Vision for

L/L’s Future

Gary I’m sure that healthy amounts of luck and magic have contributed to the success of L/L Research, but in terms of that which can be identified, what principles do you feel have contributed to L/L Research’s ongoing existence and capacity to serve?

Jim Hmm. Desire, I’d say, number one—desire to serve. Perseverance. A little luck in there too. What do you think?

Carla Well, people find us helpful. As long as we’re relevant to the people that are seeking, then that’s what we’re aiming to do. If this material is helpful, we’ll be there with it—offer it for free. It’s really . . . it’s a very humble aim: just to continue to keep the material available, and to be open always to ways, old and new, that we may help the people who find our material useful.

Jim I think the goal’s always the same: to keep the material available, freely. But the way to do it is what’s really changed recently with what you’ve been able to do with the forums, the website, and one thing and another. We hope for more ways.

Gary In Book V you said that as well: that as long as people are interested, as long as people are helped by this, then we’re going to answer that call.

Carla Yeah.

Gary So what principles do you feel are important to any organization that seeks to serve others?

Carla Purity, humility . . .

Jim Foolhardiness . . . [laughter] Don Quixote is the flavor of the thing…

Carla I think purity in that you maintain a very high road in all that you do and in your ethical stance, and . . . what’s the other word that I used . . . oh, humility—yeah, it’s important to remember that if we find that this material becomes irrelevant, then we quietly shut our . . . you know, we walk away and say, “okay.” If we found that this material was not helpful anymore, it’s not like we’d find something else to do. This is it, this is the scope and the heart of our service, and we really are very humble about it.^* If it’s helpful, great. Keep it available.

Gary So, not that this is going to happen anytime soon, at least not until 2100, 2200, but when you do leave your physical body complex behind, what are your hopes and aspirations for L/L Research after you’re gone?

Jim It continues to exist and shine and serve and to go forward in whatever ways possible.

Carla We’ve changed our Will so that whatever monies that we have had during our lifetimes to spend on L/L Research will now be available to you, so you’re sort of our heir. We trust you implicitly to maintain that purity and that humility and that foolhardiness of going forward with flags flying, finding all ways to help that you can.

Gary Dreaming the impossible dream.

Carla Dreaming the impossible dream. Yes, it would be wonderful if we could be that hundredth monkey that taught the world how to love.

* Affirming ones humbleness risks coming across as being not-so-humble. What I think Carla is saying here is that she recognizes her humanity and the inherently flawed, you might say, nature of any effort which attempts to live transparently and walk the high road. Further, she considers her work humble because she, Jim, and her organization are not seeking fame, glory, wealth, or the attention of others. Rather, she and Jim, unknown to most of the world, go quietly about their days living the best lives they know, dispassionately offering their work to the interested seeker, recognizing that it will resonate with only a few but is nevertheless an effort worth the making.

Gary This next question may be a reiteration of what you’ve already said, but it focuses it in a different way.

I’ve said before, I’m not placing you two on a pedestal, but for better or worse, I think better, you are the founders of this spiritually-dedicated organization, and those who succeed your generation and my own, and who seek to carry forward your work in their own way, will be operating within a trajectory first put into motion by your efforts and your spirit. Presuming that third density continues, and L/L Research survives, if you could speak to those of succeeding generations who didn’t have the benefit of meeting you personally, what would you say to them?

Carla I would say to them, look at the material. [laughter from all] Don’t worry about us.

Jim If you’re into footnotes, you can check us out later.¹

Gary Ra says:

RA Nearly all positive channels and groups may be lessened in their positivity or rendered quite useless by what we may call the temptations² offered by the fourth-density negative thought- forms. They may suggest many distortions towards specific information, towards the aggrandizement of self, towards the flowering of the organization in some political, social or fiscal way.

These distortions remove the focus from the One Infinite Source of love and light of which we are all messengers, humble and knowing that we, of ourselves, are but the tiniest portion of the Creator, a small part of a magnificent entirety of infinite intelligence. 62.23

As we discussed before, as an individual or organization grows, how do you balance this growth so that the focus, like Ra is saying, is stayed upon the one infinite Source of love and light? How do you grow without removing the focus?

Jim Well, we remind ourselves everyday with our Morning Offering of exactly why we’re here and what we want to do and how we want to dedicate our lives. We read from The Law of One, from the Bible, Old and New Testament, from other inspirational works, just get the feeling of laying the foundation for the day, and the life over the years just becomes part of the second nature. There it is. It’s as much a part of you as the color of your eyes or hair.

Gary Setting your own programming each day . . .

When you did your walking of the circle ritual prior to the Ra contact (a ritual which Ra gave you), Ra has you ask yourselves questions that you then provide the answer for, like, “What are we doing? We’re . . .” How does it go?

Jim Oh goodness, it’s been years. “What is the Law? The Law is One. Why are we here? We desire to serve the One.” Yeah, basically that’s it.

Gary So you’re kind of affirming and restating your intent.

Jim Yeah, it’s just like meditation. It takes you back to the heart of who you are. We can travel that same path by the Morning Offering. We meditate then, too—a shorter meditation.

Carla I have an example of how you keep from being overwhelmed by bigness. I was called not too long after Monica and I started the first generation of the radio show In the Now. This guy—his daughter had heard us and she got him to listen to us. He’s a producer—big time producer—with several big shows that are doing quite well, and generating a lot of fame and fortune for their hosts. He targeted me as the host even though Monica was actually the one who was doing the intro and the outro and so forth. Anyway, he said, “I want you. I don’t need Monica, and I don’t need you talking about your show all the time. I want you to have guests on that are really of interest to everybody, and I want you to be direct and angling for the big punch. Make sure you begin with a punch and you end with a punch.” He said, “I’ll listen, and if you want the job, you’re welcome to have a crack at it.” And I told him, I said, “Forget it! I’m interested in helping our people, and we’re trying to answer questions they might have after reading the material. That goal is very small, and I have no interest in figuring out what’s gonna punch, or having guests on that have nothing to do with The Law of One.” And he said, “You’re passing up a lot of money.”

And I said . . . “Yeah.”

[laughs] When I told this to Monica, she said, “Put me in touch with him, would ya?” I would have if she really meant it, but she was just joking.

Anyway, I just passed it up. It wasn’t what we’re here to do. I didn’t want to get big. I have no desire to get big. I just want to serve the material.

Gary You’ve known what you both wanted to do for a long time and have stayed true to that.

Carla We’re humble instruments.

Notes

[1] Future generations, hopefully you have not deified or canonized Carla, Don, and Jim, but surely you’ve given their lives more space than a footnote. Chances are the Law of One material is blowing your minds as much as it did ours, and you’re amazed that these three very exceedingly human people achieved such a thing. ↩

Unless books have been banned in your post-apocalyptic world, in which case you won’t know what a footnote is.

[2] Not the 1960s Motown musical group. ↩