Month: November 2024

2024.11.25

LL_Central

11/11/2023 – 11/25/2024

Hello beloved friends & family.

In Sep 2011, The Blogworthy Report was launched as a daily journal that was integrated into Carla and Jim’s Camelot Journal.

In Dec, 2018, the report became a weekly publication inside of The Camelot Journal.

In Aug, 2019, it was first published as a weekly journal.

It held the weekly rhythm for some years but eventually became an irregularly published report occurring every couple/few months. But as the workload inexorably increased over time for our very small team, this effort, like the Law of One Podcast, fell to the wayside, its publication periodicity unknown even to the Creator.

Our last publication, in January of this year, celebrated the multisites and shared with you the translators in their own words; but the last general report of the ongoings at L/L Research was published in November, 2023!

So this report is a long overdue catch-up, and a long journey of text, with tales of adventure, challenge, failure, heroism, treachery, spiritual realization, investigative journalism, knee-smacking hilarity, godless dryness, nuts ’n bolts, coupons, and channelings from higher-density sources.

So, set aside that novel you were about to crack open because this will need that time if you are going to brave its entirety. Though, to be radically honest, this will be far more riveting and suspenseful. A real page turner. Calming, relaxing music is therefore recommended.

HIGHLIGHTS

L/L Research’s twin central services include conducting channeling & publishing its corresponding material, and running a large library of cost-free information at LLResearch.org, the latter of which includes working with translators from around the globe. Secondarily, but still central, L/L Research hosts in-person gatherings. This section highlights those services, with more information in the following sections.

Channeling Circles
Conducted in the sacred trust placed upon us by Confederation sources, one half of L/L Research’s principal service continues unabated. In May we completed the 2023–2024 season of the semi-monthly public meditations, and in September we launched the 2024–2025 season (with a few channelings in between).

In the past year we conducted and published 23 sessions altogether: some public mediations, some monthly intermediate circles, some C/C circles, some gathering-specific channelings. To see the full list, scroll to the “Publishing” section below.

One of the public meditations fell on Jim’s birthday this year, so it was great fun to conspire with the attendees of that day in advance of the session to plan a surprise for Jim. Which was a brand new Lexus SUV! But when we came up about $60,000 short, we sang him a song instead. And got him colorful socks, which he loves.

Celebrating/Honoring Milestones & Anniversaries

2024 marked the 50th year of L/L Research’s consciously channeled Transcript Library. Save for a few random sessions before, 1974 is the year that the Transcript Library essentially begins. It is the year that Carla began to learn to channel and, honoring her inner librarian, began to preserve the recordings for the first time. Carla’s and thus our journey begins with:

  • Feb 23, 1974: Carla’s very first channeling.
  • Mar 5, 1974: In her next appearance, Carla creates a report of her second channeling which was not recorded.
  • Mar 6, 1974: And then her third channeling but second preserved transcript.

It was Carla who—upon learning the basic channeling protocols as discovered and taught by Don, who had himself been conducting experiments in channeling for ~12 years—innovated the twin practices that are the hallmark of L/L Research-style channeling: tuning the instrument and the group, and challenging the contact. This almost immediately increased the quality and profundity of the information received, and continued to do so as she refined her craft.

Tuning and challenging are discussed in a variety of places, including Carla’s A Channeling Handbook, but for a short synopsis, visit the FAQ, scroll to the “About Channeling” and click “What are tuning and challenging.”

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2024 also marked the 40th anniversary of the passing of Don Elkins—that which split Carla’s life in two, initiated a new chapter in the journey of Carla, Jim, and L/L Research, and brought an official end to the Ra contact.

It was Don’s initial impulse in 1955, which grew into a steady conviction to “put the puzzle pieces together” through study of the unknown and the mysterious, that launched the trajectory that would grow into the L/L Research organization and mission and eventually culminate in the crowning achievement of his incarnation: The Ra contact.

Jim writes about both events in his November 7, 2024 Camelot Journal entry.

LLResearch.Org
Much more information in the sections below, we will highlight the Rise of the Multisites (which are a lot more service-friendly than AI killer robots) and the upcoming new-new website.

MULTISITES
As we announced on February 3, 2023, L/L Research began the long project of creating foreign-language versions of LLResearch.org thanks to the skillful gifts of translators in all but one of the now 26 foreign languages on the website. (We lost contact with the Ukrainian translator just before the war.) Each multisite contains:

  • All the existing transcripts and text documents available in that language
  • All the existing books available in that language
  • A dedicated Ra Contact page like the English one, making the Law of One available in session-by-session format and searchable in that language
  • A language-specific search engine(!)
  • Navigation options in that language
  • Several of the site’s main pages (like the Home Page, Channeling Library page, etc.)

Thanks to the loving and dedicated work of many translators, this great effort continued in the past year, with the launch of LLResearch.org into Swedish, Arabic, Finnish, Hebrew, and Hindi (for Ra’s debut in each of those languages). Including English, this brings the total language count on the websites to 27.

Around the corner, Ra will make their way into Albanian, Dutch, and maybe Thai.

Please visit our January 13, 2024 Blogworthy post where we give thanks to the translators and share with you their own reflections.

The Hindu-langague version of LLResearch.org

NEW-NEW WEBSITE
The current LLResearch.org was launched just three years ago on Sep 25, 2021. Though it was a huge evolutionary leap forward from the website that was (eternal gratitude to the creator and webmaster of the former version, Ian Jaffray), Daniel, L/L’s webdev, learned of many needed improvements, leading eventually to the need to rewrite and restructure the entire code base as the website continued to grow so large that it started to creak at the seams.

Not only does it need to be rebuilt from the ground up for those reasons, but there are many more features that we want to incorporate, including but not limited to free user accounts and an ability to use the information like a true interactive library, including marking transcripts as read/unread/to read/favorite; highlighting, annotating, and tagging transcripts for personal use; offering a beginner’s corner section; creating self-made study courses of the material; hosting guided meditations and real-time events for people to gather for meditations; and more.

This project continues intensively with a hope to unveil its beta version in the coming months. Many thanks to Vojta for his skillful support.

Preview of the new-new website

Gatherings
Outside of the afternoon-length public meditations, for many years L/L Research’s only in-person event where people gather to form a sacred circle was its Homecoming Gathering, with some random ones scattered over the years.

That changed in 2018 with the launch of the Coming Home to a New Earth series in collaboration with our friends of the Asheville Law of One study group, L/L’s first retreat-style gathering. And changed again in 2019 when Vojta, of the Czech translation team, proposed that we could host our first international gathering, the Prague Law of One Gathering, conducted in collaboration with our friends of the Czech translation team, now in its fourth year. And changed again in 2022 when our friend and German seeker, Daniel Hodapp, invited us to a small spiritual afternoon event in Berlin, what is now in its third year and growing into its own Law of One gathering series. And it continues to grow.

This year, thanks to Trisha’s initiative and leadership as L/L’s event manager, we took a leap and added a second Coming Home gathering, bringing the total that we host/co-host to five annual gatherings.

This year we hosted and co-hosted the following gatherings:

  • Louisville Homecoming Gathering
  • West Coast Coming Home to a New Earth gathering outside of Seattle
  • East Coast Coming Home to a New Earth Gathering in Philadelphia
  • Prague Law of One Gathering
  • Berlin Law of One Gathering

You can see some short synopses on our Events page. To be notified of when registration, please subscribe to our Gatherings Newsletter, or develop telepathy, whichever is more convenient for you.

Each was so f’in wonderful. Inspiring. Battery recharging. We love and feel familial bonds with the Law of One community so much. We hope to publish event-specific reports in this journal in coming months, fingers crossed, but in the meantime there is more in the “Gatherings” section below.

Many many thanks to our collaborators and those who show up with hearts brilliant in their truth.

Ra Contact: The Narrow-Band Beam / The Metaphorical Crib: Carla in Sixth Density
At all of these gatherings, Gary created a presentation exploring the narrow-band nature of the Ra contact and the relationship of the L/L trio, with special highlight on the great risk that Carla undertook.

At the East Coast Coming Home gathering outside of Philadelphia, this particular offering was recorded and made available on L/L’s YouTube channel. It features the first public showing of the video footage from the 7-day Tilting at Windmills interviews.

PUBLISHING & CREATIVE PROJECTS

Translations, which constitute a significant portion of our work, are shared in the section following this one.

Ra Contact V3 project
Refining the published version of The Ra Contact has been a long-term, intensive endeavor. Since its launch in 2018—itself a massive, multiparty undertaking to scrutinize every inch of the text of the 106 sessions—various corrections and edits have been discovered. The great majority of these are minor typos or changes to punctuation. Sometimes, punctuation might change based on a new understanding of a statement.

Some of these edits are crowdsourced, but most have been discovered in our own studies. Whatever the source, we review each suggestion thoroughly, sometimes even engaging in lengthy dialogue about metaphysics and semantics and whether Ra would win in a fight vs. a grizzly bear, often cross-checking the proposed edit against the original audio in order to try to discern the intended meaning behind a particular statement.

We let these edits accumulate over a period of time before implementing them as a new version of The Ra Contact. Version 2 was implemented in 2019, and thanks to an accumulated abundance of edits, we are due for a Version 3. All suggested edits and corrections have been reviewed and integrated in preparation for publication of Version 3. Another project working with Tobey W. (creator of lawofone.info) is underway to collaborate on these changes.

With each new iteration, the text becomes even more precise and, we believe, true to the intended message. V3 may by the final version, finally, but time will tell.

Single Volume
The long-requested single volume is tied closely to the new version, and once the edits are all implemented for the current volumes, a single volume will be close behind, as we have already begun the process of investigating printers and reviewing printing materials for this special edition expression of the material.

The next best single-volume title

One Source of Truth
Related to the version updates and single volume, a perpetual issue that we confront a lot is the many disparate versions of the material (whether The Ra Contact or other L/L material). Any edit or change made to any published material tends to necessitate changes to multiple versions of that material, creating a difficult logistical challenge.

Our dream is to have what’s called a “one source of truth” from which all other versions are automatically built. The idea has been tantalizing, elusive, and difficult to imagine as a reality due to the many complications. But, thanks to the power of VBA, we have unlocked a real potential way forward for this vision. Thanks to Austin’s wizardy, we are at a stage now where we can generate a nearly fully formatted book based on the digital version of the transcripts that are stored in the websites content management system in just a few clicks.

The implications of this streamlined formatting of transcripts are quite large. With just a few more refinements, we’ll be able to update all versions of The Ra Contact (or potentially other books) with a simple process. And not just the English versions, but the same automation can be applied to other languages, opening the door for the first time to be able to publish foreign-language versions of the material by implementing a real One Source of Truth protocol so that a single version of the material can serve as the ultimate, final version. This way, changes can be made only to the OSOT version and then manifested outward wherever they need to go. Now if we can figure out how to do that for the mass consciousness of Earth, we might just be able to fix this mess.

Newsletters
Since the last Blogworthy, we’ve sent four Light/Lines Newsletters, along with a handful of Gatherings newsletters. The latter contains announcements for future gatherings, but also updates on the goings on at L/L Research, or random sharing of inspiration to meet the collective moment.

Card Deck Project
We’ve been engaged in an ongoing project with the publisher of the Law of One books to create a card deck of our favorite Confederation sources that reimagines them as X-men style mutants battling negative forces. Err, we mean, an oracle-style card deck with quotes from Ra. It is intended to be a resource for seekers to help deepen their understanding and relationship with the Law of One, helping them to apply it to their own lives so that synchronicity may flow to help guide them on their journeys. As of this Blogworthy, the final material has been delivered to the publisher and it is now in the publishing pipeline. The project should manifest sometime in 2025.

1.16 ratio
We published an essay exploring the perplexing discussion regarding the confusing 1.16 ratio that Ra uses for describing the proportions of the energizing pyramid that can be used for its third spiral effects, as well as updated the published version of Don’s notebook to include a sketch relevant to the puzzle. And we were excited that our friend, Joshua Silverman, facilitator of a couple online Law of One study groups, was able to manifest the types of energizing discussed in the essay. You can find them at SacredGeometryJCS’s Etsy page.

Ra on homosexuality
The Q&As of 31.8–11 have been a bedeviling set of information about the implications of homosexual orientation, according to Ra, which has been confusing to us as well. Austin is nearing completing of an essay that takes a hard and honest look at these passages in the hopes of shedding some light on their potential interpretations.

A Concept Guide Revision
During the course of a full front-to-back reread of The Ra Contact, Gary gazed anew at Ra’s gems and collected a fresh batch of a hundred or so quotes for potential inclusion into L/L’s book, A Concept Guide. Then, over the course of months, he spliced in lots of new quotes, corrected various errors, and refined the text in all the right places until it said “Ahhhh, that hit the spot.”

He also completely overhauled the entries for “Ra” and the “Narrow Band,” doubling both in size; and wrote several new Author’s Notes, including “The Metaphorical Crib,” “The Rhythm of Reality”, “On Universes & Galaxies,” “The Hint & the Hope,” and the very serious “You are Competent at Viewing Pictures.” This resulted in an expanded version of 50–60 more pages.

The Author’s Note for “The Metaphorical Crib,” which focuses on the risk of the Ra contact, became an open space offering at the 2024 gatherings. And one of those offerings was recorded and published to L/L’s YouTube channel. And then broadcast on primetime TV worldwide. World leaders have been gushing.

Also, he began a project exploring converting the individual chapters of the book into narrated videos. Many thanks to the support of Nico K. in manifesting the beginnings of the project.

Living the Law of One 102
While the printed version of 102 has been in the publishing pipeline to get printed and published, we have been working with Jim to get an audiobook recorded in the meantime, so that its publication will not be too far behind the printed version.

Jim Meditation Narration
Part of web dev Daniel’s collaboration with L/L Research includes a vision for a meditation app that will be closely related to Confederation philosophy and teaching. This past year, we have been hammering out the details of that endeavor and how it relates to L/L Research, and Jim has been recording the narration for various meditations and visualizations that will be a part of this collaboration.

Media and documentaries
We sometimes get inquiries from interested filmmakers regarding a potential documentary about The Ra Contact, or a desire to incorporate the story of the contact into a broader documentary work. We’ve received and explored a few opportunities this past year, and have worked with Gaia TV to incorporate some information about the contact with Ra in some of their series.

Beginner’s Corner Page
With Joanna’s leadership, our team has been collaborating to design a Beginner’s Corner page for the website—a welcoming space intended to orient and guide seekers at the initial stage, from those with a casual curiosity about the Law of One to those ready to embark upon the journey.

The Law of One material is inherently complex, and in light of the vast, ocean-like amount of information on the website, navigation can sometimes feel overwhelming, unless you are an ancient Polynesian mariner or have a GPS on your boat. The Beginner’s Corner is envisioned as a helpful starting point, akin to a help desk you see when you first walk in to a large library, museum, or skyscraper. This page will provide clear and friendly guidance, addressing fundamental questions about the Law of One and pointing new visitors toward essential resources and tools.

It’s important to note that this project has been greatly enriched by the invaluable input of fellow seekers in the Law of One community, many of whom thoughtfully participated in our “Studying the Law of One” survey earlier this year. Their insights and feedback have played a key role in shaping this effort.

Publications to the Library Site
The most central expression of our outward service, the Library website at LLResearch.org, remains a thriving and active collection of spiritual resources in a large variety of languages. Since the last Blogworthy, we have published in English:

CONSCIOUS CHANNELING TRANSCRIPTS

INTERVIEWS AND PODCAST APPEARANCES

TRANSLATORS & TRANSLATIONS

Uploading translations – The Ra Contact
Over the past several months, our commitment to expanding free access to the Ra material has remained steadfast. We have continued uploading translated editions of The Ra Contact to their respective multilingual websites as individual (and searchable!) webpages, like the English version.

As shared previously, the team has been diligently building and hosting versions of the website in various languages. We’re happy to report that, as of November this year, we’ve completed the upload of all 106 sessions in 13 languages, and are currently working on uploading 8 more. Unfortunately, this is not a process that can be easily automated, as the publication of each session requires lots of manual, tedious checking, many thanks to Joanna’s untiring efforts.

The progress of our commitment to expand access to these materials would not have been possible without the unwavering dedication of our volunteer translators. With remarkable care, joy, and love, they provide an invaluable service to the mission. Their enthusiasm for making The Ra Contact and other L/L Research materials accessible worldwide is both inspiring and vital to our goal of supporting the spiritual evolution of humanity.

Translation Transcripts
In addition to the Ra Contact sessions mentioned above, we have published the following generous contributions of translators:

Translators worked with:
A year’s span is a long time to try to boot the memory and scan the archives to see where we’ve been. Sorry if we’ve forgotten any translators! If you are such an one, please let us know.

  • Albanian: Mirela first appeared on the scene earlier this year interested in contributing a Greek TRC, but after learning that Vasilis and Vassilis (same name, two entities) were deep into that project, she pivoted to offering a translation in her native language, Albanian. Though not yet published to the site, Mirela has contributed the first 10 sessions of TRC, and everything we need to launch the Albanian multisite. Thank you, Mirela!
  • Arabic: In the course of an overbooked life raising a family and working overtime, B. has been upon a long journey to translate the TRC into Arabic. He succeeded in completing Volume 1 this year, and contributed everything needed to launch the multisite in that language. Thank you, B.!
  • Bulgarian: And speaking of long journeys, Kirilina, also an overworked entity, has been squeaking out time where she can find it since 2018 to steadily translate TRC into Bulgarian, including sending new sessions this year. Thank you, Kirilina!
  • Dutch 1: For a few years now, Martine sends in a Dutch transcript now and then. Thank you, Martine!
  • Dutch 2: Ra is trying now for a third (or fourth?) time to make their way into Dutch (starting with their first attempt in the 80s, the first language that Ra was ever translated into so far as we are aware), but this time, thanks to the relatively recent arrival of Ivo, it seems they may succeed, as Ivo is fast underway. Thank you, Ivo!
  • Farsi: The ace team of Meysam, serving as the primary translator, with Pupak, serving as a co-editor, and Julien, serving as support, have been undertaking their multi-year journey to produce the first translation of TRC into Farsi (aka: Persian). Meysam has reached session 106 and will soon be sending in the rest of the material to join the 33 existing sessions on the website. Thank you, Meysam, Pupak, and Julien!
  • Finnish: Thanks to another newcomer, Katariina, Ra has officially made their way into what’s native known as Suomi, or elsewhere known as Finnish. Uniquely, Katariina started by producing all the material needed for a Finnish multisite first so that the Finnish TRC would have a proper home. The former went online this year and the latter has begun being published. Thank you, Katariina!
  • German: One of the most significant contributors of translations, Jochen, keeps the fires burning as he has contributed German translations of the consciously channeled transcripts. Thank you, Jochen!
  • Greek: Also an ace duo, Vasilis and Vassilis—same name, two entities, spelled differently—have been steady in their collaborative process to produce a Greek translation of TRC, having completed all of Volume 1 this year (up to Session 56), with more on the way. Thank you, Vasilis and Vassilis! (We got to spend some time with Vassilis the elder at the Prague gathering; but, unfortunately for us, Vasilis the younger had to cancel his attendance at the Berlin Law of One gathering due to a new job.)
  • Hebrew: This translation team is the largest, most multi-party in the history of The Ra Contact universe. Some come and go, but per our last report they consist of Jonathan, Nili, Aya, Rinat, Channa, Guy, Lucia, Mordechay, Erez, Albo, Peleg, Shmulik, and Uri, with Jonathan serving as the lead.  | They are a well-organized bunch with a diversification of roles, project management, and proofreading, which bespeaks a process of high quality and fidelity. Thanks to their work, the Hebrew multisite was launched this year along with the publication of the first 20 sessions of the Hebrew TRC. Thank you to all the aforementioned entities!
  • Hindi: This is another language consisting of a multi-entity team, though we primarily work with Meenakshi, Ginni, and occasionally Vaishali. We love Meenakshi’s questions seeking clarity on the meaning of various phrases and words. They also host a LOO study group online based out of Mumbai that is over 200 members. Wow. Thank you, Meenakshi, Ginni, Vaishali, and the others!
  • Hungarian: Though the Hungarian Law of One books were completed long ago, Laszlo recently finished a long process of revision that we were happy to re-publish to the website. He also shared some salient updates about the Tarot page that we share below. Thank you, Laszlo!
  • Indonesian: Fatiha had completed the Indonesian TRC before the last Blogworthy, but has been available for some needed updates here and there this year. Thank you, Fatiha!
  • Italian: Mauro, our friend who singlehandedly responsible for the Italian translation of TRC and The Law of One books, was able to find time in his busy life to send Italian translation of transcripts in the consciously channeled library. Thank you, Mauro! We also got to spend time with him and his awesome wife, Chiara, on our personal time/budget in between Prague and Berlin this year. (See last BW post for the wedding of Vojta and Emilly that we shared with Mauro and Chiara in summer 2023.)
  • Korean: Having completed the Korean translation of TRC + Korean multisite last year, Sienna, recently retired, has embarked upon a project to contribute Korean translations of the Transcript Library. Thank you (in advance) Sienna!
  • Portuguese 1: Edgard, formerly of Brazil, has continued his steady journey to produce Portuguese translations of TRC, now past the half-way mark at session 60. Thank you, Edgard! We had the pleasure of meeting Edgard when he visited us in 2012.
  • Portuguese 2: And meanwhile, Marta occasionally contributes consciously channeled transcripts in Portuguese. Thank you, Marta!
  • Portuguese 3: And a new translator has joined the effort to do the same for the transcript library. Thank you, Gustavo!
  • Romanian: Though completed previously, thanks to Jochen (of the German publishing house) with collaboration from Horia, the Romanian TRC completed its journey into print for Volume 2. Thank you, Horia!
  • Russian 1: Vladimir, a translation who arrived on the scene last year, continues to send in Russian transcripts of the consciously channeling library as he navigates the challenges of life. Thank you, Vladimir!
  • Russian 2: And Margarita, she of an exceedingly sharp mind, moves forward on her path to offer a second translation of TRC into Russian. When eventually finished in a year or two, it will be the first time that we will be publishing two translations in the same language of the same book (as there is an existing Russian TRC), prompting us to figure out how to restructure the website to accommodate. Thank you, Margarita!
  • Serbian: Dejan completed his own monumental journey, and with his ever good, often Star Wars-related humor, by sending in the completed TRC—all 106 sessions + all the additional material of Vols 1 and 2—in Serbian. Thank you, Dejan!
  • Spanish 1: Though they coordinate their efforts, they don’t collaborate on translating, but taken together they constitute the most translators working in one language on the transcript library + books outside of the Hebrew team. They also span three continents! Beginning with Octavio who is presently the most prolific translation of Transcript Library, we enjoy that he always includes a q’uote that he found particularly inspiring and relevant. Thank you, Octavio!
  • Spanish 2: Gabriel, a friend we got to spend time with at Homecoming and the East Coast Coming Home gatherings this year, is working on finishing Vol 2 of TRC. Thank you, Gabriel! Gabo (nickname) also runs a YouTube channel where he amazingly created studies of all 106 sessions in Spanish and English!
  • Spanish 3: Manuel gifted L/L an entire Living the Law of One 101 in Spanish, is presently working on A Wanderer’s Handbook, and if that were not enough, sent in some transcripts into Spanish. Thank you, Manuel!
  • Spanish 4: Maite and Vanesa have gifted L/L with several transcripts over the past year. Thank you Vanessa and Maite!
  • Spanish 5: And Claudio helped us to evaluate another translator’s version of 101 that was much needed. Thank you, Claudio!
  • Swedish: The Swedish TRC was the most stalled translation of this bunch, but last year its primary translator, Lana, was able to team up with a Swedish expat, Klas, for the work to be reignited. They contributed everything needed to launch a Swedish multisite and continue apace with translations of TRC into Swedish. We got to spend some time with our old friend Lana at the Berlin LOO gathering, but Klas unfortunately had to cancel due to a cold this year. Thank you Lana and Klas!
  • Thai: About a month ago, Watcharart  reached out and went through the onboarding process to commence translation of TRC into Thai. Thank you (in advance) Watcharat! A fellow with a unique backstory, he lived as an ordained Buddhist monk for some time, even meeting the Daila Lama once.

A brilliant group of souls, these are translators we have worked with just the past year. The archive contains the efforts of many. All translations have such reliable high spirits and good energies, even as they traverse the difficulties inherent in this world.

We cannot thank you enough for helping to fulfill the heart of L/L Research’s mission to make this material freely available to interested seekers around the globe.

Sidenote: Daniel, L/L’s webdev, has had the challenge of figuring out how to publish languages that are written right-to-left, including: Hebrew, Arabic, Farsi. Take a look at those languages and try to reorient your brain to navigating the text on the screen!

Crediting Project
And speaking of thanking these souls, as mentioned last BW, we combed through the catacombs of L/L’s hard drive for every translation we have record of and amassed a database of those translations + their corresponding translator(s). Then created 53 questionnaires and emailed as many translators asking them to verify the work that they had contributed, and how and whether they would like to be identified; along with translations for roles like “Translator, Reviewer, Editor,” and whether those roles had gendered or plural differences, and who else they might like to credit. The goal being to more visibly identify the translators for their work and ultimately create a profile whereby the reader can click on a translator’s name to see all of their work, and perhaps even make contact if the translator would like to share contact information.

We continued this project, supplying the questionnaire to new translators that have arrived since. The new-new website will be able to serve this function, making us quite happy that we can finally and proudly give credit to the hard work and talent and gift of the translator.

Translator Social
During our time in between the European gatherings of Prague and Berlin, we spent time with Vojta (Czech translator) and Mauro (Italian translator). During that time they tag-teamed the proposal on a project to link translators together and provide common resources. It would consist of two main components:

One, a translators’-only social platform that would be owned and managed by translators, where those of the craft who have exhibited a commitment to the work can share questions and challenges related to translating, including being able to ask us in a common space where all may benefit, in lieu of the translator emails we answer presently that go to just one or a few translators at a time.

Two, a shared repository in a translator-only webpage on our website that would include policies and crystallized knowledge as a resource in common to all.

We joyfully worked with Mauro and Vojta in helping to lay a blueprint for the foundation of the project as step one, and world domination as step two. Thank you, Mauro and Vojta!

The One Center
Of the handful of foreign publishers we work with, The One Center was great. Based in Taiwan, they published Chinese-language versions of Living the Law of One 101, A Wanderer’s Handbook, What is Love?, and Secrets of the UFO. Everyone we worked with there was a joy. Alas, after years in operation, they had to close their doors this past year due to economic reasons.

They were quite kind to us in providing PDFs of the books listed above that they translated and created unique covers for so that we could, in keeping with our mission, offer them for free on the website. You can see them on the Chinese (Traditional) multisite. (Click on the English AWH cover to see the Chinese-language versions on the next page.)

They reported that their remaining stock would be donated to a charity.

Many thanks to The One Center, Jessie especially! And blessings to you all at the One Center as you move forward in the next chapter of your respective journeys.

LAW OF ONE GATHERINGS

In addition to the synopsis of this year’s gatherings listed at the top of this report, we’ll share some highlights below, but we hope to make more colorful, even more picture-filled and narrative-driven reports of the gatherings in subsequent BW posts as we did for the past couple years of gatherings. In chronological order:

Homecoming Gathering
This Homecoming had a few twists. The first of which was that Trish learned that the weekend we had scheduled and booked the 40 x 40ft canopy tent for was occurring on the same weekend that Louisville was playing host to the PGA Tournament!, golf’s version of the Superbowl. This would cause flights to Louisville and hotels in the area to be booked and extra $$, so we scrambled to change Homecoming to the weekend after and, thanks be, we succeeded.

And then the second twist: once we opened the public registration, it filled up in an hour! Thereafter accumulating a waitlist of 30 people over the next few days before we had to close the list. For the first time ever, we are scouting for new venues for Homecoming in the area for next year.

During the course of the gathering, it was lovely as ever, including and especially Jim’s gardens that he gifts such loving care and attention to, us using catered services for the meals for the second year in a row following the Chief Cooking Officer, Trisha Bean, becoming the Event Manager. And everything went off without a hitch until… the third twist… reports of severe weather started arriving for Sunday, the final day of the gathering.

A longer story to share, the short of it is that we kept close eye on the situation, preparing the group of 40 people in advance, and unhurriedly directing people inside well before the storms hit.

When around noonish the storm smashed into the area, it looked momentarily like a tornado—trees bending, branches being ripped off and sent flying. A microburst of some sort, it was short-lived.

Jim’s home fortunately accommodated everyone who continued to keep a few dozen conversations going in brilliant harmony even as the power went out.

When the dust settled, we headed outside to see branches strewn about, but it looked like the tent and Jim’s home and property were spared. Then we ventured a bit further into the neighbor’s property, where some attendees cars were parked, to discover destruction. A very large tree was uprooted and came crashing to the ground, completely destroying two cars and significantly damaging two others.

The collective harmony and high spirits was then most exemplified in the attitude and outlook of the car owners as they took it all in stride and continued holding a perspective expanding beyond the material realm. It was incredible. And inspiring.

The remainder of the day’s events were canceled, including the channeling, but one of the remaining presenters, Ken, was still able to hold a session about music in the living room. And though Jim’s power wouldn’t return for four days, a group remained into the night where we wrapped up Homecoming in its characteristic joviality.

The gathered circle under the canopy
Jim welcoming the (sacred) gang (of bikers)
A sample of the destruction

West Coast Coming Home to a New Earth Gathering
Thanks to a tip from an attendee and friend, Trang, a local Pacific Northwesterner, we were turned onto a lodge about 45 min east of Seattle that was a dream. Secluded in the woods, it offered lodging for most guests, a large main meeting space with ~25ft high vaulted ceilings and big windows with natural light and views out to the forest, an outdoor chapel with a wall of windows overlooking a small pond, exquisite foodstuffs, an awesome staff, and other breakout spaces in the magic that is unique to the flora of the PacNW.

We had a wonderful four-day retreat with a circle, limited by the space and rooms, of about 35 people. One of the highlights happened when, on Saturday night, a scheduled music session transformed into various individual performances. One of those performances, Matthew, a painfully shy person attending for his second time, almost magically released his inhibitions in order to sing songs he wrote while strumming an acoustic guitar to a spellbound audience of attendees; and where Miles would follow suit and perform for his first time in front of others; and Elaine, an accomplished musician (who recently released a new album! Amazon, Spotify), added her tremendous and developed gift, along with Ana and Frank, each on the guitar, and Ragnar on the flute.

This was accompanied by an accomplished international harpist who, for her open space offering, played a harp she was able to borrow from a nearby source to a transfixed audience, the first most if not all of us have ever heard one played in person.

L/L’s webdev, Daniel was able to make it alongside his partner following a 24hr journey from their home country, our second time getting to be with Daniel in person.

Daniel readying the group for a guided meditation he wrote

East Coast Coming Home to a New Earth Gathering
The first time we’ve held two Coming Homes, this one, like the one on the west coast, opened the gathering to a different region. Like the west coast event, this particular venue also had an ambiance of magic, as it was on a campus of buildings built and still run by Quakers in a sylvan atmosphere (forested setting) on the outskirts of Philadelphia. Also, outstanding food, much of it sourced from their own gardens with kindhearted and attentive staff.

Joanna was able to make this one but Austin, for the very first time, was not. So while we had the outstanding support of collaborators—including our original collaborators who helped us launch the Coming Home series, BJ Harden Jones and Aaron Maret of Asheville, along with Joanna Burns, Ken Wendt, and Stephanie Anderson—Trish and Gary co-piloted this as the head facilitators for the first time without Austin.

Whereas the west coast event had a majority of return attendees, this one, as it was our first in the area, included a majority of new attendees, new people to fall in love with.

Joanna and Stephanie greeting folks at the door

Prague Law of One Gathering
Now in its fourth year, and improving every time, this event attracted seekers from 15 different countries and a few different continents. Though entirely indoors, this gathering is about on par with the Homecoming in terms of the size of the venue. But here, as with the two Coming Homes, we are able to offer a true experience of Open Space Technology where the attendees co-create the event and fill the schedule each morning with their own offerings.

Vojta, now with a co-collaborator, his partner Emilly (see the previous BW entry for a tale of their wedding last year!, including a picture of them makin’ out on a Portuguese cliffside), knocked it out of the park with their end of the work.

Unfortunately, though, Trish missed the majority of it due to a cold or bug of some sort that caught her just as the gathering was beginning. It was saddening, as Trish has been a part of every L/L Research gathering since 2012, volunteering in key production roles (notably producing virtually all the food at the Homecoming Gatherings) for years before she joined the staff. Austin and Gary channeled for the first time at a gathering as a duo.

Bridges, Bean, and Bean – on our way
Prague is a beautiful European capital
The incomparable Vojta & Emilly (sittin’ in a tree, g-r-e-e-t-i-n people at the door)

Berlin Law of One Gathering
Now in its third year, this began as an invite from Daniel Hodapp who secured a room at his place of employment where we and fellow Law of One seekers could gather for an afternoon with a spiritual focus. The next year, 2023, Daniel was able to rent a conference room in a Berlin hotel for a day-long experience, funded out of his own pocket, that drew more LOO seekers. And this year, he gained a fantastic collaborator in the form of Tat Escobar; together the two of them, like Vojta and Emilly, forming a production power duo.

They booked the Buddhist House, the oldest Buddhist temple in Europe. Built a hundred years ago(?), it somehow survived Germany in the 1930s and 1940s. It was a marvelous, spiritually rich space.

This gathering, like everyone before it, filled up with 30 people, and was even momentarily waitlisted. Unlike the other gatherings, it was only a day-long event, but even in that smaller container it still nourished deep, heart connections between those in attendance.

Daniel and Tat also facilitate the Europe Law of One study group, and are friends with Vojta and Emilly. We look forward to future work together in partnership with Daniel and Tat as they help to provide space for and nurturance of the growing European LOO community.

Our meeting space a Buddhist House
A silent meditation
Gary, Trish, Austin, and our amazing collaborators, Tat, Daniel

Art of Healing Circle Retreats
While not conducted by L/L Research, they are conducted, as they have been for many years, by one of L/L’s board members, the healer and our friend, Beatriz Gonzales.

As Trisha reported in a previous Blogworthy Report, she, Suzanna, Jim, Gary, Austin, and a few other loved ones met in Louisville in January 2023 to experience one of Beatriz’s healing retreats over the course of a weekend. It was a profound experience, with a few of us experiencing life-changing results. Subsequently, we realized that we wanted the readership also to have access to the same benefit.

So we have been alerting others through the Gatherings Newsletter when Beatriz holds an event, as she does a few times per year, including in 2024.

2025
Though not certain yet, we believe we are likely to hold two Coming Home gatherings again next year. We are ever on the search for new venues, and are presently exploring a few for Coming Homes and Homecomings. If you should ever cross paths with this batch of text, now or five years hence, and know of a venue that might be suitable for a Law of One gathering, please reach out!

Though events are a net negative financially for L/L Research, not to mention a metric sh*t-ton of work, having seen what healing, or transformative, or life-changing impact these can have on seekers, and understanding that some of the greatest magic available on planet Earth happens when open hearts are linked together, thus redounding to the planet herself, we feel it is a mission-critical service to continue offering.

MELODIOUS MELODY

  • Seeker Ministry: Over the last year, our team has continued to be delighted by the emails we receive from seekers around the globe. These messages often share heartfelt stories about the transformative impact the Law of One has had on their spiritual paths, filling us with joy and inspiration. Many emails also include insightful questions about the material or suggestions for channeling inquiries, offering us meaningful opportunities to serve and connect with fellow seekers—a privilege for which we are deeply grateful.

    While we strive to provide thoughtful replies to every email, we appreciate your patience as our small team may take some time to respond. Your outreach means so much to us, and we are committed to giving each message the care and attention it deserves.
  • Prison Ministry: Our prison ministry remains a deeply fulfilling aspect of our work. Over the past year, we’ve been touched by letters from incarcerated seekers who pose thought-provoking questions, share meaningful insights, and recount inspiring stories of how they bring service to their fellow inmates. We are immensely thankful for the devoted group of volunteers whose compassionate efforts make this program a reality. Thank you FJ, Ken, and Alice! With their assistance, we were able to send almost 60 letters and 27 books so far this year. Additionally, we have expanded our outreach by beginning to communicate with incarcerated seekers via email, further enhancing our ability to offer our service of connection and spiritual support.
  • Study Groups: Added new grassroots study group to our Study Group Directory, including ones for Phoenix, Arizona; Lisbon, Portugal; Mumbai, India; and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. And, following Luis’s departure from Austin to move internationally, he who seeded and facilitated the Austin, TX group, updated the group to reflect the change. Grateful for Luis for his years of steady to commitment to that group.
  • Transcription & Publishing: Gratefully worked with the volunteer transcribers who help get the recorded audio of the channelings into text form. Many thanks to Brandi, Donna, and Marian! And for the one who diligently converts each channeling into a PDF which we offer for download, many thanks to Tomas!
  • Don’s Notebook: Don had a classification system using numbers in the upper-right corner of the page whose meaning wasn’t readily clear to us when we first published his notebook. It seemed that he had evolved a system using red X’s and circles as status indicators adjacent to questions. A reader by the name of Stephen then generously shared with us his analysis which we felt successfully unlocked the meaning of Don’s notation system, so we updated the page to share his findings.
  • Law of One Forums: The streamlined version of the L/L-sponsored online community continues to hum along, thanks especially to the oversight of moderator Patrick, who keeps a steadfast watch over the community and works with us to resolve any questions or issues that arise for the community.
  • Meditation Platform: L/L’s webdev, Daniel, is also gifted in creating and facilitating guided meditations, and, even before he met us and led the effort to build the new incarnation of LLResearch.org, had plans on designing a meditation app. He grows closer to manifesting that dream as we lay the foundation of a partnership that would integrate with LLResearch.org while offering an independently run meditation website and app.
  • Tarot Page update: Added to our tarot page some revelatory information contributed by Laszlo, the Hungarian translator, about the source of some of the questions about the archetypes in TRC, including the source of the inexplicable statement from Don about the tarot images being drawn on the interior walls of the Great Pyramid. See the section “Interesting Tidbit.”

Social Media/Printed Book Sharing of the Confederation’s Message:

  • Updated Facebook and Twitter with Confederations quotes; created and shared Instagram images; and updated Patreon with L/L news and offerings
  • Shipped book orders around the world and managed the online store, with various customer inquiries to process.
  • Implemented edits to channeling transcripts on the website and continued to support the volunteer transcribers in the question to fill in some holes in our channeling library.
  • And recently launched a couple of accounts on Bluesky!, to be announced and made operational by mid-December.

NUTS n BOLTS

The fun intersection of spiritual organization with society is ever-present, whether it is taxes, insurance, payroll, or any other complicated scheme the third-density monkey’s mind has contrived to help make a population of billions maintain cohesion on this mortal plane.

The continuing day-to-day aspects of running an organization never slow, such as: trips to the PO box, solving technical issues and technical troubleshooting from all angles, and all of the little things that keep the gears oiled and moving. A few bolts or nuts, and maybe some washers:

  • Fundraiser: The last Blogworthy happened in the midst of the yearly journey of the fundraiser, as does this Blogworthy. The time in between has seen the last fundraiser completed, and a new fundraiser in the midst of its lifecycle. Every year there seems to be a new journey with the USPS, and these past fundraisers have been no exception. The process of collecting, integrating, pruning, and verifying addresses, then printing, stuffing, and stamping envelopes has remained the same, and is a not-insignificant job. What seems to change every year is the process of working with the USPS to get it into their system and sent. But the journey has been successful again this year, as with previous years.
  • Copyright Requests: Of the standard seeker emails we receive and respond to, a common type of outreach is related to copyright permissions and requests. Seekers all of the world create new, creative, interesting media to help explore and study the material. We often receive queries regarding the copyright implications of such works. Each creation is unique, but our simple copyright policy typically allows for many projects to move forward without issue. Some requests necessitate a closer review for permission. The more unique requests that bush the boundaries of our policy are being logged for a fuller copyright guide that we can use to help determine the viability of various types of requests.
  • Technical maintenance: L/L Research’s capacity to reach seekers around the world relies on a digital landscape provided by a few key platforms. Most companies and organizations will intersect with the digital behemoths in some way, and L/L Research is no exception. These services require monitoring and maintenance, especially when trying to utilize their non-profit discounts and services.
  • Other:
  • Experimented with using Microsoft Teams as a means of intra-organization communication, collaboration, and organization, but ultimately abandoned it as it did not suit our needs.
  • Completed twelve months’ worth of bookkeeping. And began research on process of migrating bookkeeping duties away from the desktop application.
  • Created a template for the first time that all translators of the transcripts of the conscious channeling library can use when sending in their work.
  • Worked with the CPA to complete our annual Form 990, the paperwork that is submitted to the IRS every year.
  • Began research on alternative merchandise storefronts (an ongoing project).
  • Decided to let go of Etsy for L/L’s merch due to some hurdles and began investigating alternatives. In the four years that L/L has offered clothing and such through Etsy, it has literally netted $177.
  • Issued semi-annual royalties to Tobey for his contribution to The Ra Contact books and to Jim for his narration of the audiobooks.

CZECH TRANSLATION TEAM

Led by Vojtech Schlesinger, the Czech team, like the German/French operation, is one of, what we call, our licensing partners, or satellite operations, whereby they have the exclusive ability to publish most L/L material into their respective languages. Vojta and his wife, Emilly, also partner with us in co-creating the Prague Law of One Gathering. Below, Vojta shares updates from their past year:

Meetings, networking, other efforts:

  • Bara, Emilly and me organized meeting for our friends that are in Prague or CZ, we had lovely afternoon full of talks, food, and good tea. Also we met with Jonathan, the Hebrew translator recently moved to the area.. 🙂
  • Another live meeting in Prague is planned for this Saturday (and seems like also Daniel and some other Berliners will be attending too…) Also Mauro and Ciara are visiting Prague too this weekend, so we will all be together. I will take some pic and send : )
  • The translator call is scheduled for tomorrow, it will be online, but hopefully, it would be a good opportunity to meet with new translators and also I would like to make it more of a regular thing, so also translators would be more connected and aligned and feel some type of motivation and passion to translate, even if they cannot make it to the offline events.
  • With help of Antonin, we sent Czech Ra Contact to one of the publisher that might be interested in this. Definitely feeling closer to the goal of printing the book. I want to do it right, not just do it. 
  • Created Prague LoO Telegram group, so the efforts for English-speaking people could be easier to manage and networking easier.

Translating:

  • I was working on completing missing pieces, onboarding translators, supporting them and making edits. With the larger team also the organizing effort required is increasing especially in keeping track of the edits, as various sessions are in different state of completion. So I am seriously considering programming something that would make things easier, but I am reluctant do so before we will achieve some sync in the organization effort, so I wouldn’t be doing something “just for myself”. So far, I am using the Notion board to make notes about what is the progress on each session, so it is sufficient for now. For translating itself and collaborating we are using Google Docs. 
  • Ivo – help with editing S66, S68, S69, S71, S72, S73, now working on S76
  • Szymon –  S65 edit, S74 edit, now working on S75
  • Marek – assigned session to test, so far no response, checked on him today
  • Sent to proofreading – S65, S66, S70 at this moment
  • Waiting for final edit:  68, 69, 71, 72, 73, 74
  • So now we are freshly translating from S75 further
  • We did two YouTube videos with Antonin Baudys on his YouTube, just briefly discussing LoO. I think it stimulated the CZ LoO community as new people might have discovered it because of that, and also brought potential new translators. Also Antonin mentioned LoO in some of his other talks, because he is into it, so we were lucky that some people responded to the call and offered help. 
  • I started a YouTube channel discussing LoO. Besides the video with Antonín where we read and commented session 6 (on his channel), on my channel we also did Healing material from sessions 4, 5, 6 that I am super passionate about, as it is somehow in my opinion, one of the most important part of LoO and somebody wants to take something practical from LoO this is a great start. Here is the link to the channel. Usually, I have some record days when I have multiple concepts ready and I filmed them, and then I slowly edit them and publish them. I am not doing this for the numbers, so the progress will be organic. I do plan to merge it more with the zakonjednoty.cz website in the future.
  • And a big project: Collaborated with L/L to launch the fourth Prague Law of One gathering!

GERMAN

Our partnership with Jochen is now in its tenth year after his launch of Das Gesetz des Einen Verlag (DGDEV). Jochen pioneered the relationship of the satellite station with us, forming a model we used with the Czech team and can use for other languages. A few years into his enterprise, Jochen also incorporated the French language into his publishing operation and partnered with Misha, the French translator and L/L’s most prolific volunteer translator, having contributed 13 books.

  • Concerning any French activities, I can say that I took up a more focused blogging approach again in French, by presenting for example certain subchapters of Carla’s The Choice in featured series of blog posts.
  • Misha is deeply immersed in translating Matthias’ book about the Law of One Intelligent Infinity.
  • In this quarter, we crossed the magic line of 8,000 distributed books! [Since DGDEV’s inception in 2014.]
  • The Romanian Ra Contact continued to be on the agenda for me with the updates to Volume 1, and finally the publication of Volume 2 in print.
  • I also continued translating early sessions from 1974, and the Homecoming session of 2018, and got a foothold again into more regular and variegated blogging, which is, as I find, one of the an excellent means of sharing. It’s free and very informative for interested readers.
  • Our Law of One group met several times and we had great evenings together, not exactly perhaps like a focused study group, but as group of, also, very variegated people who slowly grow together.
  • Thank you very much for your support and work during these recent months, and I do look forward to sending you the next report of a possibly even more active and successful quarter.
  • We have now distributed over 2,000 of the French books!
  • In terms of activities, what stood out for me especially in July was the production of the next volume of the “periodical ‘Botschaften'”, 2018 (2) which contains the sessions of the second half of that year with an index.
  • I’d like to add that this was a wonderful event and I enjoyed you being with us in Berlin!

PERSONAL SHARINGS

Flood Relief Aid
As those who have followed L/L Research may be aware, we have enjoyed a beautiful and fruitful collaboration with our friends of the Asheville Law of One Study Group, who would go on to found the non-profit Temple of the Open Heart (TOTOH). What began as a humble weekly study group has blossomed into a thriving spiritual community oriented around the Law of One. It was this collaboration that launched L/L’s retreat-style Law of One gatherings known as the Coming Home to a New Earth series. We have learned, grown, and gained much from this amazing and supportive community.

As you may be aware, Hurricane Helene recently devastated Asheville and surrounding communities. Many losing their homes, loved ones, pets, or suffering significant property damage; some being cut-off from the local infrastructure; and many experiencing a great emotional toll. Though the reports out of Asheville are also singing with resilience and ground-based, community efforts to heal and rebuild.

TOTOH’s home base is in Swannanoa, one of the hardest hit communities, and they have sustained significant damage. If you are interested in lending support, TOTOH is open to tax-exempt donations at https://www.totoh.org/contribute. Per TOTOH, the funds will be used accordingly:

Purpose: To be able to return to our vocation of sacred gathering for positive evolution, due to loss of income as well as damage to our hosting facilities. We’re receiving the requisite support to be able to continue to serve our mission.

  • Currently the direct purpose is to get our TOTOH home offices functional so that we can resume our focus on hosting in person and online offerings.
  • The indirect purpose will be to host these regular offerings, as well as the necessary heart circles and healing for the community who has been impacted. Trauma healing is huge right now!

If you are interested in supporting the larger, non-Law-of-One-affiliated community through donations, https://www.belovedasheville.com/ is highly recommended and appreciated by many in Asheville.

In a universe of oneness, the support of intentional, directed, prayerful energy is also a powerful way to lend light and love to this community’s efforts to heal and rebuild.

Proto-Indo European Language

Gary: I sent the following email to our translator family. Thought you may also find it interesting:

Hello translator family,

I came across a fantastic infographic that shows the relationship of various languages spoken in the world today and how they trace back to one mother tongue, what linguists call Proto-Indo-European. See pic below. Roughly half of the world’s population presently speaks one of the descendants of Proto-Indo-European. Even if your language is not connected to PIE, being a translator and student/lover of language, I thought you might find this fascinating.

A Smithsonian Magazine article said:

“Under one hypothesis, the ancestral tongue is 6,000 years old. It originated among tribal nomads on the Pontic Steppe, at the intersection of Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine. These nomads had significant military prowess and had domesticated horses. Such innovative feats allowed them to spread their language by travel and conquest.

Evolutionary biologists recently usurped this nomadic theory. In 2012, a team from the University of Auckland in New Zealand estimated that Proto-Indo-European is even older, perhaps originating 8,000 to 9,500 years ago. As for its geographic origins, they pointed to Anatolia, or modern day Turkey. By their account, the first speakers practiced animal domestication and agriculture. As these practices spread, so did their language.”

🤔 Hmmm. Why does that place and that near-time period sound familiar?

Who knows! PIE could be the language of the descendants of that lost civilization. It just so happens that the oldest yet discovered monumental site in the world, Gobekli Tepe, was also built in the same region at the same time.

For a clearer more detailed image, click on the picture above

PS: Clearly the linguists don’t know that Sanskrit originated with the Logos. 😋

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