"...there is no end to your selves, your understanding"

[MichaelD]

Your quote has no direct relation to the discussion at hand. It has no direct statement that gives any relevance to your inference.

I suppose if you are in denial and don't want to acknowledge the truth.

It is A1s typical response when lost. He likes to embody the bluntness/boldness of zenmaster with none of the wisdom or listening skills.

A1, you are cherry picking concepts from Ra and applying them to instances they dont apply. Yes, we are all one. The universe in a grain of sand, if you will. That is the teaching. That is the bedrock upon which everything rests, according to Ra.

It is a beautiful thing to behold, but unfortunately it is quite useless by itself. Imagine walking into a classroom of 20 yr olds and writing the fundamental equations of quantum mechanics on the board, then saying, "ok people there it is, go build a manual transmission. Everything you need is in there.

Useless. Ra repeatedly (emphasis) mentions himself as an amalgamation of many bodymindspirits (social memory complex). He repeatedly mentions whole other complexes he has interacted with, discussing them as quite different than his own. He makes mention of many, many other selves: guardians, planets, humans, councils, even some that he claims to know little about (beyond the octave). Yes, he always reiterates the oneness, right before continuing on with the differences. He must speak of the differences, for we live on earth and difference is inherant in our experience. You see, just as the fundamental equations of quantum dynamics may reassure and inspire physicists to continue further in defining the world, even the equations themselves; they are utterly useless on their own, even though (theoretically) they may contain the answer to everything in the material world. Just as this scenario, the knowledge of all as one is a similar inspiration and reassurance for us balls of consciousness in the universe; and the knowledge is utterly useless on its own, even though it quite literally contains everything.

We are one, but clearly we are not. You cannot move my arm as it were yours, and never will you be able to. So long as we are on planet earth, we will always be individuate to some degree. You have no command over anything at all outside yourself, and even surprisingly little within yourself. This is human life on planet earth at this time. To deny this is to deny your own experience, as well as the purpose for human life. We are here and this is how life is. Regardless of your opinions, you will eat and s*** and f*** and sleep and wake up tomorrow and do it all over again. Until you die. We are not here to transcend human experience. We are here to understand it, to live it, to experience human experience.

The Law of One is a wonderful ideal, but what is it without all the other laws? What is Newton's first law without the second? The law of love without the law of free will. The beauty of the Law of One is how hilariously false it is in our subjective experience, and also how beautifully true it is as well. Luckily for the Law of One, it's falseness in our plane is also contained within it. After all, are we not all one?

If you want to use the LOO to grow, you could be asking much, much better questions. How would you eat were you eating yourself. How would you s*** were you shitting yourself? How would you f*** were you fucking yourself? How would you love were you loving yourself. For me, this is the only benefit I have received from the idea of 'all is one'. Seeing myself in everything. Anything else is useless semantics over ideas that have no useful application. If you truly saw yourself in everything in every moment, you'd likely not be arguing semantics. With time though, and practice.