http://www.llresearch.org/transcripts/issues/2003/2003_0907.aspx Q'uo Wrote:...If the instrument still has energy, I have another one. Q’uo, in the Law of One series Ra says that “… our very being is hopefully a poignant example of both the necessity and the near-hopelessness of attempting to teach.” I was wondering if you could expound upon that any further?

We are aware of your query, my brother. As that known to you as Q’uo, we encompass a great deal of teaching. The energies of the ones known as Hatonn have long taught; the energies of the ones known as Latwii and those known as Ra, have long taught. And indeed those of Hatonn and those of Latwii accept as their teacher those of Ra. Consequently, we have bonds of teaching and of learning even within our principle. And our entire beau geste as a principle is to teach and yet, if we were to use this instrument’s slang, we would say, “LOL.” It is to laugh, it is to chuckle, for how can we teach? What do we know? We know only opinion. We can only toss our words into the wind and hope that some helpful aspect transfers from creation to creation, for we speak across worlds.

We gaze at each of you in your creation. You are masters. Few of you know it. We hope to encourage you to be aware of your nature, yet we have only a simple story to tell. We have only one basic thought to share. You are one, we are all one and that one thing is love. We attempt to be creative, we use channels such as this one so that we may flash all of the colors of that channel’s personality and weave such tales as that person’s energy and personality shell have to give. Yet our story is the same, and it is inadequate to fuel the realization and the transformation of a single entity.

Yet we shine out our light and we ask you to shine your light, to tell your shining truth when you feel it within. And when your shining truth is that you know nothing, let that shine, let that be a good thing to shine. For it is in our way of perceiving, an excellent thing. So we teach those who are already masters and who have forgotten. You who are learning could take our places, were the veil to drop. Yet you have placed yourself in this darkness which you experience, so that you can change.

Consequently to teach is almost hopeless and yet, what else does a human or the spirit have to share? The rest is love and has no words. When there is the attempt to share, it must be that sharing through the structures and the limitations and the exigencies of logic depending from each structure. These limitations are almost hopeless; that is, they create a hopeless situation in which one throws pebbles at the great eternal truth that is too simple to articulate...

https://www.llresearch.org/transcripts/issues/2007/2007_0211.aspx Q`uo Wrote:...In this regard we would suggest that the skillful choice is always to work on the self without regard for working with other entities. Service to others, working upon what you perceive needs to be done in the world, begins and ends within yourself. Until the point at which you are asked specific questions that you may answer in what you hope is a spiritually helpful manner, the work you do on yourself is sufficient and more than adequate in terms of how you may affect the consciousness of planet Earth. Change yourself and you change the world. That is how powerful you really are...

https://www.llresearch.org/transcripts/issues/1995/1995_0924.aspx Q`uo Wrote:...The focus upon the self in the means of balancing distortions and looking for ways to understand more of what is occurring within the self is an activity that may seem to some to be full of pride and ego, yet we would suggest that such a concentration of an entity’s attention upon its own self in that manner is a means by which a seeker grows, for it needs to be aware of the activity of intellect, of emotion, and of the spirit that moves within one’s own being. Yet that information is used only to temper the steel, shall we say, the character of the entity, and not to impose this character upon another...

https://www.llresearch.org/transcripts/issues/2001/2001_0204.aspx Q`uo Wrote:...Many times, it seems to each, that there is no way that one person can be of service, that one person’s light can make a difference. However, this instrument is fond of saying that in a dark place the light of one candle can be seen for quite a distance. Metaphysically, this is far more true even than the physical truth of candles and sight. Each of you makes a significant difference to the lightening of the planet as well as to the lightening of your soul. For when each of you does one, each of you is doing the other. To work on the self is to work on the world. Indeed, to work on the self is the most direct and effective way to work on the outer world in a metaphysical sense...

https://www.llresearch.org/transcripts/issues/1980/1980_0518.aspx Q`uo Wrote:...You need only to work upon yourself, so that you are a clear channel, unmoved by the ridiculousness of many situations, and in great humor when others find a situation quite grim. For you see, you dwell in the midst of a great cosmic joke and a great cosmic tragedy. And the ability to see both polarities of this truth equally is a very helpful one in dealing with yourself. And when you have dealt with this polarity within yourself, laughing at your grief and solemn in your joy, you may be of balanced help to others, for you may not then be touched by their difficulties to the point where you will be unable to respond in the way the Creator within you would respond...

https://www.llresearch.org/transcripts/issues/2007/2007_1124.aspx Q`uo Wrote:...in that same general run of seekers there is often a prejudice against working on the self, for it seems selfish to be absorbed in the processes of the self. It is our opinion that it is in healing yourself that you heal the world. It is in learning to love yourself that you learn to love others. It is in finding compassion at last for yourself that you are finally able to have compassion on others. It is in blessing your own suffering by respecting it, honoring it, and forgiving it in yourself that you become able to behold the suffering of the world in its massive and almost infinite depth...

Quote:80.11 Questioner: Could I say, then, that implicit in the process of becoming adept is the seeming polarization towards service to self because the adept becomes disassociated with many of his kind?

Ra: I am Ra. This is likely to occur. The apparent happening is disassociation whether the truth is service to self and thus true disassociation from other-selves or service to others and thus true association with the heart of all other-selves and disassociation only from the illusory husks which prevent the adept from correctly perceiving the self and other-self as one.

Quote:99.8 ...The right-hand and left-hand transformations of the mind may be seen to differ by the attitude of the conscious mind towards its own resources as well as the resources of other-selves...

Quote:19.15 Questioner: Then the newest third-density beings who’ve just made the transition from second are still strongly biased towards self-service. There must be many other mechanisms to create an awareness of the possibility of service to others.

I am wondering, first— two things. I’m wondering about the mechanism and I am wondering when the split takes place where the entity is able to continue on the road towards service to self that will eventually take him to fourth or fifth density.

I would assume that an entity can continue— can start, say, in second density with service totally to self and continue right on through and just stay on what we would call the path of service to self and never ever be pulled over. Is this correct?

Ra: I am Ra. This is incorrect. The second-density concept of serving self includes the serving of those associated with tribe or pack. This is not seen in second density as separation of self and other-self. All is seen as self since in some forms of second-density entities, if the tribe or pack becomes weakened, so does the entity within the tribe or pack.

The new or initial third-density entity has this innocent, shall we say, bias or distortion towards viewing those in the family, the society, as you would call, perhaps, country, as self. Thus though a distortion not helpful for progress in third density, it is without polarity.

The break becomes apparent when the entity perceives other-selves as other-selves and consciously determines to manipulate other-selves for the benefit of the self. This is the beginning of the road of which you speak.

(06-28-2021, 12:22 PM)pat19989 Wrote: Hello everyone.

I spent some time away from the Ra material, mainly because the rather complex archetypical mind discussion in book iv can get rather cumbersome for me if I try to absorb it too quickly. (if at all, I am finding book iv by far the hardest to grasp conceptually). Anyways, I returned to it yesterday, and my oh my it felt like my whole body rejoiced to be hearing from Ra again. Chills, verge of tears. No other spiritual work has affected me like the Law of One. Reflecting on these past few months now that I've finished the main books, I just wanted to express my thanks to Don, Carla, and Jim for this gift to humanity.

I feel so grateful that I stumbled upon these works and this community, for the work itself and these forums make me feel very much at home. I still have a few considerations that have been itching at me while I'm reading though and I'd like to explore them.

Quote:The concept of 'service to others' makes some sense to me, but also my logical brain struggles with the boundaries of service.

Is service to 2nd density life just as meaningful as 3rd density? How do small moments of anger and lashing out effect polarity? How can I, as an introverted person who does not have a whole lot of human interaction, offer myself in a greater capacity to others? Are those with a lot of friends inherently more service to others oriented? When I indulge in cravings that I know deep down are not good for me(nicotine, sugar, caffeine, etc.) is this service to self/depolarizing?

Quote:Also, I have loved ones around me that suffer from depression, lethargy, and addiction. I feel so strongly that an understanding of some spiritual topics addressed in Law of One, as well as many other spiritual texts could help them immensely. I've found that suggesting these works to them is usually met with initial interest, but no follow through. It is not my intent to force any material on anyone. But it begins to affect me deeply when those closest to me are so blinded by negativity, anger, and depression.

How do I be of service to these people?
Am i supposed to love them and be around them as much as they wish? even if it brings me down?

When I'm feeling strong I can resist the negativity within myself but sometimes I can't help but become angry or frustrated with them.

(06-28-2021, 12:22 PM)pat19989 Wrote: Hello everyone.

I spent some time away from the Ra material, mainly because the rather complex archetypical mind discussion in book iv can get rather cumbersome for me if I try to absorb it too quickly. (if at all, I am finding book iv by far the hardest to grasp conceptually). Anyways, I returned to it yesterday, and my oh my it felt like my whole body rejoiced to be hearing from Ra again. Chills, verge of tears. No other spiritual work has affected me like the Law of One. Reflecting on these past few months now that I've finished the main books, I just wanted to express my thanks to Don, Carla, and Jim for this gift to humanity.

I feel so grateful that I stumbled upon these works and this community, for the work itself and these forums make me feel very much at home. I still have a few considerations that have been itching at me while I'm reading though and I'd like to explore them.

The concept of 'service to others' makes some sense to me, but also my logical brain struggles with the boundaries of service.

Is service to 2nd density life just as meaningful as 3rd density? How do small moments of anger and lashing out effect polarity? How can I, as an introverted person who does not have a whole lot of human interaction, offer myself in a greater capacity to others? Are those with a lot of friends inherently more service to others oriented? When I indulge in cravings that I know deep down are not good for me(nicotine, sugar, caffeine, etc.) is this service to self/depolarizing?

Also, I have loved ones around me that suffer from depression, lethargy, and addiction. I feel so strongly that an understanding of some spiritual topics addressed in Law of One, as well as many other spiritual texts could help them immensely. I've found that suggesting these works to them is usually met with initial interest, but no follow through. It is not my intent to force any material on anyone. But it begins to affect me deeply when those closest to me are so blinded by negativity, anger, and depression.

How do I be of service to these people?
Am i supposed to love them and be around them as much as they wish? even if it brings me down?

When I'm feeling strong I can resist the negativity within myself but sometimes I can't help but become angry or frustrated with them.

(06-29-2021, 05:33 PM)rva_jeremy Wrote: We covered this topic on today's podcast episode, so the question you pose is fresh in my mind. Let me try to be less wordy than I'm known to be.

At the end of the day we cannot help but serve by our very being, and so to put a fine point on it, you're asking how we decide to serve, how we enlist our conscious mind in this task. And one rule of thumb the Confederation gives us is that service must be requested to be of the service-to-others side of energetic expression. As those of Q'uo say, this heuristic tool immediately narrows down the set of decisions you are on the hook to make.

However, very few on this planet are self-aware and specific enough about what it is that they actually, truly desire for their growth and evolution. They are, like us, confused. So we must bring our intuition and humility into play by working on our catalyst and issues and thereby clearing a channel between infinite spirit and finite manifest reality. We must connect with resources greater than what we have as a third density individual; our personal love and individual judgement will never be sufficient. The more we work through our distortions, fears, worries, hangups, etc., the less others' fears, worries, distortions, hangups, etc. scare, put us off, or otherwise confuse us -- because they don't throw back in our face our own unbalanced parts. That way, when they ask for help, we can hear what they want instead of see a reflection of what we want and be distracted by that.

The way to serve, I believe, is not to make it into an intellectual, ethical process of decision making. Instead, it is to prepare oneself ahead of time by doing the work in consciousness of balancing, accepting, and lightening the self little by little. This is one reason why daily meditation matters -- it is the means to service. By front loading the work on oneself, you can freely radiate your essence and trust yourself to provide what is truly asked when the moment comes when service is requested. The more we can make this a free, loving, spontaneous channeling of Creator to Creator, and the less we make it an intellectual task, the more we can serve the Creator within our other selves and the less we confuse ourselves and others by our unprocessed issues interfering with theirs and vice versa.

I hope that helps!

(06-28-2021, 12:22 PM)pat19989 Wrote: Is service to 2nd density life just as meaningful as 3rd density?

(06-28-2021, 12:22 PM)pat19989 Wrote: How do small moments of anger and lashing out effect polarity?

(06-28-2021, 12:22 PM)pat19989 Wrote: How can I, as an introverted person who does not have a whole lot of human interaction, offer myself in a greater capacity to others? Are those with a lot of friends inherently more service to others oriented?

(06-28-2021, 12:22 PM)pat19989 Wrote: When I indulge in cravings that I know deep down are not good for me(nicotine, sugar, caffeine, etc.) is this service to self/depolarizing?

(06-28-2021, 12:22 PM)pat19989 Wrote: How do I be of service to these people? Am i supposed to love them and be around them as much as they wish? even if it brings me dowD n?

Quote:7.7 QUESTIONER Can you tell me what the result of the application of the Law of Squares is to those figures?

RA The number is approximately meaningless in the finite sense as there are many, many digits. It, however, constitutes a great calling which we of all creation feel and hear as if our own entities were distorted towards a great and overwhelming sorrow. It demands our service.

Quote:It is a plane of compassion and understanding of the sorrows of third density.

Quote:89.30 QUESTIONER Would Ra’s attitude toward the same unharvestable entities be different at this nexus than at the time of harvest of third density?

RA I am Ra. Not substantially. To those who wish to sleep we could only offer those comforts designed for the sleeping. Service is only possible to the extent it is requested. We were ready to serve in whatever way we could. This still seems satisfactory as a means of dealing with other-selves in third density. It is our feeling that to be each entity which one attempts to serve is to simplify the grasp of what service is necessary or possible.

(06-30-2021, 09:49 AM)Infinite Wrote:

(06-28-2021, 12:22 PM)pat19989 Wrote: Is service to 2nd density life just as meaningful as 3rd density?

Well, I'm a vegetarian. But I understand that it's implicit in the material that the service to 3D entities is more important. If Ra was real and right in his words, the Confederation detonated a fission reactor in Tunguska and killed many second-density entities. I think those directly responsible for that lost some polarity, but not as much as they would if the reactor had been detonated in a city full of people. There's probably some sort of priority mechanism for 3D life or something.

(06-30-2021, 10:19 AM)pat19989 Wrote:

(06-30-2021, 09:49 AM)Infinite Wrote:

(06-28-2021, 12:22 PM)pat19989 Wrote: Is service to 2nd density life just as meaningful as 3rd density?

Well, I'm a vegetarian. But I understand that it's implicit in the material that the service to 3D entities is more important. If Ra was real and right in his words, the Confederation detonated a fission reactor in Tunguska and killed many second-density entities. I think those directly responsible for that lost some polarity, but not as much as they would if the reactor had been detonated in a city full of people. There's probably some sort of priority mechanism for 3D life or something.

I appreciate your time and perspective you gave in all of your answers to my questions.

But what is this about the Confederation detonating a fission reactor?

(06-28-2021, 12:22 PM)pat19989 Wrote: Also, I have loved ones around me that suffer from depression, lethargy, and addiction. I feel so strongly that an understanding of some spiritual topics addressed in Law of One, as well as many other spiritual texts could help them immensely. I've found that suggesting these works to them is usually met with initial interest, but no follow through. It is not my intent to force any material on anyone. But it begins to affect me deeply when those closest to me are so blinded by negativity, anger, and depression.

How do I be of service to these people?

(06-28-2021, 12:22 PM)pat19989 Wrote: The concept of 'service to others' makes some sense to me, but also my logical brain struggles with the boundaries of service.

Is service to 2nd density life just as meaningful as 3rd density?
How do small moments of anger and lashing out effect polarity?
How can I, as an introverted person who does not have a whole lot of human interaction, offer myself in a greater capacity to others?
Are those with a lot of friends inherently more service to others oriented?
When I indulge in cravings that I know deep down are not good for me(nicotine, sugar, caffeine, etc.) is this service to self/depolarizing?