Do you guys actually believe this stuff?

[ricdaw]

I came to the Ra Material relatively late in my spiritual studies. And I found the first three books to be interesting and internally consistent, but not necessarily capable of being proven true. But it was Book Four that captured my attention. Ra claimed to be the insipration for the original Egyptian tarot cards. Now I am pretty familiar with tarot so this was intriguing to me. The studied literature did not support the thesis that the Egyptian versions of the cards preceeded the "western" version that I used, and certainly not by centuries. So I read with interest as Ra described what the cards were for, and what individual cards "meant."

I was astonished. Even when Don didn't understand what Ra was talking about (the Hierophant card, in particular) the information and the pictures were a brilliant and coherent whole. No mainstream tarot publication anywhere describes the meanings for these cards in this way. I have looked (and continue to look) in every tarot book I come across.

If Carla was making this stuff up (or more accuately, if her subconscious was making it up) then it was one of the most remarkable creative reimagining of tarot ever recorded. It was thoroughly original, internally consistent, and as it is described it does make an integrated whole that dovetails with the text in the preceeding three books.

If I am satisfied that the information in Book Four about the tarot, as a practical matter, is not something that can be generated by Carla's subconscious while in trance, and I am convinced of its brilliance and consistent interlocking conceptual framework, then what am I supposed to think about matters peripheral to the tarot?

It's only a tiny step to acknowedge that Carla must be channeling the people who designed/inspired the tarot. Well, that leads to accepting the existence of ETs because that's who they said they were. (It would no less remarkable if Carla was telepthically getting the data from someone else here on Earth, but that is not the narrative.)

And that first step leads to the claim that these ETs were mucking around in Egypt thousands of years ago. Hmmm. Where do I draw the line here? I accept that the source for the tarot information is ET, but should I discount their claim to their participating in ancient Egypt? Okay, I'll take another tiny step.

Boy, they sure seemed to know a lot about that Great Pyramid. I've been in it and felt first hand the energies (muted though they be at this time).

So could it be there is a Confederation?

And does that mean there is an opposing force too (Orion Group)?

This all gets to be a long slippery slope and it comes down to a matter of personal discernment and comfort about how far down you go. Since I do not expect to need to use the Ra Material information for any life or death decisions, or even for more mundane ones like where to live or what job to have, it doesn't hurt to slide pretty far down and buy into the more tenuous and unprovable assertions.

So, I believe in Book Four and the tarot discussions without reservations. I hold the information, knowledge and suggestions of the other books in mind as I go about my life. I am open to having the information proven true. It is a kind and inspiring philosophy that cannot be twisted into any kind of belligerence or war (of either hearts, minds or bodies). I would not be remotely surprised to find that it is true.