DAY 3
CHAPTER 11
Why You
Gary We’re still in the Psychic Greeting portion and we’re now on the sub-section regarding why you three were such a favorite target of negative greeters.
Ra claims that:
RA This group, as all positive channels and supporting groups, is a greatly high priority with the Orion group. 64.14
Why are positive channels, as Ra says, “high priority” targets for the Orion group?
Jim They have what the Orion group wants: power.
Carla They’re manifesting light, they’re giving information which is of a positive nature. That doesn’t satisfy the needs of the negatively oriented entity at all. As far as they’re concerned, you’re trying to take over their territory. If they can’t control that light, if they can’t bend it so you are actually working for them, then they just as soon [smacks hands together] get rid of you and get rid of the light that they can’t use.
Gary So it’s not just the power in the light, in and of itself, but rather the capacity of the channel to help others, to influence others, to bring others also into the light. It’s like you said: it’s kind of territorial. The channel, as with others acting in service to others, has the capacity to help awaken others to love and light. The negatively oriented beings don’t want that.
As was previously mentioned, your efforts attracted the attention of a negative entity of considerable power—a major leaguer, if you will. The questioner, Don Elkins, wonders why your group in particular would be such targets of intensive psychic greeting considering that you’ll reach so few people:
QUESTIONER As Ra well knows, the information that we accumulate here will be illuminating to but a very minor percentage of those who populate this planet presently simply because there are very, very few people who can understand it.1
However, it seems that our fifth-density visitor is, shall we say, dead set against this communication. Can you tell me why this is so important to him since it is of such a limited effect, I would guess, upon the harvest of this planet? Since it seems to me that those who will understand this information will quite possibly already be within the limits of harvestability.
RA I am Ra. Purity does not end with the harvest of third density. 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. The instrument through which we speak and its support group have a similar fidelity and, disregarding any inconvenience to the self, desire to serve others. . . . Such purity is as a light. Such an intensity of light attracts atten-tion. 80.5
And earlier, Ra described how the negative entity operates by saying:
RA The entity becomes aware of power [the power of the group doing this working]. This power has the capacity of energizing those which may be available for harvest. 68.16
So according to this question and answer, it’s not necessarily the social or political or cultural impact that this work will have upon the world that attracts potent negative forces who seek to terminate the contact, but rather it is the contact’s metaphysical qualities of power and purity that attract this attention.
So, as will happen in the next few questions, we’re kind of turning over the diamond to examine a slightly different facet.
What was it about the contact with Ra that made it a source of power in the metaphysical world, and what about it was of some degree of purity?
Carla Hmmm . . . [pause]
I guess it was built into us and manifested in the way we were—essence rather than behavior.
Gary You link the essence of the group to the power it generated?
Carla Yeah, and all the purity.
Jim The information that Ra had to share was certainly of great value and had the ability to enlighten other folks as well.
Gary Due to its nature, this material must stand out somewhat exceptionally because, in my assessment of this planet (and I could be wrong), there’s not a lot of purity on either end of the polarity spectrum. There’s not a lot that is purely positive or purely negative. Ra says that most of humanity exists in a “sinkhole of indifference.” We’re a very mixed people as a whole.
Carla It’s the shades of grey.
Gary When you begin operating strongly and clearly from one end of that spectrum, that work creates a light that is a lot more visible, I would think, relative to this particular planet, given the situation here.
Carla I would think so, yeah.
Gary According to Ra, this particular work attracted negative attention of what they described as a magical variety. Does that imply that the working you undertook was magical in nature?
Jim Yes, magic being the ability to create changes in consciousness.2
Carla By thought alone rather than by manipulation [of the material world by material means].
Gary Ra goes onto say that:
RA This [fifth-density negative] entity is desirous of disabling this power source. It sends its legions. Temptations are offered. They are ignored or rejected. The power source [of the group] persists and indeed improves its inner connections of harmony and love of service. The entity determines that it must needs attempt the disabling itself. 68.16
In the same Q&A, Ra mentions that the group actually improved its “inner connections of harmony and love of service.” It seems that, daunting though the challenge of the fifth-density negative greeting may have been, as with all challenges it offered equally proportional rewards. That is to say, the intensive psychic greeting provided an intensive opportunity to open the heart, to serve others, to become unified as a group, and to polarize. Can you comment?
Jim Well, what the psychic greeting actually does is to offer a sort of a left-handed compliment3 that shows you where you have work to do. There may be something you’ve missed, so if you pay attention to where you’re being greeted, you’re also seeing things that can help you if you bolster what was weak into a more strong or balanced framework.
Carla And there’s the mentality of the game where you want to get focused in pitch and harmony with your team. It’s like, send me in, coach! We all were trying to become better team members and more ready to be sent in.
Gary What you describe is an example of the way in which polarities assist one another, what Ra describes as the whole reason the Logos created the experiment of the veil: the polarities act as sort of a battery that moves evolution along. Here it is playing out, in your case, during the Ra contact. The negative polarity was, as you said, in a left-hand compliment sort of way, moving your own evolution along.
This following question is one we’ve already hit, but maybe we’ll get something slightly new from asking it in this way:
The word “aggrandizement,” as we have found quoted in Ra previously, is defined in Merriam-Webster as “the act of making something appear greater than is actually warranted by the facts.” Also: “to enhance the power, wealth, position, or reputation of,” and can be synonymous with “glorification.”
What is the difference between natural or, you might say, organic growth, and aggrandizement?
Carla The operative word is “natural.” If you have to push at it and probe at it, and do something to it to make it happen, that’s not natural.
Gary Maybe it’s a matter of how and where you’re aiming your desires. A thought just came to me from the Christian tradition that goes something like, “Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and all things will be added unto you.”4
Carla Yes.
Gary Maybe it’s the difference between seeking the Creator, seeking to know yourself and allowing the cards to fall where they may, versus seeking enhancement of wealth and power and position as ends in and of themselves.
Carla We never kidded ourselves that we were more than the “bozos on the bus,” just like everyone else. We knew that we had exceptional material and we really, really wanted to do well by it.
Gary But that was never a stepping stone to—
Carla No. As a matter of fact, I’ve been worried a little bit about this interview simply because people might think that, “Well, gosh, these are wonderful people.” Well, thank you if you think that. Take a look at the material. Don’t keep looking at us, because we will very soon fall on our faces and do something really stupid, like everybody else. And it will be disappointing if you think too much of us, so don’t spend that much time, but go back to the material.
Know that we love you, [laughs] but then go back to the material.
Gary To conclude this subsection: We’ve already quoted this, so I won’t read it all, but in 67.7, Ra is talking about how the fifth-density negative entity is working to terminate the group, and how you (Carla) are the prime target for that. That and the related Q&As are rather high drama. At least they can be read as such. Yet to hear you guys speak of that time period and the ordeals you endured, you don’t sensationalize it, you don’t dramatize it, and you don’t enlarge the dynamics to inflated proportions. Can you comment on that?
Jim Well, we didn’t feel like giving it more importance than it really deserved. If we keep concentrating on something like that, you give it more energy and make it more than it needs to be.
Carla If somebody is in a horrible crash and they have come very close to death, that is high drama. On the other hand, isn’t it good to focus on the healing and let that fade into the past? All that oh we were driving along and they came out of nowhere and we spun and we spun—all those details. We’re healing, help us to heal, pray for us would be the better attitude.
Notes
[1] Over 30 years later that still seems to be the case. ↩
[2] Another note about the magical nature or dimension of the contact: ↩
RA [This instrument is] involved in and dedicated to work which is magical or extremely polarized in nature. This group entered this work with polarity but virtual innocence as to the magical nature of this polarity [which] it is beginning to discover. 75.16
[3] A “left-handed compliment” is an insult in the guise of an expression of praise; praise that is subtle dispraise; a backhanded compliment. ↩
Jim may be applying the term to psychic greeting because whereas a left-handed compliment is a negative appearing as a positive, psychic greeting is a negative (an attack) appearing as a positive (offering growth). Psychic greeting highlights a weakness or chink in the armor where work is needed, and therefore offers the seeker an important service that is, from the greater perspective, helpful. Though on the surface it seems highly undesirable.
Moreover, one would not attract a psychic greeting unless one were making progress, thusly it is a compliment, of sorts.
[4] “But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you.” (Luke 12:31 [KJV]) ↩