Session 005

[Minyatur]

Continuing a re-read of the material with an angle for creating a study group. Any thoughts or ideas about these things would be very useful! Not looking for objective interpretations or a debate, but rather a range of perspectives that will add to my own understanding. If possible, please use the "View Source" function (the button to the far right on the toolbar) and copy+paste each point into it's own quote tags.

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The healer is only the catalyst, much as this instrument has the catalysis necessary to provide the channel for our words, yet by example or exercise of any kind can take no thought for this working.

Is Ra referring to the fact that Carla does not consciously know or remember the words spoken during the contact?

I do not think so, more that the entity is a catalyst for those who need it as part of their own path. I would view Ra who provides the words also as a catalyst for those who listen. There is only unity, other-selves who provide couldn't have done any other way since before any beginning.

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We begin with the mental learn/teachings necessary for contact with intelligent infinity. The prerequisite of mental work is the ability to retain silence of self at a steady state when required by the self. The mind must be opened like a door. The key is silence.

What is the key difference is between the ability to retain silence and the ability to control the mind’s thoughts?

I'd say silence is deeper than simply controling the mind's thoughts. To connect with intelligent infinity, one needs to step out of this space/time altogether. He needs to stop existing here in a way, being retainned by no chains.

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Within the door lies an hierarchical construction you may liken unto geography and in some ways geometry, for the hierarchy is quite regular, bearing inner relationships.

The geography, hierarchy, and relationships seem to me to be a reference to the archetypal nature of the mind, or at least the type of structure which may be examined through study of the archetypes. Is there are broader or more narrow interpretation?

I'd say it is the nature of Creation altogether. The nature of order itself, which can be found in everything.

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It is not for a being of polarity in the physical consciousness to pick and choose among attributes, thus building the roles that cause blockages and confusions in the already-distorted mind complex. Each acceptance smoothes part of the many distortions that the faculty you call judgment engenders.

There seems to be a subtle distinction between picking and choosing attributes and “making the choice” – what are the key differences?

By making a choice, you speak of "each acceptance smoothes part of the many distortions"? 

We are all one and as such we are every being. Acceptance of self and other-self is equal in this view. We did not chose our past-conditions nor did we consciously decide the other-selves which we would encounter nor how they would act toward us. As such rather than "picking and choosing attributes" which we would rather see, we are here to face the Creator through us and other-us as it is. With time, only acceptance can emerge. The One is each one of us through the right circumstances. The concept of dependent origination is interesting in this view, as the only difference between self and an other-self is their origination and what they've learned from it.

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The simplest example of this is the understanding that each biological male is female; each biological female is male.

What might be some other examples of how this bodily polarity may be expressed?

Being old or young would be another example.