(11-14-2012, 04:19 PM)cre8r_joe Wrote: I know I have free will to choose my own perception of my own experience.

(11-14-2012, 04:19 PM)cre8r_joe Wrote: "you create your own reality" is outside the path of "service to others"

(11-14-2012, 04:19 PM)cre8r_joe Wrote: ...No doubt, these ideas are centered on me and my personal choices throughout my life.
Self-centered?
Yep....those concepts must surely fall into the "service to self" category...

http://www.llresearch.org/transcripts/issues/2007/2007_0211.aspx Q'uo Wrote:...In this regard we would suggest that the skillful choice is always to work on the self without regard for working with other entities. Service to others, working upon what you perceive needs to be done in the world, begins and ends within yourself. Until the point at which you are asked specific questions that you may answer in what you hope is a spiritually helpful manner, the work you do on yourself is sufficient and more than adequate in terms of how you may affect the consciousness of planet Earth. Change yourself and you change the world. That is how powerful you really are...

Quote:80.11 Questioner: Could I say, then, that implicit in the process of becoming adept is the seeming polarization towards service to self because the adept becomes disassociated with many of his kind?

Ra: I am Ra. This is likely to occur. The apparent happening is disassociation whether the truth is service to self and thus true disassociation from other-selves or service to others and thus true association with the heart of all other-selves and disassociation only from the illusory husks which prevent the adept from correctly perceiving the self and other-self as one.

http://www.llresearch.org/transcripts/issues/1995/1995_0924.aspx Q'uo Wrote:...The focus upon the self in the means of balancing distortions and looking for ways to understand more of what is occurring within the self is an activity that may seem to some to be full of pride and ego, yet we would suggest that such a concentration of an entity’s attention upon its own self in that manner is a means by which a seeker grows, for it needs to be aware of the activity of intellect, of emotion, and of the spirit that moves within one’s own being. Yet that information is used only to temper the steel, shall we say, the character of the entity, and not to impose this character upon another...

http://www.llresearch.org/transcripts/issues/2001/2001_0204.aspx Q'uo Wrote:...Many times, it seems to each, that there is no way that one person can be of service, that one person’s light can make a difference. However, this instrument is fond of saying that in a dark place the light of one candle can be seen for quite a distance. Metaphysically, this is far more true even than the physical truth of candles and sight. Each of you makes a significant difference to the lightening of the planet as well as to the lightening of your soul. For when each of you does one, each of you is doing the other. To work on the self is to work on the world. Indeed, to work on the self is the most direct and effective way to work on the outer world in a metaphysical sense...

Quote:99.8 ...The right-hand and left-hand transformations of the mind may be seen to differ by the attitude of the conscious mind towards its own resources as well as the resources of other-selves...

(11-14-2012, 04:19 PM)cre8r_joe Wrote: Hi,
I'm new to the Law of One, and this is my very first post.

I just started reading the Ra material a few months ago, and at first glance, it seemed to mesh with my general understanding of various "new age" topics...tarot, aliens, pyramids and all. But it wasn't long before I knew it was much more than that!
Deeper on a level that is just outside my ability to put into words, but somehow resonates with a certain feeling of understanding.

So, as I read through the material, questions and challenges naturally arise, especially involving Service to Self/Service to Others.

For example, I believe the basic principle that I create my own reality through my thoughts, intentions, and emotional state.
I know I have free will to choose my own perception of my own experience.
No doubt, these ideas are centered on me and my personal choices throughout my life.
Self-centered?
Yep....those concepts must surely fall into the "service to self" category.

Yet, if I look deeper into my true intent for seeking personal well-being, I can balance (rationalize?) those concepts as a "service to others" by acknowledging the fact that I am free to accept and appreciate my interpersonal relationships as husband, father, brother, son, employee, humanitarian, etc.

If anyone reading this has had the same thoughts or conflicts with the general idea that "you create your own reality" is outside the path of "service to others", I'd love to read your response!

Thanks for reading!