🗞️ 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 18 (February 4, 1981).
🧭 Session Snapshot
Date: February 4, 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: Errors & free will (can Ra mix data?) • **“Overcoming” vs. acceptance of desire • How to avoid breaking the Law of One beyond free‑will infringement • Age of responsibility & who the guides are • Aleister Crowley (inner‑planes healing) • Forgiveness as eradicator of karma (incl. self‑forgiveness) • Confederations all serve One (specializations) • Yahweh & genetic interventions (Mars; Anak) and how Orion leveraged them • Care & alignments for a second session
🌟 Key Takeaways
No intentional error: Ra affirms they do not purposely mix truth and error; any confusion arises from the instrument’s vibrational variability (e.g., after ingesting a chemical) and the limits of language to express mystery. (LoO 18.1)
**Don’t “overcome”—understand & accept. The proper role in 3D is to experience, then analyze, understand, and accept desires; what is not needed falls away. Overcoming/ignoring creates imbalance; use imagination rather than acting out desires contrary to the Law of One. (LoO 18.5)
Beyond free will: Service requires empathy with nature’s needs and others’ needs; there are two simple directives—awareness of intelligent energy in nature and in self to be shared appropriately with society. (LoO 18.6)
Responsibility begins at self‑awareness. Self‑consciousness often dawns around 15 months; from that point, responsibility is retroactive. Early guides are parents, teachers, friends. (LoO 18.7–18.10)
Crowley case study. Aleister Crowley is healing in the inner planes; he was positive but overstimulated, becoming alienated through imbalanced center‑work. (LoO 18.11)
Karma dissolves via full forgiveness. Forgiveness of other‑self is forgiveness of self; full forgiveness requires both, consciously. (LoO 18.12)
All serve the One; specializations vary. Each Confederation, like the one serving Earth, includes SMCs with specialized service, but there is only One to serve. (LoO 18.13)
Yahweh’s interventions & Orion’s leverage. Yahweh (of the Confederation) worked genetically—cloning‑like and via sexual contact—beginning ~75,000 years ago (with Mars). Later, ~3,600 years ago, those called Anak received genetic coding making bodies larger/stronger. Goal: speed spiritual growth; outcome: a temptation to elitism which Orion exploited (holy war concept). (LoO 18.14–18.25)
Care & alignments: Food, gentle manipulation (massage), exercise, and precise symbolic alignment sustain instrument comfort for additional sessions. (LoO 18.27)
🧩 Full Q&A with Commentary
Notation: Each subsection lists the question number (e.g., 18.5), a brief Summary, and Commentary & Notes with links. Unless noted, references are to Ra, Session 18 (see also LoO 18).
18.1 — Do you ever mix error with truth?
Summary. Ra: not intentionally; confusion can arise from instrument variability and language limits.
Commentary & Notes. A humility note: precision of tuning matters; language can only point toward mystery. (LoO 18.1)
18.5 — The role of desires: not suppression but digestion
Summary. Proper role = experience → analyze → understand → accept; what isn’t needed drops away. Overcoming hardens imbalances; use imagination instead of acting out harmful desires.
Commentary & Notes. This becomes a core balancing method throughout Book II. See practice framing in LL101. (LoO 18.5)
18.6 — Beyond “don’t infringe”: serving wisely
Summary. Aside from avoiding free‑will infringement, attend to nature’s needs, others’ needs, and the subtleties of harmonious relationships; cultivate empathy.
Commentary & Notes. Service is delicate; intention + sensitivity trump rigid rules. (LoO 18.6)
18.7–18.10 — When does responsibility begin? Who are the guides?
Summary. Self‑awareness median ≈ 15 months; responsibility becomes retroactive from that point; guides = parents, teachers, friends.
Commentary & Notes. A realistic compassion: children are given support structures to learn consonance with the One. (LoO 18.7–18.10)
18.11 — Aleister Crowley’s status
Summary. In the inner planes, engaged in healing from spiritual over‑stimulation and imbalance; fundamentally positive, but alienated by skewed center‑work.
Commentary & Notes. A cautionary tale: insight without synthesis can isolate. (LoO 18.11)
18.12 — Forgiveness as the eraser of karma
Summary. Full forgiveness includes self and other‑self; they are one.
Commentary & Notes. This reframes karmic release as unity work. (LoO 18.12)
18.13 — Confederations & specializations
Summary. All serve the One; different groups specialize according to their expression.
Commentary & Notes. Diversity in service under unity. (LoO 18.13)
18.14–18.25 — Yahweh, genetic changes, and Orion’s inroads
Summary. Methods: cloning‑like incarnation; sexual means; Mars work ~75k years ago; Anak ~3.6k years ago. Aim: quicken spiritual development. Outcome: for many, a distortion to elitism, giving Orion leverage (intro of holy war thinking).
Commentary & Notes. Intentions can misfire under free will. Discernment > sensationalism. (LoO 18.14–18.25)
18.27 — Comfort & alignments for another sitting
Summary. Food, gentle manipulation, exercise, and precise symbolic alignments recommended; instrument is slightly mis‑placed.
Commentary & Notes. Method = ethics: care protects people and clarity. (LoO 18.27)
🛠️ Practice Corner — “Digest, don’t suppress” (safe micro‑routine)
Why: Session 18’s practical heart is acceptance‑based balancing.
Name one desire (pleasant or prickly).
Four verbs: experience → analyze → understand → accept. Write one sentence for each step.
Imagination, not enactment. If a desire seems unloving, visualize it, feel the charge, and let it pass—no acting out.
Include yourself. Offer forgiveness to self and other involved.
(Study lens: LL101.)
🔗 Companion Reading (why it helps here)
A Concept Guide — entries on Forgiveness/Karma, Free Will, Mixed Contact, Genetic Intervention.
Living the Law of One: The Choice — acceptance‑based balancing you can practice today.
A Channeling Handbook — method care; alignments as ethical practice.
Tilting at Windmills — context on editorial discernment with “transient” material.
Unified Index — quick jumps for Yahweh, Anak, Forgiveness, Parents/teachers/friends, Responsibility.
🧠 Study Prompts
Where are you trying to “overcome” a desire instead of understanding & accepting it? What would digestion (not suppression) look like?
Recall a lingering resentment. Can you practice full forgiveness (self and other‑self) for two minutes today?
What is one need of nature or need of another you can honor this week without infringing free will?
🏁 Closing Note
Session 18 anchors a gentle but demanding path: accept what arises, understand it, embrace it, and let unneeded distortions fall away—while remembering that even well‑intended interventions can backfire under free will. Next: Session 19—expect a pivot toward the archetypal mind groundwork and further clarifications on polarity and practice.