The Law of Responsibility

[JustLikeYou]

doesn't Ra indicate something along the lines of "use it or lose it", meaning that when opportunities are not used, they become less?

This is precisely correct!

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when using a training aid an entity then takes upon itself the Law of Responsibility for the quickened or increased rate of learn/teaching. If this greater understanding, if we may use this misnomer, is not put into practice in the moment by moment experience of the entity, then the usefulness of the training aid becomes negative.

I'm a bit surprised that the Law of Responsibility has been viewed in this thread with such opacity. It is embedded in experience anywhere you turn! When you stop using a language you were once fluent in, you lose your fluency -- because of the Law of Responsibility. When you ignore a project that you had once been excited about, it decays in its half-finished state -- because of the Law of Responsibility. When you stop corresponding with a friend for a period of time, a degree of closeness in your relationship is lost -- because of the Law of Responsibility.

More generally, if you do not use what the Universe has provided, it will be taken away.

I have a friend who is abundant with information about all manner of metaphysical and mystical subjects. He even traveled out West at the call of Spirit, where he met with Native American shamans, who taught him what he needed to know from them. He used to meditate daily, and told me stories of some of his successful magical manifestations. And yet, today, he lives in poverty, unsure as to what he wants to do with himself, and without any regular spiritual practice. He is a walking example to me of the Law of Responsibility. Universe gave him enormous amounts of information for evolving, but he chose not to make use of it. So, somehow, over the course of his life, it was all taken away. When I meet with him, he is sometimes amazed that he had forgotten about all these things that my very presents reminds him of. The negative reflection of the training aids (he has used many entheogens) which I see in him is that sense of premature enlightenment. So often, when we have received information for evolution, we end up seeing the information itself as enlightenment, and not the implementation of the information which is the real enlightenment. If this confusion occurs, the pride of the ego-self which seeks aggrandizement through the belief that it is enlightened will prevent the moment-to-moment implementation of the new information. This is how too quick a rate of learning can be harmful to one's growth. It has happened to many, many self-proclaimed gurus.