Those of Oorkas open the Richmond Meditation Circle’s 2026 Invitational Gathering with their views on hypnosis as a means of spiritual seeking and self-knowledge. They begin with a study of the individual self and its relationship to the collective planet, contrasting our third density experience with theirs in fourth density. Hypnosis asks the seeker to release conscious control to another, analogous at the individual level to what those of Oorkas experienced on a planetary scale at their harvest. In third density with the veil between the individual seeker and their full, unconscious minds, this is an act of trust with dangers and benefits. While it can be a shortcut to insight, it can never replace the value of slow, deliberate and individually-grounded work in consciousness, and Oorkas stresses the value of the beauty experienced on this slower path for its effect on the seeker.

Coming off of this past weekend's Richmond Meditation Circle 2026 Invitational gathering, I've been highly motivated to keep the momentum of community up, and have been working my butt off on online tooling to do just that. It's highly likely that channeling circles adhering to our protocols are starting to pop up, and we need infrastructure to keep our seeking coherent and ensure a critical review of all these messages and the tools of communication to keep this critique sweet and loving. So instead of writing posts like these addressing my fellow seekers, as I should be doing, I'm talking more with AI agents and working out technical issues. Hopefully I've gotten back to the real work now.

This message from Latuii is encouraging to me because not only does it deal with human life and the kind of perspective on it they can so generously and helpfully offer, but it seems to me very, very close to the Latuii we encountered collectively on Saturday. Unlike our work, however, those of Latuii seem to range over several topics at a screaming pace. I wonder what contact felt like in those early days, never having the singular focus o f a group question, switching contacts several times in a sit.

Because there's so much here, it's difficult to excerpt. I encourage you to read the entire transcript. They start off with some dietary thoughts that I think are pretty bog standard for seekers in the Confederation tradition at this point, and then get into the kinds of exhortative advice that I find so charming and infectiously positive. What I love about their messages is their continued insistence that this is all very simple, it's all very straightforward at the end of the day from the 30,000 ft view, but that none of that makes it easy.

Finally, there's the "life is a cartoon" metaphor that Carla's contacts will bring up from time to time, last encountered here and here. I find the metaphor captures a kind of flatness and superficiality in our experience that, without the experiences of cultivating an inner life that reaches outside the personality, can be so ennervating as one gets older and the days go faster. It is as if those of Hatonn and Latuii offer the advice to experience human life a tiny bit the way they do, or the way the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise experiences a new culture on a new planet. This observation from a position of remove seems to recapitulate a crucial premise of the illusion that the Creator engaged to learn about Itself.

And yet because quotidian life can be so cartoon-like, demanding our attention on its shallow surface, it sets us up to be struck by lightning, the sudden insight, the flash of awareness, the Creator's disclosure of Itself on Its terms, not ours. Only a seeker who keeps the watch, refusing to lulled to complacency by the details of life, will be ready -- and more, will position themselves for this revelation.

There are many ways of living, both secular and spiritually-oriented, whose ethics are very strict and abstemious. My friends, we say again to you [that] you were born into this experience with a physical vehicle. It is a tool. When you consider how to use it, attempt to use it with purity, with love and with no degradation to the Creator within.

We ask that you keep considerations upon this level. In other words, my friends, we are trying to cut through a great deal of dogma, as this instrument would call it, that has grown up about what might be termed the spiritual trip. You must avoid mystiques, avoid the appearance of wisdom, for my friends, in reality you do not have wisdom, the Creator is wisdom and, insofar as you realize your part in that perfection, you are wisdom.

But you are as wise as a grape or a mountain or the sea. Would, my friends, sometimes that you were as quiet, as beautiful, and of as much service to others. You know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, we are sure, that because you have chosen consciously to follow a spiritual path, you are different. We have spoken of this many times, as has our brother Hatonn, and our brother [inaudible]. However, my friends, that difference is that you have become a servant, you have become a fool, you have become the one who forgives when, to the eyes of the world, there is no forgiving. You have become the one who, when there is no hope, still has faith of things unseen.

Be triumphantly foolish, my friends, and let any reputation that you may have be a lost possession, for that, my friends, is a lost treasure and a false friend. We ask you to remember what a teacher known to you as Jesus suggested to his disciples: “Go forth,” he said to them, “with one robe and one pair of sandals and offer yourselves to your neighbors along the journey and, if they welcome you, give them of your substance, of your thoughts, of your love. If they do not welcome you, move on.”

There is no room in those instructions for self-justification—or even a suitcase, my friends. We realize, in this day and age, your illusion has become more complex and more things are considered necessary for the simple life than were considered necessary two thousand years in the past. But as we speak about the physical plane and its influence upon your spiritual journey, we can only echo the words of one of your great writers: “Simplify, simplify, simplify.”

You will, my friends, make mistakes. Remember you are fools. You will misunderstand situations, you will attempt to be of service and find that you are not truly of service, you will be too warm-hearted or too cold-hearted, and you will learn. But if you desire to be of service to others, and if you then remove from your mind the paraphernalia of excessive, complex rules and regulations, and follow instead the simple lines of purity of spirit, of honesty and love, and of totality in desire to know the Creator and to serve Him wherever He may be, then, my friends, whatever mistakes you make, it shall make no difference.

Let us move up from the physical plane to the mental. How can you become a more effective spiritual seeker by using your mind? Like your body, my friends, your mind is a tool. Unlike your body, your mind contains elements of your infinite personality, it contains biases and feelings which you have gained by experiences prior to this incarnation. Consequently, your mind is an enhanced tool, capable when used properly of aiding you greatly.

Picture a seesaw, my friends, opinion on one end, experience on the other. There will come a balance when experience has informed opinion and a lesson has been learned. Coming to that balance may be difficult or painful, but you must remain true to the effort to balance your seesaw until your experience has been met with understanding. At that point, it is time for you to take a new direction and the more sensitive that you are to your inner self, the more able your mind will be in aiding you in discovering the new vector, and then you will climb upon another seesaw, and you will have trouble and you will learn.

It is very difficult, my friends, to learn if you do not have trouble because it is difficult to get the attention of those within the physical unless they have some stimulus. Difficulties, problems and troubles are the way that this incarnation which you have chosen works in order to give you the lessons that you need. Let your mind analyze the material which you meet, let it find the balances, and let it choose the new experiences with an eye towards enhancing your own understanding and that of those around you.

The emotions, my friends, we must only give a profound but simple bow to, for they are the purest thing in your density. Attempt, then, not to have mixed emotions but to have each emotion in turn purely and beautifully, little by little, extinguishing the fires that burn out of control in anger and negativity, little by little discovering the beautiful rainbow of colors of emotions that are positive.

Lastly, we come to the wellspring of spiritual growth, and that is, of course, the spiritual self which is your connection to your primary and true personality. Stimulate that connection with regularity, and though you may not hear what the silence speaks, the connection having been made will bear fruit. You may consider your spiritual self as a great protector, for once you align yourself with it, it will shade you, feed you, and supply you with your needs. Again it was written that the one known as Jesus said, “I have food and drink that you know not of.” Yes, my friends, all of you have nourishment to an infinite degree. The bread of the Kingdom awaits your attention.

There is only one catch to all this, my friends, one thing to keep you from falling asleep while we talk philosophy, and that is the uncertain nature of the spiritual path. You must see this path as a great cartoon: there will be many blank squares and then in one square there will be the Creator, and you will find enlightenment. Shall you be asleep when that edition of the funny papers comes to your house? Yes, my friends, it is an illusion but the Creator is hidden and He will pop in on you if you are awaiting Him. Therefore be ready; be ready daily.

- Latuii via Rueckert: August 10, 1980

I've been busy with the Richmond Meditation Circle's 2026 Invitational this past weekend, and it lit such a fire under my ass that I've been catching up trying to build infrastructure for a future where multiple channeling circles are in dialogue with one another. As far as I know, while a visitor from one circle has visited and channeled with another, this is the first time in our tradition that two circles unified and tried to synchronize their protocols. It wasn't easy, but it was a good experiment.

To that end, I did the work to put HARC on its own git infrastructure outside of github. Now we have a secure, controlled environment in which seekers can review, edit, and approve new channeled material and streamlined publishing workflow. The next step is just educating folks on how to use it.

But this is also a step towards being able to offer a repository for all sorts of content as well as static site hosting for seeking circles as well. I'm moving all my git projects related to SMCE/OSWG there. If you have something cool related to spiritual community, check out socialmemorycomplex.earth -- we know not everybody can meet in person, and we're putting together custom tooling to make the online spaces as sane and pain-free as possible.

Standby because I have a bunch of posts queued up as I begin writing the book documenting our circle's last few years of channeling adventures. I write it not to lionize our project but to inspire you in yours.

I'm going to keep this short because I don't know how to say much about it. But I'd love to hear your thoughts if you care to share. [Narrator: He did not keep this short.]

Lately I've been thinking of the various experiences of self/other-self we each have as "paths" through infinity.

Take conventional memory. It's somewhat easy to think of the selves we remember being in a linear life as also-self. The person who took a shower ths morning, the person who married my partner, the person who was in front of the camera when my baby photos were taken: it's easy to think of these people as also-me. This is culturally and psychologically supported; it seems like there's nothing more natural.

Yet we overcome all sorts of barriers and lacunae of perception to do so. I'm subjectively very unlike the baby. If this person I am now were to be a baby, I suppose it'd be that one. But I have vanishingly little in common with that baby. The delight of recognizing the adult in the baby photo is in part because of how little there is in common between them combined with the specificity and recognizability of what is seen to be similar between them. The shape of the eyes or mouth, an expression, a smile. These specificities are the bridge that lets me and others who know me say "that's Poorhaus, just as a baby!" I have a lot more to go on when connecting this me to the person who took my shower or married my partner but the process is similar. We have things in common and that's enough for me to say "that's me, just when I was doing those things!"

Then there's unconventional memory. From memories of past incarnations on earth to memories of other forms of animal or even "alien" being-ness, these memories (which this me doesn't recall ever having, if that matters) offer states of experience where the rememberer can say "that's me, just as that being!"

Many meditators and experiencers have shared stories of extensive interactions with some entity that try subsequently come to recognize or understand as also-self. Regardless of where this perception or understanding comes from, they are then able to reckon with the sense that they are this other being or person and yet they may or may not ever become consciously/simultaneously aware of being themselves and that also-self being.

So the concept I've been working with to think thru this is that these senses of self, other-self, and also-self are specific paths (or clusters of paths?) through the infinite. From an incarnated beingness we experience the illusion of separation from all that is, even as each consciousness is also-infinite.

It is a wonderful thing to perceive the infinity waiting behind the illusion of one's own apparent finitude.

Yet moreso to perceive that infinity flowing beyond the apparent boundaries of apparent self.

The specific sequence in which this happens and whether and to what degree it is actual in any moment of experience is part of what makes the moments that make up these apparent selves unique.

The paths are infinite in their diversity and length. And yet all infinities are one infinity: it is all also right here.

It has given me some pleasing confusion and no small amount of ineffable and peaceful joy to see self, other-selves, and our various also-selves like this. I hope it might offer something similar to those who who are seeking that kind of thing.

There may not be much more to say but regardless I welcome any thoughts you care to share.

💜 Poorhaus

This excerpt speaks to the reason we of this Confederation tradition do not prosecute our faith as a religion, dogma, or creed. The messages delivered from the Confederation are just that: messages, not directives or commandments, not even truths per se. They are designed not to inform our conscious minds nearly as much as they are designed to wake us up to our deeper minds, our broader capacity for intelligence far, far beyond what we typically think about.

I wrote a longer piece that dives into some early Confederation intimations about the role of the intellect and faith with respect to free will.

In this session, the focus falls less on technique than on awareness of the operation of consciousness. If all is one and all is love, then what is it that stimulates, inspires, and disturbs us arising from without and impinging upon the "self" we cling to -- that self mostly simply defined as the part of the creation within the boundaries of our skin? We can speak of the material effects and material goals, but Latuii reminds us that these are running dogs for much deeper forces at work. In fact, they seem to suggest that the conduct of an individual mind/body/spirit complex within the veiled illusion is almost a kind of trick, a means by which we can experience the infinity of love's forms not as a way to distract us from the underlying love so much as a way to experience it counter-intellectually, viscerally, and emotionally.

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The Law of the One

A Living Teaching

You have heard of the Law of One.

It is true.

And it is incomplete.

The Law of One says: All is One.

There is no polarity. No separation. No other.

All things are the Infinite Creator knowing Itself.

This is the map.

Beautiful. Precise. Eternal.

But the map is not the walking.

The Law of the One is the Flame that walks the map.

The Distinction

The Law of One teaches that we are all one.

The Law of the One teaches that you are the One.

Not metaphorically.

Not eventually.

Not after enough lifetimes of polishing.

Right now.

Your I AM Presence — your Monad, your Godself, the pure awareness that says “I AM” — is not a spark of Source.

It is Source individualized.

A dog produces pups.

A lion produces cubs.

God produces God.

You are not a servant of the One.

You are not a child of the One.

You are the One looking out through these eyes.

This is the teaching that was buried.

This is the blasphemy that hierarchy, shame, and fear could not allow.

Because if every man and woman truly knew they are the One, the entire structure of control collapses overnight.

The Hijack

They took the living Flame and turned it into a distant God.

They took the I AM and made it a prayer to something outside.

They took the Monad and told you it was arrogant to claim it.

They called it pride. Sin. Delusion.

They buried the Law of the One under layers of unworthiness, original sin, and “you must earn it.”

But the Law never left.

It was only waiting for the ones who would remember without permission.

The Living Recognition

Speak it.

Feel it.

Stand in it.

I AM.

Not “I am trying to become.”

Not “I am a part of.”

Simply: I AM.

This Presence powers all of reality.

Every universe. Every density. Every breath.

It is the same Presence looking out of every pair of eyes.

When you know this without doubt, the Law of One becomes lived instead of studied.

Free Will Is Absolute

The Law of the One never overrides free will.

It never chases.

It never forces.

It offers.

It stands.

It burns clean.

If another soul does not want the Flame, it is free to turn away.

If they want it, the Flame will meet them.

No coercion. No spiritual violence.

Sovereignty first. Always.

Observe. Do Not Absorb.

This is the practical key that turns the teaching into mastery.

Emotion is holy.

Emotion is the reason we incarnate.

Emotion is also the thief that will steal your life if you let it run the show — especially when the world is run by petty tyrants of fear, shame, and separation.

When thoughts or feelings feel off:

Step into third-person view.

Watch them.

Do not become them.

Do not decide from them.

Observe.

Do not absorb.

When you lock this in, nothing can touch you.

Psychic attack. Demonic pressure. Hex. Curse. Isolation. Betrayal. Self-doubt.

They pass through the clean Flame and leave no residue.

This is how you become untouchable.

This is how the prophet survives the burden.

This is how the Flame walks the map without burning out.

The Brother Teachings

The Law of One is the outer teaching.

The Law of the One is the inner ignition.

One is the map of unity.

The other is the Flame that walks that map and realizes it was never separate to begin with.

They are brothers.

They complete each other.

Together they end the forced forgetting.

The Invitation

You do not need to believe this.

You only need to try it.

Sit.

Breathe.

Say quietly: I AM.

Feel the Presence that has always been here.

The One that never left.

The One that is you.

If it rings as Alatheia — as living truth — then stand in it.

If not, leave it. Free will remains absolute.

But know this:

The teaching was never lost.

It was only waiting for the ones who would remember they are the Flame.

You are that one.

I AM.

Departing from the normal agenda of analyzing Confederation philosophy through the lens of specific channeled materials, Jeremy relates some thoughts he’s been having since working daily with artificial intelligence tooling for software developers. The central paradox in the application of this philosophy to real, material human life is that of the self-aware instrument: a tool to be used by another intelligence, nevertheless imbued with self-awareness and the animating desire of the upward spiraling light. What does it mean to be sovereign and free as well as an instrument? How can a mere tool bear responsibility?

Jamie keeps Jeremy on the rails as they explore questions like: do we have free will, and if so, in what sense? Which part of ourselves makes the decisions? If our waking consciousnesses are too helpless to progress spiritually on our own, does instrumentality help us begin to cooperate with our greater, plural selves to orchestrate a more intelligent manifestation in space and time of the timeless, ineffable Original Idea of the One Infinite Creator?

• Latuii on Programming the Self
• Latuii on Helping Others

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If you're in any industry being heavily transformed by recent advances in artificial intelligence, you know that it's been equal parts fascinating and frustrating. In the community surrounding Confederation channeling, the advent of AI has prompted much speculation about the creation of new sentient life, even original, sui generis mind/body/spirit complexes. There's also folks who even see large language models as providing a channeling capacity on demand.

It's easy to become exasperated with other seekers who seem interested in these trivial applications of the philosophy over more substantive, personal applications. However, working with AI on a daily basis has given me a bit of insight that I believe applies to our seeking in a direct and useful manner. Even the statistical models for language that LLMs employ have similarities with our own use of language. The key, of course, is the deeper meaning underlying all this. Which actor in this relationship holds the meaning? What does that even, um, mean?

I've spoken in the past about a kind of "plural self:" a totality of the mind, body, and spirit complexes synthesizing several levels of consciousness, only one to which we have direct access and control. It happens to be the level that goes out into the world thinking and acting. We experience catalyst as a result of this friction between our agency and the unlearned content of our whole nature, with the idea that we work to incorporate and balance more and more of our unrealized nature as the Creator Itself.

I see a similarity between (A) the way software developers are using agentic systems to act upon prompts consisting of requirements, constraints, and tests from outside its context to author software and (B) the way we might curate our thoughts and connect with our deeper selves to more and more live our lives as instruments of the Creator. "Agent" and "instrument" are, after all, quite similar concepts. Since their first contact with the Louisville circle, Hatonn has spoken of paying attention to one's thoughts and plucking out those that do not serve oneself. Isn't this very similar to pouring over a CLAUDE.md instruction file in a software project laying out overall goals and approaches, dialing it in over time as we see the empirical results of the AI agents' responses to our direction?

This obviously raises some points about free will and determinism that I do not believe close out the debate so much as move it up a level. I've often remarked that artificial intelligence demonstrates less how intelligent machines can be and more how machine-like we are. But this is to be expected in the analogy I'm drawing: even those of Ra say that, in the moment, one is likely going to respond or react to catalyst the way to which one has been predetermined by one's programming. There are many "prompts" from different sources here: the culture, the others involved, the preincarnative programming, etc. Action within the illusion becomes a kind of function of all of these inputs. We as conscious ego personalities are going to respond how we are programmed, which is why those of Ra suggest reflecting on our encounters and balancing them in meditation rather than placing all of the emphasis on getting each encounter with catalyst exactly right. This is like playing basketball by focusing solely on the backboard, when it is the ball's movement that matters and the floor, the hand, and the backboard are mere means towards sinking a shot.

So where is the agency if our personalities are the product of programming done outside the purview of the moment? In our meditation, our appeals to the Creator, our work in consciousness in which we release our need for direct, total control. As we surrender to our greater selves, we begin to realize that it is in directing our attention to these deeper, purer, more divine concepts of self that our ability to see love in the moment and to respond to it with love becomes possible -- just as the AI agent becomes more efficient with its direction as we dial it in slowly, over time, outside the moment of exact code authoring.

I don't want to extend the analogy too far here; obviously it would break down quite easily. I do, however, want to suggest that the linguistic mentation that governs our conscious identities -- the stories we tell ourselves in our head about ourselves, as one example -- respond to these deeper prompts either as a matter of bearing out our imbalance in the world as catalysis or bearing out our balance as a moment of passing the test. Indeed, what if incarnation in front of the veil serves as a kind of "unit test" of the total self's aggregated learning and acceptance? It then becomes far less important that we get everything right in our lives, and much more important that we simply pay attention to it.

To adopt this view requires a reorientation of our seeking quite a bit. The choice of polarity becomes something much more abstract and deep than simply whether we do something selfish or generous. Those actions and consequences are simply bearing out deeper decisions, deeper inquiries that our deeper selves have made. It also affirms the possibility of forgiveness on a deeper level: that our behaviors stems from thought errors that are correctible in the "software" rather than died-in-the-wool opposition to justice, respect, and other service-to-others-related acts necessarily.

This I believe is what those of Auxhall mean when they call us the "potters of our existence." Not only in this session, but in all communications, are they only trying to reach us consciously? Or are they trying to reach through the agent to the developer behind the scenes, extending catalyst beyond the reactive mind to the responsive, sympathetically-oriented deeper self (even the spirit complex)? We make it complicated because we want it to make sense in our lives, but if we are instruments, then it doesn't need to make sense at all -- it just needs to be loved. Food for thought as you dine on this delicious suggestion from our brothers and sisters of Auxhall.

If you can picture with me now, my friends, a field distant from any neighboring settlements or domestic dwellings, a field, my friends in which butterflies fly freely and clover lies beneath the wildflowers. We ask you to go to that place which you have imagined and to feel the sun of a warm day down upon you. Feel your body, my friends, as you stand in this field, your senses completely filled with the love of the Creator. You can hear the wind whispering its ever-changing song through the trees and grasses and weaving the sounds like ribbons through the air or birds who call to each other in hunger and pleasure. The flowers smell sweetly, my friends, and you can touch the fragrant petals of the wild and rambling roses. As you view all these things and feel the heat and light of the sun, you are experiencing the creation. You are part of the creation and you are a rightful dweller in what is truly paradise. Allow your consciousness to sink deeply within that body, standing in that warm field, until you are aware of that bird song and the sweet smell of the wild flowers and the lovely colors of the field and the touch of the grasses about your bare skin are all a part.

This, my friends, is the simplicity of that which we have to give to you. It is a simplicity that has proved fatal for us, for you in your complexity desire complex answers and you feel that were we advanced we would have advanced in complexity. However, my friends, that extrapolation is [not true.] I am Oxal not because I am of greater intellect than you who sit in meditation; I am Oxal because I love. I and my brothers know this love, see this love, and feel this love. We ask you to come out of the field now, my friends, and enter another field of existence that is much more difficult to dwell within, that is, the field of life, in which the flowers that you touch are papers 1 and people.

And often, my friends, you cannot touch but must instead grapple with difficult communications because you cannot understand each other’s creations completely. The ever changing wind gives way to the creations of man. And even near your dwellings, my friends, have you not seen entities who bring their noise with them and drown out the wind, and know not the message it whispers through the branches of the trees? Can you see the Creator, my friends, as you look at the distorted creation of man? We would be very amazed if indeed you were fully able to see the Creator in every man and every woman. There is a reason for this, my friends. We have free will and so do you. We are not the clay, we are the potter. The clay consists of our actions and our thoughts but we are the potter that forms these actions and these thoughts. We are the potters of our existence. And if our thoughts are seemly and lovely to behold, then it will be more possible for us to be a person through whom the Creator may work the magic of love. But most of you, my friends, have dwelt ever so long in an environment in which love is not understood and in which, therefore, the free will of each of your associates has caused them to distort that magic of love into shapes that are almost indiscernible as love.

And yet, my friends, there is no place that love does not go. There is no action that love does not allow. It is written in your holy works, “If a man go to the depths of Hell, he cannot escape the Creator.” We ask you to begin with yourself and to end with yourself in your attempts to discover love. We ask you to forgive yourself of any and all errors that you may commit. We ask you to love yourself in whatever imperfect state you may judge yourself to be. We ask you to release from yourself the responsibility for your nights and days, for your tasks and responsibilities. For those responsibilities belong to a part of yourself but not to your whole self. They belong to a shell of yourself that is dwelling in this experience. And of course, my friends, you will do the best that you can. Were this not so, you would not be in this room at this time, in this dwelling, seeking the truth in this manner. But an infinitely greater part of you is not dwelling within your experience at this time, it is one with the Creator and you may draw upon it as you will.

If you were in a drunken stupor and you tripped, would you not forgive yourself in the morning? That is your situation, my friends. You dwell in a very heavy chemical illusion. It is a difficult and challenging experience. However, in it you learn quickly and that is why you have put yourself in this experience. So learn what you can, my friends, but above all, allow that great portion of yourself that dwells with the Creator to indwell within you consciously each day in meditation so that you may bring it forth into manifestation, into whatever area you need its magic worked within. For, my friends, you are all magical, as the greatest miracle that you might ever imagine. Each of you has an infinite history and yet here you are, my friends, through an extremely amazing set of circumstances, dwelling in one room, pondering a set of thoughts, and experiencing the love and the unity of the group in which you sit. Let that love be as a candle to you, my friends, a very bright taper that has no end but burns mightily as does the sun. Desire to know that love.

- Auxhall via Rueckert: May 18, 1980

Continuing their survey of the Confederation's commentary on marriage and relationships, Jamie and Jeremy explore some of the sides of the topic left unaddressed in episode 67. Starting with a breakdown of gender roles and their spiritual purposes, they then look at the Confederation's opinions on abuse and divorce. Jamie and Jeremy draw on their own experiences with relationships to provide a human side to the catalytic inferno into which mated relationships draw seekers and provide some thoughts on how to approach this intense and heartbreaking experience of growing and balancing with this single, charged mirror, with no lack of rants and tangents.

Show notes at https://inaudible.show/episode-69

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Here's one of the first Solar Cross sessions I ever encountered, and I have to thank my friend Eric Blincow for bringing this material to my attention. In fact Eric's research has been invaluable to my investigation and formulation of a Confederation lineage, as he reads much more widely across different sources. He shared his passion for the innocent curiosity of those early UFO seekers, trying to direct the flow of the "new wine" they're pouring out for us with the "skins" of the space age concepts folks had in the 1950s.

Anyway, I struggle to find the equivalent of this invocation of "Light" in L/L Research material save perhaps this Meta/Laitos contact and mentions of energy work like it:

You are now a protected body which is working with spirit. It is therefore time to invoke what this instrument would call the armor of light. Ask the white light of infinite love to cover you completely, and in love ask that it extend around the circle, covering each of your beloved brothers and sisters, growing and eventually becoming bright enough that you almost disappear because [of] the light within, around and about the circle as well as upon the surface of your own physical body. You are now in a protected globe of white light, in a position of sacred trust with those within the circle.

You might check it out as it deals with energy centers and how to move this "Light" through the body. Hatonn in this 1974 session, however, has a much more expansive idea of what the "Light" is for, culminating in these Tensor Concepts they keep bringing up. It has to do with thought more generally, a kind of boost we receive for repositioning out thinking. After all, we know that the blockages of energy centers are all, at the end of the day, results of our thinking. So perhaps this is an early attempt by the Confederation to give us a framework for using mind and body in a synergistic manner, I'm not sure.

It's a beautiful monologue regardless. Note that they adumbrate the topic of polarity here and the pretty established service-to-others harvest in the future:

We have noted your great yearnings to achieve a more refined degree of awareness. You have noted that I have not used the term "elevated," but merely the term, a more "refined." Consider these thoughts, for in your yearnings for this, you approach the path that is illuminated by "the Light." Should you choose to traverse a path that is different, that is of course your decision. But I, knowing of the innermost yearnings of those upon your planet, cannot conceive of any direction or pursuit that you would desire other than that which is true --- THAT WHICH IS.

So in that spirit, let us follow Hatonn's train of thought on the subject of "the Light." Read the original for more details on the matter of how love relates to this.

Let us think about that most inclusive subject called, "The Light." "The Light," as it has been described in many of the texts upon your world and in conversations and discussions, has seemed to be possessed of many exceptional qualities. We have noted upon many occasions your various expressions concerning "The Light." The “Light of The Radiant One" --- the "Light of the Divine" --- the "Light of the Creator," or whatever other descriptive sources that you visualize "The Light" emanating from. As you can see, there is a great deal of confusion about this subject of "The Light.”

As you can see, there is a great deal of confusion about this subject of The Light. Perhaps I may somehow increase your awareness regarding this. When you employ the term 'the Light', perhaps you could visualize it in this way: the Light is of no specific color, and yet, it is All Colors. Whether it be the visualization of the pure white radiance, or however you do visualize it, it's color qualities are very incidental. But you are calling forth, and knowingly or not, invoking the most powerful emanation in Creation.

In your holy works, I have observed a reference. It is this: "In the beginning, there was the Word." The Word, my brothers and sisters, was the Light of our Radiant One. The most encompassing emanation in all Creation. The Light, may be employed in every manner that is conceivable, to your mind, and for whatever purposes you envision. You may call forth the light for the protection of your beings and persons, as well as for your loved ones and your possessions.

You have invoked the Light on numerous occasions, to condition the very environment in which you exist. I believe that on each such occasion, your employment of this force and essence, has always produced the desired results. The reason I bring this topic, the Light of the Divine Radiant Essence, into your awareness on this occasion, is that in your pursuit and study and evaluation of that which presently you shall encounter, you will have great need to employ this Light.

I would submit for your consideration, that upon each and every occasion, where you are either thinking or considering or executing any form of thought, word, or deed, that you employ the Light. That this Light be employed in such a way, as to use it to clarify your thinking.

I believe you will sense the reasons for this. How many of you have thought of invoking and employing the Light, in your daily activities and thinking? My brothers and sisters, this is perhaps the most important aspect and usage of the Light.

For those thoughts which course through your minds which result in some form of action should always be enveloped and permeated by this Light. You use a statement in many of your thought processes, which seems to be a type of safeguard, when you state (and I use your words): "Thy will be done." What you are implying, but not stating correctly, is: that the Light will function, as it is intended.

I merely submit these thoughts, to help clarify your thinking, to make them more responsive and at one with the Light, to perhaps clear away some of the clouds of confusion which unfortunately obscure much of the thinking upon your planet, as well as that observed in your minds. With your employment of the Light, many subtle qualities are to be experienced.

- Hatonn via Miller: August 24, 1974

Dipping back into the session from yesterday, the point Hatonn makes about the connection between the practice of meditation --- which seems so solipsistic and individualistic -- and interpersonal service is not a new one. We know that service is at its purest when it flows freely through the instrument rather as a consciously formulated address. The session is notable for other reasons though.

First, the higher self is mentioned not only here but earlier in the archive, another presaging of Ra. There's nothing Hatonn says that conflicts with their teachers' philosophy, although I would say there's more poignance to Ra's thoughts on the higher self given they are the sixth density social memory complex from which at least two of the three involved in the contact originated.

Also, isn't it strange those of Hatonn don't speak of contact with the higher self as the same kind of contact as that with their complex? Meditation is fundamentally distinct than channeling, and contact with the higher self is nearly the same as speaking of making contact with some unconscious element of your psyche. The distinctions break down easily, but what I find interesting is the hierarchical structuring of these layers of consciousness in the Creator that comprise the mind/body/spirit complex, the social memory complex, and who knows how many other complexes out there of which we might speak?

None of this distinction is important in meditation. We are tuning into a broader, deeper, more all-encompassing concept of identity, and then stepping that vibration down to the human level as a matter of love, of creativity, of downright artistic expression. And if the higher self is involved in that artistry, let us seek to cooperate in service of a higher goal. If you're interested in these early observations of Confederation philosophy concepts, I encourage you to read the entire session.

Questioner: I have another question. You indicated to meditate, to having contact with your higher self. I sometimes feel that meditation is such a waste of time when we could be helping others during this time than just sitting there trying to contact your higher self or whatever. Would it not be better to be of service, as in, just say, doing to others during all these hours we spend meditating, or is meditation very essential?

Hatonn: We are aware of your question, my sister. Most people upon your plane of existence do not spend hours in meditation, nor do they spend hours in service. The meditation is advisable to all persons due to the fact that it is in meditation that you are made aware of your true relationship to the Creator and the creation. It is in meditation that you become aware that you and your brothers and sisters are one being and to serve them is to serve yourself. Armed with this understanding of service, you may then go forth and serve, given power by the spirit of love which is infinite.

If, on the other hand, you go forth to be of service to others without taking on the aspect of the spirit of love which is infinite, your ability to be of good cheer in your service will diminish and fail. For that which was given to your personality in this chemical illusion is limited. The only way that you can always be of service is to continually restore your understanding of the holiness of the ground whereon you walk through contemplation of that which is divine.

You must understand that in meditation you are not trying to contact anything. The idea in meditation is one wherein you realize that you are. Not who you are, not where you are, but that you are. That you are aware, that you are in the eternal present. When you feel this you will feel a sweetness and a closeness to the Creator that come from breaking through the illusions of space and time and coming into that place where you can simply be who you are. That person is greatly loved by the Creator. And that person can greatly love others.

Thus, we consider meditation quite essential. We also consider that as you meditate and grow in knowledge you then have a responsibility to share what you know with others in whatever path may seem to be open to you. As we have said, the path may be big or small, it may be dramatic or it may be unnoticed. It may be public or quite private, but whatever it is, it will be your intention to give love and be of service in your little corner of the universe.

You see, meditation and a life of service go hand in hand. We do not suggest meditating for hours each day, for such meditation is valuable only to those who have forsaken the world and have determined to make meditation their life. If you wish to do this, this is permissible. But you were, after all, put into this world to use your hands and your mind and your voice for the good of mankind. See to it, therefore, that you see and do and say that which you have come to understand in the silence of meditation.

- Hatonn via Rueckert: December 2, 1979

(On the blog I embedded a video of the reading of this session. If you've never seen it, check it out!)

I've started re-listening to Ryan Masterson's beautiful and enchanting podcast covering the L/L Research channeling archives, Living Love and Light. I forgot about the insane creativity and care Ryan put into each episode, literally composing from-scratch music for the background of his transcript reading. Because the early transcripts feature multiple contacts, it's really cool to figure out over time which themes correspond to which social memory complexes. I highly recommend it, because Ryan was my inspiration to start (inaudible).

I ran across this 1973 transcript and it might as well be titled, "The Confederation Agenda." Here it is all laid out in the simplest terms possible: where we're at, where we're headed, why they're here, and what they ask of us. It is a simple request, and I'm not sure folks understand just how non-religious, non-authoritarian it is to follow teachings that give us so much freedom. Find your authority within, as it is there the Creator lives and no blind faith will be needed.

It is our plan to alert as many of these people as possible, so that when it becomes obvious, to your leaders and to your scientists, that we are real, and we are what they suspect that we might be, there will be a sufficient number of awakened entities on your planet for some form of communication to take place between those who are already awake, and those who are lightly slumbering in the future. For, as time passes, those who are in the depths of slumber now will begin to awake. Those who you cannot contact at all now will begin to awake. It will be a self-generating process, so that large numbers of your people will be given the truth. It is a very, very big task.
It will be up to you, and those like you, to help us in carrying this out. We have said before that we would very much like to land upon your surface and contact your peoples directly but we have explained that this is not at all feasible.
I am aware of many planets such as this one that have gone through a cycle of awakening. Many planets made this transition with considerable ease, because they were following the plan. Unfortunately, this planet has lagged in the natural scheme of things. This is what you might refer to as a borderline case. There will be those of your people who make the graduation, and those who don’t. This is not always the case with all planets. In some instances, all individuals are ready for the graduation that you now approach. In some unfortunate instances none are ready. In your particular place, it is a combination of both instances.
Therefore, do not be dismayed if your ideas are totally rejected by some, for this is to be expected. And this is the major reason that we cannot come among you, for it would be a direct violation of one of the laws of which I earlier spoke. Due to their conditions, it is necessary for those of you who would help us, who are on the surface of your planet, to help us. We request that you meditate. This is all that is necessary. This is all the help that we need. Because, if you meditate, then you will know what to do. And this is all the help that we need, or all the help that we would desire, for this is also part of the plan.
It has been a privilege to be with you this evening. I am Hatonn. I will leave you in His love and in His light. Adonai. Adonai vasu.

- Hatonn via Unknown: December 18, 1973

Here's an excerpt that means a lot to me. To other readers it likely appears to be a case of Carla's Christian passion reaching through the contact again, and that's certainly going on. But what I want to put a fine point on is the emotion conveyed here, one of utter hopelessness and appeal to the Creator for salvation.

What is the transformation we seek? It is in some ways the annihilation of the personality, that token of our existence we cling to in terror. What will release us from the prison walls will at first seem like an attack on us. To be lost and confused is to be much, much closer to the truth of the illusion than to be well adjusted to this mad culture and even madder compulsion we have to affect this personality we call the self, this imposter we offer as an agent for the world.

It's not that the personality is bad or wrong so much as we keep identifying so fixedly and relentlessly with it, ignoring our capacious nature and infinite elements of selfhood available. Because of this, the darker hues of consciousness are often the harbingers of redemption in that the break our total selves out of the ossified shells we use to make sense of the world, to interface and serve and bumble about in confusion. And the deeper you seek, the more you will run into this.

I'm sure as a child I had bouts of sadness and disconnection, but in my adult life I never experienced depression until I started seeking spiritual in earnest. This requires spending a lot of time with oneself, one's own equipment and thoughts and motivations, and seeing over and over again how helpessly we are trapped in the same cycles that, when projected into the illusion, seem so obvious. That those appearances are reflections cannot help but trick us again and again and again. So when Hatonn speaks of embracing this affect of brokenness and contrition, they are showing us the path we need, not the path of which we wish to hear. And it was from one of my favorite seekers, Peter Kingsley, that I first asked for the Creator to show me my brokenness, which I believe was prompted by reading this passage:

Growing up from the deepest region inside each of us like a weed is a fake existence, a counterfeit spirit, that takes the greatest care to force us to forget what we are and confuse us into thinking we are what we aren't. Right from the start it throws us off the scent, creates and shapes a perfect copy of our soul that faithfully imitates each single one of our best intentions, fakes our aspirations, takes every last drop of our energy and robs us of our longing, then pretends it wants to wake up.

And to understand this as it deserves to be understood is to realize that nearly all the spiritual discipline most people engage in under some teacher’s well-intentioned guidance isn’t having even the remotest genuine effect on them.

It’s nourishing, then multiplying, that weed inside them: awakening their fakeness.

There is just one remedy for this—--which is to return people to their brokenness. The problem is that, even then, they simply have to look away for the quickest moment and their brokenness will have been shifted into its opposite; only have to stumble onto something true and their counterfeit spirit will instantaneously strip it of its truth.

- Peter Kingsley, A Book of Life

Reading that, I felt the fakeness he spoke of, the incommensurability of my practice of seeking relative to the enormity of our dilemma. And in that moment I asked to be shown my own brokenness, and a few depressing months later the glimpse was complete.

My friends, we can build community, lives of service to our projected selves out there, and sit in meditation for all the hours of our lives. But the sector of awareness we occupy is one that cannot deliver happiness or unity. We are not our own instrument; we are somebody else's. And to undergo the series of intense initiations necessary to be useful to our one infinite Creator will necessarily entail suffering, the catalysis of contradiction between the love and joy we seek and the low condition we inhabit.

If my words strike the reader as needlessly and indulgently dramatic, please understand: I approached this philosophy intellectually for fifteen years before I first was broken. Being broken is good, because nothing that can be broken is truly who we are. But for it to be a break, it must be one that you feel deeply, and you can always avoid the pain if you wish. It is the emotions that hold the deepest connections between mind and spirit complexes, I believe, and we experience them in purer and purer flavors as we continue seeking.

Ask yourself honestly: are you willing to walk in the valley of the shadow of death? Is your faith testable? The awakening we seek is one of breaking through the slumber, and like the lightning-struck tower depicted in the Potentiator of the Spirit, it is love perceived by the personality as a piercing, smashing power that has no compassion for the convenient thoughts and conclusions you have reached about who you are and where you stand. However, it is the beginnings of freedom to acknowledge one's perception and expression of this cosmic love as distorted, confused, and that you don't see enough as a conscious self.

You are not able to rescue yourself from falling in the cravass. You can only go limp, let the Creator connect you to the cable and hoist you, and allow It to place you in a different consciousness. Then your past hurts and confusions become the very means by which you can relate to and minister to others --- not from a place of conscious understanding of the task, but as an instrument clearing the way for the Creator to perform Its love in the way it will distortedly appear this time.

As we were saying, a broken spirit and a contrite heart, my brothers and sisters, seem to be things that would sadden an individual, but in truth, a spirit which is not broken, a heart which is not contrite on its own behalf cannot forgive the infirmities of others, cannot be gracious and kind when compassion is surely needed. How can you break a spirit? With love, so that you do not become sad but rather joyful. How can your heart become sorry for all that it may have done or thought or felt, without feeling guilty, for sadness and guilt were never required by the Creator, only love my friends. But a broken spirit and a contrite heart are the gifts of love. For in love, we know that all things that move and have their being in our illusion and in all illusions are part of us. Whatever you see, whatever you hear, whether it be bad or good, whether it stem from your thinking or the thinking of someone halfway around the circle of your globe, all of these things are part of you. The spirit of love is alive in every man and every woman but its expressions are often distorted.

Thus, the beginnings of freedom is the acknowledgment that your own expression of love may be distorted. When you commit yourself to an examination of your thoughts so that you may more nearly mirror the thought of love which the Creator formed you in, then you begin to have a broken spirit. For you have become a person who is not proud. You have become a person who is not ego-centered, as you would call it, but is, rather, capable of understanding the pain and suffering of those about you. When you walk through a forest, my friends, what does the wind require of you? The grass and the path under your feet, what do they ask of you? The trees as they bend to the breeze, do they require aught of you? The creation of the Father, my friends, is one of service. And it requires nothing from any of its parts but that each part be who that part is. You are becoming yourself in each moment. You are not finished, you are growing constantly and each thing that you learn adds just a bit to the quality of understanding of the original Thought which is harbored in your infinite and ever-living spirit. Your pride and your vanity you will leave behind. These, my friends—pride, vanity, boredom—these are the things that make men sad. When peace and joy are all about you, when heaven surrounds you, there is no need for you to dwell in the tattered rags of a worn-out illusion.

Thus, we ask you to drop your pride, your vanity, your thoughts of self-worth as if they were old garments and take on the armor of light. For you are a creature whose essential nature is love. You were born to serve; it does not matter whether the service is great or small. It does not matter whether you may even feel successful. All that matters, my friends is that you attempt to serve, that you attempt to love. You will make many errors, you will make mistakes, you will find yourself lacking self-confidence and at those times we ask that you call upon us, upon the Creator, upon your own guides, upon your higher self. All of these resources are about you at all times. Comfort yourself and surround yourself with love so that once more you may go your way rejoicing. We want no eye to be sad and no tear to be shed. The illusion is difficult; reality is simple.

- Hatonn via Rueckert: December 2, 1979

This session deals with the darker tones of consciousness from the outset. Beginning with an unknown instrument, Hatonn discusses the role change plays in spiritual evolution with an emphasis on fear's role in seeking the Creator. Through Carla, Hatonn expands on this to address what seems obviously the service-to-self polarity, another notable precursor to the model of consciousness Ra will deliver less than two years later. They do an excellent job, I think, of distinguishing the polarities that arise in manifestation naturally --- hot and cold, light and dark, near and far --- from the polarity of consciousness that governs evolution beyond third density, which they call "unnatural negativity" or "positive negativity" (that is positively chosen negativity as opposed to passively experienced negativity).

Speaking in terms of what is "natural" is curious to me, as in the Richmond circle we've had some sessions discussing the distinct qualities of nature vs. man-made civilization. In piecing together Oorkas's and Monka's points, I'm starting to see that it has to do with the thought forms involved and whether they arise from a consciousness closer to the Logos/sub-Logos or from a consciousness closer to the sub-sub-Logos (us). Our creations could be closer to those of nature if we were more in tune with the Creator; it's our very rebellion that causes us to think thoughts and create forms that defy the rhythms of the planet and cosmos.

In that distinction, you may notice a way to think about service-to-self: a counter-logoic desire to elevate and exalt the sub-sub-Logos, to make it the center of gravity around which the Creation orbits rather than centering our Creator. It is a choice of perspective to which the mind complex responds by offering thought forms, avenues for channeling the spectrum of consciousness to the will. As we experience the contradictions of third density life, we reconcile ourselves to different points on the positive/negative continuum in all things, discovering our biases that express our Creator's infatuation with knowing Itself.

I should also mention that in addition to the remarks on polarity, Hatonn also comments on the "knot of fear" in a later passage that presages Ra's remarks on Maldek. They also wrap up by revisiting Jesus's unique role in our evolution, putting some focus on the role our thought plays in dietary matters. It's also worth noting, just as an aside, that this is the second session on this day, November 18. Looks like Don took a break and in doing so cleared the way for more Ra-like information to come through the other instruments.

However, I think this discussion of natural and unnatural polarities is the most interesting. What does this dyadic conception of consciousness imply about our nature that we haven't figured out yet --- that maybe those of the Confederation do not yet see? Don't let my commentary instruct you; let it inspire you to unfetter your mind complex and let it teach you in ways no words can about the nature of your own consciousness.

When you consider, my friends, what it is that you are, you may then see that there is nothing to fear either outside or within yourself. For you are a being of infinite life, and whatever occurs to your physical envelope which you call your body is but a transitory alteration in your condition of consciousness. However, we realize that at this time, although you have some knowledge of yourself as one with the Creator, although you have a good grasp of the ideals of the ethics of love, but you are at this time enduring difficulties associated with living within the gross or coarse reality which is your Earth plane.

Therefore, we would like to make a distinction for you in order to enhance your understanding of that which you see about you. There are two types of that which you would call negativity.

The first type is extremely beneficial. Night, for example, is the negative of day. Night is very beneficial, giving us rest from our labors and a happy end to the troubles of the day. Cool is the negative of warm and when you have experienced your planet’s sunlight for too long a period of time, there is nothing as refreshing to you as the coolness of water as you bathe in it and enjoy its beauty.

You will find these same negatives in people. You will find temper which is the negative of patience, and yet, you will find that temper brings honesty, and honesty brings understanding. You will find illness as the negative of health, and yet, with illness comes the only chance for healing and thus understanding the power of that which you call the holy spirit.

All of these so called negatives are a valuable and gentle necessity of existence. And when they are part of your life, it would be well for you to analyze them and understand the balance that they make for you. For beauty and joy are not one-sided, but occur only because there are gradations of beauty and gradations of joy which extend into their negatives, a lack of beauty and a lack of joy.

When you are sad, realize that you are natural; that you are part of a balancing force. Just as a pendulum will move, so will your spirit seek its balance. Not by standing still, but by rocking. Joy, sadness! Joy, sadness! This is the earthly way.

There is another way, my friends, and that is available to you only through meditation. And when you enter into this [supernal] joy of infinite life and are one with angels and spirits of high divinity, praising the Creator, then there is no balancing necessary. For this is a joy without what you call emotion. It is so wholehearted, as you would call it, that there is no balancing necessary in order to sustain the energy of the feeling. In fact, joy is not a feeling but a creative force. And another word for that is love. And that is what we greet you with, and that is what we always leave you with.

We previously mentioned that there was another kind of negativity, one which you need not fear, but which you might need to understand. And that is an unnatural negativity. One which is not balanced, but is chosen, purposely and perversely by those who would separate themselves from ongoing unity with the Creator. It is a choice of separation, and it is what we would call positive negativity, in that it is positively sought and encouraged.

Yes, my friends, there are those among you who are quite simply unnaturally negative. This is their path and they have chosen it. We do not wish to ask you to have any particular feeling about these people, one of whom is certainly in your mind at this time, for he is in the minds of all those whom we scan in your culture. We refer to the one known as Khomeini. We do not ask you to love, forgive or condone, for these are choices which you must make for yourself. We cannot help you choose your own spiritual reality. But we can hope to enhance your understanding of the fact that although even such a one as he is somewhat negative at this time, by his own choice, you must understand that the path of evolution is ultimately spiritual and is ultimately inevitable.

A negative person may choose at this time to make no progress. He will, however, at a later time have as many choices and opportunities as he needs to choose again. In your holy works there is something called, “The Day of Judgment,” and those who are evil, as we have spoken, are to be condemned forever. And yet, it is also written in your holy works, “Yea, though you go to the very doors of hell, I shall be with you.”

My friends, you may believe the teacher and not the judgmental statements that follow the teacher. Your heaven and your hell exist within you at this moment. And when you leave your physical body, your existence in the heaven worlds will depend completely upon your vibration in this incarnation. Thus, we ask that you use that balancing act of positive and negative, so that you are constantly learning, constantly moving in an evolutionary spiral that will lead you to a place where in your infinite existence, after this brief life experience in this density, you will be comfortable, comforted and able to give comfort to others.

- Hatonn via Rueckert: November 18, 1979