Antagonism, Reconcilitation, and Attraction of Opposites

When we are first given this world--that is, when we emerge from our mother's womb and make our appearance on the stage of the world for the first time--we immediately begin to be taught that the nature of life is duality.

While this is invariably true as a matter of physics, in our consciousness and awareness the dualities must be antagonized and reconciled into at-one-ment, or one cohesive whole.

To the extent that we have not achieved this inner wholeness or unification, we lack integrity--no matter how ethical, or honest, or compassionate, or objective we may be.

To begin to understand how you need to proceed in this spiritual discipline and quest, first you have to comprehend that for every truth, there is an equal and opposite truth. All of the deepest truths ever written or said are half-truths; but, not in the sense that they are partial lies. It's just that there is an equally opposite truth that is a counterpart to that truth. That opposite polarity must be acknowledged and intergrated into the consciousness, or harm comes to you in some shape or form sooner or later.

Thus, there cannot be true love without there being hatred. There cannot be music without both sound and silence. What a fool or a novice makes complex, he makes simple when he becomes a master.

This is the inner central theme of the Star Wars movies. Star Wars is all about the rise and fall of Annakin Skywalker, who needless to say for a time becomes Darth Vader.

Annakin Skywalker brings the needed balance to the Force because he walks the line between Jedi and Sith, and experiences being one, then the other, and then in his last hour becomes the first one (Jedi) again. Yet, when he returns to being a Jedi through his act of destroying his master the Sith Emperor, he does so not just out of some self-suppressing, altruistic Jedi sense of justice or duty; he acts out of passionate love for his son, Luke. All of his life, Annakin felt passionate love and the accompanying attachment that comes with it. Even as a Jedi, Annakin did not give up his passionate love.

It was this very passion that the Jedi were lacking. The Jedi held themselves back and also could not appreciate life fully enough in spite of all their skill and wisdom.

The Sith did not hold themselves back and were actually stronger and more powerful than the Jedi, and they acted out of both love and hatred as the situation demanded. Yet, the fatal flaw of the Sith was that they didn't know "when to say when", and they would become intoxicated with the love of their own power.

When Darth Vader destroys the Emperor, he at once acts out of passion and surrenders his power, and this leads to his enacting the ultimate justice. Annakin Skywalker once more, he is transcendent of being a Jedi and is no longer a Sith.

In our own Earthly lives, we can bring ourselves into line with this transcendent balance and integrity by having our logical, analyzing side (the "left hemisphere" of our brains) give way to our synthesizing intuition (the "right hemisphere") when we are first coming to grips with the reality that for every truth there is an equal and opposite truth.

Once the "right hemisphere" is permitted to perceive this reality, that side of yourself can show it forth to the "left hemisphere", so that side of yourself can touch it and turn it over in observation. Bringing balance to your own life-force can then begin.