The Building 4th Podcast

(Audio) The Archetype of Catalyst of the Mind, Law of One

This presentation is a deep(ish) dive into the Law of One's Catalyst of the Mind Archetype. For those interested in Ra's Archetypes, a study of the Catalyst of Mind can be important to learning how to process our catalysts with greater love.
 
Images can be found here: http://cosmicchrist.net/2023/03/29/the-archetype-of-catalyst-infographic/

A Conversation About Spiritual Practices

Without discipline, we do not go deep.  We must have the will to grow and then the faith to believe that our will bears fruit.  But whatever we will, must move from just a nice idea into an embodied or incarnated action.  Otherwise, whatever inspiration we receive through our intuition doesn't get planted into the garden of our third-density lives but instead keeps getting blown around by the winds of unprocessed daily catalysts [*]. 
 
Our Building 4th community shared our Spiritual Practices with each other in order to help each other (and anyone listening through the podcast) plant and grow.  
Here are some of our disciplines:
 
Ecstatic dance
Gratitude
Mindful dishwashing
Reading inspirational material
Centering Prayer
Yoga
Walking
Morning offering and physical gesture of self to the Infinite Creator
Lifestyle change about how to feel in the body
Prayer of commitment: Commit my mind to be expanded; commit my heart to be healed; commit my soul to be transformed
When synchronized numbers appear, use that sign to pray for someone
Touch the heart to draw attention to the heart
An active gesture of vulnerability to God: I want to show you what is in my inner life every morning.
Glorying in the second density, nature.
Walking in the cemetery talking to the people
The Presence Process book. Breathing in and out: "I am...here now...in this. Make a response instead of reactivity.
*60.26 Questioner: There has been, for the past 30 years, a lot of information and a lot of confusion, and in fact, I would say the Law of Confusion has been [chuckle] working overtime, to make a small joke, in bringing information for spiritual catalysis to groups requesting it, and we know that both the positively and the negatively oriented social memory complexes have been adding to this information as they can. This has led to somewhat of a condition of apathy in a lot of cases with respect to the information by many who are truly seeking but have been thwarted by a condition of what I might call spiritual entropy in this information. Can you comment on this and the mechanisms of alleviating these problems?
I am Ra. We of the Confederation are at the call of those upon your planet. If the call, though sincere, is fairly low in consciousness of the, shall we say, system whereby spiritual evolution may be precipitated, then we may only offer that information useful to that particular caller. This is the basic difficulty. Entities receive the basic information about the Original Thought and the means, that is meditation and service to others, whereby this Original Thought may be obtained.Please note that as Confederation members we are speaking for positively oriented entities. We believe the Orion group has precisely the same difficulty.Once this basic information is received it is not put into practice in the heart and in the life experience but instead rattles about within the mind complex distortions as would a building block which has lost its place and simply rolls from side to side uselessly, yet still the entity calls. Therefore, the same basic information is repeated. Ultimately the entity decides that it is weary of this repetitive information. However, if an entity puts into practice that which it is given, it will not find repetition except when needed.

Healing, Presence, and Psychedelics: A conversation

Doug and Leon discuss Leon's journey from deep depression to healer of other people as he learned about plant medicine and its gift for human consciousness. 

Know Yourself, Accept Yourself, Become the Creator: Energy centers, evolution, and metanoia

 In this presentation, I (Doug) speak with a friend about knowing ourselves and others, accepting ourselves and others, forgiving ourselves, and others, becoming agents of balance, and constantly seeking to open ourselves more to love. We touch upon the energy centers, Anchored Self and Floating Self, the dwelling place of the spirit, and the game of the Floating Self which involve power, prestige, and possession. For those students of the Law of One material, you will find this episode to be a practical application of some of the material's most important points about spiritually evolving.  
Graphics: https://cosmicchrist.net/2023/03/10/know-yourself-accept-yourself-become-the-creator-energy-centers-evolution-and-metanoia/

(Audio) The Inner Planes: Ra and Q’uo

Our Building 4th community member, Neal, presents on the inner planes according to various sources that have inspired him. The Inner Planes are a wide variety of planes/realms, known under many different names. It is where we go between lives. The inner planes are greatly populated with a very wide gamut of personalities.  Neal sources for this presentation include the Ra Material, Q'uo, and Michael Newton.
Session 17.36
Questioner•I’ve heard that there are seven astral and seven devachanic primary levels. Is this correct?Ra•I am Ra. You speak of some of the more large distinctions in levels in your inner planes. That is correct.
Session 17.37
Questioner•Well, who inhabit the astral, and who inhabit the devachanic planes?Ra•I am Ra. Entities inhabit the various planes due to their vibrational nature. •The astral plane varies from thought-forms in the lower extremities to enlightened beings who become dedicated to teach/learning in the higher astral planes.•In the devachanic planes, as you call them, are those whose vibrations are even more close to the primal distortions of love/light.•Beyond these planes there are others.
 
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(Audio) Meditation that Works When Feeling Shame

I've adapted this method from the work of Dr. Kristin Neff, PhD (https://self-compassion.org)
There are seven steps:
1) Realize that you are "in shame."2) Name that you are in shame (say out loud your to yourself, “I feel shame.”)     a) Stay in the present moment, in your body.     b) stabilize your awareness strongly so that you don’t get dragged back into images of pain3) Fully accept that you feel shame. Be aware of bracing against versus embrace. Embrace your role as host that creates space for the energy of shame4) Speak to yourself the way you would with whom you have warm relationship     a) validate and normalize your feelings     b) demonstrate that you are in solidarity with yourself.  Create a subject-to-subject dynamic inside yourself.5) Open your heart to the world and all of the people right now that are feeling shame or whatever that you feel.  Be in solidarity with them.  Tell them that you see them. You are in it with them; that you understand them.6) Breathe in and bless yourself. Breathe out and bless them.  Repeat for as long as you want7) You are now diffused from the energetics of shame (or whatever else). Be aware that there will be temptations to start thinking about that “thing” that caused you to feel shame.  You have learned that you have agency over the focus of your attention.  With dignity and integrity, stabilize your focused awareness into the present moment, and dive into doing the next right thing that is  life-giving for you and for others.  

Intro to Metanoism

This description is a rough first pass at my attempt to conceptualize "Metanoism" with someone else.  I spoke with my friend and colleague, Brandi Reinhardt, LPC.  
 
Metanoism is a psychospiritual approach to being of service in the world for those who feel called to help lighten the planetary vibrations.
 
Metanoism is conceptual and practical. It is an embodied psychospirituality that is praxis oriented.  
 
It's worldview is metamodern and integral. 
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Metanoism: Entering in Solidarity, Cultivating Hope, and Surrendering to Process
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Praxis of Metanoism:
Enter into solidarity with others
Cultivate hope in their lives
Surrender into process
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Hermeneutic:  refers to the bias or interpretive lens through which we engage something.
Metanoism's hermeneutic: Conspiracy of Wholeness
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Epistemology: How do we know what we know?
Epistemology of humility
Epistemology of plurality (multi-perspectival)
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Metanoia: “Be transformed by a renewal of your mind,” Paul says (Romans 12:2)
Cultivating a spirituality of process and growth towards greater union and unity
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Brandi Reinhardt: https://brandicreinhardt.com
Doug Scott's websites: www.dougscottcounseling.com and www.cosmicchrist.net
 
 

(Audio) Meditation When Anxious Using Blue Light/Love

This 15-minute audio will help you deeply relax, connect with your body, and open your third-eye to create a powerful thoughtform of blue-ray energy. 

(Audio)The Jesus Christ Event and the Law of One

The following is taken from a presentation that I did about the Law of One metaphysics and Christianity, as I understand it.
 
Graphics can be found here: https://cosmicchrist.net/2023/02/03/audio-the-jesus-christ-event-and-the-law-of-one/

”Love is the Great Protection”

I am Ra. [...] "The seeker which has purely chosen the service-to-others path shall certainly not have a variant apparent incarnational experience. There is no outward shelter in your illusion from the gusts, flurries, and blizzards of quick and cruel catalyst.However, to the pure, all that is encountered speaks of the love and the light of the One Infinite Creator. The cruelest blow is seen with an ambiance of challenges offered and opportunities to come. Thusly, the great pitch of light is held high above such a one so that all interpretation may be seen to be protected by light." (Law of One, session 95.24)
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Article and images can be found here: https://cosmicchrist.net/2021/12/12/love-is-the-great-protection-using-catalyst-to-create-inner-space-for-love-increases-our-understanding-of-the-creators-presence-in-the-immediacy-of-the-moment/