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Blocking of the South Pole - Plenum - 06-20-2013
this is the quote:
Quote:50.2
What is this opportunity but survival? This is the root possibility of response and may be found to be characteristic of the basic functions of both mind and body.
You will find this instinct the strongest, and once this is balanced much is open to the seeker.
The south pole then ceases blocking the experiential data and higher energy centers of mind and body become availed of the opportunity to use the experience drawn to it.
and Ra identifies the 'South Pole' as being placed in the red-ray centre earlier in the passage:
"The only specific part of this correctness is that the red-ray or foundation energy center, being the lowest or root energy center of the physical vehicle, will have the first opportunity to react to any experience. In this way only, you may see a physical locus of the south pole being identified with the root energy center. In every facet of mind and body the root or foundation will be given the opportunity to function first."
there is a great tendency when faced with unwelcome or undesired catalyst to find it 'threatening' and find ways to 'block it' or exclude it from one's presence. There are many ways of doing this. The most obvious is to remove oneself physically from the proximity of the catalyst (running away, rage quit, etc).
however, the more balanced response is to see all catalyst as an offering, an opportunity, and to turn the catalytic spotlight back onto the self, rather than holding the projection onto the 'other'.
this is not the easiest thing to do ... as 'threats' even if imagined, seem most real to the self, and one is given an almost automatic reflex response to 'fight back' against the perceived threat; ie to deny it and block it off.
red-ray blockages are pretty rampant in our particular 3d society because the catalyst is so overwhelming, and not many people have given themselves the training to work with catalyst effectively. The tools of psychology and the clues given in Ra offer much in the way of diagnosing and working with this 'abundance' of catalyst.
and finally, this is what Ra offers on red-ray, and the respect that is it's due:
Quote:39.10 Firstly, the basic energy of so-called red ray. This ray may be understood to be the basic strengthening ray for each density. It shall never be condescended to as less important or productive of spiritual evolution, for it is the foundation ray.
hats off to red!! eat an apple or a tomato lol
plenum
RE: Blocking of the South Pole - Jerome - 06-20-2013
Plenum, great post, fine insight there. I have muddy thinking on the red ray, so please bear with me.
You've shown that the energy center can be blocked and that it's the fundamental energy center. Can you or anyone help me with this nugget from session 34?
Don is asking general questions about how day to day life or outstanding circumstances can be potentially useful for ray activation and Ra slips up and calls the 4th the 3rd. Don catches it and asks:
You just used the term third ray in that statement. Was that the term you meant to use?
Ra: I am Ra. We intended the green ray. Our difficulty lies in our perception of red ray and violet ray as fixed; thus the inner rays are those which are varying and are to be observed as those indications of seniority in the attempts to form an harvest.
Is Ra talking about polarization of rays when using the term fixed? So the red is fixed in energetic orientation (survival) but can be partially blocked or constricted by preincarnative restrictions and experiential catalyst?
One other side question from a major piece about balancing from Ra in session 15:
How does an individual go about balancing himself? What is the first step?
Ra: I am Ra. The steps are only one; that is, an understanding of the energy centers which make up the mind/body/spirit complex. This understanding may be briefly summarized as follows. The first balancing is of the Malkuth, or Earth, vibratory energy complex, called the red-ray complex. An understanding and acceptance of this energy is fundamental.
Malkuth? Is this the Confederation's name for Earth?
RE: Blocking of the South Pole - BrownEye - 06-20-2013
(06-20-2013, 07:23 PM)plenum Wrote: there is a great tendency when faced with unwelcome or undesired catalyst to find it 'threatening' and find ways to 'block it' or exclude it from one's presence. There are many ways of doing this. The most obvious is to remove oneself physically from the proximity of the catalyst (running away, rage quit, etc).
Choosing to move away from, or avoid some things, does not in itself cause blockage. Most often we invite consequences that we then refuse. It can be as simple as a female wearing too skimpy an outfit in the wrong area of town, or driving too fast with very worn tires. In either circumstance it is possible to see self as victim. It is also easy to say "I did this to myself". One causes the blocking, one is more acceptable.
RE: Blocking of the South Pole - Plenum - 06-20-2013
Hiya Jerome! I'll try and offer my thoughts as to your queries
(06-20-2013, 08:47 PM)Jerome Wrote: Ra: I am Ra. The steps are only one; that is, an understanding of the energy centers which make up the mind/body/spirit complex. This understanding may be briefly summarized as follows. The first balancing is of the Malkuth, or Earth, vibratory energy complex, called the red-ray complex. An understanding and acceptance of this energy is fundamental.
Malkuth? Is this the Confederation's name for Earth?
I thought Malkuth was a word from the kaballah (tree of life)? although I am not sure why they used that word there. The Malkuth is the 'bottom node' in the tree of life, so I suppose it is synonymous with red ray in some way. But its not a passage I have any personal insight on.
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(06-20-2013, 08:47 PM)Jerome Wrote: Ra: I am Ra. We intended the green ray. Our difficulty lies in our perception of red ray and violet ray as fixed; thus the inner rays are those which are varying and are to be observed as those indications of seniority in the attempts to form an harvest.
Is Ra talking about polarization of rays when using the term fixed? So the red is fixed in energetic orientation (survival) but can be partially blocked or constricted by preincarnative restrictions and experiential catalyst?
umm, I am guessing so (your assessment). My own tentative view is that the inner rays (2 through 6) can be developed, cultivated and personalised in some way; whereas violet ray is a summary of all things gone before and cannot be directly affected (its like adding all the numbers in maths class, 2+7+8 equals what your maths teacher asks, and the answer is the 'violet ray'; you can affect the final sum by changing the numbers you add together, but the 'sum is the sum').
as for red ray being 'fixed' its almost like the mouth of a pipe. Say a water pipe. The pipe is fixed in terms of the masimum amoun of water that can ever go in (the 'light of the Creator') but it can be blocked to various degrees. But the red ray itself is not developed or widened by practice; it is just made as clear as possible.
'72.17 The energies of life itself, being the One Infinite Creator, flow from the south pole of the body seen in its magnetic form. Thus only the Creator may, through the feet, enter the energy shell of the body to any effect.'
that's just my tentative thoughts at the moment, as I am still aquainting myself with energy mechanics and the chakras; having spent the bulk of my pursuit and seekings in the areas of the mind and the archetypal
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@BrownEye, yep, very good elaboration on that!
I might have gone a bit too far in saying the catalyst is synonymous with red ray entry point. That was just my extension and conjecture on what Ra has offered.
RE: Blocking of the South Pole - Jerome - 06-20-2013
Plenum, thanks for the reply. I dig it.
I think I finally understand why Scott Mandelker says the work needs to be done between 2 - 6. The nuance here is so tricky between the terms activate, balance, polarize, and block/unblock.
To stay with your pipe analogy (which I find fitting), to balance an entry point that has a fixed limit... this is the balancing of the mind, body, and spirit portions of the red ray with each other?
So the maximum potential of the balanced red ray is fixed and no work can be done to increase this capacity, since it seems to be a dyad of sorts with the violet... buuut this energy center must be balanced first, which would suggest internally among it's three main components of m/b/s. This would then allow the uppermost fixed potential to actualize, offering the rest of the mind/body/spirit complex the most possible energy to work with?
So you could have two fully balanced and activated entities with different red ray maximum potentials.
Is any of this malarky or am I coming closer to understanding?
RE: Blocking of the South Pole - Spaced - 06-21-2013
I'd like to give my ideas on this, and this is mostly off the top of my head so take it or leave it
I see the red-ray energy as being the raw life giving energy of the planet earth and so from where we stand, quite fixed. Violet ray energy is the energy of your higher self; it is eternal and fixed as well (Ra likens it to a roadmap that contains the entirety of the self). However, since we exist in a state of becoming we do not have a complete roadmap, we are still in exploration mode. In order to complete our map (or at least gather up enough violet ray energy to be eligible for harvest) we need to have experiences, which require catalyst which we draw into our bodies in the form of red ray energy.
I find Plenum's pipe analogy useful, if you have an open and unobstructed root chakra then it is like a pipeline into the refinery that is your body where it can be worked up the spectrum into the various coloured rays, all of it drawn by the magnetic pull of violet ray energy. Or to put it another way, we borrow red ray energy from the planet and violet draws it into being and gives it form all the colours in between are generated and worked with by us.
RE: Blocking of the South Pole - Plenum - 06-21-2013
(06-20-2013, 10:28 PM)Jerome Wrote: So the maximum potential of the balanced red ray is fixed and no work can be done to increase this capacity, since it seems to be a dyad of sorts with the violet... buuut this energy center must be balanced first, which would suggest internally among it's three main components of m/b/s. This would then allow the uppermost fixed potential to actualize, offering the rest of the mind/body/spirit complex the most possible energy to work with?
So you could have two fully balanced and activated entities with different red ray maximum potentials.
umm, I guess the last point is valid; after all, every entity is unique and has a different balancing point according to Ra.
but it doesn't seem fruitful to make comparisons or to talk about 'maximums' ... the emphasis should be on clearing the centre (red ray) so that all inputs/catalysts are recognised as such, and the 'experiential data' can feed the higher chakras ... after all, the higher chakras (2 to 6) process information and experience, and that is the grist to the mill; the food that feeds the process of evolution.
and it should be noted that you can't just 'clear' an energy centre and be done with it lol. Its a dynamic energetic system that is constantly reflecting the state of the 'mind'; and disturbances in the mind are reflected in the energetic system automatically and constantly.
we have a case of 'instant clearing' for the purposes of healing another:
"75.35 Any entity may at any time instantaneously clear and balance its energy centers. Thus in many cases those normally quite blocked, weakened, and distorted may, through love and strength of will, become healers momentarily."
and then one returns to the 'default' setting of the self; that reflects the accumulated biases and decisions of a lifetime.
The goal here, then, is to change those accumulated biases and decisions to ones closer to acceptance and unity, and away from division and separation. And we have all made those decisions for separation in the past, as we all we know : d
I guess why Ra emphasises that it is helpful to clear the red centre is that by being able to recognise all catalyst/experience as helpful, a greater amount of 'feeding' is made possible in the higher areas. It may be difficult to grind through or work with this catalyst, but it has 'entered' the energetic system (the mind) and is available to do work (gain understandings about the self). If it is blocked at the red centre, it has been discarded and viewed with the eye as "I can't deal with this right now", "I don't want to talk about it", "That is too threatening to go near".
the more catalyst you make available to yourself (allow to pass into the system via red ray) the faster the process of change and balancing that is possible.
a highly blocked red ray will show symptoms of "nothing is worth doing", "nothing is worth trying", "everything is the same, it's boring" etc etc. Its a non-responsiveness to the beaming opportunities of life that beckon at every second. An open red-ray would show itself as high vitality, an excitement for each day from the moment you awake, a 'confidence' (open survival) in life and what it offers. Of course, such an attitude is an accumulation of certain fruits of experience and what your 'life' has been like up until that point. So in the end, it points back to the mind and its attitudes :d
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@Spaced thanks for your thoughts as always. Nicely expressed
RE: Blocking of the South Pole - Jerome - 06-21-2013
Thanks Spaced and Plenum, I really appreciate your help.
Spaced, I think you're on point. It makes sense to see the red's potential as fixed if it comes from the Earth, this is very helpful. Viewing the violet as an attractor seems apt to me also.
Plenum, I agree with your thoughts on clearing. In one of his talks, Mandelker likened this to a path in the woods that is perpetually obscured by leaves and outgrowing plants. One must be clearing this path often, or as he put it, "each moment is a test", which I find deeply true of experience.
However, my thinking is still muddy in parts. The most uncertain part of my thinking is about balancing the red or clearing the red.
15.2 covers balancing instructions. Here's 74.5 and 74.6 on clearing:
I have a question here that I am going to answer and let you correct. I see that the disciplines of the personality feed the indigo-ray energy center and affect the power of the white magician by unblocking the lower energy centers and allowing for a free flow of the upward spiraling light to reach the indigo center. Is this correct?
Ra: I am Ra. No.
Questioner: Would you please correct me?
Ra: I am Ra. The indigo center is indeed most important for the work of the adept. However, it cannot, no matter how crystallized, correct to any extent whatsoever imbalances or blockages in other energy centers. They must needs be cleared seriatim from red upwards.
Is Ra using 'or' here to mean blockages and imbalances are synonyms or that they are separate things?
Do you first balance the red ray by understanding it's three main components of mind, body, and spirit?
Or is this a more complex issue at the beginning involving the present orientation and rotational speeds of the energy centers above it?
Or is it a matter of balancing distortions from the Earth's energy?
If you're still with me, check out this nugget from session 15.(9):
Questioner: Can you tell me a little bit about the definition of the word “balancing” as we are using it?
Ra: I am Ra. Picture, if you will, the One Infinite. You have no picture. Thus, the process begins. Love, creating light, becoming love/light, streams into the planetary sphere according to the electromagnetic web of points or nexi of entrance. These streamings are then available to the individual who, like the planet, is a web of electromagnetic energy fields with points or nexi of entrance.
In a balanced individual each energy center is balanced and functioning brightly and fully. The blockages of your planetary sphere cause some distortion of intelligent energy. The blockages of the mind/body/spirit complex further distort or unbalance this energy. There is one energy. It may be understood as love/light or light/love or intelligent energy.
Here it seems as though balancing red ray is more complex than I first thought, that the planet itself has distortions and we have the opportunity to balance our energy with the Earth...
Your further thoughts? Please anyone jump in if you understand this or have an interesting idea.
RE: Blocking of the South Pole - Ankh - 06-23-2013
Maybe this might be of help:
Ra, 54.27 Wrote:The origin of all energy is the action of free will upon love. The nature of all energy is light. The means of its ingress into the mind/body/spirit complex is duple.
Firstly, there is the inner light which is Polaris of the self, the guiding star. This is the birthright and true nature of all entities. This energy dwells within.
The second point of ingress is the polar opposite of the North Star, shall we say, and may be seen, if you wish to use the physical body as an analog for the magnetic field, as coming through the feet from the earth and through the lower point of the spine. This point of ingress of the universal light energy is undifferentiated until it begins its filtering process through the energy centers. The requirements of each center and the efficiency with which the individual has learned to tap into the inner light determine the nature of the use made by the entity of these in-streamings.
RE: Blocking of the South Pole - zenmaster - 06-23-2013
(06-23-2013, 03:12 AM)Ankh Wrote: Maybe this might be of help:Or rather ambiguous...
Ra, 54.27 Wrote:The origin of all energy is the action of free will upon love. The nature of all energy is light. The means of its ingress into the mind/body/spirit complex is duple.
Firstly, there is the inner light which is Polaris of the self, the guiding star. This is the birthright and true nature of all entities. This energy dwells within.
The second point of ingress is the polar opposite of the North Star, shall we say, and may be seen, if you wish to use the physical body as an analog for the magnetic field, as coming through the feet from the earth and through the lower point of the spine. This point of ingress of the universal light energy is undifferentiated until it begins its filtering process through the energy centers. The requirements of each center and the efficiency with which the individual has learned to tap into the inner light determine the nature of the use made by the entity of these in-streamings.
RE: Blocking of the South Pole - Jerome - 06-24-2013
Thanks for this Ankh. I went back and took a look at the conversation surrounding this question, it's interesting.
Quote:54.26 ▶ Questioner: Can you describe the energy that enters any of these energy centers? Can you describe its path from its origin, its form, and its effect? I don’t know if this is possible, but can you do that?
Ra: I am Ra. This is partially possible.
Here's why the answer is ambiguous - Law of Confusion in operation.
Quote:54.27 ▶ Questioner: Would you please do that?
Ra: The origin of all energy is the action of free will upon love. The nature of all energy is light. The means of its ingress into the mind/body/spirit complex is duple.
Firstly, there is the inner light which is Polaris of the self, the guiding star. This is the birthright and true nature of all entities. This energy dwells within.
The second point of ingress is the polar opposite of the North Star, shall we say, and may be seen, if you wish to use the physical body as an analog for the magnetic field, as coming through the feet from the earth and through the lower point of the spine. This point of ingress of the universal light energy is undifferentiated until it begins its filtering process through the energy centers. The requirements of each center and the efficiency with which the individual has learned to tap into the inner light determine the nature of the use made by the entity of these in-streamings.
Now this next Q/A has a couple nice clues for us.
Quote:54.28 ▶ Questioner: Does experiential catalyst follow the same path? This may be a dumb question.
Ra: I am Ra. This is not a pointless question, for catalyst and the requirements or distortions of the energy centers are two concepts linked as tightly as two strands of rope.
First clue is Ra clearly uses 'or' here to indicate a synonym. Catalyst and requirements are two concepts... Catalyst and distortions are two concepts... Therefore requirements = distortion.
The second clue illuminates some ambiguity in 54.27, "The requirements of each center and the efficiency with which the individual has learned to tap into the inner light determine the nature of the use made by the entity of these in-streamings."
So here it looks like distortions aren't blockages, but perhaps more like harmonic keys used in energy center activation. Don pursues clarification in the next question.
Quote:54.29 ▶ Questioner: Then, you had mentioned in an earlier session that the experiential catalyst was first experienced by the south pole and appraised with its respect to survival, etc. That’s why I asked the question, and I— can you expand on that concept?
Ra: I am Ra. We have addressed the filtering process by which in-coming energies are pulled upwards according to the distortions of each energy center and the strength of will or desire emanating from the awareness of inner light. If we may be more specific, please query with specificity.
Here Ra uses 'distortion' in place of 'requirement' again.
Quote:54.30 ▶ Questioner: I’ll make this statement which may be somewhat distorted and let you correct it. We have, coming through the feet and base of the spine, the total energy that the mind/body/spirit complex will receive in the way of what we call light. Each energy center as it is met filters out and uses a portion of this energy, red through violet. Is this correct?
Ra: I am Ra. This is largely correct. The exceptions are as follows: The energy ingress ends with indigo. The violet ray is a thermometer or indicator of the whole.
Then Don inadvertently cuts Ra off with another question.
Quote:54.31 ▶ Questioner: As this energy is absorbed by the energy centers at some point it is not only absorbed into the being but radiates through the energy center outwardly. I believe this begins with the blue center and, and also occurs with the indigo and violet? Is this correct?
Ra: I am Ra. Firstly, we would state that we had not finished answering the previous query and may thus answer both in part by stating that in the fully activated entity, only that small portion of in-streaming light needed to tune the energy center is used, the great remainder being free to be channeled and attracted upwards.
To answer your second question more fully we may say that it is correct that radiation without the necessity of response begins with blue ray although the green ray, being the great transitional ray, must be given all careful consideration, for until transfers of energy of all types has been experienced and mastered to a great extent, there will be blockages in the blue and indigo radiations.
Again, the violet emanation is, in this context, a resource from which, through indigo, intelligent infinity may be contacted. The radiation thereof will not be violet ray but rather green, blue, or indigo depending upon the nature of the type of intelligence which infinity has brought through into discernible energy.
The green-ray type of radiation in this case is the healing, the blue-ray the communication and inspiration, the indigo that energy of the adept which has its place in faith.
Big clue in the word 'tune'. This suggests that the balancing of the red ray is a harmonic agreement with the Earth's energy and our own. Anyone who's used a tuning fork should be able to visualize this.
Quote:54.32 ▶ Questioner: What if a mind/body/spirit complex feels a feeling in meditation at the indigo center, what is he feeling?
Ra: I am Ra. This will be the last full query of this working.
One who feels this activation is one experiencing in-streamings at that energy center to be used either for the unblocking of this center, for its tuning to match the harmonics of its other energy centers, or to activate the gateway to intelligent infinity.
We cannot be specific for each of these three workings is experienced by the entity which feels this physical complex distortion.
Is there a brief query before we leave this instrument?
I left this last question because it shows how the higher up your energy goes, the more important that red ray tuning is. It feels like we're making progress here. Thoughts?