How does Infinity simply 'become' aware.

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What an abundance of fantastic responses! It has been a pleasure to watch the group mind of bring4th.org grow and expand so rapidly. We are asking questions and offering answers that I never would have expected a year ago.

I would say that my own answer would be largely similar to Siren's. Having spent many hours with these sections of the Ra Material (especially sessions 13 and 27), it is good to see that someone else has made nearly the same connections as I did.

Let us never forget that Ra choose their vocabulary for the express purpose of keeping their message clear. Thus, the words do not have esoteric meanings. The common meanings of the words Ra uses should be sought out and studied for anyone who wants to better understand the Ra Material as a whole.

It is upon this point that I raise the question, one which Siren alluded to: One a cosmological scale, what is the difference between awareness, intelligence, and free will? Shin'Ar claims that awareness is being, and this may be true, but not by definition. The definition of awareness is simple: an awareness is a relationship between a subject (that which is aware) and an object (that of which the awareness is aware). Thus, an awareness is present to something, is a witness, an observer.

Extend this conception to Infinity, All That Is. When All That Is becomes aware, it becomes aware of All That Is, thus there forms a split within Infinity: part of Infinity is aware and the other part is that of which the first part is aware. In order for Infinity to become aware, it must reflect itself; it must generate an image of itself.

Now consider a human being. When a human being becomes aware of itself, is this not the point at which intelligence is won? Is this not also the point at which free will is won? Free will, self-awareness, and intelligence have each been identified as the virtue which distinguishes humans from animals. But in truth, what distinguishes these from each other? When I learn to ask the question "Who am I?" This is the precise moment when I am divested of the free will which is so unique to human beings in relation to all other animals (ignoring the debate about dolphins and whales). Once I am able to ask this question, suddenly the vast infinity within me opens up and I can now explore all manner of possibilities in response to this question. Without this question, all of my activities are focused upon the stimulus which finds me. Or, to put it another way, without the question of the "I," my awareness never turns upon itself and is thus constrained, limited exclusively to that which is perceived as not "I". In the case of animals, this perception never falls upon Infinity.

Intelligence, on the other hand, is marked by the concept of reflexion. Human intelligence is set apart from other sentient beings through its ability to undergo iterations. That is, I can pose a solution to a problem, explore that solution, and then -- most crucially -- reflect upon that solution to evaluate whether it needs improvement. This is intelligence. This is the force which lies behind evolution, and it is this force which in animals only exists within the species mind and not the individual mind.

When Infinity becomes aware (of itself), it becomes free, it becomes intelligent. In this moment, Intelligent Infinity and Intelligent Energy are both born, for it is Intelligent Infinity which is aware of Intelligent Energy. It is Intelligent Energy which is the relfexion of Intelligent Infinity.

"There is one energy. It may be understood as love/light or light/love or intelligent energy" (15.9). As Siren said, love/light is the Thought, the Logos, the structure of the projected experience; whereas light/love is the manifestation, the fruition, the implementation of this structure which actualizes experience. Love/light is the Creator, light/love is the Creation, yet as Ra says, both are Intelligent Energy. The infinite potential upon which this Energy draws is the infinite freedom, the infinite abundance of selfhood which lies coiled within the awareness known as Intelligent Infinity. This infinite abundance of selfhood is witnessed by Intelligent Infinity by reflecting itself upon Intelligent Energy.

Never forget that you are a microcosm of the whole. This puzzle has a solution and that solution lies within your very experience, right here, right now. And yes, at the end of the maze lies a mystery, but that mystery also lies within your experience. That mystery is, simply, your own awareness. How do you become aware? When did you become aware? What presaged this event? Can you predict when awareness will happen, or does it simply arise? Further, within your awareness, what is it that is a source of infinite potential, the infinite abundance of selfhood? Is it your thoughts? Is it your body? Or is it that emptiness of mind, that looseness of body which begets what musicians call "flow" or "feel," which scientists and philosophers call "genius," and which Taoists call True Yang? The infinity of your self is simultaneously aware and unaware. There are parts of which you are aware and there are parts of which you are unaware. The ever-unfolding coming to awareness is the process by which your microcosmic Infinity becomes Intelligent. This process is the great mystery of being. Why should Infinity become aware? Yet it does!