DAY 3
CHAPTER 15
Ra Contact Olio*
Gary Don made inquiries into learning how to heal and received foundational instructions from Ra. Ra indicated that there could be subsequent instruction if you three pursued this path, including instruction in the proper use of crystals for healing. Did you guys ever make serious headway in that regard?
Jim Not really. We got a beginning, Don and I did. Carla was advised to not ever do physical healing; she didn’t have enough physical energy to do that. Don and I made a little beginning, and after he died, I continued for a while. But I never felt like it was a natural ability or something that really opened up as an avenue for me, so I eventually let it go.
Carla I do feel that he has healing hands, but it’s not pronounced enough to be an art or to be a gift.
Gary Can you describe, in detail, the cleansing ritual you performed with salt, per Ra’s instructions?1
Jim Yeah. [chuckles] I did it to this house, and I did it to our house in Cummings, Georgia, at midnight. I drove down there with a first load of
* “Olio” is one of many uncommon words that Carla, with her expansive vocabulary, knew and used. As she employed the term it meant a miscellaneous mixture or collection of things.
things in a U-Haul trailer, and the first thing I had to do was the ritual.
So we got a gallon of distilled water from the grocery store, took it to Father Ben Sanders at Carla’s Episcopal church, and he blessed it so that it would become holy water—”blessed by intentions,” was what Ra suggested. And using salt, just regular salt (which apparently has an ability to absorb negative vibrations) at the base of every window and doorway, leaving one doorway so I could get in and out, I spread the salt in an unbroken line, and then sprinkled water on it. I’d put it in my hand and sprinkled it like this [makes repeated motions of flicking his hand downward to distribute water over the salt]. It didn’t have to be totally wet; the water just had to be sprinkled, in general, all along the line of salt. The salt had to be continuous. So that needed to stay—I think it was for thirty-six hours . . .
Carla Three days.
Jim Three days—72 hours all together.2 So once that first section was done, then I went back and did the one doorway, after everything else had been cleansed.
Carla You could go anywhere you wanted except that doorway.
Jim Yeah, I did the one doorway. So, what that is supposed to do is to invite any entities of a negative nature who are inside the dwelling to leave, because they wouldn’t find it helpful for their purposes to be in the house, since the entire place had been cleansed and purified. As Carla said, they like dirty places, that junk on the rug. You may remember that at one point there was a smell emanating from the room in which we had the Ra contact, and it was a dead mouse, and an astral entity had taken up residence in it. So we had to be sure to get the mouse out and clean the room, and the astral entity went with the mouse. So that was the whole idea. And then in the boathouse, I believe, we used cut garlic.
Carla Or was it a cut onion?
Jim It was garlic. I think we got a few cloves that were woven together, and we cut them in half. And garlic also has the same ability that salt does.
Carla Jim tied it all together. It was like a kabob.
Jim We were trying to get rid of wasps that were living in the boathouse at that time.
Carla We were all sensitive to any stings. That would have been dangerous.
Jim And then after the garlic has been used, then you burn it, and that was the end of that.
Gary Some technical detail questions: The salt was just on the interior windowsills, or the exterior?
Jim Interior. Didn’t matter. Whichever was handiest for me to use.
Gary And the doorway—you’re just sprinkling it on the ground of the doorway?
Carla On the doorsill.
Gary And no invocations were needed or anything?
Jim No, there was a . . .
Carla There was a little prayer.
Jim Yeah, it’s given in the—I don’t remember it all right now, but it’s given in the book. Ra gives us special words to say when we’re spreading the salt and wetting the salt, when we’re using the garlic, and when we’re burning the garlic. There were words for all of that.
Carla It was just a little short bunch of phrases that invoked the power of these substances to do their work.
Gary And the garlic—you said you hung it like a kabob? How did you hang it?
Carla It was supposed to be suspended.
Jim Right. The garlic has a natural leaf on it like onions do. I just braided them together. They come like that from the store a lot, they’re already braided together.
Gary And then you cut it in half?
Jim I cut each clove in half so that the garlic scent would come out.
Carla Did it ever! He would walk through with these kabobs, and the smell— But he was so brave to do that because walking along the boathouse—well of course the boathouse doesn’t have a floor because that’s where the boat lives when you’ve got a boat, which we didn’t. So he was balancing, walking out on a piece of wood that constituted the structural part of the structure, that part that went along there, so he was balancing on this like a ballerina in the air . . . What do you call them, people that walk tightropes?
Jim A tightrope walker.
Carla He was like a tightrope walker with these kabobs and then tying them at the end and then walking back, and meanwhile there would be the buzzzzzz of the wasps that were still there. He’s like, don’t investigate me now, please. [laughter] He’s a very brave chap.
Gary In 101.2 on Dec 21, 1982, Ra gave Jim an incredible and accurate medical diagnosis.3 Did you share this with the doctor, and if so, what was the doctor’s response?
Jim Didn’t share the whole thing with them—said I’d been bitten by a spider, and it had swollen up fiercely. All of a sudden I started gaining weight. The doctor was fascinated. You could push down on any part of my body and it would stay down for about a minute and then slowly rise.4
Carla This particular doctor was very clever and very sage, and his reaction was to look it up.
Jim Yeah, he looked up in his—I guess they’ve got a name for it—but he looked up spider bites and saw that there were some spiders who could cause kidneys to go into this type of—it was called “minimal change syndrome” or “nephritis”, was the terminology. So he found some basis for it in the medical documents—
Carla It was rare, but it was that one white crow that shows you that all crows are not black. In other words, it was rare, but it happened. It had been documented.
Gary It’s pretty impressive when Ra starts giving these very correct names of anatomy, prescription medication and medical conditions near the end, and I wondered what a medical professional would have to say.
Jim Ra gave one, basically, for Carla too, which was fairly impressive. Don did take that to the doctor and he sort of pooh-poohed it, I believe. Dr. Shane?
Carla Yeah, when Dr. Shane looked at it—well, he didn’t look at it, he just threw Don out. And Don was furious. He kept saying, “You have the answer, and you won’t—just give her this prescription and then throw me out.” He was so mad. And he stayed mad at that guy. But when I took it to Dr. Blodgett again, he just looked it up and noted that it was accurate. It was amazingly accurate.
Gary You didn’t tell either of these doctors the source?
Carla Only Dr. Blodgett. Dr. Blogett knew everything about me.
Gary And he was willing to go along with it.
Carla Oh man, he was tough. Very open minded and very understanding.
Gary You reported seeing “silver flecks” during the course of the Ra contact. When Don asks what these are, Ra replies:
RA These of which you speak are a materialization of a subjectively oriented signpost indicating to one mind/body/spirit complex, and no other, a meaning of subjective nature. 16.47
When and how often did you see these?
Jim Like they did with the hawks, Ra gave us confirmation for the line of thought that we were engaging in at the time, or the plan of action.
Carla Generally, they were seen on me, mostly around my eyes and my face. Don would carefully go over and he would get it with Scotch tape and then he’d save it so we had all these little pieces of Scotch tape with little dots on it that were the silver flecks. Now somebody took a silver fleck in and put it under a microscope and found that there were crystalline differences between that fleck and, say, glitter that you have on a costume. Nobody had ever made this such as they are.
Jim Suppose they’re still in here?
Gary When you said that they were on you, did you mean they were resting on your skin?
Carla Right on my skin. Smaller than most glitter, but very, very bright. You can’t see it on the scotch tape much.
Jim [Jim retrieves the preserved silver flecks from a box.] This one is hexagonal.
Ken There’s the silver flecks in your box labeled “silver flecks.”
Jim Right. [laughter]
Ken So you did save them.
Carla We did. Well Don was ever the scientist, you know.
Jim Probably six or seven in here, I guess, from different occasions. One was in here [Jim motions toward something else]—I don’t know what happened to it—but at least we do have some.
Gary Did he ever send it off to a lab to get it analyzed to see what its properties were?
Jim No.
Gary That would be interesting. So did this just happen a handful of isolated times? Or was it a frequent thing?
Carla Yes, for a while there it was constant.
Jim Who was the woman Don met that had them all over her body?
Carla Somebody involved with Andrija Puharich. I don’t remember her name. She was very small, little, petite, and she drew the flecks.5
Jim Puharich was familiar with the silver fleck phenomenon.
Carla It wasn’t Anna, was it?
Jim I don’t know.
Gary Your group wasn’t the only one that experienced silver flecks?
Carla I don’t think so. I think it was this little, petite woman. Puharich and we seemed to be connected in some way. The fact that I got him in the book, and that Don felt that he was his best friend—we were preparing to move up to where he lived, to work with him. We were going to rent the barn on his property, which wasn’t a barn, but it was an office and a loft which had been intended for somebody to live and work there. We were going to rent that and live and work with Puharich. Don loved nothing more than talking to Puharich, except, of course, talking to Ra. Puharich and he had long conversations into the night—many, many nights—and they enjoyed each other tremendously.
Puharich was a very misunderstood guy. He was just a hard-working guy. Like Don, he was interested in the paranormal, and once you get hooked by that, you’re set for life with more work than you can do. He was up at an early hour working, working, working; and if he got really hungry, he’d stop . . . I’ve seen him when there was nothing in the house and nobody wanted to cook—I wasn’t close enough then to do anything about it. Don didn’t want me to cook anyway. (There were people in the house that were capable of cooking, but for some reason they had all rebelled and felt like they were being overworked, which was kind of silly. But they were kids, they were just young kids, and easy to forgive their distortions.)
So there was nothing in the house except some beans that had just been put on to boil and you know what dry beans are like, hard as rocks. I told him, “This has only been boiling for about twenty minutes; it’s going to take four hours.” He said, “Well, I’m hungry now.” So he got this bowl of totally raw beans out of the pot and crunched them down and went back to his work. Mind you, he had plenty of money and there was a diner right down the road from us, from where he lived. He didn’t want to spend time filling his belly, he just wanted to have something to eat and go back to work. It would have been very easy to take care of Puharich, I’ll say that.
Gary A lot of people of high intellect are like that.6 They don’t pay too much attention to the necessities of life to the extent that they have to wear clothes and they have to put food in their mouths, then otherwise about their business.
Carla Totally a distraction—they don’t want to do any of that.
Gary In the first question of Session 22, Ra says:
RA Each time, as you would put it, that we perform this working our social memory complex vibrational distortion meshes more firmly with this instrument’s unconscious distortions towards service. Thus we are becoming a part of this instrument’s vibratory complex and it a part of ours. This occurs upon the unconscious level, the level whereby the mind has gone down through to the roots of consciousness which you may call cosmic. 22.1
Was this perceptible to you in any way, and how, if at all, did this manifest? (Ra mentions the smelling of incense as a sign of it.)
Carla Not really. I was always sensitive. I knew that I was getting more sensitive, especially my ability to smell odor—very sensitive to that. But I didn’t chalk it down to anything or make any conclusions, no. [to Jim]
Do you remember our talking about it at the time?
Jim No. We never really knew how she did what she did. It seemed to be a gift—a very good gift, though we didn’t understand it. We were babes in the woods there.
Gary So Carla never appeared from the waist up and then dissolved down?7
Carla [laughs] It didn’t happen.
Gary When you first sent the manuscript for what would later become the Law of One books to a literary agent in New York City, you got an interesting reply back. For the viewers I will read the paragraph of that review, which you quoted and published in Book V:
No entity that wreaks such havoc with the English language is going to ingratiate himself with the general reading public. This has all the denseness of The New England Journal Of Medicine, or the Journal Of English And German Philosophy or a Ph.D. dissertation on epistemology . . . and for another thing, the dialogue form gets pretty tedious after a while. It was all the rage in Athens for a while, I know, and its popularity continued all the way through the neoclassic renaissance, but it died out shortly afterwards, and I don’t think that it’s about to be revived.
The literary agent also included the following points of critique, saying:
• “You’re not considering the general reader at all.” • “To effectively hook the reader, you’ve got to continually work on his credulity, throughout the text, anticipating his questions, and reinforcing your answers.” • That you have to convince the reader “why he should be interested, what should compel him to keep reading.” • That the material is not “persuasive, intriguing, fascinating.” • Ra’s dense language creates “an impenetrable barrier to our comprehension and our edification.” • Ra “needs a lot of explaining,” and should be “interspersed with your own commentary.” • The book is “rather scattered.”8
This is a whopper of a review! And it may shine some light on some, but not all, of the more superficial reasons this work will likely not appeal to a broad swath of readers.
Despite receiving this professional feedback, you three didn’t reshape the work to improve its marketability. Why did you, for the most part, not seek to mold these books to increase their sellability and appeal?
Jim Well, we thought what we had to offer was a gem, and it was information that was very helpful to people who were really serious seekers. We weren’t out trying to convince the world of the validity of the information, or of Ra, or of anything. We were just offering what we had as freely as we could and hoping that those who might benefit from it would find it. To do everything that he suggested would be to try to manipulate your public, which is what business does. That’s what his job was. We don’t blame him for that; it’s not what we do.
Gary Calling it a gem is really helpful to consider, because a gem is already perfect in its own right.
Ra attempted to describe spiritual evolution on the smallest and grandest scale, laying out a rather unique cosmology describing the life cycles of the universe experiencing itself, and addressing the most fundamental questions of this or any stage of evolution.
So, confined as they were by the necessity of strictly verbal communication, why do you think they communicated in such a technical, seemingly left-brained sort of way?
Jim Well, it may seem that way to some people, but to people who really like the material, it makes a lot of sense. To me it was always a combination of being profound and precise. If you look at the language and the way they use it, they use it almost like a mathematical equation. If I try to think, myself, of a better way of expressing what they’re expressing, I really can’t do it. The way they use the language—they choose the right word at the right time, and they weren’t trying to convince anybody else either—they were just saying it the way it was. To people who like this type of material, it’s poetic, and it probably is one way of filtering people. If this doesn’t appeal to you, there is probably other material that does, and you don’t have to worry about this in your life at this time. I don’t think it’s meant for everybody.
Carla I think that it was, strictly for Ra, a matter of trying to be as clear and lucid as possible with everything that they said. By calling a person a “mind/body/spirit complex,” it expresses, in one phrase, the basic nature of human beings: we have a mind complex, we have a body complex, and we have a spirit (not emotions, not inner insights—we have a spirit, and that spirit is of a certain nature, which Ra goes into later). It’s a mind/body/spirit complex. So every time he9 uses that word, he’s reinforcing in the reader’s mind who the reader really is.
And sometimes, he’s trying to move beyond words into myth, using myth and lore to explain the nature of spiritual endeavor. The knight on the quest† is about as close as the Ra group could come to that particular mix of linear and dreaming, or right brain/left brain. To me it’s great, but then I love philosophy and Ra is a philosopher, there’s no question about it. He’s a cosmologist, talks about the nature of the universe and what it’s made up of, where we came from and where we are and where we’re going. Got a whole diagram that you can put down in a linear fashion: the densities, the octaves of creation. I’ve read a lot of philosophy, and every philosophy I’ve ever read has its failure, at one point or another, to be internally consistent. Ra is seamlessly, internally consistent, and that is a wonderful thing.
So I rest easy, and I know that this works. Don found out why. All right Don! All right us! [laughs]
Gary Don asked Ra about this letter and Ra’s response to Don is also a response to the critic:
RA We found that you had been criticized for the type of language construction used to convey data. Due to our orientation with regard to data, even the most specifically answered question would be worded by our group in such a way as to maximize the accuracy of the nuances of the answer. This, however, mitigates against what your critic desires in the way of simple, lucid prose. More than this we cannot say. 37.4
We’re getting close to wrapping up the Ra contact section. I just have five more simple questions to go.
So who was the first publishing firm to publish this material, and what
† Ra never spoke specifically of a “knight on the quest,” but Carla may be construing such from Ra’s statement in 99.11: “We encourage the conscious strengthening of those invisible ribbands which fly from the wrists of those who go forward to seek what you may call the Grail.”
was their assessment of this information?
Jim I guess that was Whitford Press, which, I guess, is . . . The Donning Company of Virginia Beach. That came because we sent the book off—well, what we had of the book—off to Jane Roberts.10 She pointed us in that direction, and that’s how that happened.
Carla She was really helpful. There was this one guy . . .
Jim Robert Freedman. You talked to him the other day, didn’t you?
Carla I did.
Jim He was the representative, then, at Donning. He liked the material and he was our editor.
Carla He dug it. He knew what he was looking at. He was the one guy that would be able to do that, I think, and he got it published by people that really didn’t care what the thing was. They just wanted to get a book that would sell in a steady manner. They were very satisfied with us. We’ve been selling books for, like, 35 years.
Gary Not many, but . . .
Carla Not many, but very steady, indeed. Well, actually, now we’re best sellers . . . if you count it all together. [laughs]
Gary If you condense 30 years into one year.
Carla I don’t know how many thousands, but it’s up there.
Gary Austin and I crunched the numbers earlier this year, and I think it was up to 56,000 or so of Book I.11
Carla Not bad.
Gary Was Donning the one responsible for naming Book I The Ra Mate-rial?
Jim Yeah, The Seth Material was big at that time and they were trying to ride on its coattails.
Gary Your preferences would have been The Law of One?
Jim We asked them to change it after a while, and all they’ve ever done is put The Law of One at the top of The Ra Material, and we were still hoping—we still hope that they will change it one day.
Gary What has been your relationship with this material from these humble messengers of the Law of One?
Jim We read it every day as part of our Morning Offering, and we still get new information out of it. It seems like, as time goes on, there’s always something that comes up in the life experience that, when you shine a certain phrase from the Ra contact onto it, everything seems new again. So yeah, we’re still learning, still reading.
Carla And we feel like the protectors of it, to make sure that it isn’t altered in any way, and it’s treated properly and maintained, so we try to do that, and keep it free, globally. That’s our goal. Just to make sure that it remains what it is. Nobody puts words that aren’t there, or tries to explain it in one way or another that may be true for one person but not another. Just leave it as it is; there’s no reason to embroider on it, there’s no reason to explain it.‡ In terms of that valuable original material, we’re just preserving it, and making it available.
Now I certainly have written about it and quoted from it extensively, and in my book called Living the Law of One 101: The Choice, I’ve tried to go through and explain some of the basic principles of The Law of One,12 in my own way, for the beginning person. If they find The Law of One material too difficult to read, they’re not going to find my book difficult. I made sure that it was legible and readable by the average guy or the average lady.
Gary It’s been very well received and very well loved. You’ve gotten a lot of positive feedback from it.
Carla Well, thank you, but I don’t value it the way I value the original material.
‡ Likely Carla is intending to convey not that explaining the material should be avoided, but rather that explaining the material in a dogmatic, my-interpretation-is-the-only-correct-interpretation way should be avoided. While there are certainly objective things that can be said about the Law of One (e.g., the material is not about migratory bird patterns, or an assembly manual for a trampoline), much of its content is subject to personal interpretation and subjective application. Sharing an interpretation can indeed be helpful, clarifying, and illuminating to an other seeker, so long as it is understood always that a) it is one among other possible valid interpretations, and b) one person cannot do the learning for another person.
I realize there are things wrong with the Law of One books. It’s episodic, because that’s the nature of conversation. It picks up, it drops, there’s a lull, it starts in a different place. It goes back to the same things half a dozen times. It’s impossible to rearrange it in such a way that all of a sudden it falls into place. It’s a conversation. I think it’s most helpful to keep it the way it is: this happened in session one, this happened in session two, and just go through those sessions sequentially. There is some slight advantage in reading them as a continuing conversation rather than taking each part of the conversation separately. But the main thing is to have it word for word.
In that aspect, Tobey’s been of enormous help at lawofone.info. He’s got the Relistened Version,13 where he went back and made absolutely sure that every err, uh, duh, in the thing was accurate, and he found some things that had been overlooked in the typing and so forth, and was able to put them back in where they belong. So the original material has been done a great service by that.
Ken But he has updated that on the lawofone.info, correct? Updated so those changes that he found—so it’s up to date as far as he’s concerned?
Carla Well, Gary and I went through it to check and discuss his edits before he was satisfied with the project. Anything that we had a question about, they listened to it yet again, he and his helper, Michelle. Michelle has also done years of volunteer service along with Tobey, being part of The Relistening Project. They’re wonderful, and they go back and listen to it for another seven, eight, nine times, just to make absolutely sure that is what Don said, or what Ra said. So as it is written in lawofone.info is the best, most accurate version.14
But there’s something to be said for the Books I–IV too, because Don personally edited that to just try to focus on the metaphysical material and scratch out the personal stuff. Like the rest of us, he didn’t want to put us forward as anything but the people who offered this material.
Gary Readers of this book are probably already familiar with this website, www.lawofone.info, but if not, the notation system that I’ve been using as I share Ra quotes (when I say, for example, “25.2” or “67.3”) comes from a numbering system that Tobey instituted, assigning first the session number and then the number of each Q&A within the particular session, from the first question to the final one. It’s provided a great reference system for any student of this material to be able to refer directly and precisely to the particular Ra quote being used.
And Ken, as to your question about what’s available at lawofone.info, he has a few different versions. The first is the Original Version that’s published in the books; then he has the Relistened Version, which is an exact, exact, exact transcript of the audio. If it is on the cassette, then it is on the Relistened Version—coughs, stutters and all. And then he went through the Relistened Version and made the slightest edits to improve readability without changing any meaning.
Carla He would put a comma in, then take a comma out, that kind of thing.
Gary Yeah. And that’s what Carla and I proofread. We went through his edits, working with him and Michelle, and the resulting version is called the Lightly Edited Version. That is the default version that you see when you go to lawofone.info.
And then, about what you were saying, Carla, in terms of explaining the material—letting the material sit as it is. That’s something I’ve always enjoyed about L/L Research: they don’t seek to get in between the seeker and the material. Certainly, you’ll lend a helping hand and say, “This is my interpretation, this is how I’ve lived it,” etc. But your desire and the policy of this organization is to keep this information pure, as it is: let the seeker have at it, let them make their own interpretations, etc.
Carla Excellent. Yes. Well said. Hear, hear.
Gary To ask a completely objective question without any bias on my part, on a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being the best, how would you rate this information: a 10, or 15? [laughter]
Carla Oh, 50 or 75. [laughs] I think it is far and away the best piece of philosophy that we have.
Gary What do you most love about The Law of One?
Jim It really seems to speak to my soul. It gets down to where I couldn’t go really without it, I think. It just has a familiarity and affinity for me.
Carla Yeah, I think it hits every single seeker that way. If they’re open, if they’re listening, it’s talking to you, nobody else. It’s wonderful that way. It’s very personal without trying to develop some kind of relationship. It’s just answering the questions, but they’re answering them in a way that really does pierce down to your essence. You’d have to read it to see what we’re talking about. So many people have said how much it affected them; it’s even brought them to tears just sitting there and reading it and feeling, I’m home at last, this is it, this is what I have felt all my life but couldn’t put into words.
Gary Yeah, that’s exactly how I describe my own discovery of it 14 years ago. With little background in metaphysics or spirituality, and lacking a lot of the vocabulary, it nevertheless, somehow, spoke directly to me. I felt that I’d found my philosophical home for the first time. My eyes were just waterfalls. That experience is not uncommon for those who resonate with the material (an exceedingly small demographic, to be sure). They either take that fire from it, or it’s kind of inert and they don’t have that reaction.
And that’s what I wanted to respond to. You had described how, as you keep reading it, you find something new, or it speaks to you in a new way. I found that is true across the board with seekers who enjoy this material. As they grow they find things that they swear weren’t there before.
Carla [laughs] Yes. Read that again, I don’t remember that.
Gary Yeah, I’ve read this 15 times and I’ve never seen this. Or even for that stuff you do remember having read 15 times, it still finds a way to meet you where you are.
Carla But you still want to hear it again.
Gary Is there anything that you find, to this day, really puzzling about the material?
Carla Most of the beginning of Book Two [laughter] where it gets into the physics of the Big Bang, I guess—when things began. Wooo! I just try and try.15
Jim And the archetypal mind is a challenge.
Carla Yeah, that gets beyond you too. I don’t know how long it would have taken us to exhaust that material. We were working so hard trying to get a grip, talking about it, looking at it for hours every day. Still, I don’t think the questions did the material justice. We were trying to respond to the Ra’s statements and yet the statements themselves were just ohhkaay— I don’t know, it just gets away from you and yet you do have the feeling that this material is very valuable.
A Fool’s Phenomenology, written by a Ph.D. friend of ours who is a philosophy teacher at Southern Illinois University, is a wonderful book on the archetypal mind for people who are philosophers and that are able to follow him. He is somewhat arcane in his references and so forth. It’s all in-jokes to him. He gives insight after insight into the archetypal mind.
Gary And for the final question about the Ra contact, before we close up today:
If you two had the opportunity to do it all over again, would you?
Carla In a heartbeat.
Jim In a minute.16
Gary Thank you so much.
Jim Thank you.
Notes
[1] Detailed, step-by-step instructions can be found in the “Law of One Resources” section of www.llresearch.org, and in the appendix of the upcoming book, The Ra Contact: Teaching the Law of One. ↩
[2] There are two principal parts to the salt cleansing ritual. Ra suggests that the salt of each part be left in place for 36–48 hours, meaning that the entire procedure could take anywhere from 72–96 hours, or three to four days. ↩
[3] The accurate and incredible medical diagnosis is as follows: ↩
QUESTIONER Thank you. What has caused the swelling in Jim’s body, and what can be done to heal it?
RA I am Ra. For the answer to this query we must begin with the consideration of the serpent, signifying wisdom. This symbol has the value of the ease of viewing the two faces of the one who is wise. Positive wisdom adorns the brow indicating indigo-ray work. Negative wisdom, by which we intend to signify expressions which effectually separate the self from the other-self, may be symbolized by the poison of the fangs. To use that which a mind/body/spirit complex has gained of wisdom for the uses of separation is to invite the fatal bite of that wisdom’s darker side.
The entity has a mental/emotional tendency, which has been lessening in distortion for some of your space/time, towards negative wisdom. The entity being already aware of this causes us not to dwell upon this point but merely to specifically draw the boundaries of the metaphysical background for the energizing of a series of bites from one of your second-density species. In this case the bite was no more than that of one of the arachnids, sometimes called the wood spider. However, it is possible that were enough work done to test the origin of the pathology of the entity, it is within possibility/probability limits that the testing would show the bite of the cottonmouth rather than the bite of the common wood spider.
The energizing took its place within the lymphatic system of the entity’s yellow-ray, physical body. Therefore, the working continues. There is increasing strain upon the spleen, the super-renal glands, the renal complex, and some possibility/probability of difficulty with the liver. Further, the lymphatic difficulties have begun to strain the entity’s bronchial system. This is some general information upon what is to be noted as a somewhat efficient working.
The removal of these distortions has several portions. Firstly, it is well to seek the good offices of the one known as Stuart so that harsh chemical means may be taken to reawaken the histaminic reflexes of the entity and to aid in the removal of edema.
Secondly, we suggest that which has already begun; that is, the request of the one known now to this group as Bob that this entity may focus its aid upon the metaphysical connections with the yellow-ray body.
Thirdly, the entity must take note of its physical vehicle’s need for potassium. The ingesting of the fruit of the banana palm is recommended.
Fourthly, the links between the swelling of contumely and the apparent present situation is helpful. As always the support of the harmonious group is an aid, as is meditation. It is to be noted that this entity requires some discipline in the meditation which the others of the group do not find necessary in the same manner. Therefore, the entity may continue with its forms of meditation knowing that each in the group supports it entirely although the instinct to share in the discipline is not always present. Each entity has its ways of viewing and learning from the illusion, and each processes catalyst using unique circuitry. Thus all need not be the same to be equal in will and faith. 101.2
[4] Known as pitting edema. ↩
[5] The name was Betty Andreason. ↩
[6] Maybe it’s not people of “high intellect” so much as those possessed of purpose who are deeply absorbed in their work. ↩
[7] About where that notion came from: ↩
QUESTIONER The second question is: Paul has also received information that mentions that there were other beings aiding in the construction of the pyramids who were not fully materialized in the third density. They were materialized from the waist up to their heads but were not materialized from the waist down to their feet. Did such entities exist in the construction of the pyramids, and who were they?
RA I am Ra. Consider, if you will, the intelligent infinity present in the absorption of livingness and beingness as it becomes codified into intelligent energy, due to the thought impressions of those assisting the living stone into a new shape of beingness. The release and use of intelligent infinity for a brief period begins to absorb all the consecutive or interlocking dimensions, thus offering brief glimpses of those projecting to the material their thought. These beings thus beginning to materialize but not remaining visible. These beings were the thought-form or third-density-visible manifestation of our social memory complex as we offered contact from our intelligent infinity to the intelligent infinity of the stone. 27.2
[8] The full quote read: “The material is a bit scattered in terms of pursuing meandering lines of questioning; and the reviewer is keen to the need for explanation and elaboration.” ↩
An undertaking in which L/L Research has been engaged ever since.
[9] Some readers refer to Ra as “he,” most refer to Ra as “they.” Carla usually did the latter. ↩
Ra doesn’t identify what role, if any, gender plays in their social memory complex, but they do speak to this point of singular vs. plural here:
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, and then is there anything that we can do to make the instrument more comfortable or improve the contact?
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
[10] Jane Roberts (1929–1984) is the medium who famously channeled a discarnate source of intelligence named Seth. With her husband’s aid, Roberts channeled material that would fill over ten volumes of Seth books. This material contributed to and shaped the budding New Age Movement, most notably its foundational principle that you create your own reality. When asked, afterward, why Jim contacted Jane Roberts, he wrote: ↩
I had been reading the material that Seth channeled through Jane Roberts, since 1973 or so. It was the first channeled material that I ever read, and I really liked it. I was still reading her book, Adventures in Conscious-ness, when the Ra contact began. After we had completed the first twenty sessions or so of the Ra contact, it became apparent that we wanted to make a book out of this material, but we really didn’t know where to go to get the book published, or even looked at. So I got the bright idea to write to Jane Roberts and see what she had to recommend, because I had written her once before, a year or so before I guess, just to tell her how much I enjoyed her books and Seth.
I remember that she sent me back my letter with The Donning Company and Whitford Press’ address, hand-written, in the margin on the side. The editor that she recommended was Hank Stein, so we sent the, by this time, first 26 sessions off to him. The Donning Company was located in Virginia Beach, Virginia. I think that both of these companies were already owned by Schiffer Publishing, or were soon to be owned by Schiffer Publishing. My memory is a little fuzzy there. I just checked the Wikipedia entry for The Donning Company and it was 1985 when Schiffer bought them.
[11] This is an approximation at the time of the interview given numbers from various sources that were a bit difficult to crunch accurately. ↩
[12] There is the Law of One, the principle, way, or reality which Ra bent their efforts upon describing and sharing through vocal communication. ↩
And there is The Law of One material, which consists of the 106 sessions of the Ra contact that took place between 1981 and 1984.
The latter, being a book title, is italicized.
[13] You can learn more about Tobey’s work on that project at www.lawofone.info/relistening-report.php. ↩
[14] The Relistened Version—which is indeed the most accurate rendering into text form of the audio of the Ra sessions—went through several rounds of very light, mostly grammatical editing to form the book The Ra Contact: Teaching the Law of One. ↩
[15] Sephira Vox wrote an illuminating paper that attempts to tackle some of the most confounding but most fundamental concepts in the Law of One philosophy, including the primal three distortions, intelligent infinity, intelligent energy, etc. Titled Cosmic Genesis, it should be published in the future Ra Contact book, and the website www.llresearch.org. ↩
The following Q&A was omitted from this chapter:
GARY I use this opportunity also to point to the work of Sephira Vox. You named two areas that have been difficult for you to penetrate all these years: the archetypes and the beginning material in Book II (which tackles the very beginning of Ra’s cosmology). Seph has, in my estimation, done an excellent job in attempting to help shine some light into exactly those two areas.
CARLA I totally agree with you, and I am so very glad that we were able to give him a place to teach, because this is very specialized material. And I think everybody was so grateful last April when he was able to offer a seminar and workshop. For three days they just immersed themselves in the archetypal mind, and I think everybody felt that he had just opened it up to them. I was so glad to hear that. I’m glad to hear, too, because he’s very intelligent and he does not suffer a fool gladly in terms of direct, say, argument or debate, but as a teacher who is endlessly able to encourage people, to meet them where they were, even if the question was not tremendously full of wisdom. He was able to bring out what was in the question that was good, and therefore support all the students, whether they were beginning or advanced. So he did all the things that you’re supposed to do as a teacher, and he did them really well. But the main thing is that he studies The Law of One to the point where he’s able to talk about it.
GARY Yeah, with a fine tooth comb. We will soon be hosting his work to share it with readers as well.
[16] Jim answers this basic question in a fuller way in the June 22, 2015 entry of The Camelot Journal: ↩
I read Ra sessions #104 and #105 today and felt a lot of sadness as the theme was basically how to help Carla to recover from a very potent psychic greeting from our fifth-density friend. We were struggling to keep the contact going and keep Carla alive. The first year we did 75 sessions. The second year 26. The third year 4. And in 1984 we did 1. We went from as many as two sessions per day to begin the Ra contact to doing sessions two and three months apart at the end because Carla wasn't in good enough shape to do them any more frequently. At the end of session #105 tonight I was once again overcome by tears, but they were an odd combination of sadness and gratitude. If I could chose in my incarnation to do anything that I wanted or which had ever been done on this planet I would chose to do as I did do: to be with Don and Carla and to have the contact with those of Ra as our means of service to others. There is great satisfaction in that choice, and someday I shall die a happy man.
The Camelot Journal, Jim McCarty, published June 23, 2015, www.bring4th.org/