RA Contact Commentary — Session 88

Each entry walks question-by-question through one session of The Ra Contact, offering clear summaries, commentary, and grounded ways to apply the ideas.

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Summary. Physical energy deficit is considerable; vital energies have significant loss, yet remain within “strength.” Ra advises applying what has been learned conscientiously.

Commentary. This is the “spiritual housekeeping” side of the Ra Contact: the metaphysics rides on the instrument’s condition. Ra doesn’t give a single magic fix—rather, they nudge the group to apply the many prior learnings consistently.

Summary. Ra says fourth-density negative minions are energizing imbalances especially in the instrument’s hands (and somewhat in the thoracic region). They advise minimizing use of the hands and suggest the group discuss this (since the instrument won’t like it).

Commentary. Two layers:

Summary. The 5D companion is not present, but it is not resting.

Commentary. This fits the late-cycle pattern: even when not “on-site,” the higher-density adversary remains engaged, working indirectly through lower-density forces.

Summary. The censer’s new configuration helps subtle energy patterns. Continuous burning would help, but too much smoke/combustion is undesirable; between too much smoke and letting it finish, Ra prefers letting it finish.

Commentary. A tiny example of Law-of-One practicality: the “best” is not always maximal ritual intensity—balance in the working space matters.

Summary. The mind/body/spirit complex of the instrument is with Ra; as the instrument “awakens from the metaphorical crib” of their density, it becomes aware of movement of thought but cannot grasp it—like an infant hearing first words. This should continue and is an appropriate outgrowth of the workings.

Commentary. This is one of the clearest descriptions of why trance contacts can leave subtle residue:

Gentle takeaway: don’t force interpretation; focus on stability and care.

Summary. It is partly due to low vital energy. The instrument has sustained pain that drains energy; balancing has included “variety of experiences” that were discouraged out of concern, which further drained the entity. The will to serve is being tested; the instrument uses vital energy to fuel will; no physical energy used, but vital energies tapped so the instrument may consciously choose service again.

Commentary. This is a nuanced psychology-of-service passage:

This reads like a subtle counsel to any serious seeker: service should not erase the human range of life.

Summary. The crystal is beneficial as long as the one who charged it is positively oriented. It was charged by “Neil.” Don asks if it would abridge the first distortion to say whether Neil is still positive; Ra notes Don has answered his own query.

Commentary. The hidden teaching: spiritual tools are not “neutral tech.” Their efficacy is entangled with the charge/intention and the current polarity/clarity of the charger.

Also: Ra deftly avoids violating free will. Don’s own discernment is the point.

Summary. Practical advisability is up to their discrimination; there are magical considerations.

Commentary. This is one of the strongest “ethics of presentation” moments in the Ra material:

Practical translation for your newsletter project, too: represent sources and your own commentary honestly—don’t create a “mystique” by fabrication.

Summary. The tarot concept originated within the planetary influence called Venus. It was devised by Venus’s third-density population long ago. Venus 3D dealt deeply and harmoniously with relationships, sexual energy transfer work, and metaphysical research. Generations of work on the archetypical mind produced the tarot, used as training aid for developing the magical personality. Don guesses the early Venus seekers partially penetrated the veil and gleaned insights about archetypes/veiling and then designed tarot to teach others; Ra confirms.

Commentary. A lot happens here:

This also resonates with Ra’s repeated theme: when consciousness is trained, symbolism becomes a precise language.

Summary. Ra declines to reconstruct minor descriptive differences between their tarot and later Egyptian/descendant versions, because each archetype is a concept complex and is viewed uniquely by individuals and by those shaped by planetary/racial influences. However, Ra highlights one major later breakthrough: proper emphasis on Arcanum 22, The Choice. They knew an unifying archetype existed but did not give it proper concept-complex emphasis to use it most efficaciously for evolution.

Commentary. Two vital ideas:

Practical translation: if archetypal study becomes abstract, The Choice pulls it back into lived polarity: how love/wisdom is used, how will is aimed, what is served.

Summary. Don proposes a model where Significator is acted upon by Catalyst → Experience → Transformation → Great Way, repeated for mind/body/spirit, with differences by domain. Ra responds that Don’s correctness is tangled with fundamental misunderstanding; they request a realignment:

Commentary. This is a cornerstone for “how to do archetypal work” without flattening it into a diagram.

A helpful metaphor:

A practical method implied:

Summary. Ra did not use tarot-like cards in Venus 3D. They used sustained mental visualization of complex images. They give an analogy familiar in Christian mass: a small portion of food is mentally configured as the “entirely real” Jesus (Jehoshua), as a visualization. Concepts were sometimes drawn, but not one visualization per card. Teaching was “cabalistic”: oral tradition, mouth to ear. In Egypt, the same process was used, but later teach/learners drew the images and later used cards bearing those representations.

Commentary. This reframes “tarot” as fundamentally inner work:

This also explains why Ra repeatedly emphasizes the “melody” of an archetype: it is not just “looking at an image,” but becoming intimate with a living inner pattern.

Summary. Court and Minor Arcana were products of influences from Chaldea and Sumer.

Commentary. This is a clean historical/occult boundary marker in Ra’s narrative:

For practice: you can work deeply with the 22 without adopting every later overlay.

Summary. Ra first divorces tarot-as-divination from Major Arcana-as-archetypes. Astrology can be significant for initiated entities who understand the Law of Confusion. Planetary influences enter the Earth energy web and move entities like the moon moves the waters; our nature is “water,” easily impressed. Two major influxes: conception (physical/yellow-ray incarnation) and birth (first breath into chemical body). Those who know star configurations can see a broad map of one’s traveled and likely-to-travel territory on physical/mental/spiritual levels and may develop psychic/paranormal abilities.
When archetypes are shuffled into astrologically-oriented Court/Minor cards, archetypes become magnetized to the practitioner’s impressions and become a linkage between practitioner and questioner; this can yield meaningful configurations. In themselves, Major Arcana have no rightful place in divination but are tools for knowing the self for the purpose of entering a more profoundly realized present moment.

Commentary. This is a “two-lane road” answer:

The philosophical punchline: archetypal study is meant to deepen your capacity to inhabit the present moment with awareness.

Summary. Ra describes their approach on Earth:

Commentary. This is gold for serious archetypal students:

Visualization (the “columns” idea):

You compare across rows: (1/8/15), (2/9/16)… to see how the same function manifests through mind/body/spirit.

Summary. Ra warns again about the instrument’s hand distortions; without abatement, surgery may soon be necessary. Alignments good; group fastidious. Ra closes with blessing and “Adonai.”

Commentary. The session ends with the same message it began with: care matters. Even while mapping the archetypal mind, the instrument’s hands—service-organs—need protection.