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Gate 35 operates under constant Solar Plexus pressure — the emotional wave is its motor. "I feel" as a Throat expression means experience is not chosen through logic or planning; it is chosen through feeling. This makes the gate vulnerable: someone riding the wave toward an experience, then riding it away, may cause disruption in relationships or commitments. The abstract stream's law applies strictly here — experience once, reflect, move to the next. Repeating the same experience destroys health for this gate. Ra gave the example of making love in a canoe: once teaches you something, twice risks drowning. The instruction is not to be careless with experience but to honor the single-pass nature of the abstract path.

With Gate 36 in the Solar Plexus, the Channel of Transitoriness completes. Gate 36 is the gate of crisis, of inexperience generating the hunger that drives experience. Together, 35 and 36 create someone who enters experience without knowing what it will bring, is moved through it by an emotional wave, and exits having collected something for the collective bank. Ra noted this channel is also deeply sexual — 36 as penetration, 35 as manifestation. The collective impersonal quality is important: the experience is not personal accumulation for its own sake, it is experience feeding the shared human story. That framing can help people with this gate make sense of why they feel driven toward novelty that others find destabilizing.

Gate 35 expects that doing "this or that" will deliver a specific result. Ra described this as the expectation versus identification dynamic — Gate 16's logical talent expects "if I repeat this, I'll get that," while Gate 35 expects "if I try this, I'll get that experience." The disappointment comes when the experience only delivers itself, not a promised outcome. Integration for this gate means accepting that experience is the reward. The corrective value — the wisdom gathered — is a bonus that often arrives well after the fact, in reflection, not during the wave itself.

Line 1 (Humility) requires the capacity to accept rejection as part of the artistic path — self-worth cannot depend on the response. Line 2 (Creative Block) teaches that the muse ebbs and flows; jumping prematurely into uninspired action achieves nothing. Line 3 (Collaboration) opens blindly to the emotional wave, learns through chaos. Line 4 (Hunger) carries a lifelong appetite that Phase down naturally over decades — manipulation is the shadow when hunger overrides discernment. Line 5 (Altruism) can get locked into repeating experiences for others when what it actually needs is fresh territory. Line 6 (Rectification) insists on depth in every experience — the corrective impulse can become so heavy that spontaneous joy finds no opening.