12-11-2015, 11:45 AM
(12-11-2015, 02:23 AM)peregrine Wrote: I wish you success in convincing a wider audience
Thank you. But, I must clarify that the energy or intention of "convincing" plays no role in our mindset. Nor is there the intent to reach a wider audience.
It will simply be built as an introduction or orientation for any reader who picks up the book and doesn't want to jump into Session 1 immediately. A way to ease them into the material and help them establish the framework for understanding what they are about to read. A map before entering foreign territory, if you will.
While I think a good intro could serve the function you describe below: preparing the individual for the concepts they will soon encounter so that said concepts do not become a stumbling block; I think such aid will only marginally increase the percentage of those who will reach the end of the material. No amount of assistance can substitute for the resonance necessary to read, enjoy, and understand the material.
(12-11-2015, 02:23 AM)peregrine Wrote: to struggle past the various hardships and impediments the text offers to its readers such as the idiosyncratic vocabulary (densities, etc.), the factual errors (discussed in places in the forum), the fragmentary nature of the text, the homophobia (as it would be interpreted) and whatever else that makes it such a demanding read. (One friend felt the designation "the instrument" was a derogation.) I don't think anyone I've ever commended it to has ever dug deeply into it...much to my personal disappointment.
My batting average in sharing it with others is likewise just north of zero. : )
Though most of what you identify above is true (I might quibble with some of your assessment), nothing proved a stumbling block to me. Love is love, and I fell in love instantly. I recognized it instantly.
It took time, study, and integration to really grasp it, of course, (an ongoing process), but I heard and felt my soul moved by Ra's song the first time their notes entered my ears.
If someone is getting so thoroughly tripped up on the vocabulary, syntax, or other items, then they are not hearing the song; or hearing but not liking.
(12-11-2015, 02:23 AM)peregrine Wrote: As an aside, given the devotion to the text required to penetrate it, it's curious to me that a collection of earthlings willing to squeeze through those barriers would end up being as unaligned with one another as those who have populated this forum over the years. I would have expected more focus and synergy than what I have observed and felt among a supposed gathering of upper density wanderers. Although there is some, I would have expected it to be more cogent. I suppose it's a testimony to the success of the forgetting process and the intensity of the illusion. (In other words, folks like me sure can get distorted hanging out in this corner of the universe!)
Word. Though differences in personality, attitude, need, and perspective can lead to less-than-aligned, focused and synergestic work in the forums, there is still a great deal of pre-existing alignment. That we are all mutually intelligible to one another, and more or less oriented to serve with empathy and understanding - these are core commonalities.
Another broad spectrum commonality that emerges among those who enjoy the Law of One material is evident within the wanderer profile: the way people who love the material relate to it, the transformative/healing effects it has had upon their life, their orientation with respect their roles on this planet at this time, etc.
(12-11-2015, 02:23 AM)peregrine Wrote: By the way, just curious: what's "supra-ordinate" supposed to mean? I can't fathom it. Did you intend "supra-ordinal?"
Opposite of sub-ordinate. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/supraordinate
Probably not the best word choice. Just meant to convey that the Law of One is, to put it crudely, greater than Ra.
Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, but love unexplained is clearer. - Rumi