How to balance?

[Plenum]

Is anyone able to articulate the fifth step in a different way?

I think there are a few things to put in place before further analysis of that passage can take place.

First of all, Ra's complete answer come early on in the sessions (session 5), and I am thinking they did not have access to the concepts and terminology (as Don understood them) to explain in a more complete sense.  Some of the things like the energy centres, the archetypal mind, the roots of mind had not yet been explicated yet, much less named.  So the same question posed at a later date would have yielded a different expressed answer.  Ra's comprehension would have been the same, but they could have unfolded the answer in greater depth.  The limiting factor is in the receiver, not the giver.  (To teach, you teach to the level of comprehension, not to the level of imcomprehension and expertise beyond the individual asking the question).

Secondly, Don's question was originally about becoming effective healers.   To become an effective (read: reliable) Healer, one must first heal the aspects of the self, so that 1) you can witness the distortions of other selves without having the same (unhealed) distortion triggered in oneself, and 2) that you actually understand the mechanism by which healing takes place, by practising it rigorously on oneself, and demonstrating the universal mechanism in practice.

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now before we get to the quote you were asking about, Ra's first part of their answer involved this:

The prerequisite of mental work is the ability to retain silence of self at a steady state when required by the self. The mind must be opened like a door. The key is silence.

This 'silence' is necessary to do inner work.  It is not absolute silence as such, where there is no motion or no thoughts.  The silence here is more about calming the distractability of certain portions of the conscious mind, so that it can be focussed on a particular train of thought, and be able to stay with it long enough to see the longer threads and causations.  If one grabs onto one thread of thought, and yet is entranced and englittered by other threads to the point where you jump ship, then you won't ever be able to trace a single train of thought.  You won't be able to pinpoint it's origins, and hence find the imbalancing factors which set it in motion.  There is quite the detective work when it comes to inner work, and if one can't deduce and process something you want to apply yourself to, then there is preliminary work elsewhere to be done.  Silence here is focus, assertion of analysis, and openness to intution.  The silence here is being able to place oneself into a creative place, where inner, deep changes to the mind can be effectuated.

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Once the ability to silence has been gotten used to, then the door to the mind has been opened.  Inside that door, Ra starts speaking about the arcane and adept-level excursions.

Now, to answer your query, as best I understand Ra's words, you will notice that they bracket their answer regards "geography and geometry" in two parts.  

Ra makes this statement here about "geography and geometry"

Within the door lies an hierarchical construction you may liken unto geography and in some ways geometry, for the hierarchy is quite regular, bearing inner relationships.

and then repeats the "geography and geometry" in step 5:

The fifth step involves observing the geographical and geometrical relationships and ratios of the mind, the other mind, the mass mind, and the infinite mind.

It's clear here that step 5 is referring to things inside the door of the mind, and that steps 1-4 are more preliminary steps to getting there.

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so what is inside the door, and why would they use these 2 peculiar words in the context of the mind?

geography: provides a topological overview, and shows how various portions of a landscape are related to each other.
geometry: deals with the ratios (proportions) of one thing to another, and offers the ability to calculate and discern further inner patterns and (previously unseen) connections.

It's my belief that this geography and geometry involves the kind of perspective that involves blue-ray and indigo-ray understandings.  There comes a time in one's seeking when one can start to feel, and then map out individual thoughts to particular wavelength vibrations.  Me and zenmaster spoke about this for a time in chat, and coming to the point where you can actually 'see' a thought for what it is, and comprehend it's dynamics (it's roots, and then inevitable consequences) is key here.  Some further relevant reading can be found in the magnus opus of "Thinking and Destiny".

So here, in this context, I believe that the 'geography' refers to the landscape in which a thought finds itself, and how it sits in relation to other thoughts (like a map), and the geometry speaks to the actual patterns and structures of thoughts, and the dynamic nature of thoughts (which constitute the activity of the mind).

Why is geography and geometry important in the context of healing and balancing?  I think it aids immensely in diagnosis (mapping of discordant thoughts), and then balancing them (understanding their roots and origin).  Once you can start to heal yourself at that mental level, you can see, and I mean truly see, how one's experiential reality is an inevitable consequence of these mental patterns in the deep mind.  It is all perfectly consequential, and the only thing left to randomness is the actual finite expression of them, which is contingent on supportive environmental factors being in place.  But once one has 'accepted' an unbalanced thought pattern as being 'truth' for one, then it's inevitable that it will express itself.  There's no other way.  Our reality is rendered in real-time based on the axioms (our personal truths) which we have accepted as our personal religion.  Some of the things most unquestioned (in terms of mental patterns) are the ones currently causing us the most harm.  We literally cannot perceive them, because we aren't able to become aware of their nature.  We don't see them as a problem.

But given the feedback of dreams and "inside the door" work, one can trace these deep level axioms, and balance them.  As they are balanced, the palpable feedback of relief is ushered in instantaneously; it's a miracle in any other terms.  Inner healing.  The truest miracle of all.