06-12-2014, 06:24 PM
Read an article that offers an incredible metaphor for Ra's description of the processing of catalyst: “The Cosmic Metabolism of Form”
Here are a few excerpts:
And the Ra correlations:
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Ra: All uses of catalyst by the mind are those consciously applied to catalyst. Without conscious intent the use of catalyst is never processed through mentation, ideation, and imagination.
So just as oxygen is required for the full metabolism of food into energy, conscious intent/conscious awareness is necessary for the full processing of catalyst into experience.
Such an amazing metaphor! As we intend to use our catalyst, to learn from our catalyst, to use our catalyst, we do. The conscious intent and awareness we bring to the catalyst engages the gears and processes of the metabolic system and converts that catalyst into conscious experience.
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Ra: …it is certainly through this faculty [of disciplined meditation] that catalyst is most efficiently used.
What is meditation but "being with" the moment and your experience? Being conscious of the moment, being aware of the moment.
Extending this metaphor, meditation is the ultimate "oxygen" for the metabolizing of food.
Here are a few excerpts:
Quote:“The Cosmic Metabolism of Form”"Just as our bodies transform substances in metabolic cycles of varying complexity, and take part in the larger ecological metabolic cycles of organic life on earth, our minds take in and manipulate, transform, break down and build up, in short metabolize, forms—as impressions, perceptions, concepts, memories, and plans. And we take part in a larger ecology of form: culture, literature, art, science.”
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“According to Gurdjieff, our impressions are not fully metabolized in our ordinary state of relative unawareness. For metabolism to proceed further, we must be conscious of ourselves in the act of receiving impressions, just as oxygen is necessary for the full metabolism of food.
The full metabolism of food releases much more energy than that released in the absence of oxygen (anaerobic metabolism).
What kind of energy is released by the full metabolism of impressions? Perhaps the energy of consciousness. Although consciousness is required for this process to take place, acting like a catalyst, the result is the production of even more consciousness. Or more precisely, it is the addition of consciousness to the impressions, just as the energy of life is added to the macromolecules of our bodies.”
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“This vivification of impressions feeds our inner life, which needs conscious impressions to grow, and may also serve a larger purpose, enabling God to “see” his own creation through us and other conscious observers throughout the universe.”
And the Ra correlations:
93.10
Ra: All uses of catalyst by the mind are those consciously applied to catalyst. Without conscious intent the use of catalyst is never processed through mentation, ideation, and imagination.
So just as oxygen is required for the full metabolism of food into energy, conscious intent/conscious awareness is necessary for the full processing of catalyst into experience.
Such an amazing metaphor! As we intend to use our catalyst, to learn from our catalyst, to use our catalyst, we do. The conscious intent and awareness we bring to the catalyst engages the gears and processes of the metabolic system and converts that catalyst into conscious experience.
78.36
Ra: …it is certainly through this faculty [of disciplined meditation] that catalyst is most efficiently used.
What is meditation but "being with" the moment and your experience? Being conscious of the moment, being aware of the moment.
Extending this metaphor, meditation is the ultimate "oxygen" for the metabolizing of food.
Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, but love unexplained is clearer. - Rumi