An appreciation of 'Outlier' Don Elkins

[Dtris]

I just registered to say that I knew Don and agree with the observations shared here.  He was equally superior and humble and never assumed that what someone else knew was to be challenged or dismissed.

Don wasn't perfect.  After all he was living as we all do, in the third density.  He had dark moods that colored his ability to participate in life with others, though he never let it be part of his outward personality.  He didn't gripe or act ugly, ever, in front of me.  He would sometimes say things that revealed discouragement, and Carla might just say, "Don, ixnay."  That was enough.  He stayed quiet after that or left the room.

Don was complicated and frequently discouraged.  The Ra Material touched his passion for the truth and kept him going.  I always will be grateful for having been a very small part of his life.

I cringed when I read this portion of your fascinating post. The WORST THING you can do for someone suffering from serious depression is to shut them up, to deny their negativity, to give the person no outlet as the mind tries to do impromptu therapy with a loved one. This might reflect a New Age tendency to deny the negative as if it has such great overwhelming power that simply acknowledging negative situations might destroy the world. To borrow from the Christian tradition, we are to be spiritual warriors, and that entails going into dark places and bringing people enslaved there into the light. This is not done by saying "ixnay".  This is equivalent to saying "I know you are enslaved in the dark. I just don't want to hear about it because it might rain on my happy parade".  

I went through what Don went through and New Age friends fled. They didn't want to hear about it. They shushed me up and poured pixie dust over my throbbing wound. Happily, I ended up in mainstream medical care with a psychiatrist who DID LISTEN. Together over 3 years we healed much that needed to be expressed.

What you ask about has only a few people who were around who could answer. While fascinating, I don't find it to be helpful for personal evolution to ask "why did they not," or "why did they". Its ok to use other peoples lives to learn from, but judging their actions thru the eyes of someone in a different time and place will never give any meaningful answer.