inaudible Ryan Masterson, Nithin Reddy, and Jeremy Weiland

Nithin and Jeremy welcome "Linus," an anonymous Other Selves Working Group member, to the show to help them discuss Ra's concept of contemplation. Distinguishing it from meditation and prayer, they examine these three forms of inner work, observing how contemplation addresses the attention to one's conscious mind in a way congruent to meditation's attention to the deep mind. Reflecting on their own experiences with contemplation, the trio discuss how contemplation relates to other aspects of the seeker's life, especially its relationship with inward inquiry, catalysis, and growth.
Show NotesRa on meditation, contemplation, visualization, and prayer (Session 49, Question 8)Ra on daydreaming (Session 16, Question 54](https://www.lawofone.info/s/16#54))Ra on contemplation stimulated by warfare (Session 65, Question 7)Cunningham's Law (Wikipedia)Ra's balancing technique example (Session 46, Question 9)Subscribe to the Other Selves Working Group's newsletter, Working Notes, for updates on the fruits of our gathering in June as well as the Richmond Meditation Circle's forthcoming book, How the Heart Cries Out.

Jeremy is once more joined by Steve Tyman to continue their discussion of the mind and body cycles of the tarot images and their relation to the archetypal mind. They begin with a recapitulation of the idea behind concept complexes with an emphasis on the veil's effect on the operation of the significator. This leads to discussion of the liminal station of transformation and the summarizing/integrating station of the great way, where one can see the reflection of the mind in the body and the delicate resonances of the logoic plan in the archetypal mind. Steve and Jeremy tie back the polarity introduced by the veil between the conscious and unconscious minds which features prominently in understanding the character of transformation and the great way. This sets the stage for tackling the spirit cycle, which we shall address in a future episode in light of the relationships articulated up to this point between the seven stations and the two cycles.
Show NotesA Deep Dive Into the Archetypes, Part 1 (Episode 55)A Egyptian Tarot Imagery tool online (https://thirddensity.com/tarot/)Ra on the complexification of the significator (Session 79, Question 42)Ra on the shadows of archetypes in "earlier" octaves (Session 79, Questions 29-30)Q'uo on the latent but unarticulated negativity in past octaves (June 18, 2023)Ra on the Transformation of Mind (Session 99, Question 8)Ra on the initiate releasing distortions (Session 57, Question 14)Ra on the Transformation of Body (Session 81, Question 13)Ra on the abandonment of the unchosen polarity (Session 100, Question 6)Q'uo on the spiralling of cyclical development (August 7, 2007)Ra on transformation or experience stations in other archetypal minds (Session 91, Question 17) Note: I erroneously remembered Ra saying that in earlier octaves, one archetypal system featured either a transformation station or a great way station, but not both. Steve mistakenly agreed with me. In fact, the example Ra described involved one system including catalyst and experience and the other including catalyst and transformation. The error somewhat undermines our brief discussion of the connection between the transformation and great way stations, but not entirely.Ra on the athanor metaphor in the Great Way of Body (Session 81, Question 14)Ra on the veil in the Great Way of Mind tarot image (Session 103, Question 11)Ra on the harnessing of the chariot in the Great Way of Mind tarot image (a href="https://www.lawofone.info/s/103#12" rel="noopener noreferrer"...

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)