How seriously do you take the Law of One? How has it effected you?

[rva_jeremy]

They offer techniques that if inappropriately used can make one's life miserably hellish.

Which techniques are those? Seriously; I can't recall anything in the work that I've ever been able to make any use of that, based solely on what those of Ra have communicated, had significant danger relative to the inherent danger in incarnation to begin with.

Should an adept be unlucky enough to stop meditating after establishing a routine for polarization or work in consciousness, the result is like descending your vibration from heavenly levels to hellish ones, and with the added instant contrast between heaven and hell, the difference is even more vivid than it already is.

It sounds like you're describing the effects of spiritual catalyst. This is a major theme in your opinion that I'd like to dig into.

Catalyst as such is an intensely personal phenomenon. It is not something you can prevent in another because it's not something you can grab hold of, coming as it does through the veil between a person's subconscious and conscious minds. Now, you can try to convince people to avoid certain experiences that manifest that catalyst, I suppose, though one ought to respect free will--even unto the radical depths of suffering, in my opinion. But that just means that the catalyst will manifest in some other way.

What I read in your reply, CA, is a lack of appreciation for the perfection of all of this. To take a moment of struggle and suffering out of the larger context is of course to place all of one's attention on the nadir. But the nadir is not the only thing; it's a slice of a larger progression. When you deny the appropriateness of the nadir, you strip the peaks of their significance.

I admire your desire for nobody to experience the suffering that you did. But you don't have any control over others' suffering. It is theirs to have, theirs to balance, theirs to experience as they see fit.

And in recognizing this, perhaps you might discover some sort of appreciation for the suffering you underwent? After all, if you were to think of your life only in terms of those valleys of suffering, leaving out how that suffering impelled you to strive and seek and understand yourself better, you would be appraising yourself in very, very, very shallow and harsh terms. There is a continuity to all of this experience, a continuity to the cycle of suffering and ecstasy, a mystery that we have the privilege to swim in every day.

As I understand it, suffering is not there to be avoided; suffering is there to show us what separates us from the Creator. I think we could all afford it more respect.

Thanks for your reply!