The Law of One, minus the space opera

[rva_jeremy]

I certainly agree with your conclusions, J., yet there does remain the problem of general inaccessibility, no?

Yes. Two things on this:

1. The study guide is crucial. It ties together themes that are all spread out over the material. I appreciate that some see the guide as a distortion, but it can really help get a discrete understanding of the terms and themes so that, when you see them in reading the source material, you recognize them. The guy who wrote the guide was an ACIM student, so maybe the way he wrote it resonates with me more than with others because, like him, I find a very similar je ne sais quoi to the two bodies of work. But I'd at least recommend a new reader of the material persue the guide to see if there's any value there for them - while reading the source material, of course.
   
2. I really do want to take notes on a future re-read and start assembling my own "journal" of sorts. The point is not to elucidate the Law of One, which is utterly simple. The point, instead, is to have an experience of the material that allows for a different kind of reflection than merely reading it. This would also allow one to be able to more easily find original insights using the material as a jumping-off point. After all, none of us uses this body of work without at least a bit of interpolation - the key is to be honest with yourself and otherselves, as I see it, about the pedigree of the insight.
   

I think probably my next read, along the lines you mention, is to fully examine A Wanderer's Handbook and Law of One 101. I want to see the tack Carla took and internalize it.

Finally, I think for me writing is a very grounding thing. Not just the conversations on this forum but when one takes a thesis or concept and composes something on it, like an essay or even a blog post. I'm pretty good at doing that on political matters; I'd like to rediscover that capacity in my spiritual life.

Thanks for your feedback.

P.S. This is off topic, but at some point, a new edition of the full material, unabridged and in hardback, would be really good. I've often thought of seeing if I could get one made by a friend who does bookbinding by hand.