Tuning, tuning, tuning...

[Steppingfeet]

Dear forum,

The moderators have questions for the community, the responses to which will be used to shape our upcoming experimental sub-forum. (Discussion about this forum available here.)

Prior to asking those questions, some background. In the Channeling Intensive Introductory Workshop of 2008, Carla gave a series of talks on different aspects of her channeling practice; primary among them was the theory and practice of tuning. Below are the first four paragraphs of the transcript from her talk on Tuning:

Carla L. Rueckert: Anyone who has played an instrument such as a piano, a violin, any of the stringed instruments or the wind instruments understands the concept of tuning. In tuning, you’re trying to tune your instrument to some standard. The standard for musical instruments is that it is 440 for the A below middle C. Piano tuners start there and then they tune the octaves, from A to A, up and then down, until the whole piano is tuned. The first violinist in an orchestra generally asks for “concert A” from the oboe and the orchestra members all tune their instruments to that. In a sacred setting using a pipe organ, orchestra members tune to the organ’s concert A.

So when I say it’s important to tune before channeling, I am perceiving myself and anyone else who channels as an instrument. We are a certain kind of an instrument. We are wind instruments. The production of the breath is what carries the channeling, so what we’re tuning is not simply our physical bodies, though that is included in the tuning. We’re tuning ourselves as if we were radio crystals that can receive transmissions, send transmissions, and to some extent transduce energy or change the vibration of energy by running it through our being.

If you tune a radio dial, you’re tuning to the best station on the dial. You tune roughly and then you tune more precisely and then you get down to the very tiny verniers and you tune right into the middle of that signal.

When you’re tuning as an instrument for channeling, that’s pretty much what you’re doing. You are tuning your instrument to your highest and best vibratory pattern in order that you can receive the highest and best contact that you possibly can. So the tuning process is a cross between things you do in the physical sense and things that you are hoping to do with your inner work.

If you will indulge me, I would like to offer more on the metaphysics of tuning.

The art of tuning and its practice is integral to the spiritual seeker’s life and expands far beyond the realm of vocal channeling, as I understand these things. Conceiving of ourselves, as Carla mentions above, as instruments of the universe, instruments of the One, broadcasters of love and light, servants of an increasingly deeper will, tuning is one of the most central things we can do – in fact, it is the most effective use of our personal will.

We don’t transform ourselves, we make the space for transformation to occur. We don’t, make growth happen of our own volition, we help to create the conditions for growth to unfold on its own. We don’t make love shine through our hearts or light appear in our words, we release that which impedes love and light, allowing a clearer and clearer opening through which that single energy may flow. We don’t make ourselves into the Creator, we simply clear away the accumulated distortion covering our window panes so that the ever-present One may shine through a crystalline, transparent window. Another word for this activity is tuning.

You might imagine the One as a single all-encompassing frequency, so to speak, that is being broadcast throughout the universe from every point, that frequency seemingly reduced in purity and density as it steps down into each succeeding order of illusion. What the evolving entity does is to aim itself, to tune its being in order to discontinue receiving the jumbled, fragmented frequencies of the lower spectrum and resume reception of the higher, more refined, more unified frequency of the unitary end of the spectrum. Essentially, we want to tune into the already present "frequency" of the One by way of constant aiming, constant adjustment, constant orienting, constant tuning.

This act of tuning an individual and inner level is executed through means such as meditation, prayer, contemplation, affirmation, mantra, and setting our intention. It is a matter of constantly, incessantly orienting our thoughts, our intentions, our energy, and our attention to the highest.

On the collective or outer level, tuning happens in much more complex and elaborate ways, though it follows the same basic mechanism of continually expressed conscious intent that begins within.

On our forum, this tuning happens each and every time – no instance being too small or unimportant – that we consciously choose to respect, love, and accept another; each time that we consciously choose not to indulge in separation or be blindsided by fear and its many cloaked manifestations.

From the standpoint of the owners of this website and their admin team, the importance of tuning and staying tuned cannot be overestimated. The first guideline attempts to communicate this. Above all else, we must keep our tuning here, constantly directing our attention to the love, light, joy, and unity that is present in each moment, in each interaction, on each subject. To lose that tuning is to lose our direction, our ground, our protection, and the purpose of these forums.

Tuning produces not only the “vibe” of an environment (whether an inner or an outer one) but more directly it creates and sustains the polarity, purity, and advanced nature of the work being undertaken. Ra's caution to "guard the alignments" was not for the contact alone, but applies to the seeker's entire life as well. To tune fastidiously, to keep adjusting our orientation to the highest no matter which way catalyst attempts to spin us or circumstances attempt to pummel us - whether in the forest alone or creating posts on this forum - is to align ourselves with increasingly undistorted emanations of truth.

Up to this point, the moderators have been able to, in a small way, facilitate this activity of tuning by not allowing material we consider fear-based and/or negative to take center stage. (What constitutes “fear-based” and/or “negative” is certainly up for debate. The moderators have and continue in their best to exercise their subjective opinions in ways fair and balanced in this regard.)

With the opening of the experimental sub-forum, though, there will be even less policing of content as the moderators. Whereas before the moderators could, in blanket style, reject other sources of channeled information, now, with the door soon to be opened, the moderators do not want to be in a position of having to evaluate the polarity of other sources of channeled information.

Inevitably, then, members will be posting material to the experimental sub-forum which the moderators consider – rightly or wrongly – negative and/or fear-based. Of course, *ALL* discussion on this other channeled sources sub-forum will be expected to happen through the lens of the Law of One, but even with the Law of One lens in place, the situation leaves questions open.

This is where we desire your feedback prior to creating this sub-forum. Please consider the following questions and let us know your thoughts, be they expressed in seven words or seven hundred.

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  1) When mixed or negative material begins making its entrance into our forums, what possible consequences can you foresee in terms of our tuning?
  
  2) What constitutes detuning? (Loss of tuning.)
  
  3) What matters more: the content of discussion or the manner in which it is being discussed?
  
  4) What place will material that is not focused on eternal spiritual principles but rather on the transient or on the disempowering or on that which generates fear and paranoia or on the future calamity or on other temporal matters of non-enduring significance have in our forums? Do you wish to draw a line somewhere in the sand or would you rather welcome the entire spectrum of other channeled sources of material?
  
  5) More specifically, is it acceptable to dedicate threads to analyzing philosophy concerned with baby-eating reptile-humanoids (an analysis which would happen through the lens of the Law of One) as long as the discussion is carried forward with the spirit of mutual respect so prevalent on the forums?

Thank you for taking the time to consider these questions. My personal apologies that the creation of the new sub-forum is slow-moving. This is on my shoulders. Preparing for L/L's Homecoming has consumed lots of time. With your help and the moderators, I hope to have the new sub-forum on line by the third week of September.

Love/Light,
GLB

[Questioner]

Gary, thank you for the thoughtfully presented questions. I agree with the inclination to move thoughtfully, in a prayerful and measured way.

Perhaps those able to attend Homecoming in person might have a productive conversation in person about these matters. Meanwhile, I realize that the conversation might need to proceed gradually because of the time and energy commitment needed for Homecoming. Please guide this process at a pace that feels entirely comfortable, reasonable, and well considered.



I love and honor your comments about tuning. I also love and honor your comments about spiritual awakening as an opening to already-existing material and transformational energies inherent around, within, and through us, rather than something we have to somehow force or make happen.

My first post on the forum honored and inquired about Carla's tuning process. I note that she challenged contacts in the name of Christ's mystical love, which was the highest manifestation of positive Light that she understood. As I understand it, this tuning on her part, together with the tuning of Don and Jim together with her, opened the channel to the Ra contact. She later revised her request to include the condition that she be able to maintain full conscious awareness during contact, which opened the channel to the Q'uo contact.

I also commented on how Don's unique personality and research techniques perfectly prepared him for his role as Questioner of the Ra contact, a role I imperfectly seek to honor in my participation here.

These were like the orchestra tuning to the oboe, the instrument with the most fixed of pitches.


I note that Carla's emphatic recommendation is that people not seek to channel outside the context of a spiritual community which works together on their tuning.

It is my goal and hope that the new experimental forum can be an opportunity to increase our tuning in terms of perceptive wisdom in selecting, understanding, integrating, applying... or wisely declining to do these things... with other channeled sources, in the context of a spiritual community drawn together by this tuning process.

Whether we've personally met the L/L Research team or not, all forum members are drawn with a deep personal resonance that tunes into the messages on the Ra and Q'uo frequencies, so to speak. I agree with those who speculate that we are most likely the earlier-in-time embodiments of entities that, in the future, have merged with Ra or a compatible higher-density complex; seeking unity through the exploration of the positive path open to us through our third density Choice to be of service to others.

This unity and tuning is the most precious aspect of the forum, pervading and transcending any individual topics and comments by suffusing them with light and loving kindness towards each other.



Just as Don's research through many different contact reports led to his discovery of tuning principles, I feel that the personal backgrounds, interests, awareness, scientific and spiritual journeys of participants here give us a shared ability to honor Don's cross-referencing work by, in a sense, continuing it in a different venue and scale.

I respectfully suggest that the new forum include some kind of guideline which encourages an honest, unflinching look at whether or not a tuning process was used by the channels; and if so, how that tuning process compares to Carla's.

There may well be extremely valuable, helpful, positive material received by people who had a total absence of any conscious effort or deliberate ritual towards tuning. If so, the absence of tuning should be noted. In the absence of a tuning practice, there is the risk - not necessarily outcome - of destabilization or perversion of positive into negative through an untuned channel. If the channeler has stated a personal standard of evaluation for which contacts or messages to accept, that should be noted as well.

I respectfully request that we first look at what could be superb, excellent, great, wise, loving, happy and positive about discussing the best of uplifting channeled material compatible with the Law of One. I recommend that this positive focus come first, and then be followed by an entirely forthright and open look at the potential downsides. In engineering terms, this means defining the ideal function, then adding features to prevent, relieve, or overcome the drawbacks. I am not opposed to "devil's advocate" type concerns, but I ask that they be put in context of supporting what could be best.

[Eddie]

I'm an "A" (or, early in the morning, a "G"). I can't do "C", even standing on a chair.

Being in tune is very important. Dissonance is painful to anyone with a good ear. However, brilliant harmonies can result from singing different notes that result in a chord. Especially pentatonic minors.

I would suggest that each note be given its own thread, and chords be built upon those base notes. I'll be glad to moderate the "Seth" note forum.

Polyphony, anyone?

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This gives me a really intriguing idea. We (humans) work a lot with sound harmonies, but very rarely with light harmonies. We should explore creating harmonies with the basic colors. I manifest various colors during meditation; maybe we could come up with light compositions for a "light chorus".

Any takers?

[Peregrinus]

Having negative conversations in this forum... I would see akin to holding ultimate fighting matches in the Sistine Chapel, a breach of that which is sacred and beautiful. That being said...

1) When mixed or negative material begins making its entrance into our forums, what possible consequences can you foresee in terms of our tuning?

I would suggest that material which contains mixed and/or negative materials not be discussed and removed. Although it is negatively polarizing to control, opening the door to the negative on those unsuspecting would not be a service to other-self action. There are numerous (seemingly) positive channels out there that can be discussed without having to resort to negative channels.

2) What constitutes detuning? (Loss of tuning.)

As some may have noticed recently in this forum, it did not take a great deal for a number of members to become detuned, including myself. This catalyst was, of course, a learning experience for those that took it as such, but for many... an introduction of negative material might be a non-recoverable event which might cause irreversible damage to their fragile state. I ask you to consider to remember that walking the steps of light is based upon balance of the rays, not strength, and we must bear the responsibility to not harm others which may cause blockage to those entities which naturally have none, and have come to this forum seeking a like vibration. As to the question... Any conversation in which the vibration is less than that of yellow ray may cause a reduction in the vibration of the reader, thus, detuning. The current forum guidelines would suffice but for the name of those entities being channeled.

3) What matters more: the content of discussion or the manner in which it is being discussed?

I would suggest that both matter equally. Having a kind conversation involving negative materials will not alleviate the fact that the materials are negative, nor does a negative conversation about positive materials maintain a positive message.

4) What place will material that is not focused on eternal spiritual principles but rather on the transient or on the disempowering or on that which generates fear and paranoia or on the future calamity or on other temporal matters of non-enduring significance have in our forums? Do you wish to draw a line somewhere in the sand or would you rather welcome the entire spectrum of other channeled sources of material?

I would suggest there to be a very clear line that negative material will/would be removed immediately. I think that be having a selection process whereby each week, or each month, a new channel/channeled entity might be suggested, a well known (seemingly) positive one, and then do a poll (with discussion) on this channel/channeled entity to see if anyone has anything negative to say about it. If there is no (viable) negative, it could be added to the board as a sub-subheading and opened for discussion. I see no need to blow up the dam when it can be opened in increments to allow for a steady and predictable flow.

5) More specifically, is it acceptable to dedicate threads to analyzing philosophy concerned with baby-eating reptile-humanoids (an analysis which would happen through the lens of the Law of One) as long as the discussion is carried forward with the spirit of mutual respect so prevalent on the forums?

Anything which may be distorted by the ape mind has repercussions to the mind/body/spirit complex. I would simply say no, discussions of any negative nature are not welcome.

All in all, I would hope that opening a subsection of the forum to outside channels would/should be done so as to encourage positivity and increase the collective vibration. We are not Ra, and cannot afford the luxury to cause naive harm, especially at such a crucial time in the cycle as now.

I respectfully suggest that the new forum include some kind of guideline which encourages an honest, unflinching look at whether or not a tuning process was used by the channels; and if so, how that tuning process compares to Carla's.

There may well be extremely valuable, helpful, positive material received by people who had a total absence of any conscious effort or deliberate ritual towards tuning. If so, the absence of tuning should be noted. In the absence of a tuning practice, there is the risk - not necessarily outcome - of destabilization or perversion of positive into negative through an untuned channel. If the channeler has stated a personal standard of evaluation for which contacts or messages to accept, that should be noted as well.

I have seen of channelers is that it just happens for some, without conscious effort. What is important, I would suggest, is the message, not the messenger. All it takes for a channel to attune to an entity/vice versa is a like vibration.

What should be noted is that LL is not in alignment with, nor does endorse these other channels/channeled entities. According to a 1974 channeling session with Hatonn, this time in the cycle may reveal many channels/channeled entities which are unable to sustain the truth and shall be shown as false. I know this will not be the case for LL, but all others are suspect, at least to me.

Thank you for your consideration of my words dear brothers and sisters

[Aaron]

Hi, Gary and others!

My input:

1) When mixed or negative material begins making its entrance into our forums, what possible consequences can you foresee in terms of our tuning?

Negative material can severely lessen the positive impact of the Ra and Q'uo material. With the new forum, it's possible that the site may become a jumbled mess of channeled messages coming from everywhere and speaking in many different styles of communication. I feel that the basic idea behind the site (the study of the Law of One in order to best learn how to bring forth your love and bring 4th density) could be lost in the cacophony. A good analogy would be like placing a lampshade over an uncovered bulb.

2) What constitutes detuning? (Loss of tuning.)

That's a very good question. I think we all know what love is and how to manifest it in our lives. I think this is because we are all able to draw the same basic message from the LOO material. If we allow other material that contains an incomplete message or confusing verbiage to become the focus of our study, our attentions will be towards manifesting whatever results those messages point towards. It can become a distraction that can lead to less love/light being produced by us. Because we are the lifeblood of the site, whatever we choose to focus our attention on will be the vibe that the site takes on, no matter what's posted here, really. However, additional channeled messages which compliment the LOO can add a depth to our understanding. I'm talking about messages such as those from Bashar. They provide a note that's very close to the "A note" of the LOO. This can help us to have a more precise tuning.

3) What matters more: the content of discussion or the manner in which it is being discussed?

In my experience, even discussions of the ordinary can be extraordinarily profound. The manner or attitude in or by which the topic is approached makes all the difference in the world. If you put a Buddha in hell, would he suffer?

4) What place will material that is not focused on eternal spiritual principles but rather on the transient or on the disempowering or on that which generates fear and paranoia or on the future calamity or on other temporal matters of non-enduring significance have in our forums? Do you wish to draw a line somewhere in the sand or would you rather welcome the entire spectrum of other channeled sources of material?

I think we know enough of disempowering material already! I don't know about you all, but I wade through it every day! Bring4th is a haven of clarity to me. I would be tremendously disappointed to see it become muddied. However, I see the angle that you're coming from. If we can remain tuned, that stuff can be posted and just as swiftly be allowed to fall away. Drawing a line in the sand would be a logical attempt to solve an illogical problem. I don't think it would work.

5) More specifically, is it acceptable to dedicate threads to analyzing philosophy concerned with baby-eating reptile-humanoids (an analysis which would happen through the lens of the Law of One) as long as the discussion is carried forward with the spirit of mutual respect so prevalent on the forums?

Who ultimately can decide what is acceptable, to think about, talk about, whatever? I think, as long as we can lightheartedly and respectfully discuss mini-golf through the lens of the LOO, we can maintain that nature as we discuss baby-eating reptile-humanoids, or anything else under the sun, from the LOO standpoint.

Thank you, and good luck with the preparations!

[Lavazza]

Hello Gary and all,

Thank you for raising the awareness of this topic. I feel less worried about this than others here I suspect, but having said that I also wanted to express my respect towards the caution the mods and others here are using.

1) When mixed or negative material begins making its entrance into our forums, what possible consequences can you foresee in terms of our tuning?

I would see this at least in part as more of an opportunity rather than something possibly deleterious. Consider the light seeking, STO natured beings that we are. I suspect that were negative / fear based material to land here, we would have a great chance to show our polarity by neutralizing, at least in some small way, the fear. This could be seen as a great service to those experiencing the fear. I do not see this as being a light-crusader so to speak as we are not actively going out to STS oriented forums and preaching the good word as it were. We would simply be positing our STO oriented ideas on our STO oriented forum.

Also I sort of see this as an opportunity for tempering the personality. Remember the biodome experiment in the mid 1990's known as Biosphere 2? The idea was to run an experiment whereby a few people would enter a completely sealed glass enclosure of massive scale, complete with a variety of second density life forms. The goal was to see if it would be a self-sustaining environment in which to live. One of the unexpected results was with the trees grew up to be incredibly weak as there was no natural wind force to challenge them. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere_2

I do of course hear, and hear well, the wisdom of those who fear that negatively influenced material may pollute the forum in an irreversible way. (STS overcoming STO). But with some key safeguards in place- namely that everything be discussed in the context of TLOO, I do not think this will happen.

3) What matters more: the content of discussion or the manner in which it is being discussed?

For me, it's the later. I've seen examples of negative attitudes here and I've seen fellow forum members walk effortlessly around it in a loving way, neutralizing it's effects completely. With this example in mind, I think we can discuss anything however fearful and remain in tact. This might seem like a pointless thing to do when you can just rule out the fearful content altogether, but again it's the possibility of fear reversal that I think would make it worthwhile. And the other benefit is more learnings of The Law of One.

We could use this Hidden Hand character as a good example. I see threads come and go about him/her, and it can't be argued that many have joined us here becomes of the information. What greater opportunity do we have to negate the fear based elements of HH's dialog than with full discussion here, in the light?

4) What place will material that is not focused on eternal spiritual principles but rather on the transient or on the disempowering or on that which generates fear and paranoia or on the future calamity or on other temporal matters of non-enduring significance have in our forums? Do you wish to draw a line somewhere in the sand or would you rather welcome the entire spectrum of other channeled sources of material?

I would absolutely welcome all channeled and non-channeled material as long as it is submitted in the context of further understanding with The Law of One. With that as requirement, I don't see how very many threads about future calamities and other dis-empowering things can go on for very long. If something has no possible relevance to the LOO philosophy, it should probably not be discussed on our LOO forum.

Also remember that transient information can be a powerful attractor. Note that Don initially was fascinated with UFOs, and look where that lead. What session was it where Ra confirmed that UFOs were a form of advertising?

5) More specifically, is it acceptable to dedicate threads to analyzing philosophy concerned with baby-eating reptile-humanoids (an analysis which would happen through the lens of the Law of One) as long as the discussion is carried forward with the spirit of mutual respect so prevalent on the forums?

As long as the discussion is carried forward with the spirit of mutual respect, and with the spirit of further understanding with The Law of One. I may be deluding myself, but I feel intuitively that The Law of One has a powerful resonance and potential to bring people in to the Love and Light that Ra so frequently spoke about. In other words- I suspect greatly that the philosophy of humanoid dinosaurs as compared to the philosophy Ra communicated will pale, and a service be given to those who fear the former. Again, not acting as "agents of the One" or "soldiers for Jesus", or some other sort of Jehovah's witness type approach, but more as being the lighthouse to which others can come to if they desire.

All the same, I am a new seeker in this incarnation, and I have no direct experience in the pollution of forums as I know Carla experienced (in the first LOO forum), so I perhaps am not the most qualified speaker on this topic. I realize also that my statements are those of an idealist, and so it is. But I did feel compelled to share my perspective, for what it's worth. Regardless of outcome, I shall remain here with you all.

L&L, ~L

[thefool]

A few thoughts-
1- The forum is 'service to self' focused and it should remain that way. There are so many wonderful positive channels out there. They may not have the same/similar tuning as that of Carla but certainly not negative either.

2- We have to have some ground rules like the 'STO' orientation, mutual love and respect being the main one. The moderators decisions being the final one on any dispute like it is today.

The rest of the details will work themselves out in the long run. Thinking about all different scenarios is like trying to figure out what we would do if there is a 26 car crash on our way to Kansas where we are just learning to drive in Chicago. Human mind can not fathom how all the different details are going to be unfolding. A certain trust in the process is necessary.

[Monica]

A few thoughts-
1- The forum is 'service to self' focused and it should remain that way.

Did you mean to say, 'service to others' ?

[Questioner]

New user Protonexus suggested a site that compiles quite a lot of esoteric information.

I had a very positive response to this page:
http://www.thenewcall.org/ri_how_master_channels.htm

This is a discussion of advanced spiritual beings, referred to as Ascended Masters in the book, but I think this discussion applies as well to our understanding of sources such as Ra and Q'uo. A detailed description is provided of how these higher positive entities release positive thought-concepts, empowered by love, which are available to be received by positively oriented channels.

This is followed by a discussion of how these thought-forms, once released, are separate from the higher entities and have their own existence.

The discussion continues with explanation of how these positive concepts can be dimmed and corrupted by combination with negative thought concepts, so that an unwary, untuned channel picks up mixed messages.
Ultimately the originally positive message can be diluted to a mere spark that is an attention-getter for highly negative activity.

Suffice to say that the unholy impersonator incorporeals feed from the blind desire and selfishness of their congregations, and in return provide metaphysical power, psychic stimulation, visions, etc.

Over time this unholy symbiotic relationship between men and their false gods creates a very complex and deeply entrenched karmic binding that is very difficult to extricate oneself from, and it is in this way that the false priests become occultly possessed and very dependent upon the cold light and power that is provided them by their gods.

The greater number of unsuspecting human beings who can be persuaded to follow these priests and so to contribute psychic food to their religion, the greater the power of the group. This explains the recruitment programs of conversions in many different religions and sects today.... And this is a grave problem because the person who serves a false god but sincerely believes it to be the true God - Divinity itself - proceeds with great conviction, and so blindly continues to help swell the ranks of the fallen religion and so feed the unholy hosts.

The conclusion of the author seems very relevant to our current discussion:

Do not seek advanced knowledge before you are ready to use it wisely in the selfless service of God's lambs. Do not become infatuated by fair words or enamoured by lofty information because it seems more impressive and authoritative than your own. Seek first contact with your own Soul and then follow always its loving guidance.

[thefool]

A few thoughts-
1- The forum is 'service to self' focused and it should remain that way.

Did you mean to say, 'service to others' ?

My bad. Thanks for the correction offered.