2023-04-30

I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the 102 quote comes from Chapter Three and the concept of preparing the natural self for service:

Chapter Three

Preparing the Natural Self for Service 

Carla’s goals for Chapter 3: “This chapter tracks the Law of One information on how to deal with the natural self, the body and the emotions brought out by our sexuality and personal relationships.”

Is there an unnatural self?

I thought long and hard about what Carla might have meant by the natural self. It is not a term that was ever used during the Ra contact or in any other of our channeled material, so I had to add to my process of intellectualization a bit of meditation as well before I arrived at a conclusion which feels like it might contain the beginning concepts related to this natural self. When we all come into this world we are born into the bodies of babies that are very simple in their functioning, and our minds also reflect this simplicity at birth. Our access to, or awareness of, our spirits seems to be in a dormant state for some period of time as well. I also believe that we contain our pre-incarnative programming that sets the stage for our maturation and following the path that we have planned before being born into the world. Ra encapsulated this process beautifully in 48.7:

Entrance into incarnation requires the investment, or activation, of the indigo-ray, or etheric body, for this is the form maker. The young, or small, physical mind/body/spirit complex has the seven energy centers potentiated before the birthing process. There are also analogs in time/space of these energy centers corresponding to the seven energy centers in each of the seven true-color densities. Thus in the microcosm exists all the experience that is prepared. It is as though the infant contains the universe.

This is the natural way for all of us to enter each incarnation. We are full of previous growth patterns that have aligned our energy centers in a unique way, and we have planned the way in which we can further activate and express the nature of our first four energy centers in a myriad of ways. Just as our bodies are very small and almost helpless to begin with, so our minds also must be given experience. As our bodies begin to learn how to crawl, to sit, to stand, and to begin to take baby steps, just so our minds have the corresponding opportunities to speak basic sounds that turn into words and then sentences. This type of growth begins to deal with concepts of how we are learning to become fully functioning entities. However, when it comes to the spirit Ra suggested that the spirit might have a slightly different process of maturation as Don and Ra spoke of in 92.18:

Questioner: Turning, then, to my analogy—or shall we say, example—of the newborn infant with the undistorted Matrix, this newborn infant has its subconscious veiled from the Matrix. The second archetype, the Potentiator of Mind, is going to act at some time through—I won’t say through the veil, I don’t think that is a very good way of stating it—but the Potentiator of Mind will act to create a condition, and I will use an example of the infant touching a hot object. The hot object we could take as random catalyst. The infant can either leave its hand on the hot object or rapidly remove it. My question is: is the Potentiator of Mind involved at all in this experience and, if so, how?

Ra: I am Ra. The Potentiator of Mind and of Body are both involved in the questing of the infant for new experience. The mind/body/spirit complex which is an infant has one highly developed portion which may be best studied by viewing the Significators of Mind and Body.

You notice we do not include the spirit. That portion of a mind/body/spirit complex is not reliably developed in each and every mind/body/spirit complex. Thusly the infant’s significant self, which is the harvest of biases of all previous incarnational experiences, offers to this infant biases with which to meet new experience.

However, the portion of the infant which may be articulated by the Matrix of the Mind is indeed unfed by experience, and has the bias of reaching for this experience through free will just as intelligent energy, in the kinetic phase, through free will, creates the Logos.

However, at some point we all are will be able to utilize the spirit more and more effectively as our infant self grows to maturity and, hopefully, will eventually become a conscious seeker of truth. Then it begins the realization of its very nature and purpose in the current life pattern. Its unconscious mind feeds it catalyst that it may then begin to process in a way that is congruent with its pre-incarnative choices and any karma that we have accumulated in previous incarnations.

Then our energy bodies begin to function according to their degree of activation and ability to function and allow the prana or love/light of the Creator to move through them. The energy body is composed of our energy centers that are activated. For most people only the first three are activated because the work of the third density is to work upon the first three energy centers in order to activate the fourth energy center that will allow us to be able to see the Creator in all other selves and choose to serve them 51% of the time and be graduated into the fourth density of love and understanding. However, the adept may activate all seven of the energy centers. So the chakra system, or energy body, is what animates our bodies and creates what is called the natural self.

Now Carla began this chapter with the question: “Is there an unnatural self?” I think that the answer to that question is that there is no unnatural self to begin the incarnational process. Each incarnation offers us the opportunity to travel further along this path, and so much of that path is concerned with how we utilize our spiritual beliefs in pursuing the outer work of living in the material world. Ideally, we will be able to use our spiritual practices as the foundation of our incarnational experience of living in the outer world and eventually becoming Players on the Enhanced Gameboard of life. Q’uo spoke to this balance of inner and outer work:

The model that we give this instrument is the model of an entity who works upon two levels. On the outer level the seeker who wishes to become more itself deals with the environment about it, attempting to place itself more and more in an environment that it finds conducive to the giving of its gifts and the learning of its lessons and the keeping of its promises in relationships and ethical considerations, and in all those matters of personal honor and duty. There is a valid benefit gained by the seeker as it simplifies and regularizes its environment in such a way as to find fruitfulness of self in all of those ways that entities think of being fruitful in avocations and vocations. There is a legitimate outer work that is helpful to doing, and we would not say that one who wishes to move more into the heart of oneself should forgo working on the discipline of the personality, the purification of emotion, and the development of the magical personality. These are just and helpful uses of the mind, of the attention, and of time. Q’uo, May 23, 1999.

When I was a child my mother and father both worked in a grocery store. Dad was the manager and mom kept the books and also stocked the shelves and ran the cash register. The store was one of a chain of grocery stores in Nebraska which were named “Jack & Jill Grocery Stores.” The home office of this chain was located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and was known as the Nash-Finch Company.

When I was thirteen years old I got a Social Security Card and began working in the store as well. As the years went by I came to know the hierarchy of supervisors of the various departments on the state level as well as the higher ups from the home office in Minneapolis. I worked in the produce department and did a good job, got good grades in high school, and it soon became expected that I would go to college and major in Business Administration so that I could then join the Nash-Finch Company as a supervisor in the produce section and begin my climb up the company ladder.

I was a late-bloomer as far as being a spiritual seeker of truth, so this all sounded good to me until I finally had earned my Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration and Economics. At that point, in 1969, I had become part of the hippie revolution and decided that spending my life earning money in the workaday world just to have all of the amenities of comfort and acceptance felt like a most unnatural way to use my time and energies.

It was at that point that I began to follow an alternative trail that began with going back to college to get a major in Sociology, then veer off that course into the National Teacher Corps Program, as I mentioned in the introduction to this book. Being in Teacher Corps eventually gave me the opportunity to attend the Adventure Trails Survival School, learn Brain Self-Control Therapy and become a conscious seeker of truth. It was there that I was able to activate my indigo-ray energy center which enhanced my spiritual journey and inspired me to move to the woods of central Kentucky and start my own school to teach Brain Self-Control Therapy. In essence, I was transformed from being what felt very unnatural to me—the result of my own enculturation—to a path of seeking which felt like the most appropriate and natural thing in the world for me to do. All along this path of maturation I moved ever closer to seeing service to others as the way that I wanted to live my life. This felt like my natural self in action as I had become a conscious spiritual seeker. So our energy body and natural self are inseparable and are the qualities that will allow us to embark on this life of service to others. Our natural self is that of a conscious spiritual seeker of truth, a Player on the Enhanced Gameboard of Life.

This morning Jessie and I cleaned all of the windows in the kitchen, the area behind the kitchen, and in the living room in preparation for the Homecoming Gathering that will be underway four weeks from now. And considering all of the transplanting of flowers that we got done yesterday, it has been a very productive weekend. It was great to have Jessie’s help. I also enjoyed being on an interview with her where we talked about the Ra contact and the Law of One. You can find it by going to YouTube and searching for Skywatchers 434.

From A Book of Days, channeled by Carla L. Rueckert:

April 30

With The Eyes Of Love

I am the spirit of Him who cleaved the way of truth, Jesus the Christ. I greet you in the full consciousness of love, the spiritual principle which Jesus the Christ lived.

This entity saw all things with eyes of love. And we await each heart that calls to us that we may be, for each, the eyes of love. For as you look upon your day, if it is seen with the eyes of love, it is a perfect day in every way. The tasks put before you to do are those which will be helpful to others or will teach patience and understanding. Those people whom you will meet will feed you with their unique loveliness or will challenge you to find the Christ within the distortions of your mundane world.

And so all things are either for joyous and enhanced living or for serious and persistent study to know the mind of Christ, to see with the eyes of Christ.

Call upon the spirit of love. It was for this reason that this principle was invoked in a personal sense for each and every consciousness within the creation. We have great love for each and await each call with a happy heart.

We leave you in the peace which cleaves through falsity, that active peace which is love, now and forever. Amen.

I said the prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight:

We come in the name of love and open our hearts, minds, and souls to send love, light, and healing energy to Mother Earth as she brings forth a new Earth in the fourth density. We ask that the infinite love, light and healing energy of the One Infinite Creator heal the hearts of all souls in pain on Earth tonight. May all souls on Earth feel our love, light, and healing energy in their hearts, their minds, and their souls. Amen.