What if our Duality was our Solution?
Looking at polarity from a different angle offers us a unique way to transmute our negative 2024 human conflict into everything good that we are wishing for.
You might know by now that I love experimenting with putting ideas together in different ways to try to come up with new possibilities or different conclusions.
Well I’m at it again.
I have written a couple of times about “polarity”. In Us vs. Them I outlined how we tend to categorize ourselves according to opposing sides. In The Two Sides of Every Circle I pointed out how nestled in the safety of religious faith, the polarity of good/right vs. bad/wrong pops up even when we’re trying to do the right thing!
Ask anybody and the consensus you’ll likely get these days is that, yes, we are a polarized society - we are divided in our thinking, beliefs, perspectives, opinions, and ideals. And we don’t just hold different viewpoints, we are DRIVEN APART by our views.
All along I have been thinking that our polarization leads to our division which leads to our conflict, and therein lies the problem.
Our extreme duality has appeared to be a weakness. If we could just come together, closer toward the middle, and see each other’s perspectives, we would be much better off.
But recently I was reminded of another type of polarity and it got me thinking. A battery, which is used to generate energy, is a polar construct. It features two ends that hold opposite charges. Electrons flow from one end to the other (negative to positive) thus creating an electric current, i.e. energy. So in this version of polarity, the two opposite ends create a desirable outcome. Hmm…
And that led me to research yet another type of polarity: that of magnetism. A magnet has a positive and a negative pole that repel each other (just like our ideological polarities tend to do to us). In the area between and around the two repellant magnetic poles a magnetic field is formed.
And through that magnetic field runs magnetic energy. Up through the center of the object out one pole, around the outside of the object, and into the other pole. This is exactly like a torus, or a toroidal energy field.
Earth is an excellent example of this.
Magnetic energy runs straight through the planet’s axis. As this straight line exits the northern point of the axis, it splits into two lines of energy that bend downward to surround the east and west hemispheres of the earth. These two lines then meet at the southern point of the axis and feed back into Earth’s core. The two points where the magnetic energy exits and enters Earth are the two magnetic poles. This is what creates the magnetic field around the entire planet.
Magnetism is a force, but it has no energy of its own. Magnetism is useful for DIRECTING or controlling any energy that is introduced into the magnetic field.
I am thinking of it as POTENTIAL ENERGY held in the field between the poles of a magnet.
Because given the right generator (let’s call it the “spark”), the toroidal system of a magnetic field could feasibly sustain continual energy. And by nature of the way a torus works, the energy that courses through it sustains it, while the energy that courses around it, sustains everything else.
“Reciprocal exchange is a primary feature of toroidal systems, wherein the individual is informed and influenced by its surrounding environment, and the surrounding environment is informed and influenced by the individual, in a continuous balanced rhythmic interchange.”
Thus, my theory in development is that the extreme polarization that we can see and feel in our societies right now could be viewed as a battery with the ability to produce or create something of use or value (like a battery creates electric energy).
Or if we view our human duality through the lens of a magnetic field that represents the POTENTIAL for an energetic shift through its ability to DIRECT energy that comes into its field, then all we need is a well-timed, well-intentioned “spark” to turn it into a self-generating, self-sustaining energetic system of possibilities.
I guess depending on what the “spark” is, these systems could be harnessed either for evil toward more chaos, upheaval, hatred, and strife or for good toward more collaboration, peace, civilized progress, and creation.
With this new awareness that our polarity could even be harnessed at all, we are well-positioned to choose “good”.
Wouldn’t it be cool if we held the solution to our problems right within the constraints of our conflict?
It’s exciting to think of our polarity as being a positive force that we could hone to bring about all that we desire this world to be.
A question to ponder (and put your thoughts it in the comments!) is what kind of “spark” is needed to set our Torus of Human Polarity and Possibility into motion?
We need all hands and minds and hearts on deck for this!