The Law Of One


Book I: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
Book II: 27 28 29 31 32  Book III: 51 52 53  Book IV: 76 77 78  Book V: Fragments


The Law of One: Book I
THE RA MATERIAL by Ra, an humble messenger of The Law of One
Copyright 1984 by James Allen McCarty, Don Elkins, and Carla Rueckert
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Ra (Spirit) The Ra material.
1. Spirit writings. 2. Occult sciences-Miscellanea. I. McCarty, James Allen. II.
Elkins, Don. III. Rueckert, Carla. IV. Title.
BF1301.R2 1984 133.9'3 82-12967
ISBN: 0-89865-260-X
Printed in the United States of America

INTRODUCTION

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 though 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 this
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
cliche 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
cliche 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 one-dimensional, 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 the 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 freewill 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.

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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 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 inner-seeking,
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

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.

***

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." 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." 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. 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." 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." 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." 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."
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. 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. 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." 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. 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. June
9, 1982

Carla holding our longtime friend, thirteen-year-old Gandalf. June 26, 1982

Don, in the office, talking to picture-taker, Jim, and attracting a feline
audience as well. June 26, 1982

Jim and Carla prepare for the meditation that always precedes a Ra session. June
26, 1982

Carla, 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.


End Volume 1 Introduction


Sessions #1 ... #26

^
RA, SESSION #1, January 15, 1981


RA: I am Ra. I have not spoken through this instrument before. We had to wait
until she was precisely tuned, as we send a narrow band vibration. We greet you
in the love and in the light of our Infinite Creator.

We have watched your group. We have been called to your group, for you have a
need for the diversity of experiences in channeling which go with a more
intensive, or as you might call it, advanced approach to the system of studying
the pattern of the illusions of your body, your mind, and your spirit, which you
call seeking the truth. We hope to offer you a somewhat different slant upon the
information which is always and ever the same.

At this time we would be glad to attempt to speak to any subject or question
which those entities in the room may have potential use in the requesting.

QUESTIONER: Do you have a specific purpose, and if so, could you tell us
something of what your purpose is?

RA: I am Ra. We communicate now. We are those who are of the Law of One. In our
vibration the polarities are harmonized; the complexities are simplified; the
paradoxes have a solution. We are one. That is our nature and our purpose.

We are old upon your planet and have served with varying degrees of success in
transmitting the Law of One, of Unity, of Singleness to your peoples. We have
walked your planet. We have seen the faces of your peoples. However, we now feel
the great responsibility of staying in the capacity of removing the distortions
and powers that have been given to the Law of One. We will continue in this,
until, shall we say, your cycle is appropriately ended. If not this one, then
the next. We are not a part of time and, thus, are able to be with you in any of
your times.

Does this give you enough information from which to extract our purpose, my
brother?

QUESTIONER: Yes. Thank you.

RA: I am Ra. We appreciate your vibrations. Is there another query?

QUESTIONER: I've heard of the name "Ra" in connection with the Egyptians. Are
you connected with that Ra in any way?

RA: I am Ra. Yes, the connection is congruency. May we elucidate? What do you
not understand?

QUESTIONER: Could you give me a little more detail about your role with the
Egyptians?

RA: I am Ra. The identity of the vibration Ra is our identity. We as a group, or
what you would call a social memory complex, made contact with a race of your
planetary kind which you call Egyptians. Others from our density made contact at
the same time in South America, and the so-called "lost cities" were their
attempts to contribute to the Law of One.

We spoke to one who heard and understood and was in a position to decree the Law
of One. However, the priests and peoples of that era quickly distorted our
message, robbing it of the, shall we say, compassion with which unity is
informed by its very nature. Since it contains all, it cannot abhor any.

When we were no longer able to have appropriate channels through which to
enunciate the Law of One, we removed ourselves from the now hypocritical
position which we had allowed ourselves to be placed in. Other myths, shall we
say, having more to do with polarity and the things of your vibration that are
complex, again took over in that particular society/complex.

Does this form a sufficient amount of information, or could we speak further?

Is there another query?

QUESTIONER: (The question was lost because the questioner was sitting too far
from the tape recorder to be recorded.)

RA: I am Ra. Consider, if you will, that the universe is infinite. This has yet
to be proven or disproven, but we can assure you that there is no end to your
selves, your understanding, what you would call your journey of seeking, or your
perceptions of the creation.

That which is infinite cannot be many, for many-ness is a finite concept. To
have infinity you must identify or define the infinity as unity; otherwise, the
term does not have any referent or meaning. In an Infinite Creator there is only
unity. You have seen simple examples of unity. You have seen the prism which
shows all colors stemming from the sunlight. This is a simplistic example of
unity.

In truth there is no right or wrong. There is no polarity for all will be, as
you would say, reconciled at some point in your dance through the
mind/body/spirit complex which you amuse yourself by distorting in various ways
at this time. This distortion is not in any case necessary. It is chosen by each
of you as an alternative to understanding the complete unity of thought which
binds all things. You are not speaking of similar or somewhat like entities or
things. You are every thing, every being, every emotion, every event, every
situation. You are unity. You are infinity. You are love/light, light/love. You
are. This is the Law of One.

May we enunciate in more detail?

QUESTIONER: No.

RA: I am Ra. Is there another query at this time?

QUESTIONER: Can you comment on the coming planetary changes in our physical
reality?

RA: I am Ra. I preferred to wait till this instrument had again reached a proper
state of depth of singleness or one-pointedness before we spoke.

The changes are very, very trivial. We do not concern ourselves with the
conditions which bring about harvest.

QUESTIONER: If an individual makes efforts to act as a catalyst in general to
increase the awareness of planetary consciousness, is he of any aid in that
direction, or is he doing nothing but acting upon himself?

RA: I am Ra. We shall answer your question in two parts, both of which are
important equally.

Firstly, you must understand that the distinction between yourself and others is
not visible to us. We do not consider that a separation exists between the
consciousness-raising efforts of the distortion which you project as a
personality and the distortion that you project as another personality. Thus, to
learn is the same as to teach unless you are not teaching what you are learning;
in which case you have done you/them little good. This understanding should be
pondered by your mind/body/spirit complex as it is a distortion which plays a
part in your experiences at this nexus.

To turn to the second part of our response may we state our understanding,
limited though it is.

Group-individuated consciousness is that state of sharing understanding with the
other distortions of mind/body/spirit complexes, which are within the evident
reach of the mind/body/spirit complex individual or group. Thus, we are speaking
to you and accepting both our distortions and your own in order to enunciate the
laws of creation, more especially the Law of One. We are not available to many
of your peoples, for this is not an easily understood way of communication or
type of philosophy. However, our very being is hopefully a poignant example of
both the necessity and the near-hopelessness of attempting to teach.

Each of those in this group is striving to use, digest, and diversify the
information which we are sending this instrument into the channels of the
mind/body/spirit complex without distortion. The few whom you will illuminate by
sharing your light are far more than enough reason for the greatest possible
effort. To serve one is to serve all. Therefore, we offer the question back to
you to state that indeed it is the only activity worth doing: to learn/teach or
teach/learn. There is nothing else which is of aid in demonstrating the original
thought except your very being, and the distortions that come from the
unexplained, inarticulate, or mystery-clad being are many. Thus, to attempt to
discern and weave your way through as many group mind/body/spirit distortions as
possible among your peoples in the course of your teaching is a very good effort
tomake. We can speak no more valiantly of your desire to serve.

May we speak in any other capacity upon this subject?

QUESTIONER: Will you be available for communication? Can we call on you in the
future?

RA: I am Ra. We have good contact with this instrument because of her recent
experiences with trance. She is to be able to communicate our thoughts in your
future. However, we advise care in disturbing the channel for a few moments and
then the proper procedure for aiding an instrument who has, to some extent, the
need of re-entering the mind/body/spirit complex which the instrument has chosen
for the life experience of this time/space. Do you understand how to nurture
this instrument?

QUESTIONER: No. Could you explain it?

RA: We suggest first a brief period of silence. Then the repetition of the
instrument's vibratory complex of sound in your density which you call name.
Repeat until an answer is obtained. Then the laying on of the hands at the neck
region for a brief period so that the instrument may recharge batteries which
are not, shall we say, full of the essence of this particular field at this
time. And finally, a gift of water into which the love of all present has been
given. This will restore this entity, for her distortions contain great
sensitivity towards the vibrations of love and the charged water will effect
comfort. Do you now understand?

QUESTIONER: Not completely.

RA: I am Ra. We search your mind to find the vibration (nickname). It is this
vibration from you which contains the largest amount of what you would call
love. Others would call this entity (first name). The charging of the water is
done by those present placing their hands over the glass and visualizing the
power of love entering the water. This will charge that very effective medium
with those vibrations.

This instrument is, at this time, quite fatigued. However, her heart is such
that she continues to remain open to us and useful as a channel. This is why we
have spent the time/space explaining how the distortions of what you may call
fatigue may be ameliorated.

Under no circumstances should this instrument be touched until she has responded
to her name. I do not wish to take this instrument beyond her capacity for
physical energy. It grows low. Therefore, I must leave this instrument. I leave
you in the glory and peace of unity. Go forth in peace, rejoicing in the power
of the One Creator. I am Ra.

^
RA, SESSION #2, January 20,1981


RA: I am Ra. I greet you in the love and the light of our Infinite Creator. I am
with this mind/body/spirit complex which has offered itself for a channel. I
communicate with you.

Queries are in order in your projections of mind distortion at this time/space.
Thusly would I assure this group that my own social memory complex has one
particular method of communicating with those few who may be able to harmonize
their distortions with ours, and that is to respond to queries for information.
We are comfortable with this format. May the queries now begin.

QUESTIONER: I'm guessing that there are enough people who would understand what
you are saying, who would be interested enough in it, for us to make a book of
your communications and I wondered if you would agree to this?

If so, I was thinking that possibly a bit of historical background of yourself
might be in order.

RA: I am Ra. The possibility of communication, as you would call it, from the
One to the One, through distortion, acceptable for meaning is the reason we
contacted this group. There are few who will grasp, without significant
distortion, that which we communicate through this connection with this
mind/body/spirit complex. However, if it be your desire to share our
communications with others we have the distortion towards a perception that this
would be most helpful in regularizing and crystallizing your own patterns of
vibration upon the levels of experience which you call the life. If one is
illuminated, are not all illuminated? Therefore, we are oriented towards
speaking for you in whatever supply of speakingness you may desire. To
teach/learn is the Law of One in one of its most elementary distortions.

QUESTIONER: Could you tell us something of your historical background and your
contact with earlier races on this planet? Then we would have something to start
with.

RA: I am Ra. We are aware that your mind/body is calculating the proper method
of performing the task of creating a teach/learning instrument. We are aware
that you find our incarnate, as you call it, state of interest. We waited for a
second query so as to emphasize that the time/space of several thousand of your
years creates a spurious type of interest. Thus in giving this information, we
ask the proper lack of stress be placed upon our experiences in your local
space/time. The teach/learning which is our responsibility is philosophical
rather than historical. We shall proceed with your request which is harmless if
properly evaluated.

We are those of the Confederation who eleven thousand of your years ago came to
two of your planetary cultures which were at that time closely in touch with the
creation of the One Creator. It was our naive belief that we could teach/learn
by direct contact and that the free will distortions of individual feeling or
personality were in no danger. We had no thought of their being disturbed, as
these cultures were already closely aligned with an all-embracing belief in the
live-ness or consciousness of all. We came and were welcomed by the peoples whom
we wished to serve. We attempted to aid them in technical ways having to do with
the healing of mind/body/spirit complex distortions through the use of the
crystal, appropriate to the distortion, placed within a certain appropriate
series of ratios of time/space material. Thus were the pyramids created.

We found that the technology was reserved largely for those with the effectual
mind/body distortion of power. This was not intended by the Law of One. We left
your peoples. The group that was to work with those in the area of South
America, as you call that portion of your sphere, gave up not so easily. They
returned. We did not. However, we have never left your vibration due to our
responsibility for the changes in consciousness we had first caused and then
found distorted in ways not relegated to the Law of One. We attempted to contact
the rulers of the land to which we had come, that land which you call Egypt, or
in some areas, the Holy Land.

In the Eighteenth Dynasty, as it is known in your records of space/time
distortions, we were able to contact a pharaoh, as you would call him. The man
was small in life-experience on your plane and was a ... what this instrument
would call, Wanderer. Thus, this mind/body/spirit complex received our
communication distortions and was able to blend his distortions with our own.
This young entity had been given a vibratory complex of sound which vibrated in
honor of a prosperous god, as this mind/body complex, which we call instrument
for convenience, would call "Ammon." The entity decided that this name, being in
honor of one among many gods, was not acceptable for inclusion in his vibratory
sound complex. Thus, he changed his name to one which honored the sun disc. This
distortion, called "Aten," was a close distortion to our reality as we
understand our own nature of mind/body/spirit complex distortion. However, it
does not come totally into alignment with the intended teach/learning which was
sent. This entity, Ikhnaton, became convinced that the vibration of One was the
true spiritual vibration and thus decreed the Law of One.

However, this entity's beliefs were accepted by very few. His priests gave lip
service only, without the spiritual distortion towards seeking. The peoples
continued in their beliefs. When this entity was no longer in this density,
again the polarized beliefs in the many gods came into their own and continued
so until the one known as Mohammed delivered the peoples into a more
intelligible distortion of mind/body/spirit relationships.

Do you have a more detailed interest at this time?

QUESTIONER: We are very interested in the entire story that you have to tell and
getting in to the Law of One in quite some detail. There will be several
questions that I'll ask as we go along that may or may not be related directly
to understanding the Law of One. However, I believe that the proper way of
presenting this as a teach/learning vehicle is to investigate different facets
of what you tell us. You spoke of crystal healing. (One other thing I want to
mention is that when the instrument becomes fatigued we want to cut off
communication and continue questions at a later time when the instrument is
recharged.) If the instrument is suitable at this time we would like a little
information about the crystal healing that you mentioned.

RA: I am Ra. The principle of crystal healing is based upon an understanding of
the hierarchical nature of the structure of the illusion which is the physical
body, as you would call it. There are crystals which work upon the energies
coming into the spiritual body; there are crystals which work upon the
distortions from spirit to mind; there are crystals which balance the
distortions between the mind and the body. All of these crystal healings are
charged through purified channels. Without the relative crystallization of the
healer working with the crystal, the crystal will not be properly charged. The
other ingredient is the proper alignment with the energy fields of the planet
upon which you dwell and the wholistic or cosmic distortions or streamings which
enter the planetary aura in such a manner that an appropriate ratio of shapes
and placement within these shapes is of indicated aid in the untangling