11-02-2009, 02:57 AM
(This post was last modified: 11-02-2009, 02:49 PM by Sacred Fool.)
(11-02-2009, 01:29 AM)Questioner Wrote: Peregrine, what do you see as the connection between these three quotes, other than they all include the word "self?"
First quote refers to STS entities who are lacking in green ray but strong in other energy centers.
Second quote refers to the way people can interact on a spiritual level, and meditation on emptiness as a way to reach that level.
Third quote also refers to emptiness as a path of meditation.
I see the shared meditation reference in quotes two and three, but I don't otherwise see how these three quotes connect to each other. What do you see?
Well, my interest is focused on the areas emboldened. [Don't be thrown by the STS reference. It's a term borrowed from the question, but also meant to be a description of the energy balance stated: too much wisdom per amount of love, so to say.]
All creation is potentially aware of All, because that is it's root nature (and cause). According the first passage an aim in 6D is to poise one's consciousness so that, as a result of a long process of unification, All conscious becomes available.
The second passage seems to indicate that there actually is no "other-self." Rather, waves of energy created by thoughts and feelings conduce to an apparent experience of many-ness. (I'm not aware of another passage in the LOO material like this one. I find it very exciting.) The connection between the first and second passages would be that these thoughts and feelings must be balanced (poised and allowed to fall away) before All consciousness becomes available. Parenthetically, this is dramatically reminiscent of the famous second aphorism of the Yoga Sutras, something to the effect that yoga (meaning "union") is the cessation of the waves of the mind-stuff (meaning thoughts and feelings). As I grasp it, the concept here is that "extrinsic" phenomena continue to be perceived, but they are not experienced as other. This is the culmination of balancing chakras and experience and everything else in consciousness.
The third passage I see as a more poetic restatement of the above.
Emptiness would be the same thing in the sense that Q'uo advises we "empty our pockets" during meditation, meaning allow the thoughts and feelings to eventually fall away. Ra advises against overcoming things; rather, they should be experienced and evaluated and the Love/Light distilled from them. So, if we don't overcome them and they don't abate or distill by themselves (or they merely become more subtle) what then?
My answer for myself is to seek a posture which allows for accelerated experience and acceptance and emptying. I might suggest that this can be much harder in the lower chakras than the others. So, as the lower become clearer and can accept a greater flow of energy, the process does pick as you move along. On the other hand, you never know what you'll find in the next pocket!