APPENDIX E
L/L Research Timeline
| Date | Event | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1930.02.27 | Donald Tully Elkins born | Louisville, Kentucky |
| 1943.07.16 | Carla Lisbeth Rueckert born | Lake Forest, Illinois. Family relocates to Anniston, Alabama soon thereafter. |
| 1944/45 | Don joins Army JROTC | Louisville’s Male High School |
| 1947 | Joins Elkins-Mantell Flying School | Don is a student learning to fly at Bowman field in Louisville, KY. |
| 1947.05.10 | James Allen McCarty born | Kearney, Nebraska |
| 1948.01.07 | Captain Thomas Mantell crashes | National Guard pilot who gained country's attention when his plane crashed in pursuit of a UFO. Incident sparked Don Elkins' interest in UFOs. |
| 1948.07.27 | Don enlists (or continues in) the National Guard | Upon graduating Louisville Male High School. Is stationed in Germany at some point. |
| 1949~ | Don begins university | University of Louisville's Speed Scientific School |
| 1951.10. | Don earns rank of Master Sergeant at 20 years old | According to Carla, the youngest in US Army (or National Guard?) history. Helped in part by his sharpshooting skills. |
| 1952.05.16 | Don receives honorable discharge from National Guard | Goes to officer school immediately thereafter. |
| 1952.07.01 | Don receives rank of 2nd Lieutenant | US National Guard, Field Artillery/Armor Division |
| 1955.06.05 | Don earns Bachelors of Mechanical Engineering | University of Louisville Speed Scientific School |
| 1955? | Don begins teaching engineering and physics | At The University of Louisville’s Speed Scientific School in Louisville, Kentucky. |
| 1955 | Don's research into UFOs takes off | Elkins gives this as the year that his intensive investigative efforts began. |
| 1955.07.01 | Don earns rank of First Lieutenant | US Army Reserves.* (Don's 2nd Lt commission is listed on the certificate as National Guard. His 1st Lt and Captain commissions are listed only as "Reserved Commissioned Officer." He either rose in rank in the National Guard, or switched to Army Reserves.) |
| 1956 | Don goes Vulcan* | Or stoic, if you prefer. Determines that the world is, shall we say, crazy, and in order to survive he must become indifferent, a coolheaded observer who is not swayed one way or the other, especially by emotion. |
| 1956 | Carla's kidneys fail, has near-death-experience | Given choice to move on or return. See Chapters 13 and 27 for more info. |
| 1956.07.13 | Don achieves rank of Captain | US Army Reserves |
| 1957 | Carla’s family relocates | To Louisville, Kentucky |
| 1961.06.11 | Don earns first master’s degree: Master of Mechanical Engineering | University of Louisville |
| 1961 | Don moves to Alaska to head new engineering dept. | Arctic cold was not to Don’s liking, according to Carla, causing Don to return. |
| 1961 | Don meets Hal Price | Receives the Detroit Group material (and The Brown Notebook). Visits Walt Rogers' group in Detroit sometime thereafter. |
| 1961.12 | Carla meets Don | Through a student in Don's engineering class, and Carla's romantic interest, Jim D. |
| 1962.01 | First channeling group begins | Don gathers first experimental channeling group. Carla is the 13th member and only female. |
| 1962.07~ | Walt Rogers visits Don's experimental physics group | Experiment initially "scientifically clean, but null." Rogers visits the Louisville Group and channels his Confederation contact to the group. Gist of message: "Why aren't you speaking our words? You are receiving them, but you are not saying them." Actual channeling begins soon thereafter. |
| 1963 | Don and Carla meet Morris Hoagland | At eight years old due to childhood UFO experience described in Secrets of the UFO and referenced in The Law of One. Develops lifelong friendship. Eventually becomes VP of L/L Board. |
| 1964 | Jim D. proposes to Carla Says that in order to perform their | music on the road, they must be married. See Ch. 2 for more. |
| 1965 | Don leaves teaching & the military in order to becomes an airline pilot for Eastern Air Lines | Becomes a pilot to fund his research and devote more time to it. Eventually rises to the rank of a 727 Captain. |
| 1966 | Carla earns her bachelors in English Literature | University of Louisville |
| 1967 | Jim D. takes Carla to Vancouver, British Columbia | Carla supports her jobless husband, eventually lands a job she loves serving as a librarian at a local university. |
| 1968 | Jim D. divorces Carla | Carla returns to Louisville from Vancouver |
| 1968 | Don moves in with Carla | They unite immediately following Carla's divorce from Jim D. Don attempts intimacy with Carla for six months. |
| 1968 | Carla and Don write the novel The Crucifixion of Esmerelda Sweetwater Carla undertakes two years of celibacy | They receive or "see" the entire story as if watching a movie, except for the very end, which they have to create on their own. Carla tries celibacy for two years, a 1968–1970 result of Don's lack of interest in sex and desire to remain celibate. At the end of which they make a new, mutually respectful arrangement. |
| 1969 | Jim earns Bachelors of Business and Economics | University of Nebraska at Kearney |
| 1970 | Carla goes to work full time for Don | Leaves librarian position of thirteen-grade private school to devote herself full time to Don's investigation. |
| 1970 | Don and Carla form the L/L Company | A private partnership focused on research. |
| 1971 | Don and Carla meet Dewey Larson | Arranges for Larson to speak at the University of Kentucky. Don and Carla subsequently join the board of International Society for Unified Science. Remain until publication of Secrets of the UFO. |
| 1971 | Carla earns her Masters in Library Service | University of Louisville |
| 1972.05 | Jim earns Masters of Education | University of Florida/Teacher Corps |
| 1972.05.14 | Don earns second master’s degree: Master of Engineering Jim spends two summers in Colorado | University of Louisville At T. D. Lingo's Adventure Trail 1972–1973 Survival School. |
| 1972.08 | Jim purchases 132 acres | In Marion County, Kentucky. Influenced by the "Back to the Land Movement," and wanting to follow Lingo's dictum to teach brain self-control, Jim builds his own log cabin. |
| 1973.03 | Jim cuts timbers for cabin. Leaves to dry | Has Angelica experience. Gets cabin frame up in October, 1973. |
| 1974.05 | Jim moves to Kentucky permanently | Spends first six weeks in a tent before moving into. |
| 1974 | Jim forms the Rock Creek Research & Development Labs, Inc. | A 501(c)(3) non-profit modeled after Lingo's own school. Designed to teach the same methods. |
| 1974 | Carla takes up channeling on Don's request | After twelve years of participating in the group but never channeling. She, we now know, was a natural. Likely born for it. |
| 1974 | Carla and Don visit Andrija Puharich | And realize that his house was featured in their book, The Crucifixion of Esmerelda Sweetwater, and he was the character Pablo. |
| 1974 | Don, Carla, and others form Eftspan | Named after a term in the book Oahspe, formed as a 501(c)(3) light center with land near St. Francis, KY. Carla and Don eventually drop out. |
| 1975 | Carla gains proficiency in channeling | Develops and tests the protocols of tuning and challenging. |
| 1975 | Carla undergoes psychic surgery in the Philippines | Don and Carla travel to investigate (and experience) psychic surgery. |
| 1976 | Don and Carla change the name to L/L Research | |
| 1977 | Secrets of the UFO published | |
| 1977.05.30 | Jim hears Don and Carla for the first time Carla undergoes psychic | Featured on a WKQQ radio broadcast out of Lexington, KY, Jim hears them while alone on his land, listening to a battery-powered radio. Don and Carla travel to Mexico to 1977.12– |
| 1978.01 | surgery in Mexico | investigate (and experience) psychic surgery for a second time. |
| 1978.08 | Jim meets Carla (and soon thereafter, Don) | Meets Carla on the front steps of the main meeting hall at Ken Keyes’ new “Living Love Center” in St Mary's, KY. Meets Don at a meditation in Don and Carla's Louisville apartment not long thereafter. |
| 1979.05.03 | Don achieves a rank of Captain | For Eastern Air Lines. |
| 1980 | Jim moves to Oregon to join Cosmic Awareness Communications | Pulled to leave his solitary experience of six years in order to be of service in a channeling community. Spends two months there. |
| 1980 | L/L Research 501(c)(3) created | Becomes a DBA of Jim's non-profit, The Rock Creek Research & Development Labs. |
| 1980.12.23 | Jim moves in with Carla and Don | Offered lucrative employment while in Oregon, Jim sets aside weekend to meditate on the question of whether to stay with Cosmic Awareness, take high-paying work, or return to Louisville to accept Don and Carla's offer to live and work with them. Receives answer in a matter of seconds: "Go to Louisville." |
| 1981.01.15 | Ra Contact begins | Don Elkins, and universe, jump for joy. |
| 1981 | 75 Sessions this year | |
| 1982 | 27 Sessions this year Group begins search for a new home in Atlanta | To move closer to Don's work as an 1982, fall airline pilot. First signs of Don's illness. |
| 1983 | 4 Sessions this year | |
| 1983.11 | Group moves to Atlanta | |
| 1984 | 1 Session this year | |
| 1984.04 | Group returns from Atlanta | Moves into new home in Louisville. |
| 1984.11 | Don Elkins passes away | Commits suicide after a year of declining mental health at 54 years old. |
| 1986 | The Crucifixion of Esmerelda Sweetwater published | 18 years after it was written. |
| 1986.01.12 | Q’uo first channeled | Hatonn, Latwii, Oxal, and others had been around for some time. Q’uo first appearance on this date. |
| 1987 | A Channeling Handbook published | |
| 1987.05 | Jim and Carla marry | At Calvary Episcopal Church in Louisville, KY. |
| 1987.06 | Meet Steve Tyman | A professor of philosophy who would become a dear friend, one of Carla’s best two channeling students, and Jim’s co-channeler beginning 2015. |
| 1991~ | Meet Roman Vodacek | Jim and Carla meet Romi, who will become a longstanding and faithful friend to, and volunteer for, L/L Research, and also the third member who will make possible many of the channelings in the ’90s. |
| 1992~ | Carla leaves the desert | Roughly eight years after Don died, Carla finally forgives herself and leaves a long spiritual desert experience. Her health rebounds and she regains the ability to be fully mobile again after a grueling physical therapy regimen. |
| 1996~ | LLResearch.org launches | Thanks to multiple people but primarily Ian, a professional who volunteers to digitize all of L/L's work, and subsequently builds L/L's first website, LLResearch.org, to share that work with the world. Ian serves as volunteer webmaster and editor/publisher for 17 years. |
| 1998 | Book V of The Law of One published | |
| 2001 | A Wanderer's Handbook published | |
| 2002.04 | Meet Gary Bean at the “Time of Global Shift” seminar in Louisville. | Produced by Scott Mandelker, Carla and Jim speak at this seminar and meet a young Gary. |
| 2003.04.10 | Tobey Wheelock launches Lawofone.Info | A website dedicated to sharing The Law of One material. Later will host the Relistened and Lightly Edited versions, and will become the best study tool for The Law of One material. |
| 2003.02 | Spiritual community attempted | After group discussion, Carla & Jim invite attendees of Feb, 2002 Homecoming to start an experiment in community. |
| 2004.10 | Tobey Wheelock initiates the Relistening Project | Re-listens to all 106 sessions of the Ra Contact. Discovers un-transcribed Q&As and other modifications to the text. Begins creation of Relistened Version, an actual exact transcript, and the precursor of the Lightly Edit-ed Version, that which will be used for The Ra Contact: Teaching the Law of One book. |
| 2005~ | Initial spiritual community experiment comes to an end | Everyone eventually moves away save for Gary who stays on with Carla and Jim. |
| 2005.06 | Carla begins The Camelot Journal | A daily online blog chronicling the life and work of L/L Research, and the personal lives of Jim and Carla. Journal continues uninterrupted into the present. |
| 2005.08 | Wooded Glen Retreat | Gary produces his first, and L/L's first, large-scale Homecomings (large by L/L’s standards). |
| 2006.02 | Gary becomes Carla's administrative assistant | Carla, wanting to be freed to focus on creative work, creates new position and offers it to Gary, who accepts reluctantly but soon embraces it. Several years later becomes L/L's Administrator. |
| 2007 | A Book of Days: Chan-nelings From the Holy Spirit published | |
| 2008.12 | Bring4th.org is born | Steve Engratt had a vision for a community website congruent with Carla's seed idea, and the technical chops to get it done. Signs on as webmaster and together with Gary, builds L/L Research’s first community website. |
| 2008.12 | First L/L online store launched | As a result of which Carla and Jim do not have to fund L/L Research out of their own pockets for the first time in its history. |
| 2009 | Living the Law of One 101: The Choice published | Carla’s attempt to break down the Law of One into simpler terms. |
| 2009 | The Light/Lines Newslet-ter: The First 25 Years published | L/L’s quarterly newsletter The Light/Lines features the best of its channeling. |
| 2009 | L/L Research Channeling Archives published | An 18-volume set spanning the years 1972 - 2008 |
| 2010.08.09 | Social media platforms launched | Including Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr. |
| 2010.09.28 | In the Now - Q&A with Carla L. Rueckert podcast launched | Originally hosted by Monica Leal. Will evolve over time to include Jim, Gary, and Austin. Podcast ongoing. |
| 2011.01.17 | Basic Principles of the Law of One launched | Carla designs a course based on her book Living the Law of One 101 and offers it through online school IMU (International Metaphysical University). |
| 2011.04.02 | Carla's final Saturday Meditation channeling | Undergoes spinal fusion surgery soon thereafter. Leaves her bound to a hospital bed with an open wound for next four years. |
| 2011.04.13 | Audio from the Ra contact published online | Shares audio with the public for the first time, allowing others to hear the slow-moving conversation. |
| 2012 | The Poetry of Carla Lisbeth Rueckert published | |
| 2012.08 | Meet Austin Bridges at Homecoming, 2013 | Along with the equally long-haired friend and contributor to L/L Research, Sephira Vox. |
| 2012.12.22 | The day after the famously hyped Dec 21, 2012 date… | …is a day like any other. |
| 2013.08 | Austin Bridges moves to Louisville | Recognized for excellent volunteer work as a moderator for Bring4th.org, invited to Louisville to work alongside Gary at the L/L helm. |
| 2014.09 | Create first L/L Research satellite station | With Jochen Blumenthal for the German translation of all L/L Research material. Soon thereafter incorporates Micheline Deschreider’s French translations. |
| 2015.04.01 | Carla passes away | After a four-year struggle with an open wound and a lifetime of medical hardship, Carla passes away in Jim's arms in their home at 71 years old. |
| 2015.08 | The Quixotic Quest: The Story & Identity of L/L Research published | Written initially as a presentation for Homecoming, 2015. Book uses material from this interview. |
| 2015.10~ | Gary becomes Director, Austin Assistant Director of L/L Research | Gaining only a formal titles recognizing them for what they had already been doing. |
| 2016 | By this year the Law of One had been translated into . . . | Portuguese, Chinese, French, German, Hungarian, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish. With Italian, Czech, and Bulgarian on the horizon. |
| 2016.08 | Publish this book | Tilting at Windmills: An Interview with Carla L. Rueckert & Jim McCarty |
| Upcoming | L/L Research: publishes The Ra Contact: Teaching the Law of One, releases first ever audiobooks of all L/L's books, launches a new unified website, assists in creating a documentary about the life and work of Don Elkins, and continues serving seekers and channeling Confederation sources indefinitely into the future. And then . . . fulfills Smithsonian’s request for copies of The Law of One books, ushers in new era of world peace using electric guitars and a time-traveling phone booth, welcomes first public contact with ETs, and eventually opens bottle of champagne marked: "Do not open until arrival of fourth density." | |
| Not listed | Individual workshops, speaking events, interviews, individual translations, and the first-time meetings with many dear friends and volunteers (like Terry Hsu) who would become L/L Research family. |
* Vulcans are a fictional species from the TV series Star Trek who are characterized by living according to reason and logic only without interference from emotion. Toward that end they control and suppress their emotions.