Ra Contact:
The Narrow-Band Beam
The Narrow-Band Beam
The Beam
Multiple times Ra described their contact as “narrow-band.” In some respects they may have meant this literally in that the transmission stream itself was narrow, perhaps similar to describing the coherent light of a laser as narrow.
- [Don] will find us entering the energy field at a slight angle towards the back of the top of the head in a narrow but strong area of intensity. We are not able to offer any conditioning due to our own transmitting limitations. Therefore, if the instrument can feel this particular effect he may then speak our thoughts as they come to him. – 1.0
- We will, therefore, move on to the one known as Leonard. Again we caution the instrument that it is a narrow-band communication which is felt as a vibration entering the aura. – 1.0
- As we scan the instrument we find anomalies of the magnetic field which are distorted towards our abilities to find narrow-band channel into this instrument’s mind/body/spirit complex. – 30.17
- We have used channels such as this one, but in most cases the channels feel inspired by dreams and visions without being aware, consciously, of our identity or existence. This particular group has been accentuatedly trained to recognize such contact. This makes this group able to be aware of a focal or vibrational source of information. – 14.25
- This contact is narrow-band. The instrument is highly sensitive. Thus we have good entry into it and can use it to an increasingly satisfactory level. – 61.12
Preconditions: Purity & Harmony
In other respects, Ra says that “this contact is narrow-band and its preconditions precise,” meaning that it is not just the beam itself that is narrow, but it is also a narrow or limited set of preconditions that make the contact possible. The two most fundamental, irreplaceable preconditions include (a) the purity of the instrument and (b) the harmony of the group.
In the following variant take on this theme, one may see how this harmony is also with Ra; and how Ra’s freely given service is not only a responsibility and a response to Earth’s call for understanding, but is even more fundamentally an act of love for humanity as a vessel of the Creator’s love.
The Ra social memory complex offers itself also as a function of its desire to serve. Both the caller and the contact are filled with gratitude at the opportunity of serving others.
We may note that this in no way presupposes that either the callers or those of our group in any way approach a perfection or purity such as was described in the bidding process.[115] The calling group may have many distortions and be working with much catalyst, as may those of Ra. The (a) overriding desire to serve others, bonded with (b) the unique harmonics of this group’s vibratory complexes, gives us the opportunity to serve as one channel for the One Infinite Creator. – 55.7
That harmony included three people mutually supporting one another, genuinely loving each other, and accepting each in their own unique set of distortions. Underneath the technical language is this poignant dynamic:
This each of you do as a subconscious function of true attitudinal, mental, emotional, and spiritual distortions towards this instrument. There is no magic greater than honest distortion toward love. – 55.2
In the depths of their beings, Don and Jim were biased toward genuinely loving and caring for Carla in all dimensions of their being. Thus did the two-man “support group”—necessary to the undertaking, according to Ra—serve the two vital functions of protecting the contact and energizing the instrument. In the latter activity, the instrument was vitalized by transferred energy from Jim and Don, most potently and directly thanks to the sexual energy transfers between Jim and Carla the night before each session, and thanks also to Jim spending every minute of each session in meditation visualizing light moving through Carla.
The exact placement of the appurtenances, the exhortation to “guard against those who are not wishing to serve others above all else from […] lending their distortions […] to any session, as we should then be unable to properly blend our distortions with those of this instrument,” and even mechanical concerns such as the need to exclude all unnecessary electrical devices and electromagnetic energies (30.17, 88.10), formed other precise preconditions. But the focus of the questions themselves was a much more critical precondition. If the group had chosen to place heavy importance upon specific or transient information, then the narrow band would have been lost.
This is why we iterate quite often, when asked for specific information, that it pales to insignificance, just as the grass withers and dies while the love and the light of the One Infinite Creator redounds to the very infinite realms of creation forever and ever, creating and creating Itself in perpetuity.
Why, then, be concerned with the grass that blooms, withers, and dies in its season only to grow once again due to the infinite love and light of the One Creator? This is the message we bring. Each entity is only superficially that which blooms and dies. In the deeper sense, there is no end to beingness. – 26.36
There was yet one more dimension of purity essential to the contact:
The Mind/Body/Spirit Complex is Not Present
If all the notes of this unchoreographed concert could be played together in precision and harmony, then something very, very extraordinary could happen: Carla’s spirit[117] could be transferred to the care of Ra in the sixth density so that Ra could speak through her essentially empty physical vehicle.
Ra: We have the m/b/s complex of the instrument with us. As this entity begins to awaken from the metaphorical crib of experiencing light and activity in our density, it is beginning to be aware of the movement of thought. It does not grasp these thoughts any more than your third-density infant may grasp the first words it perceives. – 88.5
How utterly incomprehensible, this. To the limits of our present scientific paradigm, there is nothing that even remotely explains much less adequately describes the circumstance of the Ra contact. We would need a far better understanding of individual consciousness itself before grasping how it can be carefully separated from the human body and transferred to a different dimension.
Precision
However it worked, it required a high degree of precision. Precision permeates every corner of the Ra contact, from Ra’s meticulous word choice, to the clarity of their message, to the prerequisite conditions of the contact, to the mechanics of its conduct. The precise calibration and conduct of the contact is eloquently articulated here:
Ra: I am Ra. This contact is narrow-band and its preconditions precise. The other-self offering its service in the negative path also is possessed of the skill of the swordsman. You deal in this contact with, shall we say, forces of great intensity poured into a vessel as delicate as a snowflake and as crystalline.
The smallest of lapses[118] may disturb the regularity of this pattern of energies which forms the channel for these transmissions. – 64.5
Look You to Your Love for Each Other
An analogy could be drawn to space travel, or to driving a vehicle at extremely high speeds where precision is similarly important: the smallest adjustment, lapse, or miscalculation to steering or otherwise has significant, even fatal consequences. At the levels of intensity of the Ra contact, incredible care had to be taken at every step, but without sacrifice to the creative and balanced flow of harmony, laughter, love, merriment, mutual support, and shared experience.
Rest, then, in that peace and love, and do as you will, as you wish, as you feel. Let there be an end to worry when this is accomplished. The great healer of distortions is love. – 62.26
Thanks to their love for and commitment to each other, their preincarnationally designed dedication to a shared mission, their bone-deep desire to serve others, and whatever je ne sais quoi they had that made their chemistry work to form a channeling super team for the ages, Don, Carla, and Jim became as one.
The Spectrograph: Ra’s Search
Author’s Note: The Metaphorical Crib
The precision of Ra’s and the questioner’s language has the downside of creating an ambiance of a technical, cerebral nature. Given a subject matter that, historically, has not lent itself to exactness, the surgical use of language is remarkable—English became a scalpel in Ra’s hands, and our misapprehensions the subject on their operating table. But I think that to gain a fuller, more embodied understanding of the magnitude and meaning of what transpired during the Ra contact, some emotional contact is needed. It is in our purified and disciplined emotional depths that we turn the key to the lock protecting our inner heart. And it is through the felt awareness of that inner sanctum—unsegregated by the chopped, labeled, ordered, and deadened world created by overreliance upon the intellect—that we truly understand, that we make contact with our un-boundaried, deeper nature.
One entryway into this singular moment in human history could come via poem or song, neither of which are this author’s forte. Another could come via the power of narrative, particularly the movie. Also not a forte, but…
When I try to conceive of this special moment, I imagine this absolutely extraordinary experience from the perspective of those of Ra. There they are in their different reality, utterly indescribable to our physics and comprehension. Through an agreement of mutual free will bonded together in total and pure dedication to service to others, they have a delicately held female third-density being with them, of a type so thoroughly crystallized in dedication to service that, even to Ra, I imagine, she radiates an angelic aura.
Third-density entities do not cross the boundaries of the upper densities for visitations. Even were we a space-faring race, or were we making regular, TripAdvisor-approved excursions into the inner planes of our own world, we would still be confined within the limits of our own third-density universe. But in this very, very unique circumstance—unique not in Earth history alone but presumably uncommon across the universe generally—one human braved the unimaginable. With unwavering trust, she placed herself entirely in the hands of an intelligence she could not see, and in the care of her two dedicated companions, in an act that epitomizes the very essence of faith.
In this, she not only risks her life 106 times, not only loses nearly all of her functional body weight (have you seen the pictures of Carla?), not only becomes the primary target of determined and fierce negative greeting: she risks losing her soul, I think is the best way to summarize it. To be deceived into entering “negative time/space”[120] sounds like some bizarre sci-fi plot twist, the technical nomenclature adding little to the emotional connotation necessary to convey just how monumentally fucked this scenario is to a being with a living heart.[121]
One way to frame it is to see that this person who loves companionship, sunlight and gardens, mutual love making, dancing and laughing, radiating freely in service to others; this person who is sensitive to suffering, who is a positive adept; this person is thrust into a prison of the ultimate darkness. Not only would she be allowed no phone calls to her loved ones, she would be irrevocably severed from them for eons of time. Everything, and I mean everything she loved, would be unavailable to her. And not just until she died and was reunited on the other side to begin anew in the sunlight, but for dimensions of evolution and unknowable thousands of lifetimes.
Carla would move into a darkness where exactly zero people loved her, appreciated her, or wanted to support her. She would be surrounded by an entire society bent upon subjugation and enslavement. Whether that would come with torture, harassment, sexual abuse, I have no idea—though I imagine that no trick in the book goes neglected, and that there is no shortage of time. She wouldn’t have a friend in the universe, at least not one who could reach her in any meaningful way.
And then, worse, believe it or not, the one we know as Carla would have to become that darkness. Though she would probably foolishly strive to remain pure and loving for as long as she could hold out, inexorably she would need to crush whatever love remained in her heart in order to serve the call of dominance and cruelty as her sole means of advancement. There is no rescue, no plan b, no Hollywood ending, no other fork in the road to take. It is a long, one-way street.[122]
Few people have opportunity for heroism on this level. Even Ra makes a rare judgment call, describing how death would be a “far better” option:
So, I am being fairly dramatic about this dramatic scenario. But what was Carla’s perspective? Here Carla is in TAW speaking about it nonchalantly:
Gary: [I am describing how the dance with negative greeting, particularly the attempt to steal her away to negative time/space, is a tight rope balancing act and I ask:] Did you feel under sort of a pressure during or between the sessions?
Jim: We more had the bliss of the fool. We didn’t feel, I didn’t feel, and I don’t think Don and Carla felt pressure.
Carla: I didn’t feel it.
Jim: We were aware that harmony was extremely necessary.
Carla: And we entered into that harmony gladly. I felt very protected and ready to work. I did not worry about it at all. We did our work and we tuned. […]
I felt very secure, I felt very loved, and I felt that all was well—as long as I did my work. I needed to stay honorable and pure and to do what I had agreed to do. Jim was the same. He was very ethically upright and did everything that he possibly could to enter into the harmony of the group. Don was his own beautiful incredible self and would never have been inappropriate in a million years. He was always just fine—he’s quite silent, he didn’t say anything, but he was right there. [pg. 105–106, Tilting at Windmills]
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Gary: How did you hold up under all of that assault, Carla?
Carla: Well, as it occurred. I tried to stay in the present moment, and I knew that my strong point was faith and fearlessness, and that those were renewable resources, as opposed to my physical, which wasn’t as easy to beef up. Faith is absolutely renewable; you just go to spirit and ask. You get a big woof and you’re fine again.[123]
There’s no end to vital energy if you have faith, and I did, and if you have will, and I did, and if you don’t tend to worry about the future, and I don’t, ever.
So I just stayed in the present moment and dealt with things as they came up. Or went down. [laughs] [Ch 12 “Brunt of the Greeting,” Tilting at Windmills]
Risk and reward seem to have a proportional relationship in the creation. The risk was of this scale because what Carla, Don, and Jim, were doing was of that scale. If you are going to open a portal to three evolutionary levels of reality beyond our own so that a narrow-band ray of light—the nearest we’ve come to a direct transmission from Source Itself—may penetrate the illusion and answer the questions that have confounded humanity since time immemorial, and help to heal the world, then the ferry’s toll will be commensurately steeper.
The gravity of the undertaking sufficiently established, we return to try to wrap our heads around the extraordinary nature of this journey that these three, Carla in particular, undertook.
I’m in search of some allusion, metaphor, or analogy. I think of James Cameron’s record-breaking 35.7-thousand-foot dive to the deepest point in the ocean in the Mariana Trench; or, better yet, the Apollo Moon landings. Both share characteristics with Carla’s journey in terms of the enormous courage necessary to venture into the dark unknown in service to a cause greater than themselves—all three missions returning from the extremes with new insight, information, and perspective.
But whereas the Deepsea Challenger and Apollo missions were the fruit of unmatched achievements in science and technology—not to mention massive efforts of human coordination, with equivalent amounts of financial resources—Carla’s, by contrast, was, save for a few cassette recorders, an exercise in the technology of consciousness.
Moreover, it was supported by only two other people who, with a lot less cash, were alongside her through every step; but who, like the specialists at mission control, ultimately couldn’t go with her through the portal. She alone braved that great journey.
Of even greater difference, while those terrestrial (ocean) and near-terrestrial (moon) voyages pushed the boundaries of scientific understanding and exceeded the limits of what had previously been possible, each were still well, well within the bounds of consensus human reality and our third-density universe. And, while both returned with philosophical implications for our lives—particularly the moon landings, in shaping how we saw ourselves and our planet—neither explicitly plumbed the metaphysical, or spiritual, depths of the nature of reality, evolution, and the infinite One Creator.
So, when my mind searches for something, anything comparable, it returns empty-handed. This is probably a limitation of my knowledge, but it could be that what the D/C/J complex did is simply without historical precedent or peer.
Yet what really marks it as special to me isn’t so much its statistical uniqueness—though, my God, that alone is worthy of generations of study—but the spiritual nature of the undertaking. Many people much, much smarter than me will write of it someday, but while you are here with me, it is the combination of the purity[124] and the profundity, the scale of the undertaking, the opening of a doorway to the universe through which flowed the greatest enlightenment a confused world may have ever heard, that makes me well with tears when I really feel into the authenticity of it.
It is here where I want the scriptwriter to render into film some narrative setting that emotionally connects the viewer to the story, in an approximating way, of what transpired upon the metaphysical level during that precious contact.
Not being one for sensation or hype, I want to avoid cranking up the emotions to an 11 with hyperbolic, messianic exclamations and proclamations, but I do want to render some justice. Even with subtle music and understated storytelling, when Carla—laying supine on that bed, sheets carefully tucked up to her neck, tie-pin microphones on her chest, a carefully folded t-shirt of Don’s over her eyes, her hair (aka: antennae) combed outward in straight lines, her two companions near—closes her eyes to, as she experienced it, “fall asleep,” then holy music of choirs and connotations of the presence of angels and light forces feels appropriate. They gather to bear witness in joy and, even from their greater perspective, awe at what this fragile but determined human is doing.
It would seem that those attending to this event upon the unseen realms would marvel, knowing that they are witnessing something that either the world has never seen before, or sees only once in an age.
And through whatever Space Odyssey, Interstellar, Matrix’esque way that Carla’s journey into the impossible can be conveyed on screen, the wonder of it all should continue when she is with those of Ra, held, loved, and protected exquisitely and carefully in their sixth-density reality. I would assume that her spirit would retain its native form in this very strange land, whatever form a spirit takes on.
And while we wouldn’t want to take many creative liberties in assigning to Ra form and feelings, I think it safe and appropriate to convey their own unbounded gratitude for this opportunity to transmit their distortion-reducing message, and to have this particular spirit with them in their care. The music should continue.
It is such an extraordinary thing, this contact. If we take Ra at their word regarding the history of the interaction of the Confederation of Planets with those of Earth—including the outreach to Eisenhower wherein they, in my interpretation, offered information to help facilitate peace and freedom for our planet (which tragically went unaccepted)—how incredible that, at this moment in our history, Ra simply circumvented governments, authorities, and earthly power structures to transmit a light powerful enough to waken the world’s dreamers from their slumber to three eccentric and humble people living in Louisville, Kentucky, of all places; three who held no significant earthly power and were living not for capitalistic objectives, but for a life consciously dedicated to spiritual seeking and service. Ra waited for the final piece to lock into place, which was signaled by Jim’s moving in with Don and Carla, and, 23 earth days later, it was go time—the theater lights dimmed and the stage light centered on Carla and her companions.
Maybe we have to look to religious events for comparable moments of meaningful, paradigm-altering impact which take on an aura of personal significance to those impacted. But whereas historical moments of revelation are shrouded in the mists of a forgotten, partially recorded past, altered by subsequent millennia of scribes, translators, and power structures, the moment of the Ra contact arrived when humanity possessed recording technology sufficient to capture the message as it was intended, right on the cusp of the emergence of humanity’s training wheels for the social memory complex, the ultimate distributional tool and preserver of information: the internet. (No accident, that.) Thereby allowing the reader to return to this particular stream of revelation (among others) without necessity of intermediary (including L/L Research) and always in a state of original preservation so that it cannot be co-opted by power structures to mean something that it isn’t, so long as the seeker returns to the source for direct understanding.
This is not to say that the contact should have religious or any kind of significance to anyone: no philosophy and no group downplays its authority and significance more than the Law of One and L/L Research, respectively. In a universe of oneness, what is this but yet another infinite iteration of the Creator-knowing-Itself? No, the purpose of my writing is only to get beyond the technical language in order to help provide a frame of understanding for why this thing that happened was special, because, for a few people on this planet, it is immensely significant as a guiding light upon their journeys. It is also to open the heart by way of the emotional door to perceive the beauty, profundity, solemnity, and joy that unfolded when three humble spiritual seekers lived together with hearts joined as one in order to go on an adventure like no other. It is to see the light that they helped to bring back to share freely with the world—motivated not by the accrual of status, profit, or power, and without missionary zeal, proselytization, or salesmanship. Dispassionately they made a liberating, empowering, and healing source of information available in order to free and heal those interested seekers around the world whose spectrograph matches the vibration of the Law of One.
Citations:
- The Beam: 1.0, 10.19, 14.25, 30.17, 61.12, 65.4, 72.17, 85.20
- The Preconditions: Purity & Harmony: 3.1, 26.36, 30.17, 37.4, 55.2, 55.7, 72.7, 88.10, 94.9, 100.15
- The Mind/Body/Spirit Complex is Not Present: 21.1, 22.1, 35.8, 72.5–7, 74.3, 85.20, 88.5
- Precision: 37.3, 64.5
- Look You to Your Love for Each Other: 49.9, 57.1, 62.26, 72.7, 105.22
- The Spectrograph: Ra’s Search: 6.20, 37.3, 39.9, 69.5, 71.21
For further exploration, see also:
- 19.5, 67.21, 84.21, 87.6
- Ra is un-filtered by a human instrument:
- The future […] communications which we offer through this instrument have no connection with the instrument’s mind complex. This is due to two things: first, the fidelity of the instrument in dedicating its will to the service of the Infinite Creator; secondly, the distortion-understanding of our social memory complex that the most efficient way to communicate material with as little distortion as possible, given the necessity of the use of sound vibration complexes, is to remove the conscious mind complex from the spirit/mind/body complex so that we may communicate without reference to any instrument orientation. – 21.1
- We use the vocabulary of the language with which you are familiar. This is not the instrument’s vocabulary. However, this particular mind/body/spirit complex retains the use of a sufficiently large number of sound vibration complexes that the distinction is often without any importance. – 21.2
- The desire of the scribe [in an other channeled work] may be seen in much of this material to have affected the manner of its presentation just as the abilities and preferences of this group determine the nature of this contact. The difference lies in the fact that we are as we are. Thus we may either speak as we will or not speak at all. This demands a very tuned, shall we say, group. – 39.9
- It is not by example that the healer does the working. The working exists in and of itself. The healer is only the catalyst, much as this instrument has the catalysis necessary to provide the channel for our words, yet, by example or exercise of any kind, can take no thought for this working.– 5.1
[See also: “The Mind/Body/Spirit Complex is Not Present” in this entry.]
- Group harmony: 3.1, 21.1, 33.1–2, 36.21, 53.2, 55.2, 57.1, 61.5, 62.26, 63.5, 65.1, 71.21, 91.38, 94.9, 99.11, 100.15, 102.21, 105.22
- The attempt to lure Carla to negative time/space: 68.4–18, 69.3–21, 70.6–8, 70.14–23, 71.14, 72.7–8, 72.14–15
- “This instrument is somewhat weak and, although strong in vital energy and well able to function at this time, is somewhat more fragile than the usual condition we find. We may note a continuing bearing of the physical distortion called pain which has a weakening effect upon physical energy. In order to use the considerable store of available energy without harming the instrument we are attempting to channel even more narrow band than is our wont.” – 65.4. I am unsure why channeling even more narrow band would help avoiding harm to (depletion of) the instrument.
- In this guide: Ra | Confederation | Mixed Contact