05-05-2015, 02:25 AM
(This post was last modified: 05-05-2015, 02:27 AM by APeacefulWarrior.)
(05-05-2015, 01:31 AM)Bring4th_Austin Wrote: Yeah, it would be a very difficult task to create a study group in the same way that a group might study an academic textbook. It's obvious to me that a study group would have to recognize this aspect of personal interpretation and honor it within the studies. Though there are some boundaries that can be drawn. While there may not be any one correct interpretation of Ra's words, there are many incorrect interpretations (such as, "in order to activate green ray, one must eat an abundant amount of ice cream"...actually, that one might be true), and some of Ra's statements can be weighed against each other to come to a more crystallized understanding.
Personally, I think this is a very important point because I think one of the last things Ra would want is people taking his words as gospel, so to speak. One thing I like about Ra's communications is that he's careful to make clear that he's speaking from a "distorted" position, and only offering advice as allowed by his own limited understanding. There are points in the sessions where he freely admits he's only speaking opinion. The only times he seems willing to speak in absolutes is when discussing Oneness. Which, of course, is arguably the only Absolute.
He's providing catalyst, but the result of the catalyst depends on the catalyzer. Like a Chinese poet, he can only "talk around" certain high level concepts, and it is largely on us to then sort through them and try to discern the higher "unsayable" truths. (as in "The spoken Tao is not the true Tao.")
IMO, the inner truths of Ra's words - the individual realizations he helps people discover - are more important than any notions of "objective truth," since I'm personally not even sure such a thing exists anyway, aside from Oneness. The universe is largely what we make of it, and I believe Ra's words are mostly intended to help us MAKE a better universe, rather than attempting to control the universe via definitions in the (mistaken) manner of Western philosophy.