Session 082

[Dtris]

82.3 ▶ Questioner: Jim has a personal question which is not to be published. * He asks, “It seems that my balancing work has shifted from more peripheral concerns such as patience/impatience, to learning to open myself in unconditional love, to accepting my self as whole and perfect, and then to accepting my self as the Creator. If this is a normal progression of focus for balancing, wouldn’t it be more efficient, once this is discovered, for a person to work on the acceptance of self as Creator rather than work peripherally on the secondary and tertiary results of not accepting the self?”

Ra: I am Ra. The term efficiency has misleading connotations. In the context of doing work in the disciplines of the personality, in order to be of more full efficiency in the central acceptance of the self, it is first quite necessary to know the distortions of the self which the entity is accepting. Each thought and action needs must then be scrutinized for the precise foundation of the distortions of any reactions. This process shall lead to the more central task of acceptance. However, the architrave must be in place before the structure is builded.

Does the term "efficiency" have misleading connotations in and of itself? Or does "efficiency" have misleading connotations "in the context of doing work in the disciplines of the personality"?

Listening to the audio, Ra seems to indicate a sentence ending after "disciplines of the personality."

So I wonder if the sentence structure of Ra's answer was meant to be:

Ra: I am Ra. The term "efficiency" has misleading connotations in the context of doing work in the disciplines of the personality. In order to be of more full efficiency in the central acceptance of the self, it is first quite necessary to know the distortions of the self which the entity is accepting. Each thought and action needs must then be scrutinized for the precise foundation of the distortions of any reactions. This process shall lead to the more central task of acceptance. However, the architrave must be in place before the structure is builded.

I think that Ra meant to indicate that it is not more efficient to skip the steps of knowing and accepting yourself (for example, becoming conscious of emotions and then backtracking to find the inner sources of the emotional catalyst, followed by acceptance/loving, and healing/balancing) and focusing directly on "becoming the Creator" (74.11)

Any thoughts?

I must say I think your punctuation makes more sense. I haven't listened to the audio but if this is a valid interpretation it makes more sense.

Efficiency is over rated. I want to be efficient in certain aspects, but when the journey is more important than the destination, efficiency becomes a hindrance.