17 Aug 2023 · 11 min
Sean Clayton hosts the Science of Abundance Daily Alchemy podcast episode "The Power of Polarity." He briefly recounts severe personal trauma (incarceration, suicide attempts, sexual abuse) and explains how he uses hermetic principles—especially the law of polarity—alongside alchemical practices to transform his life. Clayton argues polarity reveals non-separation (no absolute good/evil or love/fear), promotes compassion and co-creation, and can be applied practically (he gives an example of defusing a colleague's ego by responding with compassion). He closes with exercises: see others as reflections of yourself, love your past to bend time into the present, and imagine your thoughts as ripples expanding outward to open abundance.
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Welcome to the Science of Abundance Daily Alchemy podcast. I'm your host, Sean Clayton, and my story's pretty interesting. Went through a ton of trauma, former incarceration, suicide attempts, sexual abuse in my life. And one of the things that's happened in my life is I've actually used hermetic principles, alchemy, all these really cool tools that we hear and we talk about, the Illuminati, whatever you want to call it, and develop practices in order to change and affect my lives differently. So within this podcast, I will be giving tidbits and bites for individuals to be able to bite into on a daily basis. That will allow you to take baby steps to change your life. But at some point, you'll find the door that starts to change the effect of how you show up on a daily basis. Enjoy this, give feedback, come to my Instagram comment, whatever it might be, always open because we wouldn't be here without each other. Please enjoy and thank you, and I love you. The power of polarity. What I recognize is that I've gone through these seven hermetic principles, is that each one of them is no stronger or weaker than the other. I know it all starts with thoughts become things, and the universe is mental in the mind of the all type of bit. But what I have started to recognize is that the aspect of polarity is one of the spaces where us as humans really get tripped up a lot. We are so quick to look at the duality of things and actually recognize that there's separation. The sheer fact that we're walking around in these skin suits with our soul in them, but our soul's connected to everything because it's all interrelated. Energy is such an illusion. And when I think through the aspect of that illusion, it's kind of crazy to me that we look at the world that way. When our soul and everything that we know to be true within ourselves, even human connection, even when we fall in love, even the things that feel like really great to us are all about the inner relationship and the connection and the entanglement with another. So as we go through the process of thinking about really where our strength lies and how we can get into the space of hacking through this matrix that we call life, this gridded system of separation in a extremely meaningful way. One of the doorways that I used to think was the most powerful was the aspect of the mind. And then most people, what they're saying, that's really great, Sean, but it's hard for me to think that way. And then I went a little bit deeper down the rabbit hole and I was like, why is it so hard to think that way? Well, oftentimes we don't understand the interconnectedness of things. That's the law of correspondence. We don't understand that we're interconnected. That's kind of easy because you can see the aspect of vibration and love and how all of that works. Time is around us all the time. We live in time, where we're born and we die and the whole thing. And so the aspect of rhythm is there. And we see it in our moon cycles, we see it in everything else. And all of that is extremely powerful when you learn how to play with that and you can bend time and do things through the law of rhythm. I found the fastest way for somebody to go through the process of hacking into these laws or breaking into these laws, to where they become a full embodiment and central source and powerful entity in their life, is through the law of polarity. That allows you to see everything as one. It allows you to see the fact that there is no good or evil. It allows you to see that there is no love or fear. It allows you to see that everything is just all encompassed at one time. And it lives in this aspect of non linearity. It lives in a constant continuation of infinite possibilities. And if I were to look at this through some dimensional analysis, I would call this like the seventh dimension. Because it's not necessarily like me as a point of separation in my life. It's me as a whole human interconnected with all other humans, interconnected with all of the universe. That allows me to see everything as one moment, one love, one hate, one God, one heaven, one hell, whatever you want to call it. And even in the aspect of hell, you know that hell was created by heaven and heaven was created by God. So it's all actually created by the same thing. And then you get back to the law of correspondence because it's all interconnected and you can't get away from any of it, which is the most bananas thing about it all. So when we actually get into the space of seeing anything of separation, the fastest thing that I do is figure out how I can combine that with everything else. When anytime that I feel separate, anytime that I feel disconnected, anytime that I feel like somebody is not me, the first thing that I do is that is me talking to me. So to give you an example, I was on a call today with a colleague and they started really getting into an ego thing around looking to control an aspect of the company that they were working for and working with. And I'm, you know, I do a little bit of consulting work with these guys. And the minute that they started talking, you get this immediate disdain when somebody gets into their ego space, right? And the first thing that I did is I immediately moved into love. I was like, okay, how can I love this person? How can I actually see them as a reflection of me? How can I merge the space between me and them as rapidly as possible so there is no distance between me and them? And when I did that, two things happened. One, the amount of compassion that I had for them was insane. Because I completely understood from the reflection of myself why they were feeling that way. This is where that ho' oponopono principle comes in. Because we take total responsibility for everything because it's all our creation. Then, at which point what happened is that completely diffused that individual. And they immediately started to apologize about where they were sitting and what they were doing. And they were able to recognize their aspect and the separation and now starting to solve their own problems. So it had absolutely nothing to do with me as an individual, but it had everything to do with our process of co creation. And that co creation is that aspect of singularity between us that when we immediately close that gap through the lens of compassion, we become hyper connected to everything in our world. What's cool about it, as I said in one of the previous episodes, is I'm controlling nothing in that. I'm just influencing. I'm putting a very specific vibration back to law number three toward this individual from the state of mind that I'm in, identifying the fact that I am nothing and. And they are nothing and I am everything and they are everything. And even though sometimes it sounds like a lot of word salad to individuals when we can see it as we are just all in all. And there's so many different books about this and songs about this. And I remember growing up there's a hymnal, we are all in All. But it's true. It is so much that it's less about the religious aspect of it, but it's more about what that religion encompasses. It's more about the fact that we are constantly moving the world through us instead of us moving through the world. And when the world moves through us, then we're connected to it all and we understand that it's just all one big ass thing. It's one big ball of yarn and we are tied in every other aspect of it and the journey of it that we have to remember that we're going through is that there's going to be aspects of pain in it. But that pain is us loving ourselves. There's gonna be aspects of pleasure in us, and that pleasure is us loving ourselves. There's gonna be aspects of suffering, and that suffering is us loving ourselves. And so when we stop seeing it as a point of separation, and we see everything, and I mean everything as a point of connection, and we use compassion and gratitude to navigate our way into it, Then the law of polarity allows us to really see where our mind state is. It allows us to check ourselves from this human form. Because now we're basically pulling ourselves back into source. And that source is through the reflection of the eyes of another. We can't experience ourselves, ourselves. So the more that we have individuals witness us, the more that we're witnessing ourselves. That's once again back to the law of polarity. Because we realize that we're not interconnected. And the way that we are intending and passing information from ourselves to those individuals Is them witnessing us from the perspective of us. And then there's an aspect of correspondence, because what happens from there is that you understand that there is, like, this constant interconnectedness from one person to the other to the other. And so the responsibility of how you show up in life is everything. And then that goes back into how much we are going to stay in integrity and how that moves to the aspect of cause and effect in our life. But that doorway of polarity really gives us a different view on how we see the world. So I'm gonna leave us with a couple of steps here. The first one is, as we start thinking through polarity. How can you in your life look at anything that you go through in the day and spaces where you've created intentional separation? Can you look at yourself and say that you are a reflection of everybody outside of you, so you stop creating separation from all of those people in your life? Can you take your past and love it so much that it starts to bend time into the present moment? This is an aspect of polarity, because there is no separation in time. Right? Can you start to put yourself at the seat of cause now and move yourself into a space to where your future is now? And you're actually stepping into it, and you're just drafting a new future to you. What I would also do is imagine this. There's a circle, and you're a point in the middle of it. Everything emanates outside of you. Every thought that you have is a ripple effect that has no separation from everything that you impact. And once you can remember that on a daily basis, the life that you live will start to become extremely expansive. This is where the door of abundance opens up by using the key of polarity to unlock it. So I'd encourage you guys to do some of those exercises. Remember the love that you are, see no separation, and embrace the world that you've built, because it's all your miracle. Thank you so much for listening, and I love you.
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