The Positive and Negative Force

The Positive Force: Shiva, Yang, Love

The nature of the Positive Force is to unify identities. This leads to integration which implies absorption, learning, or realization. We call this the Positive Direction.

This is why the Positive Force is the intelligent side of the 2 Forces and is associated with consciousness and subtlety.

Moreover, Its unifying nature allows Existence to:

• loop back on Itself, creating the Cycle of Creation
• stay together, creating the Conservation Laws

Without the Positive Force, Existence would fizzle out into the Absolute immediately after creation.

The Negative Force: Shakti, Yin, Strife

The nature of the Negative Force is to split up identities.

It began by splitting up the Absolute into parts called monads which are idea-objects.

This ability to split up identities implies that it has a force that is stronger than that which binds the identity.

And so we say that the Negative is crude power that leads to destruction and dissociation and change. We call this the Negative Direction.

This is why historically It was assigned a female quality that is powerful yet creative – the destruction of the old leads to the creation of the new.

This dissociation is also the basis of dynamism – an Existence without any change remains frozen.

This frozeness is different from staticity which implies a deadlock or cancelling-out of equally strong forces.

Without the Negative Force, Existence would not begin since there would be nothing to destabilize the Absolute.

All Things Can Perceive, But Some Might Not Be Able To Express

The dynamics of the 2 forces implies that everything is conscious, having the ability to perceive.

It is the inability of some identities to express those perceptions, due to the influence of the Negative Force, that makes things not seem to have any perception-ability (not be aware).

But the fact that they can react to actions done onto them is proof that they are aware or can perceive.

For example, ice thaws when heated.

This reaction is proof that the ice atoms were able to perceive the heat and reacted accordingly.

There is nothing that does not react to actions done on it. This is proof that the universe is aware and conscious even if their reactive potential is very limited.

The perception-ability or consciousness in a piece of paper is proven when it:

• falls to the ground (reacts to gravity)
• is lifted by the air (reacts to aerodynamics)
• burns from a flame (reacts to thermodynamics)
• is cut by scissors (reacts to contact forces)
• and so on

A piece of paper that does not react to gravity, air, scissors, fire, etc has no perception-ability.

But such a paper has never been observed and therefore does not exist.

This removes any mystical connotation on what consciousness or the perceiver is. Instead, the mystery is with:

• the nature of the mind that houses it, and
• what its perceptions are (i.e. how does a piece of paper feel about being cut, burned, or written on?)