Minimal Balance

[Steppingfeet]

Hi Plenum,

You wrote:

in the end, the word 'balance' just points to the fact that through re-assembling the separate parts which enabled the activation of experience (1 --> 7, or 1 --> 3) we re-attain the original wholeness of self.

choosing or valueing one portion over another (green over blue for eg, or red over indigo) does not re-assemble the wholeness of self.

This linking of the concepts of balance and wholeness has been fruitful for me to contemplate of late.

Ra states that the "mind contains all things". And not only does the mind "contain", but our identity IS all things, 1.7.

Ultimate, total, infinite selfhood, then, necessarily includes all things: all entities, all modes of experience, all states of consciousness, all densities and all octaves.

Attaining this selfhood; that is to say, releasing the individual self in the conscious realization of the all-self, involves, I think, knowing and accepting ALL facets of the self encountered in the course of the dance. And integrating those facets through intellectual/emotional analysis according to the needs of the third-density mind, but, more deeply, integrating those facets through the synthesis of silence available to the one-pointed, concentrated, focused mind.

I love your linking of balance and wholeness because it is a big reminder to me that, essentially, all is one. No aspect of self and no moment is to be rejected or downplayed, per se. Prioritization of energy and discrimination are needed, of course. But with the eyes of contemplation, each thing offers the face of the Creator. Each energy, distorted though it may be, is an expression of infinity.

Balance, then, has as its foundation the acceptance of wholeness, which necessarily includes the acceptance of, and the balance between, seeming polar opposites.

You write:

you can also see in the above description of Schweitzer that his life was full of activity and interaction; and it was through this means that the energy centres were exercised, freed, and liberated.

I like the idea of freedom and liberation here. I think that one function of balance is to helpthe entity become free from mental patterns, free from psychological time, and free from the struggle between opposites: the attachment to that which is desired, and the aversion to that which is not desired.

Balance makes the patterns of energy movement less… sticky. That is to say, our present-moment awareness is not stuck to these patterns and does not create a separate identity out of them. The self is realized to *include* all energy patterns, but simultaneously to be completely beyond, and free of, all outer forms of birth, death, suffering, and play.

In the imbalanced entity, the energy pattern becomes sticky, it consumes the attention, it compels identification with its own movement and internal logic. Where the wholeness of self is forgotten, over attention is paid to one half of a particular dichotomy, either holding onto or running away from that one half, while (mostly unconsciously) either resisting or grasping for its implied, latent other half.

You quoted Ra as saying:

"Each experience will be sequentially understood by the growing and seeking mind/body/spirit complex in terms of survival, then in terms of personal identity, then in terms of social relations, then in terms of universal love, then in terms of how the experience may beget free communication, then in terms of how the experience may be linked to universal energies, and finally in terms of the sacramental nature of each experience."

I think that one analogy (among others) for helping to comprehend the nature of the energy centers lies in the idea of the filter. The chakras are filtering and limiting our experience of unity, of the all-ness and wholeness of self.

I think that, by design, the chakras are inherently, naturally limiting – the mechanism whereby the Creator has the opportunity to create the individual self that seems apart from that which it experiences. But add to the chakras' naturally limiting properties, we as third-density entities use them in such a way so as to create additional filtering and biases, often to the point of entirely blocking energy flow and deepening distortion.

It is, I think, only as we balance these filters, render them transparent, activate and unblock – i.e., release unneeded content through acceptance/forgiveness - that our experience of self becomes less and less filtered and limited, until our identity merges completely into union with the One. Another way to say that we realize who we really are and always have been.

Thanks for good material for consideration! : ) Gary