Prayer...Whom do you pray to? Are we just talking to ourselves?

[Whitefeather]

Greetings,
Interesting question indeed.
According to Ra, prayer is a discipline or rather a faculty of the will.
Praying is a mental exercice. The desire to link its activity to the heart and in service to others, is up to each person to choose.
The part in us which we address and impress upon in prayer would actually be the subconcious mind.

I thought the below quote from Ra could be helpful in clarifying what is actually involved by the terms briefly described here by Ra regarding Meditation, Contemplation and Prayer.

49.8 Questioner: Is it better, or shall I say, does it produce more useable results in meditation to leave the mind as blank as possible and let it run down, so to speak, or is it better to focus in meditation on some object or some thing for concentration?

Ra: I am Ra. ... Each of the two types of meditation is useful for a particular reason. The passive meditation involving the clearing of the mind, the emptying of the mental jumble which is characteristic of mind complex activity among your peoples, is efficacious for those whose goal is to achieve an inner silence as a base from which to listen to the Creator. This is an useful and helpful tool and is by far the most generally useful type of meditation as opposed to contemplation or prayer.

The type of meditation which may be called visualization has as its goal not that which is contained in the meditation itself. Visualization is the tool of the adept. Those who learn to hold visual images in mind are developing an inner concentrative power that can transcend boredom and discomfort. When this ability has become crystallized in an adept the adept may then do polarizing in consciousness without external action which can affect the planetary consciousness. This is the reason for the existence of the so-called White Magician. Only those wishing to pursue the conscious raising of planetary vibration will find visualization to be a particularly satisfying type of meditation.

Contemplation or the consideration in a meditative state of an inspiring image or text is extremely useful also among your peoples, and the faculty of will called praying is also of a potentially helpful nature. Whether it is indeed an helpful activity depends quite totally upon the intentions and objects of the one who prays.
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22.2 Questioner: Secondly, she would like to know why she feels more healthy now that she has begun these sessions and feels more healthy as time goes on?

Ra: I am Ra. This is a function of the free will of the entity. This entity has, for many of your years, prayed a certain set of sound vibration complexes before opening to communication. Before the trance state was achieved this prayer remained within the conscious portion of the mind complex and, though helpful, was not as effective as the consequence of this prayer, as you would call this vibrational sound complex, which then goes directly into the unconscious level, thus more critically affecting the communication from the spiritual complex. ...

Oh and, by the way, you are never alone. Alone does not exist in the Law of One though the illusion of this plane drives us towards the distortion of believing that we are separate beings, physically separated from one another and from objects, by air or empty space.

In truth, there is no emptyness in the universe; we share the same 'space' with all densities. The space all around each of us is fully inhabited, believe it. It is only that we are unable to perceive the entities inhabiting the densities above us. We are unable to perceive them because our five senses are limited to decoding frequencies belonging to our 3D plane. The limitation there is our five senses. However, it is possible to access, activate or acknowledge other senses through the activating and balancing of all chakras. Those other senses are then called 'paranormal senses'. After all, each one of the main chakra is a key to one density.

Take care,
Light/love
Whitefeather