Canceling the Scholar's Edition of the Law of One material

[Steppingfeet]

So am I correctly made to understand that the dispute here has been resolved and a new version will, in fact, be printed?  Paging @Bring4th_GLB and @Bring4th_Austin!

Hey Jeremy, the stars do seem to be mostly aligned to indicate this, yes. : )


Single Volume
Regarding a single-volume, special edition of the Law of One material, that is certainly a possibility that we'd love to accomplish, so long as it's logistically/economically feasible.

And for exactly the reasons you stated: it would simply have great, functional utility. Stronger binding. The entire contact in one place. A comprehensive single index. Portability. Etc.

In reply to APW, there are great advantages to digital versions and search engines, no doubt. But there are also, like Jeremy was saying, advantages to printed versions. For keyword searching I prefer the former. For reading I prefer the latter, especially as I am a highlighter, dog-earer, asterisk maker, underliner, in-the-margins notemaker, etc. : ) Neither fully trumps the other, though. Just different mediums, each with their pros and cons.

Added to the utility of a hardcover single-volume edition is something a bit more personal, which is another direction I think you, Jeremy, were headed. The material is of great personal significance to many who study its pages, and a single-edition hardcover creates the opportunity to clothe, as it were, the material in a garment that, for many, would accord the book its proper dignity and place in ones heart. A reasonable garment, not one that is covered in a thin layer of diamond-encrusted gold.

No, it's not strictly necessary to put it into a functional hardcover in order to imbue it with proper meaning and significance. Ra's words would be just as powerful to me if written on a roll of toilet paper. But in the very individual, subjective hierarchy of personal significance one ascribes to the great range of books in their lives, the humble messenger's message usually sits near the top for those who fall in love with their wisdom. And many, I'm sure, would simply personally enjoy having one of their favorite, even life-changing books in a nice hardcover edition.


The Bible
Though I know you referenced the Bible only to highlight the mechanical effectiveness of the book's physical features, doing so in a Law of One community is always a bit risky due to the knee-jerk reactions many of us have to comparisons between dogma-free philosophy that honors the First Distortion completely, and dogma-heavy religious structures that make a mess of the First Distortion. One does well to make clear disclaimers and qualifications when drawing comparisons between the two works. : )

While on the topic... the two works aren't so alien and mutually unintelligible that there is no common ground or overlap between them. There are connecting points, there are similarities - as there rightfully are between any two objects in a unified universe. But the two works are not equals, they're not on the same level, and they're not identical. They are fundamentally different enough that there is perhaps more contrast than comparison, and the categories to which they belong require different names. A great conversation for another day!


Loving something without fundamentalism

The Ra Material spoke to a depth within me, or spoke from a depth within me, that few if any sources of information can reach. Personally I feel Ra is a source more credible than anything or anybody I have encountered on this planet. Some of their extraordinary claims hold weight with me because I so implicitly trust Ra’s veracity. Not blindly so, I hope, but because it gets the rational mind’s full assent, and the heart’s deepest most resonant most cheerful “YES”. So far as can be discerned from communication alone, and the dynamics of their dance with the L/L trio, Ra’s intentions were pure, true, and constant; unmuddied by the dirt that distorts most human activity.

I could go on. And on. : )

Being in a representative position for L/L Research is a careful balance, though. To the extent that I am speaking for L/L to spiritual seekers, I don’t want to elevate the material to the position of a sacred cow, a holy work to be revered and upheld above the seeker’s own authority. So I tend to convey its personal significance to my own path while, as L/L Research has always done, reinforcing the seeker’s own inalienable power and authority to find, determine, and create their own path. In that light, the Law of One material becomes a resource, or tool, albeit a resource unlike any other on this planet, so far as I’m aware. Like APW was saying, a philosophy.

The material tends to attract a somewhat developed/mature/sophisticated seeker who is keenly aware of the damage that orthodoxy and dogmatism have rendered in this illusion, so it’s not uncommon to see context and disclaimers balancing professions of heartfelt love and reverence for this philosophy.

But - and I am just saying this for myself, not necessarily speaking to you, Jeremy - it is okay to love something! To cherish and uphold it, and to be unapologetic about ascribing to it great personal value. So long as that doesn't lead to proselytism or evangelical crusading, wear that s*** on your sleeve and beam with appreciation for the service that this philosophy has rendered unto you.

...and then pay it forward by serving others through the depth of your own radiation of realization of oneness with the Creator.