🗞️ 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 20 (February 9, 1981).
🧭 Session Snapshot
Date: February 9, 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: 2D ➜ 3D graduation via relationship (pets); Larson’s vibration physics as partially correct; polarity creates usable “charge” for spiritual work; optimum 3D lifespan (~900 yrs) & why ours shortened; early Earth’s population mix (Mars/Earth/other worlds) and unmixed groups → conflict → shorter lives; first 25k-year cycle had no harvest; Orion’s attempt using telepathy and charged stoneworks (e.g., Easter Island, Nazca) to seed power‑over myths.
References: LoO 20 for question numbers.
🌟 Key Takeaways
Pets as gateways to self‑awareness. The most common 2D➜3D graduation in our era is the pet bonded with a human, whose loving relationship catalyzes individuation. (LoO 20.2–20.5)
Polarity = charge for work. Without choosing STO/STS, the coiled potential lacks charge; free‑will choices supply it. (LoO 20.9–20.12)
Why early humans lived ~900 years. Third density’s heavy catalyst needs a long runway; spiritual childhood occupies ~150–200 years, then comes the prime learning span. Our current short lives keep many in “perpetual childhood.” (LoO 20.12–20.15, 20.25)
What shortened lifespans. Not a strong negative influx—rather, lack of positive orientation and growing separateness; later, unmixed groups (Mars/Earth/others) increased warlike attitudes, further reducing longevity. (LoO 20.16–20.18, 20.21–20.24)
Population mix at cycle start. Roughly ½ Mars, ¼ Earth 2D graduates, ¼ other worlds—largely unmixed culturally at first. (LoO 20.19–20.22)
No harvest after first 25k. Confederation waited like a gardener for the spring; none polarized enough by the first cycle’s end. (LoO 20.27–20.29)
Orion’s early strategy. Telepathy and charged stone formations/statues (e.g., Easter Island heads; Nazca lines) to evoke awe → power myths → power‑over tendencies. (LoO 20.30–20.43)
🧩 Full Q&A with Commentary
Notation: Each subsection lists the question number (e.g., 20.12), a brief Summary, and Commentary & Notes with links. Unless noted, references are to Ra, Session 20 (see also LoO 20).
20.1–20.5 — 2D repeats during 3D; pets as individuation bridges
Summary. Some 2D entities continue their lessons during 3D’s era; the pet–human bond commonly catalyzes individualization so the entity no longer returns to species‑wide consciousness at death but retains selfhood for 3D lessons. (LoO 20.1–20.5)
Commentary & Notes. This reframes the “domestic animal” as a mystery school of love/loyalty—an apprenticeship for third‑density self‑awareness.
20.6–20.8 — Dewey B. Larson’s vibration physics
Summary. Ra affirms Larson as broadly correct as far as it goes, with gravity and higher‑dimensional aspects yet to be integrated by later thinkers. (LoO 20.6–20.8)
Commentary & Notes. Useful bridge between metaphysics and physics: vibration as a unifying key without claiming a final TOE.
20.9–20.12 — Why polarity exists: “charge” for work
Summary. Without polarity there’s no work; choosing STO/STS provides the charge for consciousness to act. Free will directs incoming energies. (LoO 20.9–20.12)
Commentary & Notes. Builds on Session 19: greater polarization ⇒ more usable power.
20.12–20.15, 20.25 — 900-year optimum & today’s “perpetual childhood”
Summary. Third density is uniquely confusing; a long lifespan lets the being mature after a long spiritual childhood. Our shortened spans leave many with insufficient consolidation time. (LoO 20.12–20.15, 20.25)
Commentary & Notes. A humbling lens on modern speed: depth requires duration.
20.16–20.24 — Why lifespans shortened; group separation
Summary. The main driver is absence of positive orientation and increasing separateness among groups. The early unmixing of Martians, Earth graduates, and others led to conflict which further reduced lifespan. (LoO 20.16–20.24)
Commentary & Notes. Social harmony is a health technology in this cosmology; fragmentation corrodes vitality.
20.19–20.22 — Who was here?
Summary. Approx. 50% Mars, 25% Earth graduates, 25% other worlds, initially largely unmixed. (LoO 20.19–20.22)
Commentary & Notes. This sets up the later karmic tangles around identity, territory, and myth.
20.27–20.29 — No harvest after first 25k years
Summary. Confederation’s gardener metaphor: after no sprouting, more active tending was needed. (LoO 20.27–20.29)
Commentary & Notes. The Law of Confusion (free will) often means waiting rather than correcting.
20.30–20.43 — Orion’s early gambit: awe → power myths
Summary. Telepathy plus charged stoneworks/statues—including Easter Island and Nazca—were used to imprint power and seed power‑over distortions. (LoO 20.30–20.43)
Commentary & Notes. A caution about glamour: aesthetic awe can be neutral or co‑opted toward hierarchy.
🛠️ Practice Corner — Building “charge” the clean way
Why: Session 20 says polarity supplies the charge for spiritual work.
Morning intent (30s). “Today I will choose one clear STO action that respects free will.”
Midday mirror. In a friction point, ask: “What move increases clarity and care?” Choose a tiny step and enact it.
Evening review (2 min). Note one polarity‑increasing choice and one neutral/avoidant choice. Plan a half‑step improvement.
🔗 Companion Reading (why it helps here)
A Concept Guide — entries on Polarity, Harvest, Confederation & Orion, Third-Density Lifespan.
Living the Law of One: The Choice — practical polarizing choices in ordinary days.
A Channeling Handbook — method ethics—patience vs. infringement (gardener metaphor).
Tilting at Windmills — editorial reflections on history‑type material and discernment.
Unified Index — quick jumps to Easter Island, Nazca, Lifespan, Polarity.
🧠 Study Prompts
Where does glamour/awe tempt you toward power‑over (subtle control, image‑crafting)? What’s the STO alternative in that moment?
What single daily habit would most reliably increase your positive orientation (and thus lifespan‑analog health)?
Which relationship (human or animal) is already a mystery school for you? How could you honor it today?
🏁 Closing Note
Session 20 zooms out: relationship individuates, polarity empowers, and social harmony lengthens the arc of learning. It also warns how spectacle can be weaponized to seduce us into power‑over. The antidote remains clear, small, service‑oriented choices—the steady winding of a charged heart.