Hi Traveler,
I have great affection for both LOO and Michael Newton's work, so I can respond.
The Universe we inhabit is vast and complex, and naturally different sources will focus more on different aspects of it. I find these two works complementary and without conflict with each other.
Regarding free will: this can be hard to grasp, but there is only one consciousness in existence. That one consciousness decided to find out what it would be like to have a variety of different experiences, and that this would best be accomplished by forgetting its true identity for a while. But make no mistake: the consciousness you call your own is God's consciousness, enjoying the opportunity to experience fully pretending to be "The Traveler" for a little while - with that experience uncontaminated by memories of being God.
Therefore God creates the experiences he wants to have for himself, and then explores them. He created the video game and now he's playing it. But, to take this metaphor further, it's so immersive that he starts to think that he is actually the video game character and the world of the game is real, and then sometimes complains that the levels are too difficult and not to his liking, etc.
The point is that God gets to do whatever he wants to do with his consciousness, even complain about himself. That's okay.
Within the context of Creation/Illusion, free will refers not to being able to do whatever you want, but to being able to choose how to react to whatever you're presented with.
At each level of stepping-down from the Logos to sub-Logos to sub-sub-Logos (i.e., human), more and more of the Creation is fixed by the higher levels, and free will has less room to play, so to speak. Yet that's as it should be, considering how much of a mess we've been making of our planet even with our limited range of motion, so to speak. As we learn more care - love and wisdom - we get more freedom also.
But still, at every level, it is only God who is both creating and experiencing the Creation. And his plan is that all his evolving forms must pass through the sequence of densities before returning home to full unity. Committing suicide probably places one hell of a blockage in the 1st chakra, requiring the entity to rededicate itself to finishing that level, even if it's challenging and uncomfortable. Similar to a high school student saying "this class is too hard, I'm going to stop coming for the rest of the year" - well, guess what? You still need to get through it to graduate.
Moving on to your comments on graduation - I think what Michael Newton describes is the general progression of souls, across densities, while Ra's steps of light describe one specific event that occurs at the conclusion of 3rd density evolution. It is a brief thing that happens after physical death, and only once for each entity at the end of 75,000 year cycle, which may be why Michael Newton's subjects haven't mentioned it. At the time Michael Newton's data were being collected, the harvest hadn't started yet on this planet. Regarding the "graduation parties" - I'm sure there is much to celebrate within each density as well, as the soul makes progress, and perhaps that is what Michael Newton's subjects are referring to.
Regarding the Law of One being "cold" - I think it's helpful to realize that we're listening to an entity who is more than 70 million years beyond our level of evolution (Q'uo mentioned 4D being 30 M years and 5D being 40 M years, if I recall). Ra is 6D close to graduation. So it's just mind-blowingly amazing that they are able to speak to us at all, if you think about it. If you think about the difference between rocks (1D) and animals (2D) and humans (3D), it really is a miracle that a 6D consciousness can communicate at our level. I wouldn't read too much into human perceptions of the tone. To me, Ra's tone is one of attempting utmost conceptual clarity.
If you read the messages from Q'uo, which includes 5D and 4D entities along with those of Ra, there is much more "warmth" and handholding there.
I have great affection for both LOO and Michael Newton's work, so I can respond.
The Universe we inhabit is vast and complex, and naturally different sources will focus more on different aspects of it. I find these two works complementary and without conflict with each other.
Regarding free will: this can be hard to grasp, but there is only one consciousness in existence. That one consciousness decided to find out what it would be like to have a variety of different experiences, and that this would best be accomplished by forgetting its true identity for a while. But make no mistake: the consciousness you call your own is God's consciousness, enjoying the opportunity to experience fully pretending to be "The Traveler" for a little while - with that experience uncontaminated by memories of being God.
Therefore God creates the experiences he wants to have for himself, and then explores them. He created the video game and now he's playing it. But, to take this metaphor further, it's so immersive that he starts to think that he is actually the video game character and the world of the game is real, and then sometimes complains that the levels are too difficult and not to his liking, etc.
The point is that God gets to do whatever he wants to do with his consciousness, even complain about himself. That's okay.
Within the context of Creation/Illusion, free will refers not to being able to do whatever you want, but to being able to choose how to react to whatever you're presented with.
At each level of stepping-down from the Logos to sub-Logos to sub-sub-Logos (i.e., human), more and more of the Creation is fixed by the higher levels, and free will has less room to play, so to speak. Yet that's as it should be, considering how much of a mess we've been making of our planet even with our limited range of motion, so to speak. As we learn more care - love and wisdom - we get more freedom also.
But still, at every level, it is only God who is both creating and experiencing the Creation. And his plan is that all his evolving forms must pass through the sequence of densities before returning home to full unity. Committing suicide probably places one hell of a blockage in the 1st chakra, requiring the entity to rededicate itself to finishing that level, even if it's challenging and uncomfortable. Similar to a high school student saying "this class is too hard, I'm going to stop coming for the rest of the year" - well, guess what? You still need to get through it to graduate.
Moving on to your comments on graduation - I think what Michael Newton describes is the general progression of souls, across densities, while Ra's steps of light describe one specific event that occurs at the conclusion of 3rd density evolution. It is a brief thing that happens after physical death, and only once for each entity at the end of 75,000 year cycle, which may be why Michael Newton's subjects haven't mentioned it. At the time Michael Newton's data were being collected, the harvest hadn't started yet on this planet. Regarding the "graduation parties" - I'm sure there is much to celebrate within each density as well, as the soul makes progress, and perhaps that is what Michael Newton's subjects are referring to.
Regarding the Law of One being "cold" - I think it's helpful to realize that we're listening to an entity who is more than 70 million years beyond our level of evolution (Q'uo mentioned 4D being 30 M years and 5D being 40 M years, if I recall). Ra is 6D close to graduation. So it's just mind-blowingly amazing that they are able to speak to us at all, if you think about it. If you think about the difference between rocks (1D) and animals (2D) and humans (3D), it really is a miracle that a 6D consciousness can communicate at our level. I wouldn't read too much into human perceptions of the tone. To me, Ra's tone is one of attempting utmost conceptual clarity.
If you read the messages from Q'uo, which includes 5D and 4D entities along with those of Ra, there is much more "warmth" and handholding there.
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