The Building 4th Podcast
Welcome to the Building 4th Podcast where we explore the Perennial Philosophy from various lenses including the psychological, theological, spiritual, conventional, and esoteric. Our points of emphasis include the Hebrew and Christian scriptures (including the non-canonical Christian texts), the Law of One material, the Enneagram, Process thought (ie Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism) integral theory, and developmental psychology.
Episodes
Friday Mar 15, 2024
Friday Mar 15, 2024
The Building 4th Community was led by Demarcus and Victor who responded to our questions. This was a lively and fruitful discussion.
Thursday Mar 07, 2024
Discussion on the Law of One Material's Adept Cycle
Thursday Mar 07, 2024
Thursday Mar 07, 2024
Matt and Doug have a brief discussion on the different rhythms that are shared in the law of one. https://www.bring4th.org/biorhythms/
When we are born, four cycles begin from a zero point and continue to oscillate with a maximum and minimum intensity until the end of the incarnation. The physical cycle is a period spanning 23 days; the emotional cycle spans 28 days; the intellectual cycle spans 33 days, and the Adept cycle spans 18 days. Be aware of days where any part of a cycle intersects the zero point (0%), and especially if two or more cycles do this simultaneously.
64.10 Questioner: [In a] previous session you mentioned the gateway of magic for the adept occurring in eighteen-day cycles. Could you expand on that information please?
Ra: I am Ra. The mind/body/spirit complex is born under a series of influences, both lunar, planetary, cosmic, and in some cases, karmic. The moment of the birthing into this illusion begins the cycles we have mentioned.The spiritual or adept’s cycle is an eighteen-day cycle and operates with the qualities of the sine wave. Thus there are a few excellent days on the positive side of the curve, that being the first nine days of the cycle — precisely the fourth, the fifth, and the sixth — when workings are most appropriately undertaken, given that the entity is still without total conscious control of its mind/body/spirit distortion/reality.The most interesting portion of this information, like that of each cycle, is the noting of the critical point wherein passing from the ninth to the tenth and from the eighteenth to the first days the adept will experience some difficulty especially when there is a transition occurring in another cycle at the same time. At the nadir of each cycle the adept will be at its least powerful but will not be open to difficulties in nearly the degree that it experiences at critical times.
Category: Miscellanea: Biorhythms
64.11 Questioner: Then to find the cycles we would take the instant of birth and the emerging of the infant from the mother into this density and start the cycle at that instant and continue it through the life. Is this correct?
Ra: I am Ra. This is mostly correct. It is not necessary to identify the instant of birthing. The diurnal cycle upon which this event occurs is satisfactory for all but the most fine workings.
Category: Miscellanea: Biorhythms
64.12 Questioner: Now, am I correct in assuming that whatever magic the adept would perform would be more successful or, shall we say, more to his design than that performed at less opportune times in the cycle?
Ra: I am Ra. This cycle is an helpful tool to the adept but as we said, as the adept becomes more balanced the workings designed will be dependent less and less upon these cycles of opportunity and more and more even in their efficacy.
To use this charting system, simply enter a birth date and a date in which you would like to see how the day is being influenced. Click the Calculate button to begin rendering the data. If you have any questions, comments, feature requests, or bug reports about this app, please send a private message to Bring4th_Steve.
Tuesday Mar 05, 2024
Conversation about the Tree of Life and the Law of One Material Archetypes
Tuesday Mar 05, 2024
Tuesday Mar 05, 2024
This conversation took place between two seekers and friends. Doug and Luis are students of life and find the Law of One material to be very helpful.
Wednesday Feb 28, 2024
Polarizing, Depolarizing, Law Of Responsibility
Wednesday Feb 28, 2024
Wednesday Feb 28, 2024
A deeper dive into karma as the Law of Responsibility once the Choice of polarity has been made in 3rd density.
Tuesday Feb 27, 2024
Tuesday Feb 27, 2024
“We may indicate that the [ankh] is a part of the concept complexes of the archetypical mind, the circle indicating the magic of the spirit, the cross indicating that nature of manifestation which may only be valued by the losing. Thus the crux ansata is intended to be seen as an image of the eternal in and through manifestation and beyond manifestation through the sacrifice and transformation of that which is manifest” (Law of One, Session 93.22).
Friday Feb 23, 2024
A Conversation with a Friend about Living Here and the Depth of Here
Friday Feb 23, 2024
Friday Feb 23, 2024
This is deep and winding conversation. Topics include the true self, false self, process theology, process philosophy, joy, and the nature of love.
Thursday Feb 22, 2024
Living in the Green and Blue Ray Energy Centers
Thursday Feb 22, 2024
Thursday Feb 22, 2024
Topics discussed include the cosmic architecture of experience as the foundational frequency, the manyness frequency, and the co-creative frequency; living from the green ray; living from the blue ray; loving and forgiving others.
Friday Feb 16, 2024
Friday Feb 16, 2024
This episode is a dialog between Doug and a spiritual seeker who is in the process of transformation. This candid conversation was published with permission from the seeker as a gift for anyone who may resonate with the themes.
Tuesday Feb 13, 2024
The Law of Three
Tuesday Feb 13, 2024
Tuesday Feb 13, 2024
Introducing an important cosmic law that shapes our development.
Tuesday Feb 13, 2024
Law of One Q/R
Tuesday Feb 13, 2024
Tuesday Feb 13, 2024
The following community dialog discussed various topics on the Law of One material and how to live this out in our daily lives.
Our Vision
Ra says, “The Original Desire is that all entities seek and become one” (20.27). The “oneing” arises across ever increasing complexity. Complexification is evolution, and evolution is gained “by the losing,” as Ra mentions in 93.24.
It is sometimes said that there are three boxes that lead to evolution: Order, Disorder, and Reorder. Individually and collectively, we have to a sense of ‘order’ so that we develop identity. Then, we have to go through ‘disorder’ so that the experience the expansion and transformation of our ‘order’ gave us. We arrive at ‘reorder,’ but not after considerable deconstruction. In a world whose sense-making worldviews and institutions are thoroughly in disorder, how can we hold the depth of meaning so that we live into new spaces of inner and collective freedom? Our podcast hopes to be a small voice in the desert (disorder) which attempts to integrate, not segregate; unite diversity, not demand uniformity; include the pieces of disorder so that we may transcend into reconstructing–reconciling–reordering–renewing–the ever ancient, and ever new.
Building 4th is the name of our small spiritual community that is centered around the cosmic law known as the Law of One.
What does “Building 4th” mean? [see below for further descriptions of each of these four points]
- Building the Fourth Density [1]
- Building the Fourth Energy Center [2]
- Building the Fourth Way [3]
- Building Forth On Our Spiritual Evolution [4]
Building 4th’s Fourth Way is to embrace an incarnational spirituality grounded in the immediacy of our life-situations.
- We seek to learn in order to serve: We affirm that whenever we study the Law of One or other spiritual material, whether on our own or as a group, this is for the purpose of crystallizing our spiritual principles and learning how to embody them.
- The mundane is sacred: We affirm that there is no separation between the ordinary world and divinity. For example, doing dishes is an act of the Creator knowing Itself and can be supremely sacred.
- Love is our metric: We affirm that any teaching or belief, whether conventional or esoteric, is valued by how well it helps us love and understand ourselves and others, including those others whom we perceive to be different or even antagonistic.
- The way down is the way up: We affirm that our ordinary lives are rich in opportunities to grow spiritually. We try to bring our full presence and open heart to each moment, even–and especially–the difficult ones. We are learning that there is no escaping the conditions that foster our personal growth and therefore our goal is to embrace each challenge wherever we discern that it is safe and appropriate to do so. And even in dangerous, unsafe situations, we want to hold the assurance that the creator’s love is with us and we are immortal spiritual beings. In short, the ascension process is not a journey up and out of this difficult third-density illusion, but rather a movement down and into it more.
- The importance of humility: Ra suggests that to become the creator, “[…]renders one the most humble servant of all, transparent in personality and able to know and accept others.” We trust that our understanding is ever evolving, thus we try to hold our own views and various identities with humility. We acknowledge that admitting we don’t know fully requires some level of vulnerability and this can be uncomfortable.
We are inspired by the perennial philosophy that undergirds most of the world’s major spiritual traditions. For us, one primary description of the perennial philosophy is the Law of One material.
We are also informed by the academic disciplines of psychology, sociology, and theology, as we endeavor to weave a healthy synthesis between the conventional and the cosmic, the exoteric and the esoteric, and micro and the macro [4].
We hope that you enter the adventure with us and that you’ll enjoy our podcast.