Session 007

[rva_jeremy]

service to others results in service to self, thus preserving and further harmonizing the distortions of those entities seeking intelligent infinity through these disciplines.

How exactly does service to others result in service to self?

(I appreciate you asking this rhetorically, as I imagine you already know how you'd answer.  )

Because if you identify with the whole, there is no other recipient for service but the self. This is why I tend to think of STS and STO not as descriptions of behavior but of identity, conceptions of what the self is and, consequently, how it relates to things that are not the self.  Behavior and thought follow from that, to my mind.  

STS doubles down, so to speak, on the individual identity and sees relations with (i.e. service to) others as a zero-sum competition with not-selves/the Creation to articulate its boundaries and details with increasing power and distinctiveness.  

STO sees all as self: all phenomena are "internal matters" of the self. The service relationship is not about articulating one's identity so much as allowing love/light to flow through and thereby articulate the self.