🗞️ 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 companion texts and official resources. This entry covers Session 36 (March 10, 1981) with cross‑links to LoO 36.x question numbers.
🧭 Session Snapshot
Date: March 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: Mind/Body/Spirit Complex Totality vs. Higher Self (Oversoul); probability/possibility vortices and parallel programs; the Higher Self as “map,” not controller; sixth‑density nature of the Higher Self; whether/when negative entities reach Oversoul; rare negative Wanderers; penetrating the forgetting as a prerequisite for this contact; why three is the most efficient support number; group Oversoul nuance.
Companions for deeper study: A Concept Guide (entries: Higher Self, Mind/Body/Spirit Complex Totality, Wanderers, Probability/ Possibility Vortices), Living the Law of One: The Choice (devotion, guidance‑seeking, discernment), Tilting at Windmills (contact ethics), A Channeling Handbook (circle hygiene).
🌟 Key Takeaways
Totality ↔ Higher Self ↔ Incarnate Self. Imagine three points of a circle: your present self; your Higher Self (late 6D, “future‑you”); and your m/b/s complex totality (timeless resource of all that may occur). The Higher Self uses data from totality to program lessons/limitations, but does not override free will. → LoO 36.1–36.2, 36.5–36.8
Map, not puppeteer. The destination and roads are known to the Higher Self, yet choices remain yours. It can bias lessons and predispositions, never dictate outcomes. Perfect balance between known/unknown is preserved. → 36.7
Parallel programs exist—but not true simultaneity. What looks like multiple “you’s” is better understood as programmed parallels across probability/possibility vortices, not real simultaneity within time/space cognition. → 36.3–36.5
Higher Self is 6D (positive). Every entity’s Higher Self is sixth‑density; Oversoul manifestation is towards the positive because 6D requires love+wisdom unity. A 6D‑negative cannot stabilize Oversoul; many switch polarity upon entering 6D. → 36.8–36.13
Negative Wanderers are rare. A 6D‑negative almost never risks the forgetting; very rarely one may wander to accelerate STS by teaching control‑oriented philosophy. Ra declines to name examples. → 36.16–36.19
Contact requirements. Penetrating the forgetting is necessary for this kind of contact, and three in harmonious support is the minimum/most efficient number for instrument protection. → 36.19–36.22
Group Oversoul nuance. Beyond the three personal higher selves, two social‑memory‑complex totalities are said to be blending efforts with the group’s higher selves. → 36.22
🧩 Full Q&A with Commentary
Notation: Each subsection lists the question number (e.g., 36.2), a brief Summary, and Commentary & Notes with links to LoO 36 passages. Primary transcript: LLR Session 36. Cross‑reference: LoO 36.
36.1 — Defining m/b/s complex totality
Summary. In a dimension beyond time, the entity knows itself in totality before merging into the One. This totality becomes a resource for the Higher Self, which itself is a resource for programming/assessing experience.
Commentary & Notes. Distinguish totality (timeless, probabilistic cloud) from the Higher Self (late‑6D guide). → 36.1
36.2 — Who programs our catalyst?
Summary. Not totality but the Higher Self assists with healing and further life‑experience programming, drawing on totality’s probability/possibility library.
Commentary & Notes. Programming ≠ predestination; it sets conditions/limitations that invite lessons. → 36.2
36.3–36.5 — Seth’s Oversoul model & the simultaneity question
Summary. Many parallel experiences can be programmed, yet true simultaneity belongs only to unified awareness. The Oversoul “seems” simultaneous with you, but it is actually your future‑self moving back along time’s stream to aid you.
Commentary & Notes. Helpful image: future‑you sending back a map derived from totality’s panoramas. → 36.3–36.6
36.7–36.8 — Map vs. free will
Summary. The Higher Self knows the roads and destination but cannot drive the car for you. It may set lesson‑biases and limitations; the rest is your choice. The Higher Self is 6D going into 7D and does not look “back” after entering 7D proper.
Commentary & Notes. Think curriculum design + office hours, not puppetry. → 36.7–36.8
36.9–36.11 — Every entity’s Higher Self is 6D
Summary. The Higher Self is of sixth density for everyone; it communicates during discarnate phases and, if channels in the roots of mind are opened, during incarnation as well.
Commentary & Notes. Meditation, will, and purity help—but intense polarization alone doesn’t guarantee Oversoul contact. → 36.9–36.11
36.12–36.15 — No negative Oversouls; the 6D flip
Summary. There are no negative Oversoul manifestations. 6D‑negative entities face spiritual entropy (wisdom without love). Upon recognizing other‑self as self, they reorient to positive to continue evolution.
Commentary & Notes. 6D demands love+wisdom integration; the flip is a structural requirement, not a moral scolding. → 36.12–36.15
36.16–36.19 — Negative Wanderers? Rare, risky
Summary. A 6D‑negative rarely risks wandering because the forgetting imperils STS gains. Still, a very few do, seeking to accelerate STS by offering negative philosophy in 3D. Ra withholds names.
Commentary & Notes. Both STO/STS Wanderers seek acceleration via dense catalyst; one radiates love/light, the other control/elite ideology. → 36.16–36.19
36.19–36.22 — Penetrating forgetting & why three
Summary. Penetrating the veil is a qualification for this contact. Three is the minimum/most efficient number to protect the instrument given the group’s harmony.
Commentary & Notes. Circle hygiene: few, harmonious, steady—better than many, chaotic. → 36.19–36.22
36.22 — Group Oversoul blending
Summary. Beyond each person’s higher self, two social‑memory‑complex totalities are assisting, blending with the group’s higher selves.
Commentary & Notes. A peek behind the curtain: guidance can be layered—personal and group‑level. → 36.22
🛠️ Practice Corner — Working with Your Higher Self
“Map, not puppeteer” check. When facing a life fork, ask: What lesson might be getting biased here (patience, honesty, courage, surrender)? Choose a response that respects free will—yours and others’.
Roots‑of‑mind pathway. 10 minutes of silent sitting: call on your future‑you (Higher Self) with a simple offering—“I seek the lesson; please bias me toward love + wisdom.” Journal the first quiet nudge you can act on today.
Probability audit. For a thorny issue, list three plausible paths. Ask which path offers the richest catalyst to grow a chosen virtue. Walk one step on that path within 24 hours.
📚 Extended Notes & Context
Three points of a circle. Ra elsewhere phrases it this way: self, Higher Self (Oversoul), and totality can be viewed as one being differentiated only by time/space perspective. Use this as a humility frame: your present self is not separate from guidance.
Why no negative Oversoul. Late 6D cannot stabilize without open green ray; wisdom must be married to universal love. Hence, truly negative configurations resolve by choice into positivity upon entering deep 6D work.
Wanderers & risk. Whether STO or (rare) STS, wandering is about acceleration via dense, confusing catalyst—if the veil is partially penetrated enough to remember why you came.
Group Oversoul hint. Ra’s note about two social‑memory complexes assisting this triad underscores how harmonious small groups can be multipliers—the right few are better than many.
🔗 Companion Reading (why it helps here)
A Concept Guide — Higher Self, Totality, Wanderers, Probability/ Possibility Vortices.
Living the Law of One: The Choice — practical offering/asking prayers & discernment exercises.
A Channeling Handbook — minimum‑three logic and circle care.
Unified Index — jump points: higher self, oversoul, totality, wanderer, forgetting.
🧠 Study Prompts
Where might your Higher Self be biasing lesson‑conditions right now? Name the virtue and one experiment you’ll run this week.
Recall a moment you felt guided. Which came first—the choice to serve or the guidance feeling? What does that imply about free will?
In your closest collaboration, how could you honor a group‑level guidance (Oversoul) through shared intention and harmony?
🏁 Closing Note
Session 36 turns metaphysics into trustworthy guidance: your future‑you maps the roads, your present‑you must drive, and the totality offers the weather report. Keep free will sovereign, choose love + wisdom, and let guidance bias you toward the next good lesson.