I. INTRODUCTION
Understandably, we who seek love/wisdom (both personally and collectively) lament the perpetual darkness of Earth's global culture. Endless warfare, institutional corruption and deceit, vast socioeconomic injustice, education and media folly, mind control commercialism and discord in family relations -- all such common features of human society cause Wanderers and all who care great sorrow and pain.

And yet, our pain is due to our perspective, and our perspective is based on subtle assumptions, many of which disregard Divine Plan and more specifically, the role of Earth in galactic soul evolution. Of course, few souls here venture past their own personal distortions, let alone try to comprehend esoterics of global function in cosmic relief.

Our common view is simple and justified by common sense; however, it is childish when held up to consideration of Logoic Plan and primacy of the Law of Free Will in interdimensional soul evolution. The common spiritual novice view is this:

This notion stems from our own subjective bias that values love and all it implies: equity, justice, freedom, goodwill, and harmonious social structure -- and there is nothing inherently wrong in it. However, all that exists is allowed to exist, and the Creator has granted primacy to free will in soul progression to allow us to choose our own paths of polarized self-development (what RA terms "service to self" and "service to other" -- the ways of seeking separation and/or unity).

To Logoic being, evil is neither mistake nor tragedy, and the misery that plagues humanity is fully warranted by its own personal and collective karmic inheritance. No, the Creator does not punish, but rather, souls self-generate their own life conditions in both individual and collective formation, and all souls choose their own circumstance to catalyze learning and growth. This is one of the cornerstones of basic metaphysics.

Admittedly, these ideas are controversial and cannot be accepted without significant wisdom and awareness of multidimensional soul law. Beyond the veil, using just a common 3D-mind complex, such ideas cannot be verified nor proven; thus you may disagree. I simply present the understanding that has come to me, and it is up to you to determine its relative accuracy.

Stepping back a moment, we can then ask this: why is it that evil, injustice and ignorance are so prevalent here? Yes, it is karmic law, the operation of multi-incarnational cause and effect. But could it be these conditions are not a deviation from cosmic law, not a perversion of how "things are supposed to be?" Could it be that planetary conditions are wholly in accord with Divine Plan?

Recalling dimensions of boundless light, sensing the profound love-harmony of groups from which we come, awakened Wanderers despair in the face of human evil and suffering. We know global conditions need not be this way; we trust ourselves enough to realize, "if they would but listen, this could be such a beautiful world." And yet, we have forgotten what Earth was meant to be, the true nature of the Logoic gift given to souls who constitute the dominant groups here.

For Wanderers, it must be remembered this is not our planet; it is their planet -- the ordained 3D home world of those in the majority incarnate here. Despite the presence of Wanderers and an ever-larger group of positively-oriented souls (seeking love-light, truth and harmony), the great majority of 3D incarnates here are non-polarized (not pledged to either selfish or selfless being). This is by far the majority consciousness on Earth, and you would do well to consider the implications, for there are many.

Please understand, I make no judgment here; it is simply plain fact: for one reason or another, most human souls are confused as to whether their path (not merely preference, but their affirmed, conscious, deliberate PATH) is that of love or control. Anyone can help an old lady who falls down before us, but real positive polarization demands far more than that. It is no less than whole-bodied commitment to our own personal growth and that of everyone around us. It is not a small matter; it is, rather, a driving imperative to an ever-growing life.

When oppressed, most humans on Earth seek freedom, justice and equal opportunity -- understandably -- but this too does not constitute true positive polarization. And generally, when those previously oppressed gain socioeconomic power, they turn their backs on the yet-disempowered, and turn left toward self-embellishment. This is the primary reason why the vast majority of human leadership is self-serving: those who support them outwardly, more or less, seek inwardly a comparable state of dominance and control. Actually, it could not be otherwise.

Thus, atop the human social ladder, ruling Earthly nations, we find souls for the most part polarized to self-service. Nor is this an accident: souls always get the leadership they deserve, in the same way as all beings receive the lives they create by karmic operation. It is spiritual immaturity to blame fate, accident, a fickle Creator or Creation, or some other "external" cause -- karmic law is eminently fair and true, and Divine justice operates in the most exacting detail, despite our ignorance of it.

Frankly, it is no mystery we find such misery, inequity, ignorance and prevalence of control structures in Earth's 3D social complex. It is primarily due to negatively-oriented self-serving leadership resting upon non-polarized (or inadequately love-wisdom based) souls who constitute the vast ranks of population. Upon close inspection, it is obvious that Wanderers are but a small percentage of humanity, and souls wholly centered in love-wisdom are really quite few here.

3D souls who are negatively oriented, negatively orienting,
and those not yet polarized
must go somewhere for their own development.

In no uncertain terms, Earth was given by the Logoic Creator of this solar system to be the home, training ground, and site of major 3D catalyst for all souls here at this point in the greater cycle. Although most souls universally end up choosing the love-wisdom path (serving others, moving toward unity in harmony), some do not, while some others have chronic blockage in their ability to polarize out of 3D along either path.

In this sector of the galaxy, planet Earth (an aspect of the solar system’s Logoic Creator) has chosen this role in grand service to these somewhat problematic souls. Not every Logos is willing to offer a portion of its being to host such disharmonious and darkened 3D incarnates -- and the Logoic willingness to allow itself to be used for catalyst provision for these somewhat "difficult" beings is a mark of its sanctity and power.

This is no different from how souls in 3D agree to be parents of "very troubled" other souls (coming to them as so-called "children") -- it is a sacrifice willingly made, a sign of a hardy being willing to challenge itself through disharmonious catalyst. The same can be said of the local Creator: it is quite willing to host these beings, a partnership that can lightly be referred to as "Orion and the Sleepers."

Souls in human 3D who are negatively oriented or orienting,
and those chronically asleep to the need for spiritual maturity
(unable to polarize left or right), wholly deserve each other
and reflect key unseen aspects of the other.

This is a very subtle point, but moves toward greater recognition of just how Divine Plan operates in this dimension, on a world that seems so full of crisis and chaos. From a shallow view, this is true -- but upon deeper consideration, 3D consciousness dynamics here are perfectly balanced, fitting, and fair. More than that, they are optimally self-structured to catalyze their own transformation if wisely used. A bit of collective depth psychology, á la Carl Jung, holds the key to understanding.

For those negatively oriented or orienting, the shadow-complex (consisting of all that is repressed) includes love, truth, and the reality of unified universal being. Conversely, for those maintaining chronic non-polarization, it is discernment, self-empowerment, and soul-demand for spiritual growth and choice that sits in the unseen shadow realm. Depth psychology teaches that the conscious orientation of human personality is always perfectly balanced by an unrecognized polar opposite complex in the deep mind.

The reason these two groups find themselves paired in this world is no less than the fact that each offers the other a perfect consciousness catalyst for their own continued soul evolution. Opposites do attract, both in interpersonal relations and collective soul grouping, and it is no accident these two forces are the dominant actors in 3D Earth.

Interestingly, those negatively oriented or orienting can be understood to be inadequately polarized on their path, thus needing catalyst sparking continued movement along their path of self-service. In contrast to those who naively imagine all souls should become "good and virtuous," there really are two paths of soul evolution, as above so below, and beings which consciously reject love-unity do have the right to progress themselves without heart-activation.

This is a controversial point, admittedly, but is well known to mystics East and West, is often discussed in Buddhist/Hindu teachings, and can be found in all traditions of genuine Ageless Wisdom. It is simply an outgrowth and consequence of the blanketing Law of Free Will, and is itself an essential feature of Divine Plan. The Creator has created the foundations of just such polarity, and actively supports its maintenance.

Curiously, the negative path demands continual reduction of love and unified presence, increasing conformity in thought and action to the ways of power aggrandizement, one-pointed access and use of self-will, and steady growth in the "negative use of wisdom" (using mind to control and dominate). Examples can be found in such books as The Art of War by the Chinese logician Sun Tzu, and the works of Machiavelli. These are simply manuals for those on the negative path, and were of course inspired by souls in higher "negative" dimensions.

In Earth’s 3D realm, those on this path find themselves confronted with a great mass of souls who have not yet made their choice of polarity, who innately rebel against their own oppression, but yet lack the self-trust and discernment to realize the solution to their predicament.

For those seeking further dominance, the challenge is to increase their own mind/will access and conscious polarization in the ways of control. In essence, the lack of discernment and self-empowerment of the masses they rule (those neither polarized towards love or control) reflects their own still-inadequate usage of mind and will upon their already-chosen negative path. This is a perfect example of soul-group mirroring, and in a strange way, is no less than another indication of cosmic unity.

Those whom we may consider "asleep" to their own divine light and strength are a perfect counterpoint to those on the self-service path -- who are also seeking increased access to inner power through mind, and in their case, a heart-blocked use of wisdom. The inertia of non-polarized groups offers significant catalyst for those already negatively polarized, giving them (in a kind of ironic sense) the opportunity to refine their evil.

Again, I certainly do not support or encourage the negative path, but I do believe we need to understand the esoterics of just why we find these two groups dominant in 3D Earth, and consider the dynamics of just how these two consciousness poles reflect and play off each other. Without doubt, the Creator and the highest beings in our octave of 7 densities are replete with love and unity-being, without an iota of the desire to harm. Of course, that is the ultimate goal of all soul progression upon either path.

But in time and space, there is polarized soul growth, and far more than making us all "good," the Creator seeks soul progression through freely chosen self-development. That these two groups find themselves facing off against each other in this dimension is no accident, is in full accord with Divine Plan, and offers carefully designed catalyst so each may refine their own choices.

For their part, those who've not yet made adequate effort in mind polarization find themselves dominated, in the main, by a negatively oriented ruling class relatively clear about the ways of self-aggrandizement. While this type of leadership does offer an opportunity to join their ranks (inviting some into human institutional/control structures), in the main, the agenda of those in control is generally to keep "as many down as possible," using them to their own benefit without significant power sharing. Of course, we see this in operation all over the world.

Certainly, most of the souls as yet non-polarized in 3D do end up choosing the positive path of love-unity -- and will not, in the long run, turn against their own heart. Nevertheless, they are given the option of going either way. The main function of negative leadership is to "squeeze" those not yet polarized through increasing body-mind restriction and control towards greater activation of their own mind and will through the catalyst of collective and repeated heart-wounding.

Of course, mind and will are essential to both paths of polarization, but the primary quality needed for positive polarization (in distinction to self-service) is heart-activation, genuine compassion toward self and other. By means of long-standing social complex oppression and dominance, negative leadership offers those not yet polarized the catalyst of physical-mental suffering and spiritual heart-constriction. The "hope" from higher levels is that those oppressed will generate greater heart-activation as a means of seeking their own freedom (itself a quality of the positive path).

Though these are truly miserable aspects of human experience, if used wisely (as with all catalyst) they can fuel great soul growth. In the face of such misery (i.e. "human crisis"), non-polarized souls are given strong impetus to wake up to what they really want, who they really are, the latent power of their insufficiently used powers of intellect, and the self-fulfilling primacy of heart-centered being.

Like turning lemons to lemonade by adding sugar, sour dismal 3D experience generated by negatively oriented or orienting leadership (driving human society to constant strife and limitation) is potent catalyst for those yet sleeping to their own unbounded potential.

Certainly, such difficulties also give those who are already seeking world peace a chance to increase their own heart-centered commitment -- but I believe it is mainly to the sleeping masses that negative leadership catalyst is directed. There are countless love-based 3D social complexes in the galaxy, but what makes this 3D realm unique is its preponderance of chronically non-orienting souls, those who have missed repeated graduations (on other worlds) and thus remain cycling in this plane.

The dominance of global human leadership works primarily upon those who are non-oriented, as they constitute the majority consciousness grouping on Earth, and have the most to learn as they lift themselves out of what RA termed, "the vast sinkhole of indifference."

For Wanderers, it is a key to our well being to understand and make peace with the rampant evil and ignorance on Earth. We cannot be of much service to others, let alone offer clear love-light radiatory energy to the globe, if we remain confused and daunted by the distortions of the social complex within which we live. The ideas of this essay come from my own personal confrontation and inner process of just this dynamic -- a relatively bright soul living in a somewhat darkened social complex. I imagine this is much the same for you.

No doubt, the Creator is all things and no-thing, and apparent polarity is predominant only due to our own occluded perception. With greater expanded awareness, so-called polarity is seen as interwoven strands of vibratory light in the boundless matrix of the One Field of Creation. The primary quality of the One Field is limitless light, Ain Soph (from Hebrew Kabbala) and Mahamudra ("the great seal," from Tibetan Buddhism). Thus we need not despair, no matter how sordid life on this orb appears to be.

From the perspective of freedom, there is no enduring slavery in Creation, and from the point of being of 6D groups who guide soul evolution, it is right and fitting that both negatively-oriented souls and those not yet having chosen each have a place to grow. Reversing my assumptions about how Earth life was "supposed to be," I could glimpse the cosmic function of this world by its being just the way it is. Our real challenge is to make peace with the fact we have chosen to be here.

And so, it is essential we grow settled in our own life-purpose and the fulfillment of our intentions in taking birth in this world. For myself, I realize that verbal and written teaching is but one element of "what I'm here to do," and that the quality of my presence (vibratory, radiatory being) is far more important than the thought forms I produce. For you too, it is crucial to come into alignment with just why it is you awaken here in human body every morning.

Wishing you wisdom and light centered in boundless heart-care, feeling the glory of the One in Whom we live and move and take our breath, I thank you for your work in being here, and trust you will continue your unfoldment in peace and power.

Introductory Statements
There is no greater evolutionary force in Creation than the karmic law of cause and effect. As the primary means by which souls evolve through all dimensions of apparent time-space, it is the prime mover in soul progression across all realms of incarnation.

It is itself a consequence and derivative of the grand Law of Free Will (the causative basis of manifest Creation) by which beings are given the right and, indeed the duty to continually choose their way. As its main function, the karmic law encourages and guides continual soul growth and the ineluctable progress of time-space itself. It is no less magnificent than this, and generates the very pathways of all-dimensional existence, being this close to the heart of the Creator-Logoi in fulfillment of their unknowable Cosmic Plan.

Reaping what we sow, creating our own reality, meeting projected fragmentary aspects of inner life on the canvas of so-called external activity -- all this is guided by the majestic laws of karma. It is the process by which the aspected and apparently complex (ie, self-contradictory) personal self returns in form, energy and consciousness to a completed universal self. Without karmic operation, souls literally could not return to themselves.

In human life, we wonder why various circumstances come our way, why some of us enjoy streaming pleasure while others seem doomed to constant limitation -- and yet, all this proceeds under ineluctable karmic law, not accidental in the least. The universe is not capricious; terran humanity simply doesn't comprehend the logic of soul progression along the long, multi-incarnational and multi-dimensional way of polarized manifestation.

Gautama Buddha explained it simply and for practical usage in his primary teachings. As a "way-shower," he pointed out that our virtuous thoughts and deeds are precursors to happiness, while selfishness in all forms is the progenitor of suffering. And yet, many souls of deep love and kindness in this world do suffer greatly, while many of the most heinous (negatively polarized souls) on Earth reap untold wealth and influence, living in oases of luxury with continual options for further self-enhancement. This state of affairs simply cannot be understood without deep recognition of timeless reincarnation plans and the prevailing extra-dimensional laws and pre-incarnative life-design of souls.

This principle of higher-dimensional planning for incarnation is no less than the metaphysical basis for eventually coming to terms with the purpose of all form-based life itself. Though its complete dynamic cannot be fully understood with the current mind complex we use in the 3rd dimensional matrix, it can be penetrated in an elementary way by those who seek to know and gain wisdom. Such is the purpose of this writing.

There can be no real understanding of karmic law without recognition of several main precedents, as noted below. These recognitions also provide a philosophic gateway to all durable, universally valid spiritual wisdom regarding karmic operation in our own lives. Attachment to such differentiated conception must, of course, one day be transcended, but it is deeply useful at our stage of development. These elementary precedents to comprehensive realization of karmic law include the following:

(1) a relatively eternal, time/space independent soul (in the Buddhist approach, a non-solid/selfless yet continuing life-stream of mental tendencies);

(2) multi-dimensional existence (the basic so-called "inner worlds" which are, in actuality, far more complex than the outer physical form-manifestation); and

(3) intelligent guidance (equated with God, Logos, Creator, Higher Self, or simply a wholly lawful self-organizing principle of Life and Mind itself).

I have no doubt that all we experience has been chosen at some level of our being. All the minutiae and larger situational experiences coming our way were created by us, either consciously or unconsciously. Thus, each of us absolutely and without exception 'deserve' and are due exactly and fully all that we experience, down to the length and shade of each hair on the body. Karmic law is profoundly complex and exacting in all its details.

It is said that, "God never gives us more than we can handle," and that, "all things exist for a purpose." Such statements reiterate this view, essential to spiritual wisdom and the cognitive foundation to eventual total self-responsibility -- which is itself the basis of all durable self-healing and balancing.

Without such self-ownership of personal life details, we simply cannot make peace with ourselves, our fated life-components, and the current challenges we each individually face. This type of realization is itself a gateway to accessing the fuller powers of self, via personal linkage to the Logoic will. Comprehending karmic law is, in deed, an exercise in plumbing the mind of God, and thereby, divine omnipotent power.

This type of metaphysical analysis also points to the specific functions of karmic law, though the law goes far deeper than personal process. We cannot make true peace with the countless, ever-shifting, challenging dynamics of personality life without recourse to appreciation of karmic law, its complexity and profound subtlety. Without such understanding, we remain in the position of Job, railing against the Creator for the experiences of suffering we ourselves have created.

Nor can we grasp the course and directions of group-soul progress (in our case, this pertains to earth human collective history and current manifestations), without deep consideration of karmic process over millennia and across dimensions. Again, we can only achieve a mere toe-in to this comprehension while still embodied in 3D form, but even our elementary exercise of such wisdom has great personal value as a means to greater mind complex clearance and activation.

Indeed, these are most serious matters, and thus it is said that some of the highest, eldest, most sublime beings still at work in manifest Creation oversee the complex minutiae of karmic dispensation, at both collective and individual levels. For it must be noted that there are both karmic streams of individuated souls on their own polarized path (pursuing either unity or separation, the so-called positive and negative orientations), as well as countless major groupings of souls, at all dimensional levels. For the so-called Lords of Karma, there is vast life to coordinate and assist in seven-dimensional spheres.

Both categories of consciousness groups (that of relatively simple units of body-mind-spirit complexes, what we call "souls," as well as the greater coordinated streams of associated units evolving en masse), demand highly complex karmic arrangements for their continued, proper evolution. Obviously, the spiritual growth of beings cannot be overseen and coordinated at the same level of their own learning -- it can only be overseen by those finished with such progression -- ie, those done with the entire circuit of octave evolution.

In human affairs, this is comparable to the maxim that a problem cannot be solved at the same level of its genesis nor its same field of operation. In a little-appreciated statement, Einstein once remarked something to the effect that, "the problems we face cannot be solved by the same minds that created them." This is even more so in the case of karmic operation, since the 'problems" in that field are truly multi-dimensional.

All such groups (individual souls and collective soul groups) traverse inconceivable eons of time-space through multiple densities, along the course of which they are required to perfectly 'balance out' the consequences of all experiences they have consciously chosen and self-created through ignorance, distortion, and incomplete awareness of perfect love-unity. As the path is circular, souls cannot return to their original true nature unless they have come back into energetic conformity with the nature of their essential starting-point.

All such personal knots and blockages -- manifested in etheric energy fields as well as in apparent mental/cognitive confusion and imbalances -- must be resolved, untangled, and harmonized along the way. Only then can souls and soul-groups fully return to the innate condition of perfect love-unity, that is both our source and our destination. Thus, metaphysical teachings refer to soul evolution as, "the path of return."

The supervised dispensation of karmic dues and the gradual and meticulously timed precipitation into manifest (apparently external) form of all that yet remains fragmented to evolving soul consciousness, can only be effected by beings who are themselves so far outside time-space as to be entirely free of all karmic necessity.

Rightly, oversight for karmic operation begins at the level of Higher Self in late-sixth density, so we are admittedly a bit over our heads here! Nevertheless, some Wanderers on Earth have come from this level of being, and can thus appreciate this perspective...

Those beings in oversight of karmic operation can be said to have absolute mastery over the boundless ramifications of an infinite variety of soul choices. They wield with impeccable wisdom and skill the potentia of manifold experiential forms and incarnative experience, all for the purpose of catalyzing required re-balancing and soul orientation.

Obviously, this is no small matter, far, far beyond the comprehension of almost all Earth humans. The degree of intelligence required for administration of perfectly accurate karmic precipitation, for souls and soul-groups at all dimensional levels of Creation (simultaneously), is far beyond the human ken, to say the least.

Thus, RA noted that beings "from beyond the octave," beyond the sevenfold dimensional scheme of solar systems and individuated soul and group-soul evolution, fulfill such operative karmic functions. Only they are capable of such activity, and in the writings of Alice Bailey and the teacher Djwhal Khul, only these beings can rightly being called the "Lords of Karma." Down here on the ground, the most we can do (which is quite a task itself), is to process as best we can all such experiential distillates in personal life.

In line with this, the entire topic of karma was one of several themes Gautama Buddha deemed "the incomprehensibles." Such speculation for the monks of his day (even though many of them would be classed as advanced adepts, no small achievement) was deemed a fruitless topic for mental engagement.

Still under the sway of apparently real, dualistic space-time conditions, and still subject to variable and ever-unstable personal becoming through mental grasping, there really is little on these matters that can be known -- since, as stated before, we ourselves are certainly nowhere near beyond the operation of karmic law. Thus, it was deemed a waste of time to devote personal attention to mere speculation.

Nevertheless, in my view, there is value in attempting relative comprehension of the absolutely incomprehensible, especially if we are fully aware at the outset that the best we can hope for is but a tiny fraction of total gnosis. As RA said of soul work in physical 3rd density existence, it is wholly a task of, "working in darkness with a tiny candle." And yet, real growth can be made for those who accept the challenges of gross limitation, as we really can expand our access to the realm of knowable things.

And so, this essay is an exercise in bringing scant illumination to the 3rd dimensional mind complex of those who feel attraction to this rather advanced work. To know what is beyond us, even just a bit, refines and energizes our own development though long-term activation of greater spiritual seeking. To gain a bit more understanding of karmic law, its application to personal and collective life at this time in human history, and its nature and function in overall cosmic plan, is certainly worthy of our time and attention. Seeking that which is beyond seeking, if approached rightly, is highly effective catalyst for quickened soul growth.

Overall, karma operates to accelerate soul and soul group evolution, namely, the dissolution of each and every mind/body/spirit distortion to total realization of love-unity. Being "finished with karma" equates to completion of the long path of individuated light-spark soul progress, and occurs only with final fusion into the formless light of the One Infinite. Obviously, anyone who publicly claims such achievement is self-deluded.

Technically, this normally occurs late within what is called 7th density, which is akin to the achievement of "sat-chit-ananda" (truth-consciousness-bliss), the term used in the Hindu yogic system. It is comparable to the state of "avatara" and Buddha -- complete and perfect enlightenment. Of course, it can be achieved here in 3D, but again, it is exceptionally rare to find such a one on the world stage.

Karmic law is at the heart of all evolutionary catalysis, as the primary force behind increasingly higher dimensional progress and consciousness expansion of all souls. Of course, the specific forms of karmic expression (and this entire discussion) become increasingly subtle and harmonious above 3rd density life. This is beyond the current level of discussion, of course.

Essentially, the ultimate goal of love-unity realization requires dissolution of all fixed belief in substantial duality, and is accompanied by absolute mastery and freedom within all realms of the octave system. This can only be achieved when souls realize the true nature of all manifest catalyst to likewise be non-substantial (so-called "emptiness" or sunyata in the Buddhist system) and imbued with essential love (the quality of infinite light being absolute beneficence).

Such transmuted-being realization defines the operative parameters of attaining return to the condition of oneness with all Creation and all forms of life.

The existence of karmic law itself is an expression of boundless Logoic love, and its nature and function is to continually encourage realization of the underlying, immanent unity of all being and becoming. Bringing this down to personal life, we find continual activity of karmic law in human affairs.

Normally, karma is only recognized as such when its expression surpasses a certain threshold of energetic charge to the individual. However, this tendency to focus on that which indicates "contrast' (bound up with perception of conflict and complexity) fails to see and appreciate the greater bulk of karmic operation in personal life.

As the teacher Djwhal Khul once noted, souls have far more "good karma" than "bad," though most of us pay far more attention to the latter, as contrast, conflict and complexity capture attention far more rapidly than harmony. Nevertheless, this ‘negative focus’ is the norm simply because the internal condition of soul itself is absolute harmony -- thus the perception of non-harmony is internally incongruent with our true nature.

Of course, this innate harmony forms the subtle background-field against which all experience of apparent disharmony strikes a clear, discordant vibratory note. As the soul seeks to impress its own being upon the manifest body-mind-spirit (which is none other than itself, in final analysis), there is created a sort of non-echo in the soul-personality axis -- which is the esoteric cause of all spiritual seeking, in the first place.

More practically, most souls recognize the operation of karmic law only according to the dichotomous experience of pleasure/pain, and thus remain bound to the limitations of this bipolar view. No doubt, such shallow comprehension of karmic operation also ensures a limited ability to work with the law and process karmic experience.

Perceiving the operation of karmic law only when life-catalyst elicits a certain intensity of personal reaction, then placing it simply into a static categorization of pleasure/pain, indicates a somewhat early stage of realizing karmic process.

A more advanced view eliminates this polarity altogether, and helps us appreciate that all experience (whether pleasant or otherwise) serves the purpose of encouraging soul achievement of complete non-distortion. Such a view recognizes karmic law as an intrinsically impersonal universal force, and goes even further to acknowledges the existence of apparent causality itself but a perceptual 'trick' of limited mind development.

When consciousness is sufficiently enlightened by itself, apparent causality is resolved into complete omnipresent simultaneity. At that stage, souls are no longer bound by time-space and karmic law, and may enter the ranks of those who administer the operation of karma within such realms of apparent duality, an example of which is our 3rd dimension.

Furthermore, the distinction between "good karma" and "bad" is misleading because the determination of karmic law proceeds from levels of consciousness far beyond all such polarized judgement. Its practical operation really has little do with human conceptions of reward and punishment (as such deeper belief bases give rise to the "good/bad" dichotomy in the first place). Enormous confusion has been spawned by this particular interpretation, as evidenced by the distortions of all major religious teachings on heaven.

Plainly, the dispensation of soul and soul group karma is actually a morally neutral phenomenon. To the Logoi, there are no so-called "moral" valuations, only a straight recognition of metaphysical free will choice (that of the personality and its higher aspect which realizes the complete Path to be trod). Beyond this, the Logoi provide the needed structuring of the laws of Creation (one of which is karmic law) to encourage further soul progress according to soul decision.

From the evolutionary perspective of Logos and Higher Self (the primary agents of our overshadowing self-luminous intelligence), what souls choose to do in response to karmic outpouring is really the central issue -- not whether or not karmic down flow is deemed good or bad. The purpose of evolution and life itself is not enjoyment, though increased pleasure does result from wise soul choice along the path.

The Creator and Creation are not much interested in static rewards and punishment. What is achieved today may surely be reversed tomorrow, and what is useful catalyst to one soul may be absolutely invisible to another -- all of which is as it should be. In light of this, it is quite short sighted to define karma in terms of good/bad, or pleasure/pain.

As the central and most important outcropping of the Law of Free Will, the primary function of karmic law is to catalyze soul choice, first and foremost, and from the evolutionary purist view, simply and only for its own sake. As "the purpose of Creation is that the Creator may experience Itself," freely established choice is the primary nutriment that feeds the boundless divine experience. From this perspective as well, terms such as "good karma" and "bad" have little importance and no use.

Returning to the more mundane, but no less important consideration of personal human life, it should be known that most instances of above-threshold karmic operation classed along the "good/bad" continuum are simply a return to the sender of energies and tendencies previously set in motion by that soul itself. Prior acts of the evolving and reincarnating mind/body/spirit complex, the personal triadic web of the soul field in time-space set all individual karmic streams in motion, which provide the main working field of our own growth.

(1) the precise quality of their originating self-generated energies cleverly transformed into apparently outer events;

(2) various manifestations and changes of the body complex itself, as complex symbolic representations of inner personality imbalances, blockages, and conflicts; and

(3) qualities of mind and emotion carried and offered by other souls in relationship to us, revealing aspects of as-yet unrecognized inner dynamics within us needing some degree of spiritual re-orientation; and

(4) thought forms transmitted and received at mental-spiritual levels, material or subtle, which offer the catalyst of revealed options for such re-orientation itself.

What is classed as "good karma" is simply the set of reflections we favor, and the contrary for the "bad." Yet, in no case is it the intention of such karmic precipitation to lock us into fixed experiences of pleasure/pain. No matter how ghastly such circumstances may feel to the participant and appear to the onlooker, the mechanism of such experiential challenge proceeds only from divine beneficence. Of course, this may only be an article of faith for those of us without adequate gnosis, not having yet made direct contact with the essential impetus behind life-events.

Along the personal subjective continuum, karmic precipitation that we generally class into the duality of pleasure/pain, actually serves to confirm, validate, mirror, express, and often challenge (particularly in the case of "bad karma") prevailing trends and tendencies already resident within the recipient soul to whom appears. We are only being given back discretely apportioned elements of ourselves, no matter how miserable it may feel.

As internal trends and tendencies of the personal human mind are generally poorly seen, known, and accepted (if not totally ignored) by souls in 3rd density fixation, the process of karmic precipitation serves to reveal the deeper self to the conscious self. This is both the path and fruit of the universal Way of Return: the return of conscious awareness to all-awareness, self to Self, god to God, and the lesser manifest light to the One infinite light.

Obviously, the axiom that "we create our own reality" is far more difficult to recognize, apply, and use constructively in the case of painful inbound catalyst (ie, so-called "bad karma)," which may be quite horrific in its appearance. For example, why was it that earth humanity suffered over 100 million wartime deaths in the 20th century? At our level of being, such represents incalculable personal tragedy, and yet, this was but the karmic result of innumerable causal sequences, some of which are significantly inter-dimensional in their origin.

It is not that the Creator ordained such primitive bloodletting, but it was certainly not stopped from occurring through intervention from higher levels of being. And yet, it did serve multiple spiritual re-orientation goals for both individual souls and the entire human soul group family on this planet. The specific purposes -- including a needed "lightening of the astral plane," as stated by Djwhal Khul through Alice Bailey -- are well known by those who guide our evolution.

Thus, whatever comes down the pike is just our own face in various guises. This can be considered (especially in San Francisco, my hometown) the Logos in drag, and a mirror-appearing opportunity for greater freedom from our unseen inner distortions. This is hard to realize, of course, when the incoming guest is violence and bloodshed.

And yet, despite the drama, souls are just being shown on the palette of ‘external life’ their own deeper aspects, patterns, layers, potentials, and general mind/spirit qualities. In the case of what we call "good karma," karmic law operates to give us what can be seen as congratulatory support for further advance upon that soul's own chosen path. In contrast to the inherent fixity of the "reward" view, karmic activity is in fact intensely, immensely dynamic and finely ever shifting, inconceivably sensitive to all minute shifts in soul consciousness and the actions that proceed therefrom.

In the case of those upon the positive path of service to others (which is the major way of soul evolution, directly seeking love-unity through truth, balance and non-grasping), the support granted by harmonious karmic inflow serves to reduce various kinds of personal limitation. It thus increases opportunity for further evolution (including opportunity for service to others) to the soul that has proven itself capable of progressing in harmony, not needing severe restraint for re-balancing and re-orientation.

Interestingly, the real benefit given by such beneficent physical, mental and spiritual conditions is the fact that such experiences and influences demand no further attention. The deeper value of so-called "good karma" is the fact that it releases and frees up soul attention and energy for increased work on matters of greater priority than simply dealing with the latest crises of the day.

Various forms of "good karma" obviously feel like some kind of reward, and generally elicit pleasure, but in actuality, the matrix of such august conditions is simply the removal of potential obstacles. The dispensation of such conditional harmony was never meant to become a stopping point upon the ageless path of ceaseless growth. It is only humanity, which sees life through the lens of corporeal identification, that interprets karma in static terms implying some kind of "final resting place."

Clearly, when karmic law is seen strictly through the bi-focal lens of fixed reward-and-punishment, souls are more likely to pause, stop, and grow entangled in life conditions. Ironically, this involves emotional attachment to the very same outer and inner conditions that were only meant to be the basis for further non-attachment. This is quite interesting, and likely represents a successful ploy on the part of negative higher dimensional forces influencing religious notions of karma -- seeking to retard human soul progression.

In another light, these pleasing outer/material karmic manifestations (including the so-called 'inner conditions" of radiant body and finely tuned mind by birth) simply all mirror the inward grace, harmony and beauty already achieved by that soul. This is echoed by Jesus's statement: "to him who has much, much shall be given." Harmony within certainly generates harmony without.

As a glimpse of glory (some semblance of perfection in form) and completion (primarily through the function of removing additional soul obstacles), such karmic dispensation is meant as a light above the path, leading that one on to the further greater light. From the perspective of karmic administration, the single motivation is always the intention to support further soul progress.

On the other side, considering those on the negatively oriented path of service to self (the minor way or left-hand path of seeking Oneness through separation via control), the process is somewhat reversed. For them, what we would consider good fortune (ie, harmonious karmic dispensation) is actually the ripened fruit due them by previously achieved 'evil.' Regardless of path, harmonious karmic down flow results from efficient use of catalyst, granting them a platform for quickened evolution and further progress according to their own chosen orientation.

Thus, successful use of catalyst on the negative path reaps fruit of the conqueror, and may be seen as karmic "rewards" that allow even greater polarity. Those at a high level on the negative path may be born with native strength and beauty of body (respectively for men and women); this serves the purpose of further drawing in other souls, so as to dominate them. They may have luxurious and abundant material conditions, great powers of logic and intelligence (though no degree of kindness), well-oiled social networks to aid further power aggrandizement (ie, "the right connections"), and well-honed instincts of smooth manipulation of others.

Possession of these qualities may be considered to be "karmic reward" by those on the left-hand path, but ironically, these conditions are highly valued by all Earth humanity. In this way, we can see how our planetary world culture can rightly be considered "leftward leaning," though not quite fully service to self.

Though the phrase, "successful evil" may seem paradoxical, it is not so from the view of Higher Self. In essence, what is deemed to be "efficient use of catalyst" (which is key to the quality of karmic dispensation programmed from higher being) on the negative path is exactly opposite from what it is on the positive path. It is not quite correct to say that such beings simply "need love and self-healing" -- for those ingredients do not further at all their continued soul progression on the so-called "left-hand path."

For those of negative orientation, ever greater control of self and others is key, and is the measure and mark of efficient use of catalyst. Achieving greater external/social and internal/spiritual dominance is exactly their goal and just what they require to progress.

On the other hand, the key to the positive path is continued body/mind/spirit balancing in love-light manifestation, with increasingly demonstrated appreciation of unity. For while the path of self-service demands deception, the heart of the positive path is maintenance of evolving wholeness.

In both cases, what is considered "reward" or "good karma" is perfectly suited to further soul growth upon their chosen path, which is a far more dynamic process than the relative stasis assumed and imbedded in the dichotomous paradigm of reward and punishment. Humans may call it "good karma," but beyond the comfort and pleasure experienced, the essence of what makes it "good" is simply the potent support it grants for further soul polarization.

Of course, well-processed and intelligently handled "bad karma" may also function to boost soul growth, which is also its native intention and purpose. In general, the value of conflict, pain and hardship comes through its power to shatter and interrupt certain ingrained patterns of mind-distortion (whether established in past lives or created in the current one).

Thus, Higher Self will not save us from the consequences of our own doing, though guidance and comfort are available. Interestingly, earth humans often seem to require (and thus perpetually re-create) painful circumstances to revitalize their soul growth...

Indeed, it is a very important achievement to recognize misfortune as opportunity, misery as self-created, the reception of human injustice as cosmic justice, and personal limitation as a wide-open door to further spiritual expansion. Of course, these are lovely phrases, but hard to realize amidst the intensity of disharmonious experiential catalyst. As RA once said, 3D human life provides "an adequate heaven, and a more than adequate hell."

John Major Jenkins (JMJ): I want to take a few minutes here to sum up some important points on the Mayan calendar, which I think would be good for everyone to chew on a little bit. As long ago as 1904, a man named Joseph T. Goodman did research and figured out the correlation between the Mayan calendar and our modern calendar. Ever since that time, esotericists and interested people have been speculating on the meaning of the year 2012, because at that point we knew that the end of the 13-baktun cycle was in the year, 2012 A.D. This was then later confirmed by J. Eric S. Thompson.

The interesting thing is that my research has also shown that this is a rare astronomical alignment and it really does seem that the Maya intended the year 2012 to target this rare alignment – which I talk about in my books, the alignment of the solstice sun with the galaxy. Now, it seems to me that any discussion of what 2012 is all about should refer back to the true intention of the original people who invented the Long Count calendar that gives us this date of 2012.

So I think it is very important to always include in discussions of 2012 the material we find at the early site of Izapa. I think this is a fascinating site and it is completely ignored in the academic literature as being of such importance – even though we do know that the Long Count system was invented there, as well as the Maya Creation myth.

So we not only have the astronomy of the Long Count calendar that culminates in 2012, but we have the Creation mythology that goes along with it. And specifically, we can look at the monuments of Izapa, like we did last night in the slide show, and see the ball court monuments that tell us a lot about what the Izapans believed about 2012. Remember the slide that portrayed the throne and the head birthing through the legs of the throne monument – this is all about birth, and the ball game metaphor refers to the alignment as well on another level.

This is the meaning of their game, which is a co-creation, pointing to the fact that human beings must participate in these great cycles. We are indispensable participants in these great cycles of creation. And finally, we saw the serpent head devouring the sun. That represents some kind of dangerous process that could be involved, like a potential abortion of the process, or something like that. Or simply, it points to the death that necessarily precedes a new birth.

I just wanted to point out a few of these things and emphasize that my work is not about my own personal system. 2012 is not “my” end-date, and I think that there has been, especially lately, a lot of jumping on the 2012 bandwagon with new age prophecies – but they are not referential to the original Mayan understanding of what this date points to. I think it is always important to remember that the meaning of the year 2012 and the material that we find at Izapa go together, hand in hand.

I guess that kind of sums up what I wanted to say, but finally, again, I am not presenting this work as my own system, my own model or something like that. My work has been in service to reconstructing their ancient cosmology, the ancient Mayan cosmology that culminates in the years around 2012.

David Wilcock (DW): Very briefly, John, what is the major difference between what the Maya say in their writings about 2012 as opposed to prevailing new age viewpoints?

JMJ: Well, first off, you don’t really find the Maya “saying” anything about 2012 per se; what you have to do is look at the iconography of the monuments. There is a level of ambiguity in there because it’s not a literal statement that you can find. There are only four Mayan books surviving, so data from other fields must be sought out, like archaeo-astronomy or iconography or hieroglyphic decipherment.

The main difference between the new literature and the ancient cosmology is this: In the newer prophecies and the modern literature there is often an emphasis on the destruction of the world, you know the idea, “The world’s going to end” at such and such a date.” I encounter this in interviews, radio shows, and sometimes I don’t give them what they want in terms of this doomsday thing (like they want to hear me say, “The world is going to end! The Maya predicted the world’s going to end!”).

Well, the main thing I see in the metaphors that you find in their carved monuments is that the World Age doctrine is always about rebirth, the transformation of humanity into something new in order to survive the chaotic energies of transformation. The main difference between the old and the new presentations is that the original Mayan material recognizes a higher perspective and suggests that time is cyclic, and thus, “the end” is ultimately about rebirth. A lot of the more recent interpretations of 2012 are filtered through the linear imprinting that we get through our Judeo-Christian tradition, as far as I can tell.

DW: Are the Maya hieroglyphs actually translatable into words that have then been decoded, similar to the Egyptian hieroglyphics?

DW: OK. So is there a quote or something that you could use to say that this image [shown on screen] appears to be talking about the Opening of the Mouth ceremony, for example?

JMJ: Yeah, to some degree there is that. Many of the Mayan monuments describe mundane historical events, but some of the Long Count monuments are dated with the date 13.0.0.0.0 These are called the Creation monuments, and they are talking about the beginning of time and the end of time, because time is considered cyclic. That date in the Long Count calendar applies to the beginning date, but it also applies to the end date.

And what the hieroglyphs say is something like, “On this date the image is made to appear.” So then you have to look on the hieroglyphs for the image, and it’s basically this term “halaj koh.” This is a complex sort of thing that we would have to go into much deeper to really understand, but in short, it has to do with the sun being in the middle of the cross that manifests at the end of time.

Scott Mandelker (SM): So what I would like to do now is see if people would like to make some final comments… you know, like how you felt about the weekend or any questions you still have for any of us.

Attendee: Thank you again for this wonderful weekend, it has really been inspiring and exhausting. My question to you is not about something I have had a whole lot of experience with, but I am curious about what your thoughts are on sacred sites, though I have not read the Ra Material. I am wondering if there are, in preparation for this transition, any particular sites of importance. I’m specifically thinking of the Serpent Mound, and so on, and I’m wondering if there is any value in spending time in those places, or if you have any thoughts about that in general.

CR: I think there is a lot of value in groups gathering and offering energy to power sites. I think what people forget is that the energy is shifting. So the challenge is to find the new power centers. They are going to be somewhat displaced from the places we always thought were the power centers. But I hope it’s in our future somewhere, probably seven years or so down the line, to start forming groups. But this will need to be done with someone’s angelic financial help, because it will cost a whole lot to do something like this, and as a concerted group, to move around and try to do a ring around where the new energy is coming in. I would love to see that happen.

DW: All I would want to say on that point is to just reiterate the fact that if you look at the world as a whole, you can actually see a series of 120 triangles superimposed across the surface. This is what Drs. William Becker and Beth Hagens called the “unified vector geometry 120 polyhedron.” This actually has all the five platonic solids in it, all the basic geometries that go into it in one grid, and it shows up on ancient maps and ancient structures, so they knew about this grid too. And at those points on the grid at which you have the highest amount of spiraling energy, this is a torsional energy streaming out of the earth.

When you build an earth mound, such as a Serpent Mound, you are building a passive torsion generator. This means it is harnessing the energy that is coming up from the earth. If the pyramid – and there is some Russian research that determined this – has a 70 degree slope angle, really steep, then it focuses more of this energy straight up. Whereas if you have a really shallow angled pyramid or mound, it focuses more of the energy down.

The great pyramid of Giza is sort of the perfect fusion between up and down, because it had to serve both purposes and it is also on the earth’s navel. This is the exact point of balance where there is the most amount of land mass north to south, and east to west anywhere on the planet. It’s the fulcrum, the balancing point of the whole earth’s sphere. So basically, the grid is shifting, and when you look at the earth mounds and what is there now, it represents a part of the planetary healing and restoration project that was done after the fall of Atlantis. In most cases, these were designed to heal the ozone holes, get rid of the radioactive energy from the nuclear war that had happened, purify the water, heal the crops, heal the land, heal the people, heal their minds. And, as Carla said, it does need to be done again and we do have the technology.

A 144-foot-high fiberglass pyramid costs about a million dollars to build, but it doesn’t have to be that big. You could build 22-meter pyramids which are half that size for about half the money. I think once people who have some funding available to them realize what you can do, you know, things like curing cancer, possibly curing Alzheimer’s disease, and so on, then a lot will happen. Just with a couple milliliters of water sitting in this pyramid for a couple of days or something you can do this.

I think the demand for this is going to spike. But we also have to figure out how to map the grid when it changes. And that is going to be one of my projects after the Ascension, I know, because I am still going to be around here. I’ll be helping to direct that process, you guys can consult with me after we ascend and we will work on this together. (laughter)

JMJ: Regarding the temples and pyramids and sacred sites in Mesoamerica, especially in Mexico and Guatemala, the problem is that they are shut down, you know, they are operated by the government and they are now tourist sites. And the Maya people around there don’t have access to do ceremonial work inside these temples. So this is a big problem, as these places require ceremonial activation, and the people to do it, I believe, are the Maya. So one of my hopes for 2012 is that, at the very least, it would be like a rallying cry for the Maya to reclaim their self-determination.

Attendee: In the next ten years how will time change, how will we experience it, and will it accelerate or collapse? I have heard some talk about those two things happening with time. And have you also heard about the “Shadow” people and are they from the 4th density? This came from the Art Bell show. Are they more negative?

SM: Again, there is so much that we could be saying, a lot of people say time is collapsing, time is accelerating, but that doesn’t really mean anything if we don’t know, “what is time?” It is not this thing that you can squeeze. In my experience, time is really a measure of the intensity of experience that can be consciously participated in. It is a measure of our conscious experience.

The acceleration of time would then mean an increasing density of experience that we are able to assimilate per moment, and that the moment becomes a richer or fuller experience. That can be called an expansion of time, or would you call it an acceleration or a collapse? I really don’t know.

On higher planes, epic journeys can occur in a span of but three minutes of Earth time or 3rd-density time. What is happening in this is that our three minutes measured here, when it occurs on a higher plane, a much greater amount of experience can happen in such a short period of time. Now, I think that is what is happening now on Earth to humanity, and whether you call that a collapse of time or an acceleration of time, it is certainly an increasing densification of experience, a capacity for increased density of experience.

That is an expansion and an increased sensitization of the conscious mind. You can also call it an expansion of the field of awareness. So a lot more can happen and can be assimilated more rapidly. That is going to continue happening to us, and many people already have the experience that their days just pass so fast at this point.

We can think, now it is already the middle of 2002 – so whatever happened to 1995? To me, five years ago seems inconceivable. But there is also an increasing efficiency in which souls are now able to experience the passage of time, and so as we evolve there is less friction, fewer charged situations, a less emotionally charged life. And so things move more smoothly through us, and so each day may seem to just come and go, come and go, come and go.

Actually, this is also a quality of higher-density life. And again, this increased density of personal, conscious experience will intensify for many of us, and will keep on happening, for sure. So it is also a great time for spiritual practice, and certainly for joining together in groups of like mind. And of course, if you want to follow the solo path of meditation, more of you will surely open faster.

DW: I used to be a little bit naïve about what “shadow people” where supposed to be all about and what the whole thing was. Before I was going to go on the Art Bell show, we had a conversation on the telephone, and I wasn’t nervous to be talking to him because I grew up meeting all these famous people, because my father was a music journalist and we would go backstage. So I was in a relaxed mood.

So I was talking to Art Bell and I said, “You know, there are a lot of ETs that are helping the planet at this time, positive extraterrestrials coming to the earth at this time and they are trying to help out humanity. Maybe the Shadow People that you talk about, maybe that is what this is about.” Though I was ignoring for the moment the meaning of the word, shadow, which is darkness. And in his classic-Art-Bell, deep voice, cigarette-smokers drawl, he said, “Well, I am really not sure you would want to have that perspective if you have the data that I have.”

What are you talking about, Art Bell? I certainly wouldn’t want to meet with one of these beings in my living room. So what I realized was that Art’s understanding in all this email he was getting is that these are basically negatively oriented entities who are penetrating through the earth’s protective grid and are being called here based on the nature, or the people who invite a negative contact. Which basically means that if you are behaving in a manner, that through free will, is opening you up to such an experience, then you can meet them.

Attendee: Regarding the physics you’re talking about, there are examples on the Earth in nature itself, regarding perpetual cyclic conditions and power. As regards to hurricanes and tornadoes, they too operate in a cyclic nature. And I find that interesting, even the sink full of draining water, when you get to the bottom it cycles down and it’s a swirl. I don’t know if that works with gravity and the torsion field or what! Do they work together?

DW: Yeah. The Russians have basically come to the conclusion that you have electrostatic magnetism, which is an electromagnetic wave, and you have gravity and torsion, or gravity and spin which is called gravity spin. And they basically break down the universe into physical vacuum matter and physical vacuum anti-matter, PVM and PVA. And it’s a blending of the different fields of electrostatic, magnetic, gravity and spin that determines how this breaks down. So there is a whole physics about all this.

Previous Attendee: This question is about the Mayan culture. Do you think that with this knowledge of astrology and other universal knowledge that they had contact with higher beings to help them engage in all this? I find it rather extraordinary that they could come have such accuracy and pinpoint things such as the solstices and so forth. So I wonder if they had that kind of help. What do you think?

JMJ: I don’t think that they had direct help in the sense of trans-oceanic voyages and all that; I think maybe some of that occurred, but I think their main wisdom came from their own accessing of the higher dimensional knowledge. That comes through direct connection with the transcendent, and the Mayan people are endlessly creative and clever in and of themselves, it is quite amazing to see…

JMJ: They didn’t really die out, and that is kind of a myth in particular literature. There was a collapse in the Petan culture in Northern Guatemala, and that was due to a number of things. Well, the standard answer is that it was due to environmental degradation and greed, a proliferation of princedoms, all the princes going around and trying to get their piece of the pie and they just couldn’t sustain the continued growth of the Mayan civilization. It was an inhospitable area to begin with, but the main thing to remember is that Mayan culture didn’t really die out. In the highlands of Guatemala today there are 6 million pureblood Mayan people, still speaking the original dialects…

JMJ: Yes. There has been a complete continuity of the building blocks of Maya culture, in particular, the sacred calendar. The calendar that they follow today, the 260-day calendar, is an unbroken calendar going back some 3,000 years.

Previous Attendee: OK, just one more thing here, as we’re speaking of Art Bell. I think his was a typical Hollywood response to aliens or beings that have come here to help. And it shows that in the Hollywood movie making industry, right, all the beings are evil and negative. I think they just want to condition us to believe that so that although there are beings helping us, they don’t want us to see them as such positive helping beings, but the opposite. I think that is how they want us to view it, and they want us to remain in fear, conditioned.

DW: Well, the term “shadow people” can be a label that different people would apply to the many different experiences they’ve had. I think what Art was referring too, and he got a little bit more specific than I mentioned, was some very fear-inducing, traumatic events – where some people were really scared shitless of these beings, which is definitely not the hallmark of a positive contact. I think Scott wanted to say something about the Central America here…

SM: Yeah, getting back to the Mayan-ET question, you can actually find in the Ra Material, in the first volume, that Ra says very directly that one of the Confederation groups, actually of their level which is 6th density, went to South America around 6,500 years ago. That was after the Egyptian contact they made 11,000 years ago (which we could consider to be 9,000 B.C.) – so it was 3,500 years after that, 6,500 years ago or 4,500 B.C., that this 6th density Confederation group went to South America. For me personally, I feel that the Mayans got a lot of their cosmic information from 6th density teachers. That has just been my view all along, based on the Ra Material and some other ideas.

DW: Lets not forget that the method of this contact can be visionary, ecstatic trances and dreams, where you don’t even necessarily even realize that you were contacted by such as 6th density entity.

SM: Right, and there’s another thing I’d like to say about the media portrayal of ETs as being generally slanted towards the left. The fact is, for those in a position of high temporal power and authority, the worst thing they could imagine is for humanity to realize that there is a higher power. There is nothing worse than for someone who claims to be the Wizard of Oz and to have the curtain pulled out from his face, and for us to see that there is actually just a little man behind a big puppet screen. To have humanity realize that, in truth, there are actually truly great beings with much more power and much more love, is to risk that humanity would flock to them at once.

If we all knew without a doubt that there are these great benevolent beings existing and living all around us, totally available to us for to help make our world a paradise, then the existing power structure would be overturned immediately. So that is the biggest secret around. While David Icke says that the “Biggest Secret” is about those shape-shifting Reptilian evil leaders, that may be true about them, but it may not be the greatest secret being hidden from us. I don’t think that’s really the biggest secret – I think that bigger than that is the fact that there are these great beings of love and huge power all around that we could be in touch with. And no one knows they are there, or perhaps we could say, very few of us know that they are here. Is there another question?

Attendee: First, since the Mayans never broke their culture, is there any sort of historical or verbally handed down information available about the end of their calendar, and why it ends? That sort of thing.

And secondly, to Carla, you talk about the dark side and that we should integrate it, but I think that is something I haven’t grasped yet – just how to begin to integrate something like that. Part of that is the idea that one could have good intentions, but still be controlling and have that kind of tendency. So what would be an example of that? Ra says that we would have “no emotional charge”, or that in a situation where we are in balance we wouldn’t have emotional charge, but what about joy? Isn’t that an emotion, does having joy mean you are not yet balanced?

JMJ: Well, as for the first part of your question, the Long Count calendar itself was fragmented, even before the Conquest and certainly much more so after the Conquest. It was no longer carved and the Mayan people and different groups in Mesoamerica forgot how to do the Long Count. However, because the Maya Creation mythology encodes the astronomy of the Long Count in mythological form, it survived. It was recorded in the highlands of Guatemala, it became the Quiché Maya Holy book, the Book of Counsel, otherwise known as the Hero Twin Myth.

So that survives down to the present day. But it is in an encoded form, in the way that mythology encodes astronomy, so it needed to be deciphered. And so you can say that the knowledge of the Long Count calendar’s end-date alignment survived in an encoded form, down to the present day.

Abby Lewis (AL): I wanted to talk about the joy part of your question. Recently I did a Vipassana retreat, which is a ten-day silent meditation retreat, and I had the same question. Don’t we all want the good things, the good feelings in life? And what I learned, and I am sure Scott will have more to say about it, is what they say traditionally, that the good feelings create craving in us.

I could see that the two things that we have are aversion and craving. And that really it is a complete consciousness and neutrality that we are striving for that is the path to enlightenment. The path is not always seeking that joy, but it is to help us become completely integrated with all that is. I am still struggling with that, we are all very similar in this way; I am still struggling because this does not really make sense to me, but I am getting it slowly.

SM: First of all, joy is not an emotion, joy is a freedom from attachment. I wouldn’t call it an emotion at all, I would call it a freedom from grasping and a joy of being, a condition of enriched ‘livingfulness,’ a freedom from grasping and fear. There is a definitely a tendency in Buddhism to become like the dour-faced monk, Mr. Flat-line Emotion. And that often involves repression. But in the absence of grasping or aversion, “I want,” and, “I hate,” the freedom from these tendencies is joy. If you find you are not in joy, it is certain there is some grasping somewhere in your mind, coarse or subtle – if you look deep enough, you will certainly find it.

But if you are attached to joy that too is a problem, but overall, I would say you shouldn’t worry about joy – if you must worry, just worry about your attachments, grasping and aversion. As they decrease, innate happiness will arise or just be with you, which is a lightness of spirit. So that is not an attachment and is actually an expression of freedom, and is far from the kind of personal emotional patterns that get us into trouble.

The shadow part of your question, the integration of the shadow just means that we need to try to accept all that we do not like about ourselves (and later, what we don’t like about others). You don’t like fear, you don’t like anger, you don’t like sorrow, you don’t like confusion – just try to like each one of them, try to accept it all and welcome it as part of the greater self. Try to see them as not bad at all, don’t blame it, don’t blame yourself.

That is an integration of the shadow, and it is not about being on the left-hand path today (being self-serving), and being on the right-hand path of love tomorrow – being OK with your negativity is itself not an invitation to selfishness. In fact, it is a powerful expression of service to others, the right hand path of love. This is about welcoming it all and not picking and choosing.

CR: One thing that I have really found helpful in working with the dark side and what people call psychic attack or psychic greeting was a book by Dion Fortune called Psychic Self-Defense. In it, she talks about experiencing an apparition of a wolf that appeared at the foot of her bed during her magical training – growling and snarling and looking like it was ready to leap at her and devour her. She decided that where the lesson was in this was to realize that the wolf was not separate from her, but the wolf was a projection of her, and what she needed to do was invite that snarling, biting wolf into her heart.

And so it might gnaw on you for a while before you charm it with your ideals and your stories, but in the process of taking that into your heart, you became filled with that strength and energy. You actually asked it to serve you by helping you gain more depth to the will by which you are striving for your ideals. So when you feel power coming at you that seems to be negative, it’s actually the universe mirroring to you a part of yourself that you need to work with. And the way to work with it involves waiting with it until you are able to offer it the hospitality of your heart.

It helps me a lot when I see a difficult human being, a person that I don’t initially see as the Creator, to simply to move my mind intellectually to a realization that I am looking right at the Creator and imposing that on myself. Even the worst murderer has a soul, everybody on Death Row is a shining perfect being, and all of us are murderers. So, I think it’s expanding your ability to receive catalyst without the necessity to respond involuntarily.

There are ways to dance with the shadow energy that really turns those energies from chaos into more of a rhythmic order, a unified color. And so then, those things that you had been seeing as ugliness become in their own way, parts of the thread that you are using to create the tapestry of your life, your being and your vibration. And you need those dark tones to make a beautiful tapestry, with enough contrast to be able to show up all the pretty forms that you are creating by dancing through life.

DW: I have a paraphrase of the quote you mentioned regarding the perfectly balanced entity. The reason why I think it psychically came to me to paraphrase it this way, which Scott didn’t really cover, is that you have an opportunity here to be of service in a situation which most people would think of as being emotionally charged. But you also have the opportunity to withdraw. So my paraphrase is this: that to a perfectly balanced entity there is no such thing as an emotionally charged situation, and there are only two choices. There is the choice to be of service or there is the choice to withdraw from the situation.

And I think for most light workers, it is important to give yourself permission to withdraw from a situation that would otherwise go on and evolve into screaming and throwing things. This is the point at which you would be exercising discernment and wisdom, incorporating higher centers of awareness into your process of human engagement.

So, you don’t want to overuse this kind of withdrawal from your toolbox of spiritual learning or else you are never going to be dealing with any conflict. But I think the point is that you don’t have to expect so much and expect yourself to be a perfectly balanced entity… I mean, what they are talking about here is an entity that has all of its chakras wide open, right?

They are saying to a perfectly balanced entity, there is no such thing as an emotionally charged situation. But that entity may very well discern that there isn’t anything they can do that is going to be serviceable in the situation, except withdrawing. And that is why, if you ask too many transient questions to Ra, they are going to start saying, “OK, your alignment is off” – and pretty soon they will just withdraw because they cannot be of service anymore. They are not going to get emotionally charged, they are not going to say, “you guys better change the way you are asking these questions.” They are just going to be gone.

SM: Yeah, and that is the difference between ‘love only’ and ‘love with wisdom’. It is the wisdom function that allows us to discern when no service is possible, either to the other or for our own evolvement – and thus when withdrawal or confrontation, in some way, may be effective. Ra also said that in the face of a conscious blockage, love alone is inadequate and won’t change them.

In this case, we are not just talking about a portion of the self that we ourselves consider negative that is arising in the mind, a personal distortion that could be loved into harmony – we’re talking about a consciously service-to-self person, being or force that comes to us from ‘outside.’ I mean, at least in terms of the ones I have met, they know just where they are coming from and they want to be without love. Asking us for self-healing is the last thing on their mind.

And so the only way to render service to just such a person or being – or even have some hope of not getting hurt and knowing what to do in the situation – is to be with wisdom. In this case, it is the wisdom to speak the truth, what one social activist called, “speaking truth to power.”

That means that we don’t have to hold back from the service of objective truth-telling, even when that person may not be so happy about it, if they consciously reject our love and compassion. I think this is a somewhat advanced lesson and takes a bit of will involved, too. But there are situations when you are with someone that doesn’t want kindness, doesn’t want healing, doesn’t want harmony – and you can try and try and try, and they still don’t want your good works.

So if you don’t have your wisdom and will in play, you will be ineffective, impotent, and you may not even be able to withdraw from the situation, but rather, you’ll feel confused by the whole thing. And yes, they are still the Creator too and there is no blame either, and indeed withdrawal will probably be quite useful and your best course of action.

You can indeed speak the truth, but they actually don’t want the truth either, and yet this is a form of service to others. It is real service to them when you’re speaking truth to power and then you leave because there is no relationship – they are left alone to ponder just what they are all about. And that is why in higher dimensions the groups are segregated, because they’re totally clear about their intentions, and they both realize they have nothing to offer each other that the other would want.

CR: To answer another part of your question, a good example that the Ra group suggested for people that want the best but are actually service to self, are the radio preachers. They may honestly believe they are in a ministry that is very blessed and that they are inspired, but they are also asking poor people for money, lots of money, every day. And poor people are giving the widow’s mite, and they want to take their money. And I think when you watch people accumulating large amounts of money more than they need, then that is one good example of people that are trying to be of service and end up controlling instead.

Another example is people in your family, everyone has got one, most families do – where they say, “It is for your own good, dear.” And then they will just do the most amazing things, and you say, “That is not what I wanted, I don’t think that is for my good,” but they are just so sure that you need that, they want you to be safe, so they genuinely, with the best feelings in their heart, are driving you crazy. They are actually trying to control every moment of your life so that you can be safe, so that they can keep you safe, but this is control and not in real service to you.

Question: How would one recognize within one’s self, this activity of well meaning domination? This is like intending to help but having a heart blockage.

CR: You will find that out real soon after you give good advice, because if you are attached to somebody taking your advice, then you will be real disappointed when they don’t. If you give it and you are not disappointed when they go their own way, then you are on good sound land.

Personally, I have a slightly different take on joy, because of my own experience of coming into bliss as a state of consciousness that is permanent. At one point in my life, I realized, it was now accessible at all times, that there is a fundamental level of joy. I think that what that is, is the constant state of the universe. I just tuned into reality. And so I became aware of it and was able to trust that since it is always there, I can just lean into it.

And on my worst day, I mean, I can remember a day I was lying down in bed with a cloth over my eyes because the pain was so bright that I couldn’t stand even the light. And I had pillows over each ear because everything hurt my ears, I was very sensitized by pain and I was very close to death. I kept having a raising of the vagus nerve, what they call the hangman’s kick.

So, I was lying there realizing, “I am partially paralyzed but I am going to have to remember to breathe every time,” and I am in a 30-foot well of pain. I couldn’t eat, I could drink water only a little bit, and I could eat popsicles so I could have something to chew, because they are just colored water and that is all.

So it was about 10 in the morning and I was listening to NPR and I had a very, very bad pain flare. I thought, “OK, let’s square off against this. Is it worth it? Is this good? Are you happy with this life?” And the feeling in me was so strong, ”Oh yeah!” You know, I am listening to NPR, I have got some good music going, I got some thoughts I wasn’t aware of, some good interesting people were on there talking to me, sharing things with me and I was learning something new. Despite the pain, I found joy.

In many ways, I just realized that with Carla speaking at the start, and I continuing on at this point, you sort of get both the Christian and the Buddhist views joined together. Frankly, they really are quite different approaches, even though the essentials are the same. So what I want to do in my short time here, just half an hour or so, is to give you a sense the path that I myself took that led to my integration of metaphysics and eastern religion. I am also going to present some of the fundamental teachings from RA on personal growth, or spiritual growth. By this I mean their principles, and how they can be integrated with a Buddhist perspective, meditation practice and what may be called "the old way" -- as the Eastern approach is definitely not a new thing.

In many ways, the Christian message and the teachings of Jesus is an approach quite appropriate for the end of 3rd density, as we now move in to 4th density. Probably it is the most appropriate teaching. RA said that Jesus was a late 4th density Wanderer who knew that the world was at the end of its 3D cycle, entering its final two thousand years or the Piscean age. His work was truly to help prepare the souls here for the kingdom of heaven on Earth through his teaching. And so his primary teachings were that of love, although he had wisdom too, and we can consider him an enlightened being due to his advanced spiritual practice and his realization as a child. His is sort of a new dispensation, and definitely is a way to establish the kingdom of heaven on earth.

The Buddhist way is not quite that, frankly. Today it is generally understood as compassion, and thus the Dalai Lama talks primarily about wisdom and compassion. The term "Bodhisattva," meaning an enlightenment being as a blend of wisdom and compassion, is exactly what RA is talking about when they talk about Higher Self, 6th chakra, 6th density, as being a perfect balance of love and wisdom.

RA's primary spiritual teaching is summed up in their phrase, "know yourself, accept yourself, become the Creator." To "know yourself" indicates the work of mind, the wisdom chakra or 5th center activation… To "accept yourself," we have the teachings of love, heart-based acceptance, unconditional welcome to all our personal experience. And finally, to "become the Creator" is to activate the shuttle that Carla spoke about.

This is the same teaching as some other New Age sources if you understand "body, mind, spirit" to be the three central aspects of our triple energy field. The work, as she said, on the spirit field is basically the development of the shuttle between "the upward yearning of body and mind" and "the down pouring force of creative fire and wind" (quotes from RA), the latter two which indicate what they call intelligent energy and intelligent infinity. The spirit field is the joining work, and it is actually what is activated most directly in meditation.

So meditation can be understood in many different ways. One is that it is the temporary suspension or achieved transparency of the mind complex, so that energy coming from the spirit (or we could say, through the spirit from the infinite, through the spirit complex itself), is allowed to come through a transparent or silent mind. This is the achievement of the "steady silence of mind," as a steady state of being. By this I mean time can be passing, but there is no conscious mind awareness of time, and thus no thought, only stillness and mental silence.

Frankly, if we can't get to that point, everything else becomes that much more difficult. This is really the first step in the initiation of mind -- basically being able to (as Alice Bailey wrote) "hold the mind steady in the light." This is the light of soul, the light of spirit, the light of… the boundless awareness beyond all our thought. And so meditation, again, can be seen as a bringing in, or the beginning from a steady state of silence in mind. It allows the spirit shuttle to be activated, allowing creative fire and wind, the infinite potential and intelligent energy as David spoke about, to come through Spirit, into the body -- as RA said, "ennobling the body and enabling the mind." Basically, this is nothing less than bringing raw cosmic power into the body complex, so that spirit and body become fused.

This is the same kind of thing as RA indicated in the third portion of their teaching, "becoming the Creator." But it can only happen after you are able to know yourself and accept yourself. Again, we have the triad of love, wisdom, and will, leading to true spiritual balance. So the Dalai Lama talks about wisdom and compassion as the foundation for all advanced spiritual work.

Interestingly, RA also said -- which you can actually see happening down here on the ground in most spiritual communities and in the case of certain yogis and teachers who come to America -- that our work in the 6th center does not in and of itself, clarify or unblock the lower centers. And so, this is sometimes called "spiritual bypass." This means that one can have certain advanced spiritual powers and yet still be quite stuck in some ways. You see all the time: some teachers and others have great access to spiritual intuition, multidimensional awareness, even some of the powers of mind (called siddhis in India) like reading karma and the ability to do energy healing.

Although these are not quite powers of the mind itself, but rather as RA would say, the activation of the spirit shuttle, they manifest through a well developed mind. Such powers include clairvoyance, reading people's thoughts, moving the body through time and space, conscious out of body travel, past lives understanding, and channeling. And yet, one can have those siddhis and still remain with very significant lower chakra blockages. Of course, we all have lower chakra blockage to some extent, which are our personal patterns of attachment. Working on the 6th center, the spirit shuttle to the infinite, doesn't necessarily clear them, unfortunately!

When we consider the exact nature of these blockages, we find them often related to the third center, the solar plexus chakra. RA explained this in terms of social engagement, our personal relationship to human groups. Blockages generally manifest as anger, ulcers, stomach and digestive ills, anger, frustration, and resentment. Such physical ailments often happen when anger is long held without being adequately resolved through love and wisdom -- which again bring us back to the value of "know yourself, accept yourself."

These patterns of so-called negativity and negative emotions are very much socially related, if we care to analyze them deeply. And so there are two main forms of blockage of the third center. One is of the excessive type and the other can be called deficient. The excessive type of blockage is out and out domination of others, control, subjugation, and you can see it happening in intimate relations between men and women (or any other type of gender relation you'd like). Generally the man is the one subjugating but it does go both ways. It happens very much in the business arena, the social arena of relation between groups, and it certainly happens in the spiritual arena as well.

How many spiritual teachers, including ourselves, can say they never fall into patterns where we override people? We see this all the time when people are talking and the teacher simply cuts them off. It comes from a hidden notion that we just sort of think your stuff is not important, so "I'll tell you the truth" and run over what you want to say. This is a common example of third chakra blockage.

Frankly, we all do that sometimes (teachers or not), and we do it to each other and we do it to you. (laughter) Honestly, we do it all the time... Anyway, the 3rd chakra blockage is very much about anger. The excessive version is control and domination of others, and it is quite strong in human society, all around the world, at this particular time. And when we do spiritual work, the situation can actually get worse…

RA spoke about this, I've found it to be the case in my own personal experience and we can all attest to it, that as one's power increases, one' s distortions can also grow. By this I mean that the mind gets even more quiet, the 6th center opens more fully -- not necessarily in its "doing phase" (like performing the powers of mind), but in its potential for quiet being -- personal problems intensify.

By the "doing" and "being" phases I'm referring to what seem to be two modes of activity of the 6th center -- what we may call the action of doing and the stillness of being. As the center opens, we also find ourselves more capable of simply being with situations, and our own personal process. There is an interesting passage in either Lao Tzu or Chuang Tzu, the two main Taoist philosophers, which stated something like this, that "power gathers where there is stillness."

This is actually very subtle, but you can feel it if you do deeper meditation. The steady-state stillness of the body/mind/spirit complex, i.e. through meditation as one technique, allows an expansion of the field of the human being. This is similar to what we can see happening to the Earth today, with the expansion of its 4th density body and all the electro-magnetic shifts.

But as this happens for the individual, one's distortions can become greater, and even monstrous. So one needs more and more discernment to make sure we don't use this greater power (coming from the cosmic and definitely available to the personal, and certainly to our personal distortions) to take advantage of others, even in subtle ways, like cutting folks off in mid-sentence! We can all benefit from keeping this in mind, and it is actually very, very important.

On the other hand, a 2nd chakra blockage is basically about fear, a sense of personal weakness, low self-esteem, emotional upset, sorrow, self-pity (which is somewhat like anger turned inside, but it's "watery' and emotion-based). So in the Hindu system, the material element associated with the 2nd center is water, as the element of 3rd center is fire -- which figures: anger is fiery, sorrow is wet. These are two forms of distortion, very common, and won't necessarily be alleviated or totally removed by meditation, but meditation can give you the quiet of mind to open the heart, consciously, and consciously to allow those feelings to arise in an open heart, self-accepting system.

As for myself, my own path basically involved extreme misery and existential angst when I was a teenager, which I didn't recognize as the symptoms of an early Wanderer awakening. Basically, I had a deep sense of misery and despair about being on this planet, deeply, very painfully. I didn't dislike myself, I just hated the world and didn't want to be a part of it. And of course I felt that I would never find a role in human society, and part of me didn't even want to take such a role. I didn't know what this was, it was just pain deep in my heart, mind and body. My childhood wasn't that bad. So it wasn't your typical childhood trauma or wounding, but something somewhat deeper.

Then at age 18 I went to college and synchronicity brought me a teacher of the old form of Buddhist meditation. This was the ancient breath meditation called anapanasati (in-breath, out-breath sati or mindfulness), which is a extremely simple, boring practice, with nothing to do with ETs, nothing to do with metaphysics, really. You know, just watching the elements of mind arise and pass away. But as you watch, the illusion of a solid self falls away. The first thing that happens, since this watching is itself open heart, open mind allowance, is that this allows your lower center blockages to arise.

It's sort of like laughter. What is laughter but a vibratory shaking out of lower center blockages? Thus laughter is healing. As for myself, I didn't go through a lot of laughter in those days, I went through a lot of misery, including a kind of "bucking bronco' body for months on end, where deep, deep misery was arising through my system and shaking me body in a somewhat volatile way.

Frankly, I understand where this was coming from, because I think I had a very, very painful previous incarnation, including torture in my last lifetime and that was partially worked through, or significantly worked through at the energetic level. I had what we call "frozen, cold energy,' which is deep fear. This was 2nd and 1st center blockage, very deep stuff.

But I had faith from the start, that the self or the essence of my being was complete and whole and perfect. And I have a lot of fire, I have Mars in a very early degree of Aries and a lot of Taurus energy, grounding energy. So I had a lot of earth energy to just sit there unmoving in the pain, and a lot of fire to destroy and burn up (through simply letting go) these distortions.

This bracelet I wear has a Sanskrit prayer to Shiva, written as "Om Namah "" Shiva is the god of yogis, the destroyer aspect, to destroy the obstructions to freedom and enlightenment. It is like Jesus said, that he came with a sword. This destructive aspect of the spiritual path is not well appreciated in this time of the 4th chakra ascent, which focuses on love and self-healing, but it is the destruction of illusion that is needed to really become free. In any case, the only thing that can be destroyed is the unreal, because the real is eternal and will remain after all our attachments and false beliefs go.

Shiva is the God of the yogis because the yogi is the accelerated destroyer of illusion. And when you destroy illusion all you end up with is true being, what's called "the original face' in Buddhism. And so, I had such a profound faith that this really was true that for a while I cursed myself for doing anything but meditation during the day. I felt that I might die any moment, and so I had better keep meditating.

Today, I am not afraid of death, now I somewhat welcome it because I have been back and forth, so it is not a big deal for me. And just to tempt the gods, I live in San Francisco! You know, I'm ready to swim on out there… Anyway, an interesting movie about this is with Johnny Depp, called "Dead Man," and it's an excellent movie for a Wanderer. (David Wilcock: I also recommend "Ghost Dog")

So, instead of getting too deep into drugs, I got deep into meditation. Of course, I used drugs sometimes in high school, but it just opened me up and I knew it wasn't a "Way," meaning, I knew I couldn't go all the way with it. I knew that Buddhism was potentially a way, a real way out. The first time I read the Dhammapada -- the very early teachings of the real Buddha in short verses -- I thought, "ah, could this really be the way out?" Frankly, it is a way out, and though I am not totally emancipated of course, I am sure it is a way out of our suffering and confusion. And all that just comes from holding onto stillness, with faith in the process.

When that happens and you watch your mental/emotional/bodily process, the goal is not to merely watch the mind. The goal is to let the mind unravel, and then one goes beyond even the "watcher." There is no more watcher, because there is no more sense of subject/object in your awareness. Meditation is the path to the realization of unity par excellence.

And in my view, and in any Buddhist or traditional mystic view, it just has to be a formal practice. It is not enough to just sit there, take it easy and ruminate about cool spiritual notions. It is not about channeling and guidance -- it's a very different path. But I can assure you that it goes all the way, because I have seen human beings, yogis and masters that have gone a whole lot farther than I and they are pretty magnificent to be with. And all they did was to just basically let their illusions fall away, through formal practice over a span of many years.

Anyway, I had many realizations along that path, and after the years of agony passed through my system -- which was a major release of lower chakra blockage -- things got much better in my mind. I was dealing with a lot of root and third chakra stuff, not exactly anger to society (which was part of it, but not too miserable), but even heavier stuff like terror, stark terror. Frankly, we carry a whole lot more pain, fear and terror around -- just from living in this domain, in this realm -- than we realize.

And so again, you determine the path of your awakening, whether it is slow or fast. If you want the fast path, the medicine is available, and all you have to do is sit -- as they say, "don't just do something, sit there!" And this is actually a very serious business, as you can get quite distorted if you are out of balance and your practice is uncentered.

A friend of mine, actually two of them in the Zen monastery where I lived for a while, had just such problems. One of them went crazy for a while and basically went out of his mind with paranoia -- and initially, he was a very serious monk -- while the other guy ended up killing himself. Both were very pure souls, the first man was a South American artist -- which may be one reason he went crazy! And the second guy was a Christian mystic, the kind who would ""do the monastic offices," in which he would wake up all through the night and do prayers and penance. Frankly, being so disciplined and tight was probably what killed him, as he just drove himself too hard. And so, with serious formal meditation work you are playing with fire, but of course, you can use it carefully and you don't have to get burned.

Taking another tack, I don't tell people, "you should be careful what you wish for, because you might get it." Frankly, I think we ought to wish for whatever we want, but when you do get it (or some of it) you'll just have to deal with the consequences. And then you'll see if what you received is really what you want, what you originally wished for -- and if it's no good, you can just wish and work for something a little different. This is how we learn: we have desires, we wish and work for them, we get some variation of what we intended, we deal with the consequences, assess the situation, and then we reformulate our desires accordingly.

Also, don't be afraid of anything in your mind. You are greater than your mind. Clearly, you are not your body, of course, but you are not your mind either. Those thoughts you experience are not you yourself, and the patterns of mind and feeling are not the self either. They are actually the activity, according to the Theosophical tradition, of what's called "the mental elemental." In Buddhism, they refer to "the monkey-mind," which is sort of a psycho-monkey -- hopping around and jumping all over the place. You know, this crazy, busy mind is also not you.

The soul covers itself in these sheets, the physical, astral (or emotional), and the mental bodies. Actually, these are considered to be "elemental bodies on the involutionary arc," which is a very esoteric idea. The "involutionary arc" means that these beings (the substance of the energy fields we use for our physical body, emotions and thoughts) are not even in first density yet, they're actually moving into first density. We, as human souls, are moving on the evolutionary arc up to 6th density where formal "soul evolution" ends and universal evolution begins.

That is the level of Higher Self, which has the same qualities as the perfect blending of wisdom and compassion equally balanced in the 6th center. In the Buddhist teaching, this is the state of the Bodhisattva, and in RA's teaching, it is called Higher Self. And so dealing with our mental and emotional patterns is very important to our own evolution.

Coming back to meditation, there's a saying that if you are going to stop midway, it is better not to have started at all. Because meditation is a very heavy duty thing, and it creates a primal division or cut in our awareness, between the absolutely formless and intangible sense of "me" on the one hand -- and everything else that arises our body-mind-spirit system.

If we're unable to complete this dis-identification with transient elements of thought and feeling, and the subsequent (or concurrent) re-identification with the formless sense of true being (which is not exactly a "self" but rather, a condition beyond grasping), then it is very likely that we'll remain in the purgatory of being "half-free, half-bound." Many spiritual seekers have gotten stuck in the later stages of the path, and even RA comments about it.

One can easily come to the view that "my mind is my enemy," which I experienced myself (and still sometimes do), and which was probably partly responsible for driving my monastery buddies to extreme states. For years I didn't trust anything in my mind, and I thought that all the elements of my thinking and feeling process were equally illusory and bullshit. This isn't quite self-hatred because I knew that I wasn't the same as those mental events, but in terms of making decisions I was totally confused.

If everything that arises in the mind is considered equally false, empty, painful or useless, how in the world can we make choices? Anyway, although that may seem obscure, it represents a somewhat advanced realization along the meditation path, and unless you resolve this "equally false" sense of the mind, you could definitely lose it for a while. And that's how some people go crazy, even if they've done lots of spiritual practice.

And so this brings us back to the quote I mentioned yesterday, that, "the mystic swims in the same waters in which the psychotic man drowns." So you do have to be somewhat careful when you get into deep meditation, but frankly, such obscure problems can also develop for anyone who becomes spiritually developed, through any means. Usually, people 't get into such problems unless they work pretty hard and have a lot of will and concentration.

And so, when we understand the promise of meditation, we see that we really shouldn't complain about being stuck in our lives, since we do have a form of spiritual medicine at our disposal. The medicine is available, but we just don't use it, because it does take effort, and 's much easier to just read a book, take a walk, or listen to a CD. And so we come back to the question of will, which RA also talked about. In another elaboration on the same triad, the teaching of "know yourself/accept yourself/become the Creator," they also gave us this one: " "forgiveness of self/acceptance of self/and direction of the will" as essential to the spiritual path.

When we consider what, "acceptance of self" means, then we're talking about the fourth center -- the ability to say that, "I love my hatred, I love my sorrow… I accept my sorrow, I accept my cowardice, I accept my fears, I accept my addictive drives, I accept my pettiness, I accept my rage and vindictiveness." and so on! Can you do it? Why not? Frankly, these tendencies and patterns are also "not you."

As to the next recommendation, "forgiveness of self," is very much an integration of 6th, 5th, and 4th chakra development. This is because forgiveness has some awareness of the whole, a sense that whatever it is, is good, and whatever the condition (happy or sad, distorted or joyous) you face is fine -- it is OK, it is all OK…

Finally, we come to the last statement, concerning the direction of the will. RA said specifically and in no uncertain terms that the will is that which "is powerful in you" as a co-creator, and should never be underestimated on the path. The primary determinant of our spiritual evolution, frankly, is will. That's the fuel and the engine of polarization.

Remember, those on the negative path may be of a higher evolutionary level than those on the positive path, in some cases. Without a doubt, the late 5th density negative entity is higher and much further along the path than an early 4th density positive soul -- even though the 4th density soul has lots of love and the negative 5D soul has none. You may wonder, "how can that be?"

Well, the guy in upper 5th density (whatever the term means to you) has basically a much greater access to the will aspect of Higher Self, divine power, than the junior soul in 4D -- even though they have no love. Same thing with us on earth as we talked about this morning: the "love without wisdom thing" is a real problem. So the teachings of love are essential for those who do not know love, and the teachings of wisdom are essential for those that only know love, and for those that are stuck in wisdom the teachings of unity are the only salvation.

Frankly, unity is beyond anything and everything. And so you know, what I personally have evolved into, what you can call "my crystal to offer," is really a teaching of emptiness, no self, what could be elegantly called a "trans-conceptual fusion with all that Is." At one point in the series, RA talks about the fact that in 7th density "the looking backwards is finished," and this is akin to a dwelling in real emptiness.

In my understanding, there is a lot of 6th density Wanderers here who will no longer be wandering after we leave Earth. This is not only their last human incarnation, but also the last time they'll be incarnating in any dimension below the formless realms. And as RA said about themselves, they are preparing for their next harvest, into 7D, in just a few million years. In 6D, that' s not a very long time to wait.

Now, if you want to keep the big picture, you have to really see your life as just this little sprint -- but not quite a sprint for the fastest speed, but rather, a sprint for balance, to see just how much balance you can keep up in this tiny little human time-frame. Whether it's 10 more years, 30 more or 50 more years here in 3D for us, still, this is just a tiny, tiny amount of time for Higher Self and your infinite being.

And then add to that the fact that you "go home," in a sense, every night. So, if you remember every night when you hit your head to the pillow that home is not far away, your beings and your group are not far away, then you can maybe appreciate better the sort of challenge we find ourselves in this human situation.

But of course, in the heat of the moment it is difficult to see the big view, and take it easy knowing that the temporal is just a flash in the pan of the eternal. And so we all get these little catalysts, right? On this weekend, I lost my address book, Ed lost his address book, we all lose this stuff sometimes. Of course, the fewer the attachments we have the more difficult it may be for Higher Self and your guides to find the places where they can give you hard catalyst -- so I didn't lose cat or dog (since I don't have any), but I lost my address book.

I mean, personally, I don't mind if people around me die (even though I will miss some of them), losing my address book is sort of a real problem for me (laughter). Dying is no problem either -- which means I'll probably have a long life, since I'm not upset to leave right away… But you know, the issue of dying (ours and those around us) is really "the pedal to the metal," and when we're faced with this kind of catalyst in our face it can reveal to us just how well we've really integrated the metaphysics we claim to believe. When people are dying around us, then we get to see just how multi-dimensional we've become, and where we still hold onto conventional 3D notions.

I mean frankly, we ought to celebrate the one who's dying -- they' re the lucky one, they're finished and their lessons are done so they can leave school behind. Which is great for them, in most cases. Its not like we missed the boat and they should have healed themselves, or our healing failed, or their beautiful life was tragically cut short -- when they go to the next realm, then they'll see just how beautiful life can be! Of course, suffering is painful and we don't want anyone to in pain, but physical healing is not necessarily the mark of one's evolution in the sense that they might get healed from an illness; it's not quite correct to assume "if you're doing the right thing you'll be healed, and those that couldn't heal had missed their lessons." In many ways, people pass over because it is simply the right time for them to pass over, and that is good; it is important to pass over at the right time…

So, when we try to bring all this back to meditation, the most important thing I can tell you is that I believe it is the most efficient path that one can do alone. It is not the same as being in relationship with others, but it is the most efficient path that one can pursue alone to accelerate one's unfoldment. It can really be this way for all of us, though some people just find it too hard and drop it.

But for it to be really effective, you need to understand that the progress you'll see will come out over years, and it may be quite slow to appear. Someone asked the Dalai Lama about how we can recognize progress along the path. And he said something like, "well, if you find that you are a little more loving and compassionate than you were ten years ago, then you know that its effective."

Well, you know these guys are from Tibet, right? So they sit in the mountains for 40 years, and time passes around them, but they don't make a big deal of it, and they're not in hurry, as we in the West usually are. So, they look at the big view, and that is the big view -- that if a bit more true wisdom and compassion is born over the time of a decade, you're doing well, and don't worry about it.

RA said that all our 3D spiritual work was like working in darkness with a tiny candle, but that here in 3D, in the midst of such inner and outer confusion and turmoil, "real change can be made." This experience we have here, living "under the veil" or in what could be called veiled consciousness, is like doing our work in darkness. The candle we use is the tiny span or space of our conscious awareness, and once we know the principles of the working -- namely, balanced love/wisdom in service to all -- then we can do a bit better in that darkened room.

And so RA says, the central principles of our work are, "acceptance of self, forgiveness of self, and the direction of the will." We all know something about service to others, we know that the more we are balanced the more we can be a field of balance, acceptance and light for others to further heal themselves. And we also know that when we're off balance or when we have some problems in our mind, that we made these by ourselves, and thus we also have the solution available within us.

RA also said, that "for the perfectly balanced entity, no situation would have emotional charge, but would be a situation like any other in which they could observe an opportunity to be of service." This is also a very important teaching. They're saying that when we're in balance then no situation would be seen or felt to have an emotional charge, and further, that situations in an of themselves are not emotionally charged. Me losing my address book, or your spouse doing what they do is not a charged situation, though you might feel charged, and if you do feel charged it is definitely your own problem.

It doesn't mean we should blame ourselves, but first of all, we need to take responsibility for our side of the situation. So we can definitely learn to take responsibility for everything we need to in our lives, without blaming yourself or anyone else. That's great, isn't it? It's a real challenge, very, very subtle, right? To be able to say that, "I made this personal conflict, or at least I co-created it."

You know, in reality and beyond our illusions of me and you, if you want to speak about evolution from the perspective of the Law of One and true unity, then you have to realize there's no one here but you. And so there can be no "other" out there to do things to you, no matter how much it appears to be so. In the view of unity, the self makes it all, and reality does not fit with the ideas that, "I did this, and he did that, she has this, and they have that."

All these may well be clear and useful karmic reflections, understanding the causal chain of why things happen to us and around us -- but from a non-dual perspective, we 't even say that, "this is my field, and this is yours, we're connected!" Frankly, that's not real unity at all.

In the view of non-dual fusion, the Law of One in soul-awareness, what I call your field is also my field, so you are not a separate "you," but instead, you are of this greater unified field in which all things can be seen as One Thing. And it's the same from you to me: I am Scott, but I am also you appearing as Scott. Of course, if you take this too far that is how people go insane, so you have to be careful with all this talk of unity! (laughter) Such distortion of unity can be called megalomania. I am good at that one.

So, anyway, I hope from this short talk you got a sense of the chakras and a taste for meditation leading to the awareness of unity. You know, meditation is truly the gateway to spiritual power because it is direct work on the spirit complex. It is direct work on the 5th, 6th, and 7th chakras, and from this you might well feel a whooshing in the ears, because in many cases that indicates activation of the etheric channels in the head, which is a sign of kundalini rising. And as Carla said, the "seating of experience" at one of the seven energy center levels, by knowing the meaning of the 7centers and where you are developed and where you are weak, is one way to better know where you generally live, in terms of your ordinary consciousness.

And so, you can ask yourself if you primarily look at yourself and your life in terms of the ability to connect with people, to love them, help them and serve -- which is a "seating" in the 4th chakra. If instead, you're mainly concerned with your ability to communicate, to understand and comprehend people, to make clear and meaningful verbal or written expression, to know and teach and share knowledge, then you're working at the 5th chakra or 5th center.

Or instead, if you can dwell peacefully in a sense of the all-sacred, open to real unity, wholeness, emptiness, quiet being, broad peace and quiet internally, forgiveness of self and other and even the "evil-doers," then you're working and living from the 6th center. Of course, when we're not able to operate in any of these three modes, then we find below them all the personal, mental/emotional blockages we're all familiar with. Despite the fact that such blockages mainly occur in the lower chakras (below the 4th), these centers do have important functions for grounding and human-physical relations on this plane, so we shouldn't try to deny their activity either.

Anyway, why don't we just open things up now for some questions about anything you'd like to ask. Actually, since we're all a bit tired, let's instead take a little break right now and since I am a teacher of nothingness, no questions will be most appropriate! (laughter)

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[9] Smelyakov, S.V., The Focuses of the Comet Hale-Bopp -- the Magic Spectacles for Seeing the Mosaic of the Mundane Trends? Summer, 2001.: http://www.isarastrology.com/HPFocuses.html

David Wilcock is one of the more interesting people who are making a serious attempt to explain the rapid changes that the world is going through today. Though controversial, his views are well thought out, profound, and backed up by a wealth of scientific data.

We interviewed David on the subject of Ascension and the energetic ''shift'' -- a coming change that, according to Wilcock and others, like Gregg Braden, involves not only individuals but our planet, our Solar System, and the Galaxy itself.

In order to prepare us for this information, David begins with the Story of Creation. We may believe this or not. Certainly, it can't be ''documented'' in the usual way. But we suggest that you reserve judgment until you have read and absorbed the incredible, provable, scientific facts of what is happening in our Solar System and on planet Earth.

Almost every spiritual tradition has at its core that there is only one Ultimate Being in the Universe. Many sources, including Ra, Edgar Cayce, and others, say that the Oneness essentially got bored or lonely. It needed to do something. It needed to create. Unity in and of itself became static, lacking newness and direction, lacking the very essence of life itself.

So it conceptualized the idea of breaking Itself up into all these parts, knowing that the parts would be able to evolve by their own free will, making their own decisions. Things would happen that the Oneness was not yet able to understand or comprehend. The parts would have essentially their own creative ability. They would be Co-Creators.

The Great Plan was that at the end, after this entire cycle of universal evolution was complete, all of the parts that had evolved on their own would independently recognize their God Consciousness, renounce separation, embrace unity, and return to the totality of Oneness. The One Creator from that very fact would be highly enhanced, because all of this wonderful creative stuff had transpired in that transition from ''One'' to ''many'' and back to ''One.''

So God is evolving, and not some static Being that just sits there and waits for everybody to catch up. God is experiencing our evolution with us.

My understanding is that God's first manifestations of separate beings that we can now see and measure are what we call galaxies.

Each one of those galaxies is capable of sprouting an entire system of stars from itself. Each one of those stars is the equivalent of a being, and then each one of those stars is capable of giving birth to planets, and each one of those planets is a being.

And each one of those planets, potentially, can be populated with intelligent life.

So this is where you really get into the idea that the universe is an Ultimate Being and there are various gradations of beings that step down from that Oneness. The primary being that we here on Earth identify with would be the Galaxy. Ra refers to the Galaxy as the Logos. Our Galaxy has a personality, a particular way of seeing how it's going to create conscious beings that will evolve and return to God Consciousness.

Our Galaxy's own template for evolution is to produce human beings, and all of the stars are precisely tuned with the proper energy waves to insure that this will happen quite on its own, by the natural physics of the situation.

We now can establish that the Sun is actively pumping out spiraling energy waves that drive the planets and moons in their respective orbits. Both Bode's Law and the new Stoneking Resonance theories show that the planets are spaced out in the natural Diatonic musical proportions relative to each other.[1] The very first extra-solar planetary system that we discovered, which was around pulsar B1257+12, also shows these same proportions.[2] The proportional phenomenon supports the idea that every star is pumping out energy waves that create similar planetary systems, as this kind of resonance obviously could not be caused by random groupings of gas and dust.

Then, just like the principles of a hologram or a fractal, within the larger waves from the Sun are subtler, smaller waves. And these are also based on the same musical principles. They all branch out, forming waves upon waves and getting smaller and smaller.

In the optimal planetary system, where there are no major cataclysms or interruptions unlike what occurred in our own example, there is a specific distance from the Sun where the tiniest spiraling waves will gather a planet's natural materials together to form the DNA molecules of life. The DNA is the wave, and the wave is the DNA.

That DNA is formed in the process of planetary evolution may sound ridiculous, but it can effectively be proven by something known as the DNA Phantom effect. Dr. Vladimir Poponin put DNA in a tube and shone a laser through it, and to his surprise he realized that it actually captured the light and caused it to spiral through the helix, as if it were a crystal. Even more amazingly, when Dr. Poponin removed the DNA, the light continued spiraling on its own![3]

For light to form a DNA helix on its own should of course be impossible -- unless the light itself had become harmonically tuned to some naturally existing frequency in the energy of space around it. To me, this says that the spiraling light energy of DNA was there first, and the physical molecules simply formed around the spiraling energy once the planet was at the proper frequency position. The Galaxy is ''tuned'' to form human DNA in planetary systems wherever it gets the chance.

The theory of the Evolution of Species is being disproven because the DNA molecule is just too complicated to have arisen by ''natural mutations.'' Dr. Crick, one of the original discoverers of the DNA molecule, later proved mathematically that it is absolutely impossible for evolution to have ever even begun to produce DNA in the short amount of history that we have as a planet.[4]

So now, we are moving into a new position. Microbiology experts tell us that 97 percent of our DNA is apparently un-used,[5] but the research of Dr. Glen Rein, cited frequently by Gregg Braden, suggests that more and more of the chain is ''unzipping'' for those who are able to handle the new fourth-density energy structure, based on the essence of loving-kindness. Dr. Rein's study showed that DNA will "unzip" in the presence of loving emotions, and "zip" into a tight knot in the presence of anger and other negative emotions. Those experiencing such positive DNA changes may not physically look any different, except perhaps more attractive in subtle ways, but internally they will develop greater depths of emotion, perception, intuition, and sensitivity.

Some of the younger people will actually develop telekinesis or the ability to ''see dead people.'' Many others often find that their bodies will no longer tolerate foods of lower vibration, and they are impelled to eat diets high in fresh organic fruits and vegetables.

So, returning to the cosmic evolution model, as you drift farther away from your parent star, your planet enters into different vibrational energies and will support life in higher densities.

As Ra explains[6], there is an Octave of eight major densities. This is the same as if you played the white keys on the piano, the Diatonic scale. The Octave can also be broken down into a system of 13, which can be seen by playing the Chromatic scale of white and black keys together. There are many densities within densities. Each of these vibratory frequencies corresponds to a specific plane of existence -- and/or a specific level of consciousness.

Another teaching of Ra is that all people have higher selves, a sixth-density future incarnative self that is guiding their life and guiding their physical incarnation from the future. The Higher Self basically says, ''Look, I know that you're going to evolve to become me. I'm looking back into my past at myself, but I also know that you have free will. I don't necessarily know all the choices that you will make on a day-by-day basis to eventually get to be me, where I am now. So I'm going to help you get to this point. I'm going to show you how to get to where I am, knowing that it's myself that's evolving.''

Dreams are a very high level, distilled message from the Higher Self that comes through to the individual in the language of metaphor. It doesn't matter whether you understand your dreams with your conscious mind or not. It doesn't matter whether you remember them or not. Your dreams communicate with your fourth-dimensional or fourth-density astral self, which I believe is the same self that Edgar Cayce was using to do his medical readings.

It's your astral self that goes through the dream experience. So it's as if you have multiple levels of your being that are doing different things, things that you're not aware of. They're doing all sorts of work, and they're buzzing around -- and yet it's all part of you, at the same time.

And this is a very mind-expanding concept because you realize how much more you are than your physical body. You realize how much more you're loved and how much more of yourself there is.

The keystone to all of this that we're talking about -- to everything I mentioned so far -- is the idea that evolution must come on a mass scale. Ascension is not simply restricted to an idea like the Christian concept that there is going to be a ''rapture,'' where Jesus comes back and ushers in a thousand years of peace. It's a cosmic event, and has been prophesied in almost every major religious and spiritual tradition that has existed on the face of the Earth.

In my new career as research director for the ''Time of Global Shift'' tour, I provide references to back up these assertions.[7] Let's talk about some of these now.

We'll start with Dr. Alexey Dmitriev from the Russian National Academy of Sciences. Dmitriev did work with tornadoes showing that in the presence of a tornado there are very high electromagnetic fields, visible light, and ball lightning. And there are all sorts of cases where the tornado causes the physical objects to fuse into each other -- where matter actually becomes able to permeate other matter. Dmitriev cites cases where two burnt and charred wooden boards were fused together by a tornado, even though they would crumble at the slightest touch. There were pebbles that had gone through glass without breaking the glass; flimsy wooden sticks being imbedded in solid iron bars; a clover leaf being impressed into a stucco wall; I have also heard of pieces of straw that went through a window and got embedded in the window without breaking it.[8]

All this weird stuff is happening that shows that matter is able to disappear or become "liquefied" and permeable to other matter in the presence of a strong enough field.

Then we look at the Bermuda Triangle. In a triangular area off the coast of Florida between Puerto Rico, Miami, and Bermuda, there have been planes lost as well as ships. It hasn't really been active since the 1970s, but certainly it was before then. And we're not just talking about marine vessels that disappear, and you can say, ''Okay, well, it sank.'' We're talking about airplanes that are on radar and have radio contact, and suddenly they're just gone.

In certain cases there have been people who disappear and then reappear. There was a case in 1969 where a National Airlines 727 passenger aircraft flying into Miami had lost all radar and radio contact for 10 minutes. Of course, the air traffic controller was highly freaked out by this. Ten minutes went by and then the communication came back on. The air traffic controller asked the crew where they had been, and they didn't know what he was talking about. They had no perception of anything having happened. And when they landed, it was discovered that every single timepiece in the entire aircraft -- everybody's watch, every chronometer, you name it -- had lost 10 minutes! It was as if they basically just winked out of our existence for 10 minutes and then came back.[9]

The more we investigate these vortex phenomena, the more we see that some highly anomalous things are happening.

Another vortex phenomenon case involved a group of young hippies who were camped out inside Stonehenge when the stones were struck by lightning. Witnesses saw them all disappear, leaving only the charred pegs of their tents.[10] I believe that the higher energy vibration of the lightning activated the earth energy vortex that Stonehenge had been built to harness, which in turn caused this to happen, and I think that the creators of Stonehenge probably used these effects for travel through space and time.

So apparently Stonehenge and the Bermuda Triangle are places where, at certain times, the amount of gravitational and vibrational energy coming out of the Earth exceeds that going into the Earth. You could think of these areas as being akin to holes that have been popped in a plastic bag filled with water -- for a certain amount of time, the water would flow out very quickly.

And you can see that in those two locations, there is a history of incidents suggesting that matter has been transmuted in the presence of such an energy vortex.

What we are leading to is that the entire energy of the Solar System is increasing, and that at some point, it will reach a level where it will transmute all life on the planet. That is when Ascension will be manifest.

Research is now suggesting that the Sun is like a hole that has popped in the energy field of the Galaxy, allowing energy to flow out in a given area; that's why we see it as bright white light.

They've already proven that there's no nuclear furnace going on in there. The amount of neutrinos that the Sun gives off is far too low for it to be the byproduct of a nuclear reaction. There are missing neutrinos. They've known about this for 30 years, and the problem is not being solved -- those missing neutrinos simply don't exist!

So the Sun is not a nuclear furnace. The Sun basically represents cosmic energy, the true energy of Creation.

What this means is that the Sun is like a pinhole in space where the energy is flowing out -- just like the pinhole in the bag of water we spoke about earlier, or what you would see in the Bermuda Triangle.

And in higher levels of vibration, you see a lot more than just the pinhole of the Sun; you see all the vibrations that surround it. These appear as concentric spheres of energy, like ripples on a pond, which are connected by a spiraling coil of energy that expands on out to drive the orbits and rotations of the planets and moons. Everything meshes precisely together like one giant set of gears. This coil from the Sun has been studied and measured. NASA refers to it as the ''Parker Spiral.''[11]

Right now, we can only detect these fields with instruments as a form of magnetic energy.

There are many, many crop-circle formations that show these energy systems of sacred geometry and concentric, expanding spheres connected by spirals. So ''they'' are definitely trying to give us a message. The recent 900-foot long Milk Hill crop formation mirrors the Sun's expanding spiral energy patterns. It contains 409 different circles and was actually displayed on CNN Headline News, as its sheer size and grandeur attracted attention.[12]

And when the energy in the Bermuda Triangle rises, for example, matter changes. When the energy that the Sun is producing rises, the spiraling coil wave from the Sun actually expands, pushing the planets into spheres of energy that maintain a higher frequency of vibration. My research suggests that the actual physical sizes of the planets expand spontaneously when this happens -- not hugely, but enough.

You can see this in hindsight by going to the idea that if you shrink the radius of the Earth to 55 or 60 percent of its current size, all the continents fit together like a jig-saw puzzle; there's no left-over space. That's called Global Expansion Tectonics.[13]

So as the planet gets farther away from the Sun, it expands on this spiral of energy that the Sun is pumping out at a very slow speed, and it gradually inches farther and farther away. That's why the Ancients said that Earth's year used to be exactly 360 days long, and that they only begrudgingly added the last five and a quarter days after the fall of Atlantis. Five days is just a tiny bump compared to what can happen.

So the farther away you get from the Sun, the more you break into higher levels of vibration represented by a bigger sphere. As the Earth punches into a higher level of energy based on its position away from the Sun, it expands in size, because as it moves into that higher energy, the energy within the core actually expands.

What also happens is that this energy ''zaps'' all the creatures that are on the Earth, because the increase in the wavelength of the planetary spiral is accompanied by a spontaneous burst of energy from the Sun -- a burst that has qualities of both radiation and intelligence. The ancient Hindus referred to this burst as the ''Somvarta fire at the end of an Age.''

So what has happened in the past, at about 50-million-year intervals, is that all the life that had been on the Earth spontaneously dies. And then, all of a sudden, this higher order of creature shows up. The geologists call this ''punctuated equilibrium.''[14]

A very recent study published by Dr. Bruce Runnegar and other UCLA astrobiologists supports the theory I am discussing. It's been all over the mainstream news since the end of June 2001. The researchers looked at the planetary orbits and ran them back through time with computer simulations that were very precise. To their surprise, they discovered that 65 million years ago, at the time of the most recent mass extinction (of the dinosaurs), there was what they referred to as a ''chaotic change in the resonant frequencies of the Solar System.'' This chaotic change suddenly jostled all the orbits of the inner planets.[15]

While we're here, we should add that all geologists know that the continents broke apart at this time, having once been a single landmass. We also know that the worldwide sea levels suddenly decreased at that time. This was obviously the Earth's sudden increase in size. The hardened crust of the land broke apart, and all the seas drained off into the new cracks, lowering their worldwide levels.

And remember that the geologists have discovered that every time you have a mass extinction, you also have a mass speciation -- that is, new species arise. That's another aspect of what happens when this energy ''zaps'' us, causing the planets and their orbits to expand.

For example, there is no ''missing link'' between Neanderthal man and Cro-Magnon (modern man) because what happened was that Neanderthal got ''zapped'' and spontaneously evolved. They grew much larger brains and lost the clumsiness of their bodies.

This is where it gets kind of strange. This anomalous change, this spontaneous evolution in the presence of new energy, is also happening to the whole Solar System. In other words, it's not just that the Earth is drifting away from the Sun to go into a new position. At the same time the Sun, also, is ready to break out into a new level of energy in the Galaxy. This doesn't always happen. According to Ra, right now we are actually arriving at the end of a 75,000-year galactic cycle at the same time that we are arriving at the end of a more common 25,000-year planetary cycle. In my book The Shift of the Ages I show how the sunspot research of Maurice Cotterell shows that we do indeed need three major cycles in order for all long-term observations of known solar cycle behavior to align with each other.

As a galaxy evolves, expanding spheres of energy continue to engulf the stars in that galaxy with higher and higher levels of vibration. This is now causing the intergalactic space around our Solar System to become more and more highly charged. This charge is in turn absorbed by the Sun and radiated throughout the Solar System. So the current ''shift'' is really a unique event for all forms of vibrational life in our area of the Galaxy, not just for those on Earth.[16]

Here are some measurable changes in our Solar System which suggest that this evolutionary leap is going to happen soon:

We're having solar activity never before witnessed -- at least not in recorded history. We're having sunspot activity on a scale never before seen. We're having radiation emissions, proton emissions and other anomalous energy bursts. All of these things are stepping up in frequency in a way that's never before been seen. In fact, the solar emissions are getting so intense that they are frying many of our satellites. In certain cases we are unable to measure these solar emissions because we never expected that they would get this high, and all our scientific models have to be revised.[17]

Another thing that I think is really interesting is that the actual quality of the space between the planets is changing. The space between the planets is actually conducting energy better.

The meaning of this is actually quite simple: The Sun releases charged, radioactive particles, such as energetic protons. NASA used to have very convenient scientific models for how long it would take those protons to travel to the Earth. Now, in some cases these protons are traveling up to 400 percent faster than the models expect.[18]

So what's happening is that the Sun itself is actually changing. Its magnetic field is actually getting larger. Its energy is changing. The energy between the planets is changing, conducting the Sun's energy faster. Particles are moving faster through space. The actual visible plasma energy in space between the planets is getting brighter.

Dmitriev's work shows that the planets themselves are changing. They are undergoing changes in their atmospheres. For example the Martian atmosphere is getting sizably thicker than it was before. The Mars Observer probe in 1997 lost one of its mirrors, which caused it to crash, because the atmosphere was about twice as dense as they calculated, and basically the wind on that little mirror was so high that it blew it right off the device.[19]

Also, the moon is growing an atmosphere that's made up of a compound Dmitriev refers to as ''Natrium.'' Dmitriev says that, around the moon, there is this 6,000-kilometer-deep layer of Natrium that wasn't there before.

And we're having this kind of change in Earth's atmosphere in the upper levels, where HO gas is forming that wasn't there before; it simply did not exist in the quantity that it does now. It's not related to global warming and it's not related to CFCs or fluorocarbon emissions; it's just showing up.

The planets are experiencing sizable changes in their overall brightness. Venus, for example, is showing us marked increases in its overall brightness. Jupiter has gotten to have such a high energetic charge that there is actually a visible tube of ionizing radiation that has formed between Jupiter and its moon, Io. You can actually see the luminous energy tube in photographs that have been taken more recently.[20]

And the planets are having a change in their magnetic fields. The magnetic fields are becoming stronger. Jupiter's magnetic field has more than doubled. Uranus's magnetic field is changing. Neptune's magnetic field is increasing.[21] These planets are becoming brighter. Their magnetic field strength is getting higher. Their atmospheric qualities are changing.

When the Voyager 2 space probe flew past Uranus and Neptune, the apparent north and south magnetic poles were sizably offset from where the rotational pole was. In one case, it was 50 degrees off, and in the other case the difference was around 40 degrees, both of which are pretty big changes.[22]

The overall changes could essentially be broken down into three categories: Energy field changes, luminosity changes, and atmospheric changes.

On the Earth, we're seeing the changes even more completely. For example, Michael Mandeville has done research that has shown that the overall volcanic activity on the Earth since 1875 has increased by roughly 500 percent. The overall earthquake activity has increased by 400 percent just since 1973.[23]

Dr. Dmitriev did a very elaborate calculation of natural disasters. He showed that if you compare the years 1963 through 1993, the overall amount of natural disasters of all different kinds -- whether you are talking hurricanes, typhoons, mud slides, tidal waves, you name it -- have increased by 410 percent.

There's a study by Dr. Mike Lockwood from Rutherford Appleton National Laboratories in California, who has been investigating the Sun. He has discovered that since 1901, the overall magnetic field of the Sun has become 230 percent stronger than it was before.[24]

So, all in all, what we're seeing is a lot more than just what they call Earth Changes. Some people get into the idea that there is an interaction between the Earth and the Sun that's going on here. Very, very few people are aware of the work that is being done in the Russian National Academy of Sciences in Siberia, specifically in Novosibirsk, where they are doing this research. They've come to the conclusion that the only possible thing that could be causing this energetic change all throughout the Solar System is that we are moving into an area of energy that is different -- that is higher.[25]

The glowing plasma at the leading edge of our Solar System has recently increased 1000 percent

Now, check this out. The Sun itself has a magnetic field, of course, and that magnetic field creates an egg around the Solar System, which is known as the heliosphere. The heliosphere is shaped like a teardrop, with the long and thin end of the drop pointing in the opposite direction from the direction that we're traveling. It's just like a comet, where the tail is always pointing away from the Sun.

The Russians have looked at the leading edge of this heliosphere, and they have observed glowing, excited plasma energy there.[26] This plasma energy used to be 10 astronomical units deep (an astronomical unit is the distance from the Earth to the Sun, 93,000,000 miles). So ten astronomical units represents the normal thickness of this glowing energy that we used to see at the front end of the Solar System.

Today, that glowing plasma has gone to 100 astronomical units deep. Although Dmitriev's paper does not give an exact timeline, we can assume that this increase happened in the same 1963 to 1993 period as the increase he found in natural disasters. Whenever it happened, that's a 1,000 percent increase in the overall activity of the energy at the front end of the Solar System.

And this means that the Solar System itself is moving into an area where the energy is more highly charged. That higher-charged energy is in turn exciting the plasma and causing more of it to form, so you see more luminosity, more brightness. This energy is then flowing into the Sun, which in turn emits the energy and spreads it out along its equatorial plane, which is called the Ecliptic. This in turn is saturating interplanetary space, which causes the solar emissions to travel more quickly and charge up the energy on the planets.

And this is conscious energy that is changing how the planet works, how it functions, and what kind of life it supports. The harmonics of the DNA spiral itself are altering. That's the real, hidden cause of spontaneous mass evolutions in previous epochs of time.

All this is happening all at the same time, and it's all working up to a crescendo where there is going to be a sudden shift.

In other words, we will get to the point where we are so far into the new level of energy that there will be a sudden expansion of the basic harmonic wavelengths that the Sun emits as it radiates energy out of itself. This increase in energy emission will change the basic nature of all matter in the Solar System. The planets are pushed slightly farther away from the Sun and actually expand in terms of their physical size.

So what we are basically talking about here is conscious energy that changes how the planet functions and what kind of life it supports.

And when we realize that we are more than our physical bodies, we have no need to be afraid of this energetic change. When this new energy comes out of the Sun, we will naturally be transported into a higher level of our own being. Our physical body becomes irrelevant at that point. We are much more than that.

As we've alluded to before, the blast of energy that will come is conscious. It will look like fire, but it's really conscious energy.

Here's another example of how this happened in the past. In a previous geologic era on Earth [the Paleozoic], the predominant species was this little crab called the Trilobite. According to the work of Richard Pasichnyk, they were inundated with solar energy -- you find in the fossil records that they were all killed. But what you don't see is that their group soul evolved into whatever the next stage of evolution was.

The dinosaurs are now believed to have left the stage via this solar energetic process as well. Their souls turned into mammal souls. So nobody goes anywhere, nobody is actually extinguished. We can find the bodies and it looks cataclysmic, it looks horrible -- but all they really do is just bump up another notch and start to inhabit different bodies. There is no pain, fear or trauma in this process -- I've experienced many previews of it in dreams, and I can tell you that it is quite fantastic.

If you're very attached to your physical body, you might say, ''Well, what would I be without it?'' You might see this as traumatic, but in fact your experience could be looked at as Soul graduation.

People are saying, ''I'm doing my spiritual growth. I'm doing my path. I'm walking in my truth. I'm trying to grow spiritually, I'm trying to evolve.'' Evolve to what? Grow to what? Are we just going to keep reincarnating over and over again as humans? No.

Is the Earth going to remain in this vibrational level where human beings will blow up bombs, poison its waters, pollute its atmosphere, kill its creatures, and cut down all the trees? No. The Earth is not expected to go through this.

The Earth is an evolving being, too. The difference with the Earth, unlike a regular human lifetime, is that it goes through a very premeditated, very obvious course of its evolution. As it orbits around the Sun, and as the Solar System orbits around the Galaxy, the extraterrestrial races that are in higher dimensions know exactly when these changes are going to happen. That's why they're here now, because basically they're aware that this is going on, and are standing by to assist us. They're aware that, just as the vortex of energy has caused airplanes to disappear in the Bermuda Triangle, when the Sun's energy bumps up another notch, matter on Earth will be transmuted. The Sun's energy can cause matter to just physically transmute.

When transmutation occurs, creatures like animals and plants may appear to be dead, but what happens to the human body will actually be alchemical transmutation. So it's not as though there's going to be all these fried corpses lying around. When the energy hits you, you transform. Your body will actually transmute itself.

There is a parallel in the Shroud of Turin, where certain researchers have found that Jesus' body burned a complete three-dimensional image of itself into the cloth. And they found through experimentation that such a burn could only be caused by an instantaneous blast at a very high temperature, ''zapping'' the cloth like an X-ray film.

The basic date for the ''shift'' corresponds to the end of the Mayan Calendar -- December 2012.

Ra makes the suggestion that the Mayan Calendar was given to the Mayans by high-level sixth-density extraterrestrials so that they would have a tool with which to time the passage of these cycles. It's a good thing to know how these cycles work, because they are tied in with history. (See third article by Wilcock on the Global Shift website.)

It would be so easy to miss this fantastic opportunity to participate in the evolution that is happening here and now on our planet.

The media is bent on creating a reality where our happiness is contingent on the acquisition of new products. We seek the best jobs and the highest status as we succumb to the mass illusions of ''consensus reality'' and ''winning the game.''

Each of us has the choice to create our lives so that we may participate in the Utopian world that will manifest on Earth after this Ascension process has completed -- a world without poverty, hunger or pain; a world where full-body levitation, spontaneous healings, instant telepathic communication, and abundant Love are the law of the land. This is the world that Jesus promised us in John 14:12, when he said, ''As I do these things, so shall you do them, and greater things.''

It comes back to question: What are you going to hold onto? You have to leave behind the physical life in order to participate in the Ascension. You have to be willing to move into a life that is spiritual. You have to be willing to give up the things that you once thought were important -- your car, your material effects, your earthly status, your earthly fame and power -- because you're basically only going to take yourself. You can't bring anything with you. No money, no credit cards, no gold coins.

When you leave your body and move into these higher realms of consciousness, all those earthly things will be meaningless; and then you will realize that the only thing that ever mattered was how much love you were willing to share while you were incarnate on Earth. You will return to an unbroken continuity of experience as your own Higher Self, and awaken from the dream that was your short human life, which always seemed to be so "real" while you were in it.

When most people think of God, or an Ultimate Being in the universe, they do not typically see the stars and planets and galaxies as thinking, evolving beings. Looking through their telescopes, scientists see only slow-burning nuclear furnaces scattered in a black emptiness. However, this prevailing view in science of a "dead," "godless" Universe has now been successfully challenged and replaced by a far more spiritually focused viewpoint, and all the required scientific evidence to prove it already exists. Using this new model, we can make a very strong case that the Earth and humanity is about to experience a physical and spiritual metamorphosis, where the very energy of atoms and molecules themselves suddenly transforms to a higher, faster vibration and we once again experience a "Golden Age" of civilization. This spiritual change has been predicted in many world religions and spiritual traditions, including Christianity. However, science relies on empirical facts, not speculation, and here it is important to mention that we can put "meat" on the bones of prophecy with the following hard facts regarding the changes that are occurring in the Earth, Sun and Solar System at this time:

If we remember that the Sun contains fully 99.86% of the mass in the Solar System, then we can easily see that it wields the strongest thermal, gravitational and electromagnetic influence. In our books we have identified a clear physical mechanism that is causing our Sun to experience remarkable changes. These significant energetic changes in the Sun are then radiated outwardly via the "Solar Wind," dramatically increasing the charge and permeability of interplanetary space, causing charged particles to travel more quickly much as a droplet of water dashes around on a sizzling hot pan. The electromagnetic fields of the planets then absorb this increased energy flux, producing anomalous changes including internal heating, increases in earthquakes, volcanism and other natural catastrophes, increases in brightness and even magnetic pole shift.

Though Western science is not yet equipped to explain how such changes as earthquakes could be caused by an "outside" energetic influence, the full mystery is known amongst professional "underground" Russian scientific circles, and is easily explained by correcting certain fundamental errors in our prevailing concepts. Not surprisingly, the mainstream media gives almost zero coverage of even the most basic of the changes we have listed. Even in the Internet-dominated Western alternative / metaphysical media, one only hears about the changes in solar activity and increases in Earth's cataclysmic activity on occasion.

And yet, in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack, it is undeniable to almost everyone that certain ancient prophecies, such as those of the Judeo-Christian Bible, the Hopi, the Maya, the Hindu, the Buddhist and the aboriginal, appear to be taking place almost line by line. Increasing wars, diseases, earthquakes, volcanoes, droughts and other natural cataclysms, which eventually lead up to a "pole shift," all follow the pattern of "tribulations" that have been predicted by literally almost every source of religion or prophecy that has been recorded. That such tribulations are upon us now is evident, and easily proven scientifically. What most adherents to these various teachings do not realize is that these phenomena are being caused by a fundamental energetic change taking place throughout the entire Solar System.

When most people think of "Biblical prophecy," their mind immediately conjures up images of chaos, apocalypse and destruction, often believing on some level that the Earth is to be annihilated and there is little if anything to be done about it. A certain, noticeably smaller cluster of groups, associated with the now-distasteful label of "religious fundamentalists," are essentially standing by and waiting for Jesus to return and lift their own sect of "chosen" followers up to heaven in a "rapture" event, to the exclusion of all other sects. They also believe that the Earth will have "a thousand years of peace" after this event, and that after being "taken up," they will return to Earth in some newly transformed condition. Conventional science has no provision whatsoever for such a notion to even be discussed, much less proven, and thus it is tossed to the side without a second thought. Furthermore, the exclusivist nature of such denominational groups is extremely distasteful to all those who refuse to accept the dogma.

Enter our next subculture of discussion, the ever-increasing majority of the population who are actively interested in alternative spirituality, ancient cultures, prophecy, secret mystery schools, indigenous teachings, sacred geometry, extraterrestrial / angelic visitations, exotic physics and the like. Although there are an enormous number of books available on these topics, the Internet has brought these concepts home to a far wider audience in a way that was never before imagined. It is from this increasing subculture that a new paradigm has been struggling to emerge; a paradigm that offers unforeseen insights into the nature of reality and our place within that reality. It is a paradigm of "initiation," where one ceases to adhere to reductionist scientific ideals and instead becomes aware that a higher spiritual reality underlies all of physical existence as we know it.

These phenomena are well known and discussed in the Russian scientific community, but the Western-dominated view continues to remain completely unaware of it, even as they continue collecting the information that proves it. In late December of 2001, NASA released photographs showing that the icecaps on Mars are melting much faster than anyone could have expected, and earlier in that same year, bright light had been seen around Jupiter's moon Io and on the dark side of Venus, both of which were new and unexpected. The Russians have already reached a conclusion about why all these changes are happening, and this also is unknown in the Western scientific circles. According to their view, our Solar System is now moving into an area of the galaxy where there is a higher concentration of electromagnetic "plasma" energy than before. The Sun is absorbing this energy and radiating it out into the planets and the space between the planets. This energy is in turn absorbed into the planets and causes all the changes that we are now measuring.

The Sun's magnetic field surrounds all of the Solar System and beyond. Although magnetic fields are normally spherical in shape, the Solar System is moving through the Galaxy at a high speed, and the Galaxy's energy radiation and dust pushes the sphere into a teardrop shape. At the front of the Sun's magnetic field is a "termination shock" of glowing light that is caused by the energy, gas and dust of the Galaxy striking against it as we move through space. In the late 1990's, this glowing light was discovered to have become at least 1000 percent deeper, from a distance of 4 AU to 40 AU -- and now it may be as much as 100 AU in length. [An AU is 93 million miles in length, the distance of the Earth to the Sun.] The Russians have already realized that the only acceptable explanation for this change is that we are now moving into an area of higher energy concentration in the Galaxy.

As our research has progressed in this area, we have realized that there are many vertical bands of energy in the galaxy that our Solar System passes through. This is not difficult to see, as when we look at a magnetic field we know that it is a sphere that is composed of many different lines where the energy is the strongest -- and the Galaxy also has a spherical magnetic field that would obviously possess similar lines of force. In our first book Shift of the Ages, we have made a strong case that there are exactly 8,640 different bands of energy in the Galaxy, and that we pass through each one of them in roughly 25,920 years. This would mean that the Galaxy completes one full cycle of rotation in about 223,948,800 years, and astronomers have indeed calculated that the galaxy rotates once in approximately 225 million years.

We have established in The Shift of the Ages that both the Sun and the Earth precisely follow this 25,920-year cycle as we move through these energy bands in the galaxy. The Earth has a slow, circular motion on its axis that takes 25,920 years to complete, known as "precession," and Maurice Cotterell has discovered long-term cycles in the Sun’s behavior that also fit in exactly with 25,920 years. Ancient civilizations such as the Maya of Central Mexico have records which show that they were well aware of this knowledge as well. It is arguable that their information can be traced back to an ancient, advanced civilization that existed on the Earth more than 12,500 years ago before being destroyed in worldwide flooding and cataclysmic activity. Japanese scientists have concluded that the sunken monuments off the island of Yonaguni could not have been above sea level any earlier than 12,000 years ago, and this is just one of the many clues that suggests that such an ancient civilization actually did exist.

Many of the best clues that have helped us to understand the mystery of these energy systems in the galaxy and of the ancient history of "Atlantis" have come from the work of psychics, such as the well-known American prophet Edgar Cayce, who lived from 1877 to 1945. In our works, we use information from Cayce and other sources to help us understand how these energy fields operate, but every point that we make is supported with scientific data, with the intuitive data simply acting as a guide to show us where to look.

It was only in January of 2001 that I learned about the work of Russian physicist Dr. Alexey Dmitriev, which I have already mentioned above, concerning the fact that our entire Solar System is charging up with energy. During this same time, I was hired as the Research Director for the Time of Global Shift multimedia seminar tour, led by Dr. Scott Mandelker, whose Ph.D. is in East-West psychology and who has an extensive knowledge of Buddhism, having traveled and meditated in many different temples throughout Japan and Asia. With a source of non-profit funding as our aid, we joined forces to assemble our team and present the information in this book at seminars in cities throughout the U.S. Our Mission Statement is an excellent expression of what we feel is the heart of the information that we have to offer this planet:

We are glad that you have found this website and hope that you will be ready to accept the message that it has for all of humanity. We need not fear the changes that are occurring in the world, simply understand that everything is happening according to a Cosmic Plan that is well-known to those in the higher realms. The vision that we present may seem to be very fantastic, but that does not mean that it isn't true. Our ancestors did an incredible amount of work to try to prepare us for this event, and now we can put all the pieces back together and remember what was forgotten for so long.

Gilbert, Adrian and Cotterell, Maurice. The Mayan Prophecies. Element Books, Inc., 1995. ISBN: 1-85230-906-7


PLAYLIST of RA Related MATERIAL

Cosmology & Earth History (RA)

Law of One Earth History Timeline (compiled by Lawrence Manzo)
Timeline of Events (L/L Research, et. al.)
SRM resources
Mahabharata Podcast (full reading, L. Manzo)

TWSMandelker · Cosmology & Earth History (RA)

TWSMandelker · Healing & Balance (Ra Material)

TWSMandelker · Law Of One - Ra Material (All 106 Sessions)

TWSMandelker · Wanderers & ET Souls (Ra Material)

TWSMandelker · Confederation of Planets (Ra Material)

TWSMandelker · Sexuality & Spiritual Path (Ra Material)

TWSMandelker · Tarot & Archetypal Mind (Ra Material)

Materials

https://scottmandelker.ca/wanderers-et-souls-ra-material
https://talkswithscottmandelker.com/
https://www.youtube.com/user/TWSMandelker
https://scottmandelker.ca/
https://talkswithscottmandelker.blogspot.com/ [Non-RA series]
https://thelawofonepodcast.blogspot.com/ [RA Material/Law of One +]

https://archive.org/details/ra-oh-11-12-20-nityananda-34 [Start - 11/11/21]

https://archive.org/details/love-of-truth-greek-original [11/18/21 - Present]
#2: New, Miscellaneous Talks [PLAYLIST #17]
11/24/21 - Detachment, Serenity & Knowing
12/1/21 - 7 Rays & the Mandala of Mind [w/ part II]
8/19/13 - Global Death-Rebirth, Karmic Law & Load [PLAYLIST #27]
12/15/21 - Endtimes Survival - Trust & Integrity
12/22/21 - Collective Crucifixion & the Sat Guru
12/29/21 - Collective Irredeemability
1/5/22 - Discernment, Balance & the 5th Seal
1/12/22 - The 3D Veiled Mind, I [8-part series]
3/23/22 - Hubris, Cosmic Justice & the Tragic Cycle, I [w/ part II]
4/6/22 - Logoic Purpose Revisited
4/13/22 - Wanderers & Krishnamurti in April 2022
4/20/22 - Principles of Self-Healing, I [9-part series]
6/22/22 - Enduring Tribulation to Soul Return, I [4-part series]
7/20/22 - Love, Fire & Illumination, I [w/ part II]
8/3/22 - Apollonius of Tyana & the Sage, I [SERIES ONGOING]
8/25/22 - Human/Global Process in August 2022
9/15/22 - Front-Running ELE
https://www.twsmandelker.com/17-comments--reflections.html* They can also be found on several Podcast sites (listed chronologically):
https://www.twsmandelker.com/ [All Talks mirror site]
https://talkswithscottmandelker.blogspot.com/ [All Talks]
https://archive.org/details/ra-oh-11-12-20-nityananda-34 [To 11/11/21]
https://archive.org/details/love-of-truth-greek-original [From 11/18/21]
#2: NEW (NON-SERIES) UPLOADS (now on YT):
11/24/21 - Detachment, Serenity & Knowing [PLAYLIST #17]
12/1/21 - 7 Rays & the Mandala of Mind [PLAYLIST #17]
12/8/21 - 7 Rays & the Mandala of Mind, II [PLAYLIST #17]

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Scott Mandelker was born on April 22, 1962 in New York City (Western star sign Taurus, Chinese water Tiger), named after US astronaut Scott Carpenter. He began his study of Eastern religion and psychology in high school, by himself. During university years, he lived in Buddhist temples in the US, India and Thailand doing intensive meditation.

Later, he earned a B.A. in Buddhist Studies and Psychology in 1987 from Naropa Institute (in Boulder, Colorado: www.naropa.edu), and then moved to San Francisco in 1988. In SF, he received a M.A. in Counseling, and Ph.D. in East West Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS: www.ciis.edu).

Since 1992, he has given counseling, seminars, and study groups in the US, and Israel. His Ph.D. research became his first book, "From Elsewhere," and his second book was published in 2000 ("Universal Vision", Tokuma Shoten translation in 2008).

He's been to Japan nearly 20 times, traveled all over the country, and presents his work in English with translators.

Scott's work focuses on self-empowerment, unconditional acceptance and inner wisdom, based on universal principles of love, balance, and spiritual will. After 30 years of meditation and study, he's very glad to work helping others find peace, truth and self-confidence.

He offers seminars and workshops, study and meditation groups, and personal sessions. He works by spiritual dialogue -- speaking honestly and listening, and encouraging others to speak their own truth. All answers are within us already, and Scott’s work gives a mirror for self-discovery.

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《To my Brothers and Sisters of Sorrow》

《“Lessons from a “Dead Man”:
Sensuality and the Doors of Perception》

《A Small Spark’s Wandering: Part I － Coming to Earth》

《Fantasies, Desires, and Needs》

《The 5th Chakra: Part II》

《The 5th Chakra: Part I》

《Love,Pain and Cure》

《Going Beyond Strong,Smart,and Kindly》

《Instant Karma at the Grocery Store》

《Self-Knowledge》

《Looking Again at Life-Purpose》

《One Reason why we Suffer》

《Human Suffering and Living in Reality》

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nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat. Ut wisi enim ad minim veniam.</div>1 TAROT AND THE ARCHETYPICAL MIND Compilation from the Law of One Books Copyright L/L Research: www.llresearch.org English version for purchase: https://store.bring4th.org/ Compiled by Scott Mandelker, PhD Table of Contents: General Comments - 2 I. Matrix of the Mind - 14 II. Potentiator of the Mind - 20 III. Catalyst of the Mind - 26 IV. Experience of the Mind - 30 V. Significator of the Mind - 37 VI. Transformation of the Mind - 42 VII. Great Way of the Mind - 45 VIII. Matrix of the Body - 50 IX. Potentiator of the Body - 52 X. Catalyst of the Body - 54 XI. Experience of the Body - 55 XII. Significator of the Body - 56 XIII. Transformation of the Body - 57 XIV. Great Way of the Body - 58 XV. Matrix of the Spirit - 59 XVI. Potentiator of the Spirit - 61 XVII. Catalyst of the Spirit - 63 XVIII. Experience of the Spirit - 64 XIX. Significator of the Spirit - 65 XX. Transformation of the Spirit - 67 XXI. Great Way of the Spirit - 68 XXII. The Choice - 69 Guiding Notes: Direct statements from revised transcript: “Ra:” Questioner = Don T. Elkins (co-founder of L/L Research) Law of One Session-Question numbering: Session #.Question # Images: http://www.lawofone.info/images/small/ Text: http://www.lawofone.info/results.php?category=Tarot 2 General Comments 76.6 Questioner: I am sorry that we have had such a long delay between the last session and this one. It couldn’t be helped I guess. Could you please tell me the origin of the tarot? Ra: I am Ra. The origin of this system of study and divination is twofold: firstly, there is that influence which, coming in a distorted fashion from those who were priests attempting to teach the Law of One in Egypt, gave form to the understanding, if you will pardon the misnomer, which they had received. These forms were then made a regular portion of the learn/teachings of an initiate. The second influence is that of those entities in the lands you call Ur, Chaldea, and Mesopotamia who, from old, had received the, shall we say, data for which they called having to do with the heavens. Thusly we find two methods of divination being melded into one with uneven results; the, as you call it, astrology and the form being combined to suggest what you might call the correspondences which are typical of the distortions you may see as attempts to view archetypes. 76.7 Questioner: Then am I correct in assuming that the priests of Egypt, in attempting to convert knowledge that they had received initially from Ra into understandable symbology, constructed and initiated the concept of the tarot? Is this correct? Ra: I am Ra. This is correct with the addition of the Sumerian influence. 77.11 Questioner: Thank you. I would like to go eation and ex the philosophical basis that is the foundation for what was created in this local creation and the philosophy of the plan for experience. I am assuming that I am correct in stating that the foundation for this, as has been stated many times before, is the first distortion. After that, what was the plan in the philosophical sense? Ra: I am Ra. We cannot reply due to a needed portion of your query which has been omitted; that is, do we speak of this particular Logos? 77.12 Questioner: That is correct. I am asking with respect to this particular sub-Logos, our sun. Ra: I am Ra. This query has substance. We shall begin by turning to an observation of a series of concept complexes of which you are familiar as the tarot. The philosophy was to create a foundation, first of mind, then of body, and then of spiritual complex. Those concept complexes you call the tarot lie then in three groups of seven: the mind cycle, one through seven; the physical complex cycle, eight through fourteen; the spiritual complex cycle, fifteen through twenty-one. The last concept complex may best be termed The Choice. Upon the foundation of the transformation of each complex, with free will guided by the root 3 concepts offered in these cycles, the Logos offered this density the basic architecture of a building and the constructing and synthesizing of data culminating in The Choice. 77.13 Questioner: Then to condense your statement, I see it meaning that there are seven basic philosophical foundations for mental experience, seven for bodily, seven for spiritual, and that these produce the polarization that we experience sometime during the third-density cycle. Am I correct? Ra: I am Ra. You are correct in that you perceive the content of our prior statement with accuracy. You are incorrect in that you have no mention of the, shall we say, location of all of these concept complexes; that is, they exist within the roots of the mind and it is from this resource that their guiding influence and leitmotifs* may be traced. You may further note that each foundation is itself not single but a complex of concepts. Furthermore, there are relationships betwixt mind, body, and spirit of the same location in octave, for instance: one, eight, fifteen, and relationships within each octave which are helpful in the pursuit of The Choice by the mind/body/spirit complex. The Logos under which these foundations stand is one of free will. Thusly the foundations may be seen to have unique facets and relationships for each mind/body/spirit complex. Only twenty-two, The Choice, is relatively fixed and single. * Leitmotif: Lit: leading motive. In music: A distinguishing theme or melodic phrase representing and recurring with a given character, situation, or emotion in an opera. 77.14 Questioner: Then I am probably having a problem with the concept of time since it appears that the Logos was aware of the polarization choice. It seems that this choice for polarization at the end of third density is an important philosophical plan for the experience past third density. Am I correct in assuming that this process is a process to create the proper or desired experience that will take place in the creation after third density is complete? Ra: I am Ra. These philosophical foundations are those of third density. Above this density there remains the recognition of the architecture of the Logos but without the veils which are so integral a part of the process of making the choice in third density. 77.21 Questioner: Then did this particular Logos that we experience plan for this polarity and know all about it prior to its plan? I suspect that this is what happened. Ra: I am Ra. This is quite correct. 77.22 Questioner: In that case, as a Logos, you would have an advantage of selecting the form of acceleration, you might say, of spiritual evolution by planning what we call the major archetypical philosophical foundations and planning these as a function of the polarity that would be gained in third density. Is this correct? Ra: I am Ra. This is exquisitely correct. 4 77.23 Questioner: In that case, it seems that a thorough knowledge of the precise nature of these philosophical foundations would be of primary importance to the study of evolution of mind, body, and spirit, and I would like to carefully go through each, starting with the mind. Is this agreeable with Ra? Ra: I am Ra. This is agreeable with two requests which must be made. Firstly, that an attempt be made to state the student’s grasp of each archetype. We may then comment. We cannot teach/learn to the extent of learn/teaching. Secondly, we request that it be constantly kept before the mind, as the candle before the eye, that each mind/body/spirit complex shall and should and, indeed, must perceive each archetype, if you use this convenient term, in its own way. Therefore, you may see that precision is not the goal; rather the quality of general concept complex perception is the goal. 78.12 Questioner: Would you elucidate with respect to the significator you spoke of? Ra: I am Ra. The original significators may undifferentiatedly be termed the mind, the body, and the spirit. 78.18 Questioner: So the original evolution then was planned by the Logos but the first distortion was not extended to the product. At some point this first distortion was extended and the first service-to-self polarity emerged. Is this correct and if so, could you tell me the history of this process of emergence? Ra: I am Ra. As proem let me state that the Logoi always conceived of themselves as offering free will to the sub-Logoi in their care. The sub-Logoi had freedom to experience and experiment with consciousness, the experiences of the body, and the illumination of the spirit. That having been said, we shall speak to the point of your query. The first Logos to instill what you now see as free will, in the full sense, in its sub-Logoi came to this creation due to contemplation in depth of the concepts or possibilities of conceptualizations of what we have called the significators. The Logos posited the possibility of the mind, the body, and the spirit as being complex. In order for the significator to be what it is not, it then must be granted the free will of the Creator. This set in motion a quite lengthy, in your terms, series of Logos’s improving or distilling this seed thought. The key was the significator becoming a complex. 78.19 Questioner: Then our particular Logos, when it created Its own particular creation, was at some point far down the evolutionary spiral of the experiment with the significator becoming what it was not and, therefore, I am assuming, was primarily concerned in designing the archetypes in such a way that they would create the acceleration of this polarization. Is this in any way correct? Ra: I am Ra. We would only comment briefly. It is generally correct. You may fruitfully view each Logos and its design as the Creator experiencing Itself. The seed concept of the significator 5 being a complex introduces two things: firstly, the Creator against Creator in one sub-Logos in what you may call dynamic tension; secondly, the concept of free will, once having been made fuller by its extension into the sub-Logoi known as mind/body/spirit complexes, creates and recreates and continues to create as a function of its very nature. 78.29 Questioner: Are the seven archetypes for mind a function of or related to the seven densities that are to be experienced in the octave? Ra: I am Ra. The relationship is tangential in that no congruency may be seen. However, the progress through the archetypes has some of the characteristics of the progress through the densities. These relationships may be viewed without being, shall we say, pasted one upon the other. 78.30 Questioner: How about the seven bodily energy centers? Are they related to archetypes in some way? Ra: I am Ra. The same may be said of these. It is informative to view the relationships but stifling to insist upon the limitations of congruency. Recall at all times, if you would use this term that the archetypes are a portion of the resources of the mind complex. 78.31 Questioner: Is there any relationship between the archetypes and the planets of our solar system? Ra: I am Ra. This is not a simple query. Properly, the archetypes have some relationship to the planets. However, this relationship is not one which can be expressed in your language. This, however, has not halted those among your people who have become adepts from attempting to name and describe these relationships. To most purely understand, if we may use this misnomer, the archetypes it is well to view the concepts which make up each archetype and reserve the study of planets and other correspondences for meditation. 79.20 Questioner: The first change made then for this extension of free will was to make the communication between the Matrix and the Potentiator of the Mind relatively unavailable one to the other during the incarnation. Is this correct? Ra: I am Ra. We would perhaps rather term the condition as relatively more mystery-filled than relatively unavailable. 79.21 Questioner: The idea was then to create some type of veil between the Matrix and the Potentiator of the Mind. Is this correct? Ra: I am Ra. This is correct. 79.22 Questioner: This veil then occurs between what we now call the unconscious and conscious minds. Is this correct? 6 Ra: I am Ra. This is correct. 79.23 Questioner: It was probably the design of the Logos to allow the conscious mind greater freedom under the first distortion by partitioning, you might say, this from the Potentiator or unconscious which had a greater communication with the total mind, therefore, allowing for the birth of uneducated, to use a poor term, portions of consciousness. Is this correct? Ra: I am Ra. This is roughly correct. 79.24 Questioner: Could you de-roughen it or elucidate a bit on that? Ra: I am Ra. There is intervening material before we may do so. 79.28 Questioner: Now we are getting to what I was trying to determine. Then at this point were there still only nine archetypes and the veil had just been drawn between the Matrix and the Potentiator of the Mind? Ra: I am Ra. There were nine archetypes and many shadows. 79.29 Questioner: By shadows do you mean the, what I might refer to as, birthing of small archetypical biases? Ra: I am Ra. Rather we would describe these shadows as the inchoate thoughts of helpful structures not yet fully conceived. 79.30 Questioner: Would The Choice exist at this point during the creation of the first serviceto-self polarity? Ra: I am Ra. Implicit in the veiling or separation of two archetypes is the concept of choice. The refinements to this concept took many experiences. 79.33 Questioner: OK. At the present time we are experiencing the effects of a more complex or greater number of archetypes and I have guessed that the ones we are experiencing now in the mind are as follows: We have the Magician and High Priestess which correspond to the Matrix and Potentiator with the veil drawn between them which is the primary creator of the extension of the first distortion. Is that correct? Ra: I am Ra. We are unable to answer this query without intervening material. 79.34 Questioner: OK. Sorry about that. The next archetype, the Empress, is the Catalyst of the Mind, that which acts upon the conscious mind to change it. The fourth archetype is the Emperor, the Experience of the Mind, which is that material stored in the unconscious which creates its continuing bias. Am I correct with those statements? 7 Ra: I am Ra. Though far too rigid in your statements, you perceive correct relationships. There is a great deal of dynamic interrelationship in these first four archetypes 88.13 Questioner: Thank you. I would like to ask you as to the initial production of the tarot, where this concept was first formed and where the tarot was first recorded? Ra: I am Ra. The concept of the tarot originated within the planetary influence you call Venus. 88.14 Questioner: Was the concept given to or devised for a training tool for those inhabiting Venus at that time or was it devised by those of Venus as a training tool for those of Earth? Ra: I am Ra. The tarot was devised by the third-density population of Venus a great measure of your space/time in your past. As we have noted the third-density experience of those of Venus dealt far more deeply and harmoniously with what you would call relationships with otherselves, sexual energy transfer work, and philosophical or metaphysical research. The product of many, many generations of work upon what we conceived to be the archetypical mind produced the tarot which was used by our peoples as a training aid in developing the magical personality. 88.15 Questioner: I’ll make a guess that those of Venus of third density who were the initial ones to partially penetrate the veil gleaned information as to the nature of the archetypical mind and the veiling process and from this designed the tarot as a method of teaching others. Is this correct? Ra: I am Ra. It is so. 88.17 Questioner: I will make this statement as to my understanding of some of the archetypes and let you correct this statement. It seems to me that the Significators of Mind, Body, and Spirit are acted upon in each of these by the catalyst. This produces Experience which then leads to the Transformation and produces the Great Way. This is the same process for the mind, the body, and spirit. The archetypes are just repeated but act in a different way as catalyst because of the differences of mind, body, and spirit and produce a different type of experience for each because of the difference in the three. The Transformation is slightly different. The Great Way is somewhat different but the archetypes are all basically doing the same thing. They are just acting on three different portions of the mind/body/spirit complex so that we can say that in making the Significator a complex basically we have provided a way for Catalyst to create the Transformation more efficiently. Would you correct that statement, please? Ra: I am Ra. In your statement correctness is so plaited up with tendrils of the most fundamental misunderstanding that correction of your statement is difficult. We shall make comments and from these comments request that you allow a possible realignment of conceptualization to occur. 8 The archetypical mind is a great and fundamental portion of the mind complex, one of its most basic elements and one of the richest sources of information for the seeker of the One Infinite Creator. To attempt to condense the archetypes is to make an erroneous attempt. Each archetype is a significant ding an sich, or thing in itself, with its own complex of concepts. While it is informative to survey the relationships of one archetype to another it can be said that this line of inquiry is secondary to the discovery of the purest gestalt or vision or melody which each archetype signifies to both the intellectual and intuitive mind. The Significators of Mind, Body, and Spirit complexes are complex in and of themselves, and the archetypes of Catalyst, Experience, Transformation, and the Great Way are most fruitfully viewed as independent complexes which have their own melodies with which they may inform the mind of its nature. We ask that you consider that the archetypical mind informs those thoughts which then may have bearing upon the mind, the body, or the spirit. The archetypes do not have a direct linkage to body or spirit. All must be drawn up through the higher levels of the subconscious mind to the conscious mind and thence they may flee whither they have been bidden to go. When used in a controlled way they are most helpful. Rather than continue beyond the boundaries of your prior statement we would appreciate the opportunity for your requestioning at this time so that we may answer you more precisely. 88.18 Questioner: Did Ra use cards similar to the tarot cards for training in third-density? Ra: I am Ra. No. 88.19 Questioner: What did Ra use in third density? Ra: I am Ra. You are aware in your attempts at magical visualization of the mental configuration of sometimes rather complex visualizations. These are mental and drawn with the mind. Another example well-known in your culture is the visualization, in your mass, of the distortion of the love of the One Infinite Creator called Christianity, wherein a small portion of your foodstuffs is seen to be a mentally configured but entirely real man, the man known to you as Jehoshuah or, as you call this entity now, Jesus. It was by this method of sustained visualization over a period of training that we worked with these concepts. These concepts were occasionally drawn. However, the concept of one visualization per card was not thought of by us. 88.20 Questioner: How did the teacher relay information to the student in respect to visualization? Ra: I am Ra. The process was cabalistic; that is, of the oral tradition of mouth to ear. 9 88.21 Questioner: Then when Ra attempted to teach the Egyptians the concept of the tarot, was the same process used, or a different one. Ra: I am Ra. The same process was used. However, those which were teach/learners after us first drew these images to the best of their ability within the place of initiation and later began the use of what you call cards bearing these visualizations’ representations. 88.22 Questioner: Were the Court Arcana and the Minor Arcana a portion of Ra’s teachings or was this something that came along later? Ra: I am Ra. Those cards of which you speak were the product of the influence of those of Chaldea and Sumer. 88.24 Questioner: Ra must have had, shall we say, a lesson plan or course of training for the twenty-two archetypes to be given either to those of third density of Ra or, later on, to those in Egypt. Could you describe this scenario for the training course? Ra: I am Ra. This shall be the last full query of this working. We find it more nearly appropriate to discuss our plans in acquainting initiates upon your own planet with this particular version of the archetypes of the archetypical mind. Our first stage was the presentation of the images, one after the other, in the following order: one, eight, fifteen; two, nine, sixteen; three, ten, seventeen; four, eleven, eighteen; five, twelve, nineteen; six, thirteen, twenty; seven, fourteen, twenty-one; twenty-two. In this way the fundamental relationships between mind, body, and spirit could begin to be discovered, for as one sees, for instance, the Matrix of the Mind in comparison to the Matrices of Body and Spirit one may draw certain tentative conclusions. When, at length, the student had mastered these visualizations and had considered each of the seven classifications of archetype, looking at the relationships between mind, body, and spirit, we then suggested consideration of archetypes in pairs: one and two; three and four; five; six and seven. You may continue in this form for the body and spirit archetypes. You will note that the consideration of the Significator was left unpaired, for the Significator shall be paired with Archetype Twenty-Two. At the end of this line of inquiry the student was beginning to grasp more and more deeply the qualities and resonances of each archetype. At this point, using various other aids to spiritual evolution, we encouraged the initiate to learn to become each archetype and, most importantly, to know as best as possible within your illusion when the adoption of the archetype’s persona would be spiritually or metaphysically helpful. As you can see, much work was done creatively by each initiate. We have no dogma to offer. Each perceives that which is needful and helpful to the self. 10 May we ask if there are any brief queries before we leave this working? 89.14 Questioner: I have here a deck of twenty-two tarot cards which have been copied, according to information we have, from the walls of the large pyramid at Giza. If necessary we can duplicate these cards in the book which we are preparing. I would ask Ra if these cards represent an exact replica of that which is in the Great Pyramid? Ra: I am Ra. The resemblance is substantial. 89.15 Questioner: In other words, you might say that these were better than 95% correct as far as representing what is on the walls of the Great Pyramid? Ra: I am Ra. Yes. 89.23 Questioner: Then could you tell me what information you gave to the Egyptian priests who first were contacted or taught with respect to the first archetype? Is this possible for you to do within the limits of the first distortion? Ra: I am Ra. It is possible. Our first step, as we have said, was to present the descriptions in verbal form of three images: one, eight, fifteen; then the questions were asked: “What do you feel that a bird might represent?” “What do you feel that a wand might represent?” “What do you feel that the male represents?” and so forth until those studying were working upon a system whereby the images used became evocative of a system of concepts. This is slow work when done for the first time. We may note, with sympathy, that you undoubtedly feel choked by the opposite difficulty, that of a great mass of observation upon this system, all of which has some merit as each student will experience the archetypical mind and its structure in an unique way useful to that student. We suggest that one or more of this group do that which we have suggested in order that we may, without infringement, offer observations on this interesting subject which may be of further aid to those inquiring in this area. We would note at this time that the instrument is having almost continuous pain flares. Therefore, we ask that each of the support group be especially aware of any misinformation in order that we may correct any distortions of information the soonest possible. 89.24 Questioner: Now as I understand it, what you suggest as far as the tarot goes is to study the writings that we have available and from those formulate questions. Is this correct? Ra: I am Ra. No. 89.25 Questioner: I’m sorry that I didn’t understand exactly what you meant with respect to this. Would it be appropriate then for me to answer the questions with what I think is the 11 meaning of the three items that you spoke of for Card Number One and then Card Eight, etc.? Is this what you mean? Ra: I am Ra. This is very close to our meaning. It was our intention to suggest that one or more of you go through the plan of study which we have suggested. The queries having to do with the archetypes as found in the tarot after this point may take the form of observing what seem to be the characteristics of each archetype, relationships between mind, body, and spiritual archetypes of the same ranking such as Matrix, or archetypes as seen in relationship to polarity, especially when observed in the pairings. Any observations made by a student which have fulfilled the considerations will receive our comment in return. Our great avoidance of interpreting, for the first time, for the learn/teacher various elements of a picture upon a piece of pasteboard is involved both with the Law of Confusion and with the difficulties of the distortions of the pictures upon the pasteboard. Therefore, we may suggest a conscientious review of that which we have already given concerning this subject as opposed to the major reliance being either upon any rendition of the archetype pictures or any system which has been arranged as a means of studying these pictures. 92.7 Questioner: In the last session we discussed the first tarot card of the Egyptian type. Are there any distortions in the cards that we have that Ra did not originally intend or any additions that Ra did intend in this particular tarot? Ra: The distortions remaining after the removal of astrological material are those having to do with the mythos of the culture to which Ra offered this teach/learning tool. This is why we have suggested approaching the images looking for the heart of the image rather than being involved overmuch by the costumes and creatures of a culture not familiar to your present incarnation. We have no wish to add to an already distorted group of images, feeling that although distortion is inevitable there is the least amount which can be procured in the present arrangement. 92.8 Questioner: Then you are saying that the cards that we have here are the best available cards. Ra: I am Ra. Your statement is correct in that we consider the so-called Egyptian tarot the most undistorted version of the images which Ra offered. This is not to intimate that other systems may not, in their own way, form an helpful architecture for the adept’s consideration of the archetypical mind. 92.11 Questioner: Then, this occurs because the Potentiator of the Mind is directly connected, through the roots of the tree of mind, to the archetypical mind and to the Logos which created it and because of the veil between the Matrix and Potentiator of the Mind allows for the development of the will. Will Ra comment on that? 12 Ra: I am Ra. Some untangling may be needed. As the mind/body/spirit complex which has not yet reached the point of the conscious awareness of the process of evolution prepares for incarnation it has programmed for it a less than complete, that is to say a partially randomized, system of learnings. The amount of randomness of potential catalyst is proportional to the newness of the mind/body/spirit complex to third density. This, then, becomes a portion of that which you may call a potential for incarnational experience. This is indeed carried within that portion of the mind which is of the deep mind, the architecture of which may be envisioned as being represented by that concept complex known as the Potentiator. It is not in the archetypical mind of an entity that the potential for incarnational experience resides but in the mind/body/spirit complex’s insertion, shall we say, into the energy web of the physical vehicle and the chosen planetary environment. However, to more deeply articulate this portion of the mind/body/spirit complex’s being-ness this archetype, the Potentiator of the Mind, may be evoked with profit to the student of its own evolution. 92.20 Questioner: The Matrix of the Mind is depicted as a male on the card and the Potentiator as female. Could Ra state why this is and how this affects these two archetypes? Ra: I am Ra. Firstly, as we have said, the Matrix of the Mind is attracted to the biological male and the Potentiator of the Mind to the biological female. Thusly in energy transfer the female is able to potentiate that which may be within the conscious mind of the male so that it may feel enspirited. In a more general sense, that which reaches may be seen as a male principle. That which awaits the reaching may be seen as a female principle. The richness of the male and female system of polarity is interesting and we would not comment further but suggest consideration by the student. 93.16 Questioner: Are there other uses at all of tarot cards other than the one I just named? Ra: I am Ra. To the student the tarot images offer a resource for learn/teaching the processes of evolution. To any other entity these images are pictures and no more. 93.17 Questioner: I was specifically thinking of the fact that Ra, in an earlier session, spoke of the tarot as a system of divination. Would you tell me what you meant by that? Ra: I am Ra. Due to the influence of the Chaldees, the system of archetypical images was incorporated by the priests of that period into a system of astrologically based study, learning, and divination. This was not a purpose for which Ra developed the tarot. 93.21 Questioner: I’m at a loss to know the significance of the serpents that adorn the head of the entity on this drawing. Are they of Ra and, if so, what do they stand for? 13 Ra: I am Ra. They are cultural in nature. In the culture to which these images were given the serpent was the symbol of wisdom. Indeed, to the general user of these images perhaps the most accurate connotation of this portion of the concept complexes might be the realization that the serpent is that which is powerful magically. In the positive sense this means that the serpent will appear at the indigo-ray site upon the body of the image figures. When a negative connotation is intended one may find the serpent at the solar plexus center. 93.22 Questioner: Is there any significance to the serpent? Is there any polarity to the serpent as we experience it in this illusion? Ra: I am Ra. We assume that you question the serpent as used in these images rather than the second-density life form which is a portion of your experience. There is a significance to the serpent form in a culture which coexists with your own but which is not your own; that is, the serpent is symbol of that which some call the kundalini and which we have discussed in previous material. 96.15 Questioner: I have planned to re-draw the tarot cards omitting the extraneous additions by those who came after Ra and I would like quickly to go through those things that I intend to eliminate from each card and ask Ra if there is anything else that should be eliminated to make the cards as they were before the astrological and other appendages were added. I would eliminate all of the letters from the edge of the card with the possible exception of the number of the card. That would be the case for all of the cards. In Card Number One I would eliminate the star, the wand in the Magician’s hand, and I understand that the sphere remains but I am not really sure where it should be. Would Ra comment on that please? Ra: I am Ra. Firstly, the elimination of letters is acceptable. Secondly, the elimination of stars is acceptable in all cases. Thirdly, the elimination of the wand is appropriate. Fourthly, the sphere may be seen to be held by the thumb and index and second finger. Fifthly, we would note that it is not possible to offer what you may call a pure deck, if you would use this term, of tarot due to the fact that when these images were first drawn there was already distortion in various and sundry ways, mostly cultural. Sixthly, although it is good to view the images without the astrological additions, it is to be noted that the more general positions, phases, and characteristics of each concept complex are those which are significant. The removal of all distortions is unlikely and, to a great extent, unimportant. 99.6 Questioner: We now have an additional set of tarot images. Which of these two sets are closer to Ra’s original intention? 14 Ra: I am Ra. The principle which moves in accordance with the dynamics of teach/learning with most efficiency is constancy. We could explore the archetypical mind using that set of images produced by the one known as Fathman or we could use those which have been used. In point of fact, those which are being used have some subtleties which enrich the questioning. As we have said, this set of images is not that which we gave. This is not material. We could use any of a multitude of devised tarot sets. Although this must be at the discretion of the questioner, we suggest the maintaining of one and only one set of distorted images to be used for the querying and note that the images you now use are good. I: Matrix of the Mind 78.11 Questioner: Could you elaborate please on the nature and quality of the matrix and the potentiator? Ra: I am Ra. In the mind complex the matrix may be described as consciousness. It has been called the Magician. It is to be noted that of itself consciousness is unmoved. The potentiator of consciousness is the unconscious. This encompasses a vast realm of potential in the mind. In the body the matrix may be seen as Balanced Working or Even Functioning. Note that here the matrix is always active with no means of being inactive. The potentiator of the body 15 complex, then, may be called Wisdom for it is only through judgment that the unceasing activities and proclivities of the body complex may be experienced in useful modes. The Matrix of the Spirit is what you may call the Night of the Soul or Primeval Darkness. Again we have that which is not capable of movement or work. The potential power of this extremely receptive matrix is such that the potentiator may be seen as Lightning. In your archetypical system called the tarot this has been refined into the concept complex of the Lightning Struck Tower. However, the original potentiator was light in its sudden and fiery form; that is, the lightning itself. 78.32 Questioner: It just seemed to me that since the planets were an outgrowth of the Logos and since the archetypical mind was the foundation of the experience that the planets of this Logos would be somewhat related. We will certainly follow your suggestion. I have been trying to get a foothold into an undistorted perception, you might say, of the archetypical mind. It seems to me that everything that I have read having to do with archetypes has been, to some degree or another, distorted by the writers and by the fact that our language is not really capable of description. You have spoken of the Magician as a basic archetype and that this seems to have been carried through from the previous octave. Would this be in order—if there is an order—the first archetypical concept for this Logos, the concept that we call the Magician? Ra: I am Ra. We would first respond to your confusion as regards the various writings upon the archetypical mind. You may well consider the very informative difference between a thing in itself and its relationships or functions. There is much study of archetype which is actually the study of functions, relationships, and correspondences. The study of planets, for instance, is an example of archetype seen as function. However, the archetypes are, first and most profoundly, things in themselves and the pondering of them and their purest relationships with each other should be the most useful foundation for the study of the archetypical mind. We now address your query as to the archetype which is the Matrix of the Mind. As to its name, the name of Magician is understandable when you consider that consciousness is the great foundation, mystery, and revelation which makes this particular density possible. The selfconscious entity is full of the magic of that which is to come. It may be considered first, for the mind is the first of the complexes to be developed by the student of spiritual evolution. 79.19 Questioner: I would like to try to understand the archetypes of the mind of this Logos prior to the extension of the first distortion. In order to better understand that which we experience now I believe that this is a logical approach. We have, as you have stated, the matrix, the potentiator, and the significator. I understand the matrix as being that which is what we call the conscious mind, but since it is also that from which the mind is made, I am at a loss to fully understand these three terms especially with 16 respect to the time before there was a division in consciousness. Could you expand even more upon the Matrix of the Mind, the Potentiator of the Mind, and the Significator of the Mind, how they differ, and what their relationships are, please? Ra: I am Ra. The Matrix of Mind is that from which all comes. It is unmoving yet is the activator in potentiation of all mind activity. The Potentiator of the Mind is that great resource which may be seen as the sea into which the consciousness dips ever deeper and more thoroughly in order to create, ideate, and become more self-conscious. The Significator of each mind, body, and spirit may be seen as a simple and unified concept. The Matrix of the Body may be seen to be a reflection in opposites of the mind; that is, unrestricted motion. The Potentiator of the Body then is that which, being informed, regulates activity. The Matrix of the Spirit is difficult to characterize since the nature of spirit is less motile. The energies and movements of the spirit are, by far, the most profound yet, having more close association with time/space, do not have the characteristics of dynamic motion. Thusly one may see the Matrix as the deepest darkness and the Potentiator of Spirit as the most sudden awakening, illuminating, and generative influence. This is the description of Archetypes One through Nine before the onset of influence of the coCreator or sub-Logos’ realization of free will. 89.21 Questioner: In Archetype One, represented by tarot card number one, the Matrix of the Mind seems to have four basic parts to the complex. Looking at the card we have, first and most obvious, the Magician and what seems to be an approaching star. A stork or similar bird seems to be in a cage. On top of the cage seems to be something that seems to be very difficult at (?) discern. Am I in any way correct in this analysis? Ra: I am Ra. You are competent at viewing pictures. You have not yet grasped the nature of the Matrix of the Mind as fully as is reliably possible upon contemplation. We would note that the representations drawn by priests were somewhat distorted by acquaintance with and dependence upon the astrologically based teachings of the Chaldees. 90.30 Questioner: I have an observation on Archetype Number One made by (name) and I request comment on it by Ra. I will read it, “The Matrix of the Mind is the conscious mind and is sustained by the power of the spirit as symbolized by the star which flows to it through the subconscious mind. It contains the will which is signified by the scepter of power in the Magician’s hand. All of creation is made through the power of the will directed by the conscious mind of the Magician, and the bird in the cage represents the illusion in which the self seems trapped. The Magician represents maleness or the radiance of being manifested as the creation through which each entity moves.” Ra: I am Ra. As this instrument is becoming somewhat weary we shall not begin this considerable discussion. We would request that this series of observations be repeated at the 17 outset of the next working. We would suggest that each concept be discussed separately or, if appropriate, a pair of concepts be related one to the other within the concept complex. This is slow work but shall make the eventual building of the concept complexes more smoothly accomplished. Were we to have answered the observations as read by you at this space/time, as much space/time would have been given to the untangling of various concepts as to the building up of what were very thoughtful perceptions. May we ask if there are brief queries at this time? 91.19 Questioner: Thank you. We have some observations on the archetypes which are as follows. First, the Matrix of the Mind is depicted in the Egyptian tarot by a male and this we take as creative energy intelligently directed. Will Ra comment on this? Ra: I am Ra. This is an extremely thoughtful perception seeing as it does the male not specifically as biological male but as a male principle. You will note that there are very definite sexual biases in the images. They are intended to function both as information as to which biological entity or energy will attract which archetype and also as a more general view which sees polarity as a key to the archetypical mind of third density. 91.20 Questioner: The second observation is that we have a wand which has been seen as the power of the will. Will Ra comment? Ra: I am Ra. The concept of will is indeed pouring forth from each facet of the image of the Matrix of the Mind. The wand as the will, however, is, shall we say, an astrological derivative of the out-reaching hand forming the, shall we say, magical gesture. The excellent portion of the image which may be seen distinctly as separate from the concept of the wand is that sphere which indicates the spiritual nature of the object of the will of one wishing to do magical acts within the manifestation of your density. 91.21 Questioner: The hand downward has been seen as seeking from within and not from without and the active dominance over the material world. Would Ra comment on that? Ra: I am Ra. Look again, O student. Does the hand reach within? Nay. Without potentiation the conscious mind has no inwardness. That hand, O student, reaches towards that which, outside its unpotentiated influence, is locked from it. 91.22 Questioner: The square cage represents the material illusion and is an unmagical shape. Can Ra comment on that? Ra: I am Ra. The square, wherever seen, is the symbol of the third-density illusion and may be seen either as unmagical or, in the proper configuration, as having been manifested within; that is, the material world given life. 18 91.23 Questioner: The dark area around the square, then, would be the darkness of the subconscious mind. Would Ra comment on that? Ra: I am Ra. There is no further thing to say to the perceptive student. 91.24 Questioner: The checkered portion would represent polarity? Ra: I am Ra. This also is satisfactory. 91.25 Questioner: The bird is a messenger which the hand is reaching down to unlock. Can Ra comment on that? Ra: I am Ra. The winged visions or images in this system are to be noted not so much for their distinct kind as for the position of the wings. All birds are indeed intended to suggest that just as the Matrix figure, the Magician, cannot act without reaching its winged spirit, so neither can the spirit fly lest it be released into conscious manifestation and fructified thereby. 91.26 Questioner: The star would represent the potentiating forces of the subconscious mind. Is this correct? Ra: I am Ra. This particular part of this image is best seen in astrological terms. We would comment at this space/time that Ra did not include the astrological portions of these images in the system of images designed to evoke the archetypical leitmotifs. 91.27 Questioner: Are there any other additions to Card Number One other than the star that are of other than the basic archetypical aspects? Ra: I am Ra. There are details of each image seen through the cultural eye of the time of inscription. This is to be expected. Therefore, when viewing the, shall we say, Egyptian costumes and systems of mythology used in the images it is far better to penetrate to the heart of the costumes’ significance or the creatures’ significance rather than clinging to a culture which is not your own. In each entity the image will resonate slightly differently. Therefore, there is the desire upon Ra’s part to allow for the creative envisioning of each archetype using general guidelines rather than specific and limiting definitions. 91.28 Questioner: The cup represents a mixture of positive and negative passions. Could Ra comment on that? Ra: I am Ra. The otic portions of this instrument’s physical vehicle did not perceive a significant portion of your query. Please requery. 19 91.29 Questioner: There is apparently a cup which we have as containing a mixture of positive and negative influences. However, I personally doubt this. Could Ra comment on this, please? Ra: I am Ra. Doubt not the polarity, O student, but release the cup from its stricture. It is indeed a distortion of the original image. 91.30 Questioner: What was the original image? Ra: I am Ra. The original image had the checkering as the suggestion of polarity. 91.31 Questioner: Then was this a representation of the waiting polarity to be tasted by the Matrix of the Mind? Ra: I am Ra. This is exquisitely perceptive. 91.32 Questioner: I have listed here the sword as representing struggle. I am not sure that I even can call anything in this diagram a sword. Would Ra comment on that? Ra: I am Ra. Doubt not the struggle, O student, but release the sword from its stricture. Observe the struggle of a caged bird to fly. 91.33 Questioner: I have listed the coin represents work accomplished. I am also in doubt about the existence of the coin in this diagram. Could Ra comment on that please? Ra: I am Ra. Again, doubt not that which the coin is called to represent, for does not the Magus strive to achieve through the manifested world? Yet release the coin from its stricture. 91.34 Questioner: And finally, the Magician represents the conscious mind. Is this correct? Ra: I am Ra. We ask the student to consider the concept of the unfed conscious mind, the mind without any resource but consciousness. Do not confuse the unfed conscious mind with that mass of complexities which you as students experience, as you have so many, many times dipped already into the processes of potentiation, catalyst, experience, and transformation. 91.35 Questioner: Are these all of the components, then, of this first archetype? Ra: I am Ra. These are all you, the student, see. Thusly the complement is complete for you. Each student may see some other nuance. We, as we have said, did not offer these images with boundaries but only as guidelines intending to aid the adept and to establish the architecture of the deep, or archetypical, portion of the deep mind. 92.9 Questioner: I would like to make an analogy of when a baby is first born. I am assuming that the Matrix of the Mind is new and undistorted and veiled from the Potentiator of the Mind and ready for that which it is to experience in the incarnation. Is this correct? 20 Ra: I am Ra. Yes. 92.13 Questioner: The third statement: Just as free will taps intelligent infinity which yields intelligent energy which then focuses and creates the densities of this octave of experience, the Potentiator of the Mind utilizes its connection with intelligent energy and taps or potentiates the Matrix of the Mind which yields the Catalyst of the Mind. Is this correct? Ra: I am Ra. This is thoughtful but confused. The Matrix of the Mind is that which reaches just as the kinetic phase of intelligent infinity, through free will, reaches for the Logos or, in the case of the mind/body/spirit complex the sub-sub-Logos which is the free will potentiated beingness of the mind/body/spirit complex; to intelligent infinity, Love, and all that follows from that Logos; to the Matrix or, shall we say, the conscious, waiting self of each entity, the Love or the sub-sub-Logos spinning through free will all those things which may enrich the experience of the Creator by the Creator. It is indeed so that the biases of the potentials of a mind/body/spirit complex cause the catalyst of this entity to be unique and to form a coherent pattern that resembles the dance, full of movement, forming a many-figured tapestry of motion. II: Potentiator of the Mind 21 78.11 Questioner: Could you elaborate please on the nature and quality of the matrix and the potentiator? Ra: I am Ra. In the mind complex the matrix may be described as consciousness. It has been called the Magician. It is to be noted that of itself consciousness is unmoved. The potentiator of consciousness is the unconscious. This encompasses a vast realm of potential in the mind. In the body the matrix may be seen as Balanced Working or Even Functioning. Note that here the matrix is always active with no means of being inactive. The potentiator of the body complex, then, may be called Wisdom for it is only through judgment that the unceasing activities and proclivities of the body complex may be experienced in useful modes. The Matrix of the Spirit is what you may call the Night of the Soul or Primeval Darkness. Again we have that which is not capable of movement or work. The potential power of this extremely receptive matrix is such that the potentiator may be seen as Lightning. In your archetypical system called the tarot this has been refined into the concept complex of the Lightning Struck Tower. However, the original potentiator was light in its sudden and fiery form; that is, the lightning itself. 78.33 Questioner: Would the archetype then that has been called the High Priestess, which represents the intuition, be properly the second of the archetypes? Ra: I am Ra. This is correct. You see here the recapitulation of the beginning knowledge of this Logos; that is, matrix and potentiator. The unconscious is indeed what may be poetically described as High Priestess, for it is the Potentiator of the Mind and as potentiator for the mind is that principle which potentiates all experience. 79.19 Questioner: I would like to try to understand the archetypes of the mind of this Logos prior to the extension of the first distortion. In order to better understand that which we experience now I believe that this is a logical approach. We have, as you have stated, the matrix, the potentiator, and the significator. I understand the matrix as being that which is what we call the conscious mind, but since it is also that from which the mind is made, I am at a loss to fully understand these three terms especially with respect to the time before there was a division in consciousness. Could you expand even more upon the Matrix of the Mind, the Potentiator of the Mind, and the Significator of the Mind, how they differ, and what their relationships are, please? Ra: I am Ra. The Matrix of Mind is that from which all comes. It is unmoving yet is the activator in potentiation of all mind activity. The Potentiator of the Mind is that great resource which may be seen as the sea into which the consciousness dips ever deeper and more thoroughly in order to create, ideate, and become more self-conscious. 22 The Significator of each mind, body, and spirit may be seen as a simple and unified concept. The Matrix of the Body may be seen to be a reflection in opposites of the mind; that is, unrestricted motion. The Potentiator of the Body then is that which, being informed, regulates activity. The Matrix of the Spirit is difficult to characterize since the nature of spirit is less motile. The energies and movements of the spirit are, by far, the most profound yet, having more close association with time/space, do not have the characteristics of dynamic motion. Thusly one may see the Matrix as the deepest darkness and the Potentiator of Spirit as the most sudden awakening, illuminating, and generative influence. This is the description of Archetypes One through Nine before the onset of influence of the coCreator or sub-Logos’ realization of free will. 92.12 Questioner: Then are you saying that the source of pre-incarnatively programmed catalyst is the Potentiator of the Mind? Ra: I am Ra. No. We are suggesting that the Potentiator of the Mind is an archetype which may aid the adept in grasping the nature of this pre-incarnative and continuingly incarnative series of choices. 92.18 Questioner: Turning, then, to my analogy or example of the newborn infant and its undistorted Matrix of the Mind, this newborn infant has its subconscious mind veiled from the Matrix of the Mind. The second archetype, the Potentiator of the Mind, is going to act at some time through the veil—though I hesitate to say through the veil since I don’t think that is a very good way of stating it—but the Potentiator of the Mind will act to create a condition such as the example I mentioned of the infant touching a hot object. The hot object we could take as random catalyst. The infant can either leave its hand on the hot object or rapidly remove it. My question is, is the Potentiator of the Mind involved at all in this experience and, if so, how? Ra: I am Ra. The Potentiator of Mind and of Body are both involved in the questing of the infant for new experience. The mind/body/spirit complex which is an infant has one highly developed portion which may be best studied by viewing the Significators of Mind and Body. You notice we do not include the spirit. That portion of a mind/body/spirit complex is not reliably developed in each and every mind/body/spirit complex. Thusly the infant’s significant self, which is the harvest of biases of all previous incarnational experiences, offers to this infant biases with which to meet new experience. However, the portion of the infant which may be articulated by the Matrix of the Mind is indeed unfed by experience and has the bias of reaching for this experience through free will just as intelligent energy in the kinetic phase, through free will, creates the Logos. These subsub-Logoi, then, or those portions of the mind/body/spirit complex which may be articulated by consideration of the Potentiators of Mind and Body, through free will, choose to make alterations in their experiential continuum. The results of these experiments in novelty are then recorded in the portion of the mind and body articulated by the Matrices thereof. 23 92.19 Questioner: Are all activities that the entity has from the state of infancy a function of the Potentiator of the Mind? Ra: I am Ra. Firstly, although the functions of the mind are indeed paramount over those of the body, the body being the creature of the mind, certainly not all actions of a mind/body/spirit complex could be seen to be due to the potentiating qualities of the mind complex alone as the body and in some cases the spirit also potentiates action. Secondly, as a mind/body/spirit complex becomes aware of the process of spiritual evolution, more and more of the activities of the mind and body which precipitate activity are caused by those portions of the mind/body/spirit complex which are articulated by the archetypes of Transformation. 92.21 Questioner: In Card #2, the Potentiator of the Mind, we see a female seated on a rectangular block. She is veiled and sitting between two pillars which seem to be identically covered with drawings but one is much darker than the other. I am assuming that the veil represents the veil between the conscious and subconscious or Matrix and Potentiator of the Mind. Is this correct? Ra: I am Ra. This is quite correct. 92.22 Questioner: I am assuming that she sits between the different colored columns, with the dark one on her left, to indicate at this position an equal opportunity for the potentiation of the mind to be of the negative or positive nature. Would Ra comment on this? Ra: I am Ra. Although this is correct it is not as perceptive as the notice that the Priestess, as this figure has been called, sits within a structure in which polarity, symbolized as you correctly noted by the light and dark pillars, is an integral and necessary part. The unfed mind has no polarity just as intelligent infinity has none. The nature of the sub-sub-sub-Logos which offers the third-density experience is one of polarity, not by choice but by careful design. We perceive an unclear statement. The polarity of Potentiator is there not for the Matrix to choose. It is there for the Matrix to accept as given. 92.23 Questioner: In other words, this particular illusion has polarity as its foundation which might be represented by the structural significance of these columns. Is this correct? Ra: I am Ra. This is correct. 92.24 Questioner: It seems to me that the drawings on each of these columns are identical but that the left-hand column, that is the one on the Priestess’s left, has been shaded much darker indicating that the events and the experiences may be identical in the incarnation but may be approached, viewed, and utilized with either polarity. Is this correct? 24 Ra: I am Ra. This is correct. You will note also, from the symbol denoting spirit in manifestation upon each pillar, that the One Infinite Creator is no respecter of polarity but offers Itself in full to all. 92.25 Questioner: There seems to be a book on the Priestess’s lap which is half hidden by a robe or material that covers her right shoulder. It would seem that this indicates that knowledge is available if the veil is lifted but is not only hidden by the veil but is hidden partially by her very garment which she must somehow remove to become aware of the knowledge which she has available. Is this correct? Ra: I am Ra. In that the conceit of the volume was not originated by Ra we ask that you release the volume from its strictured form. Your perceptions are quite correct. The very nature of the feminine principle of mind which, in Ra’s suggestion, was related specifically to what may be termed sanctified sexuality is, itself, without addition, the book which neither the feminine nor the male principle may use until the male principle has reached and penetrated, in a symbolically sexual fashion, the inner secrets of this feminine principle. All robes, in this case indicating the outer garments of custom, shield these principles. Thusly there is great dynamic tension, if you will, betwixt the Matrix and the Potentiator of the Mind. 92.26 Questioner: Are there any other parts of this picture that were not given by Ra? Ra: I am Ra. The astrological symbols offered are not given by Ra. 92.27 Questioner: The fact that the Priestess sits atop the rectangular block indicates to me that the Potentiator of the Mind has dominance or is above the material illusion. Is this in any way correct? Ra: I am Ra. Let us say, rather, that this figure is immanent, near at hand, shall we say, within all manifestation. The opportunities for the reaching to the Potentiator are numerous. However, of itself the Potentiator does not enter manifestation. 92.28 Questioner: Would the half moon on the crown represent the receptivity of the subconscious mind? Ra: I am Ra. This symbol is not given by Ra but it is not distasteful for within your own culture the moon represents the feminine, the sun the masculine. Thusly we accept this portion as a portion of the image, for it seems without significant distortion. 92.29 Questioner: Was the symbol on the front of the Priestess’s shirt given by Ra? Ra: I am Ra. The crux ansata is the correct symbol. The addition and slight distortion of this symbol thereby is astrological and may be released from its stricture. 25 92.30 Questioner: Would this crux ansata then be indicating the sign of life as the spirit enlivening matter? Ra: I am Ra. This is quite correct. Moreover, it illuminates a concept which is a portion of the archetype which has to do with the continuation of the consciousness which is being potentiated, in incarnation, beyond incarnation. 92.31 Questioner: Were the grapes depicted on the cloth over her shoulder of Ra’s communication? Ra: I am Ra. Yes. 92.32 Questioner: We have those as indicating the fertility of the subconscious mind. Is that correct? Ra: I am Ra. This is correct, O student, but note ye the function of the mantle. There is great protection given by the very character of potentiation. To bear fruit is a protected activity. 92.33 Questioner: The protection here seems to be depicted as being on the right-hand side but not the left. Would this indicate that there is protection for the positive path but not for the negative? Ra: I am Ra. You perceive correctly an inborn bias offering to the seeing eye and listing ear information concerning the choice of the more efficient polarity. We would at this time, as you may call it, suggest one more full query. 26 III: Catalyst of the Mind 78.34 Questioner: Then for the third archetype would the Empress be correct and be related to disciplined meditation? Ra: I am Ra. I perceive a mind complex intention of a query, but was aware only of sound vibratory statement. Please re-question. 78.35 Questioner: I was asking if the third archetype was the Empress and was it correct to say that this archetype had to do with disciplined meditation? Ra: I am Ra. The third archetype may broadly be grasped as the Catalyst of the Mind. Thus it takes in far more than disciplined meditation. However, it is certainly through this faculty that catalyst is most efficiently used. The Archetype, Three, is perhaps confusedly called Empress although the intention of this number is the understanding that it represents the unconscious or female portion of the mind complex being first, shall we say, used or ennobled by the male or conscious portion of the mind. Thus the noble name. 93.7 Questioner: With the third tarot card we come to the first addition of archetypes after the veiling process, as I understand it. I am assuming that this third archetype is, shall I say, loaded in a way so as to create the possible polarization since that seems to be one of the primary objectives of this particular Logos in the evolutionary process. Am I in any way correct on that? 27 Ra: I am Ra. Before we reply to your query we ask your patience as we must needs examine the mind complex of this instrument in order that we might attempt to move the left manual appendage of the instrument. If we are not able to affect some relief from pain we shall take our leave. Please have patience while we do that which is appropriate. (30 second pause.) I am Ra. There will continue to be pain flares. However, the critical portion of the intense pain has been alleviated by repositioning…. Your supposition is correct. 93.8 Questioner: There seems to be no large hint of polarity in this drawing except for the possible coloration of the many cups in the wheel. Part of them are colored black and part are colored white. Would this indicate that each experience has within it the possible negative or positive use of that experience that is randomly generated by this seeming wheel of fortune? Ra: I am Ra. Your supposition is thoughtful. However, it is based upon an addition to the concept complex which is astrological in origin. Therefore, we request that you retain the concept of polarity but release the cups from their strictured form. The element you deal with is not in motion in its original form but is indeed the abiding sun which, from the spirit, shines in protection over all catalyst available from the beginning of complexity to the discerning mind/body/spirit complex. Indeed you may, rather, find polarity expressed, firstly, by the many opportunities offered in the material illusion which is imaged by the not-white and not-dark square upon which the entity of the image is seated, secondly, upon the position of that seated entity. It does not meet opportunity straight on but glances off to one side or another. In the image you will note a suggestion that the offering of the illusion will often seem to suggest the opportunities lying upon the left-hand path or, as you might refer to it more simply, the service-to-self path. This is a portion of the nature of the Catalyst of the Mind. 93.9 Questioner: The feet of the entity seem to be on an unstable platform that is dark to the rear and light to the front. I am guessing that possibly this indicates that the entity standing on this could sway in either direction, to the left or to the right-hand path. Is this correct? Ra: I am Ra. This is most perceptive. 93.10 Questioner: The bird, I am guessing, might be a messenger of the two paths depicted by the position of the wings bringing catalyst which could be used to polarize on either path. Is this in any way correct? Ra: I am Ra. It is a correct perception that the position of the winged creature is significant. The more correct perception of this entity and its significance is the realization that the mind/body/spirit complex is, having made contact with its potentiated self, now beginning its flight towards that great Logos which is that which is sought by the adept. 28 Further, the nature of the winged creature is echoed both by the female holding it and the symbol of the female upon which the figure’s feet rest; that is, the nature of catalyst is overwhelmingly of an unconsciousness, coming from that which is not of the mind and which has no connection with the intellect, as you call it, which precedes or is concomitant with catalytic action. All uses of catalyst by the mind are those consciously applied to catalyst. Without conscious intent the use of catalyst is never processed through mediation, ideation, and imagination. 93.11 Questioner: I would like, if possible, an example of the activity we call Catalyst of the Mind in a particular individual undergoing this process. Could Ra give an example of that? Ra: I am Ra. All that assaults your senses is catalyst. We, in speaking to this support group through this instrument, offer catalyst. The configurations of each in the group of body offer catalyst through comfort/discomfort. In fact all that is unprocessed that has come before the notice of a mind/body/spirit complex is catalyst. 93.13 Questioner: Would I be correct in saying that the archetype for the Catalyst of the Mind is the Logos’s model for its most efficient plan for the activity or use of the catalyst of the mind? Ra: I am Ra. Yes. 93.18 Questioner: The third card also shows the wand, I am assuming it is, in the right hand. The ball atop the wand is the round magical shape. Am I in any way correct in guessing that the Catalyst of the Mind suggests the possible eventual use of the magic depicted by this wand? Ra: I am Ra. The wand is astrological in its origin and as an image may be released from its stricture. The sphere of spiritual power is an indication indeed that each opportunity is pregnant with the most extravagant magical possibilities for the far-seeing adept. 93.19 Questioner: The fact that the clothing of the entity is transparent indicates the semipermeability of the veil for the catalytic process. Is this correct? Ra: I am Ra. We again must pause. (15 second pause.) I am Ra. We continue under somewhat less than optimal conditions. However, due to the nature of this instrument’s opening to us our pathway is quite clear and we shall continue. Because of pain flares we must ask you to repeat your last query. 93.20 Questioner: I was just wondering if the transparency of the garments on the third card indicates the semi-permeable nature of the veil between the conscious and unconscious mind? Ra: I am Ra. This is a thoughtful perception and cannot be said to be incorrect. However, the intended suggestion, in general, is an echo of our earlier suggestion that the nature of catalyst is that of the unconscious; that is, outward catalyst comes through the veil. 29 All that you perceive seems to be consciously perceived. This is not the correct supposition. All that you perceive is perceived as catalyst unconsciously. By the, shall we say, time that the mind begins its appreciation of catalyst, that catalyst has been filtered through the veil and in some cases much is veiled in the most apparently clear perception. 94.11 Questioner: I have drawn a small diagram in which I simply show an arrow which represents catalyst penetrating a line at right angles to the arrow, which is the veil, depositing in one of two repositories which I would call the right-hand path and the left-hand path, and I have labeled these two repositories the Experience. Would this be a very rough analogy of the way the catalyst is filtered through the veil to become experience? Ra: I am Ra. Again, you are partially correct. The deeper biases of a mind/body/spirit complex pilot the catalyst around the many isles of positivity and negativity as expressed in the archipelago of the deeper mind. However, the analogy is incorrect in that it does not take into account the further polarization which most certainly is available to the conscious mind after it has perceived the partially polarized catalyst from the deeper mind. 96.17 Questioner: I think that I should put a crux ansata in the place of this thing that looks a little like a crux ansata on the front of the female. Is that correct? Ra: I am Ra. This is correct. 96.18 Questioner: Then as to the thing that she wears on her head, that, I believe, is a bit confusing. What should it be shaped like? Ra: I am Ra. We shall allow the student to ponder this point. We note that although it is an astrologically based addition to the concept complex it is not entirely unacceptable when viewed with a certain feeling. Therefore, we suggest, O student, that you choose whether to remove the crown or to name its meaning in such a way as to enhance the concept complex. 96.20 Questioner: In Card Number Three we will remove all the letters and the stars and I assume that the little cups around the outside of the rays representing the sun should be removed? Is that correct? Ra: I am Ra. Yes 30 IV: Experience of the Mind 78.36 Questioner: The fourth archetype is called the Emperor and seems to have to do with experience of other-selves and the green-ray energy center with respect to other-selves. Is this correct? Ra: I am Ra. This is perceptive. The broad name for Archetype Four may be the Experience of the Mind. In the tarot you find the name of Emperor. Again this implies nobility and in this case we may see the suggestion that it is only through the catalyst which has been processed by the potentiated consciousness that experience may ensue. Thusly is the conscious mind ennobled by the use of the vast resources of the unconscious mind. This instrument’s dorsal side grows stiff, and the instrument tires. We welcome one more query. 94.12 Questioner: It seems to me that the Experience of the Mind would act in such a way as to change the nature of the veil so that catalyst would be filtered so as to be acceptable in the bias that is increasingly chosen by the entity. For instance, if he had chosen the right-hand path the Experience of the Mind would change the permeability of the veil to accept more and more positive catalyst. Also the other would be true for accepting more negative catalyst if the lefthand path were the one that was chosen. Is this correct? 31 Ra: I am Ra. This is not only correct but there is a further ramification. As the entity increases in experience it shall, more and more, choose positive interpretations of catalyst if it is upon the service-to-others path and negative interpretations of catalyst if its experience has been of the service-to-self path. 94.13 Questioner: Then the mechanism designed by the Logos of the action of catalyst resulting in experience was planned to be self-accelerating in that it would create this process of variable permeability. Is this an adequate statement? Ra: I am Ra. There is no variable permeability involved in the concepts we have just discussed. Except for this, you are quite correct. 94.14 Questioner: Now I can understand, to use a poor term again, the necessity for the archetype of Catalyst of the Mind but what is the reason for having a blueprint or model for the Experience of the Mind other than this simple model of dual repositories for negative and positive catalyst? It seems to me that the first distortion of free will would be better served if no model for experience was made. Could you clear that up for me? Ra: I am Ra. Your question is certainly interesting and your confusion hopefully productive. We cannot learn/teach for the student. We shall simply note, as we have previously, the attraction of various archetypes to male and to female. We suggest that this line of consideration may prove productive. 94.15 Questioner: In the fourth archetype the card shows a male whose body faces forward. I assume that this indicates that the Experience of the Mind will reach for catalyst. However, the face is to the left which indicates to me that in reaching for catalyst, negative catalyst will be more apparent in its power and effect. Would Ra comment on this? Ra: I am Ra. The archetype of Experience of the Mind reaches not, O student, but, with firm authority, grasps what it is given. The remainder of your remarks are perceptive. 94.16 Questioner: The Experience is seated upon the square of the material illusion which is colored much darker than in Card Number Three. However, there is a cat inside of this square. I am guessing as experience is gained the second-density nature of the illusion is understood and the negative and positive aspects separate. Would Ra comment on this? Ra: I am Ra. This interpretation varies markedly from Ra’s intention. We direct the attention to the cultural meaning of the great cat which guards. What, O student, does it guard? And with what oriflamme does it lighten that darkness of manifestation? The polarities are, indeed, present; the separation nonexistent except through the sifting which is the result of cumulative experience. Other impressions were intended by this configuration of the seated image with its milk-white leg and its pointed foot. 32 94.17 Questioner: In Card Number Three the feet of the female entity are upon the unstable platform, signifying the dual polarity by its color. In Card Number Four one foot is pointed so that if the male entity stands on the toe it would be carefully balanced. The other foot is pointed to the left. Would Ra comment on my observation that if the entity stands on this foot it will be very, very carefully balanced? Ra: I am Ra. This is an important perception, for it is a key to not only this concept complex but to others as well. You may see the T-square which, at times riven as is one foot from secure fundament by the nature of experience yet still by this same nature of experience, is carefully, precisely, and architecturally placed in the foundation of this concept complex and, indeed, in the archetypical mind complex. Experience* has the nature of more effectively and poignantly expressing the architecture of experience, both the fragility of structure and the surety of structure. * i.e. Card Number Four, Experience of the Mind. 94.18 Questioner: It would seem to me, from the configuration of this male entity in Card Number Four, who looks to the left with the right foot pointed to the left, that this card would indicate you must be in a defensive position with respect to the left-hand path, but there is no need to concern yourself about protection with respect to the right-hand path. Would Ra comment on that? Ra: I am Ra. Again, this is not the suggestion we wished to offer by constructing this image. However, the perception cannot be said to be incorrect. 94.19 Questioner: The magical shape is on the right edge of the Card Number Four which indicates to me that the spiritual experience would be on the right-hand path. Could Ra comment on that? Ra: I am Ra. Yes. The figure is expressing the nature of experience by having its attention caught by what may be termed the left-hand catalyst. Meanwhile, the power, the magic, is available upon the right-hand path. The nature of experience is such that the attention shall be constantly given varieties of experience. Those that are presumed to be negative, or interpreted as negative, may seem in abundance. It is a great challenge to take catalyst and devise the magical, positive experience. That which is magical in the negative experience is much longer coming, shall we say, in the third density. 94.20 Questioner: Both the third and fourth archetypes, as I see it, work together for the sole purpose of creating the polarity in the most efficient manner possible. Is this correct? Ra: I am Ra. This cannot be said to be incorrect. We suggest contemplation of this thought complex. 33 94.22 Questioner: Thank you. Then we’re expecting, in Card Number Four, to see the result of catalytic action and, therefore, a greater definition between the dark and the light areas. In just glancing at this card we notice that it is more definitely darkly colored in some areas and more white in others in a general sense than in Card Number Three, indicating to me that the separation along the two biases has occurred and should occur in order to follow the blueprint for experience. Could Ra comment on that? Ra: I am Ra. You are perceptive, O student. 94.23 Questioner: The bird in Card Number Three now seems to be internalized in the center of the entity in Card Number Four in that it has changed from its flight in Card Number Three. The flight has achieved its objective and has become a part, a central part, of the experience. Could Ra comment on that? Ra: I am Ra. This perception is correct, O student, but what shall the student find the bird to signify? 94.24 Questioner: I would guess that the bird signifies that a communication that comes as catalyst signified in Card Number Three is accepted by the female and, used, becomes a portion of the experience. I’m not sure of that at all. Am I in any way correct? Ra: I am Ra. That bears little of sense. 94.25 Questioner: I’ll have to work on that. Then I am guessing that the crossed legs of the entity in Card Four have a meaning similar to the crux ansata. Is this correct? Ra: I am Ra. This is correct. The cross formed by the living limbs of the image signifies that which is the nature of mind/body/spirit complexes in manifestation within your illusion. There is no experience which is not purchased by effort of some kind, no act of service-to-self or others which does not bear a price, to the entity manifesting, commensurate with its purity. All things in manifestation may be seen in one way or another to be offering themselves in order that transformations may take place upon the level appropriate to the action. 94.26 Questioner: The bird is within the circle on the front of the entity on Card Four. Would that have the same significance of the circular part of the crux ansata? Ra: I am Ra. It is a specialized form of this meaningful shape. It is specialized in great part due to the nature of the crossed legs of manifestation which we have previously discussed. 94.27 Questioner: The entity on Card Four wears a strangely shaped skirt. Is there a significance to the shape of this skirt? 34 Ra: I am Ra. Yes. 94.28 Questioner: The skirt is extended toward the left hand but is somewhat shorter toward the right. There is a black bag hanging from the belt of the entity on the left side. It seems to me that this black bag has a meaning of the acquiring of the material possessions of wealth as a part of the left-hand path. Would Ra comment on that? Ra: I am Ra. Although this meaning was not intended by Ra as part of this complex of concepts we find the interpretation quite acceptable. (30 second pause.) I am Ra. As we observe a lull in the questioning we shall take this opportunity to say that the level of transferred energy dwindles rapidly and we would offer the opportunity for one more full question at this working, if it is desired. 94.29 Questioner: I would just state that this card, being male, would indicate that as experience is gained the mind becomes the motivator or that which reaches or does more than the simple experiencer it was prior to the gaining of the catalytic action. There is a greater tendency for the mind to direct the mind/body/spirit complex, and other than that I would just ask if there is anything that we can do to make the instrument more comfortable or to improve the contact? Ra: I am Ra. In the context of your penultimate query we would suggest that you ponder again the shape of the garment which the image wears. Such habiliment is not natural. The shape is significant and is so along the lines of your query. The support group cares well for the instrument. We would ask that care be taken as the instrument has been offered the gift of a distortion towards extreme cold by the fifth-density friend which greets you. Although you may be less than pleased with the accouterments, may we say that all was as carefully prepared as each was able. More than that none can do. Therefore, we thank each for the careful alignments. All is well. We leave you, my friends, in the love and in the light of the One Glorious Infinite Creator. Go forth, then, rejoicing in the power and in the peace of the One. Adonai. 95.20 Questioner: For the condition of meeting after the veiling process, either entity will choose, as a function of its previous biases or Card Four, the experience and the way in which it will handle the situation with respect to polarity, therefore probably producing more catalyst for itself along the chosen path of polarization. Would Ra comment on this statement? Ra: I am Ra. This statement is correct. 35 95.21 Questioner: In Card Four in the last session we spoke of the shape of the skirt and it has occurred to us that the skirt of the entity representing the archetype of the Experience of the Mind is extended to the left to indicate that other-selves would not be able to get close to this entity if it had chosen the left-hand path. There would be a greater separation between it and other-selves, whereas if it had chosen the right-hand path there would be much less of a separation. Would Ra comment on that observation? Ra: I am Ra. The student is perceptive. 95.22 Questioner: And it seems that the square upon which the entity sits, which is almost totally black, is a representation of the material illusion and the white cat is guarding the righthand path which is now separated in experience from the left. Would Ra comment on that observation? Ra: I am Ra. O student, your sight almost sees that which was intended. However, the polarities need no guardians. What, then, O student, needs the guard? 95.23 Questioner: What I meant to say was that the entity is guarded along the right-hand path, once it has chosen this path, from effects of the material illusion that are of the negative polarity. Would Ra comment on that? Ra: I am Ra. This is an accurate perception of our intent, O student. We may note that the great cat guards in direct proportion to the purity of the manifestations of intention and the purity of inner work done along this path. 95.24 Questioner: From that statement I interpret the following. If the Experience of the Mind has sufficiently chosen the right-hand path, and as total purity is approached in the choosing of the right-hand path, then total imperviousness from the effect of the left-hand catalyst is also approached. Is this correct? Ra: I am Ra. This is exquisitely perceptive. The seeker which has purely chosen the service-toothers path shall certainly not have a variant apparent incarnational experience. There is no outward shelter in your illusion from the gusts, flurries, and blizzards of quick and cruel catalyst. However, to the pure, all that is encountered speaks of the love and the light of the One Infinite Creator. The cruelest blow is seen with an ambiance of challenges offered and opportunities to come. Thusly, the great pitch of light is held high above such an one so that all interpretation may be seen to be protected by light. 95.26 Questioner: Am I to understand, then, that there is no protection at all if the Experience of the Mind has chosen the left-hand path and that path is traveled? All random catalyst may affect the negatively polarized individual as a function of the statistical nature of the random catalyst. Is this correct? 36 Ra: I am Ra. This is correct. You may note some of those of your peoples which, at this space/time nexus, seek places of survival. This is due to the lack of protection when service to self is invoked. 95.27 Questioner: The possibility of the legs of the entity of Card Four being at right angles was linked with the tesseract*, mentioned in a much earlier session by Ra, as the direction of transformation from space/time into time/space and I was thinking that possibly it was also linked with the crux ansata. Am I in any way correct in this observation? Ra: I am Ra. This shall be the last query of this working, as transferred energy wanes. The observation of the right angles and their transformational meaning is most perceptive, O student. Each of the images leading to the Transformations of Mind, Body, and Spirit and ultimately to the great transformative Choice has the increasing intensity of increasing articulation of concept; that is to say, each image in which you find this angle may increasingly be seen to be a more and more stridently calling voice of opportunity to use each resource, be it experience as you now observe or further images, for the grand work of the adept which builds towards transformation using the spirit’s bountiful shuttle to intelligent infinity. Please ask any brief queries at this space/time. * Tesseract: in speculative mathematics, a cube which has developed at least one additional dimension. 96.21 Questioner: In Card Number Four we will remove all letters and stars, and it seems that again we have a situation of removing the wand and putting the sphere in the hand. Correct? Ra: I am Ra. Again, this is a matter of choice. Though astrological in nature, this particular scepter has possibilities of relevance in the originally intended concept complex. This instrument is experiencing some small lack of that distortion which you call proper breathing due to the experience of your near past, as you perceive it. Therefore, as this instrument has requested a substantial enough amount of transferred energy to be retained that it might effect a comfortable re-entry, we shall at this time ask for one more query, after noting the following. We did not complete our statement upon the dimensions of the crux ansata. It is given in many places. There are decisions to be made as to which drawing of this image is the appropriate one. We may, of course, suggest viewing the so-called Great Pyramid if the puzzle is desired. We do not wish to work this puzzle. It was designed in order that in its own time it be deciphered. In general, of course, this image has the meaning previously stated. 37 V: Significator of the Mind 79.17 Questioner: I now understand what you meant in the previous session by saying that to extend free will the significator must become a complex. It seems that the significator has become the complex that is the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh of the mind, the tenth on of the body, and the seventeenth on of the spirit. Is this correct? Ra: I am Ra. This is incorrect. 79.18 Questioner: What [do] you mean by “the significator must become a complex”? Ra: I am Ra. To be complex is to consist of more than one characteristic element or concept. 79.19 Questioner: I would like to try to understand the archetypes of the mind of this Logos prior to the extension of the first distortion. In order to better understand that which we experience now I believe that this is a logical approach. We have, as you have stated, the matrix, the potentiator, and the significator. I understand the matrix as being that which is what we call the conscious mind, but since it is also that from which the mind is made, I am at a loss to fully understand these three terms especially with respect to the time before there was a division in consciousness. Could you expand even more upon the Matrix of the Mind, the Potentiator of the Mind, and the Significator of the Mind, how they differ, and what their relationships are, please? 38 Ra: I am Ra. The Matrix of Mind is that from which all comes. It is unmoving yet is the activator in potentiation of all mind activity. The Potentiator of the Mind is that great resource which may be seen as the sea into which the consciousness dips ever deeper and more thoroughly in order to create, ideate, and become more self-conscious. The Significator of each mind, body, and spirit may be seen as a simple and unified concept. The Matrix of the Body may be seen to be a reflection in opposites of the mind; that is, unrestricted motion. The Potentiator of the Body then is that which, being informed, regulates activity. The Matrix of the Spirit is difficult to characterize since the nature of spirit is less motile. The energies and movements of the spirit are, by far, the most profound yet, having more close association with time/space, do not have the characteristics of dynamic motion. Thusly one may see the Matrix as the deepest darkness and the Potentiator of Spirit as the most sudden awakening, illuminating, and generative influence. This is the description of Archetypes One through Nine before the onset of influence of the coCreator or sub-Logos’ realization of free will. 79.35 Questioner: Would the Hierophant then be somewhat of a governor or sorter of these effects so as to create the proper assimilation by the unconscious of that which comes through the conscious? Ra: I am Ra. Although thoughtful, the supposition is incorrect in its heart. 79.36 Questioner: What would be the Hierophant? Ra: I am Ra. The Hierophant is the Significator of the Body* complex, its very nature. We may note that the characteristics of which you speak do have bearing upon the Significator of the Mind complex but are not the heart. The heart of the mind complex is that dynamic entity which absorbs, seeks, and attempts to learn. * Ra corrected this error in session #80. The Hierophant is the Significator of the Mind. 79.37 Questioner: Then is the Hierophant that link… between the mind and the body? Ra: I am Ra. There is a strong relationship between the significators of the mind, the body, and the spirit. Your statement is too broad. 79.41 Questioner: Then I will just ask about the one of the archetypes which I am the least able to understand at this point if I can use that word at all. I am still very much in the dark, so to speak, in respect to the Hierophant and precisely what it is. Could you give me some other indication of what that is? 39 Ra: I am Ra. You have been most interested in the Significator which must needs become complex. The Hierophant is the original archetype of mind which has been made complex through the subtile movements of the conscious and unconscious. The complexities of mind were evolved rather than the simple melding of experience from Potentiator to Matrix. The mind itself became an actor possessed of free will and, more especially, will. As the Significator of the mind, the Hierophant has the will to know, but what shall it do with its knowledge, and for what reasons does it seek? The potentials of a complex significator are manifold. Are there any brief queries at this working? 92.14 Questioner: The fourth statement: When the Catalyst of the Mind is processed by the entity the Experience of the Mind results. Is this correct? Ra: I am Ra. There are subtle mis-directions in this simple statement having to do with the overriding qualities of the Significator. It is so that catalyst yields experience. However, through free will and the faculty of imperfect memory catalyst is most often only partially used and the experience thus correspondingly skewed. 92.15 Questioner: Then, the dynamic process between the Matrix, Potentiator, Catalyst, and Experience of the Mind forms the nature of the mind or Significator of the Mind. Is this correct? Ra: I am Ra. As our previous response suggests, the Significator of the Mind is both actor and acted upon. With this exception the statement is largely correct. 92.34 Questioner: I will attempt an example of the Potentiator of the Mind acting. As the infant gains time in incarnation would it experience the Potentiator offering both positive and negative potential thoughts, shall I say, for the Matrix to experience which then begin to accumulate in the Matrix and color it one way or the other in polarity depending upon its continuing choice of that polarity? Is this in any way correct? Ra: I am Ra. Firstly, again may we distinguish between the archetypical mind and the process of incarnational experience of the mind/body/spirit complex. Secondly, each potentiation which has been reached for by the Matrix is recorded by the Matrix but experienced by the Significator. The experience of the Significator of this potentiated activity is of course dependent upon the acuity of its processes of Catalyst and Experience. 97.10 Questioner: Thank you. Card Number Five, the Significator of the Mind, indicates, firstly, as I see it, simply a male within a rectangularly structured form which suggests to me that the Significator of the Mind in third density is well bounded within the illusion, as is also suggested by the fact that the base of the male is a rectangular form showing no ability for movement. Would Ra comment on that? 40 Ra: I am Ra. O student, you have grasped the barest essence of the nature of the Significator’s complete envelopment within the rectangle. Consider for the self, O student, whether your thoughts can walk. The abilities of the most finely honed mentality shall not be known without the use of the physical vehicle which you call the body. Through the mouth the mind may speak. Through the limbs the mind may affect action. 97.11 Questioner: The entity looks to the left, indicating that the mind has the tendency to notice more easily catalyst of a negative essence. Would Ra comment on that observation? Ra: I am Ra. This is substantially correct. 97.12 Questioner: There are two small entities at the bottom, one black and one white. I will first ask Ra if this drawing is correct in the coloring? Is the black one in the proper position with respect to Ra’s original drawings? Ra: I am Ra. That which you perceive as black was first red. Other than this difference, the beings in the concept complex are placed correctly. 97.13 Questioner: The red coloration is a mystery to me. We had originally decided that these represented the polarization of the mind. Would Ra comment on that? Ra: I am Ra. The indications of polarity are as presumed by the questioner. The symbolism of old for the left-hand path was the russet coloration. We shall pause at this time if the questioner will be patient. There are fairly serious difficulties with the instrument’s throat. We shall attempt to ameliorate the situation and suggest the rewalking of the Circle of One. (The Circle of One was re-walked and breath expelled two feet above the instrument’s head.) 97.16 Questioner: I was wondering why the dark entity was on the right side of the card in relation to the Significator. Could Ra comment on that after making the instrument cough? Ra: (Cough) The nature of … We pause. (Ten second pause.) I am Ra. There was a serious pain flare. We may now continue. The nature of polarity is interesting in that those experiences offered to the Significator as positive frequently become recorded as productive of biases which may be seen to be negative, whereas the fruit of those experiences apparently negative is frequently found to be helpful in the development of the service-to-others bias. As this is perhaps the guiding characteristic of that which the mind processes and records, these symbols of polarity have thusly been placed. 41 You may note that the hands of the central image indicate the appropriate bias for right and left-hand working; that is, the right hand gestures in service-to-others, offering its light outward. The left hand attempts to absorb the power of the spirit and point it for its use alone. 97.17 Questioner: The eight cartouches at the bottom would possibly signify the energy centers and the evolution through those centers with the possibility for positive or negative polarization because of the white and black coloration of the figures. Would Ra comment on that after making the instrument cough? Ra: (Cough) I am Ra. The observations of the student are perceptive. It is informative to continue the study of octaves in association with this concept complex. Many are the octaves of a mind/body/spirit complex’s beingness. There is not one that does not profit from being pondered in connection with the considerations of the nature of the development of polarity exemplified by the concept complex of your Card Number Five. 97.18 Questioner: Do the symbols on the face of each of these little cartouches such as the birds and the other symbols have a meaning in this card that is of value in considering the archetypes? Could you answer that after making the instrument cough? Ra: (Cough) I am Ra. These symbols are letters and words much as your language would receive such an entablature. They are, to a great extent, enculturated by a people not of your generation. Let us, in the rough, suggest that the information written upon these cartouches be understood to be such as the phrase, “And you shall be born again to eternal life.” 99.7 Questioner: The wings above Card Five, I am guessing, have to do with a protection over the Significator of the Mind. I am guessing they are a symbol of protection. Is this… correct? Ra: I am Ra. Let us say that you are not incorrect but rather less than correct. The Significator owns a covenant with the spirit which it shall in some cases manifest through the thought and action of the adept. If there is protection in a promise, then you have chosen the correct sound vibration, for the outstretched wings of spirit, high above manifestation, yet draw the caged mind onward. 42 VI: Transformation of the Mind 79.38 Questioner: Let me skip over the Hierophant for a minute because I am really not understanding that at all and just ask if the Lovers represent a merging of the conscious and the unconscious or the communication of the conscious and unconscious? Ra: I am Ra. Again, without being at all unperceptive, you miss the heart of this particular archetype which may be more properly called the Transformation of the Mind. 79.39 Questioner: Transformation of the mind into what? Ra: I am Ra. As you observe Archetype Six you may see the student of the mysteries being transformed by the need to choose betwixt the light and the dark in mind. 99.8 Questioner: Thank you. In Card Number Six I see the Transformation of the Mind, the male with crossed arms, representing transformation. The transformation is possible either toward the left or the right-hand path. The path is beckoned or led by the female, the Potentiator. The one on the right has the serpent of wisdom at the brow and is fully clothed, the one on the left having less clothing and indicating that the Potentiator is more concerned or attracted to the physical as the left-hand path is chosen and more concerned and attracted to the mental as the right-hand path is chosen. 43 The creature above points an arrow at the left-hand path indicating that if this path is chosen the chips, shall we say, will fall where they may, the path being unprotected as far as the activity of catalyst. The intellectual abilities of the chooser of the left-hand path would be the main guardian rather than the designed or built-in protection of the Logos for the right-hand path. The entity firing the arrow seems to be a second density entity which indicates that this catalyst could be produced by a lesser evolved source, you might say. Would Ra comment on these observations? Ra: I am Ra. We shall speak upon several aspects seriatim. Firstly, let us examine the crossed arms of the male who is to be transformed. What, O student, do you make of the crossing? What see you in this tangle? There is a creative point to be found in this element which was not discussed overmuch by the questioner. Let us now observe the evaluation of the two females. The observation that to the left-hand path moves the roughly physical and to the right-hand path the mental has a shallow correctness. There are deeper observations to be made concerning the relationship of the great sea of the unconscious mind to the conscious mind which may fruitfully be pursued. Remember, O student, that these images are not literal. They haunt rather than explicate. Many use the trunk and roots of mind as if that portion of mind were a badly used, prostituted entity. Then this entity gains from this great storehouse that which is rough, prostituted, and without great virtue. Those who turn to the deep mind, seeing it in the guise of the maiden, go forth to court it. The courtship has nothing of plunder in its semblance and may be protracted, yet the treasure gained by such careful courtship is great. The right-hand and left-hand transformations of the mind may be seen to differ by the attitude of the conscious mind towards its own resources as well as the resources of other-selves. We now speak of that genie, or elemental, or mythic figure, culturally determined, which sends the arrow to the left-hand transformation. This arrow is not the arrow which kills but rather that which, in its own way, protects. Those who choose separation, that being the quality most indicative of the left-hand path, are protected from other-selves by a strength and sharpness equivalent to the degree of transformation which the mind has experienced in the negative sense. Those upon the right-hand path have no such protection against other-selves for upon that path the doughty seeker shall find many mirrors for reflection in each other-self it encounters. 99.10 Questioner: In that case I will just ask this short question as we terminate this session. I want to know if the Logos of this system planned for the mating process as possibly depicted in Card Six—I don’t know if this is related to some type of DNA imprinting. In many second-density creatures there seems to be some sort of imprinting that creates a lifetime mating relationship and I was wondering if this was also carried into third density? Ra: I am Ra. There are some of your second-density fauna which have instinctually imprinted monogamous mating processes. The third-density physical vehicle which is the basic 44 incarnational tool of manifestation upon your planet arose from entities thusly imprinted, all the aforesaid being designed by the Logos. The free will of third-density entities is far stronger than the rather mild carryover from seconddensity DNA encoding and it is not part of the conscious nature of many of your mind/body/spirit complexes to be monogamous due to the exercise of free will. However, as has been noted there are many signposts in the deep mind indicating to the alert adept the more efficient use of catalyst. As we have said, the Logos of your peoples has a bias towards kindness. 100.4 Questioner: Thank you. To continue with the tarot, I would like to make the additional observation with respect to Card Number Six that with the male’s arms being crossed, if the female to his right pulls on his left hand it would turn his entire body and the same is true for the female on the left pulling on his right hand from the other side. This is my interpretation of what is meant by the tangle of the arms. The transformation, then, occurs by the pull which tends to turn the entity toward the left or the right-hand path. Would Ra comment on that observation? Ra: I am Ra. We shall. The concept of the pull towards mental polarity may well be examined in the light of what the student has already accreted concerning the nature of the conscious, exemplified by the male, and the unconscious, exemplified by the female. Indeed, both the prostituted and the virginal deep mind invite and await the reaching. In this image of Transformation of Mind, then, each of the females points the way it would go, but is not able to move, nor are the two female entities striving to do so. They are at rest. The conscious entity holds both and will turn itself one way or the other or, potentially, backwards and forwards, rocking first one way then the other and not achieving the transformation. In order for the Transformation of Mind to occur, one principle governing the use of the deep mind must be abandoned. It is to be noted that the triangular shape formed by the shoulders and crossed elbows of consciousness is a shape to be associated with transformation. Indeed, you may see this shape echoed twice more in the image, each echo having its own riches to add to the impact of this complex of concepts. 45 VII: Great Way of the Mind 79.40 Questioner: Would the Conqueror or Chariot then represent the culmination of the action of the first six archetypes into a conquering of the mental processes, even possibly removing the veil? Ra: I am Ra. This is most perceptive. The Archetype Seven is one difficult to enunciate. We may call it the Path, the Way, or the Great Way of the Mind. Its foundation is a reflection and substantial summary of Archetypes One through Six. One may also see the Way of the Mind as showing the kingdom or fruits of appropriate travel through the mind in that the mind continues to move as majestically through the material it conceives of as a chariot drawn by royal lions or steeds. At this time we would suggest one more full query for this instrument is experiencing some distortions towards pain. 92.17 Questioner: Thank you. And finally, as each energy center becomes activated and balanced, the Transformation of the Mind is called upon more and more frequently. When all of the energy centers are activated and balanced to a minimal degree, contact with intelligent infinity occurs; the veil is removed; and the Great Way of the Mind is called upon. Is this correct? 46 Ra: I am Ra. No. This is a quite eloquent look at some relationships within the archetypical mind. However, it must be seen once again that the archetypical mind does not equal the acting incarnational mind/body/spirit complex’s progression or evolution. Due to the first misperception we hesitate to speak to the second consideration but shall attempt clarity. While studying the archetypical mind we may suggest that the student look at the Great Way of the Mind, not as that which is attained after contact with intelligent infinity, but rather as that portion of the archetypical mind which denotes and configures the particular framework within which the Mind, the Body, or the Spirit archetypes move. 100.5 Questioner: Thank you. We will probably return to this card in the next session with more observations after we consider Ra’s comments. To make efficient use of our time at this time I will make some notes with respect to Card Seven. First, the veil between the conscious and unconscious mind is removed. The veil, I assume, is the curtain at the top and is lifted. Even though this veil has been removed the perception of intelligent infinity is still distorted by the beliefs and means of seeking of the seeker. Would Ra comment on that? Ra: I am Ra. As one observes the veil of the image of the Great Way of Mind it may be helpful to ideate using the framework of environment. The Great Way of Mind, Body, or Spirit is intended to limn the milieu within which the work of mind, body, or spirit shall be placed. Thusly, the veil is shown both somewhat lifted and still present, since the work of mind and its transformation involves progressive lifting of the great veil betwixt the conscious and deep minds. The complete success of this attempt is not properly a portion of third-density work and, more especially, third-density mental processes. 100.6 Questioner: The fact that the veil is raised higher on the right-hand side indicates to me that the adept choosing the positive polarity would have greater success in penetrating the veil. Would Ra comment? Ra: I am Ra. This is a true statement if it is realized that the questioner speaks of potential success. Indeed, your third-density experience is distorted or skewed so that the positive orientation has more aid than the so-called negative. 100.7 Questioner: It would also seem to me that, since Ra stated in the last session that the limit of the viewpoint is the source of all distortions, the very nature of the service-to-self distortions that create the left-hand path are a function of the veil. Therefore, they are dependent, you might say, to some degree on at least a partial continued veiling. Does this make any sense? Ra: I am Ra. There is the thread of logic in what you suppose. 47 The polarities are both dependent upon a limited viewpoint. However, the negative polarity depends more heavily upon the illusory separation betwixt the self and all other mind/body/spirit complexes. The positive polarity attempts to see through the illusion to the Creator in each mind/body/spirit complex, but for the greater part is concerned with behaviors and thoughts directed towards other-selves in order to be of service. This attitude, in itself, is full of the stuff of your third-density illusion. 100.8 Questioner: The crown of three stars, we are guessing, would represent the balancing of the mind, body, and spirit. Is this in any way correct? Ra: I am Ra. This device is astrological in origin and the interpretation given somewhat confusing. We deal, in this image, with the environment of mind. It is perhaps appropriate to release the starry crown from its stricture. 100.9 Questioner: The small black-or russet-and white entities have changed so that they now appear to be sphinxes which we are assuming means that the catalyst has been mastered. I am also assuming that they act as the power that moves the chariot depicted here so this mastery enables the mind in its transformation to become mobile unlike it was prior to this mastery, locked as it was within the illusion. Would Ra comment? Ra: I am Ra. Firstly, we ask that the student consider the Great Way not as the culmination of a series of seven activities or functions but as a far more clearly delineated image of the environment within which the mind, body, or spirit shall function. Therefore, the culturally determined creatures called sphinxes do not indicate mastery over catalyst. The second supposition, that of placing the creatures as the movers of the chariot of mind, has far more virtue. You may connote the concept of time to the image of the sphinx. The mental and mental/emotional complex ripens and moves and is transformed in time. 100.11 Questioner: In that case I will ask only one more question and that will have to do with the sword and the scepter. It seems that the sword would represent the power of the negative adept in controlling other-selves and the scepter would indicate the power of the positive adept operating in the unity of the mind, body, and spirit. However, they seem to be in the opposite hands than I would have guessed. Would Ra comment on these observations? Ra: I am Ra. These symbols are astrological in origin. The shapes, therefore, may be released from their stricture. We may note that there is an overriding spiritual environment and protection for the environment of the mind. We may further note that the negatively polarized adept will attempt to fashion that covenant for its own use whereas the positively polarized entity may hold forth that which is exemplified by the astrological sword; that is, light and truth. 48 103.10 Questioner: In that case I have a few questions on Card Number Seven in order to finish off our first run-through of the archetypes of the mind. There is a T with two right angles above it on the chest of the entity on Card Seven. We have guessed that the lower T has to do with the possibility of choosing either path in the transformation and the upper two angles represent the great way of the left and the right-hand paths in the mental transformation that makes the change from space/time into time/space, you might say. This is difficult to express. Is anything correct in this? Ra: I am Ra. Yes. 103.11 Questioner: Would Ra comment on that? Ra: I am Ra. The use of the tau* and the architect’s square is indeed intended to suggest the proximity of the space/time of the Great Way’s environment to time/space. We find this observation most perceptive. The entire mood, shall we say, of the Great Way is indeed dependent upon its notable difference from the Significator. The Significator is the significant self, to a great extent but not entirely influenced by the lowering of the veil. The Great Way of the Mind, the Body, or the Spirit draws the environment which has been the new architecture caused by the veiling process and, thusly, dipped in the great, limitless current of time/space. * Tau: in heraldry, a type of cross called a “tau cross.” 103.12 Questioner: I am guessing that the wheels of this chariot indicate the ability of the mind to be able to move in time/space. Is this correct? Ra: I am Ra. We cannot say that the observation is totally incorrect, for there is as much work in time/space as the individual who evokes this complex of concepts has assimilated. However, it would be more appropriate to draw the attention to the fact that although the chariot is wheeled, it is not harnessed to that which draws it by a physical or visible harness. What then, O Student, links and harnesses the chariot’s power of movement to the chariot? 103.13 Questioner: I’ll have to think about that. I’ll come back to that. We were thinking of replacing the sword in the right hand with the magical sphere and putting a downward-pointing scepter in the left hand, similar to Card Five, the Significator, as symbols more appropriate for this card. Would Ra comment on that, please? Ra: I am Ra. This is quite acceptable, especially if the sphere may be imaged as spherical and effulgent. 49 103.14 Questioner: The bent left leg of the sphinxes indicates a transformation that occurs on the left that doesn’t occur on the right, possibly an inability in that position to move. Does this have any merit? Ra: I am Ra. The observation has merit in that it may serve as the obverse of the connotation intended. The position is intended to show two items, one of which is the dual possibilities of the time-full characters there drawn. The resting is possible in time, as is the progress. If a mixture is attempted, the upright, moving leg will be greatly hampered by the leg that is bent. The other meaning has to do with the same right angle, with its architectural squareness, as the device upon the breast of the actor. Time/space is close in this concept complex, brought close due to the veiling process and its efficaciousness in producing actors who wish to use the resources of mind in order to evolve. 103.15 Questioner: I am assuming that the skirt is skewed to the left for the same reason that it is in Card Number Four, indicating the distance service-to-self polarized entities keep from others, and I am also assuming that the face is turned to the left for the same reason that it is in Card Number Five, because of the nature of catalyst. Is this roughly correct? Ra: I am Ra. Please expel breath over the breast of the instrument from right to left. (This was done as directed.) I am Ra. That is well. Your previous supposition is indeed roughly correct. We might also note that we, in forming the original images for your peoples, were using the cultural commonplaces of artistic expression of those in Egypt. The face is drawn to the side most often, as are the feet turned. We made use of this and, thus, wish to soften the significance of the side-long look. In no case thus far in these deliberations, however, has any misinterpretation or unsuitable interpretation been drawn. 50 VIII: Matrix of the Body 78.11 Questioner: Could you elaborate on the nature & quality of the matrix & the potentiator? Ra: I am Ra. In the mind complex the matrix may be described as consciousness. It has been called the Magician. It is to be noted that of itself consciousness is unmoved. The potentiator of consciousness is the unconscious. This encompasses a vast realm of potential in the mind. In the body the matrix may be seen as Balanced Working or Even Functioning. Note that here the matrix is always active with no means of being inactive. The potentiator of the body complex, then, may be called Wisdom for it is only through judgment that the unceasing activities and proclivities of the body complex may be experienced in useful modes. The Matrix of the Spirit is what you may call the Night of the Soul or Primeval Darkness. Again we have that which is not capable of movement or work. The potential power of this extremely receptive matrix is such that the potentiator may be seen as Lightning. In your archetypical system called the tarot this has been refined into the concept complex of the Lightning Struck Tower. However, the original potentiator was light in its sudden and fiery form; that is, the lightning itself. 79.19 Questioner: I would like to try to understand the archetypes of the mind of this Logos prior to the extension of the first distortion. In order to better understand that which we experience now I believe that this is a logical approach. 51 We have, as you have stated, the matrix, the potentiator, and the significator. I understand the matrix as being that which is what we call the conscious mind, but since it is also that from which the mind is made, I am at a loss to fully understand these three terms especially with respect to the time before there was a division in consciousness. Could you expand even more upon the Matrix of the Mind, the Potentiator of the Mind, and the Significator of the Mind, how they differ, and what their relationships are, please? Ra: I am Ra. The Matrix of Mind is that from which all comes. It is unmoving yet is the activator in potentiation of all mind activity. The Potentiator of the Mind is that great resource which may be seen as the sea into which the consciousness dips ever deeper and more thoroughly in order to create, ideate, and become more self-conscious. The Significator of each mind, body, and spirit may be seen as a simple and unified concept. The Matrix of the Body may be seen to be a reflection in opposites of the mind; that is, unrestricted motion. The Potentiator of the Body then is that which, being informed, regulates activity. The Matrix of the Spirit is difficult to characterize since the nature of spirit is less motile. The energies and movements of the spirit are, by far, the most profound yet, having more close association with time/space, do not have the characteristics of dynamic motion. Thusly one may see the Matrix as the deepest darkness and the Potentiator of Spirit as the most sudden awakening, illuminating, and generative influence. This is the description of Archetypes One through Nine before the onset of influence of the coCreator or sub-Logos’ realization of free will. 52 IX: Potentiator of the Body 78.11 Questioner: Could you elaborate on the nature & quality of the matrix & the potentiator? Ra: I am Ra. In the mind complex the matrix may be described as consciousness. It has been called the Magician. It is to be noted that of itself consciousness is unmoved. The potentiator of consciousness is the unconscious. This encompasses a vast realm of potential in the mind. In the body the matrix may be seen as Balanced Working or Even Functioning. Note that here the matrix is always active with no means of being inactive. The potentiator of the body complex, then, may be called Wisdom for it is only through judgment that the unceasing activities and proclivities of the body complex may be experienced in useful modes. The Matrix of the Spirit is what you may call the Night of the Soul or Primeval Darkness. Again we have that which is not capable of movement or work. The potential power of this extremely receptive matrix is such that the potentiator may be seen as Lightning. In your archetypical system called the tarot this has been refined into the concept complex of the Lightning Struck Tower. However, the original potentiator was light in its sudden and fiery form; that is, the lightning itself. 79.19 Questioner: I would like to try to understand the archetypes of the mind of this Logos prior to the extension of the first distortion. In order to better understand that which we experience now I believe that this is a logical approach. 53 We have, as you have stated, the matrix, the potentiator, and the significator. I understand the matrix as being that which is what we call the conscious mind, but since it is also that from which the mind is made, I am at a loss to fully understand these three terms especially with respect to the time before there was a division in consciousness. Could you expand even more upon the Matrix of the Mind, the Potentiator of the Mind, and the Significator of the Mind, how they differ, and what their relationships are, please? Ra: I am Ra. The Matrix of Mind is that from which all comes. It is unmoving yet is the activator in potentiation of all mind activity. The Potentiator of the Mind is that great resource which may be seen as the sea into which the consciousness dips ever deeper and more thoroughly in order to create, ideate, and become more self-conscious. The Significator of each mind, body, and spirit may be seen as a simple and unified concept. The Matrix of the Body may be seen to be a reflection in opposites of the mind; that is, unrestricted motion. The Potentiator of the Body then is that which, being informed, regulates activity. The Matrix of the Spirit is difficult to characterize since the nature of spirit is less motile. The energies and movements of the spirit are, by far, the most profound yet, having more close association with time/space, do not have the characteristics of dynamic motion. Thusly one may see the Matrix as the deepest darkness and the Potentiator of Spirit as the most sudden awakening, illuminating, and generative influence. This is the description of Archetypes One through Nine before the onset of influence of the coCreator or sub-Logos’ realization of free will. 54 X: Catalyst of the Body 81.11 Questioner: Going back to the previous session, picking up on the tenth archetype, which is the Catalyst of the Body, the Wheel of Fortune represents interaction with other-selves. Is this a correct statement? Ra: I am Ra. This may be seen to be a roughly correct statement in that each catalyst is dealing with the nature of those experiences entering the energy web and vibratory perceptions of the mind/body/spirit complex. The most carefully noted addition would be that the outside stimulus of the Wheel of Fortune is that which offers both positive and negative experience. 55 XI: Experience of the Body 81.12 Questioner: The eleventh archetype would then be the Experience of the Body which represents the catalyst which has been processed by the mind/body/spirit complex and is called the Enchantress because it produces further seed for growth. Is this correct? Ra: I am Ra. This is correct. 56 XII: Significator of the Body 79.19 Questioner: I would like to try to understand the archetypes of the mind of this Logos prior to the extension of the first distortion. In order to better understand that which we experience now I believe that this is a logical approach. We have, as you have stated, the matrix, the potentiator, and the significator. I understand the matrix as being that which is what we call the conscious mind, but since it is also that from which the mind is made, I am at a loss to fully understand these three terms especially with respect to the time before there was a division in consciousness. Could you expand even more upon the Matrix of the Mind, the Potentiator of the Mind, and the Significator of the Mind, how they differ, and what their relationships are, please? Ra: I am Ra. The Matrix of Mind is that from which all comes. It is unmoving yet is the activator in potentiation of all mind activity. The Potentiator of the Mind is that great resource which may be seen as the sea into which the consciousness dips ever deeper and more thoroughly in order to create, ideate, and become more self-conscious. The Significator of each mind, body, and spirit may be seen as a simple and unified concept. The Matrix of the Body may be seen to be a reflection in opposites of the mind; that is, unrestricted motion. The Potentiator of the Body then is that which, being informed, regulates activity. 57 The Matrix of the Spirit is difficult to characterize since the nature of spirit is less motile. The energies and movements of the spirit are, by far, the most profound yet, having more close association with time/space, do not have the characteristics of dynamic motion. Thusly one may see the Matrix as the deepest darkness and the Potentiator of Spirit as the most sudden awakening, illuminating, and generative influence. This is the description of Archetypes One through Nine before the onset of influence of the coCreator or sub-Logos’ realization of free will. XIII: Transformation of the Body 81.13 Questioner: We have already discussed the Significator, so I will skip number thirteen. The Transformation of the Body is called Death, for with death the body is transformed to a higher vibrational body for additional learning. Is this correct? Ra: I am Ra. This is correct and may be seen to be additionally correct in that each moment and certainly each diurnal period of the bodily incarnation offers death and rebirth to one which is attempting to use the catalyst which is offered it. 58 XIV: Great Way of the Body 81.14 Questioner: Finally, the fourteenth, the Way of the Body is called the Alchemist because there is an infinity of time for the various bodies to operate within to learn the lessons necessary for evolution. Is this correct? Ra: I am Ra. This is less than completely correct as the Great Way of the Body must be seen, as are all the archetypes of the body, to be a mirror image of the thrust of the activity of the mind. The body is the creature of the mind and is the instrument of manifestation for the fruits of mind and spirit. Therefore, you may see the body as providing the athanor* through which the Alchemist manifests gold. * Athanor: an oven; a fire; a digesting furnace, formerly used in alchemy, so constructed as to maintain a uniform and constant heat. 59 XV: Matrix of the Spirit 78.11 Questioner: Could you elaborate on the nature & quality of the matrix & the potentiator? Ra: I am Ra. In the mind complex the matrix may be described as consciousness. It has been called the Magician. It is to be noted that of itself consciousness is unmoved. The potentiator of consciousness is the unconscious. This encompasses a vast realm of potential in the mind. In the body the matrix may be seen as Balanced Working or Even Functioning. Note that here the matrix is always active with no means of being inactive. The potentiator of the body complex, then, may be called Wisdom for it is only through judgment that the unceasing activities and proclivities of the body complex may be experienced in useful modes. The Matrix of the Spirit is what you may call the Night of the Soul or Primeval Darkness. Again we have that which is not capable of movement or work. The potential power of this extremely receptive matrix is such that the potentiator may be seen as Lightning. In your archetypical system called the tarot this has been refined into the concept complex of the Lightning Struck Tower. However, the original potentiator was light in its sudden and fiery form; that is, the lightning itself. 79.19 Questioner: I would like to try to understand the archetypes of the mind of this Logos prior to the extension of the first distortion. In order to better understand that which we experience now I believe that this is a logical approach. 60 We have, as you have stated, the matrix, the potentiator, and the significator. I understand the matrix as being that which is what we call the conscious mind, but since it is also that from which the mind is made, I am at a loss to fully understand these three terms especially with respect to the time before there was a division in consciousness. Could you expand even more upon the Matrix of the Mind, the Potentiator of the Mind, and the Significator of the Mind, how they differ, and what their relationships are, please? Ra: I am Ra. The Matrix of Mind is that from which all comes. It is unmoving yet is the activator in potentiation of all mind activity. The Potentiator of the Mind is that great resource which may be seen as the sea into which the consciousness dips ever deeper and more thoroughly in order to create, ideate, and become more self-conscious. The Significator of each mind, body, and spirit may be seen as a simple and unified concept. The Matrix of the Body may be seen to be a reflection in opposites of the mind; that is, unrestricted motion. The Potentiator of the Body then is that which, being informed, regulates activity. The Matrix of the Spirit is difficult to characterize since the nature of spirit is less motile. The energies and movements of the spirit are, by far, the most profound yet, having more close association with time/space, do not have the characteristics of dynamic motion. Thusly one may see the Matrix as the deepest darkness and the Potentiator of Spirit as the most sudden awakening, illuminating, and generative influence. This is the description of Archetypes One through Nine before the onset of influence of the coCreator or sub-Logos’ realization of free will. 80.10 Questioner: The fifteenth archetype is the Matrix of the Spirit and has been called the Devil. Can you tell me why that is so? Ra: I am Ra. We do not wish to be facile in such a central query, but we may note that the nature of the spirit is so infinitely subtle that the fructifying influence of light upon the great darkness of the spirit is very often not as apparent as the darkness itself. The progress chosen by many adepts becomes a confused path as each adept attempts to use the Catalyst of the Spirit. Few there are which are successful in grasping the light of the sun. By far, the majority of adepts remain groping in the moonlight and, as we have said, this light can deceive as well as uncover hidden mystery. Therefore, the melody, shall we say, of this matrix often seems to be of a negative and evil, as you would call it, nature. It is also to be noted that an adept is one which has freed itself more and more from the constraints of the thoughts, opinions, and bonds of other-selves. Whether this is done for service to others or service to self, it is a necessary part of the awakening of the adept. This freedom is seen by those not free as what you would call evil or black. The magic is recognized; the nature is often not. 61 XVI: Potentiator of the Spirit 78.11 Questioner: Could you elaborate on the nature & quality of the matrix & the potentiator? Ra: I am Ra. In the mind complex the matrix may be described as consciousness. It has been called the Magician. It is to be noted that of itself consciousness is unmoved. The potentiator of consciousness is the unconscious. This encompasses a vast realm of potential in the mind. In the body the matrix may be seen as Balanced Working or Even Functioning. Note that here the matrix is always active with no means of being inactive. The potentiator of the body complex, then, may be called Wisdom for it is only through judgment that the unceasing activities and proclivities of the body complex may be experienced in useful modes. The Matrix of the Spirit is what you may call the Night of the Soul or Primeval Darkness. Again we have that which is not capable of movement or work. The potential power of this extremely receptive matrix is such that the potentiator may be seen as Lightning. In your archetypical system called the tarot this has been refined into the concept complex of the Lightning Struck Tower. However, the original potentiator was light in its sudden and fiery form; that is, the lightning itself. 79.19 Questioner: I would like to try to understand the archetypes of the mind of this Logos prior to the extension of the first distortion. In order to better understand that which we experience now I believe that this is a logical approach. 62 We have, as you have stated, the matrix, the potentiator, and the significator. I understand the matrix as being that which is what we call the conscious mind, but since it is also that from which the mind is made, I am at a loss to fully understand these three terms especially with respect to the time before there was a division in consciousness. Could you expand even more upon the Matrix of the Mind, the Potentiator of the Mind, and the Significator of the Mind, how they differ, and what their relationships are, please? Ra: I am Ra. The Matrix of Mind is that from which all comes. It is unmoving yet is the activator in potentiation of all mind activity. The Potentiator of the Mind is that great resource which may be seen as the sea into which the consciousness dips ever deeper and more thoroughly in order to create, ideate, and become more self-conscious. The Significator of each mind, body, and spirit may be seen as a simple and unified concept. The Matrix of the Body may be seen to be a reflection in opposites of the mind; that is, unrestricted motion. The Potentiator of the Body then is that which, being informed, regulates activity. The Matrix of the Spirit is difficult to characterize since the nature of spirit is less motile. The energies and movements of the spirit are, by far, the most profound yet, having more close association with time/space, do not have the characteristics of dynamic motion. Thusly one may see the Matrix as the deepest darkness and the Potentiator of Spirit as the most sudden awakening, illuminating, and generative influence. This is the description of Archetypes One through Nine before the onset of influence of the coCreator or sub-Logos’ realization of free will. 63 XVII: Catalyst of the Spirit 80.13 Questioner: Then is this, from the point of view of the fifteenth archetype, somewhat of an excursion into the Matrix of the Spirit in this process? Does that make any sense? Ra: I am Ra. The excursion of which you speak and the process of disassociation is most usually linked with that archetype you call Hope which we would prefer to call Faith. This archetype is the Catalyst of the Spirit and, because of the illuminations of the Potentiator of the Spirit, will begin to cause these changes in the adept’s viewpoint. 93.12 Questioner: Then presently we receive catalyst of the mind as we are aware of Ra’s communication and we receive catalyst of the body as our bodies sense all of the inputs to them, but could Ra then describe catalyst of the spirit, and are we at this time receiving that catalyst and if not, could Ra give an example of that? Ra: I am Ra. Catalyst being processed by the body is catalyst for the body. Catalyst being processed by the mind is catalyst for the mind. Catalyst being processed by the spirit is catalyst for the spirit. An individual mind/body/spirit complex may use any catalyst which comes before its notice, be it through the body and its senses or through mediation or through any other more highly developed source, in its unique way to form an experience unique to it, with its biases. 64 XVIII: Experience of the Spirit 80.15 Questioner: The only obvious significant difference, I believe, between the positive and negative adepts in using this shuttle is the way they polarize. Is there a relationship between the archetypes of the spirit and whether the polarization is either positive or negative? Is, for instance, the positive calling through the sixteenth archetype and the negative calling through the fifteenth archetype? I am very confused about this and I imagine that that question is either poor or meaningless. Can you answer that? Ra: I am Ra. It is a challenge to answer such a query, for there is some confusion in its construction. However, we shall attempt to speak upon the subject. The adept, whether positive or negative, has the same Matrix. The Potentiator is also identical. Due to the Catalyst of each adept the adept may begin to pick and choose that into which it shall look further. The Experience of the Spirit, that which you have called the Moon, is then, by far, the more manifest of influences upon the polarity of the adept. Even the most unhappy of experiences, shall we say, which seem to occur in the Catalyst of the adept, seen from the viewpoint of the spirit, may, with the discrimination possible in shadow, be worked with until light equaling the light of brightest noon descends upon the adept and positive or service-toothers illumination has occurred. The service-to-self adept will satisfy itself with the shadows and, grasping the light of day, will toss back the head in grim laughter, preferring the darkness. 65 XIX: Significator of the Spirit 79.19 Questioner: I would like to try to understand the archetypes of the mind of this Logos prior to the extension of the first distortion. In order to better understand that which we experience now I believe that this is a logical approach. We have, as you have stated, the matrix, the potentiator, and the significator. I understand the matrix as being that which is what we call the conscious mind, but since it is also that from which the mind is made, I am at a loss to fully understand these three terms especially with respect to the time before there was a division in consciousness. Could you expand even more upon the Matrix of the Mind, the Potentiator of the Mind, and the Significator of the Mind, how they differ, and what their relationships are, please? Ra: I am Ra. The Matrix of Mind is that from which all comes. It is unmoving yet is the activator in potentiation of all mind activity. The Potentiator of the Mind is that great resource which may be seen as the sea into which the consciousness dips ever deeper and more thoroughly in order to create, ideate, and become more self-conscious. The Significator of each mind, body, and spirit may be seen as a simple and unified concept. The Matrix of the Body may be seen to be a reflection in opposites of the mind; that is, unrestricted motion. The Potentiator of the Body then is that which, being informed, regulates activity. 66 The Matrix of the Spirit is difficult to characterize since the nature of spirit is less motile. The energies and movements of the spirit are, by far, the most profound yet, having more close association with time/space, do not have the characteristics of dynamic motion. Thusly one may see the Matrix as the deepest darkness and the Potentiator of Spirit as the most sudden awakening, illuminating, and generative influence. This is the description of Archetypes One through Nine before the onset of influence of the coCreator or sub-Logos’ realization of free will. 80.16 Questioner: I guess the nineteenth archetype of the spirit would be the Significator of the Spirit. Is that correct? Ra: I am Ra. This is correct. 80.17 Questioner: How would you describe the Significator of the Spirit? Ra: I am Ra. In answer to the previous query we set about doing just this. The Significator of the Spirit is that living entity which either radiates or absorbs the love and the light of the One Infinite Creator, radiates it to others or absorbs it for the self. 80.18 Questioner: Then would this process of radiation or absorption, since we have what I would call a flux or flux rate, be the measure of the adept? Ra: I am Ra. This may be seen to be a reasonably adequate statement. 67 XX: Transformation of the Spirit 80.19 Questioner: Then for the twentieth archetype I’m guessing that this is the Transformation of the Spirit, possibly analogous to the sixth-density merging of the paths. Is this in any way correct? Ra: I am Ra. No. 80.20 Questioner: Sorry about that. Can you tell me what the twentieth archetype would be? Ra: I am Ra. That which you call the Sarcophagus in your system may be seen to be the material world, if you will. This material world is transformed by the spirit into that which is infinite and eternal. The infinity of the spirit is an even greater realization than the infinity of consciousness, for consciousness which has been disciplined by will and faith is that consciousness which may contact intelligent infinity directly. There are many things which fall away in the many, many steps of adepthood. We, of Ra, still walk these steps and praise the One Infinite Creator at each transformation. 68 XXI: Great Way of the Spirit 80.21 Questioner: Then I would guess that the twenty-first archetype would represent contact with intelligent infinity. Is that correct? Ra: I am Ra. This is correct, although one may also see the reflection of this contact as well as the contact with intelligent energy which is the Universe or, as you have called it somewhat provincially, the World. 69 XXII: The Choice 88.16 Questioner: I will also assume, and I may not be correct, that the present list that I have of twenty-two names of the tarot cards of the Major Arcana are not in exact agreement with Ra’s original generation of the tarot. Could you describe the original tarot, first telling me if there were twenty-two archetypes? That must have been the same. Were they the same as the list that I read to you in a previous session or were there differences? Ra: I am Ra. As we have stated previously, each archetype is a concept complex and may be viewed not only by individuals but by those of the same racial and planetary influences in unique ways. Therefore, it is not informative to reconstruct the rather minor differences in descriptive terms between the tarot used by us and that used by those of Egypt and the spiritual descendants of those first students of this system of study. The one great breakthrough which was made after our work in third density was done was the proper emphasis given to the Arcanum Number Twenty-Two which we have called The Choice. In our own experience we were aware that such an unifying archetype existed but did not give that archetype the proper complex of concepts in order to most efficaciously use that archetype in order to promote our evolution. 89.26 Questioner: All right; I’ll have to do that. Ra stated that a major breakthrough was made when proper emphasis was put on Arcanum Twenty-Two. This didn’t happen until Ra had 70 completed third density. I assume from this that Ra, being polarized positively, probably had some of the same difficulty that occurred prior to the veil in that the negative polarity was not appreciated. That’s a guess. Is this correct? Ra: I am Ra. In one way it is precisely correct. Our harvest was overwhelmingly positive and our appreciation of those which were negative was relatively uninformed. However, we were intending to suggest that in the use of the system known to you as the tarot for advancing the spiritual evolution of the self a proper understanding, if we may use this misnomer, of Archetype Twenty-Two is greatly helpful in sharpening the basic view of the Significator of Mind, Body, and Spirit and, further, throws into starker relief the Transformation and Great Way of Mind, Body, and Spirit complexes. ΩΨΩ μεταβάλλον ἀναπαύεται “changing, it rests” (Herakleitos) om mani padme hum

1.		Stoneking Article
2.		Ibid.
3.		Phantom DNA Article
4.		Crick, Francis. 1981. Life Itself: Its Origin and Nature New York: Simon and Schuster (see Chapter 7). See Intelligent Design as a Theory of Information
5.		Scientific Abstract
6.		See The Universe According to Ra, Spirit of Ma'at, September 2001.
7.		See Wilcock Info
8.		Planetophysical State of the Earth and Life by Dr. Alexey Dmitriev
9.		Berlitz, Charles The Bermuda Triangle, Avon Books, New York, 1974, pgs. 124-126.
10.		Vanished: Strange Cases of Unsolved Disappearances by Stephen Wagner.
11.		NASA on the Parker Spiral.
12.		CNN Headline News, Evening Broadcast, Tuesday, August 21, 2001.
13.		Global Expansion Tectonics: A More Rational Explanation by James Maxlow.
14.		The Phyletic Gradualism -- Punctuated Equilibrium Debate; Evolution, Extinction, and Mass Speciation
15.		See Chaos Killed the Dinosaurs.
16.		Planetophysical State of the Earth and Life.
17.		Ibid. See also NASA report.
18.		See further information at David Wilcock's website, Ascension2000.
19.		Planetophysical State of the Earth and Life.
20.		Ibid.
21.		Ibid.
22.		Ibid.
23.		Eight Charts Which Prove That Chandler's Wobble Causes Earthquakes, Volcanism, El Nino, and Global Warming by Michael Wells Mandeville.
24.		Planetophysical State of the Earth and Life.
25.		Ibid.
26.		Ibid.

Below is a collection of essays

"The original desire is
that entities seek and become one"
-- by RA, an humble messenger of the Law of One

Cosmology & Earth History (RA)

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Lectures & Interviews

Digital & Audio Books

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Below is a collection of essays

"The original desire is that entities seek and become one" -- by RA, an humble messenger of the Law of One

Cosmology & Earth History (RA)

Materials

Lectures & Interviews

Digital & Audio Books

Essays & Compilations

Counseling Sessions

"The original desire is
that entities seek and become one"
-- by RA, an humble messenger of the Law of One