Hanging vs. Dormant, “Conscious” vs. “Unconscious” gate : what’s the difference?

Here’s one of the ways Ra put it :

[he’s using the example of the root center, hence the talk about pressure]

“You've got a fixed pressure gate [head or root] that's defined, it's active. Active, is consistent, reliable, it is an aspect of the fixed life force.

Dormant is dormant. You know, nothing is going on. It isn't working. There's no pressure, nothing until something makes it not dormant.

Now, think about what it is to have a pressure gate, which is a dormant gate. What it means is that when that gate gets pressurized, it doesn't just get pressurized, it amplifies. Which means that it's going to take in as an experience more pressure. And because it's not its pressure, it's going to want to get rid of it. It's very simple.

So if you have a gate that's in an open center, and the gate is dormant, you have a pressure gate that goes on and off, you've got a pressure gate, that pressure rises very quickly. And that the moment that the pressure rising is there, because it's unnatural and uncomfortable, there is a need to get rid of the pressure.”

[that can of course be applied to any not-self strategy of undefined centers, the openness is amplifying the energy, which leads the mind to experience the not-self strategy around those specific themes]

What about when they’re “conscious” vs “unconscious”?

“If that gate is conscious, and it is active [hanging], then who you think of as yourself is this being who has this system pushing them always consistently. It's there, and you know it's there. And dependent on what that gate will ultimately connect to, remember we're not looking at that, you're going to be able to describe that fixed quality of their nature and they're going to nod their head because it's who they think they are.

And when you have somebody who has a conscious dormant gate, then you know that they are instantly instantly sensitive to being placed under pressure. “Oh, people are always pushing me under pressure”, “Oh, people are always putting me under pressure”. Because the moment that it is defined, is the moment that at a conscious level, one is immediately tuned into it and tuned into the application of it and the the feeling of the pressure in your body but then we have another two variations.”

“And the other two variations are at the unconscious level, if it's unconscious and it's active. So you always got this consistent force pushing you. And that consistent force pushing you is not something you're identified with, that can be very, very uncomfortable.

And if it's unconscious, and it's dormant, then you could really be uncomfortable. Because when you're placed under pressure, you don't even really know it. You don't, I know that so well with my open root. And it's unconscious gates. You know, it's just suddenly there and you want to get rid of it. But you don't necessarily know why it's there, where it's coming from.”

| Our dude Ra

| Source - “The gate in context”