Are you going to take the vaccine?

[Diana]

Are you practicing this "forgiveness" that you preaching? What does the Confederation say about advocating for things you have not experienced or are not doing?

Good general question. And I would like to address it with no intention of directing at any individuals.

I do think that some people tend to preach things they often don't do themselves. I have a friend who knows a lot about nutrition and nootropics, and he won't hesitate to monologue about it while he, himself, is very sketchy about applying what he knows to his own life. It's rather amusing in a way, mostly because he is a lovable person.

I also think that the point you bring up about having not experienced certain things is a valid one. If I understand your meaning, the following crude example comes to mind: people saying that homeless people should just get jobs. The person who says such a thing has obviously not experienced homelessness, nor do they have the capacity (or compassion) to imagine it. The tipping point as I see it would be compassion, in lieu of having actually had the experience themselves and therefore having real empathy. Beyond that, as a person evolves away from self-centeredness (seeing the world only through the self and what the self is consciously aware of), attachment to the human drama, and toward disassociation of the human experience, judgments of other-selves falls away (that is not to say one ceases to discern). This has been my ongoing experience anyway. Though this process is not one that goes from black to white. One doesn't usually change overnight. It is usually more gradual, and the lightning-struck tower comes to mind, in which is illustrated the nature of change through the process of illumination:



Of particular interest to note in the following quote is that originally there was only light, illumination, without the destruction of the tower. Humanity has built edifices of culture, society, mores, rules, laws, what is acceptable, what is fashionable and so on. This thread itself is an example of this process and what is acceptable, globally or nationally expected, and the various group paradigms in conflict with each other regarding the pandemic.

78.11 ▶ Questioner: Could you elaborate please on the nature and quality of the matrix and the potentiator?

Ra: I am Ra.
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The Matrix of the Spirit is what you may call the Night of the Soul or Primeval Darkness. Again we have that which is not capable of movement or work. The potential power of this extremely receptive matrix is such that the potentiator may be seen as Lightning. In your archetypical system called the tarot this has been refined into the concept complex of the Lightning Struck Tower. However, the original potentiator was light in its sudden and fiery form; that is, the lightning itself.

So, through a series, ad infinitum, of illuminations, we inch forward and evolve. Though illumination can come in the form of a flash of insight, these flashes in my experience are not powerful enough to have a lasting and abrupt change in consciousness, though it's not impossible. It seems to me to be more cumulative in nature.

80.13 ▶ Questioner: Then is this, from the point of view or with respect to the fifteenth archetype, somewhat of an excursion into the Matrix of the Spirit in this process? Does that make any sense?

Ra: I am Ra. The excursion of which you speak and the process of disassociation is most usually linked with that archetype you call Hope which we would prefer to call Faith. This archetype is the Catalyst of the Spirit and, because of the illuminations of the Potentiator of the Spirit, will begin to cause these changes in the adept’s viewpoint.

A visually accurate example would be 911. The twin towers coming down galvanized the US with horror, fear, and vulnerability. Because of the shock, it was easy to whip up nationalism. But this did not last—it wore off to certain extent. And in a positive and deeper sense, the underlying issues of freedom and division in the world between countries, continents, and people were illuminated, along with questions regarding control such as is done by religions and governments (the towers humanity has been built). But things are never simple here in this veiled reality, so there is no simple path to an easy truth through the labyrinth of human experience. The ideas of separation and division are again being highlighted with the pandemic.

In conclusion, if you don't mind my poetical and long-winded metaphor , as we all stumble along our chosen or not-yet-chosen paths, we are like rough marble pieces—bumpy and coarse with sharp uneven surfaces, rubbing up against each other and rolling around in a bumpy world. In doing so, our uneven surfaces, sharp edges, and rough, random shapes get worn down and smoothed to a more coherent shape. At some point we begin to see this, and simultaneously make conscious choices in that shape. So as we as marble pieces get chipped away, we shape ourselves as well, and the rough marble begins to take a purposeful form, the end result of which is a beautiful, detailed, and unique statue.

At first, the work is random, catalyst just comes and we react; then as we begin to take form, the work becomes more purposeful; and finally, the work reaches that point where the heavy lifting has been done, and because the work is so much lighter now, we can look around through less-burdened eyes—eyes that can more clearly see other-selves, detachedly, because our rough edges are not something others can now chip at—we have become smooth through our own efforts and effectively dealing with catalyst here in this reality. We realize this process of chipping away and what is revealed through it; we understand that underneath the human husks of rough marble are beautiful beings tasked with either creating themselves or being tossed about randomly.

This is how I see, in a whimsical way, the idea of disassociation, whereby we have shed the rough, rocky exterior, no longer immersed—albeit at one time efficaciously—in the human drama (the rubbing up against each other and the world and learning to deal effectively with catalyst), which is reflected in the following quote from Ra:

80.11 ▶ Questioner: Could I say, then, that implicit in the process of becoming adept is the possible partial polarization towards service to self because simply the adept becomes disassociated with many of his kind or like in the particular density which he inhabits?

Ra: I am Ra. This is likely to occur. The apparent happening is disassociation whether the truth is service to self and thus true disassociation from other-selves or service to others and thus true association with the heart of all other-selves and disassociation only from the illusory husks which prevent the adept from correctly perceiving the self and other-self as one.