What is Ra's Monism?

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Hello B4 researchers

I think this post fits best in the Strictly LOO forum since it's all about the philosophy of one -- monisms or oneness laws -- which tries to define Ra's LOO.

Monism -- The doctrine that reality consists of a single basic substance or element -- the doctrine that reality is one unitary organic whole with no independent parts. There are a wide variety of monisms which the LOO supporter will need to explore  -- plus an 'All is One' philosophy by Parmenides from this link is worth a view.     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjTAWFNLjKc

Just as a side note: I've since thought up an equivalent alternative to the IUP or Infinity Unity Principle which is the AOP or All One Principle which allows for flexible usage and applications when doing philosophical derivations. IUP = IU + UI is equivalent to AOP = AO + OA where both have their strengths of usage.
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This is part of a letter I wrote to a philosophy student in October 2014 who had shown some interest in reviewing the Ra Material. He sent me an article and this is my reply with some added definitions of teleology and normative for the B4 reader.

In this letter I speculate that the Law of One is a meta-monism that correlates specific types of monisms or oneness laws with the stages of evolution through the densities.
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After reading the article you sent, Monism: The Priority of the Whole by Jonathan Schaffer, it prompted some ideas on how to frame the Law of One monism in comparison to other monisms.  Law of One seems to be a meta-monism which suggests an inclusive and teleological system of monisms beginning and ending with Existence Monism.

Teleology is expressed from a statement in the Ra Material that "the Creator desires to know and experience itself" and does this in an infinite number of ways. This may actually be its one and only intention and so is both first and final cause.

teleology -- a doctrine explaining phenomena by their ends or purposes -- connotes a striving or effortful attempt to attain a goal

normative -- prescriptive -- pertaining to giving directives or rules -- decreed laws or principles -- the striving nature of teleology has a normative connotation

The term teleology suggests a relation to the normative terms law and principle so that the Law of One may be an appropriate expression. A perhaps more philosophically cogent expression is the Infinity/Unity Principle (IUP) by which infinity is defined as a unity.  This self-referential notion of IUP allows for identity and predication to derive expressions ie 'All is All', 'All is One', 'One is One', 'One is All'.
 
Following these, dialectical expressions ie 'not-All is not-One' can be derived to be followed by quantification and other complex logics.

Back to the Law of One.

Here's a rough draft of what meta-monism might mean as it relates to the Ra Material. There's much room for revision. Additionally, Shaffer's Priority Monism also may be a meta-monism concept since it is outside the substance version of monisms and appears to be a less complete and weaker version of the Law of One meta-monism.

Here's my preliminary idea of the cycle of monism stages which a meta-monism
encompasses:

Note: previous stages coexists with and continue to modify later stages

Differentiation Phase

1. Existence monism -- static/nondual -- primal oneness
2. Dialectical monism -- dynamic/dual, bipolar metaphysics, space/time and time/space  
3. Organic monism -- dynamic/finite plural, biology, complex organic systems
4. Complex monism -- early 3D -- dynamic/infinite plural, extreme complexity and emergence of self-aware beings caused by separation/blockage effects leading to conflict, tension, confusion, questioning, an ethical split of STO/STS or good/evil, free will and ethical choice

Integration Phase

5. Higher order Complex monism -- later 3D -- one chooses between STO and STS
6. Higher order Organic monism -- conscious beings form organic structures called social memory complexes or collectives
7. Higher order Dialectical monism -- all polarities seek to unify, the fusion experience
8. Higher order Existence monism -- total fusion, incubation phase leading to next cycle
 
In stage 4 separation consciousness causes the ethical and evolutionary split.

STO -- service to others/outward directed -- is where a part of the whole views other parts as other-selves, the self serves other-selves, positive intention and action and notion of good -- the bias is towards monism.

STS -- service to self/inward directed -- is where a part of the whole serves itself and does not view other parts as other-selves -- negative intention and action and notion of evil -- the bias is towards pluralism.

This ethical polarity needs further research since moderate STS has good qualities ie for survival and self-determination and extreme STO can be unwise ie martydom.

This ethical dichotomy is very complex in that we all incorporate STO and STS in various portions which leads to complex emotions and psychological states as we assert our will and intention to know ourselves and others. That is one reason for characterizing a human being as a mind/body/spirit complex.

New philosophical notion for the philosophy student.
When expressed as a polarity, ethics is in some ways quantifiable with the following values necessary to evolve to stage 6:
> 50% STO
> 95% STS

Notice the disparity between percentages which points to the natural monism bias of creation to have connection and harmony between parts.
 
An unpolarized electric battery has no charge and cannot perform work.
Similarly, an unpolarized person is unmotivated and weak and does not
perform work in consciousness.

So ethical polarity is fundamental for the evolution of humans and other sentient beings.