inaudible Ryan Masterson, Nithin Reddy, and Jeremy Weiland

Nithin and Jeremy team up to explore Confederation messages that discuss those darker parts of the self less understood and accepted. Extremely few if any of us lack imbalances, so we always have material to work with coming through in our dreams, our biases, our catalyst, and those crazy ways we surprise ourselves. Several Confederation messages suggest that incorporating the shadow self into the greater self is part of the service-to-others path where we gain our grit and tenacity to continue walking the path when it is toughest. Jeremy ties in Monka's recent comments on introjection and projection aspects of the mirroring effect and how it relates to the shadow self.
Show NotesCarla Rueckert on the shadow self (Bean, Gary, Tilting at Windmills, 2016, p. 319)Monka on Mirroing Without and Within (February 24, 2024)Q'uo on the dark side (February 10, 2002)Q'uo on harvest and the shadow self (September 17, 2006)Q'uo on peace, dark, and light (December 21, 2003)Ra on negative stimulation of green ray (Session 72, Question 17)Q'uo on integrating the shadow self (March 10, 1996)Q'uo on the shadow self and magical working (November 5, 2023)Q'uo on the shadow self and authoritarian personalities (June 17, 2023)

Nithin and Jeremy welcome back Jamie Liestman, who last spoke with us on dreams and the Law of One in episode 48. This time we cover some new ground, starting with Jamie describing how she uses art to better work with her dreams. We discuss the qualitative nature of dreams as time/space experiences, stressing the primacy of their subjective, affective, and atemporal properties. After lamenting the lack of respect society shows dreams, they analyze a Q'uo message to explore how waking life might be symbolically interpreted as if it were a dream in a way benefiting the seeker.
Show Notes(inaudible), episode 48 (inaudible.show)Q'uo on working with dreams (September 4, 2005)Latwii on dream interpretation (July 4, 1982)Q'uo on time/space and dreams (June 19, 2023)Hatonn on dreams (July 18, 1976)Q'uo on interpreting waking life symbolically (May 6, 2017)Ra on dreams bridging the conscious and unconscious (Session 86, Question 12)

Steve Tyman joins Jeremy for the first of a series of conversations on the twenty-two archetypes that provide a tool for working with the archetypal mind. In this episode they focus on the first five stations of the mind and body cycles: matrix, potentiator, catalyst, experience, and significator. Starting with a re-introduction to the very idea of what an archetype is, they discuss some aspects of these ten archetypes as well as what is meant by "mind" and "body" specifically, with some digressions into the nature of time/space as contrasted to space/time. The other archetypes—the spirit cycle as well as the transformation and great way stations of mind and body—will be discussed in future episodes.
Consider watching this on YouTube where the archetype images are spliced in to help the listener grasp the connections.
Show NotesEpisode 16: An Introduction to the Archetypal Mind (inaudible podcast)The major arcana images from the Egyptian Tarot (thirddensity.com)Ra on the sevenfold nature of energy centers, densities, and archetypes (Session 78, Question 30)Q'uo on the Matrix, Potentiator, and Significator (August 1, 2021)Ra on the male and female concepts in the archetypes (Session 92, Question 20)Ra on the polarized interpretation of catalyst (Session 94, Question 12)Ra's supermarket example (Session 33, Question 8)Ra on the unconscious perception of catalyst (Session 93, Question 20)Ra on the matrix and potentiator of body (Session 78, Question 11)Yom on the material illusion as an unbiased field of experience (April 23, 1989)

What is addiction, and how does it interact with spiritual evolution? Nithin and Jeremy explore this topic in light of its prevalence and variety in late third density society, bringing in a number of Confederation sources for insight into addiction's relationship with catalyst, desire, comfort, the sinkhole of indifference, and other concepts of interest to the seeker. They also address the psychology in light of the shallow emptiness of the modern "rat race" while also recognizing the catalytic, transformative promise inherent in the suffering that addiction represents.
Show Notes Ra on polarized uses of anger (Session 46, Question 9)Hatonn on addiction to the joy of being whole (February 13, 1983)Q'uo on addiction as catalyst (January 7, 2017)Ra on polarized sexual energy transfers (Session 32, Question 2)Ra on overcoming (Session 18, Question 5)David Foster Wallace on worship (Kenyon College Graduating Class of 2005 Commencement Speech)

Responding to the proliferation of warfare on the planet recently, Nithin and Jeremy analyze a post-9/11 Q’uo session discussing bellicosity and peace. The principle addresses several biological, cultural, spiritual, and philosophical factors that make not just our people but past third density populations in our system so warlike while also suggesting an appreciation for war’s intense potential for catalysis. Those of Q’uo direct us to look within at our own attitudes and quality of seeking so that we can discover not just the ideal of peace but how to live it and thereby radiate it to the entire planet. It is this personal commitment to unconditional peace and the sacrifices it may entail that help us confront the spiritual root causes of conflict.
Happy Thanksgiving! 
Show NotesQ’uo on conflict and peace (November 18, 2001)Ra on toolmaking and bellicosity (Session 90, Question 18)Q’uo on the shadow self and the authoritarian personality (June 17, 2023)Q’uo on personality and the subconscious use of will (November 4, 2023)Ra on the "Lovers" / Transformation of Mind archetype (Session 100, Question 6)Hatonn on their late third density experience (November 16, 1980) Ra on the catalyst of trauma (Session 34, Question 14)Jesus on entering the kingdom of heaven (Matthew 19:20)Q'uo on peace (December 21, 2003)

Dr. Stephen Tyman joins Jeremy for a conversation about the problem of evil and its relationship to the Confederation's concept of polarized seeking. Steve gives an introduction to how evil has been historically regarded, ranging from a notion of evil as a mere absence of good to the idea of evil as a positive value diametrically opposed to good. They analyze the character and recognizable traits of service-to-self other selves in psychological, spiritual, political, and philosophical aspects, including how service-to-others seekers might relate to those of the opposite polarity.
Apologies for the diminished audio quality. There's also loud noise that interrupts us around the 58:00 mark, that's the context for our pause and joke about humility and patience.
Show NotesThe Concept of Evil (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)The Problem of Evil (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)Ra on Himmler and separation of self from self (36.14)David Graeber on Imaginative Labor (The Utopia of Rules, 2015 Melville House)Ra on inter-polarity conflict in fourth density (Session 25, Question 5)Hatonn on service-to-self resistance to positive service (April 23, 2023)Subscribe to the Other Selves Working Group newsletter (Substack)