RA Contact Commentary — Session 83

Each entry walks question-by-question through a single session of The Ra Contact, offering clear summaries, careful commentary, and practical “how to use it” reflections.

Primary text:

Summary. “As previously stated.”

Commentary. In this late arc, Ra often keeps the opening health check brief, while later answers quietly reveal the group’s disciplined strategy: preserve the instrument’s vital energy by minimizing the “physical price” of the working.

Summary. Ra says the assumption is incorrect: the instrument is not gaining weight because of the session. The contact is not drawing from physical material to an observable extent; the group has determined the instrument will not use vital energy (since physical energy is in deficit). Instead, the weight gain is attributed to (1) increasing sensitivity of the vehicle (including allergic distortions), and (2) the energizing of these difficulties. Ra notes it’s fortunate the instrument isn’t distorted toward overeating.

Commentary. Two layers here:

Practical translation. If you’re doing intensive inner work and your body becomes “more reactive,” Ra’s stance is: don’t moralize it—support, observe, simplify.

Summary. Ra sets two foundations:

Commentary. This is a big structural claim:

Gentle caution. Ra is describing an archetypal mechanism, not issuing a moral directive. The point is the use of catalyst, not a one-size prescription.

Summary. Disease existed before and after. But venereal disease is largely linked to distorted thought-forms associated with sexual energy blockage, so it is almost entirely a product of post-veil interaction.

Commentary. Ra’s framing emphasizes how bodily distortion can be entangled with mind patterns—especially around shame, fear, control, and blockage.

Summary. As random as disease distortions generally are: the body is in constant growth; reversal is “disease,” with a benign function—ending an incarnation at an appropriate nexus.

Commentary. The “benign function” phrase is one of Ra’s most important tone setters: it invites us to see the body as an instrument of timing—not a moral scoreboard.

Summary. Ra says Don’s thinking is sufficiently clear.

Commentary. This is effectively an endorsement of the “disease as timing mechanism” model—at least as a useful framing within their metaphysics.

Summary. In time/space, a life can be seen “whole,” pages re-read. But review’s value is testing vs studying. Studying (incarnation) diffuses attention into details. Testing (after death) reveals the distillation: the attitude complex biasing consciousness.

Commentary. This is psychological gold:

Mini-metaphor. Studying is reading every page. Testing is realizing what the book was about.

Summary. Ra calls it reasonable as an analogy for experiential differences, not specifically the function of review.

Commentary. The feel is: pre-veil safety reduces urgency. Post-veil adds stakes—so the “approach and landing” become gripping.

Summary. Ra declines to generalize: infinite entities → infinite responses; over-generalization would be too broad.

Commentary. This is a quiet lesson in spiritual epistemology: don’t force a neat “how everyone would react.” The work is: how do you react, and what is that reaction teaching you?

Summary. Third density is inherently societal. Societies varied before and after. Pre-veil societies did not depend on intentional enslavement (since all are seen as one), though there was enough disharmony for experiments in governmental structures.

Commentary. Ra is not romanticizing pre-veil: there is still disharmony and experimentation. The difference is the impossibility (in felt unity) of building benefit upon another’s bondage.

Summary. Don suggests many STO people may use enslaving techniques unknowingly; Ra says “incorrect,” then clarifies: Don’s question was understood as pre-veil conditions, where unconscious slavery didn’t exist. In present space/time, unintentional slavery is so numerous that it’s hard to enumerate.

Commentary. Two takeaways:

Summary. Yes, meditation on unexpected slavery can be productive. Regarding legal systems: the intention to protect is balanced by equal distortion toward imprisonment; codification fails to recognize uniqueness.

Commentary. Ra’s critique is not “abolish law,” but “notice the tradeoff.”

Plain visualization:

Daily-life mirror. When you replace discernment with rules, you gain safety—but you may lose the living heart of justice.

Summary. Yes.

Commentary. This single word (“semi-permeable”) is extremely practical: the veil isn’t a wall; it’s a membrane. Some things pass through—especially when desire, discipline, love, and catalyst converge.

Summary. None were planned in the first experiment; the outcome was unknown. Empirically, there are as many ways as imagination can provide. Desire to know drew dreaming, balancing mechanisms leading to adepthood, and communication with teach/learners that could pierce the veil. Unmanifested activities helped. Most vivid opportunities arise from interaction of polarized entities.

Commentary. This is “spiritual R&D” language:

Summary. Two notes:

Commentary. This validates the power of committed spiritual friendship and partnership.

Plain visualization:

Summary. Piercing begins in the gestation of green-ray, all-compassionate love demanding no return. Followed, higher centers activate/crystallize until the adept is born; the adept can dismantle the veil to some degree so all may be seen as one. The other-self is primary catalyst.

Commentary. Ra places “technique” inside love lived under catalyst. It’s not a trick. It’s a heart that keeps choosing compassion when it would be easier to withdraw, control, or retaliate.

Summary. The veiling between conscious and unconscious was a declaration that the mind was complex, causing body and spirit to become complex.

Commentary. This is pivotal: the first veil is framed as a shift in the definition of mind.

Summary. Pre-veil the mind/body/spirit could control blood pressure, heartbeat, pain intensity, and functions now considered involuntary. Don suggests the Logos had a planned list; Ra says “no.” There were many experiments; many were nonviable. Example: blanking pain unconsciously isn’t survival-oriented.

Commentary. This dispels a “clean design” myth: evolution/Logos exploration includes trial, error, and refinement.

Summary. Pre-veil pain functioned as warning—like a fire alarm for those not smelling smoke. One could remove the hand from flame and mentally cut off pain until healing. Don notes this would remove catalyst; Ra says attitude toward pain varies, and his view is productive. Don asks if veiling pain control created usable catalyst; Ra says yes.

Commentary. This is one of the clearest “catalyst engineering” explanations:

Summary. Some entities choose (pre-incarnatively or via reprogramming) an esurient (intense/greedy) catalyst program. They want the catalyst and decide they need a “large board applied to the forehead” to get their own attention. Others may feel tragedy, but it is well to hope the other-self is using the catalyst it offered itself.

Commentary. This is delicate material. The helpful reading is not “glorify suffering,” but:

Human note. Compassion does not require you to deny pain; it invites you to add: “May this be used.”

Summary. Ra jokes: “We am Ra,” noting English struggles with social memory complex plurality/singularity. For comfort: the instrument has two potential bodily distortions; aid can come through ingesting what feels desirable; no rigid diet rules, but emphasize liquids. The instrument increasingly senses what aids the body. It’s aided by affirmations and the “light” that is food of the density of resting. Monitor desires for more complex proteins; offer least-distorted options.

Commentary. This is grounded caregiving wisdom: listen to the body’s signals, keep it simple, don’t turn diet into dogma, and support rest.