03-13-2012, 02:40 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-13-2012, 03:51 AM by Tenet Nosce.)
As I was flying home today, I was giving much thought to some of the recurring points of discord in the forum.
Something else I have also been noticing about myself, is my reluctance to share stories. For some reason, telling stories has always seemed somewhat self-indulgent to me, and so sometimes I get uncomfortable when telling them. Beyond this, I have a bias toward impatience and often find myself wishing to "get to the point already". As incredulous as I know this may sound, even in my most lengthy posts I am actually attempting to communicate something in the least amount of words necessary.
Words.
Anyhow, for anybody who would be interested in reading further, a short prelude:
About 10 months ago, I starting becoming active again on Bring4th. Originally, I had started a few threads that didn't seem to garner all that much interest from the other forum members, and so I eventually just stopped checking in on them. Anyhow, for whatever reason, last Spring it occurred to me that quite some time had gone by and I hadn't been to the forum. So I thought I'd check in. So of course, I started browsing around and was particularly drawn to a thread called "More Positive But Less Harvestable" .
At the point where I joined in the discussion, people had been talking about Patton and whether or not he was "STS" or "STO". As I recall, the comment I made was to the point of "Well of course Patton was STS, he made war for a living!" Albeit a bit more dramatically.
Well let's just say this created quite a stir! Particularly with one member. Anyway, the point I wanted to make with this is it was about the labeling of others as "STS" and "STO".
A short while later, I was drawn to another thread where I ended up enmeshed in some deep, and sometimes heated, discussion with another member about whether there is an absolute sense of "right" and "wrong" in the universe.
As perhaps one could discern, these two dualistic concepts are somewhat related. In both cases, the core of my argument at the time was the idea that if "All Is One", then duality is an illusion, albeit a potentially useful one.
Back to the plane ride...
Somewhere likely over Kentucky, I found myself formulating a post in my mind about acceptance and approval. Basically, I was going to make the point that they are not synonymous, and if we were to educate ourselves about the subtle nuances in the meaning of the words, many of these seeming discordances would subside.
Now as I am one to do some research before I begin flapping my jaws, I went to look up the definition of acceptance on Dictionary.com. This is what I found:
Well there goes that argument!
Yet still, these words mean specific things to me, and especially in the context of the Ra material. For example, when I use the word acceptance in a discussion on the Law of One, as well as in general, I am thinking specifically in terms of this section:
I cannot express the depth and profundity with which I continue to be struck by these words. When I read this, I find that an impulse from within causes me to deeply seek for some resolution in this matter.
At first I thought- are they serious?! We are at some sort of Cosmic stalemate?! Is this just going to go on forever? Then I thought- maybe there is something I can do about this. Maybe I can help teach others a way to end this battle.
But how?
My thought process went something like this- if the light is depolarized by failure to accept that which is given, then there must be a way to accept what is given, while not succumbing to further enslavement, thus preserving one's polarity.
At some point I thought I might have found a way, and so I wanted to share it with others. But the challenge I faced- and still face- is how to communicate it. The challenge is that words just won't suffice.
See... I think I know what the difference between acceptance and approval is. Along with other "A" words like awareness, acknowledgement, allowance and agreement. To me, these words have specific meanings and I use them in specific ways.
In my mind, the answer goes something like this: In order to transcend duality, we must accept the darkness and negativity in our experience. But we do not have to approve of it. When I think this thought, something in my heart goes Ding! Ding! Ding!.
Yet I am not Webster, and I didn't invent the English language. So what to do? Shall I give up? Try harder? Go to a cave and meditate until the winter solstice?
So anyway this is my rather long-winded approach to ask the question- does anybody else feel this way? And is there any hope for a solution?
Something else I have also been noticing about myself, is my reluctance to share stories. For some reason, telling stories has always seemed somewhat self-indulgent to me, and so sometimes I get uncomfortable when telling them. Beyond this, I have a bias toward impatience and often find myself wishing to "get to the point already". As incredulous as I know this may sound, even in my most lengthy posts I am actually attempting to communicate something in the least amount of words necessary.
Words.
Anyhow, for anybody who would be interested in reading further, a short prelude:
About 10 months ago, I starting becoming active again on Bring4th. Originally, I had started a few threads that didn't seem to garner all that much interest from the other forum members, and so I eventually just stopped checking in on them. Anyhow, for whatever reason, last Spring it occurred to me that quite some time had gone by and I hadn't been to the forum. So I thought I'd check in. So of course, I started browsing around and was particularly drawn to a thread called "More Positive But Less Harvestable" .
At the point where I joined in the discussion, people had been talking about Patton and whether or not he was "STS" or "STO". As I recall, the comment I made was to the point of "Well of course Patton was STS, he made war for a living!" Albeit a bit more dramatically.
Well let's just say this created quite a stir! Particularly with one member. Anyway, the point I wanted to make with this is it was about the labeling of others as "STS" and "STO".
A short while later, I was drawn to another thread where I ended up enmeshed in some deep, and sometimes heated, discussion with another member about whether there is an absolute sense of "right" and "wrong" in the universe.
As perhaps one could discern, these two dualistic concepts are somewhat related. In both cases, the core of my argument at the time was the idea that if "All Is One", then duality is an illusion, albeit a potentially useful one.
Back to the plane ride...
Somewhere likely over Kentucky, I found myself formulating a post in my mind about acceptance and approval. Basically, I was going to make the point that they are not synonymous, and if we were to educate ourselves about the subtle nuances in the meaning of the words, many of these seeming discordances would subside.
Now as I am one to do some research before I begin flapping my jaws, I went to look up the definition of acceptance on Dictionary.com. This is what I found:
Quote:ac·cept·ance [ak-sep-tuhns] noun
1. the act of taking or receiving something offered.
2. favorable reception; approval; favor.
3. the act of assenting or believing: acceptance of a theory.
4. the fact or state of being accepted or acceptable.
5. acceptation ( def. 1 ) .
Well there goes that argument!
Yet still, these words mean specific things to me, and especially in the context of the Ra material. For example, when I use the word acceptance in a discussion on the Law of One, as well as in general, I am thinking specifically in terms of this section:
25.5 Wrote:Questioner: You spoke of an Orion Confederation and of a battle being fought between the Confederation and the Orion Confederation. Is it possible to convey any concept of how this battle is fought?
Ra: I am Ra. Picture, if you will, your mind. Picture it then in total unity with all other minds of your society. You are then single-minded and that which is a weak electrical charge in your physical illusion is now an enormously powerful machine whereby thoughts may be projected as things.
In this endeavor the Orion group charges or attacks the Confederation armed with light. The result, a stand-off, as you would call it, both energies being somewhat depleted by this and needing to regroup; the negative depleted through failure to manipulate, the positive depleted through failure to accept that which is given.
25.6 Wrote:Questioner: Could you amplify the meaning of what you mean by the “failure to accept that which is given?”
Ra: I am Ra. At the level of time/space at which this takes place in the form of what you may call thought-war, the most accepting and loving energy would be to so love those who wished to manipulate that those entities were surrounded and engulfed, transformed by positive energies.
This, however, being a battle of equals, the Confederation is aware that it cannot, on equal footing, allow itself to be manipulated in order to remain purely positive, for then though pure it would not be of any consequence, having been placed by the so-called powers of darkness under the heel, as you may say.
It is thus that those who deal with this thought-war must be defensive rather than accepting in order to preserve their usefulness in service to others. Thusly, they cannot accept fully what the Orion Confederation wishes to give, that being enslavement. Thusly, some polarity is lost due to this friction and both sides, if you will, must then regroup.
It has not been fruitful for either side. The only consequence which has been helpful is a balancing of the energies available to this planet so that these energies have less necessity to be balanced in this space/time, thus lessening the chances of planetary annihilation.
I cannot express the depth and profundity with which I continue to be struck by these words. When I read this, I find that an impulse from within causes me to deeply seek for some resolution in this matter.
At first I thought- are they serious?! We are at some sort of Cosmic stalemate?! Is this just going to go on forever? Then I thought- maybe there is something I can do about this. Maybe I can help teach others a way to end this battle.
But how?
My thought process went something like this- if the light is depolarized by failure to accept that which is given, then there must be a way to accept what is given, while not succumbing to further enslavement, thus preserving one's polarity.
At some point I thought I might have found a way, and so I wanted to share it with others. But the challenge I faced- and still face- is how to communicate it. The challenge is that words just won't suffice.
See... I think I know what the difference between acceptance and approval is. Along with other "A" words like awareness, acknowledgement, allowance and agreement. To me, these words have specific meanings and I use them in specific ways.
In my mind, the answer goes something like this: In order to transcend duality, we must accept the darkness and negativity in our experience. But we do not have to approve of it. When I think this thought, something in my heart goes Ding! Ding! Ding!.
Yet I am not Webster, and I didn't invent the English language. So what to do? Shall I give up? Try harder? Go to a cave and meditate until the winter solstice?
So anyway this is my rather long-winded approach to ask the question- does anybody else feel this way? And is there any hope for a solution?