🗞️ 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 21 (February 10, 1981).
🧭 Session Snapshot
Date: February 10, 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: Contact safeguards (forgetting, quarantine); Maldek timeline (knot → healing → incarnation); early third‑density incarnation scheduling & when choice begins; percentage choosing parents; first calls and how the Confederation answers; balancing opportunities vs. ignorance; Orion attempts; Lemuria timing & “confluence of energies”; second major cycle overview with South American love‑oriented group
🌟 Key Takeaways
Method integrity. Ra uses our language, not Carla’s idiolect; fidelity rests on removing the conscious mind during trance (21.1–21.3). See LoO 21.
Maldek’s long arc. First transition ~500,000 years ago (trauma “knot”); healing began ~200,000 years ago; incarnation on Earth ~46,000 years ago (21.5).
Quarantine intensified. Genetic aid given to Martian transfers was later seen as infringement, so the light‑quarantine was strengthened (21.9).
Forgetting & first steps. Third density begins in forgetting; early behavior is animalistic until non‑survival needs (companionship, laughter, beauty, knowledge) awaken; between‑life intervals lengthen for review; after green‑ray activation, incarnation is no longer automatic and parents may be chosen (21.9–21.11).
How many choose now? About 54% of souls near present cycle’s end choose their own incarnation parameters (21.11).
No “machines” in first 25k. Implements existed, but no machinery as we mean it (21.12). Physical changes followed intelligent energy and environment (e.g., skin color) (21.13).
First call & how aid is sent. First call ~46,000 years ago—Maldek entities in confusion. Confederation sent pure love/light streamings, not concepts (21.16–21.18). Balancing is about opportunity, not symmetry; where there is ignorance, no balancing is required (21.19–21.21).
Orion timeline (recap). Attempt ~60,000 years ago; in the second major cycle the next attempt was ~3,600 years ago (21.22–21.23).
Lemuria timing. Catastrophe ~50,000 years ago; origins ~53,000; its end coincided with a confluence of energies at the cycle boundary (21.24–21.28). Survivors continued learn/teaching across the Americas and into Eurasia (21.25).
Second 25k overview. No great tech civilizations; some Deneb souls in China; widespread green‑ray steps across Africa, Australia, India, the Americas; a South American group became harvestable without strong social/tech complexes (21.28–21.29).
Primary sources: Session 21 transcript • LoO 21 Q&A index.
🧩 Full Q&A with Commentary
Notation: Each subsection lists the question number (e.g., 21.9), a brief Summary, and Commentary & Notes with links to LoO 21 passages.
21.1–21.3 — Will reading the material affect future sessions? Whose vocabulary?
Summary. Ra: No effect; fidelity depends on will‑dedication and removing the conscious mind from the working. They use the language we know, not a private vocabulary.
Commentary & Notes. Method over content. Companion: A Channeling Handbook on tuning/challenging.
21.4 — On Puharich (“Henry”): access & preparation
Summary. It’s harmless for him to read, but he should enter any working only after meditation/contemplation/prayer; presently he isn’t in proper vibration.
Commentary & Notes. Preparation is ethical, not elitist (see also 12.x and 18.1).
21.5–21.7 — Maldek: from “knot” to incarnation
Summary. First transition ~500k yrs ago; healing began ~200k; incarnation ~46k yrs ago. No 2D incarnations in that interim—healing was in 3D time/space (inner planes).
Commentary & Notes. Trauma work precedes curriculum; karmic alleviation requires choiceful incarnation. → LoO 21.5–21.7.
21.9 — Quarantine intensified due to earlier over‑help
Summary. Genetic assistance to the Martian transfers was later seen as infringing; the light‑quarantine was tightened.
Commentary & Notes. Gardener ethics: when help distorts choice, step back. → LoO 21.9.
21.9–21.11 — Forgetting, early needs, and choosing parents
Summary. 3D starts in forgetting so free will can work. As non‑survival needs awaken, inter‑incarnation time lengthens for healing/review; after green‑ray activation, entities choose timing/parents.
Commentary & Notes. Practical frame for pre‑birth planning. → LoO 21.9–21.11.
21.11 — How many choose now?
Summary. About 54% of incarnating entities choose their circumstances near present cycle’s end.
Commentary & Notes. The classroom self‑organizes as students mature. → LoO 21.11.
21.12–21.13 — No machines; slow physical changes
Summary. First 25k: no machinery; only implements. Physical evolution suited bodies to environments—e.g., skin color.
Commentary & Notes. Ra distinguishes implements from machines. → LoO 21.12–21.13.
21.16–21.21 — First call and balancing logic
Summary. First call ~46k yrs ago (Maldek); Confederation sent pure love/light, not concepts. Balancing equals opportunity, not symmetry; when there’s ignorance, there’s no opportunity to balance.
Commentary & Notes. Why they often won’t give spectacle: it pre‑decides choices. → LoO 21.16–21.21.
21.22–21.23 — Orion attempts (recap & cycle context)
Summary. An attempt ~60k yrs ago; in second cycle, next attempt ~3.6k yrs ago.
Commentary & Notes. Matches Session 16/17 corrections; note the fertile territory language. → LoO 21.22–21.23.
21.24–21.28 — Lemuria timing & the confluence of energies
Summary. Lemuria’s catastrophe ~50k yrs ago; origins ~53k. Cycle boundaries encourage surface adjustments. Survivors carried teaching across the Americas and into Eurasia.
Commentary & Notes. “Confluence” ≠ punishment; think tectonic timing meeting karmic weather. → LoO 21.24–21.28.
21.28–21.29 — Second major cycle: no great tech; love grew
Summary. No tech “greats” like Atlantis; Deneb souls in China; many regions took green‑ray steps; a South American culture polarized positively and was harvestable without strong social/tech complexes.
Commentary & Notes. Polarity ≠ tech level; love alone can ripen harvest. → LoO 21.28–21.29.
🛠️ Practice Corner — Remembering the point of forgetting
Why: Session 21 explains forgetting and choice (pre‑birth planning after green‑ray activation).
Compassion for confusion. When you feel lost, whisper: “Confusion protects freedom. I can choose love now.” (21.9–21.11)
Call, don’t chase spectacle. If you’re sincerely confused, ask for love/light in meditation; release the need for dramatic signs. (21.16–21.18)
Parent‑choice reflection. If you resonate with pre‑birth choice, journal one lesson your family perfectly set up—and one way you can balance it this week. (21.11)
🔗 Companion Reading (why it helps here)
A Concept Guide — entries on Forgetting/Veil, Quarantine, Calling & Prayer, Pre‑incarnative Choices, Maldek, Lemuria.
Living the Law of One: The Choice — gentle practices for choosing love without spectacle.
A Channeling Handbook — preparation & alignment as ethical safeguards.
Tilting at Windmills — on guarding free will and declining specifics.
Unified Index — jump to Maldek, Quarantine, Calling, Lemuria, Green‑ray activation.
🧠 Study Prompts
Where does a craving for certainty/spectacle tempt you to outsource choice? What would a quiet call for love/light look like instead?
If you did choose your parents, what virtue are they training in you? How can you practice it consciously this week?
How might you measure progress by heart‑opening rather than technology or status—like the South American group here?
🏁 Closing Note
Session 21 places our confusion and history into a benevolent frame: forgetting guards freedom, calls are answered by undifferentiated love, and progress is measured by green‑ray steps, not gadgets. The Confederation watches for calls; the choice remains ours—moment by moment.