Catalyst

Episode 62: A Deep Dive into the Archetypes, Part 3

Posted on December 16, 2024 | by jeremy

In this final installment of our series on the archetypal mind, Dr. Stephen Tyman joins us once more to help us begin to explore the spirit cycle of the tarot. We discuss the unfathomably vast scope of the spirit complex through the lens of its seven stations. Here seeking has become so refined that desire, the motive force of evolution, and its object begin to blend. Our individuated consciousness stands naked before our true identity as the Creator Itself. Perilous, subtle, and promising, work in the spirit complex involves encountering our deepest emotions, including faith and despair, joy and terror, as we balance these experiences and discipline ourselves to apprehend in some small way the colossal forces of intelligent infinity without recourse to the traction provided by the body complex and the mind complex.

Show Notes

Part 1: https://inaudible.show/episode-55/
Part 2: https://inaudible.show/episode-58/
Ra on the primacy of individual interpretation of the archetypes (Session 77, Question 23)
Ra on the adept’s dissociation with the world https://www.lawofone.info/s/80#12 disassociation from the miasma of illusion
Q’uo on fixing and loving https://www.llresearch.org/channeling/2022/0428 fixing and loving
Hatonn on seeking and transformation https://www.llresearch.org/channeling/1983/0501
Ra on the infitude of spirit https://www.lawofone.info/s/80#20
Ra on archetypes as things-in-themselves https://www.lawofone.info/s/88#17
Article on the concept of the thing-in-itself https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thing-in-itself
Ra on the origin of the tarot https://www.lawofone.info/s/76#6
Ra on the experience of spirit https://www.lawofone.info/s/80#8
The Celestine Prophecy (CelestineVision.com)
The Sixth Channeling Intensive (High Altitude Receiving Center)

Episode 61: Desire and Service

Posted on October 22, 2024 | by jeremy

Nithin and Jeremy tackle another 1974 Hatonn session two days following the one they analyzed last episode, this one extending the Confederation’s concepts of love, light, and other primal distortions into the area of desire and service. This begins with a discussion about the genealogy of desire, its thread connecting more distorted versions of the desire to more pure versions. Desire achieves its goal ultimately through service, the dynamic projection of the truth of oneness into the limited, novel details of a moment in the illusion. Therefore, serving involves the ability to look through the illusion, recognizing deeper layers of our desires and using the illusion to skillfully address our service to those on levels of calling they may not even understand themselves. This means we cannot arrive at our choices of how to serve solely through intellectual thinking; this ability to serve other selves on deeper levels starts with better self-knowledge and a more intuitional approach exercised in meditation. Jeremy introduces a couple more sessions from the 1970s that reinforce this concept of love’s current through the illusion via desire as well as the mysterious, creative, inspirational nature of true service.

Show Notes

Hatonn on desire and service (February 13, 1974)
Ra on children’s responsibility (Session 18, Question 7)
Monka on mirroring within and without (February 24, 2024)
Oorkas on the illusion melting away (September 21, 2024)
Luke on Jesus’s prayer in solitude (Luke 5:16)
Hatonn on seeking and progress (April 22, 1974)
Hatonn on the difficulties of service (April 30, 1974)
Hatonn on the readiness to serve (February 15, 1976)

Episode 59: Contemplation

Posted on June 10, 2024 | by jeremy

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 Notes

Ra 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.

Episode 58: A Deep Dive Into the Archetypes, Part 2

Posted on May 19, 2024 | by jeremy

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 Notes

A 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 (Session 103, Question 12)
Ra on programming an incarnation to hone “a blunt edge of hatred or anger” (Session 54, Question 22)

Episode 56: Dreams and the Dream-like

Posted on February 26, 2024 | by jeremy

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)

Episode 55: A Deep Dive Into the Archetypes, Part 1

Posted on January 30, 2024 | by jeremy

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.

Show Notes

Episode 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)

Episode 54: Addiction

Posted on December 19, 2023 | by jeremy

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)
Q’uo on addiction as the result of inner separation (March 7, 2004)
David Foster Wallace on worship (Kenyon College Graduating Class of 2005 Commencement Speech)
Q’uo on breaking habits (November 13, 2010)
Ra’s exercises for accelerating towards the Law of One (Session 10, Question 14)
Ra on fasting (Session 41, Question 21)
The Twelve Steps (aa.org)

Episode 53: Conflict and Peace

Posted on November 23, 2023 | by jeremy

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 Notes

Q’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)

Episode 51: Intuition and Intellect

Posted on September 16, 2023 | by jeremy

After a few thoughts on how seekers think about careers, Nithin and Jeremy discuss the nature and function of intuition and how it relates to other aspects of mind. They delve into a 1986 Laleema transcript that addresses intuition and intellectual analysis, comparing them to listening and speaking, respectively. Both are required, and only the balance between the two can help one to reach the true goal: the Creator.

It is in incarnation that we get the mixture right because our lessons become firmly grounded in the lasting consequence of making one choice rather than another. Intellectual analysis in particular can help one discern which intuitions are genuine insight and which are expressions of imbalanced emotions; even skepticism and doubt can serve the discovery of genuine faith. This faith, coupled with will, constitute the heart of seeking, Laleema says, allowing us to discover resources beyond ourselves bringing to fruition our recovery of our true identity as the Creator.

Show Notes

Laleema on intuition and analysis (May 18, 1986)
David Goggins (davidgoggins.com)
Discussion on intuition and desire (Bring4th Forum)
Ra on mind and intuition (Session 30, Question 2)
Ra on implicit but unrecognized polarity before the veil (Session 93, Question 5)
Ra on the Creator experiencing itself (Session 82, Question 10)
Ra on the function of intuition (Session 49, Question 4)
Auxhall on stories of the mind versus intuition (March 12, 2023)
Q’uo on emotion and intuition (November 26, 1989)
Hatonn on faith and patience (April 23, 2023)
Q’uo on the extension of free will past the mover/moved polarity (May 18, 2022)
Ra on all being well despite negative time/space displacement (Session 69, Question 11)
Ra on balancing by accentuating imbalance (Session 104, Question 2)
Q’uo on the significance of individuality (June 19, 2023)
Living out will and faith in our daily lives (The Building 4th Podcast, Part 1 and Part 2)
Monka on opening to greater resources(August 26, 2023)

Episode 50: Instruments on Channeling

Posted on August 12, 2023 | by jeremy

On this very special fiftieth episode, we have assembled the High Altitude Receiving Center (HARC) Circle, the current channeling body of the Other Selves Working Group , for a conversation on the nature, purpose, and frontiers of channeling in the tradition of the Confederation of Planets in Service to the One Infinite Creator. Nithin and Jeremy welcome founding Working Group member and senior HARC Circle channel Dr. Stephen Tyman to discuss channeling and the recent Fourth Channeling Intensive they participated in.

In this wide ranging discussion, the three instruments discuss the concepts of channeling and tuning consciousness from the ground up. Steve details the concerns that go into the preparation and dedication of the self to serve as an instrument in a safe, protected, and spiritually salutary manner, not denying the pitfalls and increased catalyst. They talk about some of the practices and approaches they use in their circle, including how they think about the instrument’s responsibility and role in the messaging. The recently released eleven sessions recorded in June at the intensive are also addressed along with the finer points of these channeling experiences and where the Working Group may go from here.

Show Notes

Curriculum Vita of Stephen Tyman (Southern Illinois University)
The Other Selves Working Group Fourth Channeling Intensive (High Altitude Receiving Center)
Q’uo on accelerated catalyst (August 2, 2021)
Q’uo on everything being fine / all is well (May 19, 2022)
Ra on the duration of densities (Session 77, Question 17)
Laitos on Planet Earth as the unconscious of the social memory complex (July 31, 2021)
Ra on instruments reserving energy ahead of contact (Session 44, Question 8)
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