🗞️ 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 37 (March 12, 1981) with cross‑links to LoO 37.x question numbers.
🧭 Session Snapshot
Date: March 12, 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: How to disseminate the Law of One without diluting it; the purity of questions shapes the purity of contact; Ra’s gentle humor (“Ra plans”); a concise restatement of the Higher Self ↔ Totality ↔ Incarnate Self triad; Oversoul of a social memory complex and the “doubling” (squaring) effect; defining spiritual mass; instrument care.
Companions for deeper study: A Concept Guide (entries: Higher Self, Totality, Free Will, Wanderers, Contact), Living the Law of One: The Choice (ethics of service and communication), A Channeling Handbook (circle hygiene), Tilting at Windmills (publishing context), Unified Index (quick topic jumps).
🌟 Key Takeaways
Seek high-grade questions. The level/purity of contact tracks the level/purity of the questions asked; chasing specific trivia degrades the working. → LoO 37.4
Dissemination without distortion. Ra entrusts use of the material entirely to us; suggests following intuitive flow with minimal worry, while refusing to bargain with prerequisites that made the contact possible. → 37.3–37.5
“Ra plans” (cosmic joke). Don proposes a UFO‑book as a distribution gateway; Ra encourages, quips about “Ra plans,” and returns the agency to the group. → 37.6
Higher Self triad, again—now crisp. You ↔ Higher Self ↔ Totality are three points of a circle separated only by time/space viewpoint; the mid‑7D gift establishes the Higher Self. → 37.6–37.8
Group Oversoul doubles. In a social memory complex, the Oversoul operates not by simple addition but by the way of “squares” (doubling), amplifying capacity. → 37.7
Spiritual mass. A definition pointing to the gravity well of the Creator—the pull of the great central sun drawing all oscillations home. → 37.8
🧩 Full Q&A with Commentary
Notation: Each subsection lists the question number (e.g., 37.4), a brief Summary, and Commentary & Notes with direct links to LoO 37. Primary transcript: LLR Session 37. Cross‑reference: LoO 37.
37.1 — Book I is moving; Ra confirms
Summary. Don asks if Ra is familiar with their publishing efforts; yes.
Commentary & Notes. A small but telling detail: Ra is attentive to the outer life of the working, but doesn’t steer it. → 37.1
37.2–37.3 — Dissemination challenge & Ra’s stance
Summary. Don worries that the raw transcripts won’t spread; wonders if added material is needed to reach seekers (esp. Wanderers). Ra: your use is your choice; keep intuitive flow and don’t over‑concern, while remembering the sacrificial conditions that enabled the contact.
Commentary & Notes. Ra both honors free will and refuses to lower the bar set by the group’s harmony/discipline to meet market tastes. → 37.2–37.3
37.4 — Purity of questions ↔ purity of contact
Summary. Don: distribution systems reward specific, low‑value data; can they include such to piggyback the non‑transient teaching? Ra: The contact’s level and purity depend on the information sought. Ongoing requests for specific trivia are deleterious. Ra also notes style criticisms: they prize nuance accuracy over simple prose.
Commentary & Notes. A perennial editorial tension: clarity vs. fidelity. Ra sides with fidelity to protect metaphysical precision—even if that taxes readability. → 37.4
37.5–37.6 — “Ra plans,” UFO entry‑point, and agency
Summary. Don plans a general UFO book embedding undistorted Ra quotes to seed the Law of One. Ra: “We hope your Ra plans materialize… Continue with your intentions.”
Commentary & Notes. A wink of humor + a return of agency: do your best, keep the heart of service central, and let free will lead. → 37.5–37.6
37.6 — Higher Self gift from mid‑7D
Summary. Don asks whether the Higher Self itself “evolves.” Ra clarifies: the mid‑7D self gifts the Higher Self to its late‑6D self, which then uses both its total memory and the m/b/s complex totality (an infinitely complex thought‑form).
Commentary & Notes. Elegant restatement from Session 36: the triad is one being, viewed at three time/space stations. → 37.6
37.7 — Individual totality and group Oversoul
Summary. Both statements are true: each entity has a totality, and at the social‑memory‑complex level there is a collective Oversoul/totality whose power enhances by squares/doubling, not by simple sum.
Commentary & Notes. This “coherence gain” hints why harmonious groups can output far beyond linear addition. → 37.7
37.8 — Spiritual mass
Summary. Final full answer defines spiritual mass: that which begins to attract the out‑moving oscillations toward the gravity well of the great central sun/Creator.
Commentary & Notes. A physics‑flavored metaphor for homecoming; mirrors mystical talk of magnetization to the Absolute. → 37.8
37.9 — Closing care
Summary. All is well. Usual closing blessing.
Commentary & Notes. Group hygiene remains paramount; shorter sessions keep the instrument well‑tuned. → 37.9
🛠️ Practice Corner — Publishing with Polarity
Question hygiene. Before asking (or writing), check: Is this transient (trivia/curiosity) or non‑transient (mind/body/spirit evolution)? Rephrase to raise the center‑of‑gravity of the question.
Two‑track distribution. Pair a gateway (e.g., a popular topic like UFOs) with undistorted core quotes; mark clear attributions and keep linkbacks to primary texts.
Fidelity > popularity. Choose a sentence that preserves nuance, even if it costs a bit of simplicity—then add a plain‑English gloss beneath it.
📚 Extended Notes & Context
Non‑infringement & the Way of Confusion. Ra’s repeated refusal to steer distribution choices protects free will—both of the group and of readers. The law of non‑infringement is what keeps spiritual evolution authentic rather than coerced.
From Session 36 to 37—same circle. The Higher Self / Totality / You circle continues here: one being, three vantage points. The doubling notion previews later teachings on group polarity and why seniority of incarnation clusters seekers in times of harvest.
On style criticisms. Ra’s prose is densely tuned to metaphysical accuracy. Editors can add helps (headings, glossaries, diagrams) around the words rather than inside them.
🔗 Companion Reading (why it helps here)
A Concept Guide — Higher Self, Totality, Contact, Free Will, Wanderers.
Living the Law of One: The Choice — communication with service and discernment.
A Channeling Handbook — maintaining group purity and instrument care.
Unified Index — jump to spiritual mass, Oversoul, doubling, Way of Confusion, distribution.
🧠 Study Prompts
Rewrite a transient question you have into a non‑transient one. How does the contact (inner or outer) change when you do this?
If you were to design a gateway book/video today, what popular on‑ramp would you use—and how would you protect the core precision?
Sketch your personal triad: You ↔ Higher Self ↔ Totality. Where do you feel the guidance “bias” at work this week?
🏁 Closing Note
Session 37 is a compact manual on how to ask and how to share: keep questions high‑grade, distribute with integrity, and remember the circle of guidance that bends every oscillation—by spiritual mass—back to the great central sun.