Consideratons of s/t and t/s

[Eddie]

I believe that this order of mapping applies directly to the archetypes that Ra discusses in Book IV. I see now how Arcanum IV- the Experience of the mind, feeds this biased interpretation of an experience to Arcanum III - the Catalyst of the Mind, which evaluates its catalytic properties and delivers them to Arcanum II - the Potentiator of the Mind, who prepares Arcanum I - the Matrix of the Mind, to store the biased interpretation of the experience in the matrix of the mind. I realize now that I had been looking at the process backward, as I had previously thought that these happened in the opposite order (i.e., the matrix stored an raw event, which was evaluated for potentiation value, and then was handed to the catalyst for reaction which became the experience).

Does all this make any sense, or have I wandered off into left field?

3D Sunset

This is an elegant analysis, and has illuminated a section of the Ra material that was previously obscure to me. Thank you.:idea:

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Thanks for that snippet, Steve. I'm temporally challenged, myself, in that I've never seen time as a linear thing. I tend to have memories of the future, which everyone in my family always found odd, except my mother. Basically, I often 'remember' something, talk about it in the past tense (as that's how things appear to work in this world), but then find the event happens 'forward' to the degree I thought it had happened 'backwards'. So, for example, I once told my mother that my grandfather had died a month previously. She was shocked, and pointedly made me describe every single thing I could remember. One month later, everything happened exactly as I'd seen it, except that my grandfather didn't die (it was a doctor saying to them, "I'm sorry but I don't think he'll last the night", which threw me).

I once tried to explain how time and events seem to me, and the best I could come up with is the following. Time is a universe of minuscule threads stretching everywhere, and you're holding onto some of these threads, creating events you want to experience in space. You can choose to bring many threads together, but most are out of reach. To bring those threaded possibilities into your conscious existence you need to grasp other threads which are 'heading in the direction' of the ones you want. So grasping new threads and letting go of others makes different outcomes more likely. The 'real world' outcomes are simply the threads you happen to have bunched together in your hands. So, life follows certain threads, and the group of all the threads you hold are merely the most likely outcomes in space, as you've chosen time lines where certain events are most likely. However, it's perfectly possible to grasp an odd thread which isn't a part of your apparent 'forward motion' in time and space, so you feel a 'jump in time' and see things which to the rational mind should be in the distant past or future.

I can't do much better than that I'm afraid, and feel/know it more than I can describe well.

You are indeed correct. Read the works of Carlos Castaneda. Those "threads" are luminous threads of energy, a few of which proceed into your "luminous egg" (your light body) via an area called the assembly point. Any time you "shift" (minor displacement) or "move" (major displacement) your assembly point, you will perceive a different reality, that is every bit as real as your "customary" reality, as your assembly point will coincide with a different cluster of those threads. Don Juan said (and I've known this intuitively, for a long time), that the greatest feat of human existence, is that we all manage to hold on to the same assembly point, and thereby perceive the same "reality".

The assembly point becomes detached during dreaming, which is why our dreams are so different than our customary reality. As a child, I often had precognitive dreams, so I have known for a long while that time is not linear in nature.