An analysis of the STS mindset and path

[Ray711]

I've spent some time reading many entries in TLOO containing the words "bias" or biases". The conclusion I have arrived to is that biases are developed incarnation after incarnation and transferred to the spirit. These biases then affect in great ways future incarnations, determining what interests a person will have, for example, or what kind of genetics are chosen for said incarnation. There are several quotes to support this conclusion. This is the most relevant one for our purposes:

97.16 Questioner: I was wondering why the dark entity was on the right side of the card as far as the male figure, which is the Significator, is concerned, and the light white entity is on the left. (...)

Ra: (...) The nature of polarity is interesting in that those experiences offered to the Significator as positive frequently become recorded as productive of biases which may be seen to be negative, whereas the fruit of those experiences apparently negative is frequently found to be helpful in the development of the service-to-others bias. As this is perhaps the guiding characteristic of that which the mind processes and records, these symbols of polarity have thusly been placed.

Biases are "produced". STO is a "bias" that is "developed".

This one also shows that polarization is a matter of building up bias:

61.7 ▶ Questioner: Second question: could you give an example of how feelings affect portions of the body and the sensations of the body?

Ra: I am Ra. It is nearly impossible to speak generally of these mechanisms, for each entity of proper seniority has its own programming. Of the less aware entities we may say that the connection will often seem random as the higher self continues producing catalyst until a bias occurs.

The reason why Ra says, in their picnic analogy, that some 3d entities are biased either towards STS or STO is because even a newly arrived 3d entity has had, potentially, millions and millions of years worth of biases being accumulated over the 2d experience. We know from pets that each cat, for example, has its own personality. That personality is in part the result of many incarnations building up bias after bias.

You mentioned the biases of wanderers, unity100. It's the exact same situation. Wanderers have millions of years of experience in higher densities. They have developed an enormous bias towards their chosen polarity throughout such vast experience. When a wanderer comes here and recoils in pain at the disharmony on Earth, it's not because of an eternal and unchangeable aspect of that soul, but because the wanderer remembers at the subconscious level what it is like to live in societies of complete harmony, cooperation and compassion. This is why wanderers are so useful in increasing the vibrations of Earth. Like you said, the mind and the body are brand new. But subconsciously (through spirit), the entity remembers; it remembers not so much an inherent part of its soul, but rather, the biases that it has built over the entirety of its soul stream.

unity100, at some portions of your post you seem to agree with this general idea. But then you say that the bias of the spirit can't ever realy be changed. So, I'm confused as to what your interpretation is, exactly.

I'm trying to understand this statement of yours:

Spiritual bias is the defining factor which separates wanderers from the 3d entities on a given planet. Mind changes, body changes. But the spiritual complex and its bias defines the entity.

You seem to be saying that all souls that are inherently similar start the octave together in the same planet. Did I get that right? If so, that is an interpretation that I don't think is supported in the material at all.

Going back to Carla, like I said before, the reason why it would have been so painful for her to be displaced into negative time/space is for the same reason I said above: Her soul stream has literal millions of years of building STO biases. Your quote from Ra:

Let us say that the positively polarized individual makes a poor student of the love of self and thus spends much more time, if you will, than those native to that pattern of vibrations.

The bolded is key. Emphasis is not put on something of an inherent nature. Carla was already STO polarized. If she had chosen STS in her first 3d experiences and had slowly and progressively built STS biases into her soul stream, then she would not have had any more trouble completing the octave in STS than the average STS entity. The displacement situation is completely extraordinary in nature, and it's not a solid ground upon which to base an argument. The entity at no point in time chooses STS; it's straight up displaced through the means of deception.

I can't stress enough that 3d is the density of The Choice. There is no choice to make if souls are already preprogrammed to go one way or the other.

...what you are proposing is that the positive entities can 'just' stop enjoying the positive aspects of creation, and negative entities can just stop enjoying the negative aspects of the creation.

There's more nuance than that. We're talking about 3d entities that have never been harvested. Their biases are still not too strong. Furthermore, if you have a bad habit that, although enjoyable, is harmful to yourself or to others, you can resort to your free will and make the strong commitment of leaving such a habit behind. Your brain has been wired to associate pleasure to such an activity and to seek it, but if you make this commitment and go through with it, those connections will become weaker and weaker. You may look at other more healthy activities, and if you find something that you like in them, your brain will rewire itself around these activities. I consider the analogy quite apt, as STS is a path that brings great pain in 3d, as evidenced here:

94.12 ▶ Questioner: It seems to me that the Experience of the Mind would act in such a way as to change the nature of the veil so that catalyst would be filtered so as to be more acceptable in the bias that is increasingly chosen by the entity. For instance, if the entity had chosen the right-hand path the Experience of the Mind would change the permeability of the veil to accept more and more positive catalyst, and also the other would be true for accepting more negative if the left-hand path were the one that was repeatedly chosen. Is this correct?

Ra: I am Ra. This is not only correct but there is a further ramification. As the entity increases in experience it shall, more and more, choose positive interpretations of catalyst if it is upon the service-to-others path and negative interpretations of catalyst if its experience has been along the service-to-self path.

Another quote on the importance of free will:

99.10 ▶ (...) In many second-density creatures seem to have some sort of imprinting that creates a lifetime mating relationship and I was wondering if this was designed by the Logos for that particular mechanism and if it was also carried into third density?

Ra: I am Ra. There are some of your second-density fauna which have instinctually imprinted monogamous mating processes. The third-density physical vehicle which is the basic incarnational tool of manifestation upon your planet arose from entities thusly imprinted, all the aforesaid being designed by the Logos.

The free will of third-density entities is far stronger than the rather mild carryover from second-density DNA encoding and it is not part of the conscious nature of many of your mind/body/spirit complexes to be monogamous due to the exercise of free will. However, as has been noted there are many signposts in the deep mind indicating to the alert adept the more efficient use of catalyst. As we have said, the Logos of your peoples has a bias towards kindness.

Moving on to other points...

Their numbers are perhaps one-tenth ours at any point in the space/time continuum

So, your proposition of negatively polarized entities 'just' overriding their inner spiritual bias with positive will just cause other entities doing the opposite to keep the balance of polarities in the creation.

While a possibility, your interpretation of that quote carries big assumptions that are not reflected in the material in any way.

We define mental instability broadly as behavior sets which do not allow an individual to reasonably function and survive within a social context. In the more extreme cases, we define them as behaviors which may harm the individual or make the individual dysfunctional even without any interaction with any other being. Like in self-harming behaviors.

Definitions like this were once used to justify homosexuality being labeled as a mental disorder (and more recently, transexuality). I would advice against using it too eagerly to explain behavior that is only incomprehensible from the outside.

(I'll try to reply to the other replies in the thread tomorrow, as it's gotten rather late for me)