This was touched upon in a separate thread, but I felt the topic was important enough to deserve its own thread, as it revolves heavily around key concepts of The Law of One, and indeed, of all Creation.

Some of the ideas here presented are influenced by what Jordan Peterson labels "psychology of evil", his views on the subject, as well as some personal experiences and observations of mine.

I would like to state that a trigger warning might be in order. The subject matter here covered will be dark in nature, and touch upon the possible mentality behind the perpetrators of crimes such as rape, mass shootings, and so on. If you have been the victim of any such crimes and have any unresolved trauma regarding the experience, this thread might be uncomfortable. However, here I am reminded of one statement by Jordan Peterson about PTSD being caused in great part by having confronted extreme "evil", without currently having a framework that helps explain the mentality behind such actions. If you've suffered through any such things and you decide to read on, perhaps some of the ideas here presented will help you in your healing.

As students of The Law of One, all of us have read the Confederation's thoughts on the importance of having compassion and love even for the perpetrators of great evil, in part due to the notion that each and every single one of us has the same potential for evil: what has often been referred to as the shadow. It is my intent with this thread to share ideas and shed whatever light we can upon this subject in order to help us find further ways of feeling love and compassion for these individuals, our shadow, and thus, for our Infinite Creator.

The framework that I'm going to work under is that we're all beings of love. Love is our essence and our north star. Love gives meaning to our lives, and we can't help but seek love. We incarnated to learn the lessons of love, as we know. And we incarnated in an illusion so thick that we would completely forget that love is our essence; an illusion where tragedy is an inseparable and unavoidable component, deliberately built-in and designed for the purpose of testing how far our belief and commitment to love can go, as Ra implied in their famous and inspiring poker analogy.

So, what happens when tragedy strikes and an entity starts believing that love is unattainable, or that the illusion is actually love itself? To what lenghts can an entity be twisted when it internalizes such beliefs? One thing is for certain: If love from others is seen as futile, another option must be embraced. One would logically have to stop seeking love, and start seeking other things. In my estimation, there's a single thought that starts the whole train of action: "This thing that is being done to me is unacceptable". What is perceived as unacceptable must be controlled. Thus, the pathway of power, control, retribution and aggrandizement of the ego at the expense of other-selves, begins.  

We've come to know this as the Service to Self path. Although described as completely valid a pathway of ascension ("The Law of One blinks neither at the light or the darkness"), it neither will get an entity all the way back to the Creator, nor will one find as much truth through that path. "The path of that which is not", we've read. It's a path so dependent on illusion, that it didn't exist at all when there was no veil.

Ra referred to the STS kind of sexual arousal as "virtually unquenchable". I believe this applies to all forms of power-seeking for the STS entity, and no wonder: There is always someone more to surpass in the hierarchy; someone else to enslave; some new territory to have dominion over. The desire for power and control will never find true satisfaction (especially in an Infinite Creation!). Thus, although described still as a path of love (love exclusively of the self), STS neither begins in love nor it fulfills the immutable yearning of the soul for a more inclusive and expansive kind of love. It's a substitute. It begins being a substitute in 3rd density when the first steps towards negative polarization are taken, and it continues being so throughout the higher densities, until the impossibility of continuing through that path is realized in mid-6th density. Q'uo said, I believe (I may be paraphrasing) that there's a kind of sweet innocence to the STS entity that switches polarity at that point and starts discovering the pleasures of true connectedness, Oneness and unconditional love.

All of this cements very solidly, in my opinion, the notion that there's something lacking for the soul about the STS path. The soul is being denied something; something that it still yearns for, even if subconsciously.

Let's take the example of the rapist. It seems difficult to believe that any entity would prefer forcing themselves on someone and gaining whatever pleasure they might derive from dominating someone, over making love with a person who they genuinely love, and who loves them back. The rapist becomes so only after internalizing, first, the idea that they will not be loved, and second, that this state of affairs is unacceptable. The desire to rape is embraced, again, as a substitute, not as a true preference.

There are the mass shooters. That they were isolated from their peers and suffered from painfully low self-esteem is well known. The Choice is presented to them. In their perception that they have been rejected*, and in their unwillingness to accept and find the love in the situation, thus refusing the STO path, they move towards the only thing that is acceptable to them: Power over others; as Ra said, "the putting to death being the ultimate power over others".

*relevant: there are studies that say that rejection literally activates our pain circuitry.

I think it's extremely important to point out the intense pain these people are under, and here I say again, that although STS is called the path of love of the self, it most certainly does not begin in love. I believe it was in the manifesto of one of the Columbine shooters where it was said how much they hated everybody, but with a caveat: they admitted to hating most of all those individuals who reminded them of their own selves. These people are not in love with themselves. Whatever clumsy attempts they may have made at finding love before, they ended with the belief that even if love does exist, they themselves are unlovable. Elliot Rodger is someone who repeatedly talked about wishing for nothing more than finding the love of a woman, in the videos that he made before his shootings. He would talk about looking back at his childhood, yearning for the simplicity, innocence and naivete of that period. After internalizing the notions that women had rejected him and that they were the enemy, he would talk at length from that hatred and resentment that kept festering and festering. He would speak words that would rob women of all humanity, hating men who had found love, too, because they were living symbols of the failure that he perceived himself to be. "I will be the alpha male", I believe were some of his words towards the end. Again, STS is shown as the alternative, the substitute; not the actual preference.

A hatred for life itself seems very common under these situations. As Jordan Peterson points out, the fact that most of these people end up killing their own selves is meant in part as a statement. It's a desire to show to the world that life, existence itself, is worthless. What better way of driving that point home could there be than the taking of one's own life?

Obviously, due to this, the mass shooters walk into the STS path only so far. We can only guess whether they enjoyed the feelings of power and domination that they were seeking in their crimes, and to what extent. For the STS entity that has a longer incarnation, the process continues. As they begin to experiment with the feelings of power and domination, the pain and feelings of self-worthlessness that drove them towards a substitute for love probably subside. I would imagine that they start feeling re-invigorated, their self-esteem being progressively restored, until a new realization becomes self-evident in their minds: power, control and domination is what life is about. The entity declares that that's what he or she will live for. Thus, a newfound love is discovered. The love of the illusory self.

There's a popular belief that true STS entities operate only from positions of extremely high power and status. This is not so, as stated here by Q'uo:

Quote:R: In looking at the nature of negative polarity and karma, there is the assumption that when one polarizes in the negative sense, for example, as a slave master, then the karma would draw to him the opposite experience of being the slave. When you are in the position of one who suffers and is on the receiving end, will you still polarize in a negative way?” Could you comment on this question?

We are those of Q’uo, and are aware of your query, my brother. It is entirely possible and quite probable that an entity, as you say, on the receiving end of power; that is, being powerless, can polarize very greatly towards the negative.

If you think about the nature of the negative polarity, the negative polarity has to do with seeing all others as objects to be used and to feeling of oneself that one is the king of creation. When such an entity, with this basic turn of mind, is in a position of powerlessness, he is free to spend the entire incarnation honing the edge of his rage. He can use every slight, every insult, in order to make himself more finely sharp as an axe-blade in his distain and distaste for all but himself.

And talking of negative polarity metaphysically speaking, you are not looking so much at the outer estate as you are looking at the possibilities of employing the path-that-is-not. Employing the path-that-is-not means denying that you and the other are one. Whether a negatively polarized entity is on top or on the bottom in terms of the estate he enjoys in society, he is equally capable of honing the edge of his anger and his separation from all others.

Quote:19.17. Questioner: Can you tell me what bias creates their momentum toward the chosen path of service to self?

Ra: I am Ra. We can speak only in metaphor. Some love the light. Some love the darkness. It is a matter of the unique and infinitely various Creator choosing and playing among its experiences as a child upon a picnic. Some enjoy the picnic and find the sun beautiful, the food delicious, the games refreshing, and glow with the joy of creation. Some find the night delicious, their picnic being pain, difficulty, sufferings of others, and the examination of the perversities of nature. These enjoy a different picnic.

All these experiences are available. It is free will of each entity which chooses the form of play, the form of pleasure.

Quote:And so it created its children, children of love and free will, one unit of absolute love that can never change and will never be unique, and [an] absolutely equal portion of infinitely various free will. That is your nature. Your uniqueness lies not in that you are children of love, but in that no two unions of love and free will are the same.
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that you bond your free will in a general way, either to learning and expressing love by loving all that there is, yourself, love itself and all children of love, or choosing to deny that any but you is unique, that you are the center of the universe, that you are to be loved.
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This is seen by those who are neutral or working positively, as negative, because the negative entity will of course arrange, control and create its universe [in the way] which is most comfortable and advantageous to it. It does, however, have its own logic, and should never be treated with disrespect, but with the understanding that there are those whose uniqueness creates for them a free will which seems to be more paramount than the love that binds one to another. There is no less worship, there is no less sanctity in the negative than in the positive. It is simply a different distortion of the one love.

Quote:one entity experiencing the pleasure of humiliation and slavery or bondage, the other experiencing the pleasure of mastery and control over another entity. In this way a sexual energy transfer of a negative polarity is experienced.

Quote:The negative path posits slavery of the less powerful as a means of learning the desire to serve the self to the extent that the will is brought to bear. It is in this way that polarity is increased in the negative sense. Thus fourth-density entities are willing slaves of such a fifth-density entity, there being no doubt whatsoever of the relative power of each.

I think we can all agree that a completely pure STO entity would be of the mentality of complete open boarders for everyone (not just as related to country, but in regards to the entity's own house as well). There are a lot of implications for that here in 3rd density, and lots of arguments to make on both sides of the discussion as to the viability of this. However, I want to put this topic in relation to the notion that the two separate paths (STS and STO) in higher densities are just that; separate. The Confederation has gone on record saying that the two polarities "don't work well together". The implications of this in regard to the subject of immigration are big, if not downright hypocritical, because a basic motivation in the desire for strict immigration control (aside from downright xenophobic views) is the desire to keep potential individuals of an STS-like mentality away from that which one perceives as belonging to the self (of course, this viewpoint can be questioned on the grounds that one's own country also has STS individuals).

Still, Creation itself seems to be built on concepts of, shall we say, strict immigration control. The well of 4th density positive can't be poisoned with the negativity of those not sufficiently polarized STO, or so seems to be the idea.

Perhaps the important aspect of it is that polarity is relatively transient, and definitely mutable. Someone may not be "good enough" for 4th density positive at one particular point in time, but with enough time and work, anyone and everyone can potentially get there, if they so wish. This is in direct contrast with some far-right views of completely closing access into one's country to all people of any given race, nationality or religion.

On the topic of reaching absolute purity in STO, this following quote from Ra is relevant:

Quote:25.6 ▶ Questioner: Could you amplify the meaning of what you said by “failure to accept that which is given?”

Ra: I am Ra. At the level of time/space at which this takes place in the form of what you may call thought-war, the most accepting and loving energy would be to so love those who wished to manipulate that those entities were surrounded, engulfed, and transformed by positive energies.

This, however, being a battle of equals, the Confederation is aware that it cannot, on equal footing, allow itself to be manipulated in order to remain purely positive, for then though pure it would not be of any consequence, having been placed by the so-called powers of darkness under the heel, as you may say.

It is thus that those who deal with this thought-war must be defensive rather than accepting in order to preserve their usefulness in service to others. Thusly, they cannot accept fully what the Orion Confederation wishes to give, that being enslavement. Thusly, some polarity is lost due to this friction and both sides, if you will, must then regroup.

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Ra states that most wanderers come from the 6th density, and that their lessons often revolve around learning the lessons of love in order to balance it with wisdom. I think it'd be interesting to use this thread for us to talk about possible lessons, catalysts and incarnational patterns involving this particular balance between love and wisdom, and other possible lessons involving the idea of 6h density oneness. What have your experiences in life been with this?

For me, even many years before getting into The Law of One or spirituality, the notion of finding balance between opposites was something that deeply attracted me. I became interested in Jung's work on personality types, and although he had different opinions on the idea of this so-called balance, striking that fine middle point between feeling and thinking was something that fascinated me. As much as possible in life I try to approach situations using both aspects, analyzing with the intellectual mind the situation as analytically and objectively as possible, and being mindful of any possible biases of my own that may get in the way of the truth, while at the same time accepting and honoring with the greatest respect any feelings that pop up either in myself or the other person, and then acting upon them if appropriate.

Sexual identity and gender roles play heavily into this, I find. As a physical male, I've never really fully identified with the archetype of masculinity, but not with femininity either. I see myself as more feminine in some aspects, more masculine in others, although it is possible that my core motivations in life make me lean slightly more towards femininity, in the sense that I see feelings, the emotional aspect and spirituality (the feminine) as the true driving force of life, whereas wisdom and rationality, while great tools, are just that; tools, not something to actually live and die for.

Life has also thrown at me catalyst that has allowed me to tap into the shadow. I have direct experience of what it is to experience bitterness and resentment towards existence itself, and I'm aware of how easily it would have been to give in to that side and fall into straight up STS territory. I knew these were things I couldn't just talk about with anybody, as they would be greatly judged, but within the confines of my own mind I never felt very judgmental towards this side of myself. I knew I couldn't feed it or give in to it, but deep down I knew it was something natural and that there was no reason to feel ashamed for it. More recently, when getting into The Law of One and the Quo channelings, I felt instantly attracted to the concepts of unconditional acceptance of the self, shadow integration, and of being the totality and all potentialities of the universe itself. It felt so natural to me, and it really helped me in advancing my knowledge in an area that I already felt an inherent attraction to begin with.

I've never really had any actual experience of confirmation of being a wanderer, but all of these things and the overall trend of attraction towards balance make me think that the probability of being a 6th density wanderer is rather high, if we go by what Ra said. I wonder, though, is there a way of being more sure if one is indeed a wanderer, and of one's origins?

As for lessons, I think recurring catalyst in my life has prompted me to learn how to get out of a strong habit of using the mind and of rationalizing too much, and of realization that indeed, the mind is much less capable of understanding reality than I thought before. I've come to learn great humility in that regard, and to embrace love further as the key to existence.

Please share your experiences.

So it seems like you can buy two versions of The Law of One in book format, either the original (The Law of One), or the Re listened (The Ra Contact: Teaching The Law of One)

Which do you recommend?  For those who have analysed both, is there one you prefer?

I would like to know if someone could make clear what this quote implies. This is taken from the Camelot Journals by Jim McCarty

Published by Bring4th_Jim on June 12, 2019 8:44pm. Category: General




I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the Ra quote comes from 21.3-.4:



"Questioner: Andrija Puharich will be visiting later this month. Can he read the unpublished healing material?



Ra: I am Ra. The entity of whom you speak has a knowledge of this material in its conscious memory in somewhat altered form. Therefore, it is harmless to allow this entity to become acquainted with this material. However, we request the mind/body/spirit complex, Henry, be sufficiently prepared by means of meditation, contemplation, or prayer before entering these workings. At present, as we have said before, this mind/body/spirit complex is not of proper vibrational distortion.

I made bold what I feel I am not sure of. Could someone help me to gain a more clear picture? Thanks to all.

75.27 ▶ Questioner: If these sounds are precisely vibrated then what effect or use would they have with respect to the purposes of the adept?

Ra: I am Ra. You may consider the concept of sympathetic resonance. When certain sounds are correctly vibrated, the creation sings.

Anyone know how to do this?

Seventh density, where you become All That Is, and become Creator.
How intense is that?
It's the Law of Foreverness. So it probably subjectively lasts forever.
Does this mean there's an infinite amount of time to spread out the infinity of things, so that it's very mild?
Or is experiencing everything, and being everything, very intense?
As you approach the black hole of 8th density in 7th, is that intense?

Maybe nobody can answer.

When I ask yes or no to my guidance, I just get a sense of peace. Like everything is ok.

So maybe approaching infinity is very peaceful.

I ask, because this is the density I would like to call home. Or what I would seek.
I am tired of identity, and want to just merge back with the All.

Our polarity as I know it is the sum total of all our past lives.
So how does this one life affect where we end up that much?

Does serving others even more really affect where we end up in higher density?

If we do more serving, does this mean we'll be further along in 4D when we incarnate there (or higher density)?

Can I do well through helping people as the opportunities arise, and meditating on my own?

I don't go out of my way to serve others like soup kitchens, but I know that's now always what service is about.

Why do people strive hard to spiritually develop themselves if it really doesn't make a difference?

On page 36 in Book 2 session #31, Ra says that sexual domination leads to sexual energy blockages. I was wondering anyone had any insight on if this would include consensual sexual domination, in terms of a kink. I’m not sure if sexually exerting power over someone consensually and sexually exerting power over someone forcefully would be considered the same in terms of having potential for sexual energy blockages.