All uses of catalyst... are those consciously applied

[Plenum]

93.10
Ra: All uses of catalyst by the mind are those consciously applied to catalyst. Without conscious intent the use of catalyst is never processed through mentation, ideation, and imagination.


So just as oxygen is required for the full metabolism of food into energy, conscious intent/conscious awareness is necessary for the full processing of catalyst into experience.

Such an amazing metaphor! As we intend to use our catalyst, to learn from our catalyst, to use our catalyst, we do. The conscious intent and awareness we bring to the catalyst engages the gears and processes of the metabolic system and converts that catalyst into conscious experience.

78.36
Ra: …it is certainly through this faculty [of disciplined meditation] that catalyst is most efficiently used.

What is meditation but "being with" the moment and your experience? Being conscious of the moment, being aware of the moment.

Extending this metaphor, meditation is the ultimate "oxygen" for the metabolizing of food.

a couple of great Ra quotes there GLB. Both of them in relation to the Empress Archetype (catalyst of the mind).