Introduction to Book I
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Introduction to Book V
Introduction to Book I
Don Elkins: This book is an exact transcript
from tape recordings of twenty-six sessions of an experiment designed to
communicate with an extraterrestrial being. We started the experiment in 1962
and refined the process for nineteen years. In 1981 the experimental results of
our efforts changed profoundly in quality and precision. This book is simply a
report of the beginning of this latter phase of our work.
Since our experimental work began, and even before we officially formed a
research group, there was considerable confusion about the nature of our
research. I would like to state that I consider my point of view to be purely
scientific. Many readers of this material have used as a basis for its
evaluation a previously assumed philosophical bias which has ranged from
what I would call objectively scientific to subjectively theological. It is not
the purpose of our research group to attempt to do anything other than
make experimental data available. Each reader will undoubtedly reach his
own unique conclusion about the meaning of this body of data.
In recent years there has been much controversy about phenomena that
were apparently incompatible with accepted methods of scientific research.
This included such things as UFOs, mental metal-bending, psychic surgery,
and many other seemingly miraculous happenings.
To prove or disprove any of these alleged phenomena is certainly not
properly the task of the casual observer. However, most of the public
opinion that has been generated with respect to these events seems to be the
product of quick and superficial investigation. After almost thirty years of
research and experimentation in the area of so-called paranormal
phenomena, I must recommend extreme caution in reaching a conclusion.
If it is possible to make money, gain notoriety, or have fun from
perpetrating a hoax, then someone usually does it. Consequently,
paranormal or psychic areas are prime targets for the trickster, and the
careful researcher usually has to observe copious amounts of “garbage” data
in order to find a possible imbedded gem of truth. This is especially true of
Philippine psychic surgery and the large area of spirit communication in
general.
It seems to me that the presently accepted scientific paradigm is less than
adequate. It is my opinion that our present natural philosophy is a very
special case of a much more general case yet to be unveiled. It is my hope
that our research is in the direction of this discovery. After assimilating
several million words of alleged extraterrestrial communication, it is also my
opinion that this book and the subsequent volumes of the Ra material
contain the most useful information that I have discovered. As a result of all
of this delving into the rather confusing subjects of UFOlogy and
parapsychology, I, of course, have formed my current opinion of how things
“really are.” This opinion may change at any time as I become aware of
future information. This book is not intended to be a treatise of my
opinion, so I will not attempt to defend its validity. The following is the
best guess I can make about what we think we are doing. Only time will tell
as to the accuracy of this guess.
Our research group uses what I prefer to call “tuned trance telepathy” to
communicate with an extraterrestrial race called Ra. We use the English
language because it is known by Ra. In fact, Ra knows more of it than I do.
Ra landed on Earth about 11,000 years ago as a sort of extraterrestrial
missionary with the objective of helping Earthman with his mental
evolution. Failing in this attempt, Ra retreated from the Earth’s surface but
continued to monitor activities closely on this planet. For this reason Ra is
highly informed about our history, languages, etc.
Probably the most difficult thing to understand about Ra is its nature. Ra is
a sixth-density social memory complex. Since Earth is near the end of the
third-density cycle of evolution, this means that Ra is three evolutionary
cycles ahead of us. In other words, Ra’s present state of evolution is millions
of years in advance of Earthman’s. It is not surprising that Ra had difficulty
communicating with Earthman 11,000 years ago. The same problem still
exists in our present “enlightened” time.
At this writing we have completed over 100 sessions of experimental
communications with Ra. This approximate 300,000 words of information
has suggested to me a possibly more adequate scientific paradigm. Only
time and future will serve to validate and expand this paradigm.
UFOlogy is a large subject. A reasonable amount of background material
would swell this introduction to book length. Therefore, the remainder of
this introduction does not attempt to cover every portion of this diverse and
growing field of study but is instead an accounting of some of the pertinent
parts of our research from our beginnings to the present day and the Ra
contact. I’ve asked my long-time research associate, Carla L. Rueckert, to
tell our story.
Carla L. Rueckert: I first met Don Elkins in 1962. To me he was a
fascinating character, an unusual combination of a college professor and
psychic researcher. He had done well over 200 hypnotic age regressions,
probing past the birth experience and investigating the possibility that
reincarnation might not be just possible but the way things really are.
In 1962 I joined an experiment that Don had created in order to start to test
a hypothesis which he had developed with the help of Harold Price, an
engineer for Ford Motor Company. Price had acquainted Don with some
information which Don found quite interesting. Its source was allegedly
extraterrestrial. Its content was largely metaphysical and seemed to be in line
with all that Don had learned up to that point. Within this material
instructions were given for creating the means whereby to generate further
material from this same source without the necessity of actual physical
contact with extraterrestrials.
Don’s hypothesis was that this phenomenon might be reproducible; so, he
invited a dozen of his engineering students to join in an experiment with
the objective of achieving some sort of telepathic contact with a source
similar to that of the Detroit group’s. I was the thirteenth member, having
become interested in the project through a friend of mine. In those early
days of contact attempts, with Don attempting strenuously to keep the
situation controlled, months went by with what seemed to be remarkable
but puzzling results. As we sat “meditating,” according to the instructions,
everyone in the group except me began to make strange noises with their
mouths. For my part, my main difficulty during those first six months was
keeping a straight face and not laughing as the sessions gradually became a
raucous symphony of guttural clicks, slurps, and tongue flops.
The nature of the experiment changed drastically when the group was
visited by a contactee from Detroit. The contactee sat down with the group
and almost immediately was contacted apparently by telepathic impression
saying: “Why don’t you speak the thoughts that are on your minds? We are
attempting to use you as instruments of communication, but you are all
blocked through fear that you will not be speaking the proper words.”
Through this instrument, Walter Rogers of Detroit, Michigan, the group
was instructed to refrain from analysis, to speak the thoughts and to analyze
the communication only after it had been completed.
After that night a month had not gone by before half the group had begun
to produce information. By the time a year had passed, all in the group
except me were able to receive transmissions. The speech was slow and
difficult at first because each individual wanted a precise impression of each
and every word, and, in many cases, wanted to be completely controlled for
fear of making an error in transmission. Nevertheless, this was an exciting
time for the original group of students who began this strange experiment.
In January of 1970 I left my position as school librarian of a thirteen-grade
private school here in Louisville and went to work for Don full time. By this
time he was convinced that the great mystery of being could best be
investigated by research into techniques for contacting extraterrestrial
intelligences and was determined to intensify his efforts in this area.
During this period, Don worked on many peripheral areas of UFO
research, always trying to “put the puzzle pieces together.” One of the great
puzzle pieces for us was the question of how UFOs could materialize and
dematerialize. The phenomenon seemed to posit a physics which we had
not yet grasped and a being capable of using this physics. Don had gone to
many seances by himself before I joined him in his research and had very
systematically crossed each name off his list. He was looking for a
materialization manifestation, not one he could prove to anyone else, but
one which he, himself, could believe. It was his feeling that the
materializations which seances manifest were perhaps of the same or similar
nature as the materializations of UFOs. Therefore, his reasoning went,
viewing personally the mechanism of a materialization and a
dematerialization in a seance would enable him to hypothesize more
accurately concerning UFOs.
In 1971, after I had been on several fruitless materialization medium searches
with Don, we went to a seance held by the Reverend James Tingley of
Toledo, a minister of the Spiritualist church.
We went to see Reverend Tingley’s demonstrations four times. Before the
first time, Don had casually examined Reverend Tingley’s modest meeting
place inside and out. It was built of concrete blocks, like a garage. There
were no gadgets either inside or outside the building. I did not know that
Don was doing this. I merely sat and waited for the demonstration to begin.
This last point is an important one when talking about psychic research of
any kind. Don has always said that one of my assets as a research associate is
my great gullibility. Almost anyone can play a joke on me because I do not
catch on quickly. I have a way of taking things as they come and accepting
them at face value and only afterwards analyzing what has occurred. This
gullibility is a vital factor in obtaining good results in paranormal research.
A desire for proof will inevitably lead to null results and voided
experiments. An open mind, one willing to be gullible, leads its possessor to
a kind of subjective and personal certainty which does not equal proof as it
cannot be systematically reproduced in others. However, this subjective
knowing is a central part of the spiritual evolution to which Ra speaks so
compellingly in this volume and which we have researched for many years
now.
The seance began, as do all the seances I have attended, with the repetition
of the Lord’s Prayer and the singing of hymns such as “Rock of Ages” and
“I Walked in the Garden.” There were approximately twenty-six people in
this bare room, sitting on straight chairs in an oval circle. Reverend Tingley
had retired behind a simple curtain and was also seated on a folding chair.
Of the occurrences of the first seance, perhaps the most interesting to me
was the appearance of a rather solid ghost known as “Sister.” She wished to
speak to me and to thank me for helping Don. Since I had never had a close
friend that was a nun, I was quite puzzled. It was not until much later,
when Don was flying us home, that he jogged my memory, and I realized
that his mother, who had died before I met her, was known in the family as
“Sister.”
Both in that seance, and in the following seance, when Don and I were
called up, we could see the ghost-like figures of the materialized spirits quite
clearly. I, with impaired night vision, could still make out features, but Don
could see even the strands of hair on each entity.
During the second seance an especially inspiring “Master” appeared
suddenly and the room grew very cold. He gave us an inspirational message
and then told us that he would touch us so that we would know that he was
real. He did so, with enough force to bruise my arm. Then he told us that
he would walk through us so that we would know that he was not of this
density. This he did, and it is certainly an interesting sensation to watch this
occur. Lifting his arms, he blessed all those in the room, walked back
through us, and pooled down in a small pool on the floor and was gone.
In 1974 Don decided that it was time for me to become a more serious
student of the art of channeling. He argued that twelve years of sitting and
listening to inspirational messages were enough, and that it was time for me
to take some responsibility for those “cosmic sermonettes,” as Brad Steiger
has called them, that I so enjoyed. We began a series of daily meetings
designed to work intensively on my mental tuning. Many of those who
were coming to our meditations on Sunday nights heard about the daily
meetings and also came, and within three months we generated about a
dozen new telepathic receivers.
During the process of these intensive meditations we instituted our long-standing
habit of keeping the tape recorder going whenever we started a
session. Using some of the large body of material that our own group had
collected, I put together an unpublished manuscript, Voices of the Gods,
which systematically offered the extraterrestrial viewpoint as recorded by
our group meetings. In 1976, when Don and I began to write Secrets of the
UFO, (published by a private printing and available by mail) this
unpublished manuscript was of great help.
During this period one other thing occurred that was synchronistic. Don
and I, who had officially gone into partnership as L/L Research in 1970, had
written an unpublished book titled The Crucifixion of Esmeralda Sweetwater
in 1968.
In 1974, Andrija Puharich published a book with Doubleday titled URI.
The book is the narrative of Dr. Puharich’s investigation of Uri Geller and
their unexpected communication with extraterrestrial intelligences. The
form of contact was quite novel in that first some object like an ashtray
would levitate, signaling Dr. Puharich to load his cassette tape recorder. The
recorder’s buttons would then be depressed by some invisible force and the
machine would record. On playback, a message from an extraterrestrial
source would be present. Don was impressed by the large number of
correlations between these messages and our own research.
The book is fascinating in its own right but it was especially fascinating to
us because of the incredible number of distinct and compelling similarities
between the characters in the real-life journal of Dr. Puharich’s work with
Uri and the supposedly fictional characters in our book. We went to New
York to meet Andrija after phoning him, sharing our long-standing research
with him and comparing notes. As our genial host came out onto his front
verandah to welcome us, I stopped, amazed, to look at the house. Even the
house in which he lived in the country north of New York City was a dead
ringer for the house his fictional counterpart had owned in our book. The
identity was so close that I could not help but ask, “Andrija, what happened
to your peonies? When I wrote about your house I saw your driveway
circled with peony bushes.” Puharich laughed, “Oh, those. I had those cut
down three years ago.”
In 1976 we determined to attempt an introduction to the whole spectrum of
paranormal phenomena which are involved in the so-called UFO contactee
phenomenon. This phenomenon is not a simple one. Rather, it demands a
fairly comprehensive understanding and awareness of several different fields
of inquiry. Since The Ra Material is a direct outgrowth of our continuous
research with “alleged” extraterrestrial entities, it seems appropriate here to
review some of the concepts put forward in that book in order that the
reader may have the proper introduction to the “mindset,” which is most
helpful for an understanding of this work.
The first thing to say about the UFO phenomenon is that it is
extraordinarily strange. The serious researcher, as he reads more and more
and does more and more field research, finds himself less and less able to
talk about the UFO phenomenon in a sensible and “down to Earth” way.
Well over half the people in the United States have said in nationwide polls
that they believe that UFOs are real, and television series and motion
pictures reflect the widespread interest in this subject. Yet, there are few
researchers who would pretend to be able to understand the phenomenon
completely. Dr. J. Allen Hynek has called this quality of the research the
“high strangeness” factor and has linked the amount of high strangeness
with the probable validity of the case.
Some of the people who see UFOs have the experience of being unable to
account for a period of time after the encounter. The UFO is seen and then
the witness continues on with his or her daily routine. At some point, it is
noticed that a certain amount of time has been lost that cannot be
explained. Very often these same people report a type of eye irritation, or
conjunctivitis, and sometimes skin problems. In extreme cases, a person
who has lost time and seen a UFO will develop a change of personality and
find it necessary to contact the aid of a psychologist or a psychiatrist for
counseling. Dr. R. Leo Sprinkle, professor of psychology at the University
of Wyoming, has been conducting yearly meetings of people who have
experienced this type and other types of “Close Encounters.”
It was in psychiatric therapy that one of the more famous of the UFO
contact cases, that of Betty and Barney Hill, was researched. The Hills had
seen a UFO and had lost some time but managed to reduce the significance
of these events in their minds enough to get on with their daily lives.
However both of them, over a period of months, began experiencing
nightmares and attacks of anxiety.
The psychiatrist to whom they went for help was one who often used
regressive hypnosis for therapeutic work. He worked with each of the
couple separately and found, to his amazement, that, when asked to go back
to the source of their distress, both Mr. and Mrs. Hill related the story of
being taken on board a UFO while on a drive, medically examined, and
returned to their car.
Don and I have, through the years, investigated quite a few interesting
cases; but, perhaps a description of one will suffice to show some of the
more outstanding strangenesses which are quite commonly associated with
what Dr. Hynek calls “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” In January
1977, merely eighteen or so hours after our witness’s UFO experience, we
were called by a friend of ours, hypnotist Lawrence Allison. Lawrence had
been contacted by the witness’s mother, who was extraordinarily concerned
about her boy. We made an appointment with the witness, a nineteen-year-old
high school graduate employed as a truck driver.
He had seen a craft about forty feet long and ten feet tall, which was the
color of the setting sun, at very low altitude, approximately 100 to 150 feet.
The craft was so bright that it hurt his eyes, yet he could not remove his
gaze from it. He experienced a good deal of fear and lost all sense of actually
driving his car. When he was directly underneath the UFO it suddenly sped
away and disappeared. When the boy arrived home, his mother was alarmed
because his eyes were entirely bloodshot. He was able to pinpoint his time
loss since he had left precisely when a television program ended and since he
noticed the time of his arrival home. He had lost thirty-eight minutes of his
life.
The young man wished to try regressive hypnosis to “find” his lost time.
We agreed; and, after a fairly lengthy hypnotic induction, the proper state
of concentration was achieved and the witness was moved back to the point
at which he was directly underneath the UFO. Suddenly he was inside the
ship in a circular room which seemed at least twice as high as the entire ship
had seemed from the outside. He saw three objects, none of which looked
human. One was black; one was red; and one was white. All looked like
some sort of machine. Each entity seemed to have a personality, although
none spoke to the boy, and he endured a kind of physical examination.
After the examination was finished the machines merged into one and then
disappeared. The ship bounced and rocked briefly, and then the witness was
back in his car.
If you are interested in reading a full account of this case, it was published
in the Apro Bulletin, in Flying Saucer Review, in the International UFO
Reporter, and in the Mufon UFO News.
One of the most familiar aspects of close encounters is the experience that
our witness had of seemingly understanding what aliens were thinking and
feeling without any speech having taken place. Telepathic communication
has long been the subject of much experimentation and, although there is
much interesting research, there has never been a definitive study proving
good telepathic communication. Consequently, the field of research into
telepathy is still definitely a fringe area of psychic research. However,
anyone who has ever known that the phone was going to ring, or has
experienced the knowledge of what someone was going to say before it was
said, has experienced at least a mild example of telepathy. Don states that
telepathic experiments between himself and Uri Geller have been totally
successful. However, since they were deliberately not performed under
rigorous scientific control, they could not be included in any orthodox
report. It is, in fact, our opinion that the rigorous controls have a
dampening effect on the outcome of any experiment of this type.
L/L Research, which, since 1980, has been a subsidiary of the Rock Creek
Research and Development Labs, to this day holds weekly meetings open to
anyone who has read our books. We still tend to insert the word “alleged”
before the words “telepathic communications from extraterrestrials” because
we know full well that there is no way of proving this basic concept.
However, the phenomenon certainly exists—millions of words in our own
files and many millions of words in other groups’ files attest to this fact.
Regardless of the more than occasional frustrations involved in paranormal
research, the serious researcher of the UFO phenomenon needs to be
persistent in his investigation of related phenomena, such as mental metal-bending.
The physics which Ra discusses, having to do with the true nature
of reality, posits the possibility of action at a distance as a function of mind,
specifically the will. Uri Geller has been tested in several places around the
world, including the Stanford Research Laboratories, and an impressive list
of publications concerning the results of those tests exists, most notably The
Geller Papers and, as an offshoot of this metal-bending phenomenon, The
Iceland Papers.
One example which shows the close connection between UFOs and mental
metal-bending happened to us in July of 1977, after our book, Secrets of the
UFO, was published. We had been interviewed on a local program and a
woman in a nearby town had heard the broadcast and was very interested in
what we had to say since her son, a normal fourteen-year-old boy, had had a
UFO encounter. He had been awakened by a whistling sound, went to the
door, and saw a light so bright that it temporarily blinded him. Again, as is
often the case, it was the same night that people nearby also saw lights in
the sky. The woman wrote us a letter, and Don immediately called and
asked her permission to speak to her son. After questioning the young man
to Don’s satisfaction, Don asked him to take a piece of silverware and tell it
to bend without touching it in any firm or forceful way. The fourteen-year-old
picked up a fork, did as Don suggested, and the fork immediately bent
nearly double.
The boy was so startled that he would not come back to the phone, and his
mother was unable to convince him that there was any value in going
further with the experiments. She had enough foresight to realize that in the
small town in which he lived any publicity that might come to him on the
subject of metal-bending would be to his detriment, since the people of his
small town would react in a most predictable way.
Nevertheless, the link is there quite plainly. John Taylor, professor of
mathematics at Kings College, London, offered his book, Superminds, to
make his careful experimentations on metal-bending available to the world.
Taylor used only children, about fifty of them, and for a great portion of his
experiment he used metal and plastic objects sealed in glass cylinders which
had been closed by a glass blower, so that the children could not actually
touch the objects without breaking the glass.
Under this controlled circumstance the children were still able to bend and
break multitudinous objects. As you read The Ra Material you will begin to
discover why it is mostly children that are able to do these things, and what
the ability to do this has to do with the rest of the UFO message.
Since I am not a scientist, at this point I will turn the narrative back to
Don, whose background is more suited to this discussion.
Don: A persistent question when considering psychic demonstrations is:
how does the paranormal event happen? The answer may well lie in the area
of occult theory, which is concerned with the existence of various “planes.”
After death an individual finds himself at one of these levels of existence
spoken of in connection with occult philosophy, the level of being
dependent on the spiritual nature or development of the person at the time
of his death. The cliché that covers this theory is a heavenly “birds of a
feather flock together.” When a ghost materializes into our reality, it is from
one of these levels that he usually comes for his Earthly visit. In general, it is
theorized that a planet is a sort of spiritual distillery, with reincarnation
taking place into the physical world until the individual is sufficiently
developed in the spiritual sense that he can reach the higher planes of
existence, and is no longer in need of this planet’s developmental lessons.
Most of this theory was developed as a result of reported contact and
communication with the inhabitants of these supposedly separate realities. I
have come to believe that these levels interpenetrate with our physical space
and mutually coexist, though with very little awareness of each other. A
simple analogy, to which I’ve referred before, is to consider the actors in two
different TV shows, both receivable on the same set, but each show being
exclusive of the other. This seems to be what we experience in our daily
lives: one channel or density of existence, being totally unaware of the
myriad entities occupying other frequencies of our physical space. The
point of all this is that our reality is not ultimate or singular; it is, in fact,
our reality only at the present.
Many of the UFO reports display ample evidence that the object sighted
has its origin in one of these other realities or densities, just as do the
materialized ghosts. I would like to emphasize that this does not in any way
imply their unreality; rather, it displaces the UFOs’ reality from ours. I’m
saying the equivalent of: Channel 4 on the TV is equivalent to but displaced
from Channel 3 on the same TV.
If you were told to build a scale model of any atom using something the size
of a pea for the nucleus, it would be necessary to have an area the size of a
football stadium to contain even the innermost orbital electrons. If the pea
were placed at the center of the fifty-yard line, a small cotton ball on the
uppermost seat in the stands could represent an electron of the atom. There
is very little actual matter in physical matter. When you look at the stars in
the night sky, you would probably see something quite similar to what you
would see if you could stand on the nucleus of any atom of “solid” material
and look outward toward our environment. To demonstrate an electron to
you, a physicist will probably show you a curved trace of one on a
photographic plate. What he probably does not tell you is that this is
secondhand evidence. The electron itself has never been seen; only its effect
on a dense medium can be recorded. It is possible, of course, to make
accurate mathematical calculations about what we call an electron. For such
work we must know some data on magnetic field strength, electron charge,
and velocity. But since a magnetic field is caused by moving charges, which
in turn are empirically observed phenomena, we find that the entire
mathematical camouflage obscures the fact that all we really know is that
charged particles have effects on each other. We still don’t know what
charged particles are, or why they create an action-at-a-distance effect.
Senior scientists would be the first to agree that there is no such thing as an
absolute scientific explanation of anything. Science is, rather, a method or
tool of prediction, relating one or more observations to each other. In
physics, this is usually done through the language of mathematics. Our
scientific learning is a learning by observation and analysis of this
observation. In the sense of penetrating the fundamental essences of things,
we really do not understand anything at all.
A magnetic field is nothing but a mathematical method of expressing the
relative motion between electrical fields. Electrical fields are complex
mathematical interpretations of a totally empirical observation stated as
Coulomb’s Law. In other words, our forest of scientific knowledge and
explanations is made up of trees about which we understand nothing except
their effect, their existence.
To a person unfamiliar with the inner workings of modern science, it may
seem that modern man has his environment nicely under control and totally
figured out. Nothing could be further from the truth. The leaders of science
who are researching the frontiers of modern theory argue among themselves
continually. As soon as a theory begins to receive wide acceptance as being a
valid representation of physical laws, someone finds a discrepancy, and the
theory has to be either modified or abandoned entirely. Perhaps the most
well-known example of this is Newton’s “F=MA.” This attained the status
of a physical law before being found to be in error. It is not that this
equation has not proven extremely useful: we have used it to design
everything from a moon rocket to the television picture tube; but its
accuracy fails when applied to atomic particle accelerators like the cyclotron.
To make accurate predictions of particle trajectories it is necessary to make
the relativistic correction formulated by Einstein. It is interesting to note
that this correction is based on the fact that the speed of light is totally
independent of the speed of its source.
If Newton had penetrated more deeply into the laws of motion he might
have made this relativistic correction himself, and then stated that the
velocity correction would always be of no consequence, since the velocity of
light was so much greater than any speed attainable by man. This was very
true in Newton’s day, but is definitely not the case now. We still tend to
think of the velocity of light as a fantastic and unattainable speed, but with
the advent of space flight, a new order of velocities has arrived. We have to
change our thinking from our normal terrestrial concepts of velocities.
Instead of thinking of the speed of light in terms of miles per second, think
of it in terms of Earth diameters per second. The almost unimaginable
186,000 miles per second becomes an entirely thinkable twenty-three Earth
diameters per second; or, we could think of the speed of light in terms of
our solar systems’ diameter and say that light would speed at about two
diameters per day.
Einstein’s assertion that everything is relative is so apt that it has become a
cliché of our culture. Let us continue being relativistic in considering the
size of natural phenomena by considering the size of our galaxy. If you look
up at the sky on a clear night, nearly all of the visible stars are in our own
galaxy. Each of these stars is a sun like our own. A calculation of the ratio of
the number of suns in our galaxy to the number of people on planet Earth
discovers that there are sixty suns for each living person on Earth today. It
takes light over four years to get from Earth to even the nearest of these
stars. To reach the most distant star in our own galaxy would take 100,000
light years.
These calculations are made using the assumption that light has a speed.
This may be an erroneous assumption in the face of new theory, but its
apparent speed is a useful measuring tool, so we use it anyway.
So we have a creation in which we find ourselves which is so big that at a
speed of twenty-three Earth diameters a second we must travel 100,000
years to cross our immediate backyard. That is a big backyard, and it would
seem ample for even the most ambitious of celestial architects, but in truth
this entire galaxy of over 200 billion stars is just one grain of sand on a very
big beach. There are uncounted trillions of galaxies like ours, each with its
own billions of stars, spread throughout what seems to be infinite space.
When you think of the mind-boggling expanse of our creation and the
infantile state of our knowledge in relation to it, you begin to see the
necessity for considering the strong probability that our present scientific
approach to investigating these expanses is as primitive as the dugout canoe.
The most perplexing problem of science has always been finding a
satisfactory explanation of what is called action at a distance. In other
words, everyone knows that if you drop something it will fall, but no one
knows precisely why. Many people know that electric charges push or pull
on each other even if separated in a vacuum, but again no one knows why.
Although the phenomena are quite different, the equations which describe
the force of interaction are quite similar:
For gravitation: F=Gmm′r2
For electrostatic interaction: F=Kqq′r2
The attractive force between our planet and our sun is described by the
gravitational equation. The attractive force between orbiting electrons and the
atomic nucleus is described by the electrostatic interaction equation. Now
each of these equations was determined experimentally. They are not
apparently related in any way, and yet they both describe a situation in which
attractive force falls off with the square of the distance of separation.
A mathematical representation of an action at a distance effect is called a
field, such as a gravitational or electric field. It was Albert Einstein’s
foremost hope to find a single relation which would express the effect of
both electric and gravitational phenomena; in fact, a theory which would
unify the whole of physics, a unified field theory. Einstein believed that this
was a creation of total order and that all physical phenomena were evolved
from a single source.
This unified field theory, describing matter as pure field, has been
accomplished now. It seems that the entire situation was analogous to the
solution of a ponderously complex Chinese puzzle. If you can find that the
right key turns among so many wrong ones, the puzzle easily falls apart.
Dewey B. Larson found the solution to this problem, and the puzzle not
only fell apart, but revealed an elegantly adequate unified field theory rich
in practical results; and, like a good Chinese puzzle, the solution was not
complex, just unexpected. Instead of assuming five dimensions, Larson
assumed six, and properly labeled them as the three dimensions of space and
the three dimensions of time. He assumed that there is a three-dimensional
coordinate time analogous to our observed three-dimensional space.
The result of this approach is that one can now calculate from the basic
postulate of Larson’s theory any physical value within our physical universe,
from sub-atomic to stellar. This long-sought-after unified field theory is
different because we are accustomed to thinking of time as onedimensional,
as a stream moving in one direction. Yet once you get the
hang of it, coordinate time is mathematically a more comfortable concept
with which to deal. Professor Frank Meyer of the Department of Physics at
the University of Wisconsin presently distributes a quarterly newsletter to
scientists interested in Larson’s new theory which explores perplexing
questions in physical theory using Larson’s approach. I was interested in
testing Larson’s theory and made extensive calculations using his postulate.
I became convinced that his theory is indeed a workable unified field
theory.
I had been pondering several interesting statements communicated through
contactees by the alleged UFO source prior to discovering Larson’s work in
the early sixties. Although the people who had received these
communications knew nothing of the problems of modern physics, they
were getting information which apparently was quite central to physical
theory: first, they suggested that the problem with our science was that it
did not recognize enough dimensions. Second, they stated that light does
not move; light is. Larson’s theory posits six dimensions instead of the
customary four, and finds the pure field, which Einstein believed would
represent matter, to move outward from all points in space at unit velocity,
or the velocity of light. Photons are created due to a vibratory displacement
in space-time, the fabric of the field. Furthermore, the contactees were
saying that consciousness creates vibration, this vibration being light. The
vibratory displacements of space-time in Larson’s theory are the first
physical manifestation, which is the photon or light. According to the UFO
contactees, the UFOs lower their vibrations in order to enter our skies. The
entire physical universe postulated by Larson is dependent on the rate of
vibration and quantized rotations of the pure field of space-time.
The contactees were suggesting that time was not what we think it is.
Larson suggests the same thing. The UFOs were said to move in time as we
move in space. This would be entirely normal in Larson’s time-space
portion of the universe.
Lastly, and perhaps most importantly, the contactees were receiving the
message that the creation is simple, all one thing. Larson’s theory is a
mathematical statement of this unity.
For more information about Larsonian physics, contact the International
Society of Unified Science, a group of scientists and philosophers currently
promoting Larson’s theory. Their address is: International Society of
Unified Science, Frank H. Meyer, President, 1103 15th Ave., S.E.,
Minneapolis, MN 55414.
What physicists have never before considered worth investigating is now
increasing at a very rapid rate. Action at a distance, apparently as a result of
some type of mental activity, seems repeatedly the observed effect. When
Uri Geller performs on TV, mentally bending metal and fixing clocks, there
are often many kids who try to duplicate Uri’s “tricks.” Sometimes the kids
succeed. The number of children that can cause bends and breaks in metal
and other materials just by wanting the break or bend to occur is increasing
daily. As previously mentioned, John Taylor, professor of mathematics at
Kings College, reports in his excellent book, Superminds, on the extensive
tests run in England on several of these gifted children. If the Gellerizing
children continue to increase in numbers and ability, the 1980s will see such
fantasies of TV as “My Favorite Martian,” “I Dream of Jeannie,” and
“Bewitched” becoming a part of reality.
With controlled, repeatable experiments like those conducted by Taylor and
by the Stanford Research Institute in the United States, we begin to have
good solid data available for study. Gradually we are moving into a position
from which we can begin to create a science of “magic,” for that which has
been called magic through the ages is now being performed at an ever-increasing
rate, primarily by children. In the future, we may even find this
“magic” added to the curriculum of the sciences at universities. In point of
fact, the present disciplines of chemistry, physics, etc., are still basically
“magic” to us, since we are still in the position of having no ultimate
explanation of causality.
Carla: One of the concepts most central to the system of study which comes
out of research into the contactee messages offered by alleged UFO contact
is the concept of the immortality of our individual consciousness. There is a
long mystical tradition extending back far beyond Biblical times, which
posits a type of immortal soul. St. Paul in his Epistles has distinguished
between the human body and the spiritual body. Long before St. Paul’s
century, Egyptian priests had the concept of the ka and posited that this ka,
or spiritual personality, existed after death and was the true repository of the
essence of consciousness of the person who had lived the life. Egyptians, of
course, made very elaborate arrangements for life after death.
If life after death is posited as a probability, one may also posit life before
birth. Any mother who has more than one child will testify to the
undoubted fact that each child comes into his life or incarnation already
equipped with a personality which cannot be explained by environment or
heredity. After all the factors of both have been accounted for, there remains
a unique personality with which the child seems to have been born. Each
child has certain fears which are not explainable in terms of the fears of the
parents. A child, for instance, may be terrified of a thunderstorm. The rest
of the family may be perfectly comfortable during such a storm. Another
child may be extraordinarily gifted at the playing of an instrument when
neither parent nor any relative as far back as the parents can remember had
musical ability.
This brings us back to the serious consideration of reincarnation. According
to the alleged UFO contact messages, reincarnation is one of the most
important concepts to be grasped, for through it the universe functions in
order to advance the evolution of mankind. This evolution is seen to be not
only physical but also metaphysical, not only of the body but also of the
spirit, and incarnations are seen in this system of philosophy to be
opportunities for an individual to continue his evolution through numerous
and varied experiences.
Although perhaps two-thirds of the world’s population embraces, or is
familiar with a religious system which posits reincarnation, those of us of
the Judeo-Christian culture are not as familiar with this concept.
Nevertheless, Don’s early investigations seemed to indicate that
reincarnation was a probability and that incarnations contained situations,
relationships, and lessons which were far more easily understood in the light
of knowledge of previous incarnations.
One succinct example of this relationship, which some are fond of calling
karma, is that of a young boy (who requests that his name not be used) who
in this life had experienced such intense allergies to all living things that he
could not cut the grass, smell the flowers, or, during the blooming season,
spend much time at all outside. Under hypnotic regression he experienced
in detail a long life in England. He had been a solitary man whose nature
was such as to avoid contact with any human being. He had inherited a
fairly large estate and he spent his life upon it. His one pleasure was the very
extensive garden that he maintained. In it he had his gardeners plant all
manner of flowers, fruits, and vegetables.
After the life had been discussed, and while the lad was still in trance,
hypnotist Lawrence Allison asked the boy, as he often did, to contact what
is loosely referred to as his Higher Self. He had the boy ask his Higher Self
if the lesson of putting people first and other things second had been
learned. The Higher Self said that indeed the lesson had been learned. The
hypnotist then had the boy ask the Higher Self if this allergy could be
healed, since the lesson had been learned and the allergy was no longer
necessary. The Higher Self agreed. The hypnotist then carefully brought the
boy out of the hypnotic state and walked over to his piano on which was
placed a magnolia. As magnolia blossoms will do, it had dropped its pollen
on the polished surface of the piano, and the hypnotist scraped the pollen
onto his hand, took it over to the boy, and deliberately blew the pollen
directly at the boy’s nose. “How could you do that to me!” exclaimed the
boy. “You know how allergic I am.” “Oh, really?” asked the hypnotist. “I
don’t hear you sneezing.” The boy remained cured of his allergy.
When we attempt to consider our relationship with the universe, we begin
to see that there is a great deal more in heaven and earth than has been
dreamt of in most philosophies. It is an unbelievably gigantic universe, and
if we have a true relationship to it we must, ourselves, be more than, or
other than, our daily lives seem to encompass. In The Ra Material a good
deal of information is discussed concerning our true relationship with the
universe, but it is good to realize that we do have a long tradition of work
upon what may perhaps most simply be called the magical personality.
Magic is, of course, a much misused term and is mostly understood as being
the art of prestidigitation, or illusion. When one sees a magician, one
accepts the fact that one is seeing very skillfully performed illusions.
However, there is a study of the so-called magical personality which suggests
that there is a thread which runs through our daily lives which we can grasp;
and, using that thread, remove ourselves from time to time into a
framework of reference points in which we see reality as being that of the
spiritual body, that personality which exists from incarnation to incarnation
and indeed “since before the world was.” By working upon this magical
personality, by interiorizing experience, by accepting responsibility for all
that occurs, by carefully analyzing our reactions to all that occurs, and by
eventually coming to balance our reactions to all that occurs so that our
actions in our environment are generated within the self and are no longer
simple reactions to outward stimulus, we strengthen the so-called magical
personality until we are able to have some small claim to “the art of causing
changes in consciousness at will.” This is the classic definition of magic.
Each time that a person sustains an unfortunate situation and reacts to it by
not giving anger for anger or sadness for sadness but instead offering
compassion and comfort where none was expected, we strengthen that
thread of inner strength within us and we become more and more
associated with a life that is closely related to the organic evolution of the
universe.
It is some sense of the wholeness or organic nature of the universe which
best informs the student of the UFOs’ purposes in being here. They have
been here, by many accounts, for thousands of years; at least UFOs have
been mentioned, along with many other strange sights, in the annals of all
early histories including the Bible.
Modern-day interest in UFOs can probably be fairly accurately dated from
Kenneth Arnold’s historic sighting over Mt. Rainier in Washington.
Another early and historic sighting, also by an extremely reliable witness, is
coincidentally connected with Don Elkins and so I would choose the
Mantell case of January 7, 1948, instead of the Kenneth Arnold case of June
24, 1947, for discussion.
Thomas Mantell had trained as a pilot and had flown missions in Africa,
Europe, and, most notably, D-Day. In 1947 he was out of the Air Corps
and had started the Elkins-Mantell Flying School on Bowman Field in
Louisville, Kentucky. In 1947 Don Elkins was a youthful student in this
school.
At about two o’clock in the afternoon on January 7, 1948, the Kentucky
State Police called Fort Knox and reported to the MPs there that they had
sighted a circular flying object moving rather quickly in their area. The MPs
called the commanding officer at Godman Field at Fort Knox and through
due process the flight service checked with Wright Field in Ohio to see if
there were any experimental aircraft which could explain the sighting.
Wright Field had none flying.
Meanwhile, the tower at Godman Field, Fort Knox, had already sighted this
disc-shaped object, both visually and on radar, and had made a report
which was relayed quickly to the commanding officer.
As it happened, four F-51s were in the area en route from Marietta, Georgia,
near Atlanta, to Louisville, Kentucky. Since they were already airborne the
commanding officer at Godman Field decided to contact the lead pilot and
request that he investigate the UFO. The lead pilot was Captain Thomas
Mantell.
Mantell was given a radar vector from Godman tower and moved towards
the UFO. He sighted the object and stated that it was traveling slower than
he was and that he would close to take a look. Then Mantell informed the
tower that the object was now above him, that it appeared to be metallic,
and that it was tremendous in size.
None of the F-51s, including Mantell’s, was equipped with oxygen. The
other pilots leveled off at 15,000 feet. Mantell kept climbing. That was the
last transmission from Captain Mantell. Minutes later there was a telephone
call stating that a plane had crashed. It was Captain Mantell’s. His body lay
near the wreckage.
I could spend the length of the book attempting to give you a sketchy
introduction to the thousands and thousands of sightings like Captain
Mantell’s that involve irrefutably puzzling and concrete evidence of
something highly strange occurring. There are many radar sightings of
UFOs. There is one volume, published by the Center for UFO Studies in
Evanston, Illinois, which deals solely with the numerous physical traces that
UFOs have left behind, either by irradiating the soil, causing other changes
in soil composition, or leaving impressions in the ground. A computer set
up by this same organization to carry a program of information regarding
UFOs contains well over 80,000 reports; and some things become
startlingly clear by the use of “UFOCAT,” the computer. For instance, it is
now possible, if one measures a landing trace from a UFO sighting, to find
out from the computer what the probable description of the UFO itself will
be. Thus, in a way, the witness is merely confirming what the computer
already knows.
However, this is an introduction to a book which consists of transcripts of
messages of a very precise nature having to do with metaphysics,
philosophy, and the plan of evolution, both physical and spiritual, of man
on Earth. Consequently, what I propose to do is share with you some of the
research material which our group has collected through the years. Since all
of these examples come from the same group we never describe who the
receiver may be as we feel that it is the information that is important rather
than the person who is transmitting.
According to an entity called Hatonn who has spoken with our group and
several others for many years, the purpose in being here of at least some of
the UFOs that are seen in our skies at this time is much like the purpose
that we might have in sending aid to a disaster-stricken or extremely
impoverished country. It is a desire to be of service.
We have been contacting people of planet Earth for many, many of
your years. We have been contacting at intervals of thousands of years
those who sought our aid. It is time for many of the people of this
planet to be contacted, for many now have the understanding and the
desire to seek something outside the physical illusion that has for so
many years involved the thinking of those of this planet. The process
we are stimulating is one which is self-generating. As more and more of
those who desire our contact receive it and pass it on to others, then
those who receive this passed-on information will then themselves be
able to reach a state of thinking and understanding sufficiently in tune,
shall I say, with our vibrations in order to receive our contact. For this,
my friends, is how contacts work. It is first necessary, if the entity is to
be able to receive our contact, for him to become of a certain vibration
as a result of his thinking. This is greatly speeded by involvement in
groups such as this. And then it is finally done through meditation. In
other words, the verbal communications given to the entity by the
channels such as this one create a system of thought and a desire for
spiritual awareness that raises his vibration.
We of the Confederation of Planets in the Service of the Infinite
Creator are very sorry that we cannot step upon your soil and teach
those of your people who desire our service. But, my friends, as we have
said before, this would be a very great disservice to those who do not
desire our service at this time, and we are afraid we would have little
effect in bringing understanding even to those who desire it, for
understanding, my friends, comes from within. We can only guide. We
can only suggest. We are attempting to do this in such a way that the
seeking of the individual will be stimulated to turning his thinking
inward, inward to that single source of love and understanding, the
Creator, that is part of us all, part of everything that exists, for
everything that exists, my friends, is the Creator.
We are very privileged to have you join with us in this great service at
this time in the history of your planet. For this is a very great time, a
great transitional period, in which many of the Earth’s people will be
raised from their state of confusion to a simple understanding: the love
of their Creator.
Hatonn speaks of our desire to seek something outside the physical illusion.
What he talks about so persuasively is something that is often referred to by
members of what Ra calls the Confederation of Planets in the Service of the
Infinite Creator as “the original thought.” This is another term for our word,
“love,” but implies a great deal more. It implies a unity that is so great that we
do not see each other simply as close friends, or brothers and sisters, but,
ideally, as the Creator; and, as we see each other and ourselves as the Creator,
we see one being. This concept is at the very heart of telepathy and Hatonn
talks about this concept and the original thought in general:
At this time I am in a craft far above your place of dwelling. I am at this
time able to monitor your thoughts. This, my friends, might seem to
some of your peoples to be an infringement, but I can assure you that it
is not. Our capabilities of knowing the thinking of the peoples of this
planet Earth are not designed in any way to infringe upon either their
thinking or their activities. We do not consider the knowledge of the
thoughts of others to be an infringement for we see these thoughts as
our own. We see these thoughts as the thoughts of the Creator.
My friends, it may seem to you that a thought of a nature other than
one of love and brotherhood might be a thought generated not of our
Creator. This is not possible, my friends. All thought that is generated
is generated by the Creator. All things that are generated are generated
by the Creator. He is all things and is in all places, and all of the
consciousness and all of the thought that exists is the thought of our
Creator. His infinite number of parts all have free will, and all may
generate in any way they choose. All of His parts communicate with all
of the creation, in His entire and infinite sense.
We are not attempting to change the thinking of our Creator. We are
only attempting to bring His ideas to some of the more isolated parts
for their inspection and appraisal. Isolated parts, I say, my friends, and
why should we consider these parts to be isolated? We consider them
isolated because from our point of view they have chosen to wander far
from the concept that we have found to permeate most of the parts of
the creation with which we are familiar. We find, my friends, that man
upon planet Earth in his experiences and experiments has become
isolated in his thinking and has divorced it from that to which we are
accustomed in the vast reaches of creation which we have experienced.
I urge you, my friends, to remember what we have brought to you. The
next time that you are, shall we say, backed into a corner by the
circumstances which prevail within the illusion of your physical
existence, remember what you have learned and do not forget what you
have worked so hard to obtain. You will choose at any time to alter
your needs and desires from within the physical illusion to your being
within the creation of the Father. As long as your objectives lie within
this physical illusion it will be necessary for you to be subject to the
laws which prevail within this illusion. If your desires can be altered by
the application of what you are learning and are lifted in the creation of
the Infinite One, then, my friends, you may have a great deal more
ability to remove yourself from the corners into which the illusion
seems to back you.
To some who may read these words the concepts may seem to be a less than
practical and certainly overly idealistic method of discussing what many
have called the new age or the Age of Aquarius. It certainly seems unlikely
that an entire planet could go so wrong philosophically and that beings
supposedly more advanced than we would care enough about us to attempt
to help us.
However as we look for the heart of the “cosmic” system of philosophy, we
find much that is clear and simple without being simplistic in the least, much
that is ethical without being dogmatic—in short, much that is informative.
Here Hatonn speaks of the nature of reality, which, in the main, seems to
have escaped the notice of Earth man:
My friends, man on Earth has become very shortsighted in appreciation
of the creation. He does not understand the true meaning of the simple
and beautiful life that surrounds him. He does not appreciate its
generation and regeneration. He learns that the very atmosphere that he
breathes is cycled through the plant life to be regenerated to support
him and his fellow beings and creatures, and yet this seems to the vast
majority of those who dwell upon this planet to be an exercise in
technology rather than one in theology. There is no awareness of the
Creator’s plan to provide for His children, to provide for their every
desire and to provide a state of perfection. Man on Earth has lost the
awareness that is rightfully his. And why, my friends, has he lost this
awareness? He has lost this because he has focused his attention upon
devices and inventions of his own. He has become hypnotized by his
playthings and his ideas. He is but a child in his mind.
All of this may be very simply remedied, and man can once more return
to an appreciation of reality rather than an appreciation of the illusion
created by his mind. All that is necessary, my friends, is that he
individually avail himself to this appreciation of reality through the
process of meditation, for this process stills his active conscious mind
which is continually seeking stimulus within the illusion developed over
so many centuries of time upon planet Earth. Very rapidly, then, he can
return to an appreciation of the reality in the functioning of the real
creation.
This, my friends, is what man of Earth must return to if he is to know
reality: this simple thought of absolute love, a thought of total unity
with all his brothers regardless of how they might express themselves or
whom they might be, for this is the original thought of your Creator.
The creation of the Father, then, as Hatonn calls it, has a very simple nature,
a nature in which love is the essence of all things and of all their functions.
Yet this “real” creation obviously is not uppermost in most of our minds
because we live in a day-to-day atmosphere to which the Confederation has
referred quite often as an illusion.
We of the Confederation of Planets in the Service of the Infinite
Creator have been, for many of your years, aware of many principles of
reality. We are aware of these principles because we have availed
ourselves to them just as the people of your planet may do.
It is possible through meditation to totally reduce the illusion that you
now experience that creates the separation—an illusory separation—to
what it actually is, a total illusion. We have been continuing to speak to
you about meditation. We have spoken to you many times about reality
and about love and about understanding, and yet you do not seem to
be able to overcome the illusion.
The reason for the illusion, my friends, is one that man on Earth has
generated. He has generated it out of desire. This illusion is useful. It is
very useful for those who would wish to evolve at a very rapid rate by
experiencing it and by using it while within it. Many of us who are now
circling your planet would desire to have the opportunity that you have,
the opportunity to be within the illusion and then, through the
generation of understanding, use the potentials of the illusion. This is a
way of gaining progress spiritually and has been sought out by many of
our brothers.
I cannot over-emphasize the necessity of becoming able to understand
the nature of the potentials within your illusion and then, by self-analysis
and meditation, reacting to that in a way that will express the
thought that generated us: the thought of our Creator. This was done
by the teacher whom you know as Jesus. This man recognized his
position. He recognized the illusion. He understood the reason for the
potentials within the illusion, and his reaction to these potentials and
activities within the illusion was a reaction which was expressing the
thought of the Creator, a thought of love.
Keep uppermost in your mind that the illusion that you experience is
an illusion, that it is surrounding you for the purpose of teaching you.
It can only teach you if you become aware of its teachings. It is said that
“He worked His wonders in mysterious ways.” This way may seem
mysterious; however, it is the way of spiritual evolvement. There are
many souls experiencing the illusion in which you find yourself;
however, there are few using this illusion to grow. They are not doing
this other than at a subliminal level because they have not availed
themselves through their seeking to a knowledge of the possibility of
doing this.
Once an individual has become aware of the possibility of using the
illusion in which he finds himself in your physical world for the
progression of spiritual growth, it is necessary that he take the next step
and use his knowledge to express, regardless of the potentials which
affect him, the love and understanding of his Creator.
As you have by now become aware, meditation is always suggested as the best
means of attaining understanding, of progressing spiritually, and of
understanding the nature of the illusion and the purpose for which you are
experiencing it. Each person is involved in an illusion or game in which we
may, if we wish, use our consciousness in meditation in such a way as to
create a more rapid growth in personal evolution. But how do we bring
ourselves to the point at which this process, which often seems very difficult,
is grasped and begun?
Desire, my friends, is the key to what you receive. If you desire it, you
shall receive it. This was the Creator’s plan, a plan in which all of His
parts would receive exactly what they desire. My friends, often in the
illusion which you now experience it seems that you do not acquire
what you desire. In fact, the opposite seems to be the case in many,
many instances. It is a paradox, it seems, that such a statement should
be made and that such apparent results of desire are manifested, and yet
we state, without exception, that man receives exactly what he desires.
Perhaps, my friends, you do not understand desire. Perhaps this
understanding is not within the intellectual mind. Perhaps it will be
necessary to spend time in meditation to become aware of your real
desire. For, my friends, there is much, much more of you and of the
creation than you presently appreciate with your intellectual abilities in
your present illusion.
It is very difficult for the peoples of this planet to give up their illusion,
to give up the preconceived knowledge of what they believe to be cause
and effect. However, this is not reality. This is illusion, born of illusion.
It is a simple product of the complexity that man upon this planet has
generated. Join with us in divorcing your thinking from such
complexities and become aware of what has created you, everything that
you experience, and everything that is thought. Become aware of your
Creator. Become aware of His desire, and when you know this desire
you will know your own, for you and your Creator are one, and you are
one with all of His parts and, therefore, all of your fellow beings
throughout all of the creation. When you know His desire you will feel
it. There will be no more confusion. There will be no more questions.
You will have found what you have sought. You will have found Love,
for this is the desire of your Creator: that all of His parts express and
experience the Love that created you. This may be found simply, in
meditation. No amount of seeking within the intellectual concepts of
your people, no amount of careful planning or careful interpretation of
the written or spoken word will lead you to the simple truth.
The Confederation messages concentrate a great deal upon the concept of
seeking and of desire, feeling that the will of each entity is absolutely central
to each entity’s quest for evolution. In fact, they say, free will is at the
foundation of the universe. Each entity is conceived not only as being part of
one unity but also as being a totally unique part of that unity. Each person’s
free will is quite paramount and the Confederation’s concern is always to
avoid infringement upon the free will of any person. Their method of
contacting man on Earth takes its form from a deep concern for this free will:
We do not wish to impose our understanding of truth upon your
peoples, and this would be something that we would do if we contacted
them directly. We could not help it, for our very utterance of truth
would be accepted by many of your peoples as being valid. We do not
wish to be thought of as the ultimate representatives of the Creator’s
truth. We wish to give this to your peoples in such a way so that they
may accept or reject this at their own will. This, as we understand it, is
a necessary provision in the spiritual evolvement of all mankind: that he
be, at some state of his evolution, in a position to accept or reject what
is necessary for his evolution. In this way, and only in this way, can he
know the truth, the truth of the Creator, that single truth that is the
creation, the truth of the love of the creation.
It must be realized from within. It cannot be impressed from without.
We are attempting to stimulate those of your peoples who would be
stimulated to seeking this truth that is within them. We have been
required by our understanding of our Creator’s principle to remain in
hiding, for we cannot serve one individual and at the same time do a
disservice to his neighbor by proving within his own mind that we exist,
for many of those of planet Earth at this time do not desire to believe in
or have proof of our existence. For this reason we find it necessary to
speak to those who seek through channels such as this one. We find it
necessary to give to those who seek that which they seek in such a way
that they, for themselves, may appraise its value and accept or reject, on
their own terms, those thoughts that we bring, and understand the
reality of the creation in which all of us exist.
Once the desire to receive this message has been developed the messages are
indeed available, not just from our group but from many so-called contactee
or channeling groups around the world. Indeed, you will find little new in the
“cosmic” system of philosophy. Those concepts are basic, profound, and
simple. The Confederation has a name for one of the great goals of this
system of meditation and study—understanding:
Many of your peoples are at this time seeking outside their illusion. To
those who seek, we offer our understanding. We do not attempt to say
that we have ultimate wisdom. We only suggest that that which we
have to offer may be of value, for we have found, in our experience, as
we have passed through the same experiences as those of Earth, that
there is a most beneficial direction in seeking to serve. We are acting
through instruments such as those here tonight to give to those who
seek, an understanding. Our presence is meant to stimulate seeking.
Through this process, we hope to contact as many of the peoples of
your planet as would desire our contact. We hope in the very near
future to be able to contact many more of the peoples of your planet,
the peoples who would desire understanding. It is difficult to contact
those people of your planet because of this, shall I say, mixture of types,
but it is well worth our effort if we are able to contact but one.
We will continue to act as we do now, speaking through instruments
such as this one, until a sufficient number of the peoples of your planet
have become aware of truth. We are constantly striving to bring,
through many channels of communication, the simple message to the
peoples of Earth: the simple message that will leave them with a simple
understanding of all that there is, and that is love.
But understanding, that understanding which shows us the love of an Infinite
Creator, is again and again described as being possible far more easily through
the processes of meditation than by any other method:
There are pieces of information that are of importance and there are
pieces of information that are not. Wisdom is a rather lonely matter,
my friends. You must accept this truth as you acquire the burden of
wisdom. That which you know, you are to be careful of, for what you
know in the real creation has power, and that which you desire is all of
the direction which that power will be aimed at; but have faith, my
friends, in what you know and what you are learning. Feed your faith
and your understanding through meditation. The further that you go
along this path, my friends, the more meaningful you will find this
simple statement: meditate. It begins as a simple process and, little by
little, it becomes a way in which you live. Observe it as you progress
along your own spiritual path.
It is frequently suggested in contactee messages that the state of mind of the
seeker has the opportunity of being continuously in a far more pleasant
configuration than is the mind of one who is not actively engaged in pursuing
a path of self-knowledge and seeking. However, there are other fruits of the
path of meditation and seeking which are predictable and which engage the
attention of those who channel these messages.
It is to be remembered, my friends, that service to others is service to
one’s self. Notice that we do not say that service is like unto service to
one’s self. There is no similarity between others and ourselves. There is
identity. There is completion and unity. Therefore, that which is felt of
a negative nature towards a sheep of the flock is felt towards one’s self
and is felt toward the Creator. This enters the service which you
attempt to give to yourself and to the Creator through service to
another and causes a blot or a stain upon the perfect service you would
have performed. It must be remembered that each person is a
completely free entity whose independence must in no way be shaken
and yet whose identity remains one with you.
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There is only one thing of great importance for you to consider at this
time. That is your personal preparation for service. You are to serve
your fellow man, and, therefore, it is necessary that you prepare
yourselves for this service. This of course, my friends, is done in
meditation. We cannot overemphasize the importance of meditation.
Through this technique you will receive answers to all of your
questions. It is difficult to realize this, but this is true. All of your
questions can be reduced to an extremely simple concept. This you can
become aware of in meditation. Once this has been done you will be
ready to serve, just as others have served and are now serving upon your
planet. Follow their example; spend time in meditation. Qualify
yourself to reach out to your fellow man and lead him from the
darkness of confusion that he is experiencing back into the light that he
desires.
One service which the Confederation sources greatly appreciate is that
provided by vocal channels which are trained in groups such as the one which
we have had in Louisville since 1962. They never suggest in any way that their
message is unique or that “salvation” can only be gained by listening to that
message. However, they are aware that there are many who seek that message
through sources other than orthodox religion and classical philosophy.
Consequently, they are here to provide a service of making information
available and can only perform their service through vocal channels:
There are more people upon this planet seeking than there have been in
the past. However, many are quite confused in their attempts to seek
and there is a need at this time for many more channels such as this one
who can receive directly the thoughts that so many of the people of this
planet are seeking. We are attempting at this time to generate greater
numbers of proficient vocal channels who can receive our thoughts
quite readily. This requires daily meditation. This is all that is required:
daily meditation. It is assumed, of course, that as this daily meditation
is performed there is a desire for our contact.
As one who has participated in meditation groups for many years, may I
suggest that individual meditations not include the attempt to contact
Confederation sources. It is best to pursue this attempt only in a group
situation, preferably a group which contains at least one experienced receiver.
And always, whether meditating alone or in a group, I strongly recommend
some means of “tuning” so that the meditation which follows will be at the
highest spiritual level possible. This “tuning” can be accomplished in any way
preferable to the meditator. The Lord’s Prayer, “Aum-ing” or other singing or
chanting, the reading of some inspirational writing, or a careful visualization
of the “white light” of the Creator, are all useful “tuning” methods.
Reincarnation is very basic to the Confederation message. One of the most
highly regarded fruits of the meditation and seeking process is the ability of
the seeker to penetrate what Ra calls the “forgetting process” which occurs
at the time of our birth into this incarnation so that we might become
aware of the lessons which we have to learn during this incarnation. These
lessons are always along the lines of how to love better, more fully, more
deeply, or with more kindness and understanding. However, each entity has
unique lessons:
At the time at which each of you incarnated, my friends, each of you
was aware that certain lessons, hitherto unlearned, were to be the goals
for achievement in this incarnation. If it seems to you that your entire
incarnation within this illusion has been a series of difficulties of one
particular type, then you are almost certainly aware in some manner of
one of your lessons. As you can see, these lessons are not to be avoided.
They are to be learned.
Further, we must point out to you that when a confrontation in such a
lesson has been achieved, that which separates you from understanding
is most often your own thinking. Your conscious thinking processes are
quite capable of being self-destructive in the sense that they may aid
you to avoid the lesson that you wish in reality to learn. Therefore, as
you approach a lesson, we suggest that if it is possible to achieve a
temporary abeyance of the conscious, analytical processes, then you
may return to the problem with a much clearer mentality, ready to
learn what you came to this experience to learn, rather than only to
avoid what you came to learn.
We know how difficult it is to achieve the meditative state at all times,
for we have been where you are and we are aware of that particular type
of illusion that you call physical. We urge you, therefore, to depend on
meditation of a formal kind, then to attempt a semi-meditative state at
all times, and, by this, we mean simply to achieve a state of attention so
that your destructive impulses are not free to clog your mind
completely and keep you from learning the lessons you came to learn.
Undergirding all of the lessons that we have to learn about love is the basic
concept that all things are one:
Meditate upon the complete unity of yourself and all that you see. Do
this not once, and not simply in present circumstances, but at all times,
and especially in difficult circumstances. For insofar as you love and feel
at one with those things which are difficult for you, to that extent will
those circumstances be alleviated. This is not due to any laws within
our physical illusion, but is due to the Law of Love, for that body which
is of spirit, which is interpenetrated with the physical body, is higher
than your physical body, and those changes which you make by love
upon your spiritual body will, of necessity, reflect themselves within the
physical illusion.
All is one, my friends. My voice is now the voice of this instrument; my
thoughts are her thoughts. Please believe that the vibration we offer to
you is not a vibration of personality, but is a vibration of the Creator.
We are also channels. There is only one voice. Within this vibration, we
are self-consciously aware that this voice is the voice of the Creator. It is
simply a matter of lifting vibrations which are not so self-aware of the
Creator. All things will eventually come into harmony in relation to
your understanding.
Even if the universe for those around you remains disharmonious and
difficult, if your mind is stayed upon the unity of the Creator, your
own universe will become harmonious, and this is not by your doing
but by the simple love of the Creator.
From many sources we have heard that we are in the last days of a particular
era of evolution. Popular writers of the Christian faith have taken the writings
of the Book of Revelations and analyzed them in such a way that it is
suggested that the days of Armageddon are near at hand. Scientists have
written many books exploring the possibility that unusual planetary
configurations such as the Jupiter Effect will occur now and in the year 2,000,
thus enlarging the possibility for Earth changes. Other scientists have
examined much evidence indicating that a polar shift by the year 2,000 is
probable. Prophets such as Edgar Cayce have channeled information having
to do with such drastic changes occurring and in addition, of course, there are
our many concerns having strictly to do with the man-made potential for
planetary devastation. We also have gathered information in our meetings on
the subject of Earth changes:
There is a season upon your planet which shall be highly traumatic
within your physical illusion. The physical reasons for this are varied.
Your scientists will spend a great deal of time, while they can, in
attempting to catalog and describe each of the conditions which will
produce disaster on this physical plane of your planet. That which your
scientists speak of is quite so, and will be part of the program which has
been predicted by all of those holy works which you have upon the face
of the Earth.
It is not either permissible or possible for us to tell you precisely what
events will occur, or when they will occur, due to the fact that the
vibration within the mind and heart of the peoples upon your planet is
determining and will determine the precise events. There is within the
planet Earth a great deal of karma which must be adjusted as the cycle
changes, and these things will manifest. Precisely when, and how, we
cannot say, nor would we wish to, my friends. For the rain, and the
wind, and fire, will destroy only those things which are in what you call
the third density of vibration. You may value those things because you
cannot imagine what a fourth-density existence will be like. We suggest
to you that you spend no time concerning yourselves with the effort of
maintaining your third density existence after the vibration change to
fourth density has been completed.
If, within your spirit, your graduation day has come, those things
necessary for your emergence into fourth density will be done for you.
All will be accomplished by helpers which you must be aware that you
have.
It is extremely possible that damage will occur to those things which
you identify with yourself in the third density. If we may speak plainly,
you will observe the valley of the shadow of death. These very words,
my friends, have been spoken to you before, and yet you cling to that
physical body and those physical surroundings as though your spirit
were attached quite permanently to them.
May we suggest to you that you can find your spirit neither in your
head, nor in your hands, nor in your chest, nor in your legs, nor in your
feet, that nowhere can you find your spirit; nowhere can you operate to
remove it, nor to aid it. Your spirit resides within a shell. The shell may
be removed, but that is no matter. The spirit does not perish.
What is the metaphysical meaning of this suggested physical trauma of our
planet? The Confederation suggests that the planet itself is moving into a new
vibration, a new portion of space and time, which many have called the New
Age, but into which we shall not be able to enter unless we have indeed
learned the lessons of love which it has been our choice to learn or not to
learn for many incarnations. Therefore the Confederation suggests that it is
very important to choose to follow the positive path or not to follow it:
There is a choice to be made very shortly, and it would be preferable if
all of the people of this planet understand the choice that is to be made.
It will be difficult for many of the people of this planet to understand
what this choice is, because it is a choice that they have not considered.
They have been much too involved in their daily activities and their
confusion and their desires of a very trivial nature to be concerned with
an understanding of the choice that they are very shortly to make.
Whether they wish to or not, whether they understand it or not,
regardless of any influence, each and every one of the people who dwell
upon planet Earth will shortly make a choice. There will be no middle
area. There will be those who choose to follow the path of love and
light and those who choose otherwise.
This choice will not be made by saying, “I choose the path of love and
light,” or “l do not choose it.” The verbal choice will mean nothing.
This choice will be measured by the individual’s demonstration of his
choice. This demonstration will be very easy for us of the
Confederation of Planets in His Service to interpret. This choice is
measured by what we term the vibratory rate of the individual. It is
necessary, if an individual is to join those who make the choice of love
and understanding, for his rate of vibration to be above a certain
minimal level. There are many now that are close to this minimum
level, but due to continuing conditions of erroneous thought that
prevail upon your surface, they are either fluctuating around this point
or are even in some cases drifting away from the path of love and
understanding. There are many whose vibratory rate at this time is
sufficiently high for them to travel with no difficulty into the density of
vibration that this planet is shortly to experience.
At some time in the future, then, something that the Confederation has called
the harvest will take place. This concept of the Judgment Day differs from the
eschatological one in that the one who judges us is not a God apart from us
but the God within us. As a result of this harvest some will go on to a new age
of love and light and will learn new lessons in a very positive and beautiful
density, as the Confederation calls it. Others will have to repeat this particular
grade of lessons and relearn the lessons of love. Here the Confederation
entity, Hatonn, speaks once again of the harvest and of the Confederation’s
purpose in speaking through contactee groups:
There is going to be a Harvest, as you might call it, a harvest of souls
that will shortly occur upon your planet. We are attempting to extract
the greatest possible harvest from this planet. This is our mission, for
we are the Harvesters.
In order to be most efficient, we are attempting to create first a state of
seeking among the people of this planet who desire to seek. This would
be those who are close to the acceptable level of vibration. Those above
this level are of course not of as great an interest to us since they have,
you might say, already made the grade. Those far below this level,
unfortunately, cannot be helped by us at this time. We are attempting
at this time to increase by a relatively small percentage the number who
will be harvested into the path of love and understanding.
Even a small percentage of those who dwell upon your planet is a vast
number, and this is our mission, to act through groups such as this one
in order to disseminate information in such a fashion that it may be
accepted or rejected, that it may be in a state lacking what the people of
your planet choose to call proof.
We offer them no concrete proof, as they have a way of expressing it.
We offer them Truth. This is an important function of our mission—to
offer Truth without proof. In this way, the motivation will, in each and
every case, come from within the individual. In this way, the individual
vibratory rate will be increased. An offering of proof or an impressing of
this Truth upon an individual in such a way that he would be forced to
accept it would have no usable effect upon his vibratory rate.
This, then, my friends, is the mystery of our way of approaching your
peoples.
Another concept that has come out of the many communications from
alleged UFO entities is that of “Wanderers.” They are usually service-oriented
people, and, as would be predictable, they often have a great deal of difficulty
fitting into the planetary vibrations of Earth. Often they have the feeling that
they do not fit in or do not belong but at the same time, very often, these
people are possessed of many gifts, in the arts, in teaching, or in the simple
sharing of a cheerful and happy vibration, which certainly does not suggest
the normal attitude of a simple malcontent.
This concept is particularly interesting to many people who will be drawn
to The Ra Material because, according to that material, much of it will be
most easily recognized as being useful by Wanderers. There are not just a
few Wanderers on Earth today; Ra suggests a figure of approximately sixty-five
million. They have left other densities in harmonious environments to
take on a kind of job that is most difficult and dangerous, for if a Wanderer
cannot at least begin to pierce the forgetting process that occurs at birth into
this density during his or her lifetime on planet Earth, and remember the
love and the light that the person was intended to share, the Wanderer can
conceivably become caught in the third-density illusion, collecting what
may loosely be termed as karma, and be delayed in arriving again at the
home planet until all that is unbalanced in third density in this lifetime has
been balanced.
When Don Elkins and I wrote Secrets of the UFO in 1976, we devoted a
chapter to the concept of Wanderers and used material gathered in hypnotic
regressions of three women who are friends in this lifetime and who, when
separately regressed, gave independent and dovetailing stories of their lives
on another planet.
After that book went to press we were able to work with a man whom the
women had named as being a part of that experience on another planet.
This man, who was then a student working towards his master’s degree in
chemical engineering, was aware of no detail of our research except that we
were involved in doing some hypnosis. On May 10, 1975, Don, along with
Lawrence Allison, an accomplished hypnotist with whom we had worked
often when he lived in Louisville, sat down with our fourth volunteer and
proceeded to explore that other world for a fourth time. The information
was especially interesting, since all three previous regressions had been
poetic, and beautiful, but scarcely technical. Our fourth subject had a far
different background and was able to see things in a far more accurate and
explicit manner. This fourth regression fitted perfectly into the story told by
the first three subjects.
One of the first things that Don and Larry (the questioning went back and
forth) asked about was the clothing.
Q. How are you dressed?
A. In white.
Q. White what?
A. Loose white clothes.
Q. OK. What’s above the waist now? Above the pants?
A. Well, it’s just like a robe; it’s not really a robe but a loose clothing
with a sash, like for a belt.
Q. And what about on the shoulders?
A. Well, it’s just short-sleeved. It’s warm.
This type of robe suggests a monastic or religious order and questions were
asked to attempt to discover some orthodox religious connection on this
planet. No connection was found, so the questioners moved on to the name
of this other world since the surroundings were not those of Earth, but the
young man, normally incisive in his answers, seemed totally unaware of the
concept of naming.
Q. The name of your planet?
A. It’s just a … we live there, and … I don’t see any mountains, but
I see … the name?
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session.
A. I have a child.
Q. One child?
A. Yeah. Little boy.
Q. His name is?
A. I just don’t have a feeling for names. I have, like, you know when
you want somebody, and they know when you want them, sort of.
I mean, I just don’t have a feeling for names.
Not only did their planet seem to lack a proper name but speech itself seemed
to be a far different process, one which we would probably call telepathy.
Q. All right, if someone calls to you, what do they call you?
A. I just haven’t heard anybody speak. I don’t know if you have to
speak.
A. It seems, like, kind of a simple life. But there’s obviously, well,
there was light at my books, so it’s obviously mechanized, or
perhaps much more than that even. I don’t, I … don’t recall
people speaking to each other, though. I mean, they seem to, you
know, everybody knows each question … you know what’s going
on, but I don’t really see. It was singing; there was singing, but
there wasn’t actually people conversing with each other. You just
sort of knew, I guess.
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A. I’d be sitting on a stone or a bench and they’d be sitting down,
and I’m explaining, but I don’t really see myself talking to them.
The subject, with his engineer’s eye, was able to put together the architecture
of the place in the way the women had not. All four agreed that the center of
the community and its purpose was something that may conveniently be
called the temple.
A. … think it’s a stone … I guess limestone, but it’s whiter, I guess.
That’s what it’s made of.
Q. What about the perimeter?
A. Well, there’s, from supports from the side are arches up to the
ceiling, but … it’s not a regular dome, it’s … well, I haven’t seen
that kind of dome before.
Q. Take a good guess. How far across is that dome?
A. Oh, goodness. It looks like it’s 200 feet the long way, and maybe
more than that, maybe 250. And, oh, maybe 150 feet wide. It’s a
huge room, very …
Q. OK. Now, how is it lighted?
A. Just, (laughs a little incredulously) … really, it’s just a glow from
the ceiling. I mean, you know, like the, well, there’s, like the area
that’s light, and then there’s darker, like it’s been painted, but the
paint, that’s light. It seems like it’s, well, it just doesn’t need any
light. The room’s bright. Maybe it’s coming from the windows,
but … there doesn’t seem to be any shadow in the room.
Q. What you’re saying is that it seems as if the atmosphere in the room is
glowing there?
A. Well, yeah, just like it’s bright. I don’t see any shadows, like if
there was a light source.
Q. Uh huh. Now I want you to listen inside that big room. What kind
of sounds do you hear?
A. Nothing in that room, but they’re singing someplace.
Q. Very quietly, singing off in the distance?
A. Um hmm.
Q. All right. It is, ah, some kind of …
A. It’s more like, a kind of choir, a little choir, like.
That music, reported by all four subjects, is not like any music we have ever
heard. Two of the subjects actually saw the music sparkling in the air and
none could accurately describe it.
A. I just … I can’t … place the words. It’s just, you know, like a sort
of praise, a sort of, you know, something like you’d hear in a
choir.
Q. Praise to whom?
A. Well, uh …
Q. To God?
A. I’m sure that’s who it is, you know, that’s … it’s sort of a happy
thing to do, when people get together and sing …
The subject spoke of growing up studying in large books.
A. I see myself sitting over … over a book and just reading.
Q. History?
A. Well, I don’t know.
Q. Practical work? Science? What do you study? Art? The arts?
A. Just great books, big books.
Q. Um hum. Do you have supervised study in classes or…
A. Well, in the morning there’s a teacher, and in the afternoon or in
late evening, I study.
Q. Is there an examination?
A. No exams. You just want to learn; you want to learn. You, uh, it’s
like you can’t learn enough.
Who were these people? Did they represent an entire planetary population or
were they a portion only of that population? If they were a portion how were
they chosen to do this work? After looking at this material Don and I
generated a term by which to call this particular group of people: the “clan.”
Here is one of the questioners on this subject.
Q. Nobody has individual homes?
A. Well, no; this big place is their home. This is, this is home.
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A. Well, this is one purpose. Like, it’s like a school, or a teaching
place to teach those that want to learn it in depth, and those that
come when they can.
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A. But this isn’t like a ruling-type people, by any means. Like, you
know, this isn’t … like the people have to come here. It’s not a
class system or anything.
Meditation played a very large part in the lives of the inhabitants of this other
world, or at least those in this clan. There were meditations alone and there
were daily group meditations with the entire clan.
A. Well, let’s see. I don’t see myself there, in different states of
consciousness. There are prayerful times, in the morning and at
night. You have them in your room, and then you have others
before meals, before the morning meal, and then, not, well, briefly
before the evening meal, but, when, it was like when the food was
brought, but then afterwards there’s, it’s a … in a room, like a
private sort of devotional, except that you’re not—like in
meditation. And there are times when the whole group gets
together other than meals, just … like the whole place is like a
family I would guess. Because, like I said, you don’t feel that
attached, necessarily, to one person. You feel attached to
everybody. They’re all, like, in your family.
Another function of the clan was to open their great temple from time to
time to all of those of the planet who wished to come for spiritual inspiration.
The questioners, in attempting to determine just how these large crowds
came to fill the temple, happened upon the description of what seemed to be
a very large heliport. We discovered later that the vehicle was not a helicopter.
However, that is the term that the questioner used here.
Q. OK. Now, the people that leave at that heliport—you have no idea
where they go?
A. When I say these ships come, it’s not like hordes of people just
rushing off and rushing back on or anything, it’s just … it’s, oh,
how should I … you know, it lands there, and the doors open,
and the people come out, and people come in. They’re allowed to
go on the grounds, you know. In other words, this is their place
too. But they come as a visitor, sort of, to it.
Q. How long do they stay there?
A. A day.
The description of the heliport:
A. There’s a place, a flat place, a flat place, like, that’s stone, out in
front, but I don’t see roads coming to it, for … it … I see … uh,
like, sort of, like, uh, like, well, a huge helicopter pad, for
instance, but …
The questioners had to find out what was landing on that large stone area and
so the subject was asked to describe the type of transport that used it.
Q. All right. I want you to describe that ship, and what makes it go.
A. I don’t … um … it’s … well, it’s like … it seems it’s probably a
space ship. But I don’t see it coming from space. It sort of,
suddenly almost being there, I don’t see it like zipping off or
coming in, you know, across the horizon or anything.
Q. Just describe what it looks like.
A. Yeah, well, it’s a, it’s longer than it is wide, and it’s not real thick
compared to the length dimensions and the width dimension. It’s
a—it’s not like, it’s not spinning when it comes down, because it’s
a little sort of, like oblong or … it just sort of appears and sets
down, you know; I mean, I don’t see it actually coming into view
from small and getting larger.
It is interesting to note the apparent description of materialization and
dematerialization implicit in the subject’s answer to that question.
And so the young man grew in wisdom and in years and told a story of
teaching, growing somewhat gray-haired, beginning to teach fewer and
more advanced students, and in time preparing to end the incarnation. As
the questioners brought the subject back through the death experience in
the previous incarnation and forward in time to the experience in which he
was at that moment living, they paused with the subject in between
incarnations to ask about the purpose this particular Wanderer came to
Earth to fulfill. The answer that he gave is both provocative and all too
scanty. Many of us seek to help this planet of ours in one way or another,
and the question is always: how shall we accomplish it?
Q. Why are you on Earth? What is the purpose of this life? What do you
intend to do here? What were you assigned to do here?
A. It seems like, to help.
Q. Helping with what? Something in particular?
A. Something…
Q. Have you already helped in this field? Or is the problem yet to come
that you are to help with?
A. It hasn’t happened yet.
Q. What do you anticipate?
A. Just … just great needs.
Q. What would happen, to require so much help from you that you know
about? (pause) Spiritual growth? Spiritual development? Physical
needs?
A. Well, not … the … I get the feeling of some people that are lost,
you know?
Q. Can you help them? This is your mission?
A. I feel like that’s what I need to do. This … Help those people.
Q. Um hum. Which people?
A. The ones that are lost.
Q. Is this a particular group?
A. No.
Q. Just in general.
A. Just people.
The work I did in early 1976 was to be my last. I had had a condition called
juvenile rheumatoid arthritis with several complications, one being SLE,
commonly known as lupus, since I was thirteen when my kidneys had failed.
In 1956, the advanced techniques that are available now to those whose
kidneys fail were not available. In fact, it was considered a miracle that I
survived, but survive I did with the loss of approximately half of each kidney.
I consider myself very fortunate to have been able to have had a productive
and active physical life for so long with the odds going so far against me.
Even now, with the help of exercise, diet, friends, and faith, I feel most
blessed. But my activities are limited.
The research that Don and I had done up to that point brought us across
the knowledge of a highly unusual type of healing, and it was in part my
disability which caused us to put ourselves so wholeheartedly into an
examination of that type of healing. Psychic surgery bears only a tangential
relationship to orthodox surgery and no relationship to orthodox medicine.
It is, like all brands of “faith healing,” impossible to prove, and the natural
and standard response, not only from scientists but from any person who
has not done any research into the subject, is an automatic “turn-off” and
utter disbelief.
This is to be expected. Were it not for many years of research, this would
perhaps be our reaction also. However, we, like most who investigate
psychic surgery, knew that we had nothing to lose by investigating this
possibility. No psychic surgery patient has ever been lost because nothing
actually happens to the patient’s physical body. It is truly a psychic form of
healing. Consequently, we spent some time both in the Philippines and in
Mexico taking part in an examination of the possibilities of psychic surgery.
This is an example of what the psychic surgeon creates as a manifestation
for the eye: it is a Philippine bedroom; the patient is undressed, retaining
those garments which may be needed for personal modesty, and lies down
on the bed, which may in some cases be covered with a simple shower
curtain, usually that one borrowed from the motel bathroom. The healer, a
religious man, and one who has often spent ten or twelve years of his life
praying to become a healer “walking in the wilderness” of the volcanic
mountains of Luzon in solitude, enters the room. He carries nothing except
perhaps a Bible. Often the healer is accompanied by an assistant who
functions as interpreter and, to use a term familiar to our culture, surgical
assistant; to use a more accurate term, clean-up man.
The healer normally knows very little English. He or she begins by taking
the hands and moving them over the body, palms down. We are informed
that this is a method of scanning the body just as an X-ray machine would.
A site for “surgery” is then selected and if the healer is right-handed the left
hand is pressed firmly against the skin. The skin seems to separate and the
interior of the body is seen. This manifestation is very real looking and
anyone who has seen a genuine psychic surgeon at work and has not studied
the phenomenon carefully will swear that the body has been opened with
the bare hands. The right hand then enters this open site and manipulates
within the body.
In the most interesting case in which I took part, the healer was told that I
had arthritis. He scanned my body with the help of his assistant. Then he
opened the abdominal cavity and with a very liquid sounding action pulled
gently, but firmly, at what seemed to be organs rather than joints. It was not
unpleasant but, to me, the patient, it was puzzling, as I had no arthritis in
my organs. He then removed what seemed to be three rather small, long
pieces of bloody material at the center of which was a small piece of hard
material. This done, he removed his left hand. The “incision” vanished
without a scar or trace of any kind. The two men, in this case, mopped up
what had become a fairly considerable amount of blood, rinsed their hands,
and then took baby oil and worked it over the abdominal skin, massaging in
silence.
When I asked what the healer was doing working in the abdominal area the
interpreter relayed my request, and relayed back the information that the
scanning had produced the knowledge of three cysts upon my right ovary,
and the misplacement or dropping of both ovaries which had occurred
through years of very active life. The pulling had been to reposition the
ovaries so that I would not be in discomfort during menstruation. The
removal of the cysts had had the same purpose.
Although my gynecologist had diagnosed these three small cysts when I was
a very young woman, I had never spoken of them to Don Elkins and,
indeed, to no one, since such conversation is not fascinating. One other
person knew of these cysts, my mother, but she was 12,000 miles away.
Upon returning to the United States I had my gynecologist examine the
area and he confirmed that the three cysts were no longer palpable. They
have remained gone, and the comfort level of my menstrual cycle is
correspondingly far better.
The massage with baby oil is a very simplified and unostentatious form of
magnetic healing in which prayers are offered and a protective light is
visualized around the affected area so that healing will be aided.
It is Don’s and my belief that the opening of the body for the removal of
parts, the closing of the body, and the manifestation of the blood and all
other materials are materializations of the same type as the materializations
of ghosts and the materialization of UFOs. Therefore, we have never made
any attempt to preserve specimens of this psychic surgery. We are aware
that this does not fulfill the rigors of the scientific method that exists today,
but it is our belief that we would find out nothing by looking at the results
of such analysis of manifestation.
It would seem that a person, no matter how great his desire to be healed,
would be nervous and apprehensive, since the opening of the body itself,
physical or psychic, seems very traumatic. Once the healer’s hands are upon
you, a distinct emotional and mental attitude change occurs within every
individual with whom I have spoken who has experienced this
phenomenon. The psychic surgeons call it the presence of the Holy Spirit.
It should be considered part of the phenomenon.
In late 1977 and early 1978 we accompanied Dr. Andrija Puharich and his
research associates to Mexico City to investigate a Mexican psychic surgeon,
a seventy-eight-year-old woman called Pachita, who had been practicing for
a great many years. The gift had come to her on the battlefield with Pancho
Villa’s army, and, as in the Philippines, more of her patients were native
than were American. The one difference in her technique was the culture
from which she came. In the Philippines psychic healing came from an
extremely literal belief in Christianity as taught by Spanish missionaries for
three hundred years. Christianity was the center of almost every Filipino
peasant’s life. A large percentage went to mass daily, and, as Don and I were
there during Holy Week of 1975, we were able to watch evidence of the
ruthlessly literal type of Christianity that was practiced there. On Good
Friday, for instance, there was a great Catholic parade of the cross through
the streets of Manila. What was different about this parade was that there
was a human being nailed to that cross. Many had vied for that position.
The one who had achieved it, when asked for comment, simply replied that
he felt very exalted and hoped that they would choose him again the
following year.
In Mexico, if Christianity is present at all, and it often is, it is an overlay to
an extremely strong Indian belief which is harsh and brooding. One brings
to mind the memories of the Mayan slaughter of innocents on the steep
steps of the Mexican pyramids.
Consequently, Pachita used a very dull knife with a five inch blade. She
passed it around amongst the entire research group watching to see our
reactions, especially mine, since I was the guinea pig. Since her “operations”
took place with me lying on my stomach I cannot give a first-hand account
of what occurred, but Don informs me that the knife seemed to disappear
four inches into my back and was then moved rapidly across the spine. This
was repeated several times. Pachita was, she said, working on my kidneys.
Again we made no attempt to conserve “evidence” as we knew that it would
come to nothing. Many have attempted to research psychic surgery by
analysis of its products and have found either inconclusive results or null
results indicting that psychic surgery is a fraud.
In the book, Arigo, by John Fuller, Dr. Puharich’s early work with the
South American healer of that nickname, psychic surgery is carefully
examined, and for those interested in this unusual subject that book is a
good place to begin. I have never had any success in getting any orthodox
doctor to test the possible results of this Mexican experience. This is due to
the fact that the procedure used to test the kidneys can, if the kidneys are
badly enough damaged already, cause the kidneys to go into failure once
again, and no orthodox doctor could be expected to take that risk. Dr.
Puharich himself was unwilling for me to go through this procedure.
With all of its frustrations, investigation into areas in the very fringe of
psychic phenomena are most interesting, informative, and rewarding to the
researcher who is patient and whose approach to the subject is simply to
gather data rather than attempting to prove, step by step, hypotheses about
that which he is doing research. In The Ra Material manifestations of this
type of materialization are discussed and the information is quite
interesting.
Back in the United States, although I could no longer work at the
typewriter, I was still able to offer the continuing weekly meditations and to
take on advanced students for individual work. In 1978 James Allen
McCarty heard about our group, first from a number of people who had
meditated at our Sunday night meetings and had gone on to form a “light
center” and nature preserve in Marion County, Kentucky, and then from a
two-hour, call-in radio show that Don and I had done in Lexington,
Kentucky. He came up with many people from the Marion County
meditation group to experience our meditations. After two meditations the
group as a whole stopped coming, but Jim made the 140-mile round trip
almost weekly, beginning in the spring of 1980. Jim had, for many years,
been searching for some method of aiding humanity. Born in 1947, and
equipped with degrees in business and education, he had studied, in
addition, alternative methods for teaching consciousness expansion. Some
of this time was spent working with inner-city children, but he began to
find a very strong desire to discover a clearer idea of what it was he was
seeking.
In 1972 he booked a course of study in consciousness expansion called
“brain self-control” with a gruff old mountainman who lived in a log cabin
at 10,000 feet in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. During this course he
learned, for the first time, of the possibility of communication with
advanced civilization from outer space, not through any man-made means
like radios, telegraphs, or electronic gadgetry but through the use of the
frontal lobes of the human brain.
Since this very central experience was in wilderness country, rocks, pine,
and juniper, he decided to search for an equally remote piece of land upon
which he could then offer these brain self-control experiences to others. On
132 acres in central Kentucky, with a running creek for an access road, he
formed the Rock Creek Research and Development Laboratories and began
to work on the subject closest to his heart: the evolution of mankind. He
gave several workshops on this subject but found little interest in that area
and so returned to a life of homesteading and solitude for the next six and
one-half years, growing his own food, meditating, and studying. He was still
curious as to what it would be like to be in a clear, two-way communication
with advanced intelligent beings, and, thus, he very much enjoyed the
meditations with the Louisville group, but he also had previously become
interested in work being done in a group in Oregon. In the fall of 1980, he
traveled from Kentucky to Oregon to work with this group which was
supposedly channeling the same source that Edgar Cayce had channeled in
deep trance.
However, the learning that he had received from the Sunday night meetings
and from the advanced study that he had with me had spoken to his innerseeking,
and, seemingly of its own accord, his mind made itself up for him
after only two months in Oregon. He found that he needed to return to
Louisville and work with Don and me. On December 23, 1980, he arrived
in Louisville, having traveled 5,000 miles from the woods of central
Kentucky to Oregon and back to Louisville.
Don and I were endlessly grateful for McCarty’s aid. His abilities were
extraordinary. He had a grasp of the metaphysical material going back to his
college days and he had read extensively through all the intervening years, so
he came to this work very informed of our areas of study. He was able to
take up the physical part of the research, filing, making notes, transcribing
tapes, and carrying on the correspondence that had sorely lapsed since my
disability. Jim, always thorough, sold his land. L/L Research merged with
the Rock Creek Research and Development Laboratories, keeping our old
partnership name for our publishing arm, purchased a new typewriter—
Jim’s fingers, strengthened by six and one-half years of homesteading,
overmatched my old electric typewriter—and we settled down to do …
what? We didn’t know.
We discussed doing a new book, updating what we had learned in Secrets of
the UFO and had blank paper ready to be filled. Jim had begun to do back
research in our voluminous files. Three weeks after he came, the Ra contact
began.
During all the years that I had been channeling I had always channeled
consciously, using my free will to clothe telepathic concepts in my own
language. In 1980 a longtime friend and meditation group member, Elaine
Flaherty, died a tragically young death. She had had juvenile diabetes and
had died in her thirties. I had sat with her for many days in the hospital
before she finally left her body, and she had told me several times that she
wanted to make sure that her husband, Tom, was made aware that she was
all right after her death, for she knew that she was likely to die. She had told
Tom, also a longtime meditation group member as well.
After her funeral Tom came to me and asked if I would attempt to get in
touch with Elaine. Having been through all too many seances and not
having a great deal of personal commitment to the type of communication
that one was likely to get from one’s physically dead relatives, I was at first
reluctant to attempt such “mediumship.” However, these were my good
friends and I could not say no. Tom, Don, and Elaine’s and Tom’s son,
Mike, gathered with me for the first attempt. After some moments of
consciously offering myself for the contact with Elaine, I became unaware of
the passing of time, and when I awakened Tom had what sounded like
Elaine’s voice on tape speaking through me. That was my first experience
with trance. I did not know, and to this day do not know, how it occurred.
Tom asked once more if I would do this and again I went into what seemed
to be a very deep trance, remembering nothing and hearing what sounded
like Elaine’s voice on tape after the session. Don stated that if he had heard
me from the next room without seeing me he would have been certain it
was Elaine.
This work was extremely draining to me and I asked Tom to accept the fact
that I really did not wish to continue being this type of medium. Tom
agreed, saying that he had what Elaine had promised and was satisfied.
However only a few days later, while working with an advanced meditation
student, Leonard Cecil, I received a new contact, one which I had never had
before. As I do in all cases I challenged this entity in the name of Christ,
demanding that it leave if it did not come as a messenger of Christ-consciousness.
It remained, so I opened myself to its channel. Again I went
almost immediately into trance and the entity, which called itself Ra, began
its series of contacts with us. This contact is ongoing, fascinating, and, to
me, a source of some disquiet.
The person who decides to become a vocal channel in the first place has
already taken a step which is, to some people, quite difficult; that is, the
willingness to speak the words of one which is not controlled by the self. In
free will channeling, it is possible to choose to stop channeling. However, it
is also possible to utter complete nonsense because the channel never knows
in advance what the next concept will be. I hasten to add that this nonsense
has never occurred in my experience and that the channelings have always
made a reasonable amount of sense, and, in many cases, have been quite
inspirational. Nevertheless in a society where you are taught to measure
your words with some care, it seems an irresponsible act to simply blurt out
that which comes into your mind.
When, in order for the contact to occur, trance has to be obtained, the
disquiet grows into something close to a near panic on my part. I do not
know how the procedure for a trance works, and I am always afraid that in
this session nothing will happen; I will remain conscious; and I will receive
no contact. Again, this has never happened. Since neither I nor either of the
others in our group has any real idea of how to aid me beyond a certain
point in achieving a state of “trance,” there is nothing to be done but simply
to move ahead. Don states that, although my state of trance is similar to
others he has observed, it is what he would call “telepathic reception in the
trance state.”
Although I studied literature in my undergraduate days and was a librarian
for many years, reading the material almost always offers me the
opportunity to learn a new word or two and has certainly stretched my
mind in the area of science, which in my education was woefully lacking.
What concerns me perhaps more than anything else is that someone who
reads this material will consider this human being that I am to have some
sort of wisdom that Ra certainly has but that I certainly do not. If this work
impresses you, I can only ask that you please make a sharp differentiation in
your mind between the words and the “medium” through which the words
come. You would not, for instance, expect the water pipe to be responsible
for the quality of the water which runs through it. Certainly all of us in the
research group try, through meditation and daily life, to prepare ourselves as
best we can for these sessions. Nevertheless, what comes through our group
stands on its own and cannot be said to reflect on the wisdom or so-called
spiritual advancement of any of its members. As our popular philosophy has
it, “We are all bozos on this bus.”
If you have any questions as you read, please feel free to write the Rock
Creek group. Its correspondent, Jim, will never ignore a letter, and since he
has his own experiences of the sessions themselves to share, he will finish
this introduction.
Jim McCarty: We are beginners when it comes to knowing how the Ra
contact occurs, and it has only been through a process of trial and error,
session by session, that we have learned more about how to support our
instrument, Carla, in the mental, physical, and spiritual senses. We were so
excited about the Ra contact when it first began that we had two sessions
per day for days at a time; but, we have since learned that this procedure
was much too wearing on Carla. We average about one session every week
to ten days now, which allows us to prepare for each session with the greater
degree of care that seems to be required as sessions accumulate.
A great deal of thought goes into the questions which Don asks during each
session. Each of us contributes ideas, but the great bulk of the line of
questioning is accomplished by Don, since he has the years of experience in
investigating the UFO contactee phenomenon necessary to develop the
intellectual foundation required in any attempt to fit the diverse pieces of
this puzzle together. He also has the intuitive sense that is vital in following
the unexpected and profoundly revealing answers that Ra so often gives
with further questions, developed on the spur of the moment, to take
advantage of the new insights.
With the decision made to hold a session the night before the session is to
occur, we arise the morning of the session, have a light breakfast, and begin
the series of steps which will best aid us in successfully completing the
session. I give Carla a half-hour back massage to loosen her muscles and
joints before each session because she will have to remain absolutely
motionless for between an hour and an hour and forty-five minutes. Then
we meditate so that the harmony we try to produce in our daily lives is
intensified, and so that our desires are unified into the single desire to see
contact with Ra. We then perform our ritual of protection and cleansing of
the room in which the contact will be made and situate Carla in a prone
position on the bed, covering her body with a white blanket, her eyes with a
white cloth, and hook up the three tape recorder microphones just below
her chin so that we don’t miss any of the session if one or two tape recorders
malfunction.
By this time, all that is visible of Carla is her hair flowing down both of her
shoulders and her nose poking out of the sea of cloth white surrounding it.
As she mentally recites the Prayer of St. Francis, Don is aligning the table
which holds the Bible, candle, incense, and chalice of water in a straight line
with her head, as recommended by Ra. After Don lights the candle and
incense, he and I walk the Circle of One around Carla and repeat the words
which begin each contact.
At some point after that, Carla departs her physical body and Ra then uses
it to make the words which form the responses to Don’s questions. I
meditate and send light to Carla for the duration of the session, only taking
time out to flip the tapes over as they finish each side. When the session is
over, Don waits a few moments for Carla to return to her usually quite stiff
body, calls her name a few times until she responds, helps her to sit up, rubs
her neck a bit, and gives her the chalice full of water to drink after he and I
have filled it as full of our love vibrations as we can.
Since Carla has no idea of what has occurred during the session, she is
always most curious to know how it went. She has to settle for secondhand
bits and pieces of information until I can get the session transcribed from
the tapes, which is usually very easy since Ra speaks quite slowly and forms
each syllable with precise enunciation.
Participating in this communication with Ra has been most inspiring for
each of us because of the blend of eloquence and simplicity which
characterizes Ra’s responses. The information contained in The Ra Material
has been most helpful to us in increasing our knowledge of the mystery of
the creation and our evolution through it. We hope that it might also be
useful to you.
L/L Research
Don Elkins
Carla L. Rueckert
Jim McCarty
Louisville, Kentucky
July 7, 1983
Photographs
From The Ra Material, Session No. 88, May 29, 1982:
Firstly, if pictures be taken of a working the visual image must needs be
that which is; that is, it is well for you to photograph only an actual
working and no sham nor substitution of any material. There shall be
no distortions which this group can avoid any more than we would
wish distortions in our words.
Secondly, it is inadvisable to photograph the instrument or any portion
of the working room while the instrument is in trance. This is a narrow
band contact, and we wish to keep electrical and electromagnetic
energies constant when their presence is necessary and not present at all
otherwise.
Thirdly, once the instrument is aware of the picture-taking, whether
before or after the working, the instrument shall be required to
continuously respond to speech thus assuring that no trance is
imminent.
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We ask that any photographs tell the truth, that they be dated and
shine with a clarity so that there is no shadow of any but genuine
expression which may be offered to those who seek truth.
We come as humble messengers of the Law of One, desiring to decrease
distortions. We ask that you, who have been our friends, work with any
considerations such as above discussed, not with the thought of quickly
removing an unimportant detail, but, as in all ways, regard such as
another opportunity to, as the adept must, be yourselves and offer that
which is in and with you without pretense of any kind.
RA, Session No. 2, January 20, 1981: “Place at the entity’s head a virgin
chalice of water. Place to the center the book most closely aligned with the
instrument’s mental distortions, which are allied most closely with the Law
of One—that being the Bible that she touches most frequently. To the
other side of the Bible, place a small amount of cense, or incense, in a virgin
censer. To the rear of the book symbolizing One, opened to the Gospel of
John, Chapter One, place a white candle.”
(Photo taken June 9, 1982.)
RA, Session No. 69, August 29, 1981: “At this particular working there is
some slight interference with the contact due to the hair of the instrument.
We may suggest the combing of this antenna-like material into a more
orderly configuration prior to the working.” (Photo taken June 9, 1982.)
“We hook up three tape recorder microphones just below her chin so that
we don’t miss any of the session if tape recorder one or two malfunctions,
which has happened.” From the Introduction to The Ra Material.
(Photo taken June 9, 1982.)
RA, Session No. 2, January 20, 1981: “The proper alignment is with the
head pointed 20 degrees north-by-northeast. This is the direction from
which the newer or New Age distortions of love/light, which are less
distorted, are emanating, and this instrument will find comfort therein.”
(Photo taken June 9, 1982.)
RA, Session No. 2, January 20, 1981: “The instrument would be
strengthened by the wearing of a white robe. The instrument shall be
covered and prone, the eyes covered.” (Photo taken June 9, 1982.)
From the Introduction to The Ra Material: “Each of us contributes ideas,
but the great bulk of the line of questioning is accomplished by Don, who is
the questioner, since he has years of experience in investigating the UFO
contactee phenomenon necessary to develop the intellectual foundation
which is required in any attempt to fit the diverse pieces of this puzzle
together.” (Photo taken June 9, 1982.)
From the Introduction to The Ra Material: “We average about one session
every week or ten days now, which allows us to prepare for each session
with the greater degree of care that seems to be required as sessions
accumulate. A great deal of thought goes into the questions which Don asks
during each session.” (Photo taken June 9, 1982.)
From the Introduction to The Ra Material: “After Don lights the candle
and incense, he and I walk the Circle of One around Carla and repeat the
words which begin each contact. At some point after that Carla departs her
physical body and Ra then uses it to make the words which form the
responses to Don’s questions. I meditate and send light to Carla for the
duration of the session, only taking time out to flip the tapes over as they
finish each side.”
In this picture Carla is not channeling Ra but is singing “Amazing Grace” as
per Ra’s instructions for the instrument to be constantly speaking if her eyes
are covered during the picture-taking session. (Photo taken June 9, 1982.)
This picture was taken immediately after Carla responded to her name and the eye-covering
was removed from her face, somewhat mussing her hair.
(Photo taken June 9, 1982.)
From the Introduction to The Ra Material: “When the session is over, Don
waits a few moments for Carla to return to her usually quite stiff body; he
calls her name a few times until she responds, helps her to sit up, rubs her
neck a bit, and gives her the chalice full of water to drink after he and I have
filled it as full of our love vibrations as we can.” (Photo taken June 9, 1982.)
Jim is transcribing Session No.
89 on the afternoon of June 9, 1982, while Chocolate Bar, one of our four
cats, observes. (Photo taken June 9, 1982.)
The exterior of the Ra room: the door and corner windows are part of the
outside of the room in which the Ra sessions have taken place since January
1981. (Photo taken June 9, 1982.)
Carla holding our longtime friend, thirteen-year-old Gandalf.
(Photo taken June 26, 1982.)
Don, in the office, talking to picture-taker, Jim, and attracting a feline
audience as well. (Photo taken June 26, 1982.)
Jim and Carla prepare for the meditation that always precedes a Ra session.
(Photo taken June 26, 1982.)
Carla
(Photo taken after Ra session No. 92, July 8, 1982)
On January 15, 1981, our research group began receiving a communication
from the social memory complex, Ra. From this communication
precipitated the Law of One and some of the distortions of the Law of One.
The pages of this book contain an exact transcript, edited only to remove
some personal material, of the communications received in the first twenty-six
sessions with Ra.*
* The edited material has been restored in the versions shown on this website.
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Introduction to Book V
Jim McCarty: The material in this book was withheld from publication in the first four books of The Law of One series because it is predominantly of a personal nature, and it was our feeling that, if this material were published, it would be too easy for readers to become overly interested in the personalities behind this information, rather than focusing on the information itself. It is now our hope that, by a written effort, we may be able to use this same personal information to illustrate the general application of this material to all seekers of truth. We are certain that this information has general application to people like you because we are people just like you, with the same range of human emotions, the same strengths and weaknesses, and the same desire to know what is loosely called the truth.
The death of Don Elkins, questioner for the Ra contacts in November of 1984, marked the end of the Ra contact because it was the harmony between the three of us which was the primary factor that allowed those of Ra to speak through our group. The publication of this personal information, obtained through that contact, does not necessarily mean that we shall never attain that contact again, although our present thinking is that there is a very good chance that that portion of our service may indeed be complete. It is our opinion that in order to be of the most appropriate service we must simply desire to serve without any conditions put on that desire. It was with that simple desire that we joined as a group at the end of 1980, and within three weeks we were amazed to be part of what developed into the Ra contact. We do not consciously seek a third person with which to attempt to reestablish contact with those of Ra because that would not be a full surrender of our will to the Greater Will and would be, rather, the imposition of our lesser and more distorted wills upon what is most appropriate for us as a way of being of service to others. We do not believe that there are any mistakes in any seeker’s experience, and we are fairly good at taking hints. The fact that Don Elkins is dead may well mean that the Ra contact is complete. Whatever the case may actually be it now feels like the appropriate time to share the last of the information which we have as a fruit of the contact with those of Ra with people who, like us, would like to read whatever Ra might have to say on any subject and use that speaking as catalyst for personal evolution.
Since the personal material comes from many of the 106 sessions that we completed during the Ra contact it suffers from being quite disjointed. Through our written words we hope to be able to fashion a reasonably coherent fabric of our experiences into which each of the personal segments of the Ra contact may fit. Even the best of what we may write and share with you is mere human opinion. We are quite fallible and do not wish to place any stumbling block in your path, so please disregard any words that do not sound right to you. Use only those which ring true for you.
Carla L. Rueckert: Jim has taken the task of describing to you the circumstances in which each fragment was collected. My part is to add my viewpoint, on many subjects but perhaps most importantly on Don and me, which Jim has no way to address, as he did not know either of us until just three years before the contact with those of Ra. I echo Jim’s feeling that it is time for the final bits of this contact to be shared. Those who have enjoyed Ra’s thoughts will continue to appreciate the bon mots they are so good at giving us. We at L/L can sigh with relief now and say, yes, this is ALL of the material. There ain’t no more! And without a doubt, the reader will see from these bits of our lives that we are just as foolish as the rest of humankind, and are not to be confused with the source of these channelings. This I count a valuable thing.
It has been the greatest privilege and the greatest challenge of my life to have had the care and feeding of Donald Elkins for the last 16 years of his life. Never have two people loved more deeply, yet Don’s need to remain aloof was such that none of his feelings were ever displayed to me, and this was my catalyst to work with. I treasured and cherished this dear man the very best I knew how, and honor him as the only truly great man I have ever personally met. It was his driving intellect that first posed the questions that the Ra contact answered. It was he who had the vision of living as a spiritual family rather than a nuclear one. Jim and I are very fortunate to have had such a man as our leader and ofttimes our teacher. And I have been blessed with a pure and faithful romance with a soul mate that means all to me. As you enjoy this last part of a contact that will likely never come again, just rejoice that Don Elkins lived and served among us wanderers with such devotion and light.
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