Does experience itself hold any value

[anagogy]

My understanding is that creator let different parts of itself to interact with one another to explore itself on a more micro level, the purpose is to gain a more refined (dense?) understanding of itself, to know its essence.

Therefore experience is only a tool not the purpose. The value of experience is that all creator is doing is experiencing itself, no understanding can be archived without experience (I guess).

Its more about the journey, than the destination. The process of moving from ignorance to enlightenment. Our default state is infinite intelligence, where we know ourselves absolutely. There is nothing to be refined at this level. There is nothing that can be added or subtracted at this level. There are no doubts there about what or who you are at that level, if we were to relegate this infinity to the terminology of "level".

Ra has acknowledged that this grand illusion is simply an alternative to understanding the complete unity of thought that binds all things. They have stated that this distortion is not even necessary. We do it for some cosmic sense of fun or curiosity. Think of it like the ultimate virtual reality game. You explore a unique and specific vantage point and get to see the universe from that perspective, and then, over the course of time, merge that perspective back with the One perspective, which encompasses all conceivable perspectives.

1. Does different kind of experience lead to different understanding or merely generate different ways to the same understanding?

Ra said they are worried when there is little harvest at the end of the second cycle. But Ra also acknowledged that even if earth is destroyed in unclear way, this still bring useful information back to creator.

All roads lead to the same place, even though the roads may be different. Traveling down this road of light is a matter of broadening ones perspective or viewpoint. Becoming more conscious, in other-words. Though the local instance or manifestation of a lesson may be different in specifics, the underlying vibrations necessary for the elevation of consciousness remain the same. The "usefulness" of ANY experience is in its potential to move you further along this road to unity. Thus, you have the progression through the densities of experience, which equal a gradual broadening of perspective until all can be seen as truly One again.

2. Do we always have to learn something from experience, does experiencing just for the sake of experiencing without understanding is not good practice?

I take Ra's stand as to maximize opportunity for experience and to maximize understanding that can be gained from experience. Therefore indulge in experience without learning is not advisable, and the information from these experience are not really a fair trade for understanding lost.

The so called "lessons" we are learning are not lessons as such, rather, what you have is a sort of "knowingness" that becomes further defined and refined with each experience that you have so, from a broader perspective, you cannot stop learning these lessons, unless you were to stop experiencing. Experiences change you, whether you want them to or not. These are the lessons. These are the "learnings".

It is true though that this "knowingness" can become accelerated or refined when the conscious will of the observer is brought to bear on the qualities of the experience. The "remembering" of that which we already know, the recalling of who we really are as source energy can become more efficient if that is where we turn our will. Growth doesn't have to be slow.