🗞️ 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 5 (January 23, 1981).
🧭 Session Snapshot
Date: January 23, 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: The healer as catalyst (not example) • Three areas of training (mind → body → spirit) • Five mental disciplines (balancing & acceptance) • Begin study of the body (biases & polarities) • Silence as key to intelligent infinity • Appurtenance care (rotate candle ~10°; keep items dedicated)
🌟 Key Takeaways
Healer ≠ doer; healer = catalyst. Healing is a form of channeling a distortion of intelligent infinity; the working exists in itself. (Ra, Session 5)
First area: Mind (five disciplines). 1) Find each trait’s polarity within yourself (patience↔impatience, etc.). 2) Accept the mind’s completeness (reduce judgment). 3) Repeat #1 outward (see both poles in others). 4) Accept other‑self polarities. 5) Observe relations among mind, other‑mind, mass‑mind, infinite mind. (Ra, 5.2)
Second area: Body (begins). The body is a creature of the mind’s creation; study its biases and polarities (e.g., male/female) and bring them into understood balance and acceptance—in self and in others. (Ra, 5.2)
Key to the door: To contact intelligent infinity, the mind must be opened like a door; the key is silence. (Ra, 5.2)
Care & alignment: Rotate the candle ~10° clockwise each session; center objects with geometric care and reserve them for the work. (Ra, 5.3)
🧩 Full Q&A with Commentary
Notation: Each subsection lists the question number (e.g., 5.2), a brief Summary, and Commentary & Notes with context and study links. Unless noted, references are to Ra, Session 5.
5.0 — Opening
Summary. Ra greets in love/light; the group resumes the healing thread. (Ra, Session 5)
Commentary & Notes. The sequence follows Session 4’s “threefold training” arc; Session 5 starts the mind curriculum in detail.
5.1 — Healer as catalyst (not by example)
Summary. Don proposes healing by example; Ra corrects: the working exists in itself; the healer is catalyst, not cause—healing is a channeling of intelligent infinity. (Ra, 5.1)
Commentary & Notes. This preserves free will and avoids personality‑cult traps. Concept lens: A Concept Guide entries on Healing and Intelligent Infinity clarify terms.
5.2 — Five mental disciplines (and the doorway of silence)
Summary. Prerequisite: the ability to retain silence of self at will. Then:
Balance within: for every thought/trait, consciously find and hold its antithesis.
Acceptance of completeness: release judgment; the mind contains all things.
Balance outward: see both poles in other‑self.
Acceptance outward: welcome other‑self polarity, as with self.
Observe relations: map the geographies/ratios among mind, other‑mind, mass‑mind, infinite mind.
Ra then begins the body study: know the body’s biases, understand & accept its polarities (illustrates with male/female), and extend this to other‑selves. (Ra, 5.2)
Commentary & Notes. This is the core discipline of the personality. Study links: A Concept Guide (Discipline of the Personality; Balancing; Acceptance); LL101 for daily practices that build silence and acceptance.
5.3 — Comfort & appurtenances
Summary. To improve flow through the instrument’s receiving mechanisms: rotate the candle ~10° clockwise each session; center all objects with geometric care; keep them dedicated (not used outside the working). (Ra, 5.3)
Commentary & Notes. Method is part of ethics: consistency and dedication keep the signal narrow‑band and the instrument safe. Method lens: A Channeling Handbook; story lens: Tilting at Windmills.
🛠️ Practice Corner — The 5‑step balancing drill (reader‑friendly)
Why: Session 5 formalizes the mental disciplines that undergird healing and contact.
Silence key (1–3 min). Sit, breathe, and practice a steady inner quiet. If helpful, count exhales up to 10, then release counting.
Balance within (2–3 min). Choose one salient trait (e.g., impatience). Hold its antithesis (patience) in equal awareness. Let them coexist without judgment.
Accept within (1–2 min). Affirm: “My mind contains all things; I accept this completeness.”
Balance outward (2–3 min). Visualize a real person. See the same trait pair in them (impatience↔patience). Hold both, neutrally.
Accept outward (1–2 min). Offer silent acceptance of their completeness; release the urge to fix or label.
Observe relations (optional). Journal a simple “map” of how your mind interacts with other‑mind, your community (mass‑mind), and infinite mind today.
Tip: Do one micro‑cycle daily; rotate traits weekly.
🔗 Companion Reading (why it helps here)
A Concept Guide — Discipline of the Personality, Balancing, Acceptance, Intelligent Infinity, Healing.
Living the Law of One: The Choice — practical habits that cultivate silence, acceptance, and service.
A Channeling Handbook — tuning/ritual discipline and group safety.
Tilting at Windmills — behind‑the‑scenes on appurtenances and care.
Unified Index — cross‑reference “discipline,” “balancing,” “intelligent infinity.”
🧠 Study Prompts
Which trait pair (e.g., diligence↔laziness) would most help your balance this week, and why?
What would accepting completeness (vs. judging) change about one recurring interaction?
Where can a little more silence unlock clearer perception today?
🏁 Closing Note
This session turns the abstract into method: silence → balancing → acceptance—first within, then outward—and begins the body curriculum. Next: Session 6—continuing the training and expanding the body/spirit foundations.