I’ve been reading another Gary Lachman book: “The Caretakers of the Cosmos” (Pub. Floris Books, 2013, ISBN 978-178250-022-3 [I recently mentioned reading “Politics and the Occult: The Left, the Right, and the Radically Unseen”, Pub. Quest Books, Wheaton USA, 2008, ISBN 978-0-8356-2032-1; Amazon, but I haven’t reviewed that as yet]), and am coming across one of the tired old tropes - this one about polarity.
I call this the heteronormativity test: if someone is talking about polarity as if it was some sort of universal parameter, run, screaming, away from them, for they have just failed the heteronormativity test.
Polarity is not just two opposites that magically meet and merge in the centre. Look at the taijitu - copied below from my post in June 2014 on rethinking the “laws” of magic.
Each polarity is dynamic and contains the essence of the other within itself.
Anyone who starts prattling on about sex as if it illustrate a fundamental principle of the Universe is wrong - the relationships and caring and intimacy are more significant.
To illustrate this a little further, below is a (poor quality) scan of a sketch for a book I wanted to write in the 1980s on spiritual matters, which shows SOME of the possible polarity variations in humans around sex/gender (not well, I admit: I had planned on redrawing that and the other sketches if I progressed the book further, but life intervened).
A key point here is that some people have a balance of polarity within themselves.
And all of this is without getting into those aspects of reality covered by gender fluidity, changes over time (including change of sex/gender as one reincarnates), etc that the intellectual, moral and emotional cowards (and emotionally incompetent) use to avoid admitting they are afraid / wrong / need to change / all of the preceding.
So . . . if someone is talking about polarity as if it was some sort of universal parameter, run, screaming, away from them, for they have just failed the heteronormativity test.
In terms of the book I am reading, a lot of it is good and/or valid, but this chapter just flunked.
Oh, by the way, the same sort of thing applies if people start talking about evil as if it is associated with black or white as if that colour is associated with goodness (i.e., - “white lighters”): run, screaming, away from them, for they do not understand clarity / murkiness of Light and a few other sundry related concepts.
PS - the other chapters in the book are better, and some are interesting or even good.
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