A man goes up a mountain.............

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A man climbs a mountain and stays there alone for years meditating and praying. His desire is only to know the bliss of union with God. Is this STS or STO?

Another man climbs another mountain and stays there alone for years praying and meditating. His desire is to learn to levitate, to walk on water, and to transport objects through telekinesis. Is this STS or STO?

Another man climbs a third mountain and stays there alone for years meditating and praying. His desire is to change the world so that the air and oceans are clean, the people are all at peace, and there is plenty for all. Is this STS or STO?

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.

Questioner: Then you say that this effect of disassociation on the service-to-others adept is a stumbling block or slowing process in reaching that goal to which he aspires? Is this correct?

Ra: I am Ra. This is incorrect. This disassociation from the miasma of illusion and misrepresentation of each and every distortion is a quite necessary portion of an adept’s path. It may be seen by others to be unfortunate.