7)
Ra on spontaneous expression (Session 41, Question 19)
Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now (Eckhart Teachings)
Q’uo on details (April 6, 2003): “That which distracts is always a detail, that which calls you back to remembrance is always discipline.”
Ra on negativity of details (Session 26, Question 36)

Episode 48: Dreams

Posted on June 5, 2023 | by jeremy

On this episode, Jeremy discusses dreams and dreamwork with Jamie Liestman, long time seeker in the Law of One tradition who presented on the subject at the Working Group’s April membership meeting. Drawing from contacts with Q’uo and Ra, they explore the purpose and use of dreams in polarization and the discipline of the personality, drawing upon Confederation insight into the sometimes misunderstood role of emotional resonance in this time/space aspect of consciousness. Several techniques for working more compassionately and authentically with dreams are addressed, and this prompts some subtle but profound changes in how we think about the mind and consciousness.

Show Notes

Ra on the nature of dreams (Session 86)
Ra on the role of veiling in dreams (Session 83, Question 3)
Q’uo on working with dreams (April 12, 1989)
Quo on dreams as the seeding of new thought patterns (March 27, 1988)
Ra on the vocabulary of dreams (Session 95, Question 18)
Jamie’s talk on dreamwork (The Other Selves Working Group Youtube channel)

Episode 47: The Sinkhole of Indifference

Posted on May 23, 2023 | by jeremy

Nithin joins Jeremy to discuss an oft overlooked concept in Confederation philosophy: what those of Ra described as the “sinkhole of indifference” between service-to-others and service-to-self. The issue is not simply the lack of choice on how to express one’s love and thereby continue evolving through the densities, but more tragically how refusing to make a heartfelt choices creates a feedback loop that keeps a person seeking comfort, sleep, and stasis.

How does one succeed in not succumbing to the pressure exerted by society without polarizing negatively? The pair breakdown the nuances of polarity and speculate on the nature of the sinkhole and the opportunities to serve those trapped by fear and the inability to commit to love.

Many heartfelt thanks to listener Reinhard for suggesting the topic! You can always ask us to address ourselves to a subject — or otherwise give us feedback — at our contact form: https://inaudible.show/contact-us

Show Notes

Ra on the sinkhole of indifference (Session 17, Question 33)
Ra on the consequences of remaining unpolarized (Session 20, Question 17)
Ra (not Hatonn, although I’m sure they count) as the Brothers and Sisters of Sorrow (Session 12, Question 26)
Jesus on the light yoke of service (Matthew 11:28)
Pema Chodron, When Things Fall Apart (Pema Chödrön Foundation)
Q’uo on fear, polarity, and power (January 1, 2006)
Ra on the transformation of mind archetype (Session 100, Question 6)
Hatonn on serving the unpolarized (April 23, 2023)
Q’uo on the mechanics of opportunity (July 31, 2023)
Gary Bean, Tilting at Windmills (L/L Research Library)

Episode 46: Magic

Posted on May 8, 2023 | by jeremy

Nithin and Jeremy welcome Jon Firman to discuss ritual magic and its place in practicing the Law of One philosophy. Jon tells us a bit about his experience with the western magical tradition, and we explore the Confederation’s ideas on the matter. Those of Ra confirm a definition of magic as the ability to effect changes in consciousness at will, and we discuss the issues at play in honing that personal will and the way it works with polarization, service, the Archetypal Mind, prayer, and other topics with which this podcast normally deals.

Show Notes

Jon Firman’s Inspire369 (Youtube channel, Substack, and Twitter)
Thelema (Wikipedia) and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (Wikipedia)
Ra on magical potential and the will (Session 79, Question 32)
Q’uo on magic, faith, and polarity (June 14, 1992)
Ra on the “quiet horror” of third density (Session 17, Question 23)
Ra on service to others through magic (Session 71, Question 16)
Stephen Tyman on Thinking with Symbols (Youtube)
Ra on the “keys to unknowing” (Session 84, Question 7)
Robert Anton Wilson, neuro-linguistic programming, and magic (Wikipedia, Youtube, and Robert Anton Wilson Fans Germania)
Ra on catalyst and the magical (Session 94, Question 20)
Foolish Fish’s video tutorial on the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram (Youtube)
Q’uo on the nature of practicing magic and the Archetypal Mind (February 12, 2006)
Douglas Rushkoff’s Aleister and Adolf (Rushkoff.com)
Monka on networking the light within us (January 15, 2023)