Let's assume you believe Ra is an actual entity and that the channelers didn't define the whole material, which they didn't. I mean, how many times would they tell themselves they are incorrect, heh?

Anyways, Ra is too humble for his own good. They live up to their title "a humble messenger."

In a lot of the passages, the channelers will make a guess as to the archetype or some other understanding and it will have varying degrees of inaccuracy. Ra will be nice about it and tell them what is right about the guess, even if it is the tiniest truth. In these cases, do not take the entire query as to be a correct understanding. Make sure you are differing between points made by the actual entity and biases being accommodated by the entity.

If this is not done, then you are going to have a bad time with some portions of the material.

Now if you believe Ra is a complete fiction and what the channelers say goes, then have at it. I wish you luck with that.

Just be wary of the interpretations of the material and what the actual material says. This is how most great works end up being completely neutered: Somebody takes authority over the meaning of the work.

There are many instances in the Ra material where Ra relies on the context of the conversation to relay specific information. With the amazing resource of LOO.info and the nature of discussion on these forums, it can be very easy to pluck a specific quote out of the context in which it belongs and change its meaning entirely. I recall one instance of a poster creating an in-depth thread on the nature of the Higher Self and in the process found some quotes from the hypothetical discussion between Don and Ra about a wanderer being placed in negative time/space. Being taken out of context, it seemed to read that all wanderers here on Earth now are in negative time/space. Understanding the implications of being in negative time/space shows how important context was in this case.

Not to say that a majority of the Ra material can't be dissected and understood in segments regardless of context, or that sometimes context is so obvious it doesn't need expressed. Ra did their best to ensure minimum distortions in the material yet they were still under the constraints of time, energy, and our own clunky language. Fortunately, thanks to LOO.info, context for any quote may be found easily. Whenever someone is in doubt of how a quote is being attributed, we can go and find the original session to see if it is actually relevant.

That said, something I've never been able to grasp in the Ra material is understanding the right and left-hand paths based on this quote:

Quote:44.15 Questioner: Well, does the left-hand path of this represent the service-to-self path more and the right-hand path the service-to-others?
Ra: I am Ra. ...This is incorrect. These stations are relationships. Each path has these relationships offered. The intent of the practitioner in working with these powerful concepts determines the polarity of the working. The tools are the tools.

Quote:93.8 Ra: ...In the image you will note a suggestion that the offering of the illusion will often seem to suggest the opportunities lying upon the left-hand path or, as you might refer to it more simply, the service-to-self path.

Quote:94.12 Questioner: It seems to me that the Experience of the Mind would act in such a way as to change the nature of the veil so that catalyst would be filtered so as to be more acceptable in the bias that is increasingly chosen by the entity. For instance, if the entity had chosen the right-hand path the Experience of the Mind would change the permeability of the veil to accept more and more positive catalyst, and also the other would be true for accepting more negative if the left-hand path were the one that was repeatedly chosen. Is this correct?
Ra: I am Ra. This is not only correct but there is a further ramification. As the entity increases in experience it shall, more and more, choose positive interpretations of catalyst if it is upon the service-to-others path and negative interpretations of catalyst if its experience has been along the service-to-self path.

Quote:95.21 Questioner: In Card Four [in the] last session we spoke of the shape of the skirt and it has occurred to us that the skirt of the entity representing the archetype of Experience is extended to the left to indicate that other-selves would not be able to get close to this entity if it had chosen the left-hand path. There would be a greater separation between it and other-selves, whereas if it had chosen the right-hand path there would be much less of a separation. Would Ra comment on that observation?
Ra: I am Ra. The student is perceptive.

Quote:99.8 Ra: ...Those who choose separation, that being the quality most indicative of the left-hand path, are protected from other-selves by a strength and sharpness equivalent to the degree of transformation which the mind has experienced in the negative sense.

Quote:44.14 Questioner: I was looking at the diagram of the advancement of magical practices starting from Malkuth and ending at Kether. I was wondering if these corresponded to the colors or the densities, with Malkuth as one, Yesod as two, Hod and Netzach being three, Tiphareth four, and so on. Is this correct?
Ra: I am Ra. This is basically incorrect although you are upon the correct track of thinking. Each of these stations has a complex number and shading of energy centers as well as some part in various balances; the lower, the middle, the high, and the total balance. Thus there are complex colors or rays and complex charges, if you will, in each station.

44.15 Questioner: Well, does the left-hand path of this represent the service-to-self path more and the right-hand path the service-to-others?
Ra: I am Ra. This will be the last full query of this working.

This is incorrect. These stations are relationships. Each path has these relationships offered. The intent of the practitioner in working with these powerful concepts determines the polarity of the working. The tools are the tools.

Ra's message is the 'Law of One'. That there is only 'one' creator, and 'one' consciousness. And that everything we see is that 'one thing'.

however, in 3rd density a choice is made between the service-to-others path and the service-to-self path. These distinctions are factual and without judgement. But they seem to have a tendency to cause division within our own consciousness.

roughly speaking, sto=good and sts=evil, in popular connotations. The whole good/evil labels are very emotionally charged though, and much more judgemental than Ra's description of service-to-others and service-to-self.

I've had to overcome this tendency to see 'evil' people as not the creator.

Ra confirms the existence of such things as 'ghosts'; and also gives a mechanism by which they 'linger' on this plane:

Quote:47.13 Questioner: What stimulus would create what we call an Earth-bound spirit or a lingering ghost?

Ra: I am Ra. The stimulus for this is the faculty of the will. If the will of yellow-ray mind/body/spirit is that which is stronger than the progressive impetus of the physical death towards realization of that which comes, that is, if the will is concentrated enough upon the previous experience, the entity’s shell of yellow ray, though no longer activated, cannot either be completely deactivated and, until the will is released, the mind/body/spirit complex is caught.

This often occurs, as we see you are aware, in the case of sudden death as well as in the case of extreme concern for a thing or an other-self.

When we attribute issues to one energy center, is that a bit of reductionism going on? For example we attribute certain characteristics to one energy center and it may be a useful way of understanding one's issues. Yet when we are faced with certain catalyst, this catalyst may have connections with blockages in multiple and/or all centers... kind of like a one problem that may be understood on various different levels.

For example, when there is catalyst around the issue of abandonment and rejection in personal relationships, there may also be social experiences around being oppressed or repressed... That then may make it a challenge to open our hearts to friends and loved ones, as well to our society or larger groups or universal family. Perhaps a sense of unworthiness to serve the creator.. and so on. The primary issue may be the orange ray (for example) and so it makes sense to focus on that center. I guess I'm wondering if focusing on just one center could possibly shift other centers but then working on different levels, simultaneously, could also shift self on a broader level.

My question is, according to Ra's teachings, how may problems be conceptualized?

According to the conceptualization of the problem, how may we proceed with working through catalyst (e.g., focus on the 'core' issue and associated centers, focus on all centers).

In past discussion I understand there was mention of working with all centers as optimal way. That kind of makes more sense to me.

I am in the process of balancing the red ray and i am wondering if anybody has advice they can share on this process?

My understanding is that the feeling of sexual energy or pressure needs to be balanced with the feelings of love in the heart or green ray. The exercise i am using at the moment is very simply just that, when i have a feeling of sexual energy i focus on it for a moment then try and find loving energy in the heart or green ray centre?

I think that the simple acceptance and allowing of the energy is activating and balancing the red ray and i am rather trying to balance orange ray in terms sexual energy? The reason for this is, i feel that through masturbation i lose vital energy that should be rising up to the higher centres and i am focusing that energy on a very negative industry, thus resulting in some form of negative karma.

What do you guys think on this topic?

in this passage here, Ra speaks about things that don't seem to heal, despite the best attempts to do so. One may see the doctors, one may see the energy healers, one may try all the methods of self-understanding of origination, and yet there is no healing effectuated. In some cases, these are just pre-incarnative choices, a chosen experience for a very particular lesson.

Quote:73019 We might note further that when the one wishing to be healed, though sincere, remains unhealed, as you call this distortion, you may consider pre-incarnative choices and your more helpful aid to such an entity may be the suggestion that it meditate upon the affirmative uses of whatever limitations it might experience.

We would also note that in these cases the indigo-ray workings are often of aid.

music is something that speaks to everybody. It is like food; you will rarely meet an individual that dislikes food; everyone likes to eat, it is very satisfying and nourishing. The only difference lies in what food one chooses to like or partake of.

and so it is with music. Music speaks to the movement, the organisation, and the patterns of sound and the mind. It 'synchronises' us; aligns consciousness.

this is what Plato had to say on it:

"“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.”
― Plato

music, like water, is a useful metaphor to use for many things. Ra offers a few examples throughout the sessions:

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man is not a machine, it is tone poem!!

Quote:54.8 Ra: I am Ra. This statement, though correct, bears great potential for being misunderstood.

The precision with which each energy center matches the Original Thought lies not in the systematic placement of each energy nexus but rather in the fluid and plastic placement of the balanced blending of these energy centers in such a way that intelligent energy is able to channel itself with minimal distortion.

The mind/body/spirit complex is not a machine. It is rather what you might call a tone poem.

Quote:54.16 Questioner: Let me make an analogy that I have just thought of. A seven-stringed musical instrument may be played by deflecting each string [a] full deflection and releasing it and getting a note. Or, once the strings are capable of being deflected through their full deflection (producing a note), instead of producing the notes this way taking the individual creative personality and deflecting each the proper amount in proper sequence to produce the music. Is this correct?

Ra: I am Ra. This is correct. In the balanced individual the energies lie waiting for the hand of the Creator to pluck harmony.

Quote:86.6 The nature of the unconscious is of the nature of concept rather than word. Consequently, before the veiling the use of the deeper mind was that of the use of unspoken concept. You may consider the emotive and connotative aspects of a melody.

One could call out, in some stylized fashion, the terms for the notes of the melody. One could say, “a quarter note A, a quarter note A, a quarter note A, whole note F.” This bears little resemblance to the beginning of the melody of one of your composers’ most influential melodies, that known to you as a symbol of victory.

This is the nature of the deeper mind. There are only stylized methods with which to discuss its functions. Thusly our descriptions of this portion of the mind, as well as the same portions of body and spirit, were given terms such as “far-seeing,” indicating that the nature of penetration of the veiled portion of the mind may be likened unto the journey too rich and exotic to contemplate adequate describing thereof.

Quote:74.15 When the entity Jehoshua decided to return to the location called Jerusalem for the holy days of its people it turned from work mixing love and wisdom and embraced martyrdom which is the work of love without wisdom.

The “Hosanna,” as it is termed, and the following “Benedictus,” is that which is the written summation of what was shouted as Jehoshua came into the place of its martyrdom. The general acceptance of this shout, “Hosanna to the son of David! Hosanna in the highest! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!” by that which is called the church has been a misstatement of occurrence which has been, perhaps, unfortunate for it is more distorted than much of the so-called Mass.

There were two factions present to greet Jehoshua, firstly, a small group of those which hoped for an earthly king. However, Jehoshua rode upon an ass stating by its very demeanor that it was no earthly king and wished no fight with Roman or Sadducee.

The greater number were those which had been instructed by rabbi and elder to make jest of this entity, for those of the hierarchy feared this entity who seemed to be one of them, giving respect to their laws and then, in their eyes, betraying those time-honored laws and taking the people with it.

The chink for this instrument is this subtle situation which echoes down through your space/time and, more than this, the place the “Hosanna” holds as the harbinger of that turning to martyrdom. We may speak only generally here. The instrument did not experience the full force of the greeting which it correctly identified during the “Hosanna” due to the intense concentration necessary to vibrate its portion of that composition. However, the “Benedictus” in this particular rendition of these words is vibrated by one entity. Thus the instrument relaxed its concentration and was immediately open to the fuller greeting.

Quote:75.17 This entity has an intense devotion to the teachings and example of the one it calls Jesus. This entity then vibrates in song a most demanding version, called The Mass in B Minor by Bach, of this exemplary votive complex of sound vibrations. The entity is consciously identifying with each part of this Mass. Only thusly was the chink made available.

As you can see, it is not an ordinary occurrence and would not have happened had any ingredient been left out: exhaustion, bias in belief complexes, attention from an Orion entity, and the metaphysical nature of that particular set of words.

in this passage here on the energy centres, Ra describes the physical manifestation of consciousness. That is, the more developed one is as an 'entity'; (ie in consciousness and understandings), this will be reflected in 1) the clarity of the energy centres (less blocked) and 2) the forming of crystalline structures that are both beautiful and radiant.

the one on the heart is especially alluring:

Quote:51.8 Questioner: What do you mean by crystal structures?


Ra: I am Ra.

Each of the energy centers of the physical complex may be seen to have a distinctive crystalline structure in the more developed entity.

Each will be somewhat different just as in your world no two snowflakes are alike. However, each is regular.


(1) The red energy center often is in the shape of the spoked wheel.

(2) The orange energy center in the flower shape containing three petals.

(3) The yellow center again in a rounded shape, many faceted, as a star.

The green energy center sometimes called the lotus-shape,
the number of points of crystalline structure dependent upon the strength of this center.

(5) The blue energy center capable of having perhaps one hundred facets and capable of great flashing brilliance.

(6) The indigo center a more quiet center which has the basic triangular or three-petaled shape in many, although some adepts who have balanced the lower energies may create more faceted forms.

(7) The violet energy center is the least variable and is sometimes described in your philosophy as thousand-petaled as it is the sum of the mind/body/spirit complex distortion totality.

I have always wondered how this passage worked in practice:

Quote:47.9 The disciplined personality, when faced with an other-self, has all centers balanced according to its unique balance.

Thusly the other-self looks in a mirror seeing itself.