The Tools of Distraction and Sleep

[Plenum]

in various places in the Ra material, there are hints that just about the worst thing you can do if you want to evolve spiritually is to not pay attention to what is going on in your life, ie not paying attention to catalyst and feedback from life.

and the best way to ignore catalyst is to distract oneself and be 'asleep'. And that asleep might be quite literal (the dulling of consciousness, so as to 'not think', not in the sense of intelligence, but in the sense of thinking about deeper matters).

this is Ra on the issue of tv (which might naturally extend to computing, gaming, smartphones today):

"Without ignoring the green-ray attempts of many to communicate via this medium such information, truth, and beauty as may be helpful, we must suggest that the sum effect of this gadget is that of distraction and sleep."

this is Ra on modern medicine, and using chemicals (pharmocology) to dull the feedback from the body (suppress catalyst of the body):

"In observing the allopathic concept of the body complex as the machine we may note the symptomology of a societal complex seemingly dedicated to the most intransigent desire for the distortions of distraction, anonymity, and sleep. This is the result rather than the cause of societal thinking upon your plane. In turn this mechanical concept of the body complex has created the continuing proliferation of distortions towards what you would call ill-health due to the strong chemicals used to control and hide bodily distortions."

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and this is Ra speaking on the topic of the unmanifested self (the self when alone, in your room, in your car driving, not socialising) interacting with various gadgets. For the most part, this 'isolation' and playing with 'toys' weakens orange and yellow ray activity, from what I read out of this passage, although it can have positive effects via the exploration of certain 'concepts'.

34.12 Questioner: I thought that that was correct, but I wasn’t sure. Can you give me the same type of information that we have been getting here with respect to the unmanifested self interacting between self and gadgets, toys, etc.— inventions?

Ra: I am Ra. In this particular instance we again concentrate for the most part in the orange and in the yellow energy centers. In a negative sense many of the gadgets among your peoples, that is what you call your communication devices and other distractions such as the less competitive games, may be seen to have the distortion of keeping the mind/body/spirit complex unactivated so that yellow- and orange-ray activity is much weakened thus carefully decreasing the possibility of eventual green-ray activation.

Others of your gadgets may be seen to be tools whereby the entity explores the capabilities of its physical or mental complexes and in some few cases, the spiritual complex, thus activating the orange ray in what you call your team sports and in other gadgets such as your modes of transport. These may be seen to be ways of investigating the feelings of power; more especially, power over others or a group power over another group of other-selves.

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so yeah, say no to distraction and sleep! lol

although *some* distraction and sleep can always be pleasant ... when done in a 'knowing' fashion.

but paying attention to one's life (and feedback and catalyst) is so so vital. Even if we stuff up, make grand mistakes, so long as we stay present with things (non-distracted) we can continue to learn and grow fully.

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some of my 'tools of distraction' (from the past):

* addiction to rss reader (google reader, now pleasantly defunct). Filled my mind with 'useless information', 'news', just 'data'; non-polarising inputs. Distraction in the fullest sense.

* addiction to fitness and running; because it made me 'feel good' and it was 'healthy' for me. Started in high school as a twice-weekly sport practice, and I turned it into a personal habit. Exercise is useful, but I didn't use it that way. It was a form of orange ray personal expression.

* my personal use of gaming to 'drop out of world and not deal with it' and to level and min-max my rpg characters. In the end it was all stats, and erased as quickly as deleting a save game file.

but yeah, I used many tools to distract myself and not fully connect with my life experience and other-selves. I've slowly become aware of those 'temptations' if you will, and am much better at staying 'present' these days.

but yes, awareness of why and what you do is so important to being able to process and recognise catalyst.

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thanks for reading

ps it should also be noted what once you become 'aware' enough, you can use almost any tool/experience as catalytic; it becomes like the raindrop on a leaf that awakens a monk to full knowledge. The connection between cause and effect becomes much more tenuous at that stage.