(09-01-2015, 01:14 AM)APeacefulWarrior Wrote: I'll be honest:  I'm really not seeing much reason to think all that would be a better alternative to meditation and seeking to contact one's higher selves for guidance.  It LOOKS impressive, but I'm just not sure anyone besides its author could actually understand and internalize all those systems to the point of actually doing anything useful with them.  The knowledge it's trying to impart has to be understood by the heart and the soul, not the brain.  Having the brain onboard is nice -and I also spend time trying to find good metaphors for this stuff- but memorizing a bunch of charts cobbling together a dozen different metaphysical systems won't necessarily get a person any closer to actual awakenings or understanding.

But it seems like it would be very easy for a person to get fixated on material like this and get lost within spirals of distortions rather than cutting through the distortions to the underlying truth.   Sort of like how there are a lot of people who read the Bible every day and yet never manage to understand the fundamental principles Jesus was trying to teach, specifically because they get distracted by all the other material.  The Law of One is simple.  That is all... incredibly complex.

After all, we're talking about non-linear hyperdimensional systems which can never truly be rendered as 3D sounds or visuals.  Such attempts are only shadows of a much larger whole: Plato's Cave writ large.  And shadows are always inherently deceiving because they posses some elements of the thing casting them, but too much information is lost in the dimensional downgrade to be wholly revealing.  At best, shadows can mostly serve to show outlines -silhouettes- of the real thing, so that a person might be more likely to recognize it when facing it directly.

But one can never see the thing casting a shadow by looking at the shadow itself.

True understanding comes from within.  It can never be externalized, and no one can ever learn on behalf of another.  If someone does find value in this, I'm certainly not trying to take that away, but I'd urge people to be cautious about digging too deeply into this.  I see great potential to be misled by this if one focuses on this system for its own sake rather than understanding it's only a distorted shadow of higher knowledge.

(09-01-2015, 02:50 AM)APeacefulWarrior Wrote: Fundamentally, the Ra Materials are merely shadows as well.  The only major difference being that Ra is aware of this and deliberately/willfully cast his shadow to try to provide the best possible representation under very limited circumstances.

And, of course, my words are only shadows as well, lest anyone think I'm putting on airs.  

Like I said, I'm not trying to take anything away from people who find value in this.  I just think it's VERY important that someone examining these theoretical systems realize they do not, cannot, and will never provide actual truth.  True understanding can only come from within, and knowledge of the higher energies can only be gained by working with them, not reading about them.  These diagrams\discussions are merely another set of signposts attempting to point towards truth.  

I think of such systems as being ideological scaffolding, basically.  One might need such things to climb the structure initially, but at the end, the scaffolding is unnecessary and superfluous once the work is completed.  Hanging onto such scaffolding past its point of usefulness only distorts the underlying structure, rather than enhancing it.

When approached from THAT mindset, these materials could probably be useful to some people.

(09-01-2015, 02:50 AM)APeacefulWarrior Wrote: Fundamentally, the Ra Materials are merely shadows as well.  The only major difference being that Ra is aware of this and deliberately/willfully cast his shadow to try to provide the best possible representation under very limited circumstances.

And, of course, my words are only shadows as well, lest anyone think I'm putting on airs.  

Like I said, I'm not trying to take anything away from people who find value in this.  I just think it's VERY important that someone examining these theoretical systems realize they do not, cannot, and will never provide actual truth.  True understanding can only come from within, and knowledge of the higher energies can only be gained by working with them, not reading about them.  These diagrams\discussions are merely another set of signposts attempting to point towards truth.  

I think of such systems as being ideological scaffolding, basically.  One might need such things to climb the structure initially, but at the end, the scaffolding is unnecessary and superfluous once the work is completed.  Hanging onto such scaffolding past its point of usefulness only distorts the underlying structure, rather than enhancing it.

When approached from THAT mindset, these materials could probably be useful to some people.

(09-01-2015, 06:27 AM)Namaste Wrote: We each go through phases of searching inwardly and outwardly in whatever manner. The outward search may be an addiction, a distraction or lust for knowledge. The inward search will naturally follow in which we contemplate all that has been outwardly ingested.

In and out. Day and night. Yin and Yang. It's an infinite cycle, one in which we're each at a unique point that represents our catalyst and opportunity for growth.

(09-01-2015, 06:50 AM)The_Tired_Philosopher Wrote: What do you personally make of these charts and such Namaste?

They're crazy synchronistic for me heh

Edit: ironic since its the first of September...