...People have emailed [Carla and Jim (Carla was the Ra channel)] about your comments about them/Ra in the Wave 10a,b,c. The emailers seem to have taken offense and thought that Carla and Jim should also. My opinion... is... that you were simply expressing your opinion as you see the situation from your own perspective, that no ill intention was involved...

I would have to say that anyone who took offense - or felt motivated to urge offense - simply isn't getting it. Those are personal issues and we are not dealing with personal issues here. What we are dealing with is, in effect, a defense of the significance of the Ra Material as a great breakthrough in the history of channelling. I think that is clear from all my comments.

But, the issue still remains in the minds of many folks who have written to me when I suggest (as I have been doing for a long time) that they read the Ra work... that if it was so good, why did Don kill himself? And why does it seem that Ra, being a "higher being who supposedly had access to realms of greater awareness" couldn't grasp the idea of conventional colloqialism and standard definitions? Added to this was the question: if Ra is trying to teach such concepts, why is it "obfuscated" to most people?

The answers people form in their lack of knowledge generally consist of the idea that Ra was a "Trojan Horse" demonic who drove Don to his death, and therefore the validity of the material is compromised in the worst possible way. The next conclusion they draw is that Ra was not who and what he claimed to be and the evidence is the obscuration of language.

Perhaps those who insulate themselves in coccoons of wishful thinking or "true believership" aren't aware of these concerns, or do not wish to address them - thinking that if you ignore it, it will go away.

Our position is that every legitimate question and concern deserves an answer - even if the answer can only be reached by the individual asking themselves. But, in this case, these concerns are serious, not only for the Ra group, but for the whole field of work - channelling: the idea of not only the existence of, but the possibility of communication with, "higher beings." (For lack of a better term).

Thus, I began my examination and questions from the "theoretical position" (even if it was influenced by the C's assurance that it was so), that Ra and the Ra work was exactly what Ra stated - a contact with 6th density unified thought form beings (social memory complexes), and went from there. If that hypothesis is to be validated, then there must be accomodation within it that explains what actually occurred... otherwise, it is nonsense.

Those who wish to live in the land of "true believers" will, of course, find this approach to be offensive. But the history of "true believership," when analyzed and laid bare, leads to the obvious conclusion that such a position is precarious at best, disastrous at worst.

A hypothesis HAS to explain the events, or it has to be thrown out! What is YOUR hypothesis for the nature of the contact and the results??????

Nothing is black and white - simple observational conclusion - but there are many who prefer to see it that way. They see that the "fruits" of the Ra contact was the death of Don Elkins by his own hand, and a body of material that is tortuous and often difficult to read.

Those are facts.

How does one deal with those facts other than retreating into wishful thinking or by feats of cerebral gymnastics? We are using Ockham's Razor here...

As to whether it is just "my opinion," that may be so, but it is an opinion born of a lot of research and study and experience. But, as noted, it is more than an opinion... it is the result of much discussion and creating of a number of hypotheses that have been "tried and discarded," leaving only one that sufficiently explains the FACTS. (Assuming, of course, that Ra is who and what he says he is.)

I wrote to Carla. Even if there is a "divergence" in our approaches to how to deal with things at THIS level of reality, we are certainly in agreement as to what RESULTS are useful. I would not for the WORLD hurt Carla and Jim. My intent was exactly the opposite... to provide an adequate explanation for things that are very troubling... to validate the material (hopefully it will increase the numbers of people who actually will read the Ra material - and that DOES seem to be a result as people are now writing to me saying "oh! I see! Okay, that makes sense.... I can read it now!) And, if that happens, if it stops the rumors and whispers that have been floating around and growing - well, it has served its purpose.

In this field, you just can't have "sensitivities and personal agendas." Carla knows that and I know that. That is why, after very protracted and painful deliberation, I agreed to allow a journalist inside my life - knowing full well that the result would be to some extent "distortion and bias." The end result was, of course, that even though he could find no deception, no manipulation, no "dirt" in my work, he still had to put a "personal spin" on the story that ended up being a rather shallow and "cheesy" take on very serious work. The good thing is that it let people "inside" in a very public way and thereby attracted them to the work because they feel like they "know me."

So, enduring the "spin" was just the price that had to be paid. If you have read the article in the Times, you will note that Tom French remarked that he was always "bored" at the sessions. That says more about him than me. The same can be said for those who have taken offense at what is written in the referenced pages... it says more about them than me.

hey there laura- several readers wrote me about your material, and i did look it over. i think people were upset because they felt perhaps don and i were being judged this or that way. as far as i am concerned, and i told each person this, your opinions are rightfully your opinions, and i am totally accepting of them, not necessarily that they are right as far as i am concerned, but that they are your thoughts from the heart. i KNOW you did not mean to offer disrespect. you and i have a good relationship, a friendship that goes beyond our being channels or in the same weird field of inquiry. i think we are both really honest people, and when we offer our thoughts, people might take them as unflattering. hey, i can take it! it's totally ok between you and me. we are both doing our sincere best to give the best that is in us in service to others. what can we ask of each other more than that? i feel as though i just want to be a force for harmonization of all positive material. and i cannot do that by taking offense and being picky and petty with you or with anyone. let's both just redouble our efforts to serve, and let the chips fall where they may.

The predators give us their mind, which becomes our mind. ...Through the mind, which, after all, is their mind, the predators inject into the lives of human beings whatever is convenient for them. And they ensure, in this manner, a degree of security to act as a buffer against their fear.' [Castaneda, 1998, pp. 213-220]

I believe that when we speak of UFO sightings as instances of space visitations we are looking at the phenomenon on the wrong level. We are not dealing with successive waves of visitations from space. We are dealing with a control system.

The thermostats that regulate your house temperature summer and winter are an example of a control system. In summer, a thermostat allows the air to get warmer until a certain limit is reached, and then the cooling system is triggered. But in winter, when the outside atmosphere turns cold and the temperature drops below another limit, a different mechanism, the heater, comes into play and warms the house. A naive observer might try to explain all this by assuming that warm is "good" and cold is "bad." He or she would be right half the time. Another naive observer of the opposite school might take a reversed view and decide that warm is "evil." He or she would also be right half the time. To understand the whole phenomenon one needs a grasp of the control concept, and one must be ready to understand that it needs two opposite principles for its function.

I propose that there is a spiritual control system for human consciousness and that paranormal phenomena like UFOs are one of its manifestations. I cannot tell whether this control is natural and spontaneous; whether it is explainable in terms of genetics, or social psychology, or of ordinary phenomena - or if it is artificial in nature, under the power of some superhuman will. It may be entirely determined by laws that we have not yet discovered.

I am led to this idea by the fact that, in every instance of the UFO phenomenon I have been able to study in depth, I have found as many rational elements as absurd ones, as many that I could call friendly as I could call hostile. This is what tells me that we are working on the wrong level. And so are all the believers, and this definitely includes the skeptics, because they believe they can explain the facts as strongly as the most enthusiastic convert to Ms. Dixon's vison of Jupiterian Amazons!

There are ways to gain access to the reference level of every control system. Even a child, if smart or daring enough, can climb on a chair, change the dial of a thermostat, and elicit a response. (The response in question might be a sound spanking from his father, of course. The road to higher knowledge has such accidents.) It must be possible to gain access to the control of the UFO phenomenon, to forget the spirits and the pranks and the claims of extraterrestrial contact, and do some real sceince. But it will take a very smart approach - and a very daring one.

...A newspaper column commented upon the apparent lack of reality of the whole UFO phenomenon: "It does not attack us. It does not affect our daily lives. It does not help us with our many problems. It has brought us nothing of value. It may have scared a few folks here and there, but then so do thunder storms and tornadoes. The whole thing, as a social issue, is of no consequence whatsoever." The journalist who wrote this column was superficially right, of course. But he forgot another fact: ...If UFOs are acting at the mythic and spiritual level it will be almost impossible to detect it by conventional methods. ...UFOs cannot be analyzed through the standard research techniques, if they are the means through which man's concepts are being rearranged. All we can do is trace their effects on humans and hope that we eventually stumble on some principle that explains their behavior.

What is the variable being controlled in this control system? Thermostats control temperature; gyroscopes control the direction in which a rocket flies. What could a paranormal phenomenon control? I suggest that it is human belief that is being controlled and conditioned.

My speculation is that a level of control of society exists which is a regulator of human development, and that the UFO phenomenon should be seen at this level. [Dimensions: A Casebook of Alien Contact; Jacques Vallee, 1988]

Did you catch that?

If UFOs are acting at the mythic and spiritual level it will be almost impossible to detect it by conventional methods.

This is my point. If "Lizzies" or "The Predator" or "Unknown Forces" act on us as is described by not only many ancient sources through myths and legends, but by Gurdjieff, Don Juan, Ra and the Cassiopaeans, it will be almost impossible to detect it by ordinary means.

And it is in this respect that the Cassiopaeans have been an invaluable guide in our passage beyond Scylla and Charybdis. Which is not to say that once one danger has been avoided that another does not appear. They do. And, in general, they seem to get more and more subtle.

Since we have already noted the response to my little "tweak" of the control system above, in the emails of the offended Ra fans, there is a more serious level that I would like to tell you about.

Since the day those pages were uploaded, the energy has been very strange around here. And this is where I am going to tell you some of the things we look for when trying to determine the "temperature" of the Control System. Not only did we post the three sections of Part 10, but we have been setting up the Russian version of the site. A member of our group lives in Russia and has been working diligently on getting some basic material translated. There have been a number of glitches involved with that, and the most interesting was, of course, that as soon as he finished the first section and it was formatted by Ark and loaded onto the site, Alex's computer began to act up and we were afraid that the project would have to be brought to a halt. The problem turned out to be overheating, which was pretty symbolic, to say the least. And, if you begin to see your reality as a symbol system, how are you to interpret such a thing? Did Alex's computer "heat up" because his "higher self" was communicating to him that something was "too hot," or was it a signal that his efforts were adding heat to the system; or even that his efforts were unwelcome in certain realms and denizens of same were showing him that they could "cook his goose?" And, those are just the most obvious possible interpretations!

But then, things turned in a funny direction. The material that I intended to present on this page you are now reading was actually finished on the 30th of June. When I began the actual writing some days earlier, I hesitated over what and how much I ought to reveal about such matters. Finally, I decided to tell pretty much the whole story that was on my mind, changing only the names of those involved for protection of their privacy. One problem remained: three of the names of the people involved were part and parcel of the "Symbol system" under discussion. So much a part, in fact, that one of my children contracted an illness with the name of one of these people. I was thinking how I was going to convey this dynamic and still use a pseudonym for this person. I finally resolved it by finding another name that was both a disease and a person's first name.

But the problem was, as I was writing about the situation, I was asking myself some questions about this particular person's role, (and we are going to call her Candida, or Candy for short) in the soon to be revealed bizarre drama.

At the very period of our lives when we were approaching the breakthrough to the Cassiopaean contact (though we didn't know it at the time), a great deal of opposing energy came against us, most particularly myself, to the extent that my life was literally in danger on more than one occasion. The source of the danger seemed to be centered in two different groups, and the only thing that these two groups had in common with each other was this woman, Candy. Further, the only way there was any "connection" at all between me and these groups, was by virtue of my friendship with Candy. (It's a truly strange story, as you will soon see.)

At the same time that I was writing this story - which started off with my experiences with Reiki - curiously, the discussion on the Cassiopaean egroups mail list turned to the subject of Reiki! Well, that's not so unusual. I've gotten used to such "ordinary" synchronicities.

After a couple of days of intense work, (the whole thing was a struggle to get into words because of the very strangeness of it and multiple levels of interaction and complexity), I felt that it was finished and I was getting ready to switch to another program. I went to click the "minimize" icon at the top of the window but inadvertently clicked the "close" icon. Well, I realized that I had done it, so when the prompt box came up that I ASSUMED that it was the one that said "do you really want to quit?" I quickly clicked no. But, what the prompt REALLY said was "Do you want to save the changes to file..." So, the entire day's work was gone. (Yeah, I forgot to save every ten minutes or so. AWARENESS and VIGILANCE were NOT being practiced!)

What is worse, this was a subject that I had never before written about, so it was all first hand work. A lot of these pages consist of excerpts from transcript, quotes from books that are scanned and coverted to text, and a few pages of connecting dialogue that I write here and there to help it all to make sense. This was the first time that I had to write everything from scratch - and it was gone.

I was SICK. It was about 20 pages of script that I had sweated blood working through.

Well, I went outside to water the flowers and think about it a bit while Ark went through the system to see if there wasn't some way he could retrieve it. No luck. It was gonezerooni. Sayonara. Hasta la vista! and all that.

I thought about the level of exposure of the control system that I might be activating in this story; and the fact that it (the control system) certainly might not wish to be exposed in that way. And I thought about the groups I was writing about and their possible connections to some really dark doings here on the Big Blue Marble. I had stumbled upon them inadvertently then, had been able to read the clues and extricate myself in the nick of time, so to speak, but I had certainly seen a level of the "man behind the curtain" that most people don't see and survive. They had tried to kill me back then, and if it was desirable to try to kill me then, they surely would have some "sense" that their maneuvers and manipulations might be being exposed now and they could sort of reach a "mind tentacle" in my direction to generate impatience and mental confusion in my state of extreme tiredness so that I was not paying close enough attention when closing my file.

I came back inside, and Ark told me that now HIS computers were acting up. Very strange behavior, loss of a file similar to my own incident; freeze ups; the server went down; egroups was suddenly inacessible; his halogen lamp suddenly stopped working, and so forth. And all of this on top of a flat tire on the car and an expensive brake job on the van in the days following the launching of the Russian site. I was beginning to think that maybe I was stepping over the line with my revelations.

I went into the study where we do the sessions and took out my handy dandy Russian Gypsy cards and shuffled them around for a minute while thinking what I ought to do. I began to lay out the cards.

Now, anybody who is familiar with this deck knows that each card has four segments, and each segment is a half picture. There are 25 cards and 50 pictures. The only pictures that are "read" are those that are "completed" by virtue of falling next to a card that has the other half of the picture. In such a case, even if the cards are not aligned so that the halves fall together, you are supposed to rotate the two adjacent cards so that the two halves come together. Because the adjacent half of any picture can be above, below or on either side, this means that the picture can fall in one of four positions or "directions." This direction is part of the "reading" of the picture.

On any number of occasions when I have used these cards, I have always had 3 or more "matches." That is pretty standard. But, as I laid the cards down this time, card after card was put in position with no matches - until I got to the very last row when picture number 26 fell... without need to rotate either card to bring the halves together. (That doesn't happen very often at all!)

And what did number 26 indicate? It is a picture of a book.

The question was whether I should just skip the telling of the story - certainly related to a "book" in theme. And the interpretation is: "The secret you have been told is going to be disclosed. Either you or someone else will make it public. Knowledge and information are ever changing and what is secret one minute can be public the next. This should be of no concern to you if you have been aboveboard and honest in your dealings." There were further permutations that didn't apply to this case, but this one certainly did.

So, I resolved to rewrite the piece, and bump my awareness up a few notches..

But then, another very strange thing happened.

Ark receives all the email from the site and forwards to my computer anything that is addressed specifically to me. He had received an email at almost exactly the time that I had made the fatal error of closing the file without saving, and he had forwarded. But I had been so upset that I did not come back to the computer until the next day when I opened and read the e-mail. It said:

Hi Laura,
...I am a friend of [Candy]. She had told me about the Cassiopaeans and that you and she started these transmissions a while back. If that is you, she wanted to get in contact with you again.

The history of the coming of the Cassiopaeans is pretty well known and witnessed by a variety of people. I have written to some extent about the many people who came and went from the early experimental sessions, but who did not have the patience or inclination to stay with it. Candy was one of several dozen occasional participants. I find it curious that she is telling her current associates that she and I "started" these transmissions! As the record will show, Candy was present for only two of the actual early Cassiopaean sessions, though she was present at approximately 4 other sessions prior to the Cassiopaean contact.

Nevertheless, there is the "tweaking" of my reality by the Control System in that Candy is apparently telling her friends that she was more or less "instrumental."

But, what is even more disturbing is the fact that Candy (through an "agent," mind you) attempts contact after almost 6 years, at the exact time that the file ABOUT HER is lost. Not only that, but I was exactly in the process of mulling over the question of whether or not she was an innocent dupe of the very "dark" groups that I encountered through her, or if she was, in fact, knowledgeable and willingly a participant.

The problem here is that I LIKE her! I liked her from the first instant I met her. She is charming and friendly and vivacious and funny beyond anything. Seeing the things I saw in the series of events I was writing about was very hard.

But, further and deeper: what kind of serpentine Control System can be aware of a person's thoughts, intent and actions in the way that would be required to "arrange" such a synchronicity?

At this point I was thinking that it would be nice if she wanted to get in touch because she had given up her associations with those folks who are, as it appears to me, part and parcel of the manifestation of the Predator's mind, the Lizzie faction, if you want to call it that. It would be nice...

So I called Terry and Jan to share with them this bizarre little series of events. They are both as familiar as we are with the ways the energies in the environment become chaotic and even destructive when a significant change is "in the air." Terry advised me to be very careful and have nothing at all to do with Candy; didn't I learn my lesson before? Weren't there enough "signs" detected in the former interactions which saved my buns from the fire that I didn't need to get burned again?

I agreed that he was right. But again, I really LIKE Candy! It hurt me a lot to realize that she was just being friendly and trying to get close so that she could be a "conduit of attack," so to speak. Maybe it would be different now?

Nope, Terry said. Not a chance!

But, I wondered. So, we did I Ching on this one. What is the deal with Candy?

Hexagram 39: OBSTRUCTION

Above: the abysmal water
Below: Keeping still, Mountain

The hexagram pictures a dangerous abyss lying before us and a steep, inacessible mountain rising behind us. We are surrounded by obstacles. But the mountain, whose attribute is keeping still, provides a hint as to how we can extricate ourselves. In the face of danger without, we must keep still within. It is by turning inward that our attention is directed to overcoming obstacles. Obstruction is not a lasting condition.

Six in the fourth place: going leads to obstruction. Coming brings about unity. Be wary of becoming entangled in conflicts and lawsuits, for they could create much trouble. If you continue to be diligent at work, you are likely to be promoted. If yo are in school, you can expect to receive recognition and then a good job.

Well, a mountain "keeping still" in this case, is to not be moved from my "position" which is to continue to work to expose this Control System. But, obviously, I am going to have to write it very carefully so as to avoid being entangled in conflicts and, perhaps, even lawsuits, though I think the latter very unlikely.

In the case of my comments on the Ra material and now, in my work on exposing the Control System, we find exactly what Dr. Vallee suggested might happen:

There are ways to gain access to the reference level of every control system. Even a child, if smart or daring enough, can climb on a chair, change the dial of a thermostat, and elicit a response.

It seems apparent to me that something IS going on here. In learning about these things, I suffered much on my own. In telling about them, there seems to be an attempt to repeat the "spankings." But, I am familiar with that response, and hopefully, I will be able to proceed with awareness. I've gotten this far, so let me get on with the story now.

But, while I am getting it finished and formatted, it would be a very good idea for the reader to be familar with one thing (link below) that is going to play a rather interesting part in the story I am going to tell you. (If this link suddenly is "unavailable," let me know. I have the file.) It is important, and we will be talking about it in several ways.

Chapter 16

The Greenbaum Speech

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