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[Jade]

I had a thought the other day and I think here is as good of a place as any to address it.

Aion, you bring up how the group seems more distorted towards the end than they were at the beginning, and that may be true. There are plenty of places where Ra explains the weakening of the chinks in the group - particularly, the deleterious energy exchange Don and Carla had exchanging their weaknesses with each other which made them extremely vulnerable. They faced many subsequent initiations through their process of channeling Ra and obviously struggled with these challenges.

But the specific thing I was thinking about was the sighting of the hawk. Unobjectively, it was the vision of the hawk by the group that led to Don's eventual suicide. If you aren't intimate with the situation, the group was being kicked out of their dwelling by their landlord, and had to find a new place to live that was more convenient for them. They had found what they thought was the perfect house, and when they arrived back home in their excitement, a hawk landed on their porch directly in front of them, paused for a few moments, then flew off.

Carla and Jim took this as a direct confirmation from Ra of the sureness of their plans. Don created a doubt within himself and told himself that the hawk was a negative sign - that if they hadn't seen the hawk, they would have went forward with their plans. But the hawk's appearance threw a wrench into it, so Don thought that the house was no good.

To me this conveyed the fragility of discarnate, higher density entities involving themselves on our plane, even with confirmations or synchronicities, and the way it affects our free will. Ra obviously just wanted to offer a reassurance to the group, and instead, the vision eventually drove Don to insanity. Another instance of naive Ra trying to do right but causing more distortions.

Ra is not perfect, though I think by default we put them on that pedestal. But even Ra says that they have millions of soul fragments incarnate as Wanderers right now on earth - showing that they still endeavor to achieve balance.

I think a lot of the paradoxes espoused here in this thread about Ra not infringing on the group's free will can be resolved by reading Tilting at Windmills and learning more about the group's process and experiences. The group is not infallible. There are multiple instances of serious advice administered by Ra that went ignored - for instance, the group never took the step to do formal meditation together on a daily basis. They kept their meditations separate even though Ra suggested they meditated together more. This is just one example.

As far as my assessment of the Ra material, I would agree with Jeremy that it comes to resonance, and I feel a very strong resonance. I also believe Aion's point that duality and multiple available interpretations are coded into the material as a preservation of free will. Ra couldn't just step down into Carla and present everything succinctly and take away the choice for everyone else to make. Ra just wanted to offer a magical energy full of food for thought, to help aid the harvest. I'm going to make a faithful guess and assume that the material has done far more good for the fate of humanity than not - but that could be naivete. In thinking of the singular, it has done immense good for me in my life, so in the macrocosm it must also be so.