01-26-2016, 01:59 AM
Another issue here is that Ra's response is very much non-explicit. He's expressing service in terms of percentages and proportions. I tend to think even the word "awareness" isn't intended as an either/or. After all, the veil prevents absolutely certain knowledge of Oneness, since those of us on this side of the veil are fundamentally cut off from the Love/Light that most higher-D entities bask in as naturally as we bask in our oxygen/nitrogen atmosphere.
So even that "awareness" is going to be on a sliding scale reflecting the entity's personal intensity of belief.
Like Anagogy, I just don't think there's hard terminology to be found here. Concepts such as awareness, awakening, and enlightenment are necessarily on a spectrum, and it's a spectrum where an absolute "100%" rating is almost certainly not possible during 3D incarnation. Any attempt to draw hard lines is going to naturally tend towards exclusionist thinking (the dreaded "I'm more enlightened than you" argument) and end up perpetuating distortions that Ra was almost certainly trying to help dispel.
But out of curiosity, what concepts do you believe to be impossible to discus without drawing sharp distinctions?
So even that "awareness" is going to be on a sliding scale reflecting the entity's personal intensity of belief.
Like Anagogy, I just don't think there's hard terminology to be found here. Concepts such as awareness, awakening, and enlightenment are necessarily on a spectrum, and it's a spectrum where an absolute "100%" rating is almost certainly not possible during 3D incarnation. Any attempt to draw hard lines is going to naturally tend towards exclusionist thinking (the dreaded "I'm more enlightened than you" argument) and end up perpetuating distortions that Ra was almost certainly trying to help dispel.
But out of curiosity, what concepts do you believe to be impossible to discus without drawing sharp distinctions?