11-24-2017, 02:19 AM
(11-23-2017, 09:50 PM)rva_jeremy Wrote: Absolutely. It can give one the impression that, no matter how many times one reads the material, one can never really claim one understands it. I'm re-reading the series now and I continue to be utterly astounded at the new insights I find all the time that were there all along! I think your husband's theory has great merit, but I think we can credit those of Ra's obfuscating diction a bit, too. Sometimes you just have to read that stuff a hundred times to actually parse it!
Hi Jeremy, thank you for the warm welcome!
Yes, there are definitely parts of the Ra material I do not yet understand, no matter how many times I read them, hehe. The archetypes especially I just couldn't seem to get a foothold in. Though it has been exciting to make some progress on the first seven. Actually, I read somewhere on this forum that people tend to think of what is said in the LOO as a metaphor, but then learn it is literal with time. I thought that was a great way of putting it (unfortunately I didn't note down who said that, so I can't given them credit!).