06-24-2012, 05:56 PM
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1. What is the definition of other-self?
From a Law of One perspective, I would say the definition of an "other-self" would be anything that one does not identify as part of them-selves.
On the other side of the coin, we are taught by Ra that the great underlying truth and lesson of all densities and dimensions of experience is that we are all *one*. Essentially, the reality is that there is only one soul, or self, and we all share it. The distortion that we experience in our 3rd density plane of existence -- that we are all separate individuals -- is an illusion. Investment in that illusion naturally and reflexively generates and necessitates another distortion or illusion that we have come to know as "polarity". We could not polarize if we first didn't entertain the illusion of separation in the first place.
So positive polarization, or service to others, could be looked at as more of a means to an end -- that end being the realization of oneness consciously again. We serve, love, and mingle with what we perceive to be "other selves" to the point where we feel a kinship and harmony with those "others". Over time, this harmony increases and increases until a critical threshold is crossed. When that happens, a few of the lines that separated us, one from another, are dissolved. This dissolution of barriers, between us and other selves, is experienced as the evolution through the densities of our octave. When the harmony between self and others becomes absolutely pure, and refined, there is no longer self and others, there is only One
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2. Why is it assumed that other-self pertains only to humans?
I've never really made that distinction, so I can't really speak to why some people assume this. The whole of creation is alive, so I can't make arbitrary lines in the sand about what is a form of consciousness that can be assisted, or harmonized with, and one that cannot be assisted. One can show kindness to a human, animal, vegetable, home, or even a garden. Everything, from elemental matter to complex multi-cellular organisms, and even the planets themselves, are having experiences of some variety or another. *All* is alive and conscious.
3. When, if ever, are 2D animals considered other-selves?
At the precise same instant that we identify our consciousness as separate from them.
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1. What is the definition of other-self?
From a Law of One perspective, I would say the definition of an "other-self" would be anything that one does not identify as part of them-selves.
On the other side of the coin, we are taught by Ra that the great underlying truth and lesson of all densities and dimensions of experience is that we are all *one*. Essentially, the reality is that there is only one soul, or self, and we all share it. The distortion that we experience in our 3rd density plane of existence -- that we are all separate individuals -- is an illusion. Investment in that illusion naturally and reflexively generates and necessitates another distortion or illusion that we have come to know as "polarity". We could not polarize if we first didn't entertain the illusion of separation in the first place.
So positive polarization, or service to others, could be looked at as more of a means to an end -- that end being the realization of oneness consciously again. We serve, love, and mingle with what we perceive to be "other selves" to the point where we feel a kinship and harmony with those "others". Over time, this harmony increases and increases until a critical threshold is crossed. When that happens, a few of the lines that separated us, one from another, are dissolved. This dissolution of barriers, between us and other selves, is experienced as the evolution through the densities of our octave. When the harmony between self and others becomes absolutely pure, and refined, there is no longer self and others, there is only One
.2. Why is it assumed that other-self pertains only to humans?
I've never really made that distinction, so I can't really speak to why some people assume this. The whole of creation is alive, so I can't make arbitrary lines in the sand about what is a form of consciousness that can be assisted, or harmonized with, and one that cannot be assisted. One can show kindness to a human, animal, vegetable, home, or even a garden. Everything, from elemental matter to complex multi-cellular organisms, and even the planets themselves, are having experiences of some variety or another. *All* is alive and conscious.
3. When, if ever, are 2D animals considered other-selves?
At the precise same instant that we identify our consciousness as separate from them.
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