Polarities of Mind

The bourgeoisie and the proletariat cannot disappear by communist revolutions, no,


because the communist revolution is by the same people. The Czar ruled Russia; he ruled

it through the left hemisphere of the mind. Then he was replaced by Lenin who was of

the same type. Then Lenin was replaced by Stalin who was even more of the same type.

The revolution is false because deep down the same type of people are ruling -- the ruler

and the ruled mean the same, and the ruled are those of the right-sided hemisphere. So

whatsoever you do in the outside world makes no difference really, it is superficial.

The same applies to men and women. Women are right-hemisphere people, men are lefthemisphered.

Men have ruled women for centuries. Now a few women are revolting but

the amazing thing is that these are the same type of women. In fact they are just like men

-- rational, argumentative, Aristotelian. It is possible that one day, just as the communist

revolution has succeeded in Russia and China, somewhere, maybe in America, women

can succeed and overthrow men. But by the time the women succeed, the women will no

more be women, they will have become left-hemisphered. Because to fight, one has to be

calculative, and to fight with men you have to be like men: aggressive. That very

aggressiveness is shown all over the world in women's liberation. Women who have

become part of that liberation movement are very aggressive, they are losing all grace, all

that comes out of intuition. Because if you have to fight with men you have to learn the

same trick; if you have to fight with men, you have to fight with the same techniques.

Fighting with anybody is very dangerous because you become like your enemy. That is

one of the greatest problems of humanity. Once you fight with somebody, by and by you

have to use the same technique and the same way. Then the enemy may be defeated but

by the time he is defeated you have become your own enemy. Stalin is more Czar-like

than any Czar, more violent than any Czar. Of course it has to be so: to throw Czars, very

violent people are needed, more violent than the Czar himself. Only they will become the

revolutionaries, will come out on top. By the time they reach there they have become

Czars themselves, and the society continues on the same way. Just superficial things

change, deep down the same conflict remains.

The conflict is in man. Unless it is resolved there, it cannot be resolved anywhere else.

The politics is within you; it is between the two parts of the mind.

A very small bridge exists. If that bridge is broken through some accident, through some

physiological defect or something else, the person becomes split, the person becomes two

persons -- and the phenomenon of schizophrenia or split personality happens. If the

bridge is broken -- and the bridge is very fragile -- then you become two, you behave like

two persons. In the morning you are very loving, very beautiful; in the evening you are

very angry, absolutely different. You don't remember your morning... how can you

remember? Another mind was functioning -- and the person becomes two persons. If this

bridge is strengthened so much that the two minds disappear as two and become one, then

integration, then crystallization, arises. What George Gurdjieff used to call the

crystallization of being is nothing but these two minds becoming one, the meeting of the

male and the female within, the meeting of yin and yang, the meeting of the left and right,

the meeting of logic and illogic, the meeting of Plato and Aristotle.

If you can understand this basic bifurcation in your tree of then you can understand all the

conflict that goes on around and inside you.