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through the "motherly" touch demonstrated in that schizoid Grasp, feeling some surcease and thus even affectional | Gratitude with respect to that one factor in the whole horrible stew that seems to proffer kindness ee ee cee ee Indeed, Strieber proves himself the compliant guinea pig; even under the intelligence that it's all a thought—form, his compassion for the (imagistically dramatized) unsuccessful "bidder" persists, obviously in thorough confusion with his own self-commiseration, so that finally he collapses upon a repentant love for the very roaches that bedevil him. "Again, though, I felt love. Despite all the ugliness and the terrible things that had been done, I found myself longing for them, missing them! How was this possible?". Again, "I regretted the contempt I had shown for its [the other "reality's"] needs and its laws and felt a desperate desire to make amends." "I had felt a pain greater than the pain of punishment. It was the pain of their love....] had the sense that they had on my behalf turned away from perfect love, and that they had done this to help me." "I suspect that the ugliness I had seen last night was not them, but me. I was so ashamed of myself that I almost retched." In this way we may clearly see the baited hook that awaits within a context inclusive of life in the higher densities, with respect to the word of universal—indiscriminate love. The effort to operate such love according to a literal interpretation of the word, is ripe to be employed as a real booby trap for any form of consciousness having as yet no practical grasp of the Whole, and so by virtue of standard habits of identification chronically confounding the Whole and the part (as is the typical pattern of 3rd density mind). Unable to "see" the Whole which nonetheless directly infuses and underscores the negative entities as their very medium, clinging to their foulness like a sweet masking scent, the mind used to dealing only in terms of the representative part is unusually open to making just that identity—equation in which the incidental expression of a Field is presumed to contain that field, or is taken as one—to—one equivalent of the quality belonging to the field as a whole. Conversely, the return of the Love—value toward any being of such a field isolated out of the context of the Wlwle, tends—to the mind chronically focused only on the complex relation of part to psychological part and never on the Whole itself—to be but a yielding or block submission to the other's requirements as means of overcoming the resistance of "identification". Should there remain a reluctance to grasp this point, or some desire to conserve the liberal—humanistic proposal to which Strieber often turns (i.e., to call such things truly Negative or Evil is "simplistic", you know) we need merely resort to the Ra material once more, wherein we find a passage—first published in 1981, don't forget— that anticipates Strieber's account by years and furnishes a framework before the fact which not only fits the Strieber—entities' behaviors like a key a lock but gives us a needed perspective of 1 evaluation. On page 21 of Volume III, The Law Of One, the Ra entity characterizes a prototypical tactic of the Orion Crusaders, that of "bidding"; "bidding" is described in such a way as to make it clear that Strieber's experience represents a concrete instance of the phenomenon, a factual case history with which to footnote Ra's words. "Bidding" is a contest of will, serviceable in determining the pecking order of the social-memory—complex of the Crusaders, and in rendering the general run of consciousness enslaved through intimidated compliance of its own free will. It is a command of obedience, precisely such as that issued without explanation against Strieber's lust for sweets. Its sole purpose is to bend the subject into accepting the command, the actual content of the order being largely beside the point (other than the degree of difficulty involved for the subject according to the strength of the tendency to be overcome, a factor which redounds to the polarization of the "pidder"). We find further that any failure to exact conformance in "bidding" results in 33 T-Bird_Vs_The_Flying_saucers.htm and a relieving recourse. To the Highest Bidder