Sixth Density: The Path of Integrity
Who are you right now?
Who are you? What makes you you? If you suddenly found yourself in a body that was different than the one you were born into, would that mean that you were no longer you? What if you had access to the other’s memories? If you believe in reincarnation, if you believe in life after death, what is it that persists? One may call it your eternal “soul,” but what does it actually mean to have a soul that is eternal?
In this article, I delineated (quite literally) and described the various concepts that I hypothesize are the drivers of the first three densities, or dimensions, of experience. Those are, to reiterate, 1D – Chaos versus Structure; 2D – Lies versus Facts; and 3D – Selfishness versus Altruism. Those who have read The Law of One and similar teachings often refer to the axis of Selfishness versus Altruism in Third Density as “The Choice,” and they prefer the terms “Service-to-Self” versus “Service-to-Others” in lieu of the single words that I have chosen. Such individuals often also speak of the interconnected nature of all things, as this, too, is pivotal to Law of One teachings. Some even take this to the extreme of believing that this means that there is no difference whatsoever between one persona and another, and that we are all simply part of the “Source Collective,” if you will.
I take exception to this mindset. It bristles me. There exist a good number of individuals who vocally hold to their steadfast belief that “I am you and you are me,” as implied by the most literal interpretation of The Law of One. In this article, I posited the hypothesis that “one cannot hope to learn and perfect the path of Service-to-Others if one believes that there truly are no ‘Others’ to serve. Such a One is only capable of serving ‘Self.’” This was, of course, in rebuttal to these individuals who have a belief in the Collective as the seemingly supreme “end-goal” of their particular path to spiritual enlightenment. (Tellingly, I have also noticed that said individuals seem often to become quite defensive of this concept, accusing anyone who takes exception to their viewpoint as being simply less enlightened than they.)
I stand by my contention that the most extreme interpretation of the Law of One (“I am you and you are me”) leads to a form of solipsism if internalized by an Altruistic person who is incarnate on Earth, and that this is, ultimately, a path away from that of true and authentic Altruism. At best, it’s a frustrating crutch; at worst, it could devolve into nightmare. There is a difference, however, between this solipsism and Collectivism, and, while I’m no fan of the latter, I’m unsure now that the collectivist mindset must necessarily be “Service-to-Self” or Selfish by nature.
Certainly, the average individual who adheres to a collectivist viewpoint would not agree that it is a selfish attitude. Quite likely, he or she truly believes that a collectivist model of social interaction represents the pathway to the highest and greatest good. It is only, I believe, because of the actions of the utterly Selfish Despots who control the corporate/government/media machine that anyone has even come to equate Collectivism with Selfishness at all. It truly does take some mind-bending to get there, and we can thank Our Evil Overlords for that …
… But, they did it.
For many of us, Collectivism is anathema, and that cannot be overcome. We’ve seen through the machine. Yes, we can, perhaps, envision via thought experiment a beautiful theoretical Communist Utopia — but that is a thought experiment that, at this point, requires some quite elaborate mental gymnastics indeed. On this Earth, when one strips away the last holdout of free market choice provided by the so-called “capitalist” system, all that one is left with is a pristine dystopia, unsullied by competition. On this planet, with the human species, Communism and Socialism do not work. Without dissent against such systems, there will exist but one ruling class and one “everyone else” who exists to serve them. That is the goal of the most unadulterated of the Service-to-Self Despots who exist on Earth today, embodied publicly by the hilariously nefarious World Economic Forum.
I am not a futurist. I have no interest in trying to predict what the future will hold for this planet’s dominant sentient species, though I am confident that the cats will be just fine. As to the humans, I’m less certain, and I have even less of a desire to predict their future given that their past history has been so dubiously successful. Humans are amazingly good at procreating, and perhaps a handful of other things, but few would argue that we are far from living in harmony in the year 2023. I will, therefore, discuss merely what I see in front of me, which brings us to our last and final Density Diagram: The Big One. This one I am going to call the Path of Integrity.
We left off here with a badly-rendered diagram of the forces of the 3rd Density or Dimension, which is referred to as The Density of Choice. This diagram was arrived at by rotating the intersecting linear gradients of the Second Density, those of Entropy and Knowledge, and bisecting each with a line representing another linear gradient, that of Polarity, or The Choice (Selfishness versus Altruism). The Sixth Density complex is arrived at by introducing yet another line to the grouping, running at a 90 degree angle to each of the other three. It is nearly impossible to envision this cluster of vertices without making use of a box to form the outline of their endpoints, so, although the box does not, to my knowledge, represent anything (yet), I’ve rendered it here for ease of visualization. It also serves to better explain, visually, the reason that I have chosen to label this Density or Dimension the Sixth, rather than the Fourth (there are four lines, but six faces to the cube that they form, which defines the Dimensionality of the grouping).
The new line that has been added to the first three is that which I call the path of Integrity, and it leads us from Convergence — that is, the tendency of individuals to join and maintain a Collective identity, particularly under duress — to Sovereignty, in which the Individual’s identity emerges from difficult experiences intact. We may think of this line as the Path of Integrity, and there is a reason that it comes after every other path has already been walked, and The Choice has been made. It takes time to develop one’s Integrity such that one may be known as a Sovereign Individual. It takes experiences. Our interactions with the world and with one another provide the catalyst to shape us based upon the choices that we make when confronted with novel experiences. These experiences enable us to know ourselves.
If this concept seems a bit out there, I’m not surprised. There’s a reason that it may sound foreign, and that reason is that the vast majority of souls on Earth have chosen not to walk the path of Integrity, but choose instead to settle upon a Collective identity in order to define themselves. Please note that I’m not saying here that there is anything inherently wrong with this Collective, in theory. There’s nothing wrong with stopping there in one’s development — not everyone can be Sovereign. Eusocial insects such as bees, ants, and termites have enjoyed great success with this Collective strategy, and it has been observed that a hive of bees often takes on an identity of its own. It is also without valid basis to assume that collectivism is a universal path to Selfishness in all species that walk it. Bees are, without question, a tremendously Altruistic insect when considered on a global scale; their importance to the planet’s ecosystem truly cannot be understated. Animals need plants, and plants need bees. Humans, however, are not bees, nor are cats, for that matter.
Of course, there also lies no virtue inherent in remaining an Individual if one chooses to be a Selfish one. One could certainly be a manipulative and hurtful being and still retain one’s individuality — there’s nothing stating that this is impossible. I do believe, however, that it is extraordinarily difficult; on the inside, all Selfish people truly are the same. The worst (most effective) of the Selfish will inevitably begin to follow a tried and worn path simply because it is effective, and the Selfish are generally not innovators. As their humanity is slowly choked out in an effort to become the most effective servant of pure Self possible, the Selfish begin to resemble one another internally, in an example of some kind of unpleasant spiritual convergent evolution. It is the path of the Sovereign that enables one to truly forge one’s own identity as an Individual, and this path is difficult, much like the path of Altruism that must be forged before it. It is, therefore, the Altruistic Individual who is truly the rarest commodity in the Universe, a being whose Integrity has stood the tests of time and temptation.
There is no shortcut to this mode of being. It can be arrived at only through trial and error — across many lifetimes, perhaps, or perhaps just one: This one. Who will you be at the end of it? ... That, we know, is determined by the answer to just one question, and that question is not, “Who do you want to be?” The question is, “Who are you right now?”