07-03-2011, 09:32 PM
(07-03-2011, 05:31 AM)Crown Wrote: "social organizations with which the self identifies" - I can see how this could also be Facebook. But when i first read this i thought more in the direction of mutual social values that we share. Like some sort of bank system that we are part of, and we all hold some forms of orgnized social agreements that are mostly identified with the self. Does that makes sense? Im not sure. Other than that, i dont really understand what Ra are trying to say here.
it is curious that how the word 'social' being hyped up as 'social network' these days skews your aim here. it doesnt have any relevance to facebook in the context of this quote.
social here is any kind of organization that interacts with people. this may be a company, a corporation, a charity, military, even a small shop.
at the point where the wanderer identifies itself with an organization and starts to aggrandize that organization, it loses polarity. that is the gist of that quote.
there is no polarity or orientation mentioned in the quote in regard to the organization. this means it can be positively oriented, or negatively oriented. this is actually quite in line with orange ray identification mechanics; it doesnt matter whether you identify with a positive or negative organization and attempt to aggrandize it - the mechanic that happens there is that the entity identifies the external concept with self, and starts to aggrandize it - therefore, in a meaning, aggrandizing self.
the wanderer should not identify its own self with the organization and aggrandize it, therefore engaging orange ray mechanics. it should do its service without aggrandizing self, and without identifying with an external organization and then aggrandizing self in that fashion.
(07-03-2011, 04:52 PM)abridgetoofar Wrote: How is this quote related to facebook? What Ra is talking about is the aggrandizement of social organizations which one identifies with. Taking L/L Research for example, a negative entity would tempt the members to grow L/L Research to become a greater organization than it already is.
I don't think aggrandizing self through facebook is a good example. That would be aggrandizement of self using facebook as a tool.
the above approach is spot on.