Lotsa Questions

[rva_jeremy]

Hi there, B4.  It's been a while since I've seen this place.  I see you're still very inactive, but still around.

Wow, this place strikes me as very active -- in some ways, too active.  I often wonder whether a forum is equal to the challenges of spiritual evolution, since it encourages intellectual inquiry over meditative and emotional inquiry.  In any case, I hope we can be of some service to you.

Part of that is revisiting several of the concepts in the Ra Material, and in doing so I'm going to ask for help, for the first time really.  In the past I've tried to rely on my own internal understanding over external expressions and opinions.  In doing so I lost myself to my own inherent issues, and since then I've pretty much been stuck on them, unable to properly be openminded.

I went through something like this when I first encountered the Ra material; it strikes me as pretty natural, especially if what really engages you is the high-mindedness of the material.  It compels one to reconcile mentally all of these concepts, and what you're left with is a structure without necessarily a root.  One thing the Confederation advises over and over again is to seek this root in the inner quest of meditation.  If you take one thing from my post, please consider the foundational urgency of meditation as a study tool in addition to reading all of this material.  It will give you in vivid colors what we can only hope to describe in rough sketches.

1. What constitutes Catalyst?  What derives it's function and being?  What gives it substance or the ability to create to an entity polarization?

This is a pregnant topic that pervades not just your comprehension of this material but all of ours.  It actually brings up a topic that I've often wanted to discuss here: a lot of times what we call "catalyst" appears to be much closer to the archetype of "experience".  Or maybe that's better expressed as "what we casually refer to as 'catalyst' is actually composed of two archetypes".  What we suffer through is not the catalyst but the experience that the catalyst engenders, as the catalyst itself is pure and unfiltered.  Let's bring the Venusians in:

All that you perceive seems to be consciously perceived. This is not the correct supposition. All that you perceive is perceived as catalyst unconsciously. By the, shall we say, time that the mind begins its appreciation of catalyst, that catalyst has been filtered through the veil and in some cases much is veiled in the most apparently clear perception.93.20

This implies that catalyst is a more holistic and totalizing phenomenon than simply "bad stuff happening to you that gives you an opportunity to polarize."  It comes out of deep mind, our innate orientation, biases, and pre-incarnational plan of growth, and provides us the opportunity for lessons uniquely attuned to our chosen curriculum (whose subject is ourselves).  Since much of it we don't notice, it cannot in and of itself be the thing we are dealing with in the material illusion; it is only a source from beyond the veil for the stuff we actually notice and consequently experience can affect us.  It seems that approaching the efficient use of catalyst has to do with knowing ourselves well enough to notice it, and that the suffering and discomfort of its experience is simply a matter of getting our attention.  This can become harsh, as catalyst unprocessed by the mind will manifest in bodily ailments.  But this all in service of furthering our evolution by prompting us to make a choice:

The catalyst, and all catalyst, is designed to offer experience. This experience in your density may be loved and accepted or it may be controlled. These are the two paths. When neither path is chosen the catalyst fails in its design and the entity proceeds until catalyst strikes it which causes it to form a bias towards acceptance and love or separation and control. There is no lack of space/time in which this catalyst may work.46.16

 
By "work," I believe those of Ra are referring to catalyst's ability to engender in the incarnation the material, subjective, personally significant experience of how the catalyst filters through our chakra blockages and mind complex distortions (largely two ways of saying the same thing).  Another way to say it is that catalyst is the image of our lessons in time/space imperfectly and distortedly reflected in manifest space/time.

I'll try to get to more of your questions later.  I hope this was helpful; please continue to keep your mind open and consider that I may be wrong and others' corrections or different points of view may help further. much of itΩ, it cannot in and of itself be the thing we are dealing with; only the stuff we actually notice and consequently experience can affect us.  It seems that approaching the efficient use of catalyst has to do with knowing ourselves well enough to notice it, and that the suffering and discomfort of its experience is simply a matter of getting our attention.  This can become harsh, to wit:

The catalyst, and all catalyst, is designed to offer experience. This experience in your density may be loved and accepted or it may be controlled. These are the two paths. When neither path is chosen the catalyst fails in its design and the entity proceeds until catalyst strikes it which causes it to form a bias towards acceptance and love or separation and control. There is no lack of space/time in which this catalyst may work. [46.16]

By "work," I believe those of Ra are referring to catalyst's ability to engender in the incarnation the material, subjective, personally significant experience of how the catalyst filters through our chakra blockages and mind complex distortions (largely two ways of saying the same thing).  Another way to say it is that catalyst is the image of our lessons in time/space imperfectly and distortedly reflected in manifest space/time.  Perhaps the important point here is to recognize the mechanism, right?  To understand that this is a challenge to rise to, rather than an oppression to suffer under.  Since the source is really your own distortions, changing your mindset is really all that's being asked of you.  The experience of suffering is instrumental, even though it seems sometimes like that's all there is.

I'll try to get to more of your questions later.  I hope this was helpful; please continue to keep your mind open and consider that I may be wrong and others' corrections or different points of view may help further.