Quantum Wrote:This is clearly more an observation than it is to the material facts, but is nonetheless I think as valid and material of a question.
Hello again dear friend. I quoted only your last line for the purpose of conserving electrons and perhaps a few Kilobytes of storage on the Bring4th servers, but please consider this a response to post intoto.
I agree wholeheartedly that DW spends an inordinate (and potentially even spiritually unhealthy) amount of time investigating, documenting and discussing the transitory and truly unimportant aspects of humanity's past, present, and future.
I would simply make two points as to why I am content to turn a blind eye to this behavior:
1. Don Elkins along with Carla and Jim all discussed the merits and concerns about including any transitory material in the Law of One publications. But in spite of their serious misgivings about including such material, they proceeded to include a significant amount of it, especially in Book 1. They did this for the specific purpose of making the material more interesting to their intended audience. Don even discussed this point specifically with Ra on at least two occasions, and Ra's response was that his service was to provide the information to Don with as little distortion as possible. He would not make recommendations as to how it should be edited, packaged, presented, or distributed to the public at large. These decisions were part of the trio's service, and had to be done according to their free will and inner motivations.
Ra, Book I, Session 6 Wrote:Questioner: I am fully aware that you are primarily interested in disseminating information concerning the Law of One. However, it is my judgment, and I could be wrong, that in order to disseminate this material it will be necessary to include questions such as the one I have just asked. If this is not the objective, then I could limit my questions to the application of the Law of One. But I understand that at this time it is the objective to widely disseminate this material. Is this correct?
Ra: I am Ra. This perception is only slightly distorted in your understand/learning. We wish you to proceed as you deem proper. That is your place. We, in giving this information, find our distortion of understanding of our purpose to be that not only of the offering of information, but the weighting of it according to our distorted perceptions of its relative importance. Thus, you will find our statements, at times, to be those which imply that a question is unimportant. This is due to our perception that the given question is unimportant. Nevertheless, unless the question contains the potential for answer-giving which may infringe upon free will, we offer our answers.
Although I find much of DW's work uninteresting to me now, I would hasten to point out that it was through some of his transitory discussions that I found him and ultimately the Law of One. I also readily admit that the transitory material within the Law of One was quite interesting to me on my first few readings of the Law of One, and it truly helped me see how to integrate the Law of One with physical reality and my other esoteric knowledge. Now, I find that I skip past such material, and hasten to find my way back to "the meat".
2. Given #1 above, I think that DW feels that one of his major purposes in this incarnation is to aid in the awakening of Wanderers that can aid the planet and humanity toward as bountiful a harvest as is possible. If he feels that transitory material is necessary to accomplish this, then this is a Free Will choice of how he feels he can best serve the process. I have no problem with that. I similarly have full confidence that many, if not most, awakened wanderers will, of their free will, feel the pull to explore the LOO for themselves and reach the same conclusion that you and I both have. That being the fact that DW's service for us is done. We have spiritually outgrown his material. Once awakened, Wanderers cannot return to sleep. They respond to the call to service, as they each best see fit. But note that DW's service was already totally successful, for as Ra said, if the material reaches a single person due to efforts to serve, then the effort was successful, for all are One. It reached me, therefore, DW is a resounding success.
I am similarly supportive of your call to serve by being as the yin, at it were, to DWs yang. I think that by having these discussions we can aid wanderers that are so inclined, to "transcend the transitory" and focus on the profound spiritual aspects of the Law of One. Thus, although I do not wish to change or influence anything about DW's work, I do see a valuable opportunity to serve in presenting opposing views based upon interpretation of the Law of One.
As an aside, I would like to acknowledge some of DWs recent (within the past year) work as being particularly non-transitory. That being his series of discussions with Larry Seyer which were entitled "There is only one of us here." I found it quite spiritually fulfilling much like a sermon is received by those that attend organized religious services. Although I learned nothing new, it was a refreshing take on life's purpose and did a fine job juxtaposing LOO with ACIM (a book which I've owned for over 20 years, but never was able to use for more than a cure for insomnia).
Love and Light,
3D Sunset