Session 001

[Bring4th_Austin]

Therefore, we offer the question back to you to state that indeed it is the only activity worth doing: to learn/teach or teach/learn.

Hmm now that I read the entire passage with more context a few more times, I'm wondering if this was a personal message to them rather than something to be applied to everyone. It sounds as if their entire reason for incarnating was to do this channeling. This teach/learn and learn/teach activity was their sole purpose in life.

I think they are essentially saying that the purest way to learn/teach or teach/learn is by example. To be yourself is to teach others how to be. Our unique version of infinity needs to be expressed as this is what is lacking on our planet. Fearless expression is the go to service!

IMO, almost every activity can fall into the category of learning or teaching - including the ones you've mentioned. I'll explain how i think that healing & meditating fall into those categories upon request.

Also, how does one learn what will happen in the next moment of their life? By simply existing. So, by simply existing we are engaging in the only activity worth doing, the way I see it.

Or maybe I'm confused about what learn/teach / teach/learn means...

I think meditation falls under teach/learning. Maybe healing too (the healer only offers themselves as catalyst; the healee must recognize and accept this new way of being into themselves; learning/being taught.

I think learn/teaching and teach/learning are analogous to expansion of thought. I think Ra is encouraging everyone to be more inclusive with themselves.

There are no activities that do not involve learn/teaching or teach/learning so all the examples you could conceivably provide would, by necessity, be some example of those.

Your very existence is an example that other souls will use to further their understanding of the one infinite creator. Just as you can't not serve the creator, you can't not teach/learn or learn/teach.

I found the various interpretations of this statement particularly interesting. It's another one where I can agree with all of them in some way. However, I think the interpretation that all activities are essentially teach/learning is a bit too broad for this context. If there is nothing that falls outside of the realm of teach/learning, what is the point of the statement? They might as well say "it is the only activity worth doing: anything and everything." They are speaking specifically about teaching and learning here. Although I definitely agree with the idea that healing could be a form of teach/learning.

I think Jeremy has a good point given the context. I made the grave error of plucking a quote out of its context when the following sentences offer some more insight into what Ra is saying: "To serve one is to serve all. Therefore, we offer the question back to you to state that indeed it is the only activity worth doing: to learn/teach or teach/learn. There is nothing else which is of aid in demonstrating the original thought except your very being, and the distortions that come from the unexplained, inarticulate, or mystery-clad being are many. Thus, to attempt to discern and weave your way through as many group mind/body/spirit distortions as possible among your peoples in the course of your teaching is a very good effort to make"

Ra seems to be speaking specifically about Don in the following sentences, so it may be a message meant for him and/or the group in the context of their mission. But the message is applicable in a broader sense though, given the sentence - "There is nothing else which is of aid in demonstrating the original thought except your very being, and the distortions that come from the unexplained, inarticulate, or mystery-clad being are many."

Ra seems to be making a correlation between teach/learning / learn/teaching and "your very being." But, what is the "nothing else which is of aid"? This again seems to imply that there are activities which fall outside of this realm, but perhaps I am interpreting learn/teaching too narrowly, even if it isn't as broad as everything.