(07-29-2021, 02:21 PM)Patrick Wrote: Aion my friend. You know I am just giving our friend Desaad Khaan a good laugh. Would not want to frustrate her expectations of us.
We can laugh and learn.

Quote:79.39 Questioner: Let me skip over the Hierophant for a minute because I’m really not understanding that at all, and just ask you if the Lovers represent the merging of the conscious and the unconscious, or a communication between conscious and unconscious?
Ra: I am Ra. Again, without being at all unperceptive, you miss the heart of this particular archetype which may be more properly called the Transformation of the Mind.
79.40 Questioner: Transformation of the mind into what?
Ra: I am Ra. As you observe Archetype Six you may see the student of the mysteries being transformed by the need to choose betwixt the light and the dark in mind.
It is the need to choose that produces the transformation, and the choice is inherent in the availability of options known.
What purpose might a changing form have, I wonder? In a manner, such is the simplest description of evolution, it would seem to me.
Bringing it back to the original topic here, in terms of wealth and the STS, there is something to be said for the options made available when resources and wealth are had, but which differ from those when they are not.
I see "STS" philosophy as largely pre-occupied with creating opportunity for the self, and the methods approached will vary incredibly. "STO" philosophy simply includes everyone else in that notion of the self.
Everything else is just technique, to my eyes.
The desire to be free is one of the brightest burning flames in the heart of humanity.