(The Ra Material and the Confederation’s picture of creation)
This Ra Material has a profound clarity and internal consistency. It presents a startling picture of the universe and humankind’s place in it, a picture which lies at the core of this report.
As you can see from the “Law of One” name, their philosophy is that all things are one. The universe and all things in it are one system. There is one Creator and a unified creation.
We pursued it because we found the research compelling and helpful. We collected it in Books I through V of The Law of One, sometimes known as The Ra Material. In addition to these very special trance sessions, we have collected and archived over a 1,500 of our group’s conscious channeling sessions over the years until the present day.
Introduction The Confederation of Planets in the Service of the Infinite Creator The Confederation and Religion The words mythology and religion should be far more interchangeable than they are. The difficulty is that in myth there is no judgment between one myth and another, whereas in religion, those of one religion square off with hostility against those religions which in some way contradict it. Thus we prefer to talk of all paths of spirituality as personal myths, including classical paths such as the path of mystical Christianity, the path of literal Christianity, the path of mystical Buddhism, the path of literal Buddhism and so forth. Realize that the essence of myth is to move the seeking entity, by its own faith and its desire to know the truth, over a kind of rainbow bridge, a magical, covenantal span that links time and eternity; that which is known and that which is a mystery. Those who dwell in that which is known have a deadness inside them, though they live and their hearts beat. Those who dwell from time to time in eternity have a livingness that only crossing that span into eternity may offer.
(Reincarnation, densities, and the cosmic curriculum)
The Confederation sources suggest, like the major Western religions, that there is one infinite Creator and that we are all His beloved children. However, those religions state that a person only lives for one lifetime. The Confederation suggests that we reincarnate many times, over thousands of years, building up our learning and our gifts in our “soul stream,” which is eternal. Whereas the Western religions assume that the Earth is the only repository of human life, the Confederation sources describe a universe in which we on Earth are one of many races of humankind which dwell on many planets in the starry vastness of our galactic ocean.
Whereas the Western religions suggest that all of the drama of our soul is enacted in this one lifetime and that the curriculum of the school of life is all contained in this one small incarnation, the Confederation suggests that we are in the third grade of a seven-grade school of cosmic learning and service, moving to a completion called an “octave” of creation, where the whole process begins again from the harvest of the old, like the phoenix rising from the ashes. In this Confederation scheme, each octave contains seven “densities” or schools for learning and progression. We will discuss the densities in detail later in this book. Completing the grades of this school takes millions of years. This present grade, which the Confederation calls the Density of Choice or third density, lasts about 76,000 years. We are in the last decade of this long period, heading rapidly toward a planet-wide Harvest in 2012. It is to be emphasized that this is not a “doomsday” date. It is the date at which the fourth density, the Density of Love, has its onset.
Whether or not 2012 includes the literal end of life as we know it on planet Earth is unknown to me, of course. However, the Confederation suggests that we have plenty of time to finish out our natural lives here on Earth. The time that is short, and rapidly streaming past, is the time to make The Choice for ourselves. We have only the years between now and 2012 in which to make that choice.
To their way of thinking, belief systems are for the purpose of arranging the subject matter of metaphysical, spiritual or religious belief in such a way that it makes sense to us, so that we can think about the concepts involved. If we already have a belief system going which works for us, they encourage us to keep that system. What they do is to put that system into context by calling it a “personal myth” rather than “the truth.” This expresses their opinion, which is that all religious systems of belief are each person’s choice of resources to use when moving into the precincts of the archetypal mind. They see religious belief systems as structures through which we may look at the roots of our own deep mind.
The basic goal of a life lived in faith is to retrain the mind from habits based in fear to habits based in love and from carelessness in living to responsible stewardship of one’s precious time in incarnation.
Ponder death, holding in the attention the principle of perfect love, and know that death is only a transformation. For perfect love does not destroy but only transforms and changes.
At any time, death is a powerful transformation for us all. And it is coming for all of us! Being born is a death sentence. None of us knows the length of his life. We know only that, one day, we shall cease to breathe and shall pass from this mortal world, just as at one time, we first drew breath as we entered it, fresh from our mothers’ wombs.
However, at this time people have a special opportunity, immediately after their deaths, to be harvested. According to the Confederation, we humans reincarnate within this present world many times, preparing for a harvesting or graduation from this density to the next, from the Density of Choice or third density to the Density of Love or fourth density. We have the chance to move on now, as we pass through the gates of our natural time of death. The Confederation describes a process of walking the steps of light to test our harvestability. If you like the concept of the Pearly Gates, place those gates, in your imagination, at a place along these steps of light which is between this present world of third density and the “heaven-world” of fourth density. Each of these steps of light has a somewhat more dense supply of light and love contained within the light falling on that step. Therefore each step is “hotter,” brighter, more piercing or fuller of light and love.
that step where we stopped is still in third density, then we have not yet successfully made our choice, and so we will spend another cycle of 76,000 years working on those lessons which bring us to that defining choice. If the step upon which we stopped is past those Pearly Gates, then we have made our choice successfully and crossed over into fourth density, also called the Density of Love. We have been harvested! We have graduated! And indeed, the Confederation channelings say that density is a heaven compared to this world. The veil is lifted and we can remember the whole sweep of our experiences, all the lifetimes and all the learning. Our options increase greatly, so that we can go forward as disembodied spirits in order to teach within the inner planes or incarnate in a much-improved body and seek further learning and service. We can become guardians of Earths like this one. We can act as lighthouses, offering constant praise to the Creator as do angels. Fourth density is a most creative and free place compared to our Earth world. We can start studying the ways of love and understanding as students in fourth-density light-bodies. We can also choose to come back to Earth as fourth-density wanderers or helpers of Earth, in order to help Earth shift into fourth-density love-consciousness. The so-called Indigo Children, in their various groupings, are such entities.
(Why the Creator made creation)
Chapter One The First Three Distortions of the Law of One The Unitary Gameboard
Why did the Creator choose to make creations? Our comment has often tended to be that the Creator is attempting to gain in knowledge and appreciation of Itself. The Creator wishes to know Itself. Thusly, it sends forth parts of Itself within illusion to see what will happen and to learn from the colors created in the palette of emotions that you have created through many experiences and incarnations. This palette contains your beauty and is unique to you, so that you can teach the Creator that which no one else in all of Creation is able to teach. For you are the only one of you in all of the infinite universe. Thusly, it is your gift to the Creator that comes from you, that is greatly desired. You cannot please the Creator by being someone else but only by being most truly and deeply yourself.
You are every thing, every being, every emotion, every event, every situation. You are unity. You are infinity. You are love/light; light/love. You are. This is the Law of One.
(Quantum physics meets unified creation)
From this new perspective, everything perceivable in our universe and on our planet self-organizes and creates itself within and from a common field of Oneness, now called the Zero-Point Energy Field in physics. New theories are emerging that challenge the doctrine of a universe slipping toward the meaninglessness of entropy, seeing instead a dynamic balance of forces.
In high school we hear about science and the scientific method. There we learn the central assumption of classical science, which is that there is a world “out there” which has nothing to do with us or what we think. The scientific process is to observe the naturally occurring phenomena of the world out there until you have enough information to form a hypothesis about what you are observing. Then you conduct experiments which will support or reject the hypothesis. The classical scientist is as happy with a wrong answer as with a right answer because, either way, the sum of scientific knowledge is advanced. It is a highly appealing and tidy way to look at the universe. We have come a long way by applying the scientific method, in terms of creating our present culture with its many conveniences.
The rich, allegorical texts of alchemists still offer a sophisticated and subtle exploration into the interconnections between the microcosm and the macrocosm; man as a soul and creation as a whole.
Quantum physics asserts that the separation between the observer and the observed is an illusion. Since the application of quantum mechanics and Heisenberg’s principle have afforded us such modern gadgets as the computer and other electronic tools, lasers, superconducting devices and fluorescent lights, the theory cannot be dismissed as “mystical.” It produces observable, useful results. Thus scientists already acknowledge the inseparability of the observer and the observed while not yet acknowledging that the source of this is, in the words of the Confederation, consciousness.
One modern theory spawned by quantum physics is the “string theory.” In general, string theories posit that after we reduce the physical object into its atoms and then divide the atoms into their subatomic, component particles of electrons, neutrons and protons, we add an oscillating loop in the path of each subatomic particle. This loop can vibrate, oscillate or become “excited” in different ways when acted upon, just as a guitar string can produce different notes when the guitar string is fretted to hold different lengths of tension. The loops, vibrating together, make “harmonic chords” of interaction and all of these strings can hook up under the right circumstances.
In this picture of a universe made entirely of oscillating, interacting, tiny units of shimmering energy, we can easily see the Confederation’s suggested model of a unified and interactive creation. It is an exciting model, for in it we are literally connected with everything else in creation.
The main difference between the string theorists’ and Confederation’s view is that the string theorists see the dance to be random while the Confederation sees the dance as having purpose.
This attractive process takes place because the universe, as an interactive, unitary system, vibrates according to patterns of attraction. What we most love or most fear is what we attract, by the focus of our attention. One of the more subtle choices we make every day is whether to focus on thinking about the things we love or the things we fear and dislike.
According to Fred Alan Wolf, we can change the very fabric of our reality by the choices we make, by the things we choose to see or not see and by what our honest intentions are, as opposed to what we might be saying, when we come to a point of choice. If we focus on the things we love, we attract them. Good multiplies. If we focus on the things we fear, we attract them instead. The heavens seem to pour bad weather on us. What we choose to think about makes a difference!
Please note again that this is a holistic, multi-dimensional Gameboard, not a flat, two-dimensional one like a chess board. Our gameboard, lower-case version, is life as we perceive it right now. The trick, in getting ready to play the Game of Life, is to decide to move to a position outside the regular gameboard itself, in order to see the Gameboard. We do this by an act of will.
Free Will The impact of beginning to grasp the actual nature of the nested illusions of experience is daunting and can constitute a time of adjustment in which the nature of the self is allowed to transform itself according to the ways of this free will that enters into the creation upon each level of development. The free will of yourself can barely be distinguished from the free will of that Logos that is your higher self, that overarching Logos that is the group mind of that soul stream, that overarching Logos that is the planetary mind, and so forth. The connections that each entity has with other aspects of an infinite being that is the self are unending, so that free will is, shall we say, that icon of deity which expresses the feminine, the ever-moving, the fructifying.
Both of these models leave the individual human being feeling completely powerless. The Confederation model, in stark contrast, places the individual human being in complete charge of his life, with the ability to make free choices.
When we make that decision to seek the truth, we are knocking on the door of “spirit,” says the Confederation teaching. By spirit, the Confederation means the whole range of spiritual guidance. Some people who are brought up as Christians think of spirit as the Holy Spirit or as Jesus the Christ. Some think of spirit as the world of nature. Some think of spirit as the hidden world of ghosts, “Ascended Masters” and inner-planes teachers. The Confederation’s term, spirit, includes all of those meanings.
The Holy Bible suggests that what we ask for, we shall receive and that when we knock, the door shall be opened. It, like the Confederation, targets that conscious choice to seek as important. When we choose to begin the journey of seeking, we alert spirit that we are ready to become a player in the Game of Life.
It then sends forth the Thought or Logos which is Its creative principle and the essence of Its nature. The essential nature of the Logos is unconditional love.
The Logos then uses Light to manifest the Creation in all of its rich detail. Endless orders of magnitude, from stars to subatomic particles, are then formed.
We know how to live this life on the level of getting by. That is the usual game of life with a flat gameboard.
When we use this higher faculty of free will, we are moving away from the flat gameboard and are setting up the enhanced Gameboard for a Game of Life.
It is not until you ask yourself what kind of love caused the Creator to fling the various bits of Itself, via the “big bang,” out into the universe It manifested just for the purpose of watching it progress, that you are ready to think about the Confederation’s story of how the Logos generated the universe around us.
Unconditional love or the Logos, then, is a feature of the Gameboard, along with its unitary nature and its foundational free-will choice. We know that the Creator’s very nature, Its “I AM,” is unconditional love. We can count upon the Creator to love us unconditionally and absolutely. The Creator will not withdraw that love. It is fascinated to see how its creation will progress. We, as a player of the Game of Life, have as our core vibration that same unconditional love. The Game’s object is, in part, to discover that great, original Thought or Logos within ourselves. The dogma of religion suggests that we cannot find that love within ourselves. However, the Confederation channeling suggests that as we learn to play the Game, we will find ourselves uncovering deeper and deeper levels of this love hidden within the folds of our everyday natures.
Light Quantum physicists state that the material world is really variable fields or frequencies of energy. All energy is ultimately reducible to light.
We as players of the Game are little sparks of the Creator who are also choosing to know ourselves.
The plenum of our seemingly empty space, whether between atoms inside our bodies in our inner universe or between worlds in our outer universe, is filled with vibrational energy. The energy is living. The Yoga tradition calls this energy prana. Older science called it ether. Later scientists call it, among other things, Zero Point Energy. In current science, the ZPE is thought of as “potential” energy. This means that it has the potential to do work, that is, to produce motion, but that it exists in an unmanifested state. By whatever name, it is full of the energy of the one Creator. There is no energy shortage in the one infinite Creation!
Occasionally, regular people have amazing experiences which demonstrate the illusory nature of the world around us. Perhaps you have seen hypnotists pierce a subject’s skin with a needle, with the suggestion that there is no pain. The subject feels no pain. Or perhaps the hypnotist has suggested that a subject may walk on burning coals and receive no burn. The subject receives no burn. Or perhaps you have read of instances where a small woman whose child is trapped beneath a car lifts the entire front end of the vehicle to free her child. Under conditions where the individual believes with his whole heart that the rules of the illusion can change, they can and do change.
It is very difficult to think of the main and centrally constituent service to the one infinite Creator as that of being. And yet that is what you came to Earth to do. You came here to be yourself; to breath the air; to participate in the illusion of planet Earth; to go through each and every detail of receiving catalyst, responding to catalyst and moving through the periods of joy and suffering that this catalyst offers you. And always your chief responsibility is to be yourself; to feel truly; to examine yourself as fully as you can and to know yourself to the very limit of your ability. You wish to know yourself not to judge yourself or to condemn yourself or to pat yourself on the back but simply to become aware of who you are.
the eyes of the Confederation, we live in a unitary, interactive universe where everything is alive and all is one. We have found that the Creation as we know it stems from the Creator’s desire to know Itself and that the creative principle, or the essence of the Creator, is the Thought or Logos of unconditional love.
literally real, but it does have real effects on us. The illusion brings us what Baba Ram Dass calls “grist for the mill.” The Confederation calls this grist “catalyst.” We discover ourselves as we respond to incoming catalyst.
Fear and love cannot abide together. One or the other will win. We all tend to start from a position of fear in situations that feel risky to us in some way. Balancing that response by bringing it around to love is the basic ethical challenge of many of our rounds with catalyst.
The main problem we have in responding skillfully to positive catalyst is that we find it so pleasant. We get lost in the enjoyment of it. Romantic love wipes many surrounding details off of the face of our internal map. Friendship, the pleasures of good company and easy times and all the blessings of life come into season in our lives to find us appreciating them as they pass. In this daze of happiness it is a challenge to remember to give thanks. Taking things for granted kisses them good-bye in terms of the Gameboard. Even if they last all of our earthly life, they are never part of the Game of Life. Giving thanks for things lifts that catalyst to the level of the Gameboard. Gratitude seats positive catalyst metaphysically so that it works within our evolutionary process.
It is a creation of energy. The choices we make about what the Ra group calls energy expenditures are absolutely crucial as we play the Game of Life. We have just so many seconds to live. We have just so many heartbeats before our environment changes and we drop our physical bodies. And in those times of our life’s heartbeats, we have just so many opportunities to feel, sense, think and choose how to respond. Each incoming bit of catalyst is a precious gift. Here, in this present moment, is a fully sufficient environment for playing the Game of Life.
But how to discover that in an authentic way is the question! It is a real challenge. The Game of Life is a long game. It is a challenge to play it through, a challenge worthy of extreme sports, marathons or the Olympic games. It can be played, and played well, however, by anyone.
The principles are simple. Once these principles are understood, it is a matter of using the inner discipline of the true Player to become a metaphysical athlete. This all sounds pretty hard. And a challenge it is, indeed. It is a life’s work. But its rewards—graduation into a new life and adventures surpassing the imagination—are worth it.
The seeker’s use of the concept of polarity in making choices in everyday life is what transforms the lower-case “game of life” into the upper-case, spiritually alive “Game of Life.” It is the single most crucial detail discussed by the Confederation concerning how the Gameboard works.
(Polarity as the game’s central mechanic)
The Service-to-Others Path of Polarity What you have, in terms of your ability to serve at this time, is primarily your own deepening awareness of what it is to choose; what it is to choose so deeply that the rest of your life becomes a joy; what it is to choose so completely that there is no longer the need to spend time questioning whether faith is the answer, whether service is the answer or whether one particular kind of service is better than another. When the choice for service to others has been made absolutely, there is a knowing that comes. It is a knowing that transcends planning. It is a knowing that includes the awareness that you really do not have control over anything but your own desires, your own will and your own persistence.
They call the south or negative pole the service-to-self polarity. Interestingly, light moves from the south to the north pole: The south pole “attracts” it via gravitation or attempted absorption and the north pole receives and radiates it.
The Confederation describes the path of service to others as a path of forming and maintaining a positive attitude which informs all our decisions. The heart of this attitude is the awareness that the universe is an entirely unified, interactive and living being made of absolute love, of which each of us is a part.
Each consecutive service-to-others ethical decision which you make doubles your positive polarity. If you falter and make a service-to-self choice, you have to begin another series of consistently love-filled choices in order to polarize further.
When you see your life as a whole from beginning to end, as you would a symphony or a poem, you become able to get outside of the constant stream of daily details that take up your mind’s attention. You become able to see the point to choosing, in general, how you want to behave during this lifetime. You can then set a rule or ethical standard of life for yourself which is like the compass within, steering you through the chaotic seas of everyday life.
Jesus never said a word to me in my magic forest. He would sit next to me and hold my hand. I would look into his eyes and know what unconditional love really is. It was all there in his golden gaze. In church I received information about what this man had supposedly preached during his short ministry so long ago. His message is the same as the Confederation message: to love and to forgive. I have wanted to follow Him from my earliest memory.
Let’s put this in numbers. According to the Ra group, graduation in positive polarity is achieved when we have a score of 51% service to others or higher. In other words, if we are thinking about serving others more than half of the time, we have made a score that allows graduation in positive polarity. To graduate in negative polarity, the requirement is that we have a score of 5% service to others, or 95% service to self. It is quite a bit harder to graduate in service to self, since our love of self and concern for the self must be so pure.
After 2012, those who live here on Earth in third density will be focusing on the stewardship of the planet, working to repair the damage we have done here on Earth in the past 200 years or so. The time of the Choice will be gone. Indeed, many of those living on Earth today are recent graduates of Earth’s Density of Choice. They are pioneers of fourth density now, having chosen to come back and help their home planet heal, as their first service-to-others action within the Density of Love. Psychologists and psychics alike have called these children such names as Indigo Children and Crystal Children. More and more, these dual-activated persons will be the population of Earth.
A great virtue of the Game rules is that the main metaphysical job of all service-to-others polarizing people is simply to seek ever more deeply to know themselves and to be themselves. Knowing that they are parts of a unitary creation made entirely of love, they know that at base, they are worthy. Therefore they can explore their consciousness in a direct and truthful way which is not full of fear as to what the seeker will find. It is a way in which judgment and appearances have no part. It is a forthright, radiant, generous polarity. It radiates unconditional love and compassion, both for the self and for others.
A service-to-self polarizing person will likely have much more control over what he says and does than will a positively polarizing person. He will be attentive to details which might gain him an advantage or give him ways to control others’ thoughts or actions more efficiently. You can label such people as evil, but all that does is embroil you in the lower-case gameboard, which loves to judge and make differences between oneself and others which make the self look “better than.”
When we have a reaction of disgust or judgment to the action of another person or group, we are using another person or group as a mirror to look at our own nature. When we do not like what we see in that mirror, the best thing for us to do is to spend some time contemplating where the seeds of this seeming fault we saw outside of ourselves lie within our own inner nature.
People who stand up and speak out, in any culture, run the risk of making enemies. King was no exception. The FBI openly tapped his telephone. King was assaulted five times, put in jail numerous times and more and more distrusted by southern segregationists. Despite winning the Nobel Peace Prize for his work; despite an avalanche of public recognition in the form of honorary degrees and awards for service, he was shot to death by an assassin in Memphis in 1968. He was in that city to help the striking sanitation workers receive a fair wage.
Perhaps 30,000,000 people were killed by Genghis Khan’s forces during the fifty years of his continuous campaign. During that time the population of China was cut in half. He found mass extermination of cities to be his favorite tactic for taking over nations. Since few cities enjoy the prospect of surrender, most cities he challenged were utterly destroyed. Those who did surrender were left alive, but made into vassals and slaves.
The Mongols prided themselves on their iron constitutions, and fought in winter by preference because most other armies found winter’s extremities of weather difficult. All males were inducted into the army and honor was gained only by warfare.
Discipline was extremely tight; so tight that in general even poor and defenseless people were safe on the roads within the Empire. Lapses in discipline were punished by death, even for small infractions. This was a reign of pure terror.
Earth has not produced many examples of pure evil, Genghis Khan included, although the Ra group said that he did graduate in service to self, so his polarity must have been 5% service to others or less.
Consciousness is, in truth, the consciousness of love, for love, and the distortions of love, are all that there is. Each person has a native vibration that is completely congruent with the Logos that created and formed all the millions of infinite universes. And each, through the process of taking on an incarnation, has signed up for a difficult yet rewarding term of service.
That consciousness, then, that some have called Christ-consciousness or cosmic consciousness, dwells within that vessel of skin and bones, muscles and thoughts. Each rattles around in this somewhat alien configuration, a spirit trapped, or just visiting. Most entities spend some time feeling very trapped, and yet this is an opportunity for which you wished very much. This was a trip for which you planned, setting up for yourself relationships that would help to focus your own heart and mind upon those lessons of love you, yourself, deemed to be the most telling and critical for you at this point. And so that basic vibration of each is Love Itself, distorted, contracted, controlled, shall we say, by the various ways in which, by free will, the entity has chosen to limit or shape consciousness.
body will help you to be a spiritual athlete as you come to the Gameboard each day.
Successful play on the Gameboard goes not to the swift but to the right-hearted. The Player runs a race with himself each day, seeking like the medieval knight for the Grail or spirit of truth, beauty and love which tells a story of the world aright and teaches our hearts to be wise and true.
Consciousness is the deepest part of all of our minds. And access to this common consciousness is necessary in order to play the Game of Life well. Without access to this infinite consciousness, we are coming to our Gameboard with faulty and incomplete information.
I have never found any system of psychology to be nearly as helpful to me as the Confederation material on the energy body, in terms of helping me to find peace within myself and a feeling of quiet confidence in play on the Gameboard. It may be because the Confederation entities include the sacred in their explanation of how we work.
“What affects the energy body most is the thoughts that one has. Therefore, if one is improving one’s diet, and is happy about it, the information of the improved diet moves into the chakra body as good news. If, on the other hand, an entity is plodding through a dietary regimen that is prescribed for an illness, but that entity is unhappy and feels constricted by this regimen, then the information that is given to the chakra body will be quite different. It will seem like a negative thing to the chakra body, rather than a positive thing. For the chakra body is not listening to the doctor; nor is it listening to ideas that contain the word “should.” It is only listening to the feelings and the thought forms involved in the translation of physical effects into the feelings and the sensations of the body. A happy heart is more helpful to the chakra system than a good diet. A peaceful mind is more helpful to the chakra system than exercise.”
We spend time smiling at golden memories. And often we spend more time walking down the sadder bits of Memory Lane, wasting our energy on regrets and second thoughts which distract us from play on the Gameboard.
Consciousness is the sea of Being which is of the one infinite Creator. It is made of unconditional love. In our normal state of mind, we may not have access to consciousness. Consciousness dwells within our mind in a non-local, non-physical locus intersecting our energy body in the heart chakra.
What is this energy body? The Confederation material suggests that the energy body is what connects our physical bodies to our eternal spirits or souls. This energy body interpenetrates our physical body and is inseparable from it during our lifetimes. Visualize your body standing erect. See the vertebrae of your spine. Place over that connected series of bones another body: a kind of energy pipeline. That pipeline is the energy body. It consists, in the system offered by the Confederation, of seven connected chakras or energy centers. This slightly egg-shaped energy tube of chakras runs up the spine from its base to its tip.
Power to the People: Fuel for the Energy Body Picture with us, if you will, the creature that you are. You receive this information along your spine, in the physical lines of a system of energy, reception and usage. It is fed infinitely, in an unending supply, by the love and the light of the one Creator. That light is literally sent down into the heart of the Earth, your mother, who then pours it from the center of the Earth—or you might even say the womb of the Earth—up through the Earth into the soles of your feet, into your body system, so that it is constantly streaming into your energy system at the red-ray level and rising as it will up and out through the top of your head to the gateway to intelligent infinity.
The Ra group calls a person a “mind/body/spirit complex.” Notice that in their phrase, the body is the second part of the complex to be listed, not the first. The first or dominant part of the complex is the mind.
Just as the Creator’s outward love/light, the sun, brings life to the plant world by offering it light for photosynthesis and the food its interactions with plants develops, the Creator’s inward love/light brings energy and vitality to our energy bodies.
Each planet is an entity, says the Confederation. It is accurate to call our planet Mother Earth. She is alive and aware. She loves the points or focuses of consciousness which live upon her. We humans are some of those points of consciousness. Mother Earth loves us without reservation, the best of mothers, and she feeds us well. She radiates a never-ending supply of limitless love/light which feeds the energy bodies of each of her children. While we are going about our daily lives, sleeping, eating, working and enjoying leisure hours, our energy bodies are constantly receiving a limitless source of vital energy. If there are no stoppages of the flow of that energy as it flows through our chakras or energy centers, we experience a feeling of well-being and a good, positive state of mind.
This infinite love/light enters the physical body at the feet, as if flowing into the body from the Earth itself. It enters the energy body at the first chakra or energy center, the red-ray center, which is located at the base of the spine. It exits the body at the seventh chakra or energy center, the violet-ray center, which is located at the top of the head.
The chakra system can be seen as prismatic in nature, possessing the various colors within “white” light. As the love/light moves up the energy pipeline, each color is used by the ascending chakras. The order of coloration is just like the rainbow’s. Remember the acronym for the colors of the rainbow: “Roy G. Biv”? Mr. Biv helps us to remember the colors in order: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. These rainbow-hued energy centers march along the physical spine, a kind of companion energy “spine.” The red-ray chakra is found at the base of the spine, at the groin level. The orange-ray chakra is found at the level of the mid-abdomen. The yellow-ray chakra is located at the solar plexus level. The green-ray chakra is found at the level of the heart. The blue-ray chakra is located at the level of the throat. The indigo-ray chakra is found at the forehead level. And the violet-ray chakra is located at the top of the head. This is the basic coloration and structure of our energy bodies. The red energy center is the first of the seven chakras or rays. It is the first center which receives the incoming supply of infinite love/light. When we are overly concerned about issues of survival and sexuality, we can block the incoming love/light at the red-ray energy center. The next chakra is located at the level of the abdomen. It is the orange-ray energy center. When we are worried about our relationships, either our internal relationship with ourselves…
The clarity of mind which comes from having the heart center open…
Without food into the heart center, we are stuck with the senses and the intellects of our physical bodies, which are like those of a great ape. Our physical bodies are of the great ape family, as are our physical minds. The physical mind is a tool designed to make choices, and it is a good tool, but the parameters of intellectual choice tend to be limited to earthly, logical options. This works well for ethically neutral choices we make like which food to buy at a grocery or what room to tidy first on…
The mind of the energy body is consciousness. Consciousness can also be termed “the mind of the heart,” the “consciousness of spirit,” “cosmic awareness,” “Christ-consciousness” and “cosmic consciousness.” This consciousness is part of the unitary nature of the Gameboard. It writes its programs by concepts rather than by words.
I experienced no loss of consciousness during this event. I did shift environments. I immediately found myself in another sort of body, seemingly identical to my physical body but a perfect version of it, unblemished, that factory-default body I spoke of earlier.
In doing so, our work on the Gameboard is done. Then we mentally toggle back down to the flat gameboard, where we express and manifest our response in the context of our everyday lives. Until we are able to keep our energy pipelines open into our hearts reliably, we will have trouble dealing well with ethical issues in life. Because without our heart centers being open, we cannot access the consciousness that is our higher or metaphysical mind.
Consciousness sees the Creator in every chore and duty. Every single thing we do can become sacred.
(The energy body, chakra pipeline, and infinite love/light supply)
Chapter Four The Red-Ray Energy Center Light Through You We lift to you a beacon and that beacon is yourself. We ask you to see yourself for the first time, clearly and lucidly. Light courses through you, not from you. There is no effort to being who you are. There is only the removal of blockage from the passage of light.
Love/light energy flows in infinite supply through this energy pipeline and feeds our energy bodies richly as long as we do not constrict or block the flow of vital energy. We want to help our energy bodies stay clear. Our energy bodies as a whole will stay most clear when we feel relaxed and unworried concerning the issues in our lives. Even if amazing amounts of catalyst are flying by, we are doing well, energetically speaking, if we can stay fearless, self-confident and trusting in the ultimate goodness of all that is occurring. Choosing this attitude or viewpoint of fearlessness is fundamental to being a Player. There are sound reasons for choosing this attitude of trust, self-confidence and faith that all is well.
We will discuss how to work with our faculties of higher consciousness in order to have help dealing with this physical and emotional catalyst in 103. For now, we shall stay focused on the fundamental job: keeping the energy body’s pipeline open and flowing. The first learning is simply to set a high priority on respect for the needs of our energy bodies, especially the need to keep them clear of blockage and constriction. We do not have to solve all our problems to graduate. We only have to keep our energy bodies unconstricted enough so that we can get the guidance we need in order to make good ethical choices as they come up in our lives. Naturally we are constantly tempted to tense up about situations or conversations as they occur. But as Players, we are aware that this tension is not a good condition for our energy bodies. We know that the more we can keep our energy bodies open, the more we will have access to consciousness and its help in understanding ourselves. The more clearly we understand ourselves as purely human personalities, the more accurately we can evaluate incoming situations and make sound choices as to how to respond in a polarized fashion. This understanding does not require us to judge ourselves as an Old Testament judge would, to condemn. Rather, this understanding asks us to love and accept ourselves as we are.
(Internalized spiritual work and the mirror of others)
We are all one. To be angry at our landlord is to be angry at an extended part of ourselves. Therefore, if we wish to work on the issue of the bad landlord, the Confederation suggests that we find that energy within our own natures and work on it internally, within ourselves. This is perplexing to think about at first. How do we locate the bad landlord within ourselves? We do not cheat people. We do not break our word. We do not knowingly tell a lie. Yet within us, says the Confederation, is the complete assortment of all the attributes, both positive and negative, possible within the human condition. We truly are all one.
This internalization of spiritual work is a very helpful discipline in keeping the energy pipeline open to the flow of light energy. The mental exercise of working upon the bad landlord in ourselves is a practice in which there is no judgment, for now we are just looking at the energy of cheating and lying; the essence of that. We are blaming no one for it but seeing its essence.
The road to ceasing the addictive habits and thoughts is to downgrade our addictions back into preferences. In this case we would be downgrading our addiction to the response of anger and vengeance to the non-addicted response of a preference not to have that landlord. This preference does not create anger or the desire for revenge. It gives us a smile. Our energy pipelines stay open and we move on.
We do not have to solve the dilemmas which make our energy bodies contract in order to graduate. We have only to keep the energy body sufficiently open that light energy can flow into the heart chakra and allow it the strength to open and, as Walt Whitman said, “invite our soul.”
We as Players seek to avoid addictions. We intend to allow our sexual feelings and energies to develop naturally, as they occur, rather than allowing ourselves to become addicted to the expression of this powerful energy. It may seem that the more sexual activity we have, the more open our red ray is, but in many cases this is not so. Sexual addicts, either of pornography or of sexual relations with another, actually create blockage at their red ray because they over-activate it with repetitive and artificially created desires.
(Red-ray sexuality as sacred and self-accepting)
We simply need to accept the desires or lack of desires which our red ray offers us with a sense of their rightness. Even complete celibacy is no hindrance to having an open red-ray chakra, if the celibate seeker affirms and is at peace with his or her sexuality The sexual instinct is bred into the very bones of each of us. When all goes well with us and we come to the moment of sexual orgasm, we hopefully feel the immortal “Yes” of James Joyce’s Molly Bloom, in his novel, Ulysses, sounding through our inner thoughts and emotions. Ra says,
sacred. In a unified creation, all things are sacred. Sexual energy is—in and of itself—sacred. We as humans usually ignore that sacred aspect or at least try to work around it from time to time, but we cannot take its sacredness away. Our bodies are sacred and the sexual energy they carry is sacred.
We create the patterns of our suffering as naturally as our stomachs develop gas when they are digesting beans. In a way, our suffering is emotional dyspepsia. The treatment for gas is bicarbonate of soda, which pops the bubbles of gas and relieves the system. The treatment for emotional suffering is the calling upon a wider point of view, in which the clearer sight of our true situation pops the trouble-bubbles that have clogged our energy body and relieves the constriction of the energy center.
The flat gameboard is full of these circular, repetitive “rides” of thought and feeling which entrain our minds and squeeze all the joy out of our lives. When we find ourselves on such a ride, we need to take the time to look up and realize what’s happened. Then we need to exercise our art as a Player and get off the merry-go-round. That simple decision will open the energy body back up at the red-ray level. And it feels so good to shake off the blues!
Within a month, I found myself completely able to love her, just as she was. What had started as pure fiction became the truth. The reason is that when a Player invokes love, love flows and love teaches. We do not have to do the loving. We only have to start the flow of love by determining to act as though we love.
Orange-Ray Sexuality The orange-ray attempt to have sexual intercourse creates a blockage if only one entity vibrates in this area, thus causing the entity vibrating sexually in this area to have a never-ending appetite for this activity. What these vibratory levels are seeking is green-ray activity. There is the possibility of orange- or yellow-ray energy transfer; this being polarizing towards the negative: one being seen as object rather than other-self; the other seeing itself as plunderer or master of the situation.
Note the main word: fear. Fear is what closes the relationship chakra.
He says, “Sometimes you are a nymph. Sometimes you are a cherub. But you are always you.” Bless him!
Yet we cannot safely climb the stairs until our first floor “rooms” of root chakra, gut chakra and solar plexus chakra have been tidied. How do we tidy our emotions? We sit with them in the evening when we have some few minutes of our own. We remember the thoughts and feelings we have had today. We use our powers of analysis to evaluate those thoughts and feelings. We locate the thoughts upon which we got stuck.
Focus in on that emotion that seems toxic and painful. Say it was an impatient thought. Allow the experience of that impatience to wash through you. Intensify it. Then let that ebb, and wait for the backlash from spirit, which in this case is patience. For in a unitive universe, there is always a balancing energy that makes situations whole.
Then allow that balancing dynamic of patience to intensify until it is as strong in our mind as was the impatience. Now re-examine the thought or memory. Is it in balance now? Have you now seen the full dynamic of patience/impatience? When you have done your work with old memories, let them go. Keep the wisdom and see the benefit and blessing of this old experience, but harvest the love in this moment and its gleaned wisdom, and as Robbie Robertson said, “blow the rest away.” If you like, you can write the memory you wish to release on paper and then burn it. That gives a good feeling of closure.
(Opening into the heart center through self-forgiveness)
As we approach our heart chakras, we find that we as Players also need to work on “greeting, understanding, accepting, feeling compassion for, and eventually redeeming” all that we know of our seeming imperfections. We need to forgive ourselves for being ourselves. We need to come to like ourselves.
The drawback to this method of avoiding the inner work needed to balance our emotions and feelings is that we never become Players. We never become self-realized, magical entities. We never interiorize our faith. We never cross over from the outer world to the inner world. We believe in something outside of ourselves but we do not believe that this something is also found within ourselves. As Players, we believe in ourselves as a holographic part of the one Creator.
In the Buddhist lore, the instruction, “If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him,” has much the same meaning: do not simply follow the guru but become the guru.
This work is never completely finished during our human lifetimes. We are always finding out more concerning our shadow side as we meet new situations in life. We do the work of forgiving ourselves in new ways as we discover within ourselves new ways in which we can make self-perceived errors. In our Games of Life, we will spend time in the courtyard leading up to our cathedral of the open heart throughout our time of Play.
One way to understand the reason for this division in the green-ray chakra is to realize that the Confederation places this outer courtyard of the heart in space/time—the outer, physical world—as opposed to time/space—the inner, metaphysical world. As humans or “mind/body/spirit complexes,” we live in both worlds. Our lotus-shaped, crystalline green-ray chakras sit astride and connect the outer world and the inner world.
When we have crossed the outer courtyard of our heart chakras, we are ready to do the equivalent of boarding the train at Platform Nine and Three-Quarters. As we climb the steps past the lions at the doorway, we shift from the everyday, outer world into the magical, inner world of the open heart. The doorway to the inner heart can always be blocked by our self-dislike and lack of self-acceptance. Our work as Players is to achieve attitudes towards ourselves that are loving, affectionate and self-accepting. Will we ever achieve a lack of errors in our thoughts? Not likely! Nonetheless, we can definitely come to enjoy ourselves for precisely who we are. And before we can become more than we are now, we Players need to fall in love with the parts that we see so far.
Green ray is the movement, through various experiences of energy exchanges having to do with compassion and all-forgiving love, to the blue ray, which is the first ray of radiation of self regardless of any actions from another. The green-ray entity is ineffectual in the face of blockage from other-selves. The blue ray entity is a co-Creator.
lot of other catalyst comes to us indirectly, by the way people talk to us. Others’ opinions of us, spoken or implied, can also close our hearts. Words CAN hurt us. And with our feelings hurt, we may well forget to keep seeing the people around us at the soul level. In order to keep an open heart, we must accept the challenge of seeing people as one with us, no matter what their behavior may be. As Players our goal is to love them unconditionally and without any expectation of return. Knowing the Game, we choose not to react to such users or insulters by reciprocating in kind.
That is the great key to our forgiving the people who use and abuse us. They do not really know what they are doing. They are not seeing us as souls. They do not yet know how to see us as souls. They are not yet Players. They are still in the earthly world, where all of us are taught the skills of using people. They see us as resources, not real people. To them we have become “cannon-fodder units”—pawns in their game on the flat gameboard. Our challenge is to stay on the enhanced Gameboard. As Players, when our feelings are hurt by others, we choose to respond by retaining the view of them as souls. We need to retain that sight of them as a part of the Creator, just as we are part of the Creator, in order to stay in play.
The whole point of faith is that we choose to take the leap into faith with no outer proof. We leap because we embrace the mystery, the paradox and the state of unknowing which characterize a life lived in faith. We let these qualities call us forth into the mid-air of unproven faith. And we find our feet in that very mid-air, and come into our faith organically, once we make the leap.
Neo is handed a spoon. “Do not try and bend the spoon. That’s impossible,” a child says. “Instead only try to realize the truth—that there is no spoon.” Neo then bends the spoon. “There is no spoon” becomes a rallying call, bringing Neo back to the realization that the “real world” is an illusion, while the seemingly unreal world of ideals and pure intentions is the only true reality.
Each time we choose to have faith that all is well—for that is the essence of faith—we strengthen that “muscle” of faith.