Comparing "The Work" of Gurdjieff to The Ra Material

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Yes I will agree that one may certainly be 'harvesters' long before the actual 'harvesters' as it were. I quite agree with your assessment, and I suppose Gurdjieffs, as to the consciousness necessary for a willed act to be a intentional act of love and service. I believe this is parallel with the idea of polarity as being generated intentionally in the sense that doing something unconsciously or without deliberate intention is not necessarily polarizing in any meaningful way.

I, personally, do not feel that 'you reap what you sow' necessarily means that benefits are expected. However, for me life is like music. All the things you choose, thoughts and the like are the different notes and dynamics you are playing with. So, after playing a certain note or certain dynamic so many times you begin to get to know it and expect a certain feeling from it. I think that the dedication to being of service to gain polarity generates a certain sense of 'knowing' whereby you have learned to 'jam' or improvise with whatever has come your way.

The notes are always there. Every situation has potential pros and cons. It is how you play those notes that determines the mood of the melody and that is all it really is. You improvise as you follow the seeming 'leitmotif' of your life. A musician who plays a lot and learns the nature of theory begins to learn where they are wherever they are playing. Yet some musicians can play amazingly without any of that knowledge, they feel.

I think the kind of knowledge that Ra and Gurdjieffs expound is like music theory. It helps you to understand and recognize the patterns within the experience you are having so you can make conscious choices, in otherwords giving you an active role in the 'writing' the song that is your life rather than purely just playing what is in front of you. Hence why I think 'breaking normal modes of thought' and 'creativity' are so impressed as being fundamental to the freedom of the consciousness.