01-15-2016, 12:26 PM
I definitely see what you are trying to do, Parsons, and if it has value for you, I'm sure it will have value for others.
Maybe it is the egregore, but I tend to think that Ra probably economized their words very specifically. The session you quoted, session 2, is still an introductory session. Ra is setting up their point of view and vantage for the reader. Also, the question is quite transient, which Don hasn't learned to try to redirect from yet, so I think the words also indicate Ra's discomfort/unfamiliarity with talking about such concepts.
I do totally get it, I mean upon subsequent read throughs I've rolled my eyes enough times at some of Don's sillier questions, but upon my first read through, really, not a word seemed superfluous. All of it felt intentional. Even now, I wouldn't prefer to read a version without all the sillier transient questions - because even then, Ra used their allotted time to offer as much information as possible while staying within the confines of the question asked. I just feel the material as a whole is too "magical" in its entirety to start chopping away at words or questions, but that's just me. I don't mind the redundancy, but I can definitely understand if people do.
Maybe it is the egregore, but I tend to think that Ra probably economized their words very specifically. The session you quoted, session 2, is still an introductory session. Ra is setting up their point of view and vantage for the reader. Also, the question is quite transient, which Don hasn't learned to try to redirect from yet, so I think the words also indicate Ra's discomfort/unfamiliarity with talking about such concepts.
I do totally get it, I mean upon subsequent read throughs I've rolled my eyes enough times at some of Don's sillier questions, but upon my first read through, really, not a word seemed superfluous. All of it felt intentional. Even now, I wouldn't prefer to read a version without all the sillier transient questions - because even then, Ra used their allotted time to offer as much information as possible while staying within the confines of the question asked. I just feel the material as a whole is too "magical" in its entirety to start chopping away at words or questions, but that's just me. I don't mind the redundancy, but I can definitely understand if people do.