Ra
  • We wish to establish that we are truly humble messengers of the Law of One. We can speak to you of our experiences and our understandings, and teach/learn in limited ways. However, we cannot speak in firm knowledge of all the creations. We know only that they are infinite. We assume an infinite number of octaves.
However, it has been impressed upon us by our own teachers that there is a mystery-clad unity of creation in which all consciousness periodically coalesces and again begins. Thus we can only say we assume an infinite progression, though we understand it to be cyclical in nature and, as we have said, clad in mystery. – 28.16
Mission
Ra is a unified group of beings, or social memory complex, of the sixth density. They are also a member of the Confederation of Planets in the Service of the Infinite Creator. Responding to the call of service issuing from our planet, their efforts to aid humanity began long before our recorded history. Their longstanding mission, purpose, and intended service was then as it is now: to serve as simple, humble messengers in order to teach/learn the Law of One to those who wish to learn of the unity or oneness of all things. It could be said that they wish to remind those seemingly bound within an illusion or dream of who and what they really are: the One Infinite Creator.
  • We came to your peoples to enunciate the Law of One. We wished to impress upon those who wished to learn of unity that in unity all paradoxes are resolved; all that is broken is healed; all that is forgotten is brought to light.
We had no teaching plan, as you have called it, in that our intention when we walked among your peoples was to manifest that which was requested by those learn/teachers to which we had come. – 90.29
  • We of Ra are humble messengers of the Law of One. We seek to teach/learn this single law. – 76.8
  • 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 earth. We have seen the faces of your peoples. This is not so with many of the entities of the Confederation. We found it was not efficacious. – 1.1
Teachings Distorted
Ra discovered that, despite their pure intention, their message became greatly distorted and grossly perverted in their various historical attempts at transmission:
  • In their first direct contact with the Egyptians (~9,000 BC), Ra discovered that their very existence caused great confusion around their teachings in those they had come to serve. Ra came among the Egyptians in a form natural to Ra,[108] which was tall and “somewhat delicate” with a “golden luster.” They did not mix well with the population. Thusly, though they had come to teach that all was the Creator, and that, in unity, each was brother to each, they found themselves placed in the hypocritical position of being elevated or glorified, perhaps even deified. Thus they took their leave, never to walk among the people again.
  • In a subsequent interaction (~4,000 BC), they report having constructed the Great Pyramid by thought, building other pyramid structures using “local or earthly material” over the course of the next 1,500 years.
  • In a later working with the Egyptians (~1,350 BC), specifically with Akhenaten who became an exponent of the Law of One, the priests and peoples quickly distorted their message, “robbing it of the compassion” with which unity, by its very nature, is informed. Because unity contains all it cannot “abhor any.” And the pyramid structures Ra had built for initiation and healing of mind, body, and spirit returned once again to the exclusive use of the royal elite.
They described these efforts, and those of other members of the Confederation elsewhere in the world, as “naïve” due to the harmony of their own past third-density experiences. They were not well adapted to the ways of this world. And in their naivety, they thought that direct transfer of information to those of Earth could be helpful.
  • In the Egyptian and the South American experiments' results, though not as widely devastating [as those of Atlantis], were as far from the original intention of the Confederation. It was clear to not only us but also to the Council and the Guardians that our methods were not appropriate for this particular sphere.
Our attitude, thus, was one of caution, observation, and continuing attempts to creatively discover methods whereby contact from our entities could be of service with the least distortion and, above all, with the least possibility of becoming perversions, or antitheses, of our intentions in sharing information. – 24.4
Their Subsequent Responsibility
Because of this, Ra describes how they have an honor/responsibility:
  • We came among you to aid you. Our efforts in service were perverted. Our desire then is to eliminate, as far as possible, the distortions caused by those misreading our information and guidance. – 14.18
  • We then felt the great responsibility of staying in the capacity of removing the distortions and powers that had been given to the Law of One. – 1.1
  • We are one of the naïve members of that Confederation and are still attempting to recoup the damage for which we feel responsibility. It is our duty as well as honor to continue with your peoples, therefore, until all traces of the distortions of our teach/learnings have been embraced by their opposite distortions and balance achieved. – 22.26
  • [We] wished to attempt to make reparation for distortions of this law set in motion by our naïve actions of your past. – 71.19
The distortions given to their teaching of the Law of One are seen as responsibilities rather than failures (23.10), thus they hold an ongoing commitment to our world that is ironclad, you might say. They declare that:
  • We will continue in this [honor/responsibility] until your, shall we say, 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. – 1.1
  • The fidelity of Ra towards the attempt to remove distortions is total. This constitutes an acceptance of responsibility for service to others which is of relative purity. – 80.5
The measure for success in meeting this responsibility is not entirely clear. In the above passages they speak of “removing the distortions and powers that had been given to the Law of One”…“until all traces of the distortions of our teach/learnings have been embraced by their opposite distortions and balance achieved.” One would think that would be a long slog of persisting until many millions of people balanced out these distortions. But, Ra reports that even if only one entity gains illumination (as we count entities at least), then the Ra group shall have fulfilled the Law of One in service.
  • The few who were inspired to seek, our only reason for the attempt. – 23.10
  • We, ourselves, do not feel an urgency for this information to be widely disseminated. It is enough that we have made it available to three, four, or five. This is extremely ample reward, for if one of these obtains fourth-density understanding due to this catalyst then we shall have fulfilled the Law of One in the distortion of service. – 17.2
  • We are content, as we have said, to be able to aid in the evolution of one of your peoples. Whatever efforts you make cannot disappoint us, for that number already exceeds one. – 37.3
  • The flaps cause many fears among your peoples, many speakings, understandings concerning plots, cover-ups, mutilations, killings, and other negative impressions. Even those supposedly positive reports which gain public awareness speak of doom. You may understand yourself as one who will be in the minority due to the understandings which you wish to share, if we may use that misnomer.
[…] The audience brought about by Orion-type publicity is not seeded by seniority of vibration to a great extent. The audiences receiving teach/learnings without stimulus from publicity will be more greatly oriented towards illumination. Therefore, forget you the counting. – 48.5
Still, Ra does not expect to “make full reparations for these distortions.” The intention and the commitment are much more important than the result:
  • We mean no disrespect for your service, but we do not expect to make full reparations for these distortions. We may, however, offer our thoughts in the attempt. The attempt is far more important to us than the completeness of the result. The nature of your language is such that what is distorted cannot, to our knowledge, be fully undistorted but only illuminated somewhat. – 71.20
In this effort, they remain very, very careful to avoid infringement. This is a big reason why, in addition to the “love/light we send your peoples,” they landed on vocal trance channeling as one of their most impactful, important, and non-infringing ways to be of service.
  • The most efficient mode of contact is that which you experience at this space/time. The infringement upon free will is greatly undesired. – 53.7 (See also 21.1)
Yet in their humility and self-professed naivety, Ra acknowledges that their group cannot quite figure us out. So they tell the questioner that they cannot give him pointers for questions to ask; as a free agent he must chart his own course because:
  • Our social memory complex cannot effectually discern the distortions of the societal mind/body/spirit complex of your peoples. We wish now to fulfill our teach/learning honor/responsibility by answering what is asked. This only will suffice, for we cannot plumb the depths of the distortion complexes which infect your peoples. – 3.6
And, being a narrow-band contact, they have a rather narrow range of what they perceive is their freedom and ability to speak and to respond to questions, which, in their humility, included not placing emphasis on their own journey; focusing the attention upon timeless philosophy; avoiding both dogma and doing the learning for the entity.
  • 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. – 2.2
  • We are pleased that you asked this question, for it is not our understanding that we have the right/duty to share our perceptions on any subject but philosophy without direct question. – 2.6
  • You may consider that question for yourself. We interpret the Law of One, but not to the extent of advice. – 12.25
  • We have no dogma to offer. Each perceives that which is needful and helpful to the self. – 88.24
In this orientation they must perform constant interpretation of where the dimensional boundaries of the Law of Free Will are in their dance with three veiled third-density beings. (See “Law of Confusion” in this guide for more.)
Ra’s Own Historical Development
Ra evolved upon Venus, a “harshly bright” planet under conditions we would consider difficult. During their third-density experience Venus had a total planetary population of 38.5 million people, of which 6.5 million were harvested positive, the remainder repeating third density elsewhere. Their harvest was overwhelmingly positive with no entities being negatively harvested,[109] meaning that they had little to no experience with the service-to-self path. In that innocence they were overflowing with compassion, which enabled accelerated work in fourth density, but which caused a great deal of time to be spent in fifth density balancing the compassion gained in fourth. Their sixth-density work was also accelerated because of their harmony. It was that harmony, however, which was a “grievous source of naïveté” with regard to working with our planet.
In their self-described naïveté of their third density, they had not developed the barter or money/power system which is all-pervasive here. They were a more philosophical third-density planet than ours. Their choices centered on the harmonious balances and dynamics of relationships, exploring sexual energy transfer, and performing metaphysical research in the seeking of adepthood, both through the indigo ray and via relationship with others.
In their third density, Ra devised the series of 22 images that depict the Major Arcana of the tarot as a study of the archetypal mind.[110]
Ra’s Present Sixth-Density Experience:
  • To speak of that which sixth-density social memory complexes labor within…is, at best, misprision of plain communication, for much is lost in transmission of concept from density to density, and the discussion of sixth density is inevitably distorted greatly.
However, we shall attempt to speak to your query for it is an helpful one in that it allows us to express once again the total unity of creation. We seek the Creator upon a level of shared experience to which you are not privy, and rather than surrounding ourselves in light, we have become light. Our understanding is that there is no other material except light. Our rituals, as you may call them, are an infinitely subtle continuation of the balancing processes which you are now beginning to experience.
We seek now without polarity. Thus we do not invoke any power from without, for our search has become internalized as we become light/love and love/light. These are the balances we seek, the balances between compassion and wisdom which more and more allow our understanding of experience to be informed that we may come closer to the unity with the One Creator which we so joyfully seek. – 64.6
  • There is past, present, and future in third density. In an overview such as an entity may have, removed from the space/time continuum, it may be seen that in the cycle of completion there exists only the present. We, ourselves, seek to learn this understanding. At the seventh level, or dimension, we shall, if our humble efforts are sufficient, become one with all, thus having no memory, no identity, no past or future, but existing in the all. – 16.22
Ra: We have walked among your people. We remember. We remember sorrow. We have seen much. We have searched for an instrument of the proper parameters of distortion in mind/body/spirit complex and supporting and understanding group of mind/body/spirit complexes to accept this information with minimal distortion and maximal desire to serve for some of your years.
The answer, in short, is yes [we have made our information available at this time due to the planetary transition]. However, we wished you to know that, in our memory, we thank you. – 6.20.
Author’s Note: You Are Competent At Viewing Pictures
Personally, I think that the Ra group were comedians at times. Sometimes even intentionally humorous and lighthearted, I am sure of it.[111] But the following compilation is not titled “The Top 10 Times Ra Was Intentionally Funny.” Multiple passages in this list may be instances of Ra simply being their sober, serious, sixth-density selves. There is only one unifying theme here: all the times that Ra made me laugh. And many other readers.
Their barbs. Their witty observations. Their deadpan! Oh, it kills me. Whether due to the extreme economy of words they had to work with,[112] or the fact that they could not add emojis into their transmission (to indicate that they are crying and laughing simultaneously), their humor is delivered with total, full-stop dryness. That is, save for the one time they did this:
  • We hope that your Ra plans materialize. This is a cosmic joke. You were asking for such an example of humor, and we feel this is a rather appropriate nexus in which one may be inserted. – 37.5
Undoing the joke in the process, but also being funny in doing so.
A Concept Guide is a book with little humor. I was able to sprinkle some nuggets into the opening sections, but thereafter we entered into serious, sometimes furrow-browed contemplation of weighty metaphysical matters. Hopefully in an inspirational and insightful way, and not a book-burning inspiring way, but it got dry real quick.
So, consider this one small reprieve to let the hair down and make space for the light and the silly. In their sixth-density abode, maybe some (unified) entity in the Ra group will notice this writing and say: “Thanks be to the Infinite One! Our social memory complex has finally, in the illusory lapse of time/space, been fully recognized for our humor-distortions!” Orrrrr… maybe they will look upon this recently primate author and, in their own way, remark: “This guy complex… what is he thought-form thinking? We praise the One for renewed opportunity to discover love and understanding.”
I hope that this section gives you an opportunity to appreciate Ra in a new light, and to laugh with—or respectfully at—them, lol.
Specific Examples
  • The racial memory contains all that has been experienced. Thus there is some, shall we say, contamination even of the sexual, this showing mostly in your own culture as the various predispositions to adversary relationships—or, as you call them, marriages—rather than the free giving one to another in the love and the light of the Infinite Creator. – 31.16
The sound vibration complex mic has been dropped.
  • May we say we enjoyed your vision of our social memory complex drinking one of your liquids while speaking through this instrument. – 33.21
During a casual conversation between Ra sessions, the group of three was imagining Ra guzzling a beer… while transmitting through Carla.
  • Questioner: In a “close encounter” by a Confederation type of craft I assume that this “close encounter” is with a thought-form type of craft. Do wanderers within the past few years have “close encounters” with landed thought-form type of craft?
Ra: I am Ra. This has occurred, although it is much less common than the Orion type of so-called “close encounter.” We may note that in a universe of unending unity the concept of a “close encounter” is humorous, for are not all encounters of a nature of self with self? Therefore, how can any encounter be less than very, very close? – 53.9
The other example of Ra going for the intentional point of humor. You be the judge.
  • There are many wanderers whom you may call adepts who do no conscious work in the present incarnation. It is a matter of attention. One may be a fine catcher of your game sphere, but if the eye is not turned as this sphere is tossed, then perchance it will pass the entity by. If it turned its eyes upon the sphere, catching would be easy. – 75.24
Sports buffs!, obviously.
  • Therefore, it was necessary to speak as briefly as possible until we had safely transferred the mind/body/spirit complex of this instrument. We beg your kind indulgence for our discourtesy. It was appropriate. – 85.2
Ra’s way of saying “Sorry not sorry.”
  • Because of the unique biases of each mind/body/spirit complex, there are sometimes quite simple instances of distortion when there is no apparent cause for such distortion. Let us use the example of the virile and immature male who meets and speaks clearly with a young female whose physical form has the appropriate configuration to cause, for this male entity, the activation of the red-ray sexual arousal.
The words spoken may be upon a simple subject such as naming, information as to the occupation, and various other common interchanges of sound vibratory complex. The male entity, however, is using almost all the available consciousness it possesses in registering the desirability of the female. Such may also be true of the female.
Thusly an entire exchange of information may be meaningless because the actual catalyst is of the body. This is unconsciously controlled and is not a conscious decision. This example is simplistic. – 94.10
The least sexy description of a sexual encounter. Italicized word above is my own (appropriate) addition.
  • The faculties of healing which each has commenced energizing may be used. The entity [Carla] may be encouraged to remain motionless for a period. As it will not appreciate this, we suggest the proper discussion. – 77.25
There is something funny about Ra knowing that Carla is not going to appreciate having to remain motionless, so they encourage “proper discussion.”
  • Questioner: I see. A news program I saw a couple of weeks ago raised the question of why the dinosaurs vanished, you might say, from our planet suddenly. I know this is unimportant, but I just wondered what the reason was.
Ra: I am Ra. These entities could not feed their body complexes. – 30.8
You don’t say? lol. Don seems to have opted to forgo another attempt at the deeper question he was actually asking.
  • A perfectly balanced entity would become tired rather than visibly aged. The lessons being learned, the entity would depart. However, this is appropriate and is a form of aging which your peoples do not experience. The understanding comes slowly, the body complex decomposing more rapidly. – 15.8
Wouldn’t a word like “senescence” be more appropriate?” (They did use words no one knows.) Doesn’t Ra know what we generally mean when we say “decomposing,” as in decay and rot!? In a passage two examples below, they sure do seem to know.
  • Questioner: Was the unusual sound on the instrument’s tape recorder that occurred while she was trying to record her singing a greeting from our fifth-density negative associate?
Ra: I am Ra. No. Rather it was a greeting from a malfunctioning electronic machine. – 96.6
  • Questioner: Can Ra please tell us the source of the unusual odor in this room this morning?
Ra: I am Ra. There are two components to this odor. One is, as has been surmised, the decomposing physical vehicle of one of your second-density Rodentia. The second is an elemental which is attempting to take up residence within the putrefying remains of this small creature.
The cleansing of the room and the burning of the incense has discouraged the elemental. The process of decomposition shall, in a short period of your space/time, remove the less than harmonious sensations provided for the nose. – 97.6
  • Questioner: I understand this up to a point—that point is if the entity were successful in either of these attempts, of what value would this be to him? Would it increase his ability? Would it increase his polarity? By what mechanism would it do whatever it does?
Ra: I am Ra. Having attempted for some of your space/time with no long-lasting result to do these things, the [negative] entity may be asking this question of itself. – 80.7
Being Their Oddball Sixth-Density Selves
  • We wish you to proceed as you deem proper. That is your place. We, in giving this information, find our distortion of understanding of our purpose to be that not only of the offering of information, but the weighting of it according to our distorted perceptions of its relative importance. Thus, you will find our statements, at times, to be those which imply that a question is unimportant. This is due to our perception that the given question is unimportant. Nevertheless, unless the question contains the potential for answer-giving which may infringe upon free will, we offer our answers. – 6.26
  • We are oriented towards speaking for you in whatever supply of speakingness you may desire. – 2.1
All the Times Don Must Ask Ra a Second Time to Answer the Question He Just Asked
Of the multitude of times this happened during the contact, some may be as simple as Ra taking Don’s words literally. Q: Can you answer this question? A: Yes, we can. Q: Okay, can you go ahead and do that now?
But other times, Ra surely understands what Don is asking beneath the literal translation of “can you” vs. “would you”? Many, many times during the 2,630 questions they know how to not translate Don’s English literally.
But who knows—maybe when Ra makes Don jump through this extra hoop, it telegraphs to Don the importance of careful precision in formulation of the question, particularly as Ra can only, for the most part, stay within the bounds of the question as it is formulated, not to mention that each answer costs a great deal of time and the instrument’s energy. But, humor standards being what they are on Earth, it’s still funny when it happens.
Or as our friend once said: “If you were a student in Ra's class, you'd never want to ask them if you can go to the bathroom, because they would inevitably say, “I don't know, CAN you?”
Here are two great examples, among others.
  • Questioner: Thank you. Can you tell me of various techniques used by the service-to-others, or positively oriented, Confederation contacts with the people of this planet, the various forms of, and techniques of, them making contact?
Ra: I am Ra. We could.
Questioner: Would you do this please?
Ra: I am Ra. The most efficient mode of contact is… – 53.6–7
  • Questioner: Would you please correct me on this statement, then? I’m guessing that what happens is that, when a transfer takes place, the energy is that light energy that comes in through the feet of the entity, and starts the— The voltage or potential difference starts with the red energy center and, in the case of the green-ray transfer, terminates at the green energy center and then must leap or flow from the green energy center of one entity to the green of the other, and then something happens to it. Could you clear up my thinking on that?
Ra: I am Ra. Yes.
Questioner: Would you please do that?
Ra: I am Ra. The energy transfer occurs in one releasing of the potential difference. … – 84.12–13
Your Observations Are Unexceptional
This is perhaps my favorite category. At least it can hit the funny bone the hardest at times. It’s so just… human, so startling, so out of the flow of this sacred back-and-forth. Personally, I think that Ra are, in at least some of the following cases, intentionally but lovingly ribbing Don, giving him a hard time, teasing him, etc..
Who knows, maybe it’s just an advanced civilization simply stating things precisely as they see them, perhaps with less tact than we might employ when speaking to a dedicated, earnest student. I can’t read their unified light brains.
But as above, so below: It is funny.
  • Questioner: I would guess that the bird signifies that a communication that comes as catalyst signified in Card Three is accepted by the female and used becomes a portion of the experience. I’m not sure of that at all. Am I in any way correct?
Ra: I am Ra. That bears little of sense. – 94.25
  • Questioner: Could you give me more information on the energy fields of the body as relates to the right and left brain and if this is somehow related to the pyramid shape as far as energy focusing goes? I am a little lost at exactly how to get into this line of questioning, so I will ask that question.
Ra: I am Ra. We are similarly at a loss at this line of answering. We may say that the pyramid shape is but one which focuses... – 50.11
  • Questioner: Would I be correct in saying that our local Logos, in acting as co-Creator, distorted to some extent, for the purposes of experience, that which we experience here? And that the archetypes of this particular Logos are somewhat unique with respect to the rest of the creation—but are, of course, related to the all in that they are part of it, but are, I can only say, a unique part—and that the systems of study that we have just talked about would not translate quickly or easily in other parts of the creation. This is a very difficult question to state. Could you clear that up for me?
Ra: I am Ra. We may draw from the welter of statement which you offer the question we believe you ask. Please re-question if we have mistaken your query. The archetypical mind is that mind which… – 76.10
A reminder that “welter” means “a chaotic mass or jumble.”
  • Questioner: Then you are saying as a result of the polarization in consciousness that has occurred later in the galactic evolution, that the experiences are much more, shall I say, profound or deeper along the two paths. Are these experiences independent of the other path, or must there be action across the potentiated difference between the positive and negative polarity? Or is it possible to have this experience simply because of the single polarity? This is difficult to ask.
Ra: I am Ra. We would agree. We shall attempt to pluck the gist of your query from the surrounding verbiage. The fourth and fifth densities are quite independent… – 78.25
Questioner: The choice of polarity being the unique circumstance, shall I say, for the archetypical basis for the evolution of consciousness in our particular experience indicates to me that we have arrived, through a long process of the Creator knowing Itself, we’ve arrived at a position of present or maximum efficiency for the design of a process of experience. That design for maximum efficiency is in the roots of consciousness and is the archetypical mind and is a product of everything that has gone before. There are, unquestionably, relatively pure archetypical concepts for the seven concepts for mind, body, and spirit. I feel that the language that we have for these is somewhat inadequate.
However, we will continue to attempt to understand—and that is a poor word also—the foundation for this, and I am hoping that I have laid the foundation with some degree of accuracy in attempting to set a background for the development of the archetypes of our Logos. Have I left out anything or made any errors, or could you make any comments on my attempt to lay a background for the construction that our Logos used for the archetypes?
Ra: I am Ra. Your queries are thoughtful.
Questioner: Are they accurate, or have I made mistakes?
Ra: I am Ra. There are no mistakes. – 78.26–27
That’s a lot of text for the set-up. But, man, do they leave Don hanging here. Surely for profound, Law-of-One oriented reasons as they balance the dimension variances in free will, etc. etc.
  • Questioner: The wanderer goes through the forgetting process. You mentioned that those who have both third- and fourth-density bodies activated now do not have the forgetting that the wanderer has. I was just wondering if, say, a sixth-density wanderer were here with a third-density body activated, would he have gone through a forgetting that was in sections, shall I say, with a forgetting of fourth, fifth, and sixth densities? And if he were to have his fourth-density body activated, he would have a partial additional memory? And then another partial if his fifth were activated? And then the full memory if he had the sixth activated? Does this make any sense?
Ra: I am Ra. No. – 65.18 (73.5 is similar)
  • Questioner: It would be an abridgment of the First Distortion to tell us whether he is still functioning in a positive manner, would it not?
Ra: I am Ra. We perceive you have replied to your own query. – 88.9
  • Questioner: How is Ra able to know all of this information? This is a somewhat unimportant question, but it is just amazing to me that Ra is able to know all of these trivial things. What do you do, move in time/space and inspect the problem or what?
Ra: I am Ra. Your former supposition is correct, your latter unintelligible to us. – 96.9
  • Questioner: The bent left leg of the two sphinxes indicates a transformation that occurs on the left that doesn’t on the right, possibly an inability in that position to move. Does this have any merit?
Ra: I am Ra. The observation has merit in that it may serve as the obverse of the connotation intended. – 103.14
Don’s observation has value, but opposite to his intended meaning.
  • Questioner: Thank you. I will make a statement as to the way I see the action, and I would request Ra’s comment. I see the present position as the Creator knowing Itself presently using the concept of polarization. We seem to accentuate or to produce catalyst to increase the desired polarization, whether the mechanism be random, through what we call the higher self, or through the services of an oppositely polarized entity acting upon us with catalyst.
All of these seem to produce the same effect which is more intense polarization in the desired direction once that direction has been definitely chosen. I see catalyst of the second-density insect bite being a function of either, or of any, of the sources of which I have spoken, from random, to augmented through the higher self, or through the oppositely polarized services of those who monitor our activities—all of which have roughly the same ultimate effect. Would Ra comment on my observation?
Ra: I am Ra. We find your observations unexceptional and, in the large, correct. – 101.3
  • Questioner: I’m not familiar with the ritual sentences. If the instrument is familiar you need not answer this, but which sentences do you mean?
Ra: [Silence. No response from Ra.] – 46.3
  • Questioner: In Archetype Number One, represented by tarot card number one, the Matrix of the Mind seems to me to have four basic parts to the complex. Looking at the card we have, first and most obvious, the Magician as a part, and what seems to be an approaching star. A stork or similar bird seems to be in a cage. On top of the cage we have something that is very difficult to discern. Am I in any way correct in this analysis?
Ra: I am Ra. You are competent at viewing pictures. You have not yet grasped the nature of the Matrix of the Mind as fully as is reliably possible upon contemplation. – 89.21
That is a hilarious reply. And the best. Was that necessary? No. Could Ra have said that it another way that didn’t make a friendly barb at Don? Yes. But Ra gave Don a loving jab because Don had only factually stated what his eyes saw on the card without providing any interpretive meaning, and then asked if he was correct. This set Ra up to perfectly deliver a left-handed compliment: “You are competent at viewing pictures.” lol.
One could even make the claim that Ra was “punching down” by ribbing Don. Imagine us relating to a monkey and poking fun at its confusion and its limitations of understanding from our standpoint which sees and understands so much more. But Ra’s intentions were free of denigration or condescension. They were relating to an entity and a group they respected.
We are all imperfect beings in this universe, each with our own idiosyncrasies. Some of the strongest relationships are those where our imperfections can be made into jest in loving-affection without loss of mutual trust and harmony. In fact, I will call upon our higher-density friends for their thoughts on humor.[113]
  • For those who wish to enter ever more deeply into the covenant of Love meeting love, we can only suggest that with lighthearted merriment one observe the humor and, shall we say, the oftentimes ridiculous nature of the illusion. – Q’uo, Oct 1, 1989
  • There are two healing energies that break the dams of emotional tension: tears and laughter. Both of these can be toxic when they do not contain the gift of compassion. But they can both be the “balm of Gilead” when they contain that compassion that is willing to move through situations, relationships and issues with a light tread and a keen ear for perspective. When tears are allowed to fall, thus breaking the dam of hard-held anguish, they herald a softening of the situation and create the possibility of release from the anguish, so that tears can be a kind of reset button that restores that one who cries to a more wide and broad perspective [in] which things do not seem so bad and in which the wide, wide country beyond the local storm which has caused anguish can be seen. Similarly, laughter at the self and sometimes at the world in general and the absurdities of it is equally a healing, strengthening, empowering release of stuck feelings, restoring the one who laughs to its default settings of normalcy and its normal perspectives on the world and the self.
It is easy to become spiritually stagnant and stuck. There are a million reasons for that. But there is one universal solvent to those tight feelings and that is the application of laughter and the willingness to invoke the gods of humor in order that that reset button may be pushed. – Laitos, Nov 1, 2008
  • We wish to speak about that which is so often removed from the point of view of spiritual seekers, and that is the sense of humor, the sense of proportion, and the light touch. It would seem that when a seeker tackles the great questions of truth and life and being, every effort must be focused and there is no time for frivolity. Yet, the greatest lessons are those learned by balanced souls, and usually the balance [of] an incarnated soul is the product of a generous sprinkling of the small vices, excesses and overages of your Earth [inaudible]. This makes each seeker aware of its own imperfection, and allows the seeker to see the cosmic humor of living in physical vehicles made of clay.
All of these portions of laughter and joy in its various distortions are healers, healers of the broken rhythms of imperfectly perceived lives. We say imperfectly perceived, yet we hope that you understand that in the end each perception is perfect. It is only that the seeker’s path moves on, and habits of mind which limit the viewpoint often need to be shed, yet humor abides, and perfection abides, and in every change and combination of events still are you who you are.
Do you not find this humorous that one can be imperfect and yet perfect? That one can be in a body of dust and clay, and yet live forever? What a marvelous maker are we who are the Creator. Rejoice in the endless humor of an infinite universe. – Latwii, Sep 17, 1987
  • The laughter quotient, shall we say, of your days should be gradually moving upward. More things should be transparent to you who have been upon the trail for a while and, therefore, deeply humorous in that humor that goes beyond the smile and warms the heart. For this life that you experience is the joke without the punch line. […] As you gain perspective and see yourself as soap opera characters, cartoon characters, creatures that may be ridiculous and still be safe, secure, and undaunted, so will you lose the many, many layers of fear which cause you to armor against the delightfulness of life. – Q’uo, Jun 24, 1990
  • If you have difficulty feeling that laughter is holy, think back to the last time in which you laughed and laughed. Was there not a full feeling of receiving the expression of love, forgiveness, and healing within the heart of that laughter? Laughter is the fire’s communication with the Earth as mercy is the rain’s communication with the Earth. Laughter first burns away pain, then it builds golden castles and offers to the joyous recipient the universe. – Q’uo, Aug 22, 1993
Ra also encourages us to keep it light:
  • All is most whole-heartedly oriented for support here. Perceive the group as here: a location in time/space. Within this true home, keep the light touch. Laugh together, and find joy in and with each other. All else is most fully accomplished or planned for accomplishment. – 106.20
And reminds us that a sense of proportion is inherent in humor:
  • This instrument is under a most severe psychic attack. [She] is bearing up well due to replenished vital energies and a distortion towards a sense of proportion which your peoples call a sense of humor. – 57.1
Imagine pulling back—way back—until what once loomed large now shrinks to near insignificance. From this vantage point, the elaborate costumes we don, the solemn rituals we craft, the weighty dramas we enact—all the things we treat as profound—suddenly take on a comedic air, mere theatrics in the grand unfolding of existence.
The above is just my highly subjective interpretation, of course. Whether or not they intended humor, what is certain is that Ra made every effort to serve through this contact. And they were grateful—Ra explicitly thanked the group for their efforts a multitude of times, and referred to the group as their “friends” 64 times. They were even occasional sweethearts:
  • I am Ra. All is well. It is our joy to speak with you. – 24.3
  • We thank this diligent group. – 100.15
  • May we say it is good to be with this group. We appreciate your fidelity. – 46.17
  • Were we to again be naïve enough to think that our physical presence was any more effective than that love/light we send your peoples and the treasure of this contact, we would do as we did do. We would be; and we would offer our selves as teach/learners. – 48.3
  • The use you make of these transmissions is completely at your discretion. We suggest the flowing of the natural intuitive senses and a minimum of the distortion towards concern. We are content, as we have said, to be able to aid in the evolution of one of your peoples. Whatever efforts you make cannot disappoint us, for that number already exceeds one. – 37.3
Speaking of “one,” Jim has a great one-liner about Ra. It works best in context. Let’s say we are nerding out reading the Law of One together and we come upon a passage where Ra is once again bungling their numbers. This could be a great opening to say: You know, Ra had difficulty counting beyond one.
Citations:
For further exploration, see also:
  • 6.5-7, 14.24, 23.2–5, 23.8–9, 26.21–25, 27.2, 48.3, 76.11, 81.22, 94.9
  • Questioner: I noticed you started this session with “I communicate now.” You usually use “We communicate now.” Is there any significance or difference with respect to that?
Ra: “I am Ra.” “We am Ra.” You may see the grammatical difficulties of your linguistic structure in dealing with a social memory complex. There is no distinction between the first person singular and plural in your language when pertaining to Ra. – 83.28
  • Ra: You speak with Ra. There is no separation. You would call it a social memory complex thus indicating many-ness. To our understanding, you are speaking to an individualized portion of consciousness. – 17.13–14
  • They communicate at a “set rate”: 15.1
  • Their mission has evolved and adapted over time: “During the space/time of the Egyptian teach/learning we worked to bring the mind complex, the body complex, and the spirit complex into an initiated state in which the entity could contact intelligent energy and so become teach/learner itself that healing and the fruits of study could be offered to all.” – 76.8
  • Ra’s historical interaction with the Egyptians: 1.1, 1.5, 2.2, 6.4, 6.22, 14.5, 23.1, 23.6, 24.4, 76.8
  • Clothing themselves “in a replica, visible, in the third density, of our mind/body/spirit complexes in the sixth density.” – 6.7
  • Pyramids and tarot: 2.4, 88.13–14
  • Had attempted to help with our premature aging: 15.5
  • Craft of Ra: 6.20–23
  • Ra’s present existence: 1.1, 14.19–23, 16.21–23
  • Ra’s own historical development: 81.26–43, 89.27–43
  • Ra is not a part of our space/time (65.9), but as such can be with us “at any of [our] times.” (1.1)
  • Needing to integrate (or take into account) the wide variety of desires and vibratory rates of Earth’s population in order to find their window of service, it is the Law of Squares which permits them the opportunity: 7.2. [See also “Calling” in this guide.]
  • Limitations of knowledge: 81.16, 28.16
  • The two entities on Venus who harvested themselves upon the negative path: 89.27, 89.31–43
  • Examples of the understated, among others in the book: 1.9, 6.16, 17.1, 89.40. (In the first three they refer to massive earth changes as “very trivial” and “inconveniences.”)
  • Not the only member of the Confederation with the honor/duty of fixing what the humans broke: 23.16
  • Great sex on the sun: 41.4-6
  • In 45.4, Ra says: “A significant portion of sixth-density wanderers are those of our social memory complex.” In the next Q&A, Ra confirms that at least one, maybe more, of the L/L group are of Ra or one of the other two aforementioned SMCs. And in 45.7, Ra indicates that two of the L/L group are of sixth density.
A few sessions later, in 48.5, Don asks if Ra were incarnate as a wanderer and wanted to achieve their goals of serving as teach/learners through communication, what would they do:
“Questioner: Knowing what you know now about our planetary condition and methods of communication, etc., if you, yourself, as an individual, had gone through the process of incarnation here as a wanderer and now have memory of a sufficient way to have the objective that you just stated, what mechanisms would you seek out for the process of teach/learning in our present state of communication?
Ra: I am Ra. My brother, we perceive you have made certain unspoken connections. We acknowledge these and, for this reason, cannot infringe upon your confusion.”
I have a feeling that this passage might be hinting at the mission/goal of the Ra contact itself; that is, as some of the L/L Research group are themselves those of Ra in their soul’s origins, then the Ra contact is a well-constructed, deeply laid plan manifesting Ra’s own objectives. Or, Don made a wrong assumption, Ra sensed it, and opted not to reply. Either way.
  • In this guide: Narrow Band | Confederation