I noticed this follow-up question after 22.5 was not discussed yet, and I think this is extremely relevant. Basically I think it gives an outline to the mechanics of the Law of Responsibility in the text I bolded.
If you read that session carefully in context, IMO it becomes clear that the reduction of lifespan and the Law of Responsibility go hand and hand. I think basically that the greater the difference between one's intellectual knowledge of the Law of One, and the putting into practice of those lessons, the more opportunities you will receive to end the incarnation 'early'. This is something I have been mulling over a great deal lately as I feel that my own declining health (at 32) and 'wanderer syndrome' all go hand and hand with this.
I think that in order to live the full length of an incarnation of 900ish years, the aware entity would need to treat the other self as the self to a degree that virtually none of us are doing. Later in the session, Don and Ra discuss a small group of 150 people in South America that had a 900 year lifespan. They say that there was a group of people peripherally associated with them that had to repeat the cycle, and that some of them were some of the Saints of history. I've never heard of a Saint living 900 years, so it seems that even the best of them did not escape the Law of Responsibility.
For an example of what I think it would take - Imagine that your next door neighbor that you had never spoken with knocked on your door and said that they need $40,000 to pay medical bills. Without reservation or hesitation, you would give all the money that you had and work extra hours until that bill was payed. And imagine you lived your whole life like that - just giving everything you had to everyone as though they were yourself.
I'm not saying I (and others like me) don't do anything at all for other's in what we've gained in knowledge of love and wisdom, but just not enough to fully live within the Law of Responsibility. What I'm not sure of is if it's even possible to live the full 900 years unless you're as isolated as the 150 people from the South American group.
TL;DR
I think what Ra was trying to say in the bolded text is that if you don't handle the catalyst presented by other people in your own intellectual understanding of the ways of love and wisdom (as defined in the LOO), that catalyst will repeat into a feedback loop until it filters from the mind complex into the body complex in the form of disease, eventually leading to the physical death of the entity.
Edit: I think the other layer of this is not so much in the physical doing in reality, but the proper mental processing when the doing is not possible or not appropriate, which I also think is not happening for those suffering from the Law of Responsibility, since we all seem to be vastly overstimulated with catalyst.
Quote:22.6 Questioner: Would this shortened life span help the entity in any way in that he would have more at times in between incarnations to review his mistakes, or would this shortened life span hinder him?
Ra: I am Ra. Both are correct. The shortening of the life span is a distortion of the Law of One which suggests that an entity not receive more experience in more intensity than it may bear. This is only in effect upon an individual level and does not hold sway over planetary or social complexes.
Thus the shortened life span is due to the necessity for removing an entity from the intensity of experience which ensues when wisdom and love are, having been rejected, reflected back into the consciousness of the Creator without being accepted as part of the self, this then causing the entity to have the need for healing and for much evaluation of the incarnation.
The incorrectness lies in the truth that, given appropriate circumstances, a much longer incarnation in your space/time continuum is very helpful for continuing this intensive work until conclusions have been reached through the catalytic process.
If you read that session carefully in context, IMO it becomes clear that the reduction of lifespan and the Law of Responsibility go hand and hand. I think basically that the greater the difference between one's intellectual knowledge of the Law of One, and the putting into practice of those lessons, the more opportunities you will receive to end the incarnation 'early'. This is something I have been mulling over a great deal lately as I feel that my own declining health (at 32) and 'wanderer syndrome' all go hand and hand with this.
I think that in order to live the full length of an incarnation of 900ish years, the aware entity would need to treat the other self as the self to a degree that virtually none of us are doing. Later in the session, Don and Ra discuss a small group of 150 people in South America that had a 900 year lifespan. They say that there was a group of people peripherally associated with them that had to repeat the cycle, and that some of them were some of the Saints of history. I've never heard of a Saint living 900 years, so it seems that even the best of them did not escape the Law of Responsibility.
For an example of what I think it would take - Imagine that your next door neighbor that you had never spoken with knocked on your door and said that they need $40,000 to pay medical bills. Without reservation or hesitation, you would give all the money that you had and work extra hours until that bill was payed. And imagine you lived your whole life like that - just giving everything you had to everyone as though they were yourself.
I'm not saying I (and others like me) don't do anything at all for other's in what we've gained in knowledge of love and wisdom, but just not enough to fully live within the Law of Responsibility. What I'm not sure of is if it's even possible to live the full 900 years unless you're as isolated as the 150 people from the South American group.
TL;DR
I think what Ra was trying to say in the bolded text is that if you don't handle the catalyst presented by other people in your own intellectual understanding of the ways of love and wisdom (as defined in the LOO), that catalyst will repeat into a feedback loop until it filters from the mind complex into the body complex in the form of disease, eventually leading to the physical death of the entity.
Edit: I think the other layer of this is not so much in the physical doing in reality, but the proper mental processing when the doing is not possible or not appropriate, which I also think is not happening for those suffering from the Law of Responsibility, since we all seem to be vastly overstimulated with catalyst.
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