Am I the only one who thinks this is a good idea?
I think you should do it and see what the result is. I think the process alone will deepen your own understanding and can lead to a new and valuable perspective on the material.
The one caveat is to avoid a common pitfall of spiritual teachings which is to lie for the sake of simplicity. For instance scientologists believe that Xenu put humans in a volcano and all this stuff, but scientologists will deny this until you've reached a certain level of initiation. This initiation process is a pitfall in my opinion.
What you're talking about sounds like the Jefferson Bible to me, which is something that countless people have benefited from, not the least of whom is Jefferson himself.
I would encourage you to not be discouraged by the naysayers and if you still feel a passion to do this to give it a try.
I actually think it's a really good idea and would be useful. Reformulations need to be acknowledged as reformulations but they aren't bad in any way. I'm a big fan of derivative works in any field and I think hearing many voices and perspectives on the same topic helps and doesn't hurt.
Redacting the space opera/political stuff and writing a condensed version that includes the spiritual concepts sounds like a worthy reformulation.
Ra does not have a monopoly on truth. Of course your reformulation will be biased by your personality. That's ok. Ra's formulation of the Law of One is biased by Ra's personality. Also ok.
I'm a little disturbed by the way you are being brow-beaten into giving up a creative impulse. What is the possible downside to expressing your creative impulse? Very little downside, lots of potential upside.
I think some people are deifying Ra.
Ra answered the questions Don asked. A reformulation of the material that focuses on one aspect of the questioning sounds like a really great contribution to this body of knowledge.
If I'm being blunt I see a lot of hypocrisy in the way people are criticizing your idea. They have their own interpretations and reformulations of the Ra material and those reformulations pour out of them constantly at the slightest trigger. Every word posted in this thread is a gushing reformulation of the Ra material that someone channeled through their personality. Is it wrong to put these reformulations into a book? Of course not!
The Jefferson Bible is a wonderful version of the Bible. I think your Jefferson Ra Material sounds very compelling and I'd be interested in reading it for the new perspective that it would contain.
I think you should do it and see what the result is. I think the process alone will deepen your own understanding and can lead to a new and valuable perspective on the material.
The one caveat is to avoid a common pitfall of spiritual teachings which is to lie for the sake of simplicity. For instance scientologists believe that Xenu put humans in a volcano and all this stuff, but scientologists will deny this until you've reached a certain level of initiation. This initiation process is a pitfall in my opinion.
What you're talking about sounds like the Jefferson Bible to me, which is something that countless people have benefited from, not the least of whom is Jefferson himself.
I would encourage you to not be discouraged by the naysayers and if you still feel a passion to do this to give it a try.
I actually think it's a really good idea and would be useful. Reformulations need to be acknowledged as reformulations but they aren't bad in any way. I'm a big fan of derivative works in any field and I think hearing many voices and perspectives on the same topic helps and doesn't hurt.
Redacting the space opera/political stuff and writing a condensed version that includes the spiritual concepts sounds like a worthy reformulation.
Ra does not have a monopoly on truth. Of course your reformulation will be biased by your personality. That's ok. Ra's formulation of the Law of One is biased by Ra's personality. Also ok.
I'm a little disturbed by the way you are being brow-beaten into giving up a creative impulse. What is the possible downside to expressing your creative impulse? Very little downside, lots of potential upside.
I think some people are deifying Ra.
Ra answered the questions Don asked. A reformulation of the material that focuses on one aspect of the questioning sounds like a really great contribution to this body of knowledge.
If I'm being blunt I see a lot of hypocrisy in the way people are criticizing your idea. They have their own interpretations and reformulations of the Ra material and those reformulations pour out of them constantly at the slightest trigger. Every word posted in this thread is a gushing reformulation of the Ra material that someone channeled through their personality. Is it wrong to put these reformulations into a book? Of course not!
The Jefferson Bible is a wonderful version of the Bible. I think your Jefferson Ra Material sounds very compelling and I'd be interested in reading it for the new perspective that it would contain.