10-01-2010, 02:23 AM
Interesting topic, Matt. Thank you for bringing it up with a very thoughtful approach.
Here is my own perception of what Ra says on this topic.
The conditioned, reactive mind lacks free will.
The physical structure of the body simply responds mechanically, chemically, electromagnetically, and instinctively, to environmental stimuli.
The emotions document the mental concepts as these concepts are bodily expressed via the mechanisms of the subconscious.
In these ways a human being lacks free will. These are all experiences we have in common with animals, including those with a pack or hive mentality.
Important question: Is there something more to a human being than these components?
According to Ra, there is. There is a totality of a mind/body/spirit complex. This complex includes a capacity to process rays of light. Each ray is and/or represents some quality of being. And here is the key point: we can use our own free will to increase or decrease our openness to these rays, and to balance or imbalance our experience of them.
According to Ra, not just recognizable crises, but every moment of life, presents a challenge for us to make a choice based on faith. Faith is our own free will choice of what to believe, when we have gone off the end of all that conditioning, logic, and factual evidence can prove. Faith is what we choose to be certain enough about to take action - including the choice of refusing to act.
In every moment, we can have faith that a positive path with bring us a meaningful, blessed life. We can use our free will to choose that if we take the risk of doing something unknown, unconditioned, and unprovable, that we will have a more evolved life.
Namely, choosing to open and balance our life experience by accepting and loving each experience, finding and harmonizing its opposite within ourselves, going forth with rejoicing in the One Creator. In so doing, we polarize to the positive service to others path, based on a model of holistic blending of ourselves with all life.
We can also use our free will to make a different type of choice that is EQUALLY unknown, unconditioned, and unprovable. Namely, choosing to close, restrict and unbalance our life experience by closing to certain rays, hating or rejecting people or situations, going forth enforcing our separation from the One Creator as expressed in an opposition based, control/conquer/dominance based model of relationships.
Either positive or negative faith is something we only have because we choose to create it within us, by an act of our free will.
If we make either Choice, we really do exercise free will. Unconstrained, uncoerced, unconditioned. More than mere stimulus-response or action-reaction. Either Choice can polarize us enough for further spiritual evolution, having learned to make a genuine Choice.
Abdication of the Choice puts us back into the sinkhole of indifference, where the physical factors I started with are joined by innumerable hooks, manipulations, lucky breaks for good or bad, of the recruiting efforts on each side.
Now to step aside from my interpretation of the Law of One material, into an area I don't think is discussed by Ra or Q'uo. As for free will of planets, there is other channeled material that personally feels to me to be resonant with the Law of One.
This other material says that Gaia has indeed made her own moral choice to experience an awesome depth of suffering and pain, as a gift to nurture those of us who live upon her.
This material also says that she accepted this pain in order to help humanity better Choose before the deadline of Harvest, by humanity hurting ourselves and hurting our Mother Earth.
And the material says that she is leading the way in humanity's ascension beyond the pains of duality.
Just because this material feels resonant to me, of course does not prove anything about whether it's right, or useful to you. Please use your own judgment.
Here is my own perception of what Ra says on this topic.
The conditioned, reactive mind lacks free will.
The physical structure of the body simply responds mechanically, chemically, electromagnetically, and instinctively, to environmental stimuli.
The emotions document the mental concepts as these concepts are bodily expressed via the mechanisms of the subconscious.
In these ways a human being lacks free will. These are all experiences we have in common with animals, including those with a pack or hive mentality.
Important question: Is there something more to a human being than these components?
According to Ra, there is. There is a totality of a mind/body/spirit complex. This complex includes a capacity to process rays of light. Each ray is and/or represents some quality of being. And here is the key point: we can use our own free will to increase or decrease our openness to these rays, and to balance or imbalance our experience of them.
According to Ra, not just recognizable crises, but every moment of life, presents a challenge for us to make a choice based on faith. Faith is our own free will choice of what to believe, when we have gone off the end of all that conditioning, logic, and factual evidence can prove. Faith is what we choose to be certain enough about to take action - including the choice of refusing to act.
In every moment, we can have faith that a positive path with bring us a meaningful, blessed life. We can use our free will to choose that if we take the risk of doing something unknown, unconditioned, and unprovable, that we will have a more evolved life.
Namely, choosing to open and balance our life experience by accepting and loving each experience, finding and harmonizing its opposite within ourselves, going forth with rejoicing in the One Creator. In so doing, we polarize to the positive service to others path, based on a model of holistic blending of ourselves with all life.
We can also use our free will to make a different type of choice that is EQUALLY unknown, unconditioned, and unprovable. Namely, choosing to close, restrict and unbalance our life experience by closing to certain rays, hating or rejecting people or situations, going forth enforcing our separation from the One Creator as expressed in an opposition based, control/conquer/dominance based model of relationships.
Either positive or negative faith is something we only have because we choose to create it within us, by an act of our free will.
If we make either Choice, we really do exercise free will. Unconstrained, uncoerced, unconditioned. More than mere stimulus-response or action-reaction. Either Choice can polarize us enough for further spiritual evolution, having learned to make a genuine Choice.
Abdication of the Choice puts us back into the sinkhole of indifference, where the physical factors I started with are joined by innumerable hooks, manipulations, lucky breaks for good or bad, of the recruiting efforts on each side.
Now to step aside from my interpretation of the Law of One material, into an area I don't think is discussed by Ra or Q'uo. As for free will of planets, there is other channeled material that personally feels to me to be resonant with the Law of One.
This other material says that Gaia has indeed made her own moral choice to experience an awesome depth of suffering and pain, as a gift to nurture those of us who live upon her.
This material also says that she accepted this pain in order to help humanity better Choose before the deadline of Harvest, by humanity hurting ourselves and hurting our Mother Earth.
And the material says that she is leading the way in humanity's ascension beyond the pains of duality.
Just because this material feels resonant to me, of course does not prove anything about whether it's right, or useful to you. Please use your own judgment.