DAY 3
CHAPTER 9
What is
Psychic
Greeting?
Author’s Note: We are about to spend five chapters investigating psychic greeting in general but mostly as it pertains to the Ra contact. This topic merits such focus because, as any reader knows or will soon discover, psychic greeting played a prominent, sometimes even dominant role in the experience of the contact, perhaps even contributing to its end. Indeed it constituted such an important part of the very fabric of the experience that it was inseparable from the journey the group undertook. To neglect this topic would be akin to interviewing Ernest Shackleton and not asking him about the Antarctic ice sheets that trapped and crushed his ship on its polar expedition, stranding him and his crew in one of the world’s most harrowing and heroic tales of survival.
Unlike the ice sheets, however, psychic greeting also offers an excellent platform for investigating spiritual principles upon the path of self-realization. It brings the polarities (the axis upon which the creation turns1) into much sharper relief because psychic greeting is a dynamic, intensive arena where the polarities square off, each mode of service forcing the other to be more perfect and pure upon its respective path. Owing to this, the workings of free will are illustrated in vivid, almost tangible light.
Now and then, though, a reader of L/L’s work will learn of events during the contact with Ra, and/or learn of the reality of psychic greeting, and become subsequently concerned, even fearful in the worry that similar may befall them. While each path unfolds according to one’s free will, it may be well to consider that most spiritual seekers on the planet, in this or any age, will likely never experience these circumstances and intensities, for the same reason most of us will never experience the challenges that astronauts face when blasting through the atmosphere, entering orbit, or traveling in space, like enormous g-forces and zero-gravity environments. It is a circumstance of exceptional, special, and extraordinary nature.
Gary Can you define “psychic greeting”?
Jim An attempt by the loyal opposition to keep you from doing what you’re doing, to take your light. If they can’t control what you’re doing and change it then they attempt to put the light out.
A little more information might be helpful. When contact like this is undertaken by anybody, there is produced a certain metaphysical power or light (it’s seen as light on the inner planes). And just like a candle will attract the attention of moths and bugs of various kinds, the light that’s produced in a session like this will attract the attention of others. Those of positive polarity will come and rejoice in what’s going on and lend their energies and lend their vibrations while those of negative polarity will look for a way to control that light, to get the power, because the light is also a power. They get that spiritual power within their own realm if they can control it in some way. So all the psychic greetings were their attempt to control what was happening or to stop it.
Carla We get the greetings, we who attempt to serve the light, whenever we attempt to serve. It begins with the elements of our own personality that are resistant to this: don’t want to serve the light, want to go off and have a ball, want to do something else. So the shadow side of our personality, as Jung might say, kicks up its heels and says, “Wait a minute.”
Beyond that there are a lot of entities in fourth-density negative that attempt to tempt people away from serving the light, usually by invoking the ego: Don’t you want to be famous, don’t you want to make a lot of money from this? And an amazing number of those channels who wish to serve the light are taken away from the light by elements of ego.
Often, they want to answer specific questions posed to them and they can’t get it through their tuned contact, so they let themselves be detuned because they want the answer. Then they get an answer and they give it. And the answers start out very close to a positively oriented answer, but if they keep on with that specific questioning, it will get further and further away from love and enter into fear. Then you’ll get doom and gloom, and have cows,2 stay away from everybody else, and defend your little enclave of like-minded people. That happens over and over.
It’s a shame, but if you resist and keep taking the high road that doesn’t need to get the answer, and if the answer received is no, then the answer is no. The instrument needs to cultivate an attitude of being okay with saying, “I don’t know. I have no idea. I can’t answer that.”
But eventually, if you keep successfully resisting temptations of that kind, then it gets kicked upstairs to fifth density, which is very rare, actually. Most people capitulate in fourth density and get pulled away by a fourth-density temptation. But if it gets kicked up to where the entities trying to tempt you away are very wise and very clever, then it can be very dicey. It is rare, but it does happen, obviously, and it’s happened to us.
Gary Is “psychic greeting” a synonym or euphemism for “psychic attack”?
Jim It’s an attitude of how you look at what’s occurring. “Psychic attack” is a phrase you would use if you were really wanting to do battle with somebody and feeling that they were your true adversary. “Psychic greeting” is an attempt to make this person or entity the same as the self, to see them as the Creator just as they are the Creator. So by calling it a psychic greeting, we were attempting to downplay the adversarial nature of the relationship, even though that entity itself might feel quite adversarial towards us—
Carla We wanted to keep our hearts open.
Jim —we did not have to return that same feeling. So that was the beginning of how we dealt with psychic greetings.
Carla Yes it is a euphemism, and actually it is a synonym.
Gary So the term itself has built into it a prescription for how to appropriately deal with psychic attack in a positive sense.
Jim Right.
Gary So who is susceptible to psychic greeting?
Jim Anybody who is successfully doing service-to-others work of light or power and is generating positive results—
Carla Everybody.
Gary That work doesn’t necessarily have to be on the outer level; you don’t have to be out in society causing changes and attracting attention to yourself. This could just be on a level of consciousness itself.
Jim If you’re letting your light shine, you will attract attention.
Gary In 80.3 Ra says that the “element of fear” is “a great weapon” in the arsenal of the negative entity undertaking psychic greeting. Can you elaborate on this?
Jim Well, fear is a quality that usually separates us from something. Maybe even part of our self, or a friend, or some activity that we’re doing. If you look at things as all being one and seeing that we’re all part of the Creator, then there’s nothing to fear; it’s all yourself, eventually. So fear is something that we need to work on by balancing it with acceptance and love.
That’s what we were attempting to do as we dealt with psychic greetings—was to deal with fear, because, of the various types of greetings (I think you’re probably going to share some of those later on), some could be fearful. You could feel fear for some of them. And it’s a trick sometimes, an act of will and an effort to not fear, but to see it as something that you can send love to and heal.
Gary That goes back to using the term “psychic greeting.” Seeing it as a greeting is yet another way to put the foot in the right direction in that you help to remove the fear from it, to make it less threatening.
Jim Right.
Carla And also seeing that there are fears that are inner: the fear of looking stupid and foolish—you don’t want to say, “I don’t know,” as a channel. You want to have the answer. So there’s fear involved in—if your ego comes in and says, “I want an answer,” you fear looking stupid, you fear looking like a bad channel.
Gary Right. If you’re attached to some image of yourself, then you fear loss of or diminishment to that image.
What are some of the consequences of successful psychic greeting?
Jim Well, most channeling contacts start off very positively. If you’re not able to maintain the contact because you aren’t aware of things like Carla has discovered—the necessity for tuning yourself before each channeling, the necessity for challenging the entity attempting to contact you each channeling—then it’s possible that you could get off the track of what you wanted to do and the contact itself will become mixed. The positive source that began the contact might begin to see that the channel is no longer interested in maintaining the same level of purity in the seeking, or in the tuning, or in the serving. Then the positive source will gently withdraw and be replaced by a negatively oriented entity of roughly the same power which will feel quite similar to the positive entity with which the contact began. Then the contact will begin moving away from the positive concepts which it was sharing, and there would be little turns and barbed hooks inserted in there to begin getting more negatively oriented information where the person’s ego, say, may be glorified or gratified with power, or position, or with money, etc.
So very often in channeling, we get mixed contacts. It starts off very positive and then it goes through the process of the positive entity withdrawing and then becoming more negatively oriented. Now there’s only so much negatively oriented information that a positive channel, who’s really positive, will take before discovering that there is something going on. But, the whole thrust of the effort then has been diluted, shall we say, and may be sidetracked and gotten off in a direction that is of less service than it could have been.
And there are other possibilities. For instance, like the psychic greetings that Carla had where she was given the impression by the negatively oriented entity on her walk that there was no traffic in the road, and that she should step out in front of the traffic.3 The consequences there are fairly obvious.
Carla [laughs] Mack truck!
Gary So any behavior a human can undertake with a mindset of fear would fall under the consequences of successful psychic greeting?
Carla Yes.
Gary Ra identifies a group, named the Orion Empire, as being responsible for the psychic greeting you experienced during the Ra contact. Who was this group?
Jim Well, they were entities of a negative nature, apparently, that had been successful in their efforts at control and manipulation of those around them so that they could gather their power and become more powerful. So the entire Orion constellation is not negative; however, the negatively oriented entities from the Orion complex apparently do reside there. That’s their home base, apparently. There are plenty of others, but apparently those entities who were visiting our group and had been attracted to it by the light were from the Orion Empire, shall we say.
Gary So Orion is kind of a cosmic geographical location?
Carla Kinda-sorta. A lot of things get their terms from where they began, and in actuality they’ve moved on. Or they’ve collected a lot of different places that have come in under that federation and it’s no longer in, say, New York—it’s not really the New York Association, but it’s called that. Look at the football leagues, that’s a perfect example: the East isn’t the East and the Big Ten has no geographical location whatsoever and everything’s all over the place.4 It’s crazy. But everybody that enters into it knows what they’re talking about.
I think the Orion Empire was just like that. It wasn’t literal, and it wasn’t an empire. It was a confederation of planets in the service of the Infinite Creator by being service to self. Very much like the confederation that Ra belongs to but negative in polarity.
Gary [to Carla] Sounds like you have a husband who watches college football.
Carla You might think so. [laughs] And you’d be right.
Gary The terms “empire” and “confederation” imply two very different ways to organize and structure and relate to groupings. I would think that the word “confederation” couldn’t be applied to “empire” or to a grouping of negative entities. Whereas the negative entities are bent upon conquest and submitting those less powerful to their will, a confederation seeks to share power.
Carla You’re right. You’re exactly right.
Gary Which is why Ra describes their own grouping as a confederation and the Orion grouping as an empire.
Doing the research for this interview, I came upon something really interesting that I wasn’t aware of previously. There seems to be no mention of the Orion group, psychic greeting or psychic attack in any channeling transcripts prior to the Ra contact. Unless I am mistaken, it seems that Ra introduced you to the idea of psychic attack and the notion that there is this grouping of negative beings associated with the area of the galaxy in or near the Orion constellation. Is this true? If so, how did you react upon learning this?
Jim Well, it caused a reorientation in concept and in thinking, because we weren’t aware of psychic greetings before this, and of “negatively oriented entities.” We knew, in general, that there were negative entities, but who knows what they were doing and where they were? So we had to try to figure out, well, how do they evolve? What direction do they go? I think Don asked a question about that and Ra said that they move through the densities the same as positive entities do, until the negative beings get to mid-sixth density, then there’s a change that they have to make because they can’t go any further.
So, yeah, it was a new concept and it took a little while to think about it and wrap our minds around it.
Gary So prior to the contact with Ra, polarity wasn’t investigated or explored very much then, I presume.
Jim Not so much, though we had been familiar with polarity from a couple of other channeled sources. I’m trying to remember the name . . .5 Anyway, there were other sources that talked about polarity. Don was aware of the necessity for a 51% positive effort in order to be graduated. But we were not aware of what the negative entities would have to do, that they would have to be much more pure in their efforts to be 95% negative. But we were aware of the concept of polarity before this.
Gary Just hadn’t been developed to the full extent that it was during the Ra contact.
Carla Oh, no. It was something we started thinking about then because of the catalyst of all these things happening.
Gary I feel that The Law of One material’s treatment of the negative polarity is one of the things that sets it apart, somewhat, from other sources of philosophical or spiritual information.
Carla Very different.
Gary The sheer abundance of information on psychic greeting in The
Law of One is indicative of just how constantly you three, especially the instrument, were under pressure and threat from what you have termed the “loyal opposition.”
Notes
[1] Ra described the choice between STO and STS made in third density thusly: ↩
RA The choice is, as you put it, the work of a moment but is the axis upon which the creation turns. 76.16
[2] Jim writes: ↩
I don’t believe that Carla had any one group in mind but was putting a number of detuned situations together that she knew of. She was familiar with a few groups that had become detuned and it started for them with asking specific questions about how to survive the “doom and gloom” times that were seen to be coming in the future. The whole idea was to recede into a self-sufficient group and “stay away” from others who might want your things. The “have cows” phrase is another action for such detuned groups to take, in order to be self-sufficient. You could get milk and butter from cows to help in surviving tough times alone.
[3] About the suggestion to step out in front of traffic: ↩
RA The light [of the negative greeting] would work instantly upon an untuned individual by suggestion, that is the stepping out in front of the traffic because the suggestion is that there is no traffic. [The instrument], as each in this group, is enough disciplined in the ways of love and light that it is not suggestible to any great extent. However, there is a predisposition of the physical complex which this entity is making maximal use of as regards the instrument, hoping for instance, by means of increasing dizziness, to cause the instrument to fall or to indeed walk in front of your traffic because of impaired vision. 67.13
[4] Prior to losing interest in sports altogether after Carla’s passing in 2015, Jim had been a dyed-in-the-wool college football fanatic. Though not terribly interested in sports herself, Carla picked up a thing or two. ↩
[5] One source was likely the book, Oahspe: A New Bible. ↩