Quote:Ra: I am Ra. . . . You may, at this time, note that as with any entities, each Wanderer has its unique abilities, biases, and specialties so that from each portion of each density represented among the Wanderers comes an array of pre-incarnative talents which then may be expressed upon this plane which you now experience so that each Wanderer, in offering itself before incarnation, has some special service to offer in addition to the doubling effect of planetary love and light and the basic function of serving as beacon or shepherd.

Thus there are those of fifth density whose abilities to express wisdom are great. There are fourth- and sixth-density Wanderers whose ability to serve as, shall we say, passive radiators or broadcasters of love and love/light are immense. There are many others whose talents brought into this density are quite varied.

Though wanderers here may already be functioning as a beacon of planetary love and light, those of Ra also point out the importance of individual expression.

Quote:Ra: I am Ra. . . . Speaking to the intention of your question, the best way for each seeker in third density to be of service to others is unique to that mind/body/spirit complex. This means that the mind/body/spirit complex must then seek within itself the intelligence of its own discernment as to the way it may best serve other-selves. This will be different for each. There is no best. There is no generalization. Nothing is known.

Quote:1.10 Questioner: Another question. Is it possible to create any acceleration of understanding [in] other entities [or are] all efforts… efforts by the individual on himself accelerating his understanding? In other words, if an individual tries to act as a catalyst in general to increase the awareness of planetary consciousness, is he doing nothing but acting upon himself or is it possible [inaudible]?

Ra: I am Ra. We shall answer your question in two parts, both of which are important equally.

Firstly, you must understand that the distinction between yourself and others is not visible to us. We do not consider that a separation exists between the consciousness-raising efforts of the distortion which you project as a personality and the distortion which you project as an other-personality. Thus, to learn is the same as to teach unless you are not teaching what you are learning, in which case you have done you/they little or no good. This understanding should be pondered by your mind/body/spirit complex, as it is a distortion which plays a part in your experiences at this nexus.

To turn to the second part of our response may we state our understanding, limited though it is.

[The remainder of the original audio recording of Session 1 was not available for the Relistening Project. (The audiotape was reused for another purpose after transcription.) Therefore, the following is a lightly edited version of the rest of Session 1 as published in the original volume of The Law of One, Book I.]

Group-individuated consciousness is that state of sharing understanding with the other distortions of mind/body/spirit complexes which are within the evident reach of the mind/body/spirit complex individual or group. Thus, we are speaking to you and accepting both our distortions and your own in order to enunciate the laws of creation, more especially the Law of One. We are not available to many of your peoples, for this is not an easily understood way of communication or type of philosophy. However, our very being is hopefully a poignant example of both the necessity and the near-hopelessness of attempting to teach.

Each of those in this group is striving to use, digest, and diversify the information which we are sending this instrument, into the channels of the mind/body/spirit complex, without distortion. The few whom you will illuminate by sharing your light are far more than enough reason for the greatest possible effort. To serve one is to serve all. Therefore, we offer the question back to you to state that indeed it is the only activity worth doing: to learn/teach or teach/learn. There is nothing else which is of aid in demonstrating the Original Thought except your very being, and the distortions that come from the unexplained, inarticulate, or mystery-clad being are many. Thus, to attempt to discern and weave your way through as many group mind/body/spirit distortions as possible among your peoples in the course of your teaching is a very good effort to make. We can speak no more valiantly of your desire to serve.

May we speak in any other capacity upon this subject?

Quote:At first, I was uncomfortable about the prospect of others accessing my private thoughts/emotions,

(02-05-2022, 11:34 AM)Diana Wrote: Great question.

First of all, I talk here about the holographic model and social memory complexes, which speculates on why there may be an underlying imperative to coalesce in that manner on the path to unity.

Quote:This is the interesting bit: If you cut the piece of holographic film in half, each half still retains the entire image (let's say the image is an apple). Each half still contains the entire image of the apple, though the image will be hazier (as when a copy is made of a copy). It doesn't matter how many times you cut the holographic film into pieces, each piece will still contain the entire image of the apple, but each time it's cut the image gets hazier. So the original holographic picture of the apple could be cut up into a million pieces, and every single piece would still contain the entire image of the apple, but the more cut up the pieces get, the hazier the information about the image gets.

This could be analogous to the one infinite creator, or source, splitting apart over and over to create souls or beings in order to experience itself (or however that may be explained). The original holographic source splits and splits again until we get to the individual. And even splits farther to 1D and 2D where even the sense of being an individual has been lost.

Quote:Additionally, I don't think individuality is lost in a SMC. I think it is more like entities magnetize to one another due to similar or even exact energy signatures, in other words, because they align with one another. It would be something like when you meet someone and you get each other, think alike on many subjects, and they feel like a sister or brother, and so you hang out.

(05-15-2022, 06:41 AM)the stumbled one Wrote: I would dearly love to share my distortion and perspectives with other, just as much as sometimes I long to understand the perspectives and experiences of other.  Imagine if I could show you how I feel, show you my experience, show you me?  You don't have to like it, but you can have the awareness if you wish.

(05-15-2022, 10:18 AM)Sacred Fool Wrote: ... consider the vulnerability of being incapable of hiding your thoughts and experiences from others.  What might it take to feel okay with that?  At what level of maturity might one feel copacetic with complete transparency of self?

Personally, I'm not quite there, but I suspect that as I become more identified with my desire to be love, at some point this might shift.  That is, it may be the 3D imperatives of survival and social standing, etc., which promote opacity?  But some of us find it challenging to get beyond these.

Quote:... consider the vulnerability of being incapable of hiding your thoughts and experiences from others. What might it take to feel okay with that? At what level of maturity might one feel copacetic with complete transparency of self?

(05-18-2022, 06:07 PM)jafar Wrote: Maybe upon discovering that 'hiding thoughts and experiences from others' is actually an illusion?
Or upon discovering that there are 'others' who can easily access his/her thoughts and experiences?

(05-15-2022, 11:12 AM)Diana Wrote:

(05-15-2022, 10:18 AM)Sacred Fool Wrote: ... consider the vulnerability of being incapable of hiding your thoughts and experiences from others.  What might it take to feel okay with that?  At what level of maturity might one feel copacetic with complete transparency of self?

Personally, I'm not quite there, but I suspect that as I become more identified with my desire to be love, at some point this might shift.  That is, it may be the 3D imperatives of survival and social standing, etc., which promote opacity?  But some of us find it challenging to get beyond these.

I will add to this. For some years now, I have been working with this concept. It officially began when I read or heard (too long ago to recall) Ram Dass talking about seeing his cat (I think) playing with a mouse (I think) it caught in the way they do, torturing it or playing with it before it is eaten (or not). The reason I don't recall the details is because the underlying catalyst was what I focused on. That is, the suffering of 3D, and specifically, the suffering of 2D entities either by the design of the predator/prey setup, and even more so, the suffering humans have caused to the 2D kingdom. 

What I came to realize is the task before me: to be able to allow the pain of seeing suffering to unfold within me, to be able to take it without wanting to die, to accept it for what it is without trying to control it, to welcome it as all things would be welcome and know it for a part of the all which is. This sounds melodramatic but it is not. I traditionally kept (and still keep) certain things at bay knowing that I can only take so much before I spiral down completely into despair. For example, I would have joined PETA or other animal rights activists in helping with oil spills or other animal disaster situations in person if I could have born it, but I know myself enough to know that I could not have (as weak and avoiding as that sounds). So I use my discernment and wisdom about myself to attempt a balance on the path I walk toward acceptance. For me, acceptance is something I have achieved to a large extent, but in this one area, I continue to inch forward yet I am far from there—though there are moments of apprehension that go beyond normal tolerances.

The point being that to be completely empathetic and transparent and to feel all is a huge affair. To feel pain unmitigated, and for that matter love, is so huge that we in 3D under a veil (I think in general) have a challenging time even imagining it. One clue is in dreams. I think we all have had a dream where you meet with someone and the love you feel is so intense and huge and overwhelming it seems incredulous to waking reality, like it is a gigantic bruise on the soul—so deep and sweet and full. (Hard to articulate.) It is almost as if the enormity of love is only something that could even be begun to be withstood in the buffered situation of dreaming. ... 

• the insects and all of their experiences; 
  
• the animals and all of their experiences;
  
• the ocean and land, the entire planet; 
  
• the humans with whom we share love, joy, suffering, fear ... 
  
• and much, much more ... 
  

(05-20-2022, 09:32 AM)Diana Wrote:

(05-18-2022, 06:07 PM)jafar Wrote: Maybe upon discovering that 'hiding thoughts and experiences from others' is actually an illusion?
Or upon discovering that there are 'others' who can easily access his/her thoughts and experiences?

It seems to me in one way or another, it boils down to acceptance.
A key feature of acceptance might be forgiving ourselves, and this is the hardest thing.

There is very little guidance in this world on processing catalyst. We are fortunate to have the Ra material.

(05-20-2022, 11:07 AM)IndigoSalvia Wrote: What would it be like when our experience is shared, common, and expanded by having no illusory separation? What happens when we understand and experience that we are: 

• the insects and all of their experiences; 
  
• the animals and all of their experiences;
  
• the ocean and land, the entire planet; 
  
• the humans with whom we share love, joy, suffering, fear ... 
  
• and much, much more ... 
  

(05-20-2022, 04:13 PM)Sacred Fool Wrote:

(05-20-2022, 11:07 AM)IndigoSalvia Wrote: What would it be like when our experience is shared, common, and expanded by having no illusory separation? What happens when we understand and experience that we are: 

• the insects and all of their experiences; 
  
• the animals and all of their experiences;
  
• the ocean and land, the entire planet; 
  
• the humans with whom we share love, joy, suffering, fear ... 
  
• and much, much more ... 
  

Some would call this the experience of the open heart.  So, why wait for 4D?  Why not be here now with a wide open heart?  Why not feel and enjoy the love?

(05-20-2022, 09:34 PM)Diana Wrote: I see this idea of just opening the heart to love as cavalier. Not only that, from my experience, opening the heart is not something you can just do, or say you want to—it is the result of much growth in many ways. At points along the path certain widening of awareness opens, and it's not because you just want it to—the work has to be done to get there.

https://www.llresearch.org/channeling/1991/0526 Wrote:The work of opening the heart is the work of letting go, of surrendering, of realizing the true importance of the details of any blockage, that is to say, of realizing that what is important about a situation which has caused a blockage is the forgiveness and the healing which may now be evoked by the learned skill of paying attention and respect to the incarnational experience that is going on.

When one first attempts to open the heart one may feel that it is impossible to forgive the self enough times to keep that heart open. That is not the heart speaking, that is still the mind. And the mind complex suffers from the either/or of your illusion. There is no “either/or” in an open heart. The open heart is “an/and,” an “a/a” unity. To the open heart all things deserve compassion, all things deserve food, physical and spiritual, all things deserve love. And to refrain from opening the heart to the self is not something that occurs to the heart’s wisdom. However it makes no sense, it is important to realize that the way of the open heart may begin in clearing the way to the open heart, but it ends in accepting that the open heart is all-compassionate, all-loving, all-giving. There are no second thoughts to an open heart. There are no true thoughts in the open heart, but only the endless and impersonal compassion, but one who stands not on sense, not on things known, but on the thin and unpredictable air of the abyss of the unknown.

As we said, most among your people attempt to preserve a balance in that abyss of the unknown, [inaudible] attempt to think their way through this blockage. This is slow work but it is a perfectly good path. The way of the open heart is simply a shortcut, a more direct route to the ability to do work in consciousness.

How is the heart kept open in such a way that the experience of the open heart will be the steady state? We would, in looking at this aspect of this question, remind each again that the offering of praise to the Creator, and the offering of thanksgiving for blessings received, constitute a continual touching into divinity, a constant song heard by all that there is. The steady state of open heart is a state in which each flower, each blade of grass, each thing that is beautiful that is seen says to you, not only, “This is pretty, this is lovely, this is beautiful,” but also “I praise the Creator for this beauty.” It is a way of claiming that mystery which is the Creator, a way of relating to the Creator which is unseen, invisible, unheard, unknown, for we are aware that the Creator is not obvious to all, nor is His will seen to be very beneficent in many cases. Yet, if there is the faith to continue to praise the Creator and to bless the Creator when your experience blesses you, the relationship with that which is holy becomes more and more real by habit and replication of sincere praise and thanksgiving.

Now let us look at the advantage of working with an open heart when doing work in consciousness. In the previous way of working, energy is constricted in the heart and the work is slow and hard, for not only is the heart short of power, but it further reduces the power which moves into the communication energy which an entity needs to speak with itself, just as much as it needs it to speak with others. Often, if the green ray is constricted the blue ray would also be constricted, and each entity must judge for itself whether or not it has things said in the heart that have not been said to those who should hear them, so by the time the energy is received by the indigo ray, it is not only much reduced, but it is hampered by a lack of skill and energy in communication with itself.

Communication moves higher and higher into the surface mind, becomes bogged down in speculations, rationalizations and considerations of details that do more to obscure than to illumine a particular thing about the self that one is doing inner work upon. Contrariwise, if the heart chakra be open, then it is likely that there will be more honest communication, because absolute love is something which fear cannot touch or bias. So that the fear that entities have in communicating, either with themselves or with others, is reduced to the extent that the heart is truly opened.

The truly opened heart often appears childlike because it is blindingly honest, speaking that which it thinks without judgment in an attempt to understand the self as well as other selves. In this configuration, the communication is at its most effective, given that there are those which can accept and communicate in return while hearing those blunt truths that may not be as pleasant as the euphemisms, rationalizations and clichés that surround most timid and tentative communication.

  

(05-20-2022, 11:45 PM)Sacred Fool Wrote: Confederation sources have a great deal to say about opening the heart.  In fact, as I read it, it is the first step towards doing substantial, intentional work here as a wanderer.  This is one little excerpt in praise of the opening heart.

https://www.llresearch.org/channeling/1991/0526 Wrote:The work of opening the heart is the work of letting go, of surrendering, of realizing the true importance of the details of any blockage, that is to say, of realizing that what is important about a situation which has caused a blockage is the forgiveness and the healing which may now be evoked by the learned skill of paying attention and respect to the incarnational experience that is going on.

When one first attempts to open the heart one may feel that it is impossible to forgive the self enough times to keep that heart open. That is not the heart speaking, that is still the mind. And the mind complex suffers from the either/or of your illusion. There is no “either/or” in an open heart. The open heart is “an/and,” an “a/a” unity. To the open heart all things deserve compassion, all things deserve food, physical and spiritual, all things deserve love. And to refrain from opening the heart to the self is not something that occurs to the heart’s wisdom. However it makes no sense, it is important to realize that the way of the open heart may begin in clearing the way to the open heart, but it ends in accepting that the open heart is all-compassionate, all-loving, all-giving. There are no second thoughts to an open heart. There are no true thoughts in the open heart, but only the endless and impersonal compassion, but one who stands not on sense, not on things known, but on the thin and unpredictable air of the abyss of the unknown.

As we said, most among your people attempt to preserve a balance in that abyss of the unknown, [inaudible] attempt to think their way through this blockage. This is slow work but it is a perfectly good path. The way of the open heart is simply a shortcut, a more direct route to the ability to do work in consciousness.

How is the heart kept open in such a way that the experience of the open heart will be the steady state? We would, in looking at this aspect of this question, remind each again that the offering of praise to the Creator, and the offering of thanksgiving for blessings received, constitute a continual touching into divinity, a constant song heard by all that there is. The steady state of open heart is a state in which each flower, each blade of grass, each thing that is beautiful that is seen says to you, not only, “This is pretty, this is lovely, this is beautiful,” but also “I praise the Creator for this beauty.” It is a way of claiming that mystery which is the Creator, a way of relating to the Creator which is unseen, invisible, unheard, unknown, for we are aware that the Creator is not obvious to all, nor is His will seen to be very beneficent in many cases. Yet, if there is the faith to continue to praise the Creator and to bless the Creator when your experience blesses you, the relationship with that which is holy becomes more and more real by habit and replication of sincere praise and thanksgiving.

Now let us look at the advantage of working with an open heart when doing work in consciousness. In the previous way of working, energy is constricted in the heart and the work is slow and hard, for not only is the heart short of power, but it further reduces the power which moves into the communication energy which an entity needs to speak with itself, just as much as it needs it to speak with others. Often, if the green ray is constricted the blue ray would also be constricted, and each entity must judge for itself whether or not it has things said in the heart that have not been said to those who should hear them, so by the time the energy is received by the indigo ray, it is not only much reduced, but it is hampered by a lack of skill and energy in communication with itself.

Communication moves higher and higher into the surface mind, becomes bogged down in speculations, rationalizations and considerations of details that do more to obscure than to illumine a particular thing about the self that one is doing inner work upon. Contrariwise, if the heart chakra be open, then it is likely that there will be more honest communication, because absolute love is something which fear cannot touch or bias. So that the fear that entities have in communicating, either with themselves or with others, is reduced to the extent that the heart is truly opened.

The truly opened heart often appears childlike because it is blindingly honest, speaking that which it thinks without judgment in an attempt to understand the self as well as other selves. In this configuration, the communication is at its most effective, given that there are those which can accept and communicate in return while hearing those blunt truths that may not be as pleasant as the euphemisms, rationalizations and clichés that surround most timid and tentative communication.