Enough is enough applies here too.
I grapple with this passage a little, I think because I know the efficiency there can be in having certain “beneath the line” details available about each person I connect with.
But what Ra says here is actually not in contradiction to how I teach that layer - S&A IS the foundation upon which all else can be correctly experienced.
Mark Germain shares words along these lines (second image)
My beef comes in when people effectively ‘detail’ or ‘curiosity’ shame themselves and/or others.
I can (perhaps uniquely) see how that can stunt the experiment for some people.
It can be the point of entry for its own dogma. Ever so ironically, potentially giving away Inner Authority in the process.
Mind monkey traps are everywhere.
“It's an illusion, this thing, and it is perfect in its magic. We all know that the experience of what it is to live in the density of this maia is really something that is fantastic. The dilemma for me is that though this is all deeply intellectually stimulating, and it is, and I take great pleasure in it, it is so important to remember that we live on the surface.
The fact that you can know somebody’s fractal this and that, this orientation and that orientation, and this cognition and that view, and this place and this dietary regimen and that “this” and it goes on and on and on because that's the beauty of this knowledge is that we can explain all of these thing. And yet, the explanation in and of itself is not and cannot ever be the point. The point is the life, the holistic life, the illusionary life, this is the point.
It's why this knowledge is so deeply rooted in the surface. It’s on the surface that intelligent people are stupid, because the surface is what it's all about. I don’t care how smart you are. I know. I was always the smartest person I ever knew. And boy was I dumb, and I mean dumb, I mean dumb like unbelievable. It’s what the notself is.
And it is something that we need to remind ourselves of over and over again and anybody else interested in this knowledge that the point of this knowledge is to make decisions as yourself. It’s why it is here in the world. It's not here in the world so that a few can be educated in an extraordinary way. It's here to make life easier for human beings. It’s here to transform this process and the suffering that is here on this plane by teaching simple, simple things that anyone can grasp and through it transform their life.
It's the surface where all this takes place. It's the Strategy and Authority. It doesn’t make any difference what the hell your orientation is if you don't have correctness as the guide of your life. It doesn't mean anything for you; if you're not-self you’re not in the right direction anyway and you never are going to be, you’re never going to be able to align to that, you’re never going to have the awareness that comes with being correct, it’s just not going to happen.
It doesn't matter how much you understand it. Understanding it is just a nice bonus. It's just a bonus. It's your life that matters. Strategy and Authority is still what this knowledge is all about.”