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The Ra Material: An Ancient Astronaut Speaks
Carla Lisbeth Rueckert, James Allen McCarty, Donald Tully Elkins
4.06 AVERAGE
3 reviews for:
The Ra Material: An Ancient Astronaut Speaks
Carla Lisbeth Rueckert, James Allen McCarty, Donald Tully Elkins
4.06 AVERAGE
Typical channelled nonsense and I've dug through a whole lot of metaphysical literature. In this one I see nothing salvageable, but I guess different strokes for different folks...
More Rapture Hysteria. The Publishers even have the audacity to market a 40th edition box-set for content that claims we're gonna be raptured in 30-ish years (from the date of the original Channeling).
Spirit-Tok made me buy it? One of the few content creators out there that I enjoy recommended this series for spiritual growth.
I don't want to say that I hate it, or even genuinely dislike it, because that wouldn't be correct. The book is a purported channelling of an entity named Ra on the part of Carla Reukert, a failed actress. Now channeling is something that Ram Dass and Alan Watts both claimed to be able to do. They both spoke through non-localized entities. I don't know how much I buy the idea as truth, but I do know that a lot of my best writing works itself out in a non-conscious state that I'm not an active participant in. I also think you can disassociate intentionally, while remaining intelligent and conversant.
What I do know is that nothing in this book is Real As Presented. I do think an intelligent spiritual seeker could find truths here (as this is a product of spiritual people), but the work is largely a historical fanfiction that couldn't have been accurate to the standards of the decade of its publishing, and becomes increasingly bereft of cohesion as time goes on, and our understanding of the past deepens.
I think Robert Anton Wilson talks about these books in Cosmic Trigger. Wilson has a concept known as 'Reality Tunnels' which you and I might call Cosmological World Views. The Ra Material definitely asks that you run down their Reality Tunnel, and that does give me a 'failed cult' vibe when I read the book.
The book is a cosmological account of creation, an intergalactic, multi-dimensional war for all is being battled within our dimension, because we have not escaped polarity yet. The war is a facet and function of The Law of One, so everyone's really playing a part, rather than the sort of war you get when 'Hell' becomes real. This stuff I can read and get into.
Going back and saying "Abe Lincoln wasn't a wanderer, but an incarnated being, Thomas J was a wanderer" is fucking fan-ficiton of history.
The questioners assume, and Ra verifies, that the Industrial Age has come to pass to give man more leisure time to pursue The One. Any modern understanding of the Industrial Age comes with the knowledge that your average person has received LESS leisure time than at any other point in history. These are the sort of dated inconsistencies you're asked to accept while reading the book, and I just couldn't. It's a pre-post-modern attempt at cultuality.
The gems are scattered between nonsense and can be more easily honed elsewhere.
I think the thing people like about this book is that it does attempt to define much of the spiritual spectrum, but it does so using established and familiar models. I think the spiritually minded should always maintain that less is more when it comes to definitions of what is.
I know that leaves you sitting internally without something to work with, but any idea that you work with is ultimately a barrier to acceptance of the present moment and ultimate open-ness to love right?
Spirit-Tok made me buy it? One of the few content creators out there that I enjoy recommended this series for spiritual growth.
I don't want to say that I hate it, or even genuinely dislike it, because that wouldn't be correct. The book is a purported channelling of an entity named Ra on the part of Carla Reukert, a failed actress. Now channeling is something that Ram Dass and Alan Watts both claimed to be able to do. They both spoke through non-localized entities. I don't know how much I buy the idea as truth, but I do know that a lot of my best writing works itself out in a non-conscious state that I'm not an active participant in. I also think you can disassociate intentionally, while remaining intelligent and conversant.
What I do know is that nothing in this book is Real As Presented. I do think an intelligent spiritual seeker could find truths here (as this is a product of spiritual people), but the work is largely a historical fanfiction that couldn't have been accurate to the standards of the decade of its publishing, and becomes increasingly bereft of cohesion as time goes on, and our understanding of the past deepens.
I think Robert Anton Wilson talks about these books in Cosmic Trigger. Wilson has a concept known as 'Reality Tunnels' which you and I might call Cosmological World Views. The Ra Material definitely asks that you run down their Reality Tunnel, and that does give me a 'failed cult' vibe when I read the book.
The book is a cosmological account of creation, an intergalactic, multi-dimensional war for all is being battled within our dimension, because we have not escaped polarity yet. The war is a facet and function of The Law of One, so everyone's really playing a part, rather than the sort of war you get when 'Hell' becomes real. This stuff I can read and get into.
Going back and saying "Abe Lincoln wasn't a wanderer, but an incarnated being, Thomas J was a wanderer" is fucking fan-ficiton of history.
The questioners assume, and Ra verifies, that the Industrial Age has come to pass to give man more leisure time to pursue The One. Any modern understanding of the Industrial Age comes with the knowledge that your average person has received LESS leisure time than at any other point in history. These are the sort of dated inconsistencies you're asked to accept while reading the book, and I just couldn't. It's a pre-post-modern attempt at cultuality.
The gems are scattered between nonsense and can be more easily honed elsewhere.
I think the thing people like about this book is that it does attempt to define much of the spiritual spectrum, but it does so using established and familiar models. I think the spiritually minded should always maintain that less is more when it comes to definitions of what is.
I know that leaves you sitting internally without something to work with, but any idea that you work with is ultimately a barrier to acceptance of the present moment and ultimate open-ness to love right?
Completely and utterly mind-blowing but also very intuitive information. I have heard other readers describe this book as “a letter from home” and I feel the same way. I’m so glad it found me. Was this group actually communicating with an extraterrestrial species called Ra? I don’t know... but honestly, it doesn’t matter to me whether or not they were because the content of their conversations just makes sense (although I want to believe they actually were talking with Ra!). As a blossoming Buddhist I have held an idea of the Law of One for many years, but reading it described in Ra’s terms really cemented the philosophy in my mind. It is a mystical, wondrous, and sublime thing to exist, and to be surrounded by other manifestations of yourself at all times. Ra discusses the implications of this in humanity’s past, present, and future, and presents a glimpse of the universe that is, at the exact same time, surprising and not surprising at all. I highly recommend this book to all, even those who are not a fan of “woo-woo” stuff like this. It does require an exceptional attention span— it took me four months to chip away at this because the language is incredibly dense. I had to re-read just about every other paragraph twice or more to begin to understand it. I treated this like a textbook, flagging passages frequently and writing them down so I can look at them and digest them more. Truly, this is worth the time and the exercise of patience. This is a letter from home.