We the Choir Gather and We Learn to Sing Together

[rva_jeremy]

And yet none of these things can be said to be accurate in the absolute sense, when taken into account the definition of the unmanifested being as that being which exists and does its work without reference to or aid from other-selves.(71.5). So egoic structures are not truly self-sufficient in that they are referential by nature, and a "cultural concept of individuality" by its definition relies on culture. So, I don't see it so much as being a "leaving-behind" of self-sufficiency or individuality, but the lies we tell ourselves about these concepts.

I think this is precisely correct and exquisitely well said! Indeed, one could argue that third density is expressly not a density in which we are meant to be truly self-sufficient, and that exploring what it means to be a self in that sense is the great lesson leading to social memory. When I spoke of a "cultural concept of individuality" I was referring to scholarship I've read in the past that looked at identity through a historical and cultural lens. It's arguable that folks in earlier times did not have the same egoic concept that we do; indeed, the anthropology I've read suggests that before the humanist/rationalist advent of the Renaissance and Enlightenment, most people most of the time thought of themselves as members of a group or tribe first, and their individual agency flowed from this rather than the group flowing from personal commitment. Gradually a sense of reflectiveness grows in each node of the yellow ray society, and I surmise that social memory is born of a tribe of fully activated individuals all lending their full, unique agency to the collective. But we have to have an awareness of that individual uniqueness in order to pledge it of free will.

This vaguely implies that in third density we have been teasing out finer and finer gradations of awareness of our own individuality and how the social yellow-ray matrix acts upon us to create different possibilities of selfhood. I think concrete liberal (capitalist) ideas of the dignity and autonomy of the individual that we take for granted these days often elide the social bucket that creates the shape, the container for this individual to be an individual; how our individuality and our collective identity are two sides of the same coin that perhaps our awareness oscillates around. The yellow-ray vehicle we call our personality or ego, by this reckoning, is just as much a product of society as it is of ourselves.  It seems there might be progressive levels of individual awareness growing out of orange-ray-style tribalism. The goal, if I'm not completely off the mark, is not to subsume the self in the collective so much as to understand one's uniqueness as a perfect fit with the collective, and therefore there is no need for conflict. We express our full, true individuality through our participation in the collective, and the more the Creator is moving through that increasingly transparent personality of ours, the more we discover our authentic selves and our authentic place in things.

How is there true individuality in the Law of One where all is the One Infinite Creator, and the pinnacle of seeking is to become the most humble servant of all (74.11)? And yet, each unmanifested self is unique (66.20). And so, to truly merge with one's other-selves while also retaining one's uniqueness, would require a large amount of light-strength and integrity, I would imagine. It could even be said that the difference of third density to fourth is that in third we are merged while not retaining our uniqueness or full awareness or full glory, and that this is the cause for much of the suffering we experience here. Maybe part of transitioning to fourth is the conscious realisation that we were unified all along, much more so than we could ever imagine, through the mass mind.

Hatonn once spoke of their experience of individuality within fourth density social memory, and it's worth noting how they draw a distinction between our complex and theirs, that it's a matter of transparency of self to the collective that makes disputes soluble, not a matter of all entities always being of the same mind:

We do not promise heaven in the sense that meditation offers an easy street. For we have in our brotherhood worked upon the spiritual path for yet many more eons than you, yet within our ranks, because there always lies more than one path from one point to another, we have dissension and disagreement. We have discussion and argument. We are not without imperfections. We often do not see the total picture. It is simply that at least we are being honest in a way that we have gained by virtue of continued seeking. We are a little more in touch [with] who we are than your peoples. We have begun to see that we are all truly one in the Creator. Meditate, my friends. (Jeremy's emphasis)

I believe you are correct that it takes a great deal of light energy to maintain this vulnerability to others, and that that is the light energy we are building through processing catalyst, subtracting from our identities more and more of that which is not essential, and polarizing our ability to prosecute our heart's true desire as the biases reveal themselves. 

Great topic!