# Service-to-self *Canonical page: https://ra.contact/concepts/service-to-self* *Last updated: 2026-06-25* *The negative polarity and path of the Choice: seeking to manipulate, dominate, and enslave other-selves, founded on the concept of separation.* ## What Ra means Service-to-self is the fully lawful negative path under the Law of One — Ra states plainly that the Law blinks neither at light nor darkness, and that both paths are available (7.15). An entity pursuing this path needs to reach approximately five percent service to others and ninety-five percent service to self to approach harvestability, a grade Ra calls genuinely difficult to attain (17.32). The philosophy is actively disseminated. Through telepathy, the service-to-self understanding of the Law of One is taught, and in more advanced groups rituals and exercises are given. Its aim is to teach the manipulation of other-selves — so that those manipulated may in turn experience service toward yet others, thus producing further negative polarization down the chain (12.13). The Orion group embodies this path at a social memory complex level, working to identify resonant entities and enslave those who are not of their orientation (8.14). The path generates the same power as positive polarization, but carries a structural cost: the concept of separation implicit in power over others weakens the energy gathered and eventually disintegrates the social memory complexes that form around this orientation — what Ra calls spiritual entropy (7.15). Fourth-density negative life involves constant fighting for dominance as entities jockey for position before a social memory complex can coalesce (38.14), and sixth density forces the abandonment of the path as love/light can no longer be withheld from all (78.25). ## In Ra's words On the structural difficulty that separation creates for the negative path: > Those seeking intelligent infinity through the use of service to self create the same amount of power but, as we said, have constant difficulty because of the concept of separation which is implicit in the manifestations of the service to self which involve power over others. This weakens and eventually disintegrates the energy collected by such mind/body/spirit complexes who call the Orion group and the social memory complexes which comprise the Orion group. > > — [7.15.8-9](https://ra.contact/sessions/7#7.15) On how the negative philosophy is promulgated into third density: > Through telepathy, the philosophy of the Law of One with the distortion of service to self is promulgated. In advanced groups, there are rituals and exercises given, and these have been written down just as the service-to-others oriented entities have written down the promulgated philosophy of their teachers. The philosophy concerns the service of manipulating others that they may experience service towards the other-self, thus through this experience becoming able to appreciate service to self. These entities thus would become oriented towards service to self and in turn manipulate yet others so that they, in turn, might experience the service towards the other-self. > > — [12.13.3-6](https://ra.contact/sessions/12#12.13) ## Every use Every line where Ra uses this term, in its own context, chronologically. 60 uses, first at 7.15. - [7.15](https://ra.contact/sessions/7#7.15) — …or the darkness but is available for service to others and **service to self**. However, service to others results in service to self,… - [7.15](https://ra.contact/sessions/7#7.15) — …and service to self. However, service to others results in **service to self**, thus preserving and further harmonizing the distortions… - [7.15](https://ra.contact/sessions/7#7.15) — …Those seeking intelligent infinity through the use of **service to self** create the same amount of power but, as we said, have… - [7.15](https://ra.contact/sessions/7#7.15) — …separation which is implicit in the manifestations of the **service to self** which involve power over others. This weakens and… - [7.15](https://ra.contact/sessions/7#7.15) — …for any seeking of purpose, be it service to others or **service to self**. The laws, which are the primal distortions of the Law of… - [10.1](https://ra.contact/sessions/10#10.1) — …associate with your so-called negative polarity, or the **service to self**. This was, however, for the most part, couched in a… - [11.3](https://ra.contact/sessions/11#11.3) — …to fourth density, a few moving towards fourth density in **service to self**, the great majority repeating third density. This is… - [11.11](https://ra.contact/sessions/11#11.11) — …consciously. However, they were bent single-mindedly upon **service to self**, sparing no efforts in personal discipline to double,… - [11.11](https://ra.contact/sessions/11#11.11) — …adept and also spared no effort in the pursuit of **service to self**. - [11.12](https://ra.contact/sessions/11#11.12) — …the pursuit of the understanding of the Law of One through **service to self**: one in what you know as the Orion group, one in what you… - [11.18](https://ra.contact/sessions/11#11.18) — …their particular understanding of the Law of One, which is **service to self**. These become the elite. Through these, the attempt begins… - [11.20](https://ra.contact/sessions/11#11.20) — …is such that this gateway is opened and contact with total **service to self**, with its primal distortion of manipulation of others, is… - [11.21](https://ra.contact/sessions/11#11.21) — …concerning the Law of One with the orientation of **service to self**. The information can become technical just as some in the… - [12.9](https://ra.contact/sessions/12#12.9) — …contacts made with entities whose orientation is towards **service to self**. There are many thought-form entities in your skies which… - [12.13](https://ra.contact/sessions/12#12.13) — …the philosophy of the Law of One with the distortion of **service to self** is promulgated. In advanced groups, there are rituals and… - [12.13](https://ra.contact/sessions/12#12.13) — …thus through this experience becoming able to appreciate **service to self**. These entities thus would become oriented towards service… - [12.13](https://ra.contact/sessions/12#12.13) — …to self. These entities thus would become oriented towards **service to self** and in turn manipulate yet others so that they, in turn,… - [12.14](https://ra.contact/sessions/12#12.14) — …These same entities would be concerning themselves with **service to self** in any case, and there are many upon your so-called inner… - [12.14](https://ra.contact/sessions/12#12.14) — …possessors of certain souls who seek this distortion of **service to self**. - [12.15](https://ra.contact/sessions/12#12.15) — …the base of the complex of beingness is oriented towards **service to self**, the crusaders, who in this case do not find it necessary… - [16.8](https://ra.contact/sessions/16#16.8) — …polarization would be strongly towards an increase in the **service to self**, precisely the opposite of the former opportunity which… - [17.17](https://ra.contact/sessions/17#17.17) — …upon behavior and promised power of the third-density, **service-to-self** nature. These two types of distortions were impressed upon… - [17.23](https://ra.contact/sessions/17#17.23) — …others greatly outnumber those whose orientation towards **service to self** has become that of harvestable quality. - [17.25](https://ra.contact/sessions/17#17.25) — …often choose to move forward in their learn/teaching of **service to self**. - [17.32](https://ra.contact/sessions/17#17.32) — I am Ra. The entity who wishes to pursue the path of **service to self** must attain a grade of five—that is five percent service… - [17.32](https://ra.contact/sessions/17#17.32) — …is five percent service to others, ninety-five percent **service to self**. It must approach totality. The negative path is quite… - [18.21](https://ra.contact/sessions/18#18.21) — …better, than other-selves, this one of the techniques of **service to self**. - [22.5](https://ra.contact/sessions/22#22.5) — …ways of demonstrating either service towards others or **service to self**, with the distortion of the manipulation of others. As… - [25.11](https://ra.contact/sessions/25#25.11) — …is the density of light, or wisdom. The so-called negative **service-to-self** entity in this density is at an high level of awareness… - [30.1](https://ra.contact/sessions/30#30.1) — …of choice between the concept, or distortion, of **service to self** or service to others. This marks the end of what you may… - [30.5](https://ra.contact/sessions/30#30.5) — …complex becomes aware of the possibility of **service to self** or other-self, then the mind/body/spirit complex is… - [35.4](https://ra.contact/sessions/35#35.4) — …the Creator in an harvestable degree along the path of **service to self**. Thus we see the so-called insanity which may often arise… - [41.14](https://ra.contact/sessions/41#41.14) — …energies, especially the manipulations of other-self for **service to self**. Those reverting to orange ray—and we may add these are… - [42.20](https://ra.contact/sessions/42#42.20) — …entity shall learn the biases of service to others or **service to self** from the parental other-self. This is the reason that some… - [48.6](https://ra.contact/sessions/48#48.6) — …familiar with through channels. In fifth-density negative, **service to self** has become extremely intense and the self has shrunk or… - [49.4](https://ra.contact/sessions/49#49.4) — …polarity is considered. The lobes may both be used for **service to self** or service to others. It may seem that the rational, or… - [55.5](https://ra.contact/sessions/55#55.5) — …negative. The percentage of thought and behavior involving **service to self** must approach 99% in order for a third-density negative… - [67.8](https://ra.contact/sessions/67#67.8) — …so that it may choose to be of service along the path of **service to self**. The objective which must precede this is the termination… - [67.11](https://ra.contact/sessions/67#67.11) — …being offered, light being sent, and the service of the **service-to-self** oriented entity gratefully acknowledged while being… - [70.23](https://ra.contact/sessions/70#70.23) — …use of the catalyst given and recapitulate the lessons of **service to self** in order to build up enough polarity in order to cause the… The first 40 of 60 are listed here; all 60 are on https://ra.contact/concepts/service-to-self. --- Source: *The Ra Contact: Teaching the Law of One* — Don Elkins, Carla Rueckert, Jim McCarty, published by L/L Research (https://www.llresearch.org/). 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