Ra's Adventures in Wonderland

[Tenet Nosce]

I'm sure that Ra is gleeful when someone dismisses part of the material because they do not resonate with it. Ra does not want to distort us any further.

In my estimation, Ra probably wouldn't know one way or the other. Or particularly care if they did.

If there is distortion present upon reading the material, then the reader is the source of the distortion. If the reader embraces the philosophy given in the material, then the reader would notice the distortion, and seek to lessen it. I propose one way to lessen this distortion would be to reconcile it with the ideas put forth in the above quotes.

It is certainly fine to merely put something aside that doesn't make sense at the time, and/or align with the intuition. No harm, no foul there.

But when one actually seeks to creatively reinterpret the material in order to conform to their own distortions- to the point of assigning alternative connotations to terminology used by Ra and then arguing in the forum that their own distorted view is actually what Ra really meant- that is a disservice IMO.

This increases the distortion all around, and I see little purpose in it other than to protect the ego from having to admit that it read something into the material that wasn't really there.

Rather than say... Ra says X, and I disagree and believe Y (totally fine), some will go through great lengths to argue that Ra actually said Y, and not X. I'm sure this, too, is all part of the process. But being a distortion, it is not at all necessary.

To draw an analogy from Law, in general, there are many laws on the books which are accompanied by statements of intent and purpose which are meant to guide interpretation, and prevent the judicial system from taking creative license with the laws and reinterpreting them to mean something which they are not.

Similarly, I would propose that Ra's statements of their nature and purpose should act as similar guidelines in cases of potential discrepancy in interpretation.

Ra's nature and purpose did not change during the course of the work. Thus it is a constant which can be used as a yardstick. Don, Carla, and Jim are all human beings, and thus their ability and effectiveness at offering sound queries, a clear channel, and ample battery power can vary greatly from session to session.

Or even within the same session. Session One would be a great example of this. Jim wasn't even present at the beginning, and walked in with groceries causing a distraction just as Ra said "May we enunciate this law in more detail." The tape recorder was poorly placed, and later part of the Session One was actually recorded over. Don chose to query about the "coming planetary changes" (thus making an assumption in the query that they were inevitably coming). And poor Carla was just trying to contain her own surprise at what was going on!