🗞️ About This Series (brief)
In each entry we walk, question-by-question, through a single session of The Ra Contact, offering clear summaries, careful commentary, and friendly signposts to related companion texts and official resources. This entry covers Session 11 (January 27, 1981).
🧭 Session Snapshot
Date: January 27, 1981
Setting: Louisville, KY; tunable trance channeling with a dedicated support circle
Cast: Don Elkins (Questioner) • Carla L. Rueckert (Instrument) • Jim McCarty (Scribe)
Big Themes: Negative harvest examples (Taras Bulba, Genghis Khan, Rasputin) • Orion “crusaders” and elite formation • Social memory complex (when/why it forms) • Mixed technical inspiration (nuclear era; Tesla) • Wanderers & Industrial Revolution (freeing time for seeking) • Precise alignments for instrument comfort
🌟 Key Takeaways
Negative harvest is possible: History holds a few examples who polarized strongly service-to-self and were harvested to fourth density negative—Taras Bulba, Genghis Khan, Rasputin—drawing on remembered/learned energy center work to open the gateway to intelligent infinity. (LoO 11.9–11.13)
How Orion works: The crusaders “move in chariots” to conquer before a planet achieves social memory; they contact those who call and then cultivate elites who help others enslave themselves by free will. (LoO 11.18–11.21)
Social memory complex: Arises when a society becomes one seeking/orientation; then each has access to group memory, reducing distortion in understanding and action. (LoO 11.17)
Tech inspirations are mixed: Telepathic inspiration can be positive or negative; early nuclear developments were mixed-orientation; Nikola Tesla received Confederation inspiration aimed at freeing from darkness (lighting/power). (LoO 11.22–11.27)
Why Wanderers came: Waves of Wanderers helped seed the Industrial Revolution to increase leisure, enabling more people to contemplate the Law of One. (LoO 11.29)
🧩 Full Q&A with Commentary
Notation: Each subsection lists the question number (e.g., 11.12), a brief Summary, and Commentary & Notes with links. Unless noted, references are to Ra, Session 11 (see also LoO 11).
11.1–11.3 — Group size & comfort
Summary. Who should attend? Ra emphasizes the questioner and Jim as key stabilizers; others can help if carefully tuned. (LoO 11.2)
Commentary & Notes. Method lens: small, coherent circles > large, unfocused ones. See A Channeling Handbook.
11.4–11.8 — Mixed harvests, Maldek, and a cold “sphere”
Summary. Maldek would likely have seen a mixed harvest. There’s a very cold first‑density sphere opposite the sun, not a true planet. (LoO 11.4–11.5, 11.4)
Commentary & Notes. Cosmology remains secondary to ethics; Ra fields it briefly and pivots to polarity and practice.
11.9–11.16 — Negative harvest exemplars & adept methods
Summary. Taras Bulba, Genghis Khan, Rasputin—each used disciplined polarity to access paranormal/magical abilities; each chose a fourth‑density negative locus (Orion/Cassiopeia/Southern Cross, broadly indicated). (LoO 11.9–11.13)
Commentary & Notes. The gateway responds to will + polarity, regardless of path. The lesson is discernment, not glamorization.
Summary. It forms once all entities share one orientation/seeking; group memory becomes available, reducing distortion in understanding and coordinated seeking. (LoO 11.17)
Commentary & Notes. This is why Orion seeks influence before that stage; cohesion reduces susceptibility to manipulation.
11.18–11.21 — How Orion recruits & teaches
Summary. Orion contacts those who call; training can be via disciplines or due to an already open gateway. Their curriculum includes control/manipulation technologies. (LoO 11.18–11.21)
Commentary & Notes. Negative path still “teaches the Law of One,” but with service‑to‑self orientation—weaponizing power over others. Concept lens: A Concept Guide on Service to Self/Service to Others.
11.22–11.27 — Mixed inspirations; Tesla
Summary. Some scientists receive technical information telepathically; nuclear discovery was mixed‑orientation; Tesla received Confederation aid aimed at free, infinite planetary energy so people might have the leisure to seek. (LoO 11.22–11.27)
Commentary & Notes. Ra notes the mission drift hazards for Wanderers—compassion without grounded discernment can be co‑opted. See LL101.
11.28–11.30 — Wanderers & the Industrial Revolution
Summary. Wanderers incarnated in waves to help free humanity from dawn‑to‑dusk labor, making contemplation more available. (LoO 11.29)
Commentary & Notes. Leisure isn’t idleness—it’s space for seeking. The question is what we choose to do with it.
11.31–11.33 — Alignments & close
Summary. Carefully align symbols; this adjustment aided comfort. The Orion objective: ever‑expanding manipulation of others for the self—which, at a deep level, still “serves the Creator.” (LoO 11.25, 11.31–11.33)
Commentary & Notes. Ra ends by restating a non‑dualist baseline: all serves the One; The Choice determines how we learn.
🛠️ Practice Corner — Power, Leisure, and The Choice
Why: Session 11 reframes power and time as spiritual tests.
Power audit (3 min). List one sphere where you have influence (work, family, online). Ask: Am I empowering others’ free will—or nudging them to adopt mine? Choose one micro‑shift toward service‑to‑others.
Leisure as temple (5–15 min). Today, convert a slice of free time into contemplation (sit, walk, pray). Ask: What would love create here?
Challenge statement. Before study or meditation: “Only that which serves love and free will may join me.” (A Channeling Handbook.)
🔗 Companion Reading (why it helps here)
A Concept Guide — Service to Self/Service to Others, Social Memory Complex, Wanderers, Discernment.
Living the Law of One: The Choice — how to wield time and influence as service.
A Channeling Handbook — tuning, challenging, and safeguarding intention.
Tilting at Windmills — lived context for protecting the contact amidst mixed influences.
Unified Index — quick jumps for Orion, Tesla, Wanderers, Social Memory Complex.
🧠 Study Prompts
Where in your life does power tempt you to shortcut others’ free will? What’s a kinder alternative?
What tiny use of leisure today would make seeking more probable tomorrow?
Which polarity does your next decision feed—and how can you commit to it with clarity and humility?
🏁 Closing Note
Session 11 connects negative harvest, Orion tactics, social memory, and mixed inspirations to a single pivot: The Choice—how we use power and time. Next: Session 12—expect more on pyramids, initiation logistics, and the ethics of contact.