Quote:27.7 Questioner: Now I think I have extracted an important point from this in that in intelligent infinity we have work without polarity, or a potential difference does not have to exist. Is this correct?

Ra: I am Ra. There is no difference, potential or kinetic, in unity. The basic rhythms of intelligent infinity are totally without distortion of any kind. The rhythms are clothed in mystery, for they are being itself. From this undistorted unity, however, appears a potential in relation to intelligent energy.

In this way you may observe the term to be somewhat two-sided, one use of the term, that being as the undistorted unity, being without any kinetic or potential side. The other application of this term, which we use undifferentiatedly for lack of other term in the sense of the vast potential tapped into by foci or focuses of energy, we call intelligent energy.

(09-19-2020, 11:15 PM)Dtris Wrote: Have you ever had a fish tank or pool and played with the way things look from above and below the water? How distance and position can be changed? This would be a distortion.

Now imagine there is a true vibration, image, or thought of the entire creation, but there are many layers of water surrounding this true image. Any attempt to view it will be distorted.

Now imagine you are trying to see that true image, but every time you move, you create ripples in the layers of water around the image, this is another distortion.

Ra uses the word in two ways. The first, is to describe the way the creator has acted to create laws, The Law of One, the Law of Free Will. The second way is the action of co-creators, you and me and everything else that has individuated consciousness. Our actions, mental and physical, cause distortions.

(09-22-2020, 06:26 AM)Asolsutsesvyl Wrote: Here's the technical signal processing view.

A pure tone (sine wave) is just one frequency.

There's many types of distortion, depending on the context. Contexts include amplitude, frequency, phase, shape of the waveform, etc. Distortion can create a different frequency spectrum, usually richer - unless you count simply shifting the frequency or the amplitude as a type of distortion. Ra seems to refer to a complication of what is more fundamentally there when using the word, meaning distortion in general which creates more frequencies without shifting the base frequency, and that brings to mind the below.

Deforming the shape of the waveform creates a richer spectrum, mainly by adding more frequencies related to those already there. Amplitude, frequency, or phase can be modulated, for more complex patterns of richer frequencies created from simple beginnings, and this is for example the basis of the 80's "FM synthesizer" sound.

(09-22-2020, 11:43 AM)flofrog Wrote: As in music from India..

Quote:Gary: Q’uo, in Ra’s cosmology, before infinity became aware, it was without distortion. The moment, so to speak, that infinity became aware and discerned a concept—that it could and would know itself—the First Distortion was born, what Ra alternatingly calls the Law of Confusion and the Law of Freewill. And from that first distortion springs the infinite universes and infinite distortions. Can you describe what Ra means by “distortion”? What is a distortion?

Q’uo: I am Q’uo and am aware of your query, my brother. As far as we are able to determine, a distortion is any permutation or change from unity. Unity, then, being that quality from which all that is made comes. Unity itself is homogeneous, shall we say. It is as it is. There is no mark or disturbance of unity, there is only the intelligent infinity. When the First Distortion, or Free Will, came into being, then there was the possibility of utilizing portions of that unity to create a beingness, an expression, an alteration of that unity that would utilize that unity to allow the Creator to make what you see as the one creation.

Any distortion is a permutation of unity. Any distortion is a reflection of some portion of unity.All distortions require the beginning of unity to be formed in such and such a manner so that there is a movement away from total unity into that which is the infinite creation. Thus, any distortion may utilize unity to create any thing, any universe, any being, any experience, any concept that is itself a distortion.

(09-23-2020, 11:23 AM)Patrick Wrote: What is remarkable is that Unity was Intelligent before the first distortion.  Those rhythms of this Infinite Intelligence are a mystery.  We could maybe call them vibrations as well within Unity.  So Distortions are something else.  I like how Q'uo described it.