10-21-2012, 12:58 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-21-2012, 01:43 PM by Tenet Nosce.)
(10-21-2012, 07:23 AM)βαθμιαίος Wrote: I'm not really sure about valuing one session over another, and it seems odd to value the one non-trance session over the 105 trance sessions. Ra always tried to focus on timeless principles, no matter how transient the question.
IMO- the Law of One is the most valuable part of the material, wherever and whenever it is found.
Quote:What in particular troubles you about sessions 17 and 63?
I'm not troubled by those sessions. I think they are in congruence with everything else in the material. To my perception, it is all in congruence when held in the proper context. Which would be the Law of One.
I'm not sure how many other ways I can say this, or why you are having a hard time understanding me.
What surprises me is how willing some students of the material are to basically push the Law of One aside, and creatively interpret passages in order to construct an entire philosophy based on separation, and then claim that was what Ra was "trying to say" all along.
It truly befuddles my mind that so many appear to believe that the whole "STS and STO" piece is the most valuable takeaway from the material. As if somehow, the Crown Jewel of the material is this STO/STS paradigm we have concocted from it.
So many threads go on and on about it. Oh, STS is "this". STO is "that". STS thinks they are STO and vice-versa. Maybe it should be STA.
I'm not trying to be an ass here, or to say that it is "wrong" to have these discussions about STO and STS. I am just saying that I am truly SURPRISED that so many people would take the Law of One, and derive an entire philosophy from it based on the apparent distinction between self and other.
There appears to be some great attachment to this notion of "self" and "other". As if we were to let go of this false dichotomy, the universe would unravel or descend into utter chaos. Or perhaps that everybody would suddenly become evil and uncaring toward their other-selves.
There is this strange propensity to inject the concept of "self" and "other" (by referring to STS and STO) into almost every discussion about the Law of One. In consideration of the fact that the Law of One clearly and unequivocally states that "self" and "other" are identical, I find this to be a particularly bizarre result.
Not wrong. Not bad. Just bizarre.