Polarity as Power Source
About 7 years ago I’d just started dipping my toes in the ‘spiritual waters’ and was soaking up knowledge like a sponge about everything to do with energy.
A friend of mine understood my passionate research and recommended the book The Celestine Prophecy. As always, it came at the right time.
Even though it’s written as an adventure novel, it weaves in 9 spiritual insights about how the Cosmos works. Reading it I felt a great amount of truth to what James Redfield, the author, had written and resonated with the main character’s journey of self-discovery.
One of the ideas that particularly stuck with me is how an unconscious competition for energy underlies all conflicts. He speaks of Control Dramas, and illustrates how there are 4 general dynamics we tend to adhere to when we fight with another.
Once aware of it, I could easily recognize in all my loved ones which dynamic they were more partial to. Way harder it was for me to acknowledge that I was a master of these dramas myself.
While reading about it made me cringe over my own dramatics, it was liberating to now understand where this behavior stemmed from.
The theory James Redfield explains, is this: when one is not connected to the original source, they feel energy is lacking. By creating conflict with another, they are able to steal energy from the other person. Because friction creates energy.
Most ideally you are firmly rooted in your own connection to Source (the Cosmos/God/the Infinite). When you are not, because you have lost your connection to everything around you (the greatest epidemic of our time), you’ve probably learned how to steal it from others through conflict.
Polarity as the root cause
Now, many years later, studying with our teacher Almine further deepened my understanding that living in polarity is the root cause of conflict.
She writes in the Lemurian Science of Peace: “When two poles exist, one thrives at the expense of the other. While living in polarity, life is subject to the law of compensation – the one gains at the expense of the other. This causes pain and guilt. (..) Within polarity we are cut off from the limitless resources of the indivisible Source. Resources are generated by the back and forth movement between the poles.”
This means we generate energy by inciting conflict. And we will want to do so, as long as we live from separation-consciousness.
‘Fort Honswijk’ is part of the Dutch Waterline defenses from WWI and II, but first used around the 1800’s.
Change the world, by changing yourself
Everywhere we look we see conflict nowadays. Whether it is the war in the Ukraine, the Israel-Palestine conflict or friction between Trump followers and their opponents.
To my awareness I worked on this global ‘Us-vs-Them’ perspective inside myself repeatedly over the years. I worked on it in the shape of fear for power and authority when interrogated by US Customs upon entering the country. It showed up working a job where I butted heads with my CEO on strategy. I encountered it when trying to break old family patterns.
Most recently it showed up on a hike near my latest pet-sit address in the middle of nowhere. Padding along the trail, suddenly a huge fortress emerged from behind the trees. It could not have been more ‘in my face’. When I tuned in to receive guidance, I heard it was time to receive the insights needed to dismantle another layer of separation consciousness.
By working on these themes inside myself I can work on the same theme playing out globally by proxy. We are the microcosmos to the macrocosmos and we can change the world, by changing ourselves.
Almine refers to this as Infinite Alchemy. “Infinite Alchemy works with the fractal patterns of the cosmos. A simple original pattern duplicates itself over and over again, with increasing added complexity. By focusing on the original simple pattern, and changing that, all other generations of patterns immediately change.”
Hence, I sat down at the fortress and examined where I still held beliefs about ‘being attacked’, what perceived benefits I have from holding on to ‘defense mechanisms’, how do I lovingly set boundaries without judgement and where do I think I am separate from another.
As I write this, I am not done unraveling this tangle of beliefs, but with every wall torn down, peace inside growths. Who knows, maybe one day I get to see peace on a global level as well.
