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.

• 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)

After a long break, Nithin and Jeremy return to discuss a 1974 Hatonn session that presages the Ra contact revelations in so many ways. In the context of the long lineage of Confederation channeling, they discuss what they mean by love and light, how they interact and relate to the first distortion, free will. This leads them to address thoughts on the nature of manifestation and the thread connecting it back to the Creator through a variety of successive distortions, a task that doesn't quite yield to the intellect. Evolution then tracks through time the process of this thread being traced back to unity, as we learn how to truly become self-conscious enough to become a participant in the Creator's evolutionary project.

• Hatonn on love and light (February 11, 1974)
• How the Heart Cries Out (First Distortion Press)
• Ra on negative information (Session 26, Question 36)
• Ra on limitless light (Session 78, Question 9)
• Q’uo on the second mind, the heart (March 3, 1991)
• Ra on the steps of light at harvest (Session 51, Question 1)
• Pure motion in Larsonian physics (lrcphysics.com)
• Ra on second density harvest (Session 19, Question 2)
• Ra on children's responsibility (Session 18, Question 7)

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.

• 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)
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