Greetings. Oct282011 Website (quite interesting)!

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I see we're talking about hope and faith/will again. As I see it, our hopes are ultimately always based on some kind of emotional need. That is, there is an unconscious desire influencing what we hope for. Identifying with what is hoped for satisfies the unconscious emotional need, and it is only distancing itself from moving towards recognizing what is unconscious. All of which has been said already, but I figured I would word it differently.

Hope is always accompanied by the feeling of some amount of uncertainty, whereas faith is affirmation. Hope never has the feeling of wholeness because there is something in the back of your mind that is in disbelief. There is disbelief because you haven't yet fully examined (thus accepted) why it is you're hoping for whatever.

For transformation of the mind to occur, Ra says.."one principle governing the use of the deep mind must be abandoned." The principles being positive/negative..acceptance/separation..conscious/unconscious. Meaning, rather than always keeping yourself at a distance from the unconscious by identifying with a distortion (something involving separation..ignoring what is true), you move towards acceptance and transformation occurs through choice..choosing to recognize what is unconscious leading to the great way. This way distortion is alleviated because you no longer have an unconscious identification with something. The great way symbolizes the spirit moving ever closer to the eternal truth.