A proposal

[Aion]

I have to agree with Jade that in my recent return to the forum there seems to be a lot of purposely distorted views of the material, which is quite obvious to tell because there is not even an attempt to use www.lawofone.info and search for the relevant passages; instead there seems more of the desire to just post stream of consciousness thoughts without significant care for what the material says on the subject.

Is it a prerequisite to follow the material and refer to passages of it? I have read the first 2 books. I bought the other 3 but have not read them yet. I do not scour the website and read and reread like a Christian does the bible. I don't need to keep referring to someone else's words or any channeled material to make up my mind about things or to discuss topics. I resonate with the Ra Material. I don't resonate with Q'uo for the most part. Does that make me a bad member?

If all the members here just revolved around one doctrine, and took Ra's words as the ultimate truth, then what?

If I, not being a follower, even of the Law of One or Ra or any other philosophy, do not really belong in this place because members should pivot around one philosophy or doctrine, then so be it. I thought it was enough to be interested in the material. I wasn't aware one had to take it as dogma.

Yeah, I think it's important to realize the whole thing is a transcription of a conversation. It wasn't 'written' in the usual sense, but is more like sitting in on a discussion. I find the way Ra words things to be beautiful at times and relevant, but I also find the philosophy severely wanting in details and that in general pretty much everyone 'fills in the gaps' in their own way.

The idea of taking anybody's words as truth is somewhat bizarre to me, since the truth is so far beyond language in and of itself. At best we are seeing rough approximation of realities that we can imagine and to some degree experience, but I don't find the language of the material extensive enough at all for the depth of exploration. At least it is a great advertisement. Come check out all these layers of the mind! See the unity in all things! Balance, create, enjoy!

That being said, there is scant discussion on the system of Tarot that is expressed in the material and I admit I haven't even studied it that much, so there is likely more food for thought in there, but again, the general 'style' of the teaching seems to be 'come to your own conclusions'. Thus, outside of the proclamation of Unity and the Law of One itself I find the value in the material in 'Ra's particularly unique prose which sometimes captures large ideas in small poetic snippets. There is no doubt there is genius there, but I think there is also a lot of vagueness and a certain tight-lippedness.