DAY 3
CHAPTER 10
Dealing with
Psychic
Greeting
Gary In 57.3, Ra says:
RA The Orion group cannot interfere directly but only through pre-existing distortions of mind/body/spirit complexes. 57.3
As you explained previously, psychic greeting happens only through the function of one’s free will. That is, the negative entities can only exacerbate, accentuate, and meddle with one’s pre-existing biases and distortions. It stands to reason, then, that the more conscious and aware an entity is of their own distortions, the less likely that the entity’s distortions can be used against them.
Ra later conveys this:
RA The less balanced the distortion by self-knowledge, the more adeptly the [negative] entity may accentuate such a distortion in order to mitigate against the smooth functioning and harmony of the group. 80.4
Why does Ra indicate that self-knowledge makes one less prone to successful psychic greeting?
Jim Well, if you know that any type of movement away from the harmony that you are capable of creates an opening that can be entered, greeted, intensified, and made a difficulty for you, then you work real hard to stay positive. Or if you feel you have a separation that has occurred because of a misunderstanding or some sort of an argument or anger, then you try to heal that as soon as possible, don’t let the sun go down on it. Heal it before too long a time passes.
So, self-knowledge gives you the tools with which to deal, knowing where your weaknesses are. If you have a tendency to get upset or disharmonious over certain topics or things, then you work on that.
Carla We know Ra was always very eager for people to get to know themselves: “Know yourself, accept yourself, become the Creator.”1 Most people do not know themselves. They know themselves as they wish to be, but they have not grappled with certain aspects of their shadow side that constitute the rich, fertile field of what the negative entity can use. If you don’t know about it, it will be used, and that right quickly. So it’s good to know yourself. Ra has always emphasized that.
Gary Ra gives a basic program for not only protecting one’s self or one’s group from psychic greeting, but also in neutralizing the power and effect of the negatively oriented entities. I will read several nuggets from Ra in this regard:
Thus we see protection being very simple. Give thanksgiving for each moment. See the self and the other-self as Creator. Open the heart. Always know the light and praise it. This is all the protection necessary. 32.1
There is no protection greater than love. 75.2
Love is the great protector. 63.5
Sending [the negative] entity love and light, which each of the group is doing, is the most helpful catalyst which the group may offer to the negative entity. 67.8
Also, sending love and light to the negative greeter “neutralizes it” (67.9) and causes the negative entity the need to “regroup” (67.26).
How does meditating on love and light, and sending love and light, provide this protection?
Jim There are two things, I believe. The first thing is it gets your consciousness pointed towards harmonizing and sending love and light to the negatively oriented entity. Now you’re not sending it to them in order to make them leave, you’re sending it to them because you have honest genuine love and light meant for them.
The technique that I devised over the years was to send love and light: to the entity, to the sending that the entity had made (or the working that the entity was attempting), and then to wherever the working was pointed. If it was me, then I’d send it to me and then to the Creator of all things. And what that basically does is provide a wall of light around you through which the entity cannot move. And it also sends love and light, coincidentally, to the negative entities and they see that as rather sickly.
Carla Bad taste!
Jim [speaking for the negative entity] “Go away, and if you won’t go away, then I’ll go away.” The whole idea is to send love because you see them as the Creator. It has to be genuine and heartfelt. You’re not doing, “I love you, I love you, I love you, go away, go away, go away.” It has to be, “You are the Creator; thank you for what you have to offer.”
Carla And it takes a lot of work to get to where you genuinely do have compassion and, basically, pity for these poor guys that won’t accept that there is any love. They’re flogging away at you instead of doing positive things on their own hook. They’re spending all of their effort trying to take you down because if they can’t have your light, they want to take it out.
Gary Sounds like a miserable existence.
Carla Yeah, it really does. That was a real help to me in coming to a love of them, a genuine love of them. Here these souls were that were caught in these misunderstandings and having all kinds of troubles. Of course we were given the result of these troubles, and they were troubles to us too. But as far as focusing on them as souls, you had to have compassion for them.
Gary It’s a funny position that the positive entity is manifesting what is, more and more purely—manifesting love, manifesting beauty, manifesting light—and the negative entity is so perturbed by that, that they don’t want to see what is. They will go to such great lengths to try to snuff it. But then the protection isn’t to fight it like you’re describing, but just to love them, to manifest more of what is, and that alone pushes them away, so to speak.2
Should one seek to control the perceived negative greeting?
Jim No. Control is their technique. That’s their field. Accepting is the positive response. So you accept it as being a portion of yourself and accept them, and you send love to everyone.
Carla And forgive them. That’s the balance between control and forgiveness: judgment and forgiveness, fear and love.
Gary When one feels under threat or under attack, or is just being related to in that way, one of our first instincts as human or third-density entities is to defend ourselves, to strike back or try to control the situation. But you are counseling, and Ra is counseling, and Confederation sources are counseling the opposite of that: loving and accepting. Is there some vulnerability in that, in letting go and accepting and loving?
Jim Well, you have to let go of some of your preconceived ideas that battling another entity that seems to be greeting you or attacking you is the thing to do. So it’s all internal. The vulnerability is really to love and to open yourself up to love, and letting it shine through.
Gary So there’s a letting down of defenses in a sense and allowing love to do its work, which is its own defense, so you’re still defended.
Carla You just don’t defend. You don’t see it in those terms. You have an open heart and you’re not seeing sides. But, of course, in order to talk about it you really have to talk about it as if there were two sides. In dealing with it you’re trying very much to not be a “we/them” but to be an “us.”
Gary While still saying no to that portion of us.
Carla While still not accepting the temptation, yeah. But it’s not a no, it’s like, “Don’t be silly.” It’s not NO!, it’s like, “Of course not.”
Gary You’re not flipping them the bird, per se.
Carla There you go.
Gary We actually touch on this in the next question.
In 67.11, Ra is discussing the great saga, and humor, of the way in which those of opposite polarity relate, and how in an infinite creation there are seemingly many different voices saying many different things:
RA Your portion of the Creator is as it is, and your experience and offering of experience, to be valuable, needs be more and more a perfect representation of who you truly are. Could you, then, serve a negative entity by offering the instrument’s life? It is unlikely that you would find this a true service.
Thus you may see in many cases the loving balance being achieved, the love being offered, light being sent, and the service of the service-to-self oriented entity gratefully acknowledged while being rejected as not being useful in your journey at this time. Thus you serve One Creator without paradox. 67.11
Ra gave this response because Don was insistent on trying to be of “service” to the Orion entity—
Carla He was so funny, he was sooo funny. He was just sure that somehow we could make a bargain and get them off our backs.
Gary That was basically my question.
Carla Give them a lollypop. [laughs]
Gary Why was Don going to such great lengths to find out how he could be of service to the negative entity?
Jim We don’t know. He never really talked about it. I’ve thought that was one of the most curious parts of his questioning.
Gary You could definitely see that each time he was trying to get at some philosophical principles there, but it also feels to me (and this is just speculation) that there is some strategizing happening on his part. Maybe he’s trying to find a loophole or some way he could undo the situation.
Carla Exactly.
Gary Then this quote seems to me an excellent elucidation on the principle whereby you embrace everything as the Creator, but you reject the service which is not helpful. To probably oversimplify it, you say yes to the infinite Creation, accepting everything as part of self, but say no to a particular service which is not in alignment with your own polarity. I think it’s a point that those of positive orientation get stuck on because they want to say yes to everything, but it’s difficult to draw that boundary. Can you comment on this analysis?
Carla That’s it. It’s a matter of boundaries. Do you want to be a doormat and just a slave, or do you want to make appropriate boundaries where the two of you have to agree to disagree?
Gary So you can draw a boundary, you can say “no, thank you” while loving the person or the negative entity.
Carla Definitely.
Gary That has been a very helpful principle introduced to me by Ra.
Ra speaks of the service offered by the fourth-density negative entities (fourth-density as opposed to the fifth-density entities):
RA The usual attempts upon positively oriented entities or groups of entities are made, as we have said, by [the] minions of the fifth-density Orion leaders; these are fourth-density. The normal gambit of such fourth-density attack is the tempting of the entity or group of entities away from total polarization towards service to others and toward the aggrandizement of self or of social organizations with which the self identifies.
In the case of this particular group [meaning Don, Carla and Jim] each was given a full range of temptations to cease being of service to each other and to the One Infinite Creator. Each entity declined these choices and instead continued with no significant deviations from the desire for a purely other-self-service orientation. 67.7
Okay, multiple questions stemming from this quote. The first is: Were you three aware of any such temptations in your thought patterns?
Carla Not altogether.
Jim No, not really. I guess they weren’t obvious enough.
Carla They slipped by us, they were so obvious. No, I don’t want to fight with them, I want to find a way to talk things through. Mostly things like that. Trying to separate two-against-one in one configuration or another but we’d always say, “No, we don’t want to separate, we want to find a way to be as harmonious as we always have been.”
Gary So I think you’ve pre-answered the next question which is: Whether or not you were aware that there were “temptations” happening, how did you process thoughts that occurred to you of separation or aggrandizement of yourself? It seems your answer is that you just said no if those thoughts arose, or you just talked it out.
Carla Yeah, we did. We were never interested in making ourselves anything compared to the material. We felt that the material might be helpful to people and we wanted to make it available to them in case they wanted to see it. So yes, we wanted it publicized. No, we didn’t want to become big, and we never did. We never wanted that. It’s always been very straightforward: “No, we’re just idiots who have this wonderful material, and if it would be helpful to you, here it is. It’s for free.” And that has always felt right to us.
Gary I want to highlight a point here and that’s that . . . not that I feel that this information will ever be popular on this planet, but if you did get big as a consequence of serving, it’s not getting big, in and of itself, that leads you astray from the positive path, but rather it’s wanting to achieve fame or wealth.
Carla Right. You notice in the Bible it doesn’t say, as is so frequency misquoted, “Money is the root of all evil.” It doesn’t say that. It says desire for money is the root of all evil.3 And it’s that desire, it’s that greed that is the temptation.
We’d be delighted to have money. We would offer it to the project . . . there are endless ways to help in a project like this—ways to be of service, gatherings we could afford to offer, places we could afford to be and make offerings free instead of having to charge for them because we don’t have the money to do otherwise—that kind of thing. Someone might say, “Well, wouldn’t it bother you to have a lot of money?” Heck, no. That would be wonderful and we would just find ways to use that budget. But it would always be in service.
Gary Your objective isn’t for money itself, it’s: How can we serve? What can we do?
Carla Yes. Just take whatever budget we’ve got and spend it the best way we know how.
Gary So because you had apparently not succumbed to the temptations of fourth-density “minions,” a more powerful and skilled negative greeter of the fifth-density variety took it upon itself to visit and greet your group.
Don is asking about this fifth-density negative entity when he says:
QUESTIONER It seems to me that the fifth-density entity is attracted in some way to our group by [the] polarization of this group which acts, somehow, as a beacon to the entity. Am I correct?
RA I am Ra. This is, in substance, correct, but the efforts of this entity are put forward only reluctantly. [Because the fourth-density entities failed], one of the fifth-density entities over-seeing such detuning processes determined that it would be necessary to terminate the group by what you might call magical means, as you understand ritual magic. 67.7
Later on, Ra indicates that it was basically through your open hearts that you found some measure of protection against the fifth-density negative entity’s greeting:
RA It is not within your conscious selves to stand against such refined power but rather it has been through the harmony, the mutual love, and the honest calling for aid from the forces of light which have given you the shield and buckler. 87.6
When you received information of this sort, did it galvanize you to seek love and harmony ever more strongly?
Jim Sure.
Carla It was just very encouraging.
Gary I’ve read The Law of One multiple times, of course, but in researching this it spoke to me in that way, reinforcing my faith to love others, to be humble and kind, and to facilitate harmony.
Were you aware that any slip from harmony could have potentially disastrous effects?
Carla We were indeed. More and more so as time went on, we were increasingly aware of the problems involved in even a tiny lapse in harmony. It was standing close to the light, it became very intense. It was a very intense experience.
Gary In 67.13, the Questioner is asking about the magical or philosophical principles concerning how the fifth-density negative entity is able to offer its service of psychic greeting. Ra explains how the entity breaches the quarantine, unnoticed, by using light, and sends forth its consciousness without any vehicle via magical working. Ra then says:
RA The light 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. This entity, as each in this group, is enough disciplined in the ways of love and light that it is not suggestible to any great extent. 67.13
They’re talking about you being so disciplined that you’re not suggestible.
Carla You’re sure? [laughing]
Gary Here, as in other cases we will discuss further on, this powerful fifth-density negative entity is essentially trying to kill you in order to stop this contact. Did you believe this? And how did this information affect you?
Carla Well, it was a little hard to believe at first, but things kept happening. What other explanation was there? So we were logically stuck with this answer. This was the solution; this was what was going on.
How it affected me? Phooey. I was irritated. Rather than making me scared, it made me want to say, “Up yours, Jack!” But who would be so crude? But that was my feeling from deep in the gut. You’re in my way [laughs], please don’t do this. It didn’t make me scared, it just set me down solid; it grounded me.
Gary And fired up your courage even more.
Carla Yeah.
Gary Ra says that the light that is magically wielded by the fifth-density negative entity would “work instantly upon an untuned individual.” I know we discussed tuning, but as it is applied here, how is tuning a protection?
Jim The tuning helps to keep you focused and strong and aware so that when something out of the ordinary happens, you take note of it and the appropriate action.
Gary What you just said hits upon a different aspect of tuning. In that respect, you are, if tuned, simply more conscious of the processes that are happening in the moment—
Carla And more balanced so that you don’t overreact.
Gary Could you discern any perceptible difference between the fourth-density and the fifth-density negative greeting?
Jim I couldn’t.
Carla I never could discern any of that except in terms of results, and looking back knowing, “Oh, that had to be our fifth-density friend again.” I was unaware until things happened, and then when they happened, I dealt with it and then afterwards I thought about it.
Notes
[1] Know yourself, accept yourself, become the Creator is Ra’s dictum describing what they call the “discipline of the personality”: ↩
QUESTIONER Now, what I am trying to get at is how these disciplines affect the energy centers and the power, shall I say, of the white magician. Could you, will you tell me how that works?
RA I am Ra. The heart of the discipline of the personality is threefold. One, know yourself. Two, accept yourself. Three, become the Creator.
The third step is that step which, when accomplished, renders one the most humble servant of all, transparent in personality and completely able to know and accept other-selves. In relation to the pursuit of the magical working the continuing discipline of the personality involves the adept in knowing itself, accepting itself, and thus clearing the path towards the great indigo gateway to the Creator. To become the Creator is to become all that there is. There is then no personality in the sense with which the adept begins its learn/teaching. As the consciousness of the indigo ray becomes more crystalline, more work may be done; more may be expressed from intelligent infinity. 74.11
[2] See the December 23, 2014 episode of In the Now – Q&A with Carla Rueckert and Crew for a good discussion on the topic of how love repulses negative entities and protects the self. ↩
Audio currently at www.blogtalkradio.com/llresearch. Transcript soon to be published on the L/L Research podcast page www.llresearch.org/podcast.
[3] “For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.” (1 Tim. 6:10 [NAB]) ↩