Balance By Eliot

            Positive-biased metaphysics seem to be all the rage right now,

                      in the philosophical/spiritual pop-culture fashion show;

                                          If "Integral" includes all valid truth,

                                     which is to say all accurate data, then,

                                We must look at, and balance in our minds,

                                                     both the positive and the negative,

                                                            both the light and the dark,

                                                            both the good and the evil,

                                                         both the higher and the lower,

                                                           or we are not truly "Integral",

                                                     by definition, both logical and literal.



                                                  Some may have "difficulty" with this, and do.

                              That is the usefulness of the adequate application of Integral Theory;

                                       it can reveal to us our areas of emphasis and de-emphasis,

                                                           what is clear, and what is obscured,

                                                    our field of vision, and what we can not see,

                                                    what we pay attention to, and what we miss;

                                                        what's both necessary and insufficient

                                                                  is rationality clear and true,

                                                        and first one's intention and character

                                                          must be healed with love and cured

                                                       in one's own interior zone one and two.

                                                         If not, then a life of self-acceptance
 
                                                     as one's death sentence, will continue.



                                                                     As our faculty of volition

                                                                    graces us with "free will",

                                                                    we all make our choices,

                                                                and we each pay our own bill,

                                                                         for what we ordered,

                                                                     and what we consumed.


                                                                       Or did it consume us?




                                                              My personal opinion about this is,

                                                                "If I'm not watching my dark side,

                                                                      because I'm looking at you,

                                                                          I might not notice what

                                                                        it's 'objectively' 'arranging',

                                                                        and what it's about to do."




                                                                               All the best, love
                                                                                         Eliot