Arranging opportunities?

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Why do we assume that our distortions must always result in some sort of personal catalyst?  If our distortions can be energized to bring the distortion-bearer catalyst, is there any particular reason they can't be energized to bring others catalyst?  I can't think of any--it just goes against this narrative we (or at least I) usually tell ourselves about the way catalyst works in this hypersubjective, almost solipsistic manner.

That's a solid consideration.

Ra's philosophy places ultimate responsibility with the self. They identify the self as the source of the catalyst, and the one who learns from the catalyst, and the one who is the author of the journey.

What is the self? The indivisible, irreducible unit of Ra's philosophy says that the mind/body/spirit complex is the principal actor.

But, they also indicate that that m/b/s complex contains all that there is, and is all that there is. The intersection of the individual self with the ascendingly greater levels of self is evidenced in the chakra structure. We have inbuilt energies that connect us to the levels of greater self, from groups, to racial minds, to planetary minds. We have various levels of identity all the way up to the All Self.

I suppose that the All Self will get its catalyst as well through the illusory divisions of the individual (m/b/s) selves.

But we needn't expand to the All Self to consider that any pairing of two people, or grouping of three or more, will have some sort of interdependency whereby one entity dishes up catalyst to the other --- such that, as you point out, one entity can be energized to deliver said catalyst to the other, granting both the opportunity of experiencing catalyst.

While each is responsible for themselves, I have to suspect that each is simultaneously a note in a larger musical score that is played, as it were, according to an invisible conductor. Meaning we may relate to one another according some subtle level of multi-party coordination.

(I'm not sure if I adhered to your thought or made a left turn on an unrelated tangent.)

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However, Ra does seem to indicate elsewhere (I'm not recalling the exact quote) that opportunities continually not taken will be eventually not offered.

Perhaps you were thinking of this, when Don was questioning about life spans:

Questioner: I’m assuming at the start of one of these cycles there could have been either a positive polarization that would generally occur over the 25 [thousand] years or a negative polarization. Is the reason for the negative polarization and the shortening of the cycle the influx of entities from Mars who had already polarized somewhat negatively?

Ra: I am Ra. This is incorrect. There was not a strong negative polarization due to this influx. The lessening of the life span was due primarily to the lack of the building up of positive orientation. When there is no progress those conditions which grant progress are gradually lost. This is one of the difficulties of remaining unpolarized. The chances, shall we say, of progress become steadily less.

Yep! That's the one. Thank you. Makes you wonder what happens when the "chances . . . of progress" reach their bottom-most level.

And this is an important point:

The difficulty and danger with notions like this is that it might reinforce paranoiac delusions of those who interpret their immediate world, or the world at large, as one which conspires against them in the attempt to trick, steal, enslave, limit, etc.

It was Carla's attitude that saved her when she went for a walk and couldn't breathe for about thirty seconds...

Ra: It is well that this instrument is not distorted towards what you may call hysteria, for the potential of this working was such that had the instrument allowed fear to become greater than the will to persevere when it could not breathe, each attempt at respiration would have been even more nearly impossible until the suffocation occurred which was desired by the one which greets you in its own way. Thus the entity would have passed from this incarnation.

Precisely.

The word "interpretation" in the following Q&A is so powerful for the same reason you highlight above:

95.24 Questioner: From that statement I interpret the following meaning: That if the Experience of the Mind has sufficiently chosen the right-hand path, as total purity is approached in choosing of the right-hand path, then total imperviousness from the effect of the left-hand catalyst is also approached. Is this correct?


Ra: I am Ra. This is exquisitely perceptive. The seeker which has purely chosen the service-to-others path shall certainly not have a variant apparent incarnational experience. There is no outward shelter in your illusion from the gusts, flurries, and blizzards of quick and cruel catalyst.

However, to the pure, all that is encountered speaks of the love and the light of the One Infinite Creator. The cruelest blow is seen with an ambiance of challenges offered and opportunities to come. Thusly, the great pitch of light is held high above such an one so that all interpretation may be seen to be protected by light.