Rapid Polarization (vis-a-vis the power to abstract)

[Quantum]

Hello Quantum, Long time no see. Don’t be such a stranger.
Isn’t opening your heart an intutive process? I understand the need for balance, but suspect that the greatest leap
of..what?...faith?...intuition?...is the consideration of other modes of reality beyond what we experience on a daily basis.

I would even go so far as to say that most people, nowadays…are sorely lacking in the use of intuition in their daily lives. Present company excluded…of course ;-)

Thank you for your continuing encouragement good friend. To your response above,it might be a more fair statement to suggest that intuition is simply less trusted in the world verses it being more lacking, given all have intuition faculties. It is perhaps less trusted for exactly the reasons that Ra suggests as regards its unreliability, i.e. vagaries. For this reason I understand Ra to be suggesting that the faculty of abstraction is far more reliable than is the faculty of intuition, given that intuition may be far more misleading than is the ability to abstract. Perhaps it may best be stated that the faculty of intuition should not be the foundation upon which abstraction is layed, but that instead abstraction being the more reliable may be the foundation upon which then intuition may layed, thus granting greater power to the adept for it. Imagine the kaleidoscopic chaos were intuition to be the ground in 3D and then overlaying abstraction upon it. Yikes. It would be Monty Pythonesque.

As to the point of balancing abstraction with intuition, I am left to ponder what Ra might be inferring as regards the word 'balance'. Although we quite naturally understand what the word balance means, what indeed does balance mean in this context? One typically might assume balance to almost always mean 50/50. In this case, as in many others, I think not. In this case ponder the possibility of inferring as an example, three parts intuition to thirty parts abstraction to create the balance between the lobes, as opposed to jumping to the conclusion that it means 50 parts of one to 50 parts of the other. One spoon of curry is plenty to the pot less you burn your senses with thirty. See my point?

[quote='Quantum' pid='4934' dateline='1250742644']Imagine spinning a cube in one's mind as though on a two dimensional computer screen represented as a 3-dimensional view......

Dear Quantum,

It sounds like you are talking about what might be called visualization rather than analysis or abstraction. The quote you referred to earlier is about balancing left (analysis) and right (intuition) brains. What you are talking about here is, to my mind at least, something quite different and far more interesting. It summons up for me this quote from Ra, also from session 49, which also mentions polarizing

Hello βαθμιαίος. Thank you for your participation, input, and corrections. A-h-h-h-h words. Words have a way of getting in the way of thoughts, as much as they do feelings, don't they. But its all we have. Intuition, abstraction, visualization. Yes to all of them...and more. I would ask you a question to see if we're using what we think to be 'words' in the same way so that we're indeed on the same page. Is it necessary to visualize in order to abstract?

Utilizing my example of the abstraction exercise I would grant that it is at first all a visualization exercise. But where the visualized cube rotated first on a flat 2D screen creating a 3D illusion is then transposed to a holograph in the minds eye, what happens at the point of divergence when you are asked to then make the leap of transposing the cube to a thought? Pick any abstract thought as the cube in this exercise to (poetically) rotate. Are you still visualizing? What do you visualize at this juncture? I would suggest that at precisely this juncture you are left with no other recourse but to abstract, but wherein you are asked to abstractly examine the thought, or thought process, in much the same way by spinning this thought(s) first this way and that.

So, yes it needs to balanced with intuition, but perhaps not at a 50/50 equivalent ratio. That might lead to unbalance. And yes it needs be visualized to a smaller or larger extent/degree, but not exclusively visualized as opposed to imagined...if not both. The visualization of spinning the thought as a cube is as much an illustration as it is a springboard to a greater understanding of what it means not to understand it to mean simply as 2D words "debate", "challenge", "disagree", while yet allowing it to be "debate, challenge, disagreement" through examination, but at a higher level, say as an illustration in a 4D or 5D mode as poetic example.

Now, to your jeweled exercise of visualization as given by Ra: what if we visualize "love" while abstracting it to greater degrees? Might we take it further yet?

Then if we take 3D's offering to the conversation as well, this in his post #8 and add:

Questioner: While an entity is incarnate in this third density at this time he may either learn unconsciously without knowing what he is learning, or he may learn after he is consciously aware that he is learning in the ways of the Law of One. By the second way of learning consciously, it is possible for the entity to greatly accelerate his growth.

and

Ra: I am Ra.
Exercise One. This is the most nearly centered and useable within your illusion complex. The moment contains love. That is the lesson/goal of this illusion or density. The exercise is to consciously see that love in awareness and understanding distortions. The first attempt is the cornerstone. Upon this choosing rests the remainder of the life-experience of an entity. The second seeking of love within the moment begins the addition. The third seeking empowers the second, the fourth powering or doubling the third.

As with the previous type of empowerment, there will be some loss of power due to flaws within the seeking in the distortion of insincerity. However, the conscious statement of self to self of the desire to seek love is so central an act of will that, as before, the loss of power due to this friction is inconsequential.

Exercise Two. The universe is one being. When a mind/body/spirit complex views another mind/body/spirit complex, see the Creator. This is an helpful exercise.

Exercise Three. Gaze within a mirror. See the Creator.

Exercise Four. Gaze at the creation which lies about the mind/body/spirit complex of each entity. See the Creator.

The foundation or prerequisite of these exercises is a predilection towards what may be called meditation, contemplation, or prayer. With this attitude, these exercises can be processed. Without it, the data will not sink down into the roots of the tree of mind, thus enabling and ennobling the body and touching the spirit.

We might then have a condensed recipe for Rapid Polarization offered on one page. Might we now have a work in progress wherein through the faculties of imagination, visualization, and abstraction, mixed heavily with service in love, that we might juggle and/or superimpose all on one another for a working model? Imagine, abstract, visualize the juggler adept performing just this exercise

Q