What is the dark side?

QUESTION:  Does the dark side exist in the way we think, or does it even exist at all?

ORLANDO'S ANSWER:

To the fly in the web, it might be perceived that the spider is evil, and yet when viewed from a broader perspective, it may be seen that there are acts and circumstances which are labeled as good or evil, but the labels themselves are really only assignations of meaning based on humanform ideals and standards. As a species, humans may believe that certain acts or even certain thoughts are "evil", or they may believe that certain behaviours and concepts are "good - and from within the consensual agreement, it would be argued that Jeffrey Dahmer was "evil" while Mother Theresa was "good", and yet, if an impeccable warrior is to look only at energy, it will be discovered in both instances that women & men choose their acts based usually on their belief systems - and at the level of energy, belief systems are only intangible concepts which take on power as a result of what is done with them. There is a concept of good and evil, but without humans (or others) to bring those concepts into manifestation, both are only impotent words and not actual energetic forces at all.

Phrased another way, "There is no good or evil, only power."

Although that statement is not a popular one, from an energetic perspective it is true. There are beings (including human beings) who may make choices or follow a lifestyle that may be called "dark" or even "evil", but to my observations, there is no actual "force" in the multiverse which would qualify as "evil" because that would imply agenda and sentience (attributes assigned to the xtian 'devil", for example). Life would be simpler, perhaps, if such were the case, but I have seen no quantifiable evidence that it is.

Ah, but what must also be understood is that free will is really the only place where good or evil might exist - and then only as extensions of our actions and not as any autonomous force of darkness or light. It has been said in Toltec and most other spiritual systems of knowledge that there is 'the right way to live' and that this knowledge is inherent in every living thing. This is a truth. I will not attempt here to impart "the right way to live," for it is something that must be experienced in the heart and practiced in the Spirit.

When the statement is made, "There is no good or evil, only power," one must really look at the idea of power., for it is in one's own personal power that free will is practiced with an ever-present awareness of 'the right way to live'.

Orlando - April, 2008

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(From a previous counseling done for another warrior a few years ago, Orlando had the following to say...)

Although there is no force of good or evil, there are "entities" created out of a sense of human malevolence which may take on a quasi-existence of their own for brief periods of time, and to a non-seer may be mistaken for "pure evil" - when they are really only the extensions of humanform agenda. These 'entities' are not unlike a tulpa in nature, for they are fleeting and transient unless maintained through the energyand will of their creator(s). That is not to say they are not dangerous or destructive, even lethal, and so it is important for the warrior to have a clarity of vision when dealing with such entities - and that clarity will usually reveal that the 'entity' is not from any "dark side", but is instead the unwitting manifestation of human activity (poltergeist activity would be one example). That awareness is the gem of the impeccable warrior's arsenal if s/he is ever called upon through circumstances to do battle with "evil."


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