An appreciation of 'Outlier' Don Elkins

[Diana]

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.

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.

I had a similar reaction when I read that. We all have a tendency to repress feelings. And heaping censorship on top of that is pretty inconsiderate.

The three people who acquired the Ra Material are/were just beings here like us all; so Carla controlling Don like that—inasmuch as it can be understood out of context—is just lack of awareness, which we all have in one way or another. 

Trying to understand Don doesn't seem likely, but may be relevant to those who require validation. I don't.

I so get the New Age community and the veneer of "positivity" glossing over anything really challenging. There is a poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, written in the 1880s or thereabouts, the famous lines of which are: When you laugh the world laughs with you; When you cry, you cry alone. Aside form the deeper implications that we must walk our own paths and be responsible for our own evolution, there is the more surface sentiment that does manifest in human interaction.