DAY 1 · Part I: Prelude to Ra Contact
CHAPTER 3
Meeting Jim
Gary As the biography of L/L Research continues, Jim crosses paths with Don and Carla. Jim, you had been living by yourself on a piece of land in central Kentucky. Can you tell us why you moved there and what you were doing?
Jim Well, I had just come from serving a stint in Teacher Corps where we worked with inner city kids in Jacksonville and Gainesville, Florida. We got kids that were so-called incorrigible. Nobody else wanted them so we had our own classroom, and we used various resources to figure out what to do with the kids and how to help kids learn who hadn’t had a lot of luck with it.
I decided that I didn’t want to pursue that any further, so I looked at one of the books that we had used in our classroom, The Rasberry Exercises: How to Start Your Own School (and Make a Book). In the back of that book they used a bibliography that had a fellow in Colorado by the name of T. D. Lingo and the Adventure Trail Survival School. I thought what Lingo had to say sounded really good. So I went to his school two years in a row—the first year I was a student, and the second year I was a teacher.
The whole idea of his school was that the brain is 90 percent dormant, which most of us have heard. Since 1957 he had been living at 10,000 feet up in the Rocky Mountains and had discovered a way of releasing the dormant brain potential in students that came his way. He also worked with inner-city school kids. In the spring and the summer he brought out the rich white kids, like me (if you had any money you were rich in comparison to the kids he usually worked with), and he worked with them as well.
So the whole idea was to use a series of processes: essaying, which in Latin means “to drive out,” to drive out understanding; dream analysis; and neuro drama, where you did some work in figuring out what were the problems, or blockages, that kept your energy back in the old brain stem (the part where most of us are) along with the three-eighths of the frontal lobes that are dormant. So the idea there was to figure out a way to release that dormant potential.
After you went through his course and had whatever successes you did, his theory was “each one teach one,” which meant go buy some land and start your own school. So that’s what I intended to do. I looked at—let’s see, there were two main catalogs then, for United Farm Realty and Strout Realty. I looked in there. I wanted to be somewhere—being from Nebraska, I wanted someplace that had hills and creeks and had a variety of land instead of being flat like a pool table. So the area around Tennessee, Arkansas, Kentucky, and Missouri looked pretty good to me. I looked into about 50 different places, and I investigated them from a distance. They didn’t look so good, so I decided—I found myself in central Kentucky. I looked at the map and I thought, “I’m just going to head back to Nebraska and stop in, unannounced, at every little real estate agent to see what I can find.”
So after I made that decision, I came across a fellow who had this piece of land for sale. He was a real estate agent—Eddy Deep, I remember him very well—and he had this 132 acres of land that was available, and at that time it was only $6,000, which was $32 an acre. That was in 1972, and that was a really good price, so I took all my savings, and I bought that piece of land and went to the land with the idea of starting my own school.
The first summer there I cut all the logs I would need to build my log cabin because that was what we worked with at Lingo’s Adventure Trail Survival School: log cabins and learning how to notch logs and chink logs and cut out the windows and doors and all that stuff—how to make a house out of a bunch of trees. So I did that the first fall and got everything ready to go, got them up on platforms so they could season, and then I went back to Nebraska and got a job.
Let’s see, the first job I had was rough carpentry, helping to build grain silos that were poured around the clock. Eventually I quit at 105 feet. It was 20 degrees below zero and it was my job to clean the inside of the places where grain was going to be stored—get the honeycomb out so the grain wouldn’t go in there and ferment and ruin all the grain. So that was my job. I was sitting on a little swing—I’d finish one little cubby hole where the grain was going; I’d crawl out and go to another one, and there was just one little light in each one, and I couldn’t even see the bottom down there, and it was kind of dark and cold. And I thought I could probably find a better job, so then I got a job as a welder in a farm implement company, and for the rest of the winter I did some welding, which was much warmer.
In the spring I came back to Kentucky, and I skinned all the logs and started putting them up.
I did have two classes that went through the course. I taught the same course that Lingo did, and that’s why I was there: to begin a work in helping other people to discover their latent potentials. And that’s it.
Gary It’s really difficult for me to restrain myself from digging further in. I’m going to allow myself a couple of questions before moving on: Did you feel that you had unlocked the brain’s potential—that you had successfully completed his course and achieved that objective?
Jim Yeah. Part of the course was to build your own lean-to at some distant part of the land. He had 270 acres of a mountaintop, and it was rough terrain. It was pretty difficult, so he wanted each person to build his or her own lean-to.
One morning on July 12, 1972, I was in the preconscious state. (The preconscious state is that state where you can receive or send messages telepathically, theoretically. Basically it’s the alpha state that meditators find.) That morning before sunrise, I was in that state and I felt my brain circulating. I felt a movement and I felt a click, right here [points to third-eye spot] between the eyes in the frontal lobes, and when I got down to the camp and told Lingo about that he just kind of smiled at me and said, “Well, that’s the beginning.”
Since then the frontal lobes have always been active. The most obvious activation of the frontal lobes is in sexual energy exchanges: where most people have an orgasm between the legs, I have one between my eyes as well. And, that’s a lot of fun! [laughs] But, it also helped me figure out how to use my energies. So I continued the essaying, the dream analysis, and the working with the preconscious state while I was in my cabin on my land.
And I worked with the students that came to Lingo’s Adventure Trail School to try to do the same thing. I don’t think we had any great successes, but there were a number of interesting contacts that people had in their preconscious with what were very likely extraterrestrials. They had unusual names like Ramordery, Gonodsel, and Bimbleshack,* saying that they were in a craft orbiting Saturn, perhaps which all sounds weird and strange until you listen to the messages that they gave through the students that had received them, and it was inspirational. It was much like the Confederation channeling that we’ve been doing, that Carla and Don started back in 1962.
If you look at life as a wheel and the center being where we’re going, it was another spoke in the wheel, another way of getting there. It seemed to be a fairly effective way. So that was what I was doing. That’s what happened for me, and I feel that since then I have been more creative, more able to figure out ways of doing things that are outside the box. So it got me out of the box.†
Gary And you’ve stayed out of the box ever since, I would note. So, how would you describe your general spirituality prior to encountering the channeling work that Carla and Don were doing?
Jim Minimal. [laughs] I was a late bloomer, I guess you could say. I was about 21 and had already graduated college before I started asking questions. After I graduated I didn’t want to do what I was trained to do. I didn’t want to pursue business or economics, so I went back for another year of solid sociology, thinking that might be what I wanted to do. But, I also took a course in world religions and became involved with a priest, a Catholic priest, a Fr. John Scott, who had the house where mostly the
* Spelled phonetically in this transcript.
† For more about Jim’s experience at the Adventure Trail School and the subsequent six years on his land, see Chapter 29, Jim McCarty Personal Biographical Material.
radicals on campus stayed, though it was supposed to be for the Catholic students. He introduced me to a book called The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts about how to basically begin your own spiritual journey.
So that was where it really started. After that I became familiar with Jane Roberts and her work with Seth—Lingo’s course was dealing with the same sort of principles; he was just approaching it from another angle. He was approaching it from the standpoint of the brain’s natural ability to circuit its energy forward, once you remove the obstacles that are culturally encoded into each person by schools, by parents, by friends, neighbors, and so forth.
So that, I guess, was the real start to it. And when I was on the land I was listening to WKQQ radio1 one night (it was put out from Lexington, Kentucky), and they had a couple of folks from Louisville—a Don Elkins and Carla Rueckert were talking about their channeling and their book, The Secrets of the UFO, and I thought that was interesting.
In our area there, I was generally part of what was called (then) the back-to-the-land movement2 in the early ’70s: well-educated college kids from the city going back to the land to simplify their lives. “Simplify, simplify”—the Thoreau idea. We got together and had various types of meetings and things, and one of the things we had was a meditation group. It was headed by a group of folks from Louisville, a part of the Eftspan group that Don and Carla had helped to begin, and they were originally pointed towards having their own spiritual community on the other side of the same county that I lived in. At that time they were still meditating and so forth, and I told them that I’d heard this couple on the radio and they said, “Yeah, would you like to meet them?” I said, “Okay, yeah, sure.”
So through them, I came up to Louisville and met Don and Carla. I remember walking into their apartment for the first time. Don was at the door and I looked up [cranes neck up, laughs]—he was a full foot taller than I was.3 I remember looking into his blue eyes and thinking, wow. I could see eternity in there somehow. He had this really friendly old rumpled way about him. So I met him and then I met Carla.
After that I started coming every week by myself. And then Eric started joining me—Eric Swan, you remember, who still lives down in Lebanon, Kentucky.4 So we came up every week after that. It was August 1978 I think I first met you [Carla], and later on, when Carla and Don decided to move to Waterson Trail where we would later have the Ra contact, I helped them move and really got to know them a lot more.
It was at that time that Don invited me to join them, but I’d been taking mailings from Cosmic Awareness Communications5 out in Olympia, Washington, for a long time. They, through Paul Shockley at the time, were channeling, supposedly, the same source Edgar Cayce channeled, which was the Akashic Records of the planet. I’d been taking their information for about five years and really thought it was good, so I thanked Don and Carla for inviting me, but said that I was heading out to Oregon where they had two centers—Paul lived in Yamhill, Oregon, and then went up to Olympia, Washington, to do the channeling for Cosmic Awareness. The Windsong School of Awareness was in Yamhill, and I moved there—that was in the country and I had my own little trailer. It was a rusty old thing that I called Tootsie Roll because it was the same color as a Tootsie Roll, being full of rust on the outside. I stayed there for a couple of months.
The thing that got me thinking about what I should really do was that, after moving there, I was given a chance to make a lot of money. A fellow who would come down to visit from Vancouver, British Columbia, was part of the group. In his profession he was in charge of the mining of diatomaceous earth, in both the United States and in Canada. Diatomaceous earth is the fossilized remains of various types of sea creatures from millions of years ago, but is found to be very helpful in storing food, such as putting it in your beans so that they won’t go bad. You can even brush your teeth with it. It’s another one of those things that has got a lot of uses.
Anyway, he offered me a chance to be the general manager for the United States, and he offered me $100,000—a year! I didn’t have anything against money, but that wasn’t why I went to Oregon, so I took the weekend out to meditate and to think about what I needed to do because I was kind of confused. So 30 minutes—30 seconds into the meditation (it didn’t take long), there was the answer kind of like a comet across my barren sky: “Go back to Louisville. Join Don and Carla.”
So that’s what I did, taking their little kitty cat that they gave me. The kids at the Windsong School made money by selling the offspring of these two cats, a big, old Siamese bruiser of a male and a pretty female. The cats came out with long hair—they were Himalayan. So Chocolate Bar came back with me, and I litterbox-trained Chocolate Bar in the truck as I was driving along. I had a litter box over on the passenger side on the floor, and whenever she had to go I picked her up and stuck her over there. So I brought Chocolate Bar back to Louisville and introduced her to Don and Carla. They already had two cats, Gandalf and Fairchild, at the time. Don looked at Chocolate Bar and took the little kitty cat in his hand and he said, “Beautiful.”
Carla That was one of his famous swearwords.
Jim Yeah, that meant another cat. [laughs]
So that’s how I actually did end up with Don and Carla. It was by first traveling 2,500 miles to Oregon and then 2,500 miles back within two months. It was a long trip to go 70 miles total.
Gary Your frontal lobes are too powerful—you have anticipated a lot of the questions I was going to ask.
So, quick one—I think it’s a correction. You said in 1972 or ’73 you were asked about managing diatomaceous earth—did you mean later on? Am I misunderstanding something?
Jim Yeah, you’re right. That would be 1980; 1972 and 1973 was the time that I was with Lingo at the school and had come back and started on my own. Good catch!
Gary I didn’t think it took you eight years to drive back from Oregon.
Jim I had to walk. [Carla chuckles]
Gary Don said that he had a “knowing” with Carla [that they would be together]. Was there, similarly, a conscious recognition or an inkling within you that this was to be a special relationship?
Jim Oh yeah, there was no doubt. It was odd in that respect. As I was helping them move into the place on Waterson Trail, which was where we had the Ra contact, Carla and I were doing a lot of work together getting things lined up and put in place after we got them moved over. Don was flying so we had some time alone. I remember the hug in the kitchen with Carla—we hugged each other and we knew that neither of us wanted to let go, because it just felt so perfect. It felt like coming home, really.
And from that point on, it was just the same thing. We never had to work at being harmonious. It was just there, and any movement away from being harmonious was weird. I was responsible for one or two of those and had to correct it right away because it wasn’t right. So, yeah, there was an immediate recognition and a feeling of, yeah, I want to hang out with these folks. And it worked out.
Gary Carla, do you remember your and Don’s side of that meeting with Jim?
Carla Well, I can’t really speak for Don because, as usual, he was silent on the subject, except for expressing his desire to have Jim join us. I had been resisting liking him because he had a very large beard. I liked his curly long hair, but I was never fond of facial hair, especially on a young man who could look good. I thought it was a waste of flesh, [Jim laughs] so I didn’t want to like him. He came to the door one time right after he’d worked real hard and was sweating freely, and I thought to myself, “I love the way he smells.” [laughs] That was it for me. The chemistry just overwhelmed me.
Jim When you find somebody that likes your scent you’ve got a thing.
Carla Yeah, I’m a very sensitive . . . my nose is very sensitive, probably the most sensitive of my senses, and if I like the way somebody smells, it’s big news. So that, plus of course the fact that I have always been very much attracted to people that have virtue, honor, dignity—doing the right thing. Jim was very high on that. Not that he talked about it or expressed it, but everything that ever came out of his mouth and his decisions all had to do with loyalty, or trust, or just that kind of beauty—it was inner beauty. I saw nothing I didn’t like, and I saw so many things I did like.
Jim And she eventually got me to shave! [laughs]
Carla I was really attracted to him sexually, but I was also attracted to his inner character, and all through the years that has only deepened. That was a true, early connection of ours into the deep mind, and we were very compatible there.
Gary Jim, you described hearing Carla and Don on a radio program and how that piqued your interest. Do you remember your reaction when you first encountered their channeled information and what impact it had on you?
Jim Oh, yeah, I really, really felt the message was on target. It was one of those things where that little voice inside that responds to things if you let it, said yeah.
I remember asking a number of questions. They always had a question and answer session after the main part of the message was delivered, and I had some questions that I really needed to ask, because I’d learned a lot of very helpful things at the Lingo Survival School but one of the things that I really didn’t like was that he believed in fear—the fear motivation.
One of the reasons he had the class there was to keep planet Earth from “suiciding”—that this was a suicidal culture in which we lived; that human beings were basically glorified “killer apes” that came from the Australopithecus africanus, the South African killer ape, the first of its kind to kill its own kind, with a thigh bone or a stick. So it was his feeling that that was the missing link, that we had genes in us that were dangerous, and he, I thought, used fear too much as a motivator in that regard.
So I asked questions of—at that time it was Hatonn that Carla was channeling. And the answer that I got really felt right to me, which was that we basically have to release fear, fear of anything, because we’re all one; and if you fear something, you are fearing part of yourself, and you’re keeping that part of yourself from giving to you what it has to offer. We all have a dark side—we hide things in there—and things that we fear are especially there.
So that was a message or a response I got that I felt was really on target—it hit home with me and I thought, “Yeah, let’s keep going here, let’s get some more information here.” So yeah, I was in tune right away—they were singing my song.
Carla He had lots and lots of questions. He was a big questioner for a long time and then that died down after a while—I guess he got them all answered.
Jim Yeah, pretty much. There have been a lot more questions since, but at the time I felt very satisfied.
Gary So, as Jim has described his process, Jim eventually joined you and Don. Why did Don, or why did you and Don in conjunction, issue this invitation to Jim?
Carla Well, as I said, for years Don had been looking for a way to expand our family, our spiritual family. So it wasn’t a surprise to me when he brought it up. It was of a kind with his wanting Beth to join us, with him wanting Morris to join us, and so forth, but none of those had worked out, and that this one did was the big difference.
I was a little bit surprised, because I had told Don that Jim and I were going to become lovers, and I thought that if there was any vestige of jealousy, he wouldn’t want Jim to join us. But it didn’t matter at all—he never spoke of it. It was just, “Oh, okay.” So I don’t think that weighed in, for or against—it was not relevant to him.
But I think it was because of Jim’s outstanding ability to pitch in and to help without being asked. It was extremely impressive that Jim offered to help and drove so far so many times in order to help us get packed up and moved. Don was gone most of the time, and he wasn’t the sort to do any physical labor of any kind—that just wasn’t Don. I didn’t expect it of him. So it was just me, [laughs] but with Jim helping we knocked it out pretty quick and got it all done, all packed up. We had quite a library. We had a long hallway full of shelving, and that shelving was full of our books at that time, so it was a big job. If I hadn’t had Jim I would have been working on it for a long time. Jim was so fast.
But it was more than that. It was his cheer, his easy-to-be-with character, and his desire to be alone. Don had become a person that was very dependent on being with me. When he was off, he wanted to be with me. We had our little thing together and the three of us would get together for meals, which mostly Jim took over the cooking of—Don didn’t want me cooking and if Jim wasn’t cooking, we went out.
Gary Did you say Jim was cooking? [laughs]
Jim Hard to believe, isn’t it.
Carla Well, believe it or not, he was a pretty good cook. I don’t think he ever liked it, but he pitched in and did it when it was needed. Jim is just an impressive human being. He was right down Don’s alley—the kind of person that Don had been looking for.
Gary So this invitation was given to you and you accepted and moved in with Carla and Don. Did Don describe what your role would be?
Carla Don’t know.
Jim Well, I knew I would be transcribing, typing. What we thought we were going to do right away was to rewrite Secrets of the UFO. So for the first three weeks before the Ra contact started, it was my job to read the current literature on UFO investigation to try to update Secrets, and so I was reading and taking notes and using Carla’s—let’s see, at that time it was an IBM electric typewriter. (You’ve probably never seen such a thing—they came after the manuals.) And then after the Ra contact started, it was my job to transcribe, and everything just seemed to fall into place. I loved being outdoors, so I just took over the mowing of the grass—
Carla We had 16 acres where we were living at Watterson Trail.
Jim Six. Yeah, and an old tractor there—
Carla [laughs] Really old Ford, like 1953.
Jim Didn’t last long, so I took over working the outside, taking care of the grass and the gardens and planting flowers and things like I do here, and transcribing, and taking Carla where she needed to go. We started off pretty much what we’re doing now; it just got more intensive over the years.
Gary I’d say so.
Prior to meeting Don and Carla, you created a non-profit that you named Rock Creek Research and Development Laboratories. What was that, and how did L/L become incorporated into Rock Creek?
Jim Well, one of the things that Lingo offered was a chance to use, or to copy, his articles and papers of incorporation. So I used that and I decided to name it Rock Creek because my access road was a running creek with rock all over the place. You’d drive up the creek and you’re bouncing around . . .
Carla More rocks than water.
Jim Yeah, a lot of rocks, and after I named it that and moved to Louisville, I discovered there’s a Rock Creek Riding Stable here in Louisville, and our favorite television show, NCIS, has a Rock Creek Park in Washington, D.C—I guess somebody else discovered the wheel too. So yeah, the 501(c)(3) was the umbrella which Lingo suggested that we use to start our schools and to be tax-exempt, nonprofit. That came in very handy when I joined in with Don and Carla, because they were in need of such a status, and it was easy to become the umbrella and keep L/L Research as the “doing business as” name because it was known around the world and
Rock Creek was not, except in Washington, D.C.
Carla I had formed a 501(c)(3) in ’73 for Eftspan,6 doing all the work myself. You’re not going to believe it, nobody ever did, but I just went to the law library and poked around, copied things, asked people, and got help here and there, and the third time I went to Frankfort7 I got it okayed. So Eftspan was what Don thought that we were going to be—a 501(c)(3) so that people could donate money, and that would be our library, and that would be our research, and that would be our name—always doing business as L/L. We had formed Eftspan out of the meditation group that we called the Louisville Group.
So about half of the Louisville Group went south, they got involved in drugs, they didn’t want to work; and they decided that they just wanted to live on the land, enjoy the land, and have nature be the reason that we were incorporated. So that got written into Eftspan, and Don discovered that even though it had a large number of acres (I’m not remembering how many), there wasn’t any place on it that you could land a small plane, so he wouldn’t be able to commute from there.
So things got stacked up against Eftspan, and when people voted not to have new members be required to come to meditation meetings, I was no longer interested in being part of a group that didn’t want to meditate, because that was our thrust when we began, and everybody that goes back to the beginning was a meditator.
And so I warned them . . . I shepherded the group. We paid the land off because I made sure that we always had money by nagging people half to death for ten years. I told them that after the land is paid off, I no longer was interested.
I thought that that would make a difference to the group, but they all went, “Okay.” [laughs] So I made three copies of absolutely everything, copied everything three times over, got redundancy going, and left. Nobody would believe that I couldn’t save them when they came to me and said, “We lost all three copies—help us.” “I don’t have anything—I gave it all to you. I’m out.” And I was. I’d moved on to be involved with L/L Research, so that’s how come we knew about 501(c)(3)’s and how come we knew how valuable Jim’s little thing was, because it was already okayed by the IRS, it was federal, and it didn’t matter which state you lived in.
Gary What did Eftspan stand for?
Carla It was out of Oahspe [pronounced oh-wa-spee]. I found the name. It meant “children of the Creator.”
Gary So you’ve already alluded to the romance that blossomed between you two. Can you describe when and how that happened?
Carla Well, I’ll start first and then you go ahead. I told Jim (like I told the two other people that I’d made love with in that, I guess, nine-year period—I don’t know how long), “You know, it can’t ever be anything but what it is now, because I am absolutely devoted to Don, absolutely lifetime devoted. He is my life partner.” Jim said, “Great, I just want to be by myself. I’m a loner. I love being with you, no offense, but I want to be by myself. [In a bad German accent] I vant to be alone.” So it was well understood. That was the way it was going to be, and everything was sweet between us and everything was sweet between Don and me. Between the two of them, you never saw two guys more totally devoted to each other. Good friends.
Jim That was the summer of ’80. Just helping them move, getting to know—
Carla It didn’t take long . . .
Jim It just naturally developed—a magnet and an iron filing.
Gary So you couldn’t resist each other. It does seem like a rather perfect fit that you three had—interlocking jigsaw pieces in that respect.
So you described the events that led you three together. A Bring4th member asks if there was anything that you might call dreams, premonitions, or synchronicities that you could identify in the process that led you three together.
Jim Well, I guess you could see the whole thing as being synchronistic, but nothing that really made me go whoa! It was just a feeling we had. Just a feeling inside and it was undeniable.
Notes
[1] In February 2016 Jim re-discovered the cassette recording for Don and Carla’s WKQQ radio interview of May 30, 1977. It has since been published to the archive website, LLResearch.org, in the Interviews section of the Library. ↩
To recap, the linkage goes like this: Jim heard Don and Carla for the first time late one night on his battery-powered radio while alone on the land—they were being interviewed on a Lexington, KY radio program. At some point thereafter Jim made mention to his regional food-buying co-op of the radio program he had recently heard. Members of that co-op were also members of Don and Carla’s group, Eftspan, so they offered to introduce Jim to Don and Carla.
Eftspan was the group that got the personal growth author Ken Keyes interested in moving his Living Love Center from San Francisco, California, to St. Mary, Kentucky. So it was that Jim met Carla on the front steps of the main meeting hall in St. Mary where all Eftspan members were invited to take a weekend workshop for free at Ken Keyes’ new Living Love Center. Jim met Don soon thereafter at a meditation in Don and Carla’s Louisville apartment. Jim would subsequently help Don and Carla move to the house where 105 sessions of the Ra contact would later transpire.
[2] A recurring pattern in the twentieth century and into our own, enough people relocated in the ’60s and ’70s that it is said to have registered on American demographic statistics. With many influences, objectives, and strains, in general the movement was characterized by a desire to live a simpler life in close connection with the land. It seemed a reaction in many ways to the modern ills of urbanism, consumerism, politics, and environmental degradation. Henry David Thoreau was the guiding philosopher of the movement with his dictum, “Simplify, simplify.” And the cooperative efforts of all those involved became the counter-culture’s answer to the competition that is the hallmark of our capitalistic society. People helped each other build their own homes, plant gardens, raise children, and take part in the local, grassroots political process. ↩
[3] In The Crucifixion of Esmerelda Sweetwater Don’s height is listed as 6’5”. Jim, who was 5’7” at the time Don was alive (but has since shrunk an inch from age), says that there was a question of whether Don was 6’5” or 6’6”. ↩
[4] Eric passed away in 2014. ↩
[5] “We are an Organization that has been, for more than forty years, devoted to helping mankind delve deeply within to discover their own divine truth, their own divine cosmic awareness. We have encouraged contemplation on right living, through such cherished notions as universal love, respect and gratitude for all others.” ↩
Home page, Cosmic Awareness Communications, accessed February 14, 2016, www.cosmicawareness.org.
[6] Oahspe is a channeled book from the 1800s which hides really good, solid information in with a lot of seemingly superfluous jargon. In Oahspe, Eftspan is the city of the Children of the Law of One. ↩
When the big UFO flap of 1973 came to the Ohio River Valley, a lot of people began attending Don and Carla’s Sunday meditations asking questions about UFOs and so forth. After a couple of years those folks who had remained with Don and Carla decided that they wanted to buy a piece of land in the country and build homes and live there. They bought 320 acres of beautiful land on the western side of Marion County. Jim lived on the eastern side and met Don and Carla via the food-buying co-ops that he and Eftspan members belonged to. No homes were ever built there but the group still loosely exists and they still own the land.
In the beginning, Eftspan’s policy was that anyone who wanted to join the group had to attend group meditations for a period of time—six months, Jim thinks it was. After a few years, a lot of the original Eftspan members stopped coming to the meditations. The group subsequently removed meditation attendance as a membership requirement. Don and Carla considered this a figurative slap in the face. Carla, as treasurer of Eftspan, bugged them for the next two years for monthly payments until the land in Marion County was paid off. She then gave over all the books and records to the remaining members and, along with Don, bid them farewell.
[7] Kentucky’s capital city. ↩