94.10 Transcript

[rva_jeremy]

In my opinion, Ra is saying that the social interaction serves as a kind of carrier wave for, or epiphenomenon of, the metaphysical exchange.

To give you an example of another kind of thing like this, when I used to smoke regularly I realized one of the reasons I liked smoking wasn't only to get high off nicotine. Smoking also afforded me an opportunity to step out of the office or bar or whatever and be by myself for a minute or two. I didn't need to smoke to get some alone time! But the act of smoking gave a cover or facilitated a deeper desire of mine.

In the same way, I believe those of Ra are showing how there are extra dimensions to our behaviors, our intents, our thinking that don't occupy our direct conscious mind but nevertheless matter. And this is what is so transformative about meditation and mindfulness: we start to see that the "game" we're playing in our lives is "scored" on multiple levels. We can have forgiveness and more patience if we understand that the surface appearance of things, however banal or trivial, are not the limit of significance.

Hope that helps! Great question, and I'm stoked to see how others interpret it. Obviously there's a whole aspect of the body involved that I ignored; I'm just talking about the basic idea.