Red Ray, and attitudes towards change, experience

[Plenum]

this is what Ra offers on the red ray center:

50.2 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.

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.

in my own understanding of the red ray center, it is best encapsulated by one's attitudes towards change and openness to a wide variety of experiences.

A vibrant red-ray is quite adaptive and receptive to new experiences; a more rigid one is fixed on habit and not moving outside of one's comfort zone.

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I have often wondered about my own attitudes towards change, and how there was quite some resistance to it. Humans are creatures by habit, so it is no surprise that we don't like to be shaken out of our routines. But my own attitudes went a bit beyond that, and even approached a 'fear of change'.

why was that?

over the last few days, I've stumbled into doing some red-ray work, quite by accident. It started off with me with the strong intention of opening up to the most painful experiences in my life, and willing to re-experience those emotional spaces, and both re-live (fully) and re-integrate them (attempt to).

during one of my emotional blabberings I went back to the memory of a 6 year old, and being in the middle seat of a car (a people mover car), eating chocolate (it was Toblerone, remember it as clear as if it was on the desk in front of me!), and my family had just been at a funeral earlier that day. My favourite aunt at the time had died in a freak car accident. But it was too painful for me to accept at the time. I had sort of returned to my 'body' at that memory; everything else before then (the whole funeral, standing at the grave) was sort of dissociated and in a fugue state. I can remember being at the gravestone, and being handed wads of fake chinese money to throw into big burning barrels, to send the dead on their way with ethereal riches for the afterlife. But it was truly dissociated, I didn't want to 'feel' or acknowledge the loss.

this memory has been familiar to me before, but this time I went a bit deeper in the analysis and the feeling and the flow of 'thoughts' that were repeating in the mind of that 6 year old.

I could see the mental pattern being formed almost step by step in the mind of that child.

CHANGE = DEATH = LOSS OF LOVE

CHANGE = DEATH = LOSS OF LOVE

CHANGE = DEATH = LOSS OF LOVE

almost repeating over and over again, creating an attitude and belief pattern.

with that belief pattern in place, the only logical thing to do is to avoid change; because change equalled death which resulted in a loss of love.

and how old am I?

and yeah, I'm only figuring this out now?

yeah ... jeez

oh well, at least when I get to the other side I can say that I finally unblocked that stubborn red ray

cheers all; and please don't take as long as I did to figure out my root issues. Its totally unnecessary lol

[Melissa]

Gar, I think it's wonderful you were able to make that connection, as it is indeed a painful process.
My family has taught me a lot about the consequences of resistance to change, which unfortunately resulted either in severe physical illnessnes or in the most extreme situations even 'death'. I always thought I needed an external change (job/moving) every 4/5 years, because I would always become restless. But I realize now that by that time I had repressed so much, well everything, that it became impossible to stay around because the thought of actually speaking about it created the same mental pattern as you've described; change = (ego) death = loss of love. It's a bit odd, but I'm almost excited to retrace these old patterns/beliefs these days because aside from that it's painful sometimes, it just creates so much insights and it's quite liberating.


Cheers to change! Or, change is inevitable, suffering optional.

[reeay]

I think dissociation is important here with red ray blockage. When something happens, it can knock people off of the ground in some emotionally suspended state that ranges from the extreme of being emotionally overtaken or being so cut off to point of numbness. Like there is no sense of time or no streaming of thoughts but seems like a rather empty hole. This is when people say, just snap out of it! And you just stare at them blankly or act in ways that is contrary to usual ways and not age appropriate behaviors (regression).

I call it psychological survival bc without cutting off internal experience at some point, it's likely to bring about temporary psychosis. Personally, the grief I experienced and red ray blockage lead me to an opportunity to accept catalyst and seek healing... And experience what many of my clients go thru.. Very profound catalyst bc once this is more balanced it seems to increase the will to climb up the blockage ladder, up the energy centers. Perhaps it's different for people but I saw this happen with red ray blocked clients too.

[Unbound]

What do you think of Ra saying the red ray, like the violet ray, is fixed?

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.

This ray may be understood to be the basic strengthening ray for each density.

Basically I am trying to figure out how a blockage occurs in a fixed ray.

[Adonai One]

Red-ray, in my perception, is overall will to be concious. It is recripocal of violet-ray in the sense it serves as the energetic foundation of all else. It is the keystone of conciousness.

Something to consider: The sixth-density negative entity has all of its centers at negative totality as all-absorpent vortexes. The only center that remains radiant is the red-ray which its violet-ray mirrors dimly with the rest of the being shrouded in the thickest darkness.

This type of being hates everything absolutely except its will to be aware. That it certainly loves.

[Rake]

I see red ray as an anchor where as violet ray would be the crows nest. Im not sure why my brain is working with nautical symbolism tonight hahaa =/

[Unbound]

AdonaiOne, that is true if the entity has used red ray as the gateway to intelligent infinity, although any center may be used as such. I do not believe either positive or negative configurations of balances between the energy centers can be generalized by one schematic, personally.

Plenum, do you feel that change and the environment are directly related? Survival and the dynamic of fundamental interaction with the external field seem to suggest red ray is that foundation which seats us in the world of "external" experience, reciprocating the violet ray which seats us in the "internal" or unified experience.

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. The next energy complex, which may be blocked is the emotional, or personal complex, also known as the orange-ray complex. This blockage will often demonstrate itself as personal eccentricities or distortions with regard to self-conscious understanding or acceptance of self.

In this quote Ra does not express that the red ray becomes blocked, as they express with the other central centers, however, acceptance and understanding of the energy is fundamental and of course this is the first primary ray.

I think this as related to change and the turning of life and death is an apt analogy because these things are fundamentals of the Matrix. The rays, I believe, also correspond to the 7 Principles or concepts which spawn the Archetypes through their assumption by the mind/body/spirit complex totality. That is, I feel the red ray also refers to the vital body or body of ki/qi/prana organized by meridians or nadis, and is that matrix in its most basic elemental form of pure, raw energy but which is infinitely organized in to patterns by the vesseling of red within violet within red.

I feel it is this vertical polarization between violet and red which causes the motions that arise as the inner and outer energetic spirals throughout the being totality. Therefore I believe that the red ray is most primarily blocked first and foremost by the closing or blockage of the orange ray. I think this is what actually happens in most cases as the relationship between the red and orange ray is as such of that pertaining to the individual emerging within the collective field of experience or environment.

Therefrom arises a self perception of relation and placement within and relative to this environment and all of its denizens. It is then in the yellow ray that this individual self is "seated", and is thus the next primary ray and is the first level built upon the foundation.

We become blocked emotionally and mentally in the orange and by proxy the red ray because of our inability to solidify our individual selves as an acknowledged and accepted part of the collective relative reality. This begins first with survival and basic needs for the body/mind which is the foundation of the vehicle which is the expression of the experience of the One knowing itself. I believe this also includes social survival in its spectrum and therefrom arise the many arrays of concerns which arise in the self from a young age by the experiences being had.

Key to remember in working with blockages is that they are energy and electrical charges which are caught in a closed loop within your system. This is "attachment". This means that a higher or lower charge circulation or field or motion is "caught" within your system, usually held there by some mental or emotional structure, although there are the occasional blockages tied to the soul level. This is like a clog in a pipe where the waters of life are stopped.

To dissolve or move or smooth out these blockages is the purpose of many, if not all, energy/consciousness-based healing modality, as well as other paths of working that are not directly described as healing. This is "balancing" which is an equilibrium between aspects of the energetic self.

Questioner: 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. 

When we have a release, which is what we called the final "relaxation" of such a tension caught in the energy field when all is forgiven and thanks can be given ("Make gratitude your attitude!", as my teacher would say aha), there can then be many experiences which occur on all levels of the self as energy begins to fill and activate the centers of consciousness which pertain to the many layers of experience. Therefrom arise many of the experiences of extreme emotional release, mental breakdown and sudden reconstruction, and at times visions, hallucinations or other phenomenal changes of consciousness and self-relation or other self relation.

I have learned over time that to be able to release is something that can become easier or harder over time. It becomes easier if you spend time readying yourself for release, but becomes harder the more you resist it and hold on to your energy attachments.

The negative mode of functioning is as such as to attempt to use these blockages to gain energy to power the self through emotional and mental charge. They believe, I feel, that energy needs to be contained and compressed in order to be use as a focused, potentiated force of will. While this is true and certainly a valid path, I believe that the positive path is capable of just as much raw energy as the negative, just using a different mechanism.

I see it as a waterfall with the upper river being the divine, unified One, the highest flow, and the lower river being the lowest, most planetary vibrations. I see myself as the waterfall with the divine flowing in to the top and flowing out to the bottom, and thus I give and receive in equal proportions.

The process of balancing is the waterfall eating away and smoothing the rock face causing the size and speed of the waterfall to increase over and over. The methods of balancing or acceleration of growth offered through esoteric or spiritual practices are like applying magic to the waterfall. In a way you can reduce the friction more and more and even out the flow paths as though causing the rocks to become more and more hydrophobic. The speed and strength of this river increase in ways normally only possible in thousands or millions of years.

The work of the alchemist is to "do in a moment what takes millions of years naturally". The work of the alchemist is conscious evolution, both its study and its practice. I would say the entire practice and process that is taught in the Ra Material is in fact a system of soul alchemy.

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Oh, I would mention there is a key in "being One", in that to be free of blockages is to have your entire system as one, single electrical energetic flow with all energy within it moving as one.

[Melissa]

That was a great, insightful read Tanner. Thank you

[Rake]

The work of the alchemist is to "do in a moment what takes millions of years naturally". The work of the alchemist is conscious evolution, both its study and its practice. I would say the entire practice and process that is taught in the Ra Material is in fact a system of soul alchemy.

Transmutation b******! I wouldn't say necessarily that the work of the alchemist was conscious evolution. I would suggest it was one facet of the alchemist trying to understand the whole self. Which of course consciousness and the individuals evolution is a part of. (I wasn't trying to be picky my friend )

[Unbound]

I describe that as the work of the alchemist, but the alchemist also does many things which I would more consider play. It is true that the practices of alchemy span deep in to pure philosophy as well.

[spero]

Its interesting tanner that you bring up the whole red and violet centers being relatively fixed and that plenum brought up how a vibrant red ray would be adaptive and allow for change whilst a blockage would see the opposite. Its probably then not a coincidence that red and violet form the so called red/violet armor which protects the inner centers from change. I always thought of this armor as protection from external manipulation but I can imagine how such a system could also be used internally to lock our centers in place and manifest as an unwillingness to seek out change and be receptive to new experiences.

[Unbound]

I see it as being like a cell membrane, it can be semi-permeable, or totally sealed off, but when sealed nothing gets in, but neither does anything get out.

[Plenum]

Plenum, do you feel that change and the environment are directly related?

Survival and the dynamic of fundamental interaction with the external field seem to suggest red ray is that foundation which seats us in the world of "external" experience, reciprocating the violet ray which seats us in the "internal" or unified experience.

yes, I think you are spot on there Tanner.

change ... and open-ness to the stimuli of the environment. (potential experience).

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I think an example of an extreme blocked red ray would be the case of depression ... where 'nothing is worth doing' (ie why bother to experience and change?) and experiences and life have no meaning. Experiences are not desired, and one 'blocks' the flow of life into the self at the most primal entry point - the base chakra.

regards the red and violet as being relatively fixed ... my reading of how Ra used those terms is that those chakras are not subject to the crystallisation process that the other energy centres undergo.

ie, they are more like pipes or conduits to the external (red) and internal/spiritual (violet) worlds that Tanner made reference to. They can be open and flowing ... or blocked and constipated, but they are not subject to 'development' like the inner 5 rays are. One can see the inner 5 centres as how we process (crystallise) experience, and the outer 2 as being inflow centres.