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2024.11.25

LL_Central November 28, 2024December 5, 2024

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 50^th 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 40^th 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.

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.

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:

Dutch: 4 Dutch conscious channeling transcripts
French: 1 French conscious channeling transcript
German: 23 German conscious channeling transcripts
Italian: 3 Italian conscious channeling transcripts
Portuguese: 16 Portuguese conscious channeling transcripts
Russian: 3 Russian conscious channeling transcripts
Spanish: 90!!! conscious channeling transcripts

Chinese books: Chinese What is Love?
Korean books: Korean The Ra Contact Volumes 1 & 2
Romanian books: Romanian The Ra Contact Volume 2
Serbian books: Serbian The Ra Contact Volumes 1 & 2
Spanish books: Spanish Living the Law of One 101

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!
Chinese Simplified/Traditional: Sean and Terry H. are always reliably present, service-oriented, and exceptionally skillful whenever anything related to Chinese (or deep metaphysical questions) is needed. They continue translating while awaiting a new system to launch on LLResearch.org whereby they can publish their work, and helped us with a few matters this year. Thank you, Terry! And thank you Sean!, including of your contributions of a whole new batch of “previously mentioned” references for the V3 version of The Ra Contact!
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.

Jim welcoming the (sacred) gang (of bikers)

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.

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.

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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Celebrating 43 Years of the Law of One, 24 Languages, and 21 Multisites!

LL_Central January 13, 2024January 15, 2024

Today we celebrate 43 years since Carla received a cosmic knock on her inner door that began by saying:

I am Ra. I have not spoken through this instrument before. We had to wait until she was precisely tuned, as we send a narrow-band vibration. We greet you in the love and in the light of our Infinite Creator.

Much we could reflect about the the journey of L/L Research and the widening impact of this particular recorded conversation in the intervening 43 years, but today we would like to one, share with you a personal reflection from Jim of his experience that day, and two, celebrate the near completion of the multisites!

Over 11 months ago, we announced the launch of an ambitious project to create foreign-language versions of LLResearch.org called “multisites.” These would feature not only all the translated books and transcripts available in that language, but a dedicated Ra Contact page like the English site, a language-specific search engine, and LLResearch.org’s key pages translated into that language.

On Dec 22, 2023, thanks to the one known as B., Ra officially brought their message of paradox-resolving unity into a new language with the launch of the Arabic multisite!

This is language #24 on the website, and the 21^st multisite launched since the launch of German in February. It is also the fourth new language that Ra has appeared in the past year, following Greek, Farsi, and Korean.

A Hindi-language multisite (for Ra’s debut in Hindi) will soon follow, with Hebrew not far behind (also Ra’s debut in Hebrew), thus completing the multisite project for the time being. And though the Serbian and Dutch multisites already exist, word on the street is that the Serbian and Dutch Ra Contact will also soon manifest. Which brings us to a moment of reflection…

Broadcasting Across Our Planet

The following is a list of the available languages on LLResearch.org along with the names of those beautiful beings who have contributed to those languages. It is not a complete list. Much of it is from memory with some supporting documentation.

Arabic – B.
Bulgarian – Kirilina
Chinese Simplified – Terry, Sean, and others
Chinese Traditional – Terry, Sean, and others
Czech – Vojta, Radim, Romi, Bara, Villiam, and others
Dutch – Erik, Lucas, Martine
English – Your L/L family, and others
Farsi – Meysam, Pupak, Julien
French – Misha, and others
German – Jochen, and others
Greek – Vassilis, Vasilis
Hebrew – Jonathan, Erez, and others
Hungarian – Laszlo
Indonesian – Fatiha
Italian – Mauro, Gianluca, and others
Korean – Sienna
Polish – Pawel, Bartosz, Monika, Marlena, and others
Portuguese – Edgard, Marta
Romanian – Horia
Russian – Margarita, Serge, Vladimir, Anastasia, Anton +
Serbian – Dejan, Sheyla, Alex
Spanish – Gabriel, Octavio, Henry, Luisa, Vanesa, Maite, Claudio, Manuel, and others
Swedish – Lana, Klas
Turkish – Hakan, Semra, Rengin
Ukrainian – Fedir

With the coming publication of Hindi, this particular wavelength of love/light will be potentially available to the majority of the planet. Wow.

Reaching Seeking Hearts

As you know, we are a dispassionate little organization, seeking not to wave the material in front of the passerby in order to persuade them to read it. Instead, we and the translators make this work freely available to the interested seeker with maximal respect for free will—including the free will to ignore, reject, or decline this material if not useful for their journey at this time. So it is on the shoulders of each seeker’s guidance system to guide the seeker to that which they may benefit when they are ready, though we do wish to make every door open within our power.

The stories that we at L/L Research are privileged to hear from people around the world are at once exquisitely unique and incredibly similar in the themes of finding higher and/or lost meaning; of rediscovering themselves and making sense of their lives and their perceptions in an holistic way, maybe for the first time; of re-connecting to the universe and to the infinite possibilities of healing and transformation.

We receive words of elation and exclamation marks, of sorrow and grateful tears, of coming home. These are words not for us humans, per se, but for the holy gratitude of finally seeing from a perspective somewhat above the illusion, where Love and Light are real, and where ALL THINGS are alive portions and expressions of a One Infinite Being, including each of us, forever and ever.

Translator Family

The translators are an integral part of this mission and its service. Without them, our tiny, unilingual core of L/L Research could only ever make an online library of one language available to the world, thereby limiting non-English speaking wanderers—who live and breathe in every country of the world—from finding those words that match their inner, secret heart.

Of course, the Confederation philosophy is just an outer catalyst for those infinite riches that exist always within, waiting to be unlocked by the exercise of the seeker’s own will and faith in the processing of their own daily catalyst. No philosophy on Earth is the pure or exclusive source of truth. No philosophy on Earth is the truth. It just so happens that many around the world have an interior lock on their awareness that is shaped just perfectly to the size of a key called “The Law of One.”

Thus, it is a glorious, praise-giving highlight for this little organization when the Confederation philosophy has an opportunity to speak through a new language.

We give thanks upon thanks to all translators for being a part of this family! Thank you for the freely given gift of your skill and energy when you have lives overloaded with commitments and catalyst. Thank you for practicing your craft with such deep personal love of and care for this philosophy. Thank you for your questions and companionship along the way.

Whatever our native tongues, we all speak the language of the Law of One.

💚💙 The L/L Research Team

Translators’ Reflections on the Multisites

The following are the reflections of some of those who were instrumental in helping us to create their language-specific LLResearch.org. Where they thanked various L/L entities by name, we changed it to spread the love to the whole team, all of whom are vital to this project and this mission.

Though we do take a moment here to give a special shout-out to the steady labors of Joanna Burns who, though mostly working behind the scenes and outside the view of the translators, meticulously reviews and formats each Ra Contact session for each language before publishing them to the site; and to the wizardry and dedication of Daniel Shields in constructing and implementing 21 (so far) different multisites in 21 different languages.

In alphabetical order, we present to you:

B., Arabic
I was incredibly fortunate to have the chance to contribute to the L/L Research Multisite by translating it into Arabic. It was a true privilege to review and test it before it came to life. I must admit, I was deeply impressed by the L/L team’s outstanding work, especially considering the challenges of working with an entirely new language and completely different script. I only discovered a few minor issues, which they promptly resolved.

In terms of user experience, I found the website to be well-organized, making it really easy for me to navigate through its various sections and elements. Functionally, the site performed flawlessly, and once the team addressed the few bugs I reported, I found no broken links or technical issues. The site’s visual appeal was captivating, and the seamless design consistency between the English and Arabic versions was truly remarkable.

I strongly believe that the coming Arabic PDF will provide seekers with the convenience of offline access and portability. I also hope that the site continues to expand with more translated materials, not only by me but also by other talented Arabic translators who may join in the future.

Dejan, Serbian
”Čudni su putevi Gospodnji”, i biti deo krčenja do sada neprohodnih je jedno od tih čuda. Uz posebnu čast i zadovoljstvo koje u reči ne staju, zahvalna u večnosti za iskustvo širenja reči Konfederacije u Ljubavi i Svetlosti!

English version: ”God works in mysterious ways” and to be a part of the making a new way was one of those mysterious workings. Words can not express the honor and the pleasure. Eternally grateful for spreading the Confederation’s word in the Love and in the Light!

Edgard, Portuguese
The new website is beautiful, it feels a lot cleaner and easier to navigate. From a translator’s perspective, it was made in a great way since we have means to detect, flag, and fix typos. From a user’s perspective, of course, being able to read the webpage in your native language breaks the initial barrier to accessing the Confederation material — now we need more translators populating this beautiful website! 🙂

Erik, Dutch
I’ve translated on and off for a few years now, and sharing thoughts on certain texts or translations, or just on life in general has been very enjoyable and helped me a lot in life. I am so grateful to you all for giving me the opportunity to make a contribution to the Dutch site. Being able to translate some of my favourite channelings and really going in-depth about what each sentence means is a very rewarding thing to do. I look forward to doing more as time allows. I think it’s awesome that you are trying to make your information available to as many people in the world as possible and I hope to stay part of it!

Fatiha, Indonesian
You are all very very blessed and indeed I am very honoured to find you all and could do what I do to be part of this work. This is great news for Indonesian readers and I am humbly speechless and very much thankful for the opportunity and the space, and the assistance, although I feel I am still not doing much enough. Oh I am so happy and proud and I can’t really say more to convey how grateful I am knowing RA and everything and everyone involved. You did indeed such a great great service for us all.

My feeling that I could share for the blogworthy is simply GRATEFUL beyond words. I am lucky indeed to find this material and to be able to extend it to do such service coming from the deepest of my heart and soul. It is far away from perfection which I hope I will have enough time, energy and opportunity to do more and better.

It is still clear in the memory on how the simple pure synchronicity matched me with RA. And tho I call it simple, it felt like a bomb dropped in my whole body and brought me enters a large galaxy of knowledge, insight and wisdom.

And with the great effort and non-stop working from the LL Team, now I could be able to share these gems of stars in my native language. This is beyond dream. I hope it brings positive benefits for those who find it.

Thank you Don, Carla, Jim, and all the amazing L/L Team.

Gabriel, Spanish
I have so much gratitude for this new study resource, as someone who teach/learns the Law of One in Spanish, this is an amazing improvement for all those who don’t speak English and are studying this philosophy and model of reality.

Jochen, German
It wasn’t too long ago, maybe three or four years if I remember correctly, when the team and I were on a video call talking about the old website and the available translations of the Ra Contact. We agreed that the former website had its own charm, but that we were all hoping for an upgrade. I suggested that it would be great if the Ra Contact was quickly available in the languages that could reach the most people around the world.

And now we are at that goal, just a few moments, a few months later. It’s fantastic and to me “proof” of what positive seekers can achieve in collaboration: processing mountain-like, Great Pyramid-like workloads to create new gateways for their fellow seeking friends.

I think the attempt of moving a mountain together proved again quite successful, and I thank the magicians at the L/L office in this work! And a big embrace to my translator friends around the world, too!

Klas, Swedish
Inför det 43:e jubileet av detta monumentala material – som har tjänat, och kommer fortsätta tjäna, mig och många andra genom våra inkarnationer – vill jag ta tillfället i akt och tacka L/L Research för att de anförtrott mig äran och privilegiet att bidraga till Ra-materialets tillgängliggörande till människorna på denna planet. Jag vill även uttrycka min djupa tacksamhet till Lana Autio; det är på grund av hennes outtröttliga översättningsarbete som Den Enes lag-projektet över huvud taget existerar idag. Gud välsigne er alla.

English version: For the 43rd Anniversary of this very special material—which has, and will continue to serve, me and many others in our incarnations—I would like to take the opportunity to say thank you to L/L Research for giving me the honor and privilege to contribute in making the Ra material ever more available to the people of this Earth. I would also like to express my sincere gratitude to Lana Autio; her immense dedication to the translations is the sole reason that there even exists a Swedish Law of One-project today. God bless you all.

Lana, Swedish
There were very exciting times just before Swedish version went online. There were so many documents to translate, and since we are two translators to Swedish language it got confusing sometimes. Who translated what, when and if?

Just when we were finishing up, I was so excited! I told my mom about it (who has now more or less accepted that I am a part of some sort of weird but benevolent “sect” and that I do translations of the words of a being called Ra 😁), and I told my daughter about it too who is in the complete know abouts in regards to the Law of One. I HAD to talk a little bit about it, because I was thrilled!

When the Swedish version went online, I was checking it out the same day. Yes, there were couple of errors made, since we are two translators and we missed couple of things, but the L/L team was so quick to correcting those errors!

It’s amazing to know that now, if any Swede would stumble upon this material and find the Swedish translation, at least of those five sessions which we have completely finished and which are now online, that this entity could read it in its own native language. I stumbled upon this material for over 13 years now and read it in English back then, and at that time my English was not as good as it is now (thanks to this material and all the English-speaking friends I made through it), and it was a very hard reading.

I can’t imagine to make this magical journey of reading this material for the first time in your own native language, but it is now available to these seekers…

Margarita, Russian
As we witness individual craftsmanship being replaced by machine labor, it is not difficult to foresee that multilingual information sources will soon become the norm rather than the delightful exception. And while the ability to understand information in any language is undoubtedly an advantage for the purposes of learning and communication, when this is achieved by means of technology rather than by developing our hidden human abilities such as telepathy, this situation indicates that our society in general prefers the technological path of evolution instead of the path of spiritual pursuit.

In this regard, I would like to point out the quality of human translation handiwork on the L/L Research multilingual site, a phenomenon that may become a rarity in the not-too-distant future, where the dominance of artificial intelligence (AI) is already apparent, including in the field of automatic translation. For no matter what super-intelligent abilities AI may possess, the materials of Confederation are not designed for the mind of a machine, but for the human soul. The miracle of perception and proper assimilation of information from the subtle/higher planes of existence is only available to a human being during the mysterious processes in which, as Ra put it, “the deep threnodies and joyful ditties of the deep mind can successfully be brought forward.”

Therefore, I would like to express my appreciation to all the translators collaborating with L/L Research, who did not succumb to the temptation of making easy automatic translations, but rather invested their souls in this voluminous work, allowing the words of the Confederation to flow through their hearts, thus preserving the depth and resonant frequency of the messages received from the spiritual planes.

Cheers to all of you for your honest selfless service!

Margarita AoteaRa.com

Mauro, Italian
Versione Italiana: Il nuovo multisite é fantastico! Lo adoro! Ho appena dato un’occhiata alle sessioni de “Il Contatto Di Ra” nella sezione italiana e le trovo perfette.

Come nota personale, ho trovato “Il Materiale di Ra” nel 2005 in un sito italiano, tradotto negli anni ’90 da un gruppo di persone che non era più rintracciabile. Questo è stato un problema perché ho presto scoperto che avevano tradotto solamente metà del materiale, instillando in me il desiderio di proseguire il lavoro interrotto, inizialmente in squadra con altre due persone, poi tutto da solo.

Dopo quasi 20 anni di studi e traduzioni, non riesco a descrivere l’emozione di vedere la sezione italiana prendere finalmente forma, sono veramente sopraffatto! Ho appena versato una lacrima che ha lo stesso sapore di quella che ho versato quando ho tradotto l’ultima, toccante domanda/risposta dell’ultima sessione de “Il Contatto Di Ra”, un senso di completamento e appartenenza.

Vorrei ringraziare il team precedente e coloro che hanno hanno lavorato con me, anche se per un breve periodo: ovunque voi siate ora c’è sicuramente anche un parte di tutti voi in questo progetto.

Un ringraziamento speciale alla mia meravigliosa moglie, Chiara, per il supporto e l’apprezzamento e per le migliaia di ore pazientemente spese ad ascoltarmi parlare di Ra.

E ovviamente vorrei ringraziare tutto lo staff di L/L Research per il loro inestimabile lavoro nel corso di tutti questi anni, per la loro incrollabile dedizione nel tenere i contatti e coordinare il lavoro di tutti noi traduttori, e personalmente per l’aiuto, per il supporto, per le sfide e infine per l’amicizia che si è instaurata in questo grandioso viaggio.

Che Amore e Luce siano con voi tutti per sempre!

English version: The new multisite looks awesome! I love it so much! I’ve just looked at “The Ra Contact” sessions in the italian section and I find them perfect.

As a personal note, I found “The Ra Material” in 2005 on an Italian website, translated in the 90’s by a group of people who were not available anymore. That was a problem because I quickly found they translated only half the material, making me feel the urge to continue the job, initially in a team of three, then all alone. Which eventually led to translating the entire thing from scratch.

After almost 20 years of studies and translations, I cannot describe the emotion seeing the Italian section eventually unfolding, I am really overwhelmed! I just shed a tear which tastes the same as the one I shed when I translated the last, touching Q/A of the last RC session, a deep sense of fulfillment and belonging.

I would like to thank the previous team and those who worked with me, even if for short time, wherever you are now you have been so precious and there is definitely also a little bit of you all in this project.

A special thanks to my wonderful wife, Chiara, for being so supportive and appreciative and for the thousands of hours patiently spent listening to me speaking about Ra.

And of course I would like to wholeheartedly thank the entire L/L Research staff for their priceless work over all of these years, for their unwavering dedication in maintaining contact and coordinating the work of all of us translators, and personally for helping me, supporting me, challenging me, and ultimately being friends to me in this grand journey.

May Love and Light be with you all forever!

Meysam, Farsi
Congratulations on the 43rd anniversary of the Ra contact. Many thanks to everyone in the l/l community.

The feeling I have about the multisite is that of a child who participates in making a wall newspaper at school. At first, it’s all just a blank space, but there is a group spirit and a common goal. Each person brings a taste and a talent to the whole work. The design, the colors, and the content begin to find form. There is the hope that the work lightens up those who come across it, And the excitement when it is ready and on the wall, Sometimes a curious checking to see if anyone is reading it. 🙂

Friendships are born and grow. Some you meet and get to know them, Intimacy blooms, you learn from each other and evolve. Some you might never meet, but you know they are there. They might enjoy the same discovery, love the same parts, and Laugh at the same joke. Or they might just nod and go their ways.

We are all travelers in this school of life, enjoying the beauties of the road, sharing pathways and destinations, and facing our challenges. The website is like a home we can always turn to whenever we need a reminder that we are one, all is well, and no matter the difficulties, life is an eternal gift and a blessing.

Pawel, Polish
The site is great and modern-looking and I like it that I can study materials in my language! (Pawel laughingly noted that he is not one for writing many words. : ))

Sean, Chinese
It has been near 21 years since Terry began the Chinese translation of the Law of One. Throughout the years, there have been at least 7 revisions of the entire translation of the 106 Ra sessions by Terry himself (The latest one is The Ra Contact). And this is a labor of love that is still ongoing, which, assisted by a few other volunteers, has produced more than 470 fully-translated transcripts of conscious channeling.

It’s really exciting and grateful for us Chinese volunteers and seekers to see the launch of the L/L sub-sites for Chinese languages, where all these fruits of the labor of love will be added, and then can be found and enjoyed at will.

A HUGE THANKS to you all at L/L whose magic power has manifest this wonderful multi-sources of love and light which shine so brightly and warmly and have such a potential for individual and collective transformations.

Sienna, Korean
라(Ra) 접촉 번역을 마치며

먼저 저의 번역본을 읽어준 독자 여러분께 감사의 말씀을 드리고 싶습니다. 이 번역본은 제 혼자 힘으로 완성된 것이 아닙니다. 저의 번역이 있기 전에 먼저 번역을 해 주신 이름을 밝히지 않은 번역 봉사자님께 감사의 말씀을 드립니다. 그분의 봉사를 바탕으로 저는 약간의 수정을 더했습니다.

저에게 이 책은 번역이 굉장히 어려운 책이었습니다. 단어나 문장의 번역을 위해서 먼저 채널링이나 형이상학적 개념, 고대 문명과 방대한 철학적인 이해가 필요했습니다. 또한 영어가 한국어로 번역되었을 때 상황이나 문맥에 따라 같은 영어 단어도 한글 단어의 선택은 다르게 사용된 부분도 많이 있습니다. 라(Ra) 그룹이 사용한 특유의 말투나 어감을 최대한 있는 그대로 담으려고 했기 때문에 조금은 어색하게 느껴질 수도 있습니다. 독자 여러분의 많은 이해 부탁드립니다.

번역자로서 꼭 강조하고 싶은 것은 이 책에서 영어 단어 positive와 negative가 긍정과 부정이라는 한글 단어로 번역되었지만 많은 경우 이는 좋고 나쁨, 혹은 옳고 그름이 아닌 양성과 음성의 극성을 나타내는 단어라는 것을 독자들이 꼭 기억해 주었으면 하는 바람입니다.

이 번역본은 결코 완벽하지 않습니다. 더 많은 지식과 지혜를 가진 독자분들께서 수정이나 제안사항이 있으시면 반드시 빛/사랑 연구소에 연락주시기 바랍니다. 감사합니다.

2024년 1월 8일
시에나

English version: First of all, I would like to express my gratitude to the readers who have read my translation. This translation is not a work completed solely by my efforts. Before my translation, I want to thank the unnamed volunteer translator who provided the initial translation. Based on their service, I made some modifications.

Translating this book was a challenging task for me. It required a profound understanding of channeling, metaphysical concepts, ancient civilizations, and extensive philosophical knowledge for the translation of words or sentences. Additionally, when English was translated into Korean, the choice of Korean words for the same English word varied depending on the situation or context. I tried to capture the unique tone and expression used by the Ra group as faithfully as possible, which may make it feel somewhat awkward. I ask for your understanding.

As a translator, I want to emphatically highlight that in this book, the English words “positive” and “negative” have been translated into the Korean words for “긍정” (good/positive) and “부정” (bad/negative). However, in many cases, these terms do not represent notions of good and bad or right and wrong, but rather the polarities of positivity and negativity. I sincerely hope that readers keep in mind that these Korean translations are conveying the polarity of positive and negative rather than a simple dichotomy of good and bad or right and wrong.

This translation is by no means perfect. If readers with more knowledge and wisdom have corrections or suggestions, please do not hesitate to contact L/L Research.

Thank you, Sienna K.

Vasilis C., Greek
My desire to begin translating L/L Research’s work in my mother tongue came about as a consequence of the deep impact this sacred work has had on my life. It has been such an influential and inspiring gift freely given to me, that I felt urged to share it with others so that they may be touched by it as well. It is like that feeling you get when you listen to a piece of music which is so beautiful, that you desperately want to share it with your friends. And thus, the opportunity to participate in this recent, innovative idea of creating a website version for every foreign-language translation, arrived as a blessing.

Playing my little part in contributing to this enormous project by providing the necessary translations for the Greek site, has provided me with a way of satisfying that overwhelming yearning I had.

Congratulations then, to everyone who played a part in this difficult but worthwhile endeavour that will benefit seekers from all around the globe and will continue doing so for a long time to come. Last but not least, I want to especially express my deepest gratitude to L/L Research (who have both been a pleasure to cooperate with) for their meticulous guidance and dedicated work without which the launch of the Greek site would not be possible.

Vassilis P., Greek
It is a great joy to know that the next Greeks who approach the L/L Research site will be able to find the Ra Contact and Conscious channelings in their own language and will have the opportunity to get acquainted immediately. When I saw the implementation of the Greek multisite I was pleasantly surprised by how quickly L/L research was able to publish it. Moreover sometimes I find pleasure to be able to read it online in my language. I am so grateful to the whole L/L Research team and to my fellow translator for the opportunity to make such a project a reality, which contains a philosophy that has touched me deeply and now every Greek can get acquainted. As part of the One Infinite Creator we all are, we too walk the same path with gratitude, joy, and humility and give thanks to the whole team for the opportunity to serve.

Vojtech, Czech
I am excited and so happy about the growth that L/L has had on the website and bringing the multisite alive! Now, every language can have official support on the internet. Before that, it was up to each translator if they could or wanted to bring the Ra material in their local language on the internet, or some translations were made public on other websites like lawofone.info. Now, there is a way to go directly to the source. (pun intended)

In our digital era, the original L/L Research goal of “making the Law of One available freely” means so much more work now than it meant even 20 or even 10 years ago. New challenges and opportunities for finding and working with the Law of One are available for humankind to enjoy, and many of them now happen online.

One of my goals as a translator in contributing to the website effort is to help translators like me to manage their content so they can have the tools to provide a platform that can serve the needs of the seekers in that particular region or country.

To illustrate, I can name one challenge that we face in our Czech team and how working on the website can help to achieve a higher degree of purity of translation and good consistency while avoiding unnecessary mistakes:

If somebody from the translating team spots a mistake and we agree on the fix, we need to track the change somewhere and keep updated with one ultimate, up-to-date version of the material somewhere (offline on my disk). If we find a mistake, editing all the sources from local to the internet is quite daunting as now the Law of One in the Czech language is present on three websites and one Ra material PDF (we do not update older translations of the original 5 books, busted). And in this era of computational power, this is something that we can use computers in order to help us. I do believe that similar challenges are present for other translators. By solving things like that, also translators, as a vital part of the L/L Research volunteers, can be empowered and supported in their effort to bring the translation of the best L/L Research material to life, freely and accessibly, like how Don imagined it decades ago.

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2023.11.15

LL_Central November 15, 2023November 23, 2023

7/7 – 11/03

LLResearch.org Multisite
As reported on the website in February, we launched a large-scale project to create foreign-language versions of the library site. Among their features, they include:

All the translator-contributed 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.)

That work continued with the launch of the French multisite; and for its debut on the website and Ra’s debut in that language, Korean! Thank you to Sienna, Misha, and Jochen!

Very soon Arabic will make its first appearance on the website and with it, Ra’s debut in that language. With Swedish, Hebrew (a first), and Hindi (also a first) soon following.

Channelings
Following a tradition set by Carla and Jim many years ago, we took a hiatus in the channeling schedule between May and September, with the exception of a channeling at the Prague Law of One Seeker Gathering. We started back up again officially at the beginning of September with the public meditations and intermediate circles. Jim, every the steady rock, anchors the semi-monthly public meditations and the intermediate circles. Three new transcripts have been published since the last report. Another five are in the pipeline presently.

That pipeline includes the generous volunteer transcribers who draft a first transcript with the help of a voice-to-text app (thank you Marian and Donna!), followed by us editing, formatting, and publishing, and sharing them via social media, along with the PDF for those who prefer to download them individually, many thanks to Thomas K.

Also, our dear friend and co-channeler, Kathy, has officially retired her channeling service. She started with us when the new generation of channelers began learning in Nov, 2016. (Though Gary had trained previously under Carla in 2008.) Kathy has been a gem to work with in the intervening almost seven years. She gave the channeling service her all, often showing up in the evenings after a full day of work, tired but determined to give Confederation sources the best of her considerable insight, inspiration, life wisdom, and love. This included diligent study of L/L’s channeling outside of the channeling circle. If you’ve met Kathy, you know what a very gentle, soft-spoken, kindhearted angelic being that she so effortlessly is. Not a mean bone in that one, always holding the best hopes for everyone, even when facing adversity.

Her vocation is growing more demanding, however, requiring all of her available bandwidth. She reported that:

“You are forever in my heart, and that is why this is hard for me. But I know it is the best decision for me and my health, based on my more limited time and energy reserves and on the respect I have for the Law of One, for Ra and those of Q’uo. The story of L/L is an extraordinary one, and it is ongoing. It is a beautiful story of love, of harmony, of unity, of evolution, of teach/learning, and much more.

If I have been able to provide even some small amount of channeling clarity or insights, especially for the individual questions, I will feel grateful for that, knowing that the question and answer helped someone. I have learned so much from all of you.”

Jim, Austin, Trish, and Gary have an abiding sense of honor and joy that she has been with us through thick and thin. Kathy, friend and family member, you are forever in our hearts. And we hope that we still get to see you in the circle as much as possible.

Peace Meditation
In response to the latest outbreak of violence and terror, this one in the Middle East, and inspired by a prompt from our friend Luis, we launched a call to the readership for a ten-day peace-prayer visualization. We’ve conducted a few of these now, as our planet has no shortage of calamity calling out for help. This one felt particularly strong. Many were, like us, eager and in need of doing something to strengthen love and light in a situation where it seems at a minimum.

Also, following our invitation via the Gatherings Newsletter, some contributed notes about their experience and hopes for peace.

In an email, the Spanish super translator, Octavio, also a professor, shared the following clarifying thought:

Octavio: Indeed, we are living through intensive catalysts in our sphere, not only in these wars in the middle east and Ukraine, but in our individual routines. At least, for those who have to interact daily with this current earthly system (for instance, economic problems, too much violence and corruption in South America). However, we should accept these catalysts because we are part of this planet which has to equilibrate its energies so as to finish the current third density in space/time. But, our daily meditations (in the Creator’s silence) can dissolve these illusionary problems in our minds. Then, we have to face them with better decisions.

Or as Hakan, the Turkish translator working on AWH, said following the devastating earthquakes that rocked his country earlier this year:

Hakan: Life goes on and I take all these catalysts with dignity in the glory of love.

Audiobook
The project of releasing audiobooks narrated by Jim, who a few years ago dedicated many hours of his voice and heart to the project, creating a backlog of audio for us to edit, continued with the release of the A Book of Days audiobook. It’s now available through Audible and can be listened to for free via Audible’s free trial program.

Translations Published

Uploading translations – The Ra Contact
Our efforts to expand free access to the Ra material remained strong over these past several months as we continued to upload translated versions of The Ra Contact to their respective language’s multisite. Over the last five months, we’ve uploaded over 300 sessions from The Ra Contact in 12 different languages.

This work would not be possible without the support and dedication of our volunteer translators who perform this invaluable service with great care, joy, and love. Their passion to make The Ra Contact and other L/L Research material available globally is so inspiring and encouraging to the overall mission of the organization to share information that can aid in the spiritual evolution of humankind.

Translators working with
As a big and growing aspect of our work, we work intimately and almost daily with a variety of volunteer, mostly amateur translators around the world. We wish we had had the foresight to designate a folder in our email record to store a compendium of the many times over the years we’ve helped, or tried to help, translators parse the meanings of Ra’s words and phrases. It would showcase the challenges of understanding Ra’s message and the questions that translators grapple with. It would also shed some nuanced light on the philosophy, as each instance is typically a fruitful dive into the material, often exploring some facet or three of the philosophy; and often in ways that escape the native English reader because the translator is asking about the meaning of words, phrases, and the use of syntax that go overlooked by the English reader. We’ve learned many things along the way.

In the period of this report, we worked with:

Spanish: Phew. The Confederation must want their message to reach Spanish seekers. It seems like every month a new Spanish translator arrives to offer their service. We had the good fortune of working with:
- Gabriel, who has been translating the Ra Contact into Spanish and sent in Volume 1. Thank you, Gabriel!And then a team of geographically dispersed beings including Octavio, Vanesa, Maite, and Claudio, all of whom are connected in an email thread now. Thank you, team! Particularly Octavio of Brazil who has been a powerhouse of contributing about a dozen Spanish transcripts each month.
- And Claudio, who has valiantly taken up the effort to meticulously edit a Spanish translation of Living the Law of One 101 that arrived by surprise on our doorstep. Thank you, Claudio!
Arabic: Persisting through a very occupied life supporting his family, two years after his journey began, B. returned Volume 1 of the Arabic Ra Contact! And assisted instrumentally with the development of the multisite. Thank you, B.!
Farsi: Thanks to Meysam, Pupak, and Julien for the ongoing efforts to bring Ra into Farsi (Persian)! And to Meysam for the generosity of a few gifts from home sent across the world.
Dutch: Erik, a father of two and a husband, has been undergoing a challenging medical journey with a cancer diagnosis. We’ve shared love at every turn and gratefully accepted some recent Dutch transcripts. Thank you, Erik!
Greek: Assisted Vasilis and Vassilis with some questions about the Greek translation, including one about Ra’s use of “Armageddon” that precipitated some historical research. Thank you, V and V!
Serbian: Dejan continues apace with the translation of the Ra Contact into his native language of Serbian, with some questions along the way. Thank you, Dejan!
Korean: Following the surprise arrival of a translation of Ra by an anonymous Korean family (as reported previously), Sienna, another Korean translator, took up the big effort to edit the work but ultimately springboarded from the existing work to launch her own from-scratch translation, which brought Ra into Korean on the website for the first time. Thank you, Sienna!
Hindi: Following months of joyful, occasional contact with Ginni, the primary facilitator of the Hindi Law of One study group based in Mumbai (with over 300 people in the group!), she is a funny one, her associates began work on producing a Hindi translation of the Ra Contact. So far, 17 sessions have arrived, and work is underway to provide the material necessary for a Hindi multisite. It is a language of 345 million speakers, and the third-most spoken language after English and Mandarin Chinese. Thank you Ginni, Meenakshi, Vaishali, and Sonia!
Romanian: As the Romanian Ra Contact has been slowly uploaded to the website, and as production of a printed version has continued thanks to Jochen, a variety of questions and needs have come up for Horia, the translator responsible for the Romanian RC. Thank you, Horia!, for all the steadfastness in service.
Swedish: In the longest-going effort to translate Ra, Lana, the Swedish translator, was able to join forces with Klas to tag team the translation. It continues in fits and starts. We were able to assist with various questions and work with them on the Swedish multisite. Thank you, Lana and Klas!
Hebrew: Assisted Jonathan and team with some questions as they continue diligently in their translation efforts of Ra and support of the launch of the Hebrew multisite. Thank you, Jonathan and team!
Russian: Enjoyed dialogue with and some questions from Vladimir who has generously contributed some Russian translations and shared in the ups and downs of life. Thank you, Vladimir! Also re-made contact with an inactive translator, Anastasia.
Polish: Received from the ever-efficient Pawel a revision to Volume 2 of the Polish Ra Contact. Thank you, Pawel!
Portuguese: Worked with Edgard, who is single-handedly taking on the translation of the Portuguese Ra Contact, with some questions and published the first ever Portuguese RC sessions to the website with the launch of the Portuguese multisite, thanks also to Edgard. Thank you, Edgard!
Indonesian: Worked with the very shining Fatiha to correct some errors. Thank you, Fatiha!
One Center: And received word from the One Center, a publishing firm in Taiwan who has offered some of L/L’s books in Chinese, that the pandemic took an especially hard hit on their operation and that sadly they will be closing their doors and returning the rights to L/L. They’ve been a pleasure to work with. Not for L/L’s books but for their sake and those whom they serve, it will be sad to see them go.

Translator Credit Project
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.

Most translators have returned their questionnaires. Now to build the system, a task on Daniel’s plate.

It makes us quite happy that we can finally and proudly give credit to the hard work and talent and gift of the translator.

LLResearch.org 2.0
As reported previously, earlier this year the whole team met to brainstorm about laying the foundation for user accounts and authentication for that website we love so much, LLResearch.org. Daniel took all that amassed conversation and ideas from the sessions and returned a few months later with a proposal for an entirely new website, reenvisioned from the ground up to be built on a new code framework and to have an entirely new UI (User Interface), with at least half a dozen or more new features.

Phew. Work. Work work work. The whole team held over ten hours of meeting over several weeks to thoroughly examine layout and new functionality. Daniel has been busy integrating all that feedback and building out the site as we are now tasked with redesigning the navbar and constructing entirely new pages, hopefully including means to create an easier on-ramp for the new and interested reader who may be a bit overwhelmed and/or at a loss as to where to start when faced with such a large library featuring a unique, comprehensive, and vast philosophy.

Gatherings – Work
Since the last report, we hosted and co-hosted several events, including a Law of One gathering in Prague (July); a day-long Law of One gathering in Berlin (July); and a Coming Home to a New Earth gathering near Seattle (October). As you might imagine, there is a lot of joy in the experience of it (see next entry in this report) and lots of work.

Much of that centers on L/L’s new Event Manager, the one known as Trisha. As reported in previous BW journal entries (see “EM Transition” in the 2023.02.27 entry), Trish took on the role for the first time this year.

She and Gary built new sophisticated systems for managing the creation and production of L/L’s gatherings, and off she flew! And with flying colors, accomplishing the Homecoming Gathering in addition to those mentioned above.

Particularly challenging was the Coming Home event. It was our first one west of Louisville, and took place at a venue we didn’t set foot upon until minutes before the first attendees began arriving. This venue was selected after Trish contacted around 30 different venues across the western US. They were either too expensive, too Christian (asking us to prove our credentials), without proper accommodation (i.e. large rooms with bunk beds), too far from an airport, too booked, or too small to accommodate a large group.

Seabeck Conference Center west of Seattle is a non-profit organization that caters to non-profits. They seemed to fit our needs, with onsite lodging including individual rooms, provided food, and a beautiful setting. It turned out to be our most complex operation yet.

They required that we handle all the lodging, which was a challenge as there are different types of rooms with different price points that change whether they are single- or double-occupancy. Pairing people, building that into our store, making changes, filling up one building before another, tracking it all…

And in addition, the venue was 1.5 hours from SeaTac, the closest major airport. Trish had a plan in place for attendees to book in advance with a shuttle that ran hourly from SeaTac to a town 15 min from the venue. But mid-stream, the shuttle service removed the ability to reserve in advance, so Trish scrambled and found a private charter service. She booked two busses from and back to the airport, and made arrangements for the few outside of those windows. Thank you to the volunteers that, in the former scenario, would have helped shuttle people from and to the nearby drop-off! Including our friend Jonathan Tong, who is local to the area.

For the Coming Home event, we also built for the first time a live virtual schedule so that attendees would always have the latest schedule on an app on their phone—thanks to Joanna’s hard work in populating that in real time as the schedule was constructed at the event! And we launched a communication app for attendees to communicate before, during, and after the gathering.

At the Prague Law of One event, much of our responsibility happens in the lead up, particularly in managing registrations. On the ground, Vojta and his partner Emilly managed much of the onsite operations, including juggling the venue and meal needs with expert skill. Vojta just gets better ever year and tackles everything with such love and irrepressible gusto.

The Berlin event was mostly the fruit of the efforts of Daniel Hodapp, who proposed, skillfully managed, and funded the event, this the second one of its kind. A week after Prague, it is something of a sister event, with an overlap of attendees.

And Trish has since begun research for potential venues for 2024 events. Otherwise there are several hundred production details revolving around all these gatherings, but we’ll leave it here.

Prague Law of One Gathering – Experience
Beginning with Prague and concluding with the Berlin gathering, Austin, Trish, and Gary had two weeks of travel, two Law of One gatherings, nine flights, a wedding (see the “Personal Sharings” section below), experienced all of our luggage being lost by the airlines at day seven, and checked in on hearings occurring simultaneously in the US Congress about UFOs!

Prague is really unique in that we get to meet with a variety of translators in-person, often for the first time. This year that included Vasilis (the Greek translator of TRC) in Prague, a college student who lives in Cyprus and studies, among other things, the mysteries; and in Berlin we got to meet the other Vassilis (two s’s), also the Greek translator of TRC. Early 50s, a therapist, wonderful heart. | A new Czech translator, Viliam, who was grounded in non-dual study. | Our friend Lana, the Swedish translator, who’s attended many Homecomings and who experienced her first non-Homecoming LOO gathering in Prague. | Klas, the other Swedish translator living in Germany, who is working closely with Lana. | A potential new German volunteer, Nico, who enunciates like a British professor. With other translators met in Berlin. | And an Israeli-born Swedish fellow who is launching an online RC study group.

And then, the nationalities! 14 different ones including: Belgium, Columbia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Israel, Mexico, Norway, Portugal, Slovakia, Sweden, UK, USA. (If you count Israel as Asia, that’s 4 continents!) Attendees from Slovenia and Estonia had to cancel at the last minute. Oh we missed Sheyla so much!

Whatever country they hailed from, the circle of spiritual seekers were authentic in their seeking and open in their hearts, creating that rarefied air of community and shared seeking.

And we got to see Romi (Roman)! He was someone who moved to Louisville in the early 90s and was the third person of three for many channeling sessions that made the session possible in the 90s. He lived in Louisville as a steadfast friend and supporter of L/L Research until around 2011 or so when he decided to to sell his home and return the Czech Republic – from where he had defected in the 80s when under communist rule – in order to care for his aging mom. He had been signed up for last year’s Prague event, but he caught covid just a few days beforehand!

Left to right: Gary, Romi, Austin, Lana, Trisha

This was our third such event. Vojta has really come into his own at this point. He is very passionate about the work and ensures that everything is completed to standards. Last year, he was helped a lot by his partner and Law of One student, Emilly, so this year she joined as an official co-collaborator, both of them investing a lot of volunteer time in working closely with all of us, but Trish especially, to launch this event.

Last year’s Prague gathering was the first time that Austin, Trisha, and Gary channeled in front of others. This year, after a year of public meditations in Louisville, they went into it with greater ease, though Trish and Gary in particular are still a bundle of nerves. Austin received the contact first, and performed the Banishing Ritual in the room all of the days we were there.

The channeling was gifted by a profound emotional release from Vasilis, the 22-year old Greek translator with a kind heart and gifted intellect. As we convened in the circle, he began to cry uncontrollably. Lana on one side, and Lin, a female German seeker on the other, rested their hands on his back to provide him support. We continued the process, and his tears quieted, though continued. He emailed us afterward with the most poignant heart opening. Shared here with his permission.

In Prague, it all started when we (the participants) gathered separately to tune. I could already feel it coming. I thought to myself this is not the appropriate time, “I have to hold back my tears.” It wasn’t until I took my seat in the channeling room that I burst into tears. I could not stop it. It was so powerful; it was like a dam has broken and now I have to put a plug to stop the flow. But the current is so strong that it sweeps away both my plug and me trying to put it. The overall atmosphere was so magical. Singing and holding hands together was truly beautiful. The love was undeniably real and palpable. Such unconditional love cannot possibly be just a hallucination produced by a material brain. It most certainly comes from above. Our brains are only little receivers of it, that filter and condition it. The idea that everything originates from love was known [as a real reality] and not by intellectual reasoning. Then Q’uo came through and made it even harder for me to stop crying. Some of their words acted as cues that brought up memories and connections subjectively meaningful to me. Thankfully I managed to keep my noise levels low enough. All I can say is that I thought my body would explode trying to stop crying.”

After the channeling, Vasilis said that it was a cathartic release and transformative experience. He felt cleansed but exhausted. And he looked tired! Nothing that we or the channeling itself can take credit for, it was just a poignant moment gifted to the whole circle.

Vasilis also said in his email:

I want to share that after the event I was confronted with a deep sense of nostalgia. It kicked in when I woke up the next morning and lasted for a couple of days. I was so used to my lonely existence that I didn’t know how it feels to be around other like-minded seekers. Having tasted how refreshing it is to share hearts with so many beautiful souls, I dreaded in the idea of going back to my normal life and losing this. But at least I know that it is a real possibility. It can happen again. And even if it doesn’t, the fact that I’ve had it once is enough reason for me to feel at peace. I cannot express in words how grateful I am to all of you responsible for making gatherings like this possible. Thank you!

Vojta and Emilly greeting and signing in newcomers at the door

Ken, our longtime friend mentioned above, and Trisha.

Berlin Law of One Gathering – Experience
The following weekend we were in Berlin for a final Law of One event. It was organized and funded by Daniel Hodapp, a German seeker who we met at Prague last year (and who attended Prague this year), whose life was changed by the Law of One. Following last year’s Prague event, Daniel also launched the Europe Law of One Study Group. The event was facilitated by Jochen Blumenthal, the German translator, who translated everything, whether from us or the audience, into German. Portions of the event were livestreamed.

People were excited to be there, to learn about the Law of One, and to make connections with each other. It was energizing and inspiring to be in the company of like-hearted seekers.

This was the second such event in Berlin. Last year was something of an impromptu small circle that met in Daniel’s workplace. This year he booked a conference room in a nice hotel, and it grew. He intends to continue helping to organize these events.

We were able to meet, as mentioned above, Vassilis, the other Greek translator. | Jochen, the German translator, our longtime collaborator. | And Bence, a Hungarian translator with whom we worked out some details for a potential first printing of the Hungarian TRC.

Daniel on the left is the event’s organizer and funder

Coming Home to a New Earth Gathering – Experience
This is L/L’s largest and longest event. 53 were in attendance over the course of four days. And it is our only true retreat experience, where people lodge and share meals on site.

And what a site it was! The grounds were several acres with multiple buildings, many of them decades or more old. Literally right across the street was a charming general store, next to which (oh, the magic) was a coffee shop, next to which was a pizza shop, and behind which was a large bay of water, behind which were views of snow-capped peaks from the Olympic Mountains!

Four of the event’s producers: Trish, Austin, Stephanie, and Gary just a minute up the road from the conference center. Part of the Olympic Mountains are in view across the bay.

Moreover, the campus was abundant with peace-loving deer (not the aggressive biker gang type) who mingled alongside us with little interest in our goings-about. If you’ve been there or have seen pictures, you know that the Pacific Northwest region of the country is exceptionally beautiful, particularly with an abundance of tall pine forests and moss-covered trees and landscapes.

As mentioned above, we hadn’t stepped foot on the site until minutes before the first chartered bus delivered attendees from SeaTac airport. This venue was the fruit of an intensive search that Trisha conducted, including personally contacting 30 different venues in the western US. Everything within our control went without a hitch! But there was one unhappy, but not event-undermining, circumstance: the food. Everyone with a vegan or vegetarian card (including Trish and Gary), were served an alternative entrée. For every meal, this was a light grey, dry, oblong piece of plant-based something, to our surprise. For Gary, only ketchup saved the day. Fortunately the salad bar supplemented well. It’s a challenge to find someplace that checks all the boxes, but foodstuffs are an important one.

There were many new faces from the west coast and nearby, which was great because our chief goal in holding a gathering out west was to open it up to a whole new region of people who might not otherwise fly across the country. There seemed to be collective ease from the get-go, with people relaxing into the vibe and relating with kindness, authenticity, and often vulnerability. And as happens at these events, a vibration of home was brought into being. It went so well! With synergistic support from our production team which, in addition to Trish, Gary, Austin, included BJ Harden Jones, Aaron Maret, Joanna Burns, and Stephanie Anderson.

A highlight was the fire on the final night where we all mingled in jovial chatter late into the night. We also held our first channeling of the Coming Home series.

And a shoutout to our dear friend and longtime volunteer, Ken Wendt. He is the second-longest continuous attendee of Homecoming (after our friend Eddie), his first one in 2009. This year was the first he experienced an L/L event outside of Louisville. He was amazed how the same energy of connection and home is generated wherever seekers gathered. Ask him, he’ll tell you the same. 😊 He also became the first friend to attend all three gatherings in the same year.

Featuring in the center the funny bones and big-hearted Jonathan Tong.

Balancing out the food, the dining hall was fantastic

Austin facilitating a discussion on recent events in the UFO community

Husband and wife BJ and Aaron – with whom we originally launched the Coming Home series in 2018 – led the weekend’s first Marketplace. This takes place each morning as the attendees co-create the schedule with various offerings that will be taped to the grid.

This group of crazies (all good friends) talked us into doing a cold plunge at 7am.

Colin on the left has the face of (non)contentment. Tho he loved it. Peggy, on the right, made us all look like chumps. She does this in Lake Michigan. In the winter. With a smile.

We silly instruments are getting ready to tune before the channeling. The paper towels tucked in like bibs are stories for another time.

A picture of the grounds with forest, water, and mountains in view! We were so lucky.

Not a registered attendee. There for the apples.

This series was begun in 2018 in collaboration with our friends of the Asheville Law of One study group, two of whom, wife and husband BJ Harden Jones and Aaron Maret, flew out to join us on the production team, along with Stephanie Anderson from Chicago and Joanna Burns from California who authors the next couple entries:

Prison Ministry
We continue the rewarding work of service that is our prison ministry. Over the last few months, we’ve received letters from incarcerated seekers who ask very compelling questions, share profound insights, and inspire us with stories of how they find ways to be of service to their fellow inmates. We are ever grateful for the small group of dedicated volunteers who continue their loving service and help make this program possible.

Seeker Ministry
As you may know, our team happily receives emails from fellow seekers all around the world. Within these emails we discover numerous touching stories of how impactful the Law of One has been on the spiritual journey of so many seekers, which continually fill us with much joy and inspiration, and challenge us intellectually and emotionally at times. Often containing questions about the Law of One, as well as suggested questions for channeling, the emails we receive gift us with many opportunities to be of service to fellow seekers for which we are grateful.

We remain committed to thoughtfully replying to virtually every seeker email we receive, though the response may not always be immediate and may be a bit delayed given the small size of our team.

Art of Healing Circle Retreats
As reported in the News section of our website and announced through the Gatherings Newsletter, we alerted the readership to healing circle retreats conducted by our friend and board member, Beatriz Gonzalez, a service she has been offering for decades with significant impact and often transformation for those who attend.

Light/Lines Newsletter
The 167^th edition of the Light/Lines Newsletter was published in which the transcript from our Homecoming channeling was shared, with words from Q’uo about loving your enemies.

Interviews and Appearances
The team (primarily Jim) has kept up with joining study groups, podcasts, and other appearances to discuss the Law of One with interested seekers from all sorts of fields and backgrounds.

Gaia TV
After helping a team from Gaia TV on a project about channeling, the kind people over there have reached out a couple more times for some permission and guidance regarding photographs from the Ra contact and information about the Law of One for their series Ancient Civilizations.

Microsoft Migration
Last we reported, investigation was being done into the benefit and process of migrating our digital workspace to Microsoft from a collection of disparate services for various aspects of our work. A few major benefits made it clear that this would be a worthy project to pursue, so the first big push was to migrate email services to the Microsoft Exchange service. The actual service aspect is a relatively straightforward task, but getting the archive of email going back decades, with many GB of data, proved to be quite a thorny project. But after many foreheads banged on desks and many hairs pulled from heads, we succeeded. The next aspect was equally large but relatively less frustrating in migrating our file system (also massive and going back for decades) to Microsoft’s cloud. Also a success.

These two things alone carry many benefits for us on a technical level, along with unlocking a ton of functionality hidden in Microsoft’s ecosystem. The next potential step is integrating our communication and project management into Teams. We have begun testing it out to see if it would be worth the shift.

Artificial Intelligence
The explosion of publicly accessible AI programs and chatbots has already posed some very difficult questions to society as a whole in terms of adapting to the inevitable implications and fallout. A particularly difficult battleground for AI innovation is that of intellectual property, or how IP law applies to the use of IP in order to “train” AI, and how that also relates to the content that AI produces. In our very tiny corner of this realm, we have had to grapple with some questions about how our own copyright policies relate to AI in this way, whether and how to grant permission for people to train bots on our material (which, given it is freely accessible online, will be inevitable regardless), and how we can orient to this strange new world of AI. Our discussions have been crystallized into policy that will be reflected in our public Copyright Policy statement soon.

Single-Volume Ra Contact
It’s been requested for years, but the steps to making a hard cover single volume of The Ra Contact a reality have finally begun. Work on the printed manuscript is underway, printers have been researched, and materials are being sampled and discussed. Announcing a timeline publicly would be inviting the Creator to throw a few wrenches our way, but it is certainly Coming Soon™.

Law of One Card Deck Project
Readers of the Blogworthy might recognize references to a card deck project in collaboration with our Law of One publishers. It was an idea put forth by them as an offering to seekers who find meaning and inspiration in the Law of One. The idea is to create a collection of cards with quotes from Ra on them that can be used in ways similar to tarot decks (or other types of cards) for inspiration and insight. The project has picked back up again and is going full steam forward. We’re currently in the active creation phase, after which there is a long development process on the publisher’s part to bring it to life (so don’t expect it very soon). We’ll keep you posted as things develop.

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.

Melodious Medley

Living the Law of One 102: Work continues on the follow up to Carla’s Living the Law of One 101. We are exploring and implementing a plans to help expedite its publishing.
Transcribers: Welcomed a new volunteer to the team, Marian, who is a frequent attendee at our public meditations, making a 3-hour drive one-way each time! She joins Donna on the team while Michael, Wen, and Daniel are on break.
Pyramids: Continued some work with the one known as Joshua on the development of pyramids using the puzzling 1.16 ratio mentioned by Ra.
A Concept Guide: Gary: In creating ACG, I performed months and months of intensive research on the Law of One, reading every Q&A containing each of the concepts explored in the book and synthesizing the material into essays. Whole new vistas were revealed in the process. But I didn’t perform a front-to-back read of the Ra Contact. I have recently re-read the books from 1 to 106. In the process, I accumulated a hundred notes that I will use over the winter to revise and update ACG.
Instagram: We were alerted by some readers that an imposter Instagram account, designed to mimic the L/L account, is parading about and spamming readers. Trying to get IG’s attention to get the account banned currently. If you few happen to be reading this get a notice from Instagram in something close resembling our name, report the account please.
Hosting a chatbot: Experimented with offering a chatbot on the site trained on our material. Even using RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) where the bot is trained on the Law of One, we determined it was not ready to fly. Assigning it a 1–10 score—ten being accurate and illuminating replies, one being completely wrong or fabricated and thus unhelpful replies—we would give it a 2.5 at this point. The net result of these answers didn’t increase understanding or clarity but distorted and confused. For the person not deeply familiar with the material (and who thus cannot readily identify the errors), it would be misleading. And in extension of Ra’s mission, L/L’s mission is to reduce the distortions given to the Law of One.
Law of One sales: Our records of sales from the publisher of the original five-volume series are scattered and incomplete, with holes in our record and uncertainty about the number. Began a project to synthesize this material.
Chicagoans: Two of the founders of the Heartland Law of One Study Group (based in Chicago), the married couple Greg and Peggy, purchased a piece of property not far from L/L where they are planning on building a home! They hope to be able to hold their own retreats there. They are adorable, bright souls. We are excited to have them nearby.
Monthly team meetings: Because our staff team is often interacting primarily through digital comms, except for Austin, Trish, and Gary who have more occasion to see one another in-person, we lack the human connection. Launched a program to get together monthly for video meetings for work and personal connection.
Brown Notebook: As reported in the 2023.07.12 and 2023.02.27 entries, L/L was gifted reams of new material from the Detroit Group, they from whom Don Elkins learned the rudimentary protocols for channeling (that Carla would subsequently innovate and take to the next level), including a short autobiography from Walt Rogers! Our friend Linda Hoagland has been working over the months on editing the many scans we sent her and we are happy to report that she has returned her work. It will be a coming project to get it published in the History & Origins section of the library site.

Nuts n Bolts
The continuing day-to-day aspects of running an organization never slow, such as: trips to the PO box, the upkeep of payroll tax diligence, 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:

Worked with the CPA to complete our annual Form 990, the paperwork that is submitted to the IRS every year. Soon to be updated on our website.
Completed months’ worth of bookkeeping.

CZECH

For the Czech translation operation, Vojta reports over this period the following activities:

The main effort has been the production of the Prague Law of One Gathering.
In translation, the new translator was putting in most of the effort – Ivo M., also Viliam contributed as well.
We are working up to Session 72 of the Ra Contact. During the winter time we plan to make more progress on the translation.
The goal for now or in upcoming days is to organize some local Prague group so there could be a physical meetup in a group.

GERMAN

For the German/French operation, Jochen reports over this period the following activities:

took up the work of Volume 2 of the Romanian Ra contact
completed a publication with early messages of March 1974
focused on translating Q’uo messages from 2018
Misha continued with the Channeling Handbook, despite difficult health conditions.
completed the remaining website texts for the French version of llresearch.org.
In this season we had our outstanding event in Berlin, with you three and Voijta and Emily. I thank you again for being with us. We inspired a good bunch of people, and laid the foundation stone of our Berlin group that started meeting now on a monthly basis. On Friday we will have two sheets of pizza together :-).
Other important activities were mainly that I completed the batch of channeling translations I recently sent to you, that were leading up to the half year publication “Confederation Messages 2018 (I)”, which I published on October 2. Other than that also “Intelligent Infinity” was published with a beautiful preface by Jim.

PERSONAL SHARINGS

Hal Price’s Passing
Gary: Those familiar with the biography of L/L Research may remember the name Hal Price. He made his entrance on the stage as a vital, synchronistic link. Transplanted from the Ford Motor Co. plant in Detroit to Louisville in the early 1960s, he brought with him a brown-colored notebook of channeling from the Detroit Group.

Through some intermediaries, Hal learned about an investigator of UFOs and the paranormal, a professor named Don Elkins. They connected, and Hal introduced Don to the material. This, said Don, was the “glue that brought [his research] all together.” Soon thereafter Don flew to Detroit, learned the protocols for this contact with alleged UFO beings, and brought those protocols to Louisville, where in 1962 he would begin his experiment with his physics students, one of whom brought their then-girlfriend, one Carla L. Rueckert. The rest is history.

Though not well documented in that history is an interesting passage. In the 60s and into 70s, I believe, Hal was holding meditations at his home, overlapping with Don and Carla’s activities. His location may have been the central one. Some of this is explored in this interview with Morris Hoagland on our library website.

I had the great opportunity to meet Hal once. He visited us during a meeting at Carla and Jim’s in 2013 for a Q&A session that he allowed me to record. Though in his twilight years at that point, he was vibrant with energy and memory. The transcript, if interested. I’ve always been in love with the story of L/L Research, having done my utmost to document it in various places, including and especially in Tilting at Windmills.

A few months ago we got word that Hal Price, in his 90s, I believe, had moved on from his earthly incarnation. We and all those whose lives have been impacted by the Law of One and the mission that Don, then Carla, then Jim set into motion, give gratitude to Hal for being an important link in the chain that would bring through this unique message.

A Universal Message or Particular to Three Humans?
Gary: Though our long email days are mostly over (save for some in-depth replies to seeker emails), occasionally we get to write an essay examining a particular facet of the Law of One or the spiritual journey.

A friend asked me:

What’s your sense of how Ra is answering most of Don’s questions?

Is it more A) universally applicable to the “human” journey whether wanderer or not or B) geared towards the paths of Don and Carla and Jim? Or possibly is it C) other?

TL;DR answer: I would strongly say a modified version of “A”, with some “B”.

Long answer: I think that it is universally applicable first and foremost because of the proof in the pudding: the life-changing/healing/transformative/empowering impact it has on seekers from around the world, whatever their age, socioeconomic status, religious and cultural background, etc. Were the scope of Ra’s message limited strictly to the trio, the message would likely not continue to have so powerful an impact over 40 years later, and people would not continue to look to the text for guidance, inspiration, and understanding to support their journeys.

This applicability, however, applies to a tiny percentage of people on the planet. While I think that the material is potentially universally applicable, most people will nevertheless remain un-resonant with the Law of One. But due not to it being specific to Carla, Don, and Jim; rather, to the advanced nature of the material—it is simply not relevant to where most people are in their journey on Earth at this time. Most are not in a state of intensive seeking of the Creator-as-Self, I would say. And many people are affiliated if not wholly identified with far more limited conceptual containers, imo. Among other stumbling blocks, including, you know, aliens, and Ra’s unique, jargon-and-clause-heavy prose.

Moreover, I would wager that the predominance of those who resonate with the Law of One are wanderers, which also is a limited grouping.

That said, I do think that there are aspects of the material that pertain specifically to the highly unique circumstances of the D/C/J complex. I liken it to space travel. Most of us will not experience the rigors, intensities, challenges, necessity for precision, limited margin for error, unique conditions like zero gravity, etc., that space travel offers. We will have crises and times of testing where small movement has big consequence, but we generally won’t be under a white hot magnifying glass of high magic that demands a tight rope walk between multiple balance points with big consequence for slight deviation. Nor will we gain the attention of a samurai 5D negative entity; nor will any of our souls be at risk of being stolen away to negative time/space. I hope. 😋

But… the creation seems always to be teaching through each living circumstance. In this case, even the unique and wholly unduplicatable aspects of their journey offer a little laboratory or stage play through which are exemplified the dynamics of spiritual seeking, shared mission, and polarity—particularly in their dance with psychic greeting and their operation as an harmonious unit.

Their unique journey offers one case study from which we can glean more universally applicable understanding. This is thanks in large part to the fact that the Ra contact is not just a testimony about the nature of reality, but is about an adventure that three joined hearts undertook together through space and time. This latter fact is highlighted in the many Q&As focused on the group’s journey, and is accompanied by the supplementary human-authored material they offered over the years, like the Book V commentary, Carla’s writings, TAW interviews, etc.

In my recent re-read of the Ra Contact, I came across 42.2 and thought of this musing. One can see Don’s worldview and approach to life coming through that question. And it got me thinking how that is another way in which this recorded conversation had a particular and biased flavor: the selection of the questions that were asked, and the biases inherent in those questions. Another person could have pursued ten thousand other directions.

However, Don’s quest wasn’t just for personal edification but for that which would be universally empowering and illuminating, so there is a balance between the personal and the universal.

Also, whatever particular questioner Ra might respond to, Ra would find every opportunity to communicate their central message: oneness is our jam. Their perspective being also holistic, the reader would have access to the fullness of their universe whatever the questions, I think, so long as the Questioner didn’t lose their way into the dead-ends of transience or corrupting influences of fear or separation. How remarkable that so transformatively powerful, elegant, and intellectually sophisticated a philosophy as this can also be so inseparably centered in the heart of love.

A Spiritual Wedding
Gary: In between Prague and Berlin, on our personal time/budget, we were honored to travel to southern Portugal where we met the Italian translator of The Ra Contact and The Law of One books for the first time in person, Mauro, and his wife, Chiara, for the purpose of bearing sacred witness to the spiritual wedding ceremony of our dear friends Vojta (the Czech translator) and Emilly. They married in a pine forest atop a cliff overlooking both the Atlantic Ocean and a nearby town underneath a blue sky and in the presence of the Creator. 💚 They were married in the legal sense a couple months later in Prague.

Minus our missing luggage!—fortunately Emilly had brought her wedding dress as a carry-on—everything went so well. There were just five of us in attendance, including the bride and groom. Austin officiated. Trish and I played maid of honor and best man. Mauro and Chiara witnessed—they had chosen a most exquisite location for the ceremony, which not even Vojta and Emilly knew beforehand. It was a very special day that will live on within all of us for our days. Emilly and Vojta are such a well-paired match who will undertake the marital and spiritual journeys with mutual devotion.

And now Vojta, who was a friend and spiritual family to Trish and me, having spent time in our home and volunteering for Louisville Homecomings, is now also literal family. Ha. My all-time favorite small world story.

Mauro & Chiara were so wonderful to meet. Tired of the corporate world, they relocated from Milan, Italy to Portugal in order to follow their dream of creating a small family business. They launched a family bar from scratch that sells coffee and small dishes that features play areas and books for children. They feel so much more at peace in the firm knowing that they are doing what they are supposed to be doing in life, reporting that they wake up each morning feeling that they are in the right place, finally. Because they could not have children themselves, much to their pain, the interaction with kids also gives them a much needed connection. Their family bar is well loved in the local community, and was a great first stop on our visit as they greeted us with big loving bear hugs.

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How did Vojta and Emilly meet, you ask? That is a great question because it is a wonderful story.

On our final day before returning home following the first Prague Law of One Gathering in Oct, 2019, Trish was contacted by her cousin Emilly. She had been living in Prague as an expat for years and she had learned via social media that Trish was in town. I got to meet Emilly for the first time, and Trish and she stayed up for a drink before we flew out the next day. Emilly asked Trish why she was in Prague, and Trish kept it vague, indicating a meditation conference. Never mentioned the Law of One or L/L Research.

Fast forward a year later in the midst of the pandemic. Trisha receives an online message from Emilly full of exclamation marks and bafflement. On her own, Emilly had discovered something called the Law of One. It is blowing her mind, as it does. She’s watching some YouTube videos and… what is this?… Trisha’s husband is involved? (Can you imagine the double-whammy?)

She and Trish connect over messenger that day and Trish lets Emilly know that we have friends in Prague, the Czech translators of the Law of One. Would Emilly like to meet? An instant yes. Within one or two days, Emilly and Vojta met outdoors (because pandemic) and walk and talk for hours. It turns out they had been living near each other for some time, shopping at the same grocery store, and both were recently out of relationships, among other points of synchronicity for them. Sparks flew, hearts opened, and love developed. 💙

It wasn’t long before they were living together, and not much longer after that they were on the road to marriage.

Vojtech & Emilly sharing the vows they had written

Austin officiating with words of his own.

Left to right: Vojta, Emilly, Austin, Trisha, Gary

Left to right: Chiara, Vojta, Emilly, Mauro

Personal Sharing from Austin
A piece of magic unrelated to the L/L Research and Law of One worlds.

Coincidentally/synchronistically, the Coming Home to a New Earth event outside of Seattle ended up falling on a weekend just before my mom’s family gathered on the west coast near Santa Cruz to have a memorial for my grandma. She died 25 years ago, and her ashes have been in my aunt’s possession for that entire time with the constant question of what exactly to do with them. A strange, small, late-life insurance policy happened to free up enough money for my mom and her three sisters to plan for a trip to release her ashes into the ocean.

It was originally planned to be just the four sisters (my mom and three aunts), though my mom casually invited me earlier in the year, not really expecting I’d be able to make it. But once I realized that it would take place just one weekend after Coming Home on the west coast, and I’d be just a short and cheap plane ride away, I decided to join them. Apparently my decision caused a bit of a domino effect, and the event turned into something of a family reunion, with most everyone’s families planning to join. So after the L/L event wrapped up, I flew down to Santa Cruz for a sort of family reunion.

The meeting with family was an amazing, unique, surreal experience all on its own. We are not a close or connected family, and I had not seen (or really communicated with) any of these people since 2007 at the latest. I gained insights into the lines of emotional and spiritual energy that trace through lineage and family, whether by the influence of love or trauma, something I had not been witness to before. But the real magic I’d like to share here was the memorial for my grandma itself.

I wasn’t super close with my grandma, though I was closer to her than any of my other grandparents and saw her frequently as a child. I only recall love and acceptance from her, and she made sure to give her grandchildren special memories to remember her by (which I certainly do). She played a big hand in shaping my mom’s spirituality, and my mom has played a big hand in shaping my spirituality. I recently had a spiritual experience that reconnected me with that lineage and made me realize her spiritual influence on my life, so the timing of this memorial was meaningful and emotional for me. As a child, I had never really processed her death, though having been so long since her passing, none of us were burdened with grief. She loved the beach, the water, and the ocean, which is one reason why her daughters decided to spread her ashes in the ocean as a memorial.

They found a special service that is permitted to perform these memorials at sea. On the day of the event, we met at the pier in the morning. It was a bright, clear, beautiful day, and the stewards of the ship lovingly welcomed us. Before we began our journey, the captain asked if there was anything in particular we’d like to see or do out on the ocean. We had known that seeing whales was a potential, so we kind of shrugged and said, “Whales, maybe?” We didn’t have any expectations or idea of how possible it would be. The captain nodded and we began our journey out to the sea. The water was exceptionally calm, and there were virtually no other boats in the harbor. Conditions were perfect.

About 15 minutes in, we excitedly called out a single porpoise in the distance, gliding gracefully through the water. That itself was magical, and enough for us. If we hadn’t seen anything else it would have been perfect.

A few minutes later, a pod of massive porpoises appeared nearby. Our minds were blown. Then in the distance, we saw a misty spray. A whale! The captain took us in slowly. He pointed out the number of birds on the water and circling overhead, indicating there may be more to see.

From that point forward, the magic was nonstop. Another whale, and another, and two more together. At a certain point we were surrounded by the magic of the ocean. Whales, porpoises, sea otters, seals, fluorescent jellyfish, all manner of birds and fish. Everywhere we looked was something amazing. We were babbling with overwhelmed excitement. Even the crew of the boat couldn’t believe what we were seeing. My mom said she knew that my grandma was present, orchestrating this show.

At a certain point, things began to calm down, the captain turned off the engine, and a pure silence fell over the boat. It was clear that the time had come. The captain said a prayer, and my aunt carefully lowered and released her ashes into the water. Through the clear water we could see them spread slowly like a bright cloud behind the boat. In the background we could hear the call of birds and the spray of the humpback whales that had joined us. The ship’s crew gave us roses to toss in with her. Tears fell from my face as my grandma’s spirit became palpable—not in a way that I could perceive distinctly and directly, but through the magic of everything around us.

After a few moments of sacred silence, the engines started up again and the magical performance that the ocean put on for us began to slowly wind down. We journeyed around the bay a bit more before making our way back to the pier. We remained in a state of awe for the rest of the day.

This took place with significant time and distance from my grandma’s passing, and I was able to appreciate the experience from a perspective unbound by grief or confusion. The magical event reiterated for me a peace that I have found in the notion of death since before I adopted any particular metaphysical outlook on life.

Was my grandma, as a distinct person, entity, spirit, or soul, present and intelligently helping to orchestrate such an experience for us from realms unseen? I believe it is completely possible, perhaps probable. But it is more than enough magic for me to know that she is simply alive in the experience itself. Our wonder and awe at the magic of the moment was her wonder and awe, passed down to us. It was her love that guided us to that particular space and that time.

The realness of one’s life is much more apparent when there is a body we can attach the identity to, but there’s no reason to conceive of one’s life as ending with that body. What we witnessed as her death 25 years ago was not the end of her life. She is alive in us, in our minds and hearts, our wonder and awe, our love and sorrow. And I am grateful for the blessing of being able to have such an experience that allows me to see that with brilliant clarity.

This body is not me. I am not limited by this body.
I am life without boundaries.
I have never been born,
And I have never died.
– Thich Nhat Hanh

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2023.07.12

LL_Central July 12, 2023November 23, 2023

2/18 – 7/6

Hello friends. The last journal entry ended on February 17! This is the longest that we’ve gone without updating the journal with Niagara-sized waterfalls of information. It’s incredible to think that it used to be a daily entry for Gary when he was running solo many years ago, and continued so when Austin joined, until it went weekly in late 2018. And as time moves forward, the periodicity stretches. There is so little time to think about much less create an entry. And the challenge is that the longer it goes without one, the more work that has accumulated, the bigger the project to gather everyone’s contributions and sift through the historical data to capture what the core team and the array of volunteers have accomplished in service to this mission, the more it becomes that menacing form that’s running always right behind you in your dream 🏃‍♀️.

As it’s been over four months, we will just focus on some of the highlights of our adventures and forgo the exhaustive, and thus exhausting (to writer and reader alike!), journal entry.

[Retroactive update: Though we did exclude some of the usual fare, this is still a brevity fail. Baby steps.]

Channelings
Our humble little channeling group of five people has also concluded our first season of public channeling circles, which is also the first season of public circles since the pandemic lockdown. It was new territory for the group, but any anxiety or hesitation was balanced by the incredible support and high spirits of attendees that filled the living room twice a month to join us in communicating with the Confederation.

A big thanks to the transcribers who volunteer their time to turn the channeling audio into the first draft of these text transcripts, including Daniel, Donna, Michael, and Nicole, and the being responsible for the PDFs on the website, Tomas. Also, we thanked Nicole as she released the service in favor of focusing on the service to her new home in a new country with her family.

We meet on our own time for these channeling circles. Since the last journal entry, we completed the following sessions:

Homecoming Gathering
Our event season has kicked off this year with our annual Homecoming gathering taking place over Memorial Day Weekend. This suburban home was temporarily transformed into an event venue to host over 40 spiritual seekers who came together to share in the magic of loving connection. With a great mix of returning attendees and new faces, the spiritual vibration of the weekend soared as the circle recharged their spiritual batteries in the blessing of shared seeking.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to the magic, and especially to the volunteers who helped us to pull it off. And a special thanks to the new Event Manager. She had volunteered for Homecomings for seven years before becoming a staff member, and thereafter continued the above-and-beyond effort. But this was her debut event as its primary quarterback. Everything within her powers went really flawlessly. The only two logistical issues were outside of the production team’s control (including learning a few hours before our group dinner that one of the restaurants lost our email-confirmed reservations). She, the one known as Trisha, shares a write-up just below the Personal Sharing section.

Also, we issued a survey to attendees of all the gatherings last year to learn about their experience and solicit any constructive feedback they may have. The chorus for the Homecoming attendees specifically was get catering so that Trish can join the circle. Trisha spends most of the weekend in the kitchen, and gobs of time in the weeks leading up to it preparing a menu, gathering the food, and preparing/cooking dinners, lunches, breakfasts, and snacks for 40 people for a weekend. She couldn’t do that and serve as the EM, so after some negotiation : ), she agreed to try catering for the first time.

The feedback for the gathering was very positive. One attendee wrote:

Thank you so so much for everything this weekend. You truly made it such a loving and magical experience for me, which was far beyond anything I imagined. I can’t adequately express how grateful and overjoyed I am for being able to be a part of homecoming. The depth of the conversations I had with all the people this weekend really blew me away as I’ve never been able to really express my true self outwardly with others in person so openly before. I was continually in awe of how friendly, interesting & relatable everyone was.

Morris, L/L’s oldest friend who knew Don and Carla before Jim McCarty, talking with the team.

Friday dinner! For the first time, we talked Trish into catering. She found all vegetarian meals for Friday dinner and Sat/Sun lunches.

In recent years we have learned how to use the living room as a breakout space.

Another longtime attendee, Sam, is using the electric guitar to explore the Law of One.

Ken demonstrates for the group picture. This guy. He saved the day. He double-booked Homecoming with a gig he had, so he left Saturday morning for a 5.5hr drive home and made the same drive back to return by Sunday evening.

Multisite
More work continues on the website, as the library multisites continues to roll out. Since the last BW entry, we’ve launched multisites for Chinese Traditional and Chinese Simplified, Spanish, Farsi (Persian, also its debut on the site at language #23!), Turkish, Russian, Bulgarian, Dutch, Czech, Serbian, Romanian, and Hungarian. We’re five away from completing the first launch of the multisites, including Hebrew, Korean, Swedish, French, and Arabic, those of Ra making their social memory complex debut in three of those languages.

This is so exciting and dream-come-true-like. Thank you to Sean, Terry, Gabriel, Meysam, Hakan, Catherine, Margarita, Kirilina, Erik, Vojta and Romi, Sheyla, Dejan, Horia, and Laszlo(!) for the languages completed in this journal entry; and Erez and the team, Sienna, Lana, Misha, Jochen, and B.(!) for the languages soon to come. The work could not be completed without the gift of service from these volunteer translators, and awesome people.

We reached out a couple months ago to the translators responsible for the then-multisites to see if they wanted to share their feelings, but we then put that on pause in favor of waiting for the project to be completed, and to assemble all the translators’ thoughts at that time.

Website work presently
The multisite has been a massive and complex undertaking. Most of the work on the website has been directed there. The whole team held a brainstorming meeting to co-think about laying the foundation for user accounts and authentication on the website. We are trying to build and experiment with new functionalities, like user accounts, tagging, an updated seeker map, and various ways of interacting with the transcripts, making LLResearch.org closer and closer to a digital library.

Translations Published
Our dedicated translators continued their steadfast work in making the Confederation’s philosophy available all over the world.

Spanish – 34 new conscious channeling transcripts
German – 10 new conscious channeling transcripts
Russian – 3 new conscious channeling transcripts
Polish – 31 new conscious channeling transcripts
Greek – 1 new conscious channeling transcript
Hungarian – Updated versions of the Law of One Books 1, 2, and 3
Sessions 1 through up to 40 (in some languages, less) of Ra Contact sessions in nine languages.
And the first printed Ra Contact of the Hungarian translation of Volume 1! Not sold through our store but linked to from this page

Coming soon: Arabic, Korean, Portuguese, Hebrew Ra Contact. It is very exciting.

And received from the Vietnamese publisher, Brand Skybooks, who had formally secured the Vietnamese-language rights to 101, printed copies of a Vietnamese Living the Law of One 101. We added a page in our online store linking to the book where it can be purchased from the publisher in Vietnam.

Translators, working with:
In no particular order:

Spanish 1: Received from Gabriel the Spanish translations of the 106 RC sessions! Along with pieces for review and editing of the Spanish multisite for its launch. Thank you, Gabriel!
Spanish 2: A season for the Spanish language, two new translators were onboarded, Vanesa and Claudio, and they in turn were introduced to each other and Octavio and Maite, the group forming a team to help coordinate and track their independent efforts to translate the Transcript Library, of which Octavio has been the most prolific. Their spirit in connecting to support one another in commonly held service-to-others is inspiring. Thank you, everyone! [French is the language for the most L/L Research book translations, Spanish already is or will soon be the language for the most L/L Research transcripts. And love will be the language of all the transcripts. Corny? Maybe. True? Yes.]
Spanish 3: Out of the blue arrived a Spanish translation of Carla’s Living the Law of One 101, this the fruit one of Tatiana, a young translator encouraged by her uncle. Thank you, Tatiana!
Korean: Received from Sienna a completed Volume 1 of TRC! – Ra’s entrance into Korean. It’s been a long journey that began with her first outreach in September, 2021, with various plot twists (discussed in previous entries). Thank you, Sienna!
Portuguese: And from Edgard, received the first ever Ra Contact sessions in Portuguese! Along with various rounds of work to co-navigate a tangle of translation collaborations. Thank you, Edgard!
Russian: Worked with Margarita on various translation questions and gratefully received her review and edits of the Russian multisite in order to launch. Her depth and complexity of thought impresses. Also, in the world of translations, received her review of L/L’s onboarding process for new translators along with some suggestions for applying some metrics to help we unilingual entities to evaluate the prospective translator’s facility with the language. Gave it a trial run, appreciated the results, and integrated the metrics. Also received brilliant essays on the squaring/doubling effect and the 1.16 ratio. Thank you, Margarita!
Turkish: Worked with Nihal, the Turkish translator who had embarked upon a project to translate AWH a few years ago before life intervened, with various questions of projects and ideas. Connected him with Hakan, the translator who independently took up the Turkish translation of the same book, upon which they formed a collaboration! Which always redounds to the benefit of the translation and the book. And from Hakan, received the needed material to create a Turkish multisite, along with a follow-up review and edits. Thank you, Hakan! Thank you, Nihal!
Polish: Dialogued with the energetic Lena, the facilitator of the Polish study group and lead and member of a Polish group that launched a Polish website for study of the Confederation material that is undergoing renovation right now. Thought we might meet in Berlin but her schedule didn’t support it.
Serbian: Received from Sheyla the needed pieces to launch the Serbian multisite, along with review and edits. Such a motivated soul, that one. 🙂 We’re looking forward to seeing her in Prague. And dialogued with Dejan on some questions in his ongoing efforts to bring Ra into Serbian. Thank you, Sheyla and Dejan!
Hebrew: Worked with Erez, the lead of the large Hebrew translation team currently working on TRC. Received from them all the needed content for the Hebrew multsite minus TRC itself, and was introduced to the new lead, Jonathan. They are reviewing the first couple dozen sessions, after which we can get them published to the website for the first time. Thank you Erez, Jonathan, Alina, and the whole team!
Romanian: Received from Horia all the needed material for the Romanian multisite, along with a review and edit. He’s been such a pleasure to work with for these years now. And after having entered into agreement with Jochen, who was able to get the Romanian TRC into print, we added a page in the Translations section of the online store for a Romanian Volume 1 of TRC. Thank you, Horia!
Bulgarian: Received new TRC sessions from Kirilina, who reliably gives us a smile if not a laugh, and worked with her on various questions. Along with, as is a theme in this section, received all the needed material + review + edit to launch the Bulgarian multisite. Thank you, Kirilina!
French: Worked with Misha and Jochen on the French multisite. Their work continues as they intend to see the French multisite completed by this summer. Thank you, Misha and Jochen!
German: In addition to receiving Jochen’s regularly quarterly reports, he was able to find some time to return to one of his original loves in terms of the Confederation material: translating transcripts. It’s been a long time, but he was able to complete eight or so German translations. Thank you, Jochen! We are greatly looking forward to seeing this friend in Berlin.
Greek: The Greek multisite was published in the time period of the last entry, but in this one we received transcripts in Greek from Vasilis, and the first ever Ra Contact sessions in Greek! Got to work on publishing those sessions, but realized that an internal gap in communication stymied the publication of the Greek Ra Contact page. Got that ball rolling again for a hopefully soon launch of Ra in the language of the OG Western philosophers. Thank you, Vasilis and Vassilis!
Multisite work: Thank you Vojta and Romi (Czech), Erik (Dutch), Lana and Klas (Swedish), and anyone else we may have missed for your work on your respective language’s multisites in this period!
Arabic: After a not easy 2.5-year journey of dedicated on/off work from the heart of the one known as B., we received the first ever Ra in Arabic! The entire Volume 1, a thing of immense beauty. Thank you so much, B.!

It is a small thing (but big in our hearts) to celebrate this entrance of Ra into Arabic alongside the other intensive, dedicated, labor-of-love translation work as part of a global effort to the lighten the planetary vibration. Many, many around the planet contribute to this global effort, each in their own way, and we of L/L Research, a network of volunteers included, are of the philosophical distortions. This translation work increases the light available to this third-density illusion by reaching and helping to open hearts in need in a transmission of pure empowerment.

In their email delivering his work, B. shared a bit of their journey with translation, something we imagine a multitude of translators can relate to:

B.: As you already know through our previous email exchanges, I faced several obstacles and challenges during the course of the translation process. The length of the book and the depth of the concepts required a significant amount of time and effort; something that was quite difficult to sustain, given my personal circumstances. Additionally, the book’s complex spiritual and philosophical themes required careful consideration and research to ensure that the essence of the original text was accurately conveyed in the translation.

Despite these challenges, I have done my very best to make sure that the translation is faithful to the original work, and I have strived to preserve Ra’s unique voice throughout the material.

Throughout this experience, I have gained valuable insights into the translation process and have honed my skills as a translator. This experience has given me an opportunity to go deep into Ra’s messages and allowed me to learn much more than if I had only read it a few times. I am grateful for the opportunity to have worked on such an important and meaningful project.

I would also like to express my heartfelt gratitude to both of you for your help throughout the translation process. Your guidance and support were invaluable, and I appreciate the time and effort that you both have put along the way. It was a pleasure and an honor to work with you, and I look forward to continuing our project. Thank you for entrusting me with this work, and for your unwavering commitment to help make this world shine brighter.

Law of One Podcast
We have managed to meet to record a couple of Law of One Podcasts in these last months, including:

Episode 106 on adepthood
Episode 107 where we introduce the extended team—including Trisha, Daniel, and Joanna—to the listeners.

Check it out on our Podcast page.

Newsletters
Both the Spring and Summer editions of Light/Lines went out since the last report, sharing some of the recent inspirational channelings along with some updates on L/L operations and services. You can subscribe to the newsletter and check out all previous editions on our Newsletter page.

Interviews and Podcasts
Thanks to the Seattle Law of One Study Group, facilitated by Jonathan Tong, we (primarily Jim) remained busy meeting for Q&As, along with a few other podcasts and interviews thrown into the mix:

Audiobook
As part of our continuing project to offer the material in various media, we are excited to announce the publishing of our seventh audiobook: A Channeling Handbook. Carla L. Rueckert wrote this book as a primer to the art of channeling, exploring topics important for seekers interested in learning how to become channels. Lovingly narrated by L/L Research’s Jim McCarty, the audiobook of A Channeling Handbook is available through Audible, Amazon, and iTunes. It can be listened to for free via Audible’s free trial program.

The audiobook for A Book of Days is currently in the works and should be available soon

Prison Ministry
Continued the teamwork of running the prison ministry, including and especially thanks to the dedicated volunteers who have continued their loving service even though life circumstances have made it difficult. Over the last four months we sent out 24 books and 40 letters to incarcerated seekers who have reached out to us.

102 Editing
As Jim has been publishing his revisions to Living the Law of One 102 to his Camelot Journal, Joanna and Austin continued reviewing and editing. Since we started, we have been able to envision a more cohesive outline for the first 3 chapters, which will help to make the overall book have more of a clear and organized focus.

Seeker Ministry
Joanna writes: Our team continues the wonderful service of replying to the many emails we receive from fellow seekers all around the world. The diversity that exists within the human experience is often manifest in the colorful assortment of the many questions, personal stories, needs, requests, prayers, suggestions, and heart-opening sentiments of gratitude that have been expressed by the many beautiful souls whom we have been blessed to connect with. We have great appreciation for the opportunities for service and learning that each email offers.

While some seekers have expressed their surprise to receive a response from us, it has always been our goal to offer a thoughtful response to every seeker (of the human variety—spambots excluded). However, the response may not always be immediate and may be a bit delayed given the small size of our team. We are not Ra or Q’uo—nor do we identify as mystical gurus—but we do strive to offer our best to each seeker who reaches out to us, making sure to encourage them to always trust their own inner knowing if they do not resonate with what we’ve shared. After all, we are just fellow bozos on this mystical bus…

Brown Notebook
If you are unfamiliar with the origin story of L/L Research, and if you are actually reading this, in 1961 Don Elkins was introduced to a folder of typewritten transcripts of UFO-contact channeling that was occurring up in Detroit. Upon consuming the material, he remarked that this was the “glue that brought it [his research] all together.” Because the folder it was delivered in was brown, it became, creatively, The Brown Notebook.

Earlier this year, Jim received a surprise and stunning gift: reams of additional, previously unseen transcripts of channeling from the Detroit Group. Along with a brief autobiography written by Walt Rogers himself, the seed of the Detroit Group. Wow.

We got this all digitized and over to Linda H., one of our friends and wife of Morris, an L/L board member, who volunteered to cross-check the scans against the printed original to produce Word docs of the material. She is presently making great progress and, fingers crossed, we hope to be able to publish the material to the website by year’s end.

Pyramids
Had lots of work with Joshua, the facilitator of the Reading the Law of One online study group, who also happens to be the owner of a 3D printer that he uses to create shapes of sacred geometry for his Etsy page. Skilled in the ways of 3D design and printing, we’ve been collaborating with him to help create a small pyramid to place beneath the head or body that conforms to the ratio Ra indicated was ideal for the energizing third spiral, along with collaboration on a pyramid large enough to sit inside of that can be assembled and disassembled with ease. He’s been fantastic to work with, not to mention patient.

Study Groups
To our Study Group Directory we added:
Czech: Česká překadatelská a studijní skupina
Italian: Meditazioni Collettive per il pianeta Terra
Finnish: The Neljäs Tiheys Project [Fourth Density]
And a Hebrew YouTube Study Channel

Trish and Gary had the opportunity to visit in-person and sit in on the Chicago Law of One Study Group’s meeting over a March weekend and spend some much cherished time with the kindred souls of Greg, Peggy, and Stephanie during the weekend. For the Sunday morning study group session, they began with a check-in portion to give everyone the space to share what was up for them. They then dug into the material, playing the audiobook version question by question (the first Gary had seen that) , stopping the playback for discussion and questions. They held a positive, mutually supportive, welcoming atmosphere. Trish and Gary loved their time with the group.

And Jim, Austin, and Gary had the pleasure of connecting with a Hindi-language Law of One study group who operate online but whose main facilitators are based in Mumbai. What an experience! One notices and revels in the cultural differences, but perhaps the most remarkable thing was the common spirit, the same we see from the mostly Western seekers who come through L/L’s doors for gatherings. Law of One students share a mutual intelligibility in orientation, perspective, and heart, generally speaking, whatever their cultural background and distortions thereof.

Healing Retreats
One of our longtime friends and present board members, Beatriz, has spent a lifetime conducting what she calls Miracle of Self-Healing retreats. She conducts these as an adjunct to her primary healing practice, which centers on working one-on-one with individuals. She’s been doing this for decades on her own and helping people from around the world. While we’ve been aware of her work, it’s been mostly off our radar.

As Trisha reported in a previous Blogworthy Report, in January, Jim, Austin, Gary, Trish, Suzanna, and a few other loved ones met in Louisville to experience one of Beatriz’s healing retreats over the course of a weekend. It was a profound experience for us. Subsequently, we realized that we wanted the readership also to have access to the same benefit. The existing events that L/L Research hosts can and often do serve as containers for healing and transformation, per our own experience and that of much testimony, but almost by environmental happenstance in the good fortune that some particular attendees might heal a particular issue. L/L Research does not offer a focused container dedicated to healing the self, specifically, in a collective setting that amplifies the work of the individual.

So, Gary, Trish, and Austin got together and reached out to Beatriz to ask if she might be open to L/L Research—in its traditional non-proselytizing, non-sensationalizing style—promoting her work by simply alerting the readership to her healing retreats via its communication channels.

Upon receiving her consent, we held a meeting with the board sans Beatriz to navigate the question of whether this would present a conflict of interest for her or the organization. After intensive discussion, and expert consultation from a local organization that supports and guides other non-profit organizations, the board concluded that L/L’s promotion of “The Miracle of Self-Healing” retreats would not lead to exploitation of her role for self-gain, come at the expense of the mission, or otherwise interfere with her duties to the organization. On the contrary, it would be fully in alignment with the mission, amplifying the organization’s ability to simply help people.

Moreover, Beatriz would be conducting and filling her workshops regardless of whether they were promoted to the L/L Research readership, L/L’s promotion would simply open the door to the L/L readership to benefit from this work. Though Beatriz offered to donate all proceeds above cost from the events to L/L Research, there would, the Board concluded, be no exchange of money in either direction—from Beatriz to L/L and vice versa. She would continue to operate her workshops completely independently with otherwise no management from the organization. We then looped Beatriz in, and we enthusiastically laid the groundwork for sharing her work with the readership.

Event Production
Three in-person events this year have been designed and worked toward. At this point, one of them, the Homecoming Gathering (mentioned above), is complete. We now look forward to three more, the next one being in 1.5 weeks! Holy crap.

Prague: Lots of collaboration, coordination, and communication with our friends Emilly and Vojta to get the third iteration of the Prague Law of One Gathering up and running. As this is Vojta’s third go at it, he’s refined his system quite well, but there are ever tons of decisions to make and actions to take.

Berlin: Much less intensively, as this is a day-long event, and being managed mostly by Daniel Hodapp with support from Jochen Blumenthal, collaborated with Daniel and Jochen to announce and launch the free Berlin event: A Spiritual Day with L/L Research, with us receiving the registrations from attendees. Many thanks to Daniel for seeding, facilitating, and primarily funding this event!

Coming Home: If you follow our ramblings through this journal or newsletters (Gatherings or Light/Lines), you may have seen that we were in search of a new venue to hold the Coming Home to a New Earth Gathering, specifically a venue on the west coast, as L/L Research has never held a gathering west of Louisville. What an effort. Over thirty venues contacted and communicated with. Many thanks to our dear friend of the Chicago LOO study group, Greg Holden, for pitching in some of the legwork with Trish!

After a few rounds of missed connections and heartache, signed a contract with Seabeck Conference Center to hold our 2023 Coming Home to a New Earth Gathering west of Seattle! Wow! It is a big new adventure for us, and for our collaborators from Asheville with whom we launched this series in 2018, BJ Harden Jones and Aaron Maret, and a new collaborator, Stephanie Anderson of the Chicago LOO Study Group.

The event filled up a couple months ago, and it seems to have succeeded in its purpose of opening up a whole new region of the country to these gatherings, as the majority are from the western half of the US.

Among the many tasks both mundane and spiritual needed for this event, this is a retreat setting so we have to manage all the lodging reservations, of which there are many types and different ways to book (single vs. double occupancy), all of which needed built into the registration process, communicated and tracked properly, etc. It was the most complex operation we’ve yet had with an event, and the EM managed it all.

Gaia TV
The Gaia TV series on channeling that we were helping aired, and Gaia invited Jim to participate in a watch party for the episode where the Law of One was most prominently featured. Unfortunately, Gaia has not uploaded the watch party for general viewership, but if you’d like to check out the series you can do so here.

Microsoft Migration
L/L Research’s digital workspace and workflow has been ever-evolving over the years, with a trajectory towards efficiency and consolidation, particularly after the recent pandemic quarantine pushed us towards a work-from-home model. The demands and complexity of L/L’s workload have increased at a commensurate rate. The more solidly that we live in the digital world, the more apparent it is becoming that a consolidated, adaptable, long-term digital workflow will be necessary. Microsoft’s services seem like the most promising prospect, so research and testing was done to migrate most services over to the Microsoft ecosystem. Now just for some time and space to open up to successfully execute the migration.

Other
We’ll leave off the usual “Nuts & Bolts” and the “Social Media/Printed Book Sharing of the Confederation’s Message” and just throw in a couple more here.

We held our annual AGM (Annual General Meeting) with the board in February, which went well and provided a good venue for reviewing the year that was, looking forward to the year and the work to come, ensure alignment and agreement, and be open for discussion and questions.

And work got underway to perform the final editing of the TAW (Tilting at Windmills) video interviews by splicing in relevant imagery (for instance, if Carla and Jim are talking about the Ra contact, then inserting Ra contact photos), but the workload sidelined that project for the moment. Really, really hoping to return to it after the Prague Law of One Gathering.

One Thousand Seven Hundred Transcripts
While there is not any particular virtue in a large number, it might serve as a small measure of consistency, stability, and perseverance in service. In this case, we published the 1,700th channeling transcript to the library website. Of that, 1,518 are in the English Transcript Library, and another 85 in the English practice and intensive sessions.

The great bulk of that library is Carla’s channeling, followed by Jim’s. And in addition to that, there are the translations. A quick check-in reveals the following quantities of non-Ra transcripts for the languages in the top eight for numbers of transcripts:

Spanish 189
Chinese Traditional 146
German 105
French 90
Russian 79
Romanian 60
Chinese Simplified 48
Polish 43

(Spanish is growing rapidly thanks to the team mentioned above, particularly Octavio, but there are many many transcripts in Chinese waiting until we can update the system so that Sean and Terry can publish directly.)

Many moons ago in a time before our generation, Don had a vision to amass information of this nature, thinking that its quantity over time (that should be a formula) would be its own form of evidence.

To Don Elkins: We, following Carla and Jim, and presently alongside Jim, will continue fulfilling that essential mission, ever keeping the eye upon the horizon for whatever bold new adventure may call. Though we have a long ways to go to reach Carla’s adepthood in channeling, if even possible, and Jim’s effortless stability and confidence.

This experiment will be particularly interesting if it continues to produce the same essential message in the same essential voice through the voices of generations beyond our own.

The size of this library also motivates us to continue the project to make it more accessible, searchable, interactive, and useable for those interested in mining its Confederation-inspired gems for inspiration and resource upon their spiritual journeys. Big updates are coming for the library site.

Also, because Daniel is a wizard, he was able to provide answers to a few questions about word counts. For your trivia nights.

There are approximately 5,979,931 words in the English transcripts.

ChatGPT, feast your digital eyes on that,

In 2022, L/L channeled ~100,354 words.

Adding translation transcripts (minus Ra Contact sessions) the total words is around 8,600,579.

This pertains to total words in channeled transcripts. No books, interviews, podcasts, articles, etc.

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PERSONAL SHARING

Homecoming Gathering 2023, by Trisha Bean
Trisha: As was mentioned above, we recently held our Homecoming gathering in Louisville, Kentucky. This was a weekend of many firsts. It was the first time we had held this particular gathering in the spring, as we usually try for Labor Day weekend. It was the first time in about ten years that we utilized catering services for the gathering’s meals (as Gary mentioned above). And it was the first time in my 10+ years of attending Homecomings that I was not in the kitchen the whole time. (Which I must stress I had voluntarily and happily – no, joyfully! – done for all of those years. Those who know me know how much I love being house-mom and showing my love through my cooking. It was bittersweet to let that part of my role go.)

Aside from the changes to timing and production, the event went off without any major difficulties! I think we counted only two real hiccups, and both were out of our hands. (I’m looking at you, local restaurant. 😊)

Four things really made this event run as smoothly as JIF peanut butter.

First, we were blessed with early onsite production help. Fellow L/L team member Joanna and dear friends Stephanie and Ken arrived a few days in advance to assist with all manner of tasks. And that time, though very busy and productive, was filled with deep connecting and, of course, lots of laughter. Our first night all together, we shared bits about our life story, connected over shared interests, and even made friendship bracelets. It was basically summer camp minus the calls home to Mom, the capture-the-flag tournament, and the accumulation of bug bites. (Well, maybe there were some bug bites, but it’s humid here in Kentucky this time of year. So it kind of comes with the territory.)

Thank you, Joanna, for taking time away from your family to help us. Your insight and warm presence were so beneficial. Thank you, Stephanie, for making the trip to join us. Your experience and care for inclusion were incredibly potent. Thank you, Ken, for driving down to Louisville TWICE over the course of three days. Your desire to serve and ability to relate openly with others were such a gift.

Second, we had so much support from local and semi-local attendees. Several helped us with airport pick-ups, errand running, weekend housekeeping needs, and other tasks. The way you all showed up and offered your service to others was so monumental and appreciated. Words cannot describe. Thank you, fellow attendees, for assisting in this process and helping us make sure all were taken care of.

Third, I had THEE best home crew I could have asked for. Gary, Austin, and Jim have years of experience producing these events, and I was always in awe of their support to step in whenever needed. Thank you, Austin, for helping produce this event. You offer a unique perspective with incredible grace, of which I am immensely appreciative. Thank you, Jim, for opening up your home and creating an outdoor feast-for-the-eyes with your impeccably manicured gardens. And special thank you to Gary, whose wisdom was paramount to the successful production of Homecoming. Over many years he has been primarily responsible for the design and production of these events that he and the team have continued to refine every year. Because of his work, I was easily able to use and build upon his systems. Seriously, Gary, thank you for helping me produce and manage this event. I hope I made you proud, and I look forward to growing into this event manager role through your guidance.

Four, the souls who gathered for this event were imperative to the crystallization of the environment. Each of you came into the gathering with your own gifts. Each of you shared yourself and your light with the larger group. And each of you made this event the highly focused manifestation of love that, I have to believe, heals the planet on the cosmic scale. Thank you, everyone.

As we put away the chairs, divvied up the leftovers, and bade farewell to spiritual family – old and new, I was left with a profound feeling of gratitude and excitement. It is connections and moments like these that inspire faith, renew hope, and soothe the spirit. Like a little glimpse into what fourth density could potentially be, the sun set on this weekend with a replenished desire to make events like these more accessible and more frequent. It is through relationships and ties like these that the better world we strive for becomes more realized.

The heart is filled with so much joy and appreciation. Thank you, all.

Next year’s Homecoming goal: interdimensional contact. 😊

Five-Day Meditation Retreat
Gary: A few may recall that I underwent a 10-day silent meditation retreat in 2022. Schedule + finances wouldn’t permit the same this year, so I made an experiment of a five-day at-home silent meditation retreat in the spring. I chronicled that experience in my journal at SpiritComplex.com.

(If some human or AI entity should read this years from now, it is the series that begins with “Intro: Silent Meditation Retreat, 2023.”)

Mt Katahdin, Summer Solstice, and 20 Years
G. Bean: Trisha and I try to squeak in one big adventure per year if we can, typically a roadtrip, and usually in the American West where our hearts belong, geographically speaking. The big sky. Open roads. Vast landscapes. Mountains. And especially the national parks. Our beings just vibrate with joy out there. This year we chose a corner of the country which had never seen our feet: the New England area; specifically, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine.

In mid-June, we hit the road with someone who has become a dear friend and sister, Stephanie Anderson. (We met Stephanie at the 2022 Coming Home Gathering in Asheville—subsequent to which she and a couple other Chicagoans she met there [Greg and Peggy, who are also dear souls] formed the Chicago Law of One Study Group. As Chicago is about a 5-hour drive from Louisville, and a 1.25-hour flight, Stephanie has made multiple trips to Louisville to spend weekends with Trish and me and to attend the public meditations. Stephanie is an educator, improviser, and storyteller who has a passion for connecting individuals to their own power and authenticity through play, laughter, and self-reflection.)

Vermont: Our shared roadtrip included a day in northeast Ohio with my brother, his wife, our young niece and nephew, and our shared Law of One friend Ken Wendt. From there it was to Vermont where we spent a few days with our mutual beloved friend, Suzanna Miller, meeting also her partner Darryl (who clearly adores her). We hiked a nearby mountain, held an afternoon meditation with a focus on (non-physical) energy transfer, enjoyed a pizza from her homemade pizza oven, had lots of great heart-connecting conversations, and gratefully explored her paintings. It was magical. And we got to meet moderator extraordinaire and runner of the Law of One forums, Patrick in person, finally! His energy is as kind, gentle, and true as it has been over email and Zoom these years.

Among the various gifts that have spontaneously emerged for Suzanna over the years, she awoke a dormant and, in our opinion, highly skillful painter, evidenced in the painting that she surprise-gifted Trish and me with. (See bottom of post.) Also, we saw more solar panels in Vermont than we have in all our visits combined to sun-soaked southern Arizona. Incredible what a difference in culture, and thus politics, can do.

New Hampshire: On our next stop, we visited Sarah—one of my best friends from high school who grew up just a couple houses down from me and who used to kick all the neighborhood guys’ asses in sports—and her wife Anne in New Hampshire. We hadn’t seen each other since ’99, I think. It was a great time of reconnecting and making new connections. Steph, Trish, and I had a sense that there was a deeper reason for the visit, too. We held what I believe was their first silent meditation with them. What guests we were! 🙂

Maine: From there, we spent a day and half in Portland, Maine, stopping at a lighthouse, going on a non-whale-watching tour for four hours in the Atlantic, enjoying the rocky northern shores of the east coast in summer, before Stephanie flew home as planned, leaving the remainder of the trip for Trish and me. Next stop, Mt Katahdin!

Mt Katahdin is a 5,269 feet (1,606m) peak in central Maine that also forms the northern terminus of the Appalachian Trail. If unfamiliar, the Appalachian Trail is a 2,189-mile (3,522-km) footpath that runs from Mt Springer, Georgia at the southern end, to Mt Katahdin, Maine at the northern end. For “thru-hikers”—those who complete the trail from start to finish in one go—I think it takes anywhere from 3 – 6 months! We’ve long held romantic ideas about hiking the whole thing, but outside of the impossibility of six free months, there is the even harder reality of being showerless and stinking to high heaven for six months.

But, Mt Katahdin called to us. The route we took to the summit was an 8.8-mile (14.1km) out-and-back hike featuring a 4.4-mile ascent of a ~4,000ft elevation gain (1,219m), and the same back down, including about a mile over a path-less, steeply graded boulder field that involved scrambling on all fours moving at a snail’s pace at times, particularly on the precarious way down. This mountain showed us how much conditioning we’ve lost to the life in front of the computer! We started at 9:40am and finished at about 8:00pm. The final couple miles were a slugfest of putting one foot in front of the other.

But we were so grateful to the mountain, the often blue sky and radiant sun, and the magnificence of the panoramic views of gorgeous wilderness Maine from the peak. And the single room-temp locally crafted beer waiting for us at the campsite. It was a dream to be able to touch that iconic and unassuming wooden sandwich board with the word KATAHDIN across its top.

Trish and I reached the peak of Mt Katahdin on June 21^st. Incidentally, this was also the summer solstice and the 20^th anniversary of June 21, 2003—the day when I moved to Louisville, KY to live with Carla & Jim in service to them and to L/L Research.

From a distance, Mt Katahdin came into view as we drove in. The way it rose and towered above the landscape called into question our ability. Our faces here are saying that we’re not sure if we’ve got it in us.

A long stretch of a mile or so on the steepest grade of the mountain over a pathless boulder field. The blue blazes marked the route. (Phone camera has over-saturated this scene.)

This is the work of the gifted heart and hands of the one known as Suzanna. She captured Trisha’s soul-radiance so skillfully. A million thank you’s!!
🙇‍♂️🙇‍♀️ <– Gary and Trish bowing, a lot

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2023.02.27

LL_Central February 27, 2023March 17, 2023

11/5 – 2/17

Multisite Launched! Starting with German, we began rolling out the multisites, that is the foreign-language versions of LLResearch.org. As of this writing, parallel versions of the library website are available in German, Indonesian, Portuguese, Greek (its debut on the website at language #23!), Italian, Polish, Spanish, and Simplified and Traditional Chinese, with the remainder coming around the corner.

You can read about the scope of the project and its function in our news announcement: https://www.llresearch.org/news/2023/multisite.

One of our greatest joys is to see this material translated into other languages. It advances our core mission to help spiritual seekers by making this information available to all who seek and may benefit. So it is something of a dream to see L/L Research’s library site become so readily available in other languages. Carla would be beside herself to see it! (From the incarnational perspective, that is.)

Thank you so much Catherine, Edgard, Erez, Erik, Fatiha, Gabriel, Hakan, Horia, Jochen, Julien, Kirilina, Lana, Laszlo, Margarita, Mauro, Meysam, Misha, Pawel, Pupak, Roman, Sean, Sheyla, Terry, Vasilis, and Vojta! And thank you as ever, Daniel, who could fill a long list of bullet points all his own were he to chronicle his adventures in web development. 🙂

[In future development, there will be a translation option that will allow the reader to toggle between the various languages available for a particular transcript while preserving the position of the transcript, making for easier one-to-one comparison, particular with the English original. Also, we will add fields to make visible and give credit and honor to the translator(s) and editor(s) responsible for any particular work. Among other updates.]

Ra Contact YouTube Series Completed! The project has reached its conclusion. All 106 sessions of the Ra Contact have had their audio combined with the text in video format and shared freely on Youtube. When we first tested out the format, it struck us as a meaningful and unique way to present and experience the material. Its message transcribed on screen; something so much greater than the voice which delivered it; something sourced at an inconceivable distance, yet intimately familiar.

It was with this sense—combined with a desire to make the original audio more accessible and available to interested seekers—that a project was born in May, 2019 to synthesize the audio of the 106 sessions of the Ra contact with the text of The Ra Contact books. As of December, 2022, we are thrilled to announce that the long, 3.5-year journey has come to completion.

While listening to the original audio is not the best way to study the material—it moves at the speed of a tortoise—it creates an immersive, even meditative experience. And for the exceptionally patient, it does offer a means of going directly to the source to receive, for one’s own consideration, the philosophy of the Law of One.

On our YouTube page, you can find the full playlist of the 106 sessions of The Ra Contact, including the final seven sessions created since the last Blogworthy.

Events Launched: Thanks to Trisha’s hit-the-ground-running hardwork (more below), we’ve launched two events back to back. The 20 23 Homecoming Gathering and the 2023 Prague Law of One Gathering. To our surprise, the first filled up in 24 hours of opening the public registration. It is a reality we are still adjusting to. The second still has seats available if interested. We are so excited to see faces old and new.

Podcast: Gary and Austin met to record what was supposed to be Episode 104 of the Law of One Podcast, except it turned into a two-episode series all focused on meditation. Given that it is a central topic in the Confederation’s messages, there is more than enough for us to cover about the subject to fill a whole series of podcasts. You can check out the episodes on our podcast page.

Channeling Circles & Public Meditations: For the first time since before the pandemic, we resumed the public meditations. And for the first time, the whole channeling circle joined Jim in channeling replies to questions from the circle.

We non-Jim instruments were all a bit nervous to cross the threshold into the public meditations. One limitation of our training up to this point is that we have selected only questions curated to be highly suitable for this type of contact. (Whoever is doing the selecting doesn’t share the question until the moment that it is asked.) And it is nerve-wracking know that your channeling may have impact upon a seeker. We therefore wanted to prepare ourselves for questions asked of Q’uo that might skirt the boundaries of free will and/or move far beyond the instrument’s knowledge (a limitation inherent to conscious channeling). So at the 11/10 and 11/16 channelings, we simulated an environment to test and prepare ourselves, presenting some questions that we as instruments might encounter out in the wild. It was very helpful. And then with strong encouragement from Jim, and a supportive and understanding circle, we leapt into the water… and swam.

It’s been particularly inspiring being with seekers again on a regular basis in our home town. There are some old friends and a bunch of new faces holding a vibration of authenticity, mutual care, and joy/gratitude to be gathered together. Among those new faces we’ve come to appreciate, we made a few friends at last year’s Coming Home gathering in Asheville who have made recurring trips to the meditations from Chicago.

On our own time, we met for Saturday meditations on 11/26, 12/10, 1/14, 2/11; Intermediate circles on 11/16, 12/14, 2/15; and we even squeaked in one C/C on 11/10.

Audiobooks: Another two audiobooks have joined our audiobook library, thanks to Trisha’s efforts working with an audiobook production company. You can now check out A Wanderer’s Handbook and Voices of the Confederation. A Channeling Handbook is currently in the works.

EM Transition: After some soul searching due to unexpected life transitions on her end, including plans to launch her own equine therapy non-profit, Tiffani found that she needed to lovingly relinquish the Event Manager role. She still plans on continuing to attend as many events as she can, and volunteering. As she communicated recently to us, “L/L has been with me for 22 years and my heart continues to share that space and oneness with us all.”

When we in Louisville met to consider how to move forward, Trish raised her hand and indicated that, so long it was in harmony with the operation, she would love to take on the responsibilities. We considered it over the next few days and it became obvious to all of us that Trish would be perfectly suited.

Among Trisha’s qualifications and the benefits to the organization, she has been helping with and involved in event production since 2012, for most of those years as a volunteer or well beyond her recent years of compensated time, particularly in her round-the-clock work at Homecoming; she built and manages the reservation system for the public meditations; she already manages the online store and bookkeeping, has a positive rapport with our event collaborators, requires much less onboarding than anyone else, is already in attendance at L/L events, is already practicing space holding, knows many of those who attend and is something of the de facto “house mom” for Homecoming, and her proximity to Gary (L/L’s primary EM since 2005) will make for an easy and timely flow of communication and coordination. And because this would happen in the context of her existing work, there would be no additional cost to L/L and its presently tight budget. She is ready to meet the challenges head on in service to the readership.

We had a great time working closely with Tiffani and remain grateful that she helped us to oil up the rusty gears to resume holding events after a three-year hiatus. Thank you, Tiffani!

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Translations: Another large batch of transcriptions made their way online since the last Blogworthy report, as translation efforts continue to increase and the amazing volunteers who offer their services persist in bringing the material to different segments of humanity:
- The Chinese translation of A Concept Guide
- 2 Russian channeling transcript translations
- 3 Dutch channeling transcript translations
- 4 Greek channeling transcript translations
- 1 Czech channeling transcript translation
- 1 German channeling transcript translation
- A new version of the Polish Ra Contact
- Over the last few months, we have begun to upload translations of individual transcripts of The Ra Contact online for the dedicated Ra Contact pages for the multisites. It is our goal to make the Ra material accessible online in a variety of languages so that international seekers can research and study the Ra material in their native language. Over the last few months, we have uploaded:
  – Full version of The Ra Contact in German
  – The first 20 sessions in these languages: Russian, Italian, Czech, Polish, Indonesian, Romanian, and Bulgarian for the multisite. (All will be visible as the multisites roll out.) We will continue to upload the rest of The Ra Contact in these languages over the next several months.
Translators, working with:
- Multisite: Lots of work with and from nearly every active translator in building the multisite (see announcement at the top). Most everyone has turned in their translation homework, and has been an active participant in reviewing and editing a preview version of the multisite before it goes live.
- Romanian Ra Contact: Worked with Jochen and Horia to bring the Romanian Ra Contact translation into printable form, which includes the formatting and typesetting to fit the printer standards, along with generating the cover art, after which Jochen carried the ball to the finish line and brought a printed version of the Romanian RC Volume 1 into space/time manifestation! If a Romanian reader wants a printed version over the free PDF online, they can not get it from this print-on-demand service.
- Chinese Concept Guide: Li-yun’s steady and skillful work translating A Concept Guide into Chinese has made another L/L work available to a large segment of our planetary population. After generating the proper cover are and getting it situated online, it now has a home in the Traditional Chinese version of the library site.
- Portuguese: Worked with Edgard along with some correspondence with Pedro about moving forward and rebooting the Portuguese TRC project.
- Greek: Received L/L’s first transcripts in Greek. Thank you, Vasilis!
- Russian: Received a manuscript from Serge (translator of the Russian TRC) of his in-depth and comprehensive independent work on the archetypes that looks outststanding. | Onboarded a new Russian translator, Margarita, who is working on a new Russian TRC to share the road with the existing one, along with a YouTube series on the Ra Contact. And received a transcript from Margarita. Thank you! | And Vladimir, despite limited circumstances, persisted in his dedication and sent in a couple transcripts as well. Thank you, Vladimir!
- Serbian: Received from Dejan his latest installment in his ongoing work to produce a Serbian TRC. Thank you, Dejan!
- Farsi: Resuming work through political uncertainty and violent upheaval in his country, M. & team sent new Farsi translations of TRC, but our greater joy was in learning that he and his immediate family are okay.
- French: Did some work with a potential French editor that didn’t pan out.
- Bulgarian: Received from Kirilina new sessions of TRC in Bulgarian. It has been a slow-burning project for her as most of her time/energy is consumed, but she persists when and where she can. Thank you, Kirilina!
- Hungarian: Received from Laszlo his revisions in a longterm project to update the Hungarian TRC. Thank you, Laszlo!
- Polish: Received an updated TRC from Pawel, thank you, Pawel! And new transcripts from Marlena. Thank you, Marlena! And learned that Pawel had connected with Marlena and her group, and Marlena had launched a website, and enjoyed some productive correspondence about the desires and dreams for service to the Polish readership. And added the Polish study group to the Directory!
- Hebrew: Dialogued with Erez about several matters, including the certification that the Hebrew translation of TRC is underway!
- Vietnamese: Heard from the Vietnamese publisher that they expect the Vietnamese 101 to be available by April.
- Dutch: Received a few Dutch transcripts from Martine. Thank you, Martine! And caught up with Erik about her surgery to remove a tumor.
- Spanish: Onboarded two new translators, one from Uruguay, the other from Peru, and received multiple transcripts from both. Thank you, Maite and Octavio! Had fruitful dialogue with Gabriel about the Spanish TRC about the meaning of words/concepts as he endeavors to produce a Spanish TRC.
- Arabic: After over six months of silence, received an update from B. Life, as it does, has just claimed all of his available energy, to the point of exhaustion and even some despair at times. But the translation is a service that he feel is important and close to his spiritual path, so he intends on resuming in order to finish the final pieces for an Arabic TRC. Thank you, B.! May your being find improved circumstances in which to rest and to seek the Creator.
- Turkish – Worked with Hakan on some questions aobut the Turkish AWH, and received outreach from Nihal about a Turkish AWH, incidentally, and the Turkish Law of One. However, this work and correspondence was put on hold due to the colossal catalyst of the February 6 earthquake and the subsequent aftershocks. More in the personal sharings section.

Tilting at Windmills: Put together a plan for getting all the videos published. | Went through the first five chapters to identify where significant footnotes could be added from the book that and where question screens could be added when reding a Ra quote. | Received a visit from our friend Ken Wendt who recorded an Introduction video to the playlist. | Created title and end screens. | Began the final editing work! Which included splicing in photos/video/audio relevant to the topics being discussed.
Interviews and Q&As: We continued joining various groups for lively and interesting Q&As. It’s always a great honor and pleasure to take part in these different group’s efforts to come together in seeking the Law of One. The space they hold, typically online, is an important connection point for seekers to be able to share in their energies and support each other in their journeys, along with learning more about the Law of One. And notably, we were finally joined by Trisha(!) who made her debut on the webcam for J. Tong’s Q&A, and then appeared a second time the following month with the Europe LOO study group.

Seeker Ministry: Each week we divvy out the incoming email to L/L Research from around the world and do our best meet seekers’ needs, limited though that is by email and organizational bandwidth. We do our best to avoid being authorities, and we definitely clarify that we don’t have answers about the seeker’s personal journey. Instead we just share something of our own study, properly disclaimed. We wish there was more space in the days’ packed schedules to share little snippets and anecdotes of the stories and moments we receive that evoke a full range of emotion and insight. Do want to shine a light on correspondence with Jeannette, one of the co-facilitators of the Hawaii Law of One study group. After a ton of spiritual and practical work, envisioning, intention setting, prayer, etc., they were on the cusp of acquiring a small patch of land to launch a land-based community and healing effort for Gaia, but due to circumstances outside of their control, connected probably to capitalistic forces, the deal dissolved. Admired their strength of spirit and tenacity in moving forward with an open heart.
Prison Ministry: We continue to offer our correspondence service for our incarcerated friends thanks to the help of our prison ministry volunteers who helped us send 21 letters and 11 books. To help deepen our collaborative efforts and to learn more about each other, our team held a Zoom Holiday get-together in December with our prison ministry volunteers. This meeting offered our team an opportunity to personally thank them for their service and to learn about each of their unique spiritual journeys. It proved to be a very fruitful gathering that helped to strengthen the commitment we each hold for this special ministry.
Podcast Transcripts: Joanna has also continued her hard work editing and uploading 10 additional podcast transcripts to our Law of One Podcast page. It is one of our goals to have transcripts available for all our auditory material because it makes it more accessible for our international friends who have an easier time understanding English in written form than they do listening to it, along with for those who find it easier to read along while they listen, and makes the text available to the search engine – a huge gift!
Events Work 1:
- Built and issued a survey to the ~100 people who attended one of L/L’s three events last year to see what worked, what didn’t, what we could do to improve to meet needs, etc. Feedback was overwhelmingly positive with some constructive thoughts for refinements here and there.
- Built event production guides to create a reference/instruction manual for producing an L/L event along with a template of questions to answer in determining venue eligibility as part of a means to record and transmit Gary’s and L/L’s institutional knowledge for use for the organization.
- Improved the budgeting and worked with Trish to design Trello boards for planning, executing, and tracking event production.
- Worked with our friends of TOTOH in Asheville on the Coming Home event to land a new venue for 2023 as the 2022 site was beautiful but didn’t quite meet our needs. They scouted out a new place that has some potential but was quite $$. They couldn’t research further as TOTOH’s bandwidth is being taken up by their new projects. We congratulate them on developing a program and putting all the considerable wisdom they’ve gained over the years in intentional community to work! They have so much to offer. That means though that we’re flying solo this year in determining a venue, time, and location for a fall Coming Home event.
Events Work 2: As mentioned above, Trish took up the EM (Events Manager) role with gusto and dexterity. Homecoming and Prague were both launched over the weekend and she spent the weekend replying to each new registration, logging the registrations, etc. Here’s her report of EM work.
- Began training with Gary to understand the processes of event production
- Co-created a comprehensive and streamlined task management system utilizing the Trello application
- Co-created 2023 event budgets, collaborating with both L/L Research Kentucky team members and the Czech translation team
- Researched and communicated with local restaurants ahead of the 2023 Homecoming Gathering, with the goal of settling on catering services for the event. [GB note: This is a big thing. For the first time since 2013 or so, Trish is releasing the preparation and cooking of the weekend’s food in favor of catering, something a chorus of people from last year’s Homecoming recommended (given that she misses much of the event being tied to the kitchen), and in light of her new EM responsibilities.]
- Drafted documentation for all event announcements, attendee communications, and other items of import for the 2023 events
- Created announcement pages for events on our library website
- Created online store listings for event registration
- Managed registrant communication for 2023 Homecoming and Law of One European Gatherings
- Began work updating the Events page on our library website to include our 2022 gatherings
- Began research for other potential venues and locations for future L/L Research events
Healing Circle Retreat. One of L/L’s board members, Beatriz, is a longtime practicing healer who has helped people from all around the world. She conducts small healing retreats for those seeking healing on all levels, whether physical, mental/emotional, or spiritual. In response to painful events that have occurred in our lives, she offered to come to Louisville to conduct a retreat at Jim’s for a small gathered group, each who would be bringing something that they want to work toward healing. It was the first that we experienced one of these healing circles. It was powerful, the outcome, amplified by the shared focus and purpose over the course of the weekend. We approached Beatriz about the possibility of L/L promoting a couple of these events to the readership. Our current events are healing and transformational for many, but L/L does not offer intensives with a single focus upon healing, nor with the catalyst of a surrendered and skilled healer. More to come! And meanwhile, Trish a shares her personal experience in the Personal Sharings section below.
Law of One Forums: Touched base with Patrick and Steve on their operation over at the Law of One Forums. Gave gratitude for the efforts, Patrick in particular, for maintaining a focused and safe online space under the L/L banner for shared Law of One study.
102 editing: It’s has been quite a while since Jim finished writing and doing the first round of edits on Living the Law of One – 102. He has been incredibly patient as the project has started and stopped several times, getting lost in the maelstrom of busyness. As we rededicate our efforts to give it a thorough edit, we are restructuring the workflow and bringing Joanna in to fold, knowing that she’ll be a perfect fit for helping to bring the book to full completion. So the project was redesigned and she was oriented to the process, while some cleanup and organizing was done on the chapters that have been in various stages of editing. She’ll start at the beginning to get a full understanding of the book, and in the meantime Chapter 5 was fully formatted and brought close to the next stage in its life cycle.
Brown Notebook: A reader pointed out via email recently that there were some issues with the Brown Notebook, and a unified PDF of the book was not available. This required some investigation and utilization of the internet archive to figure out exactly what was going on. After generating a PDF for her, the reader generously volunteered to create a list of mistakes needing to be untangled. | Additionally, Jim recently received a trove of materials that are related to the group that first compiled the Brown Notebook, including potential additions to the material from that time period. So there may be an effort to expand on this work that played a crucial role in L/L’s history.
Pyramids: Worked with Joshua, facilitator for the “Reading the Law of One” online study group, through email and Zoom on a project to create 3D printed 3^rd spiral pyramids and meditation pyramids per Ra’s specifications, the former for placing beneath the head for the energizing effects of the third spiral, the latter for meditating inside of to enhance the meditative experience.
Social Media/Printed Book Sharing of the Confederation’s Message:
- Completed the final sessions of the Ra Contact YouTube project!
- Updated Facebook and Twitter with Confederations quotes, created and shared Instagram images, and updated Patreon with L/L news and offerings
- Explored and implemented a third-party service that allows us an ability that we used to have but that Facebook removed, that is to add a first comment in a scheduled post, a necessity for sharing the link for the Confederation text to the source on the website.
- 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.
- Continued project of digitizing channeling audio, including discovering channelings and meetings that have yet to be transcribed/added to the website. The sometimes haphazard way that cassettes were recorded and recovered over and non-systematically stored at the time is humorous.

Newsletters: The Winter edition of Light/Lines was created and sent out both through email and snail mail. We’ve also utilized our Gatherings Newsletter list to make several announcements about updates to L/L Research work, as well as the year’s coming gatherings. If you want to be kept up to date, be sure to sign up on the Gathering’s Newsletter page.
Nuts n Bolts
- Fundraiser: The last BW report took place at the climb-up to our annual fundraiser. The entire fundraiser came and went during that time, which included all of the many pieces coming together for generating mailing lists, creating and printing letters and envelopes, stuffing those envelopes, and navigating the labyrinth of the USPS business mailing system in order to send out the mailing, not to mention the (much simpler) digital campaign. It was a strong year in raising ~53k. We again are humbled by the generosity of seekers who respond so generously to our request. L/L Research relies on the funds raised from the fundraiser to continue its operations, mostly the many items you can read about here in the Blogworthy. Thank you to everyone who is able to offer their support in any way.
- Year-end thank you’s: Went through the complex logistics to create and send year-end thank you’s to various donors.
- New online store: Consistent readers of the Blogworthy will probably know that we’ve had issues with our online store platform for some time. The OpenCart platform was adopted nearly 10 years ago because it was free and, being open source, had a lot of community support. But after the most recent update basically broke the store so that maintenance had to be consistent just to keep up, investigating a new prospect became necessary. Much has changed in the past 10 years with ecommerce platforms, and so the decision to migrate to a new platform was made. So with some effort, customization, and endless tinkering, a new storefront was launched using Shopify. Already the lifting of the burden of the old broken store has been a blessing.
  
  But of course it doesn’t come without its own bugs a quirks. Things like the international are quite unintuitive and took a lot of trial and error to get working correctly, and getting the options for gathering product pages sorted took a fair bit of effort as well, and there are still many little things to sort out. But overall, it has been a boon.
- Year-end tax and HR stuff: The end of the year always comes with some effort needed to ensure that payroll taxes and HR stuff is functioning the way it should. Our payroll service thankfully takes care of a lot of the tedium, but it’s still our responsibility to ensure that things are filed properly and that we are in compliance with the various laws and regulations of the federal and state governments. This involves reviewing the filings and payments made to the now four tax agencies that we report to, ensuring that our data is up to date for unemployment insurance and worker’s comp, ensuring that the W-2s and 1090s are filled out and filed correctly, and all of that fun stuff. The new year also necessitated some rearrangement of how payroll handled part-time hours and designing a PTO system within the payroll system to make sure everything is logged and reported accurately for the various labor regulation agencies we fall under.
- Tech and online services: Diligent BW readers may also know that we occasionally touch on the nature of our software and digital framework that has become central to the workflow and administration of L/L Research, and crucial aspect of fulfilling our mission. Much has changed since we started working from home during the pandemic lockdown, and we continue to grow and learn about how to manage a mostly digital workflow with so many different moving parts. Gary’s brother, who works for Microsoft, very generously offered an informal consulting sessions to display the potential of Microsoft’s Teams suite. While we use Microsoft for some aspects of our work, consolidating the various parts of our digital workspace and domain could potentially bring some serious benefits in terms of optimization and collaboration. But given the established other services we use, it will take some research and careful planning to make the migration successfully.
  
  But the effort is underway, with the goal that the various tools available to us through this suite will allow for a fresh workflow that has more room for creative projects and other exciting things that have been on the backburner for so long. This involves a lot of research and testing for how to properly and safely migrate all of our various types of data, files, emails, services, etc. L/L’s administration is so well-established digitally that ensuring nothing goes awry and that everything will work properly once the transition is made is very important. Some initial investigation and testing is also being done to try to migrate our publishing workflow over to Adobe, which will be a pretty steep technological learning curve, but could potentially
- Website tweaks: Made grammatical and spelling corrected on published channeling transcripts (part of my process of going through the channeling archives from 1974 until present day)
- Law of One Publisher: In the last BW post, we reported that the typo project with the Law of One publisher had wrapped up and the new books had entered the production pipeline. Since then, the new books have been printed, received, and reviewed for further mistakes, bringing the saga to somewhat of a conclusion. The books are thankfully back on sale and free of the myriad of mistakes introduced by the publisher in the process of creating the boxed set edition. Another project in collaboration with them regarding a card deck has been in limbo as this situation ran its course.
- Bookkeeping: Completed bookkeeping every week for the organization, keeping the yellow ray shining. (GB sidenote: for the budget meeting, I had to review another year of Trisha’s bookkeeping. It is a highly complex and large volume of data that she inputs and manages. And I found only a few tiny errors, a most impressive feat as it is nigh impossible not to make an error with a jungle of details. I miss the bookkeeping. The usual L/L workload is mentally intensive. Constant decision making involving often novel situations. High volume of correspondence. Etc. Bookkeeping, tho complex and still problem solving, used a different part of the brain. But, Trish has mastered it.)
- Meetings: Had a few different annual meetings, between ourselves in Louisville, with Joanna to review the year and look ahead to the coming, with Daniel to plan for web development work over the year, held a budget meeting with the board, and prepared for the upcoming AGM.
- ISBNs: With the LOO publisher’s new versions combined with the typo fiasco, ensured that all of our ISBNs were correct and up to date, logging them all so that we know which version is which.
- New laptop for Jim: Also recently, Jim’s laptop decided that its job here on Earth was done and it was time to move on. What should technically be a relatively simple fix actually required a complete replacement because of the proprietary nature of laptop assembly. But…the backup software that was supposed to keep Jim’s files safe apparently decided that it also didn’t like its job and stopped working without any notice. (It was actually the software company that simply decommissioned the software without warning.) But with some surgical efforts and creative problem solving,
- Bits and pieces: There is the ever-present list of ongoing work to keep things running smoothly, such as regular trips to the PO box and the bank, discovering and/or fixing minor typos or issues on the Library Site or online store, resolving more regular and mundane tech issues and general tech maintenance, making all of the big and small decisions that come to us on a daily basis. The mundane work is always offset by the great privilege and honor of serving in the capacity that we do.
Smatterings: Discussed the potential of using/sharing colorized RC photos. | Finalized the text of the interview with Morris, just need to give it a once over and publish | Celebrated the 42^nd anniversary of the RC. | Performed an analysis of the website related costs, Bring4th, library, search engine, online store, forums. |We continued working with a producer at Gaia TV to help them with presenting some aspects of the Ra contact in a coming series. | Published 15 previously-missing channeling transcripts, going as far back as 1974 to as recent as 2006.

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Czech

Some updates from the Czech translation team in their quarterly reports

Published S64 on the website
Viliam (VV) (our new addition to the team) translated S71, 72 (next: edit & proofreading)
Nadia roughly translated S69 (next: edit & proofreading)
Up-to-date translation assignments:
– S65 (Radim/V), S66 (VV edit), S67 (V), S68 (V/VV?), S69 (V edit), S73 (VV), S74 (Bara), S75 (Romi)

Special task for Q1/23:

Translation for the L/L website (Romi + Vojta)
Locking the dates and plans for Europe / Berlin gathering in January with L/L
After returning from the states, I plan on working on printing the Ra contact. We will work together (mainly with Austin) on the final pre-print formatting and edits after we lock in the process.
Also, another thing is for me to organize a meetup, with translators and offer it to some attendees of our last Gathering. It will be in Prague and I will aim for something in February-March, locking the date in January via email voting for the date

German

And from Jochen of DGDEV

I’d like to highlight the production of the Romanian Ra Contact Volume I, which came to its completion after our globe spanning team effort. It always feels very special to me to work with the Ra Contact and I am glad to be able to so for the Romanian seekers. I thank you, Gary and Austin, and Horia again that we accomplished Volume I together.
Other important activities were definitely the preparation of the German L/L Research website version through Daniel’s professional expertise and Gary’s very patient coaching, and that I participated in a number of zoom calls offered by Daniel from Berlin through the European Telegram group.
As Misha reported, were the French activities that Misha completed the French L/L Research website translation, and continued in small steps, despite challenging health catalyst, translating A Channeling Handbook.

Europe Law of One Study Group

Daniel Hodapp shared the following from the Europe LOO Study Group

I hope you had a good start in 2023. Our Law of One – Europe Telegram Group had their first zoom call this year last Saturday. We have some new members from all over Europe. The group grown to 39 members now. In Saturdays call we had a open talk to introduce new members and share also some activities. I was very happy to get to know that is also grow with our friends in Poland. They currently have a work group which review polish translation of Ra- Material. Furthermore it turns out that 2 members of our group from Scotland met first time in our Telegram Group and find out that both of them just live few miles away from each other and study Ra-Material, but never know each other before. Such stories make me very happy and was initial idea of this group for networking and sharing for student of Law of One in Europe.

Personal Sharings

Gary: In the course of some internal group correspondence, this exchange occurred between Joanna and Austin that struck me for its light. They each gave permission to republish here.

Joanna: Like Ra said, there is love to be found in every moment. And although [L/L’s friend who is experiencing medically difficult catalyst] shared that it’s been hard for him to be in that spiritual headspace during this difficult time, I think that him showing the courage and vulnerability to share that with us is a part of that search for love. While I haven’t been dealing with matters of life and death, I feel that I am experiencing some difficult feelings and emotions that likewise make it hard to be “spiritual” all the time. But I just realized through this interaction that the courage to share our struggles *is* the act of seeking love through difficult moments even though it doesn’t always feel like it.

This makes me think of a concept I received through meditation a few weeks ago. Imagine the game of Jeopardy…Law of One style. No matter the “answer” the “question” will always be, “What is Love?”

When someone cuts you off in traffic. Answer: What is Love? You receive bad news about your health. Answer: What is Love? You are experiencing internal torment. Answer: What is Love?

See, if the question is not “What is Love?” then you either have the wrong “answer” or perspective, or you’re not playing the right Game.

Well, thank you all for offering this space to share some of these thoughts. I’m so grateful for each one of you!

And in reply:

Austin: Joanna, thank you for sharing about your own difficulties. I think that sometimes the harder it is to “stay spiritual,” the more we know we’re on the path. It’s like your Jeopardy analogy, it’s easy when you say “I’ll take ‘The Second Distortion’ for $100, Alex.” and the answer is “A beautiful day and everyone is smiling happily.” But then sometimes we take the same category for $1,000, and the answer is “Everything in life seems to be falling apart.” The question for both is “What is love?” but one is much more obvious, yet the harder one is worth more cash. Thanks for the analogy to play with. 🙂

In other sharings…

My father passed last year at 66 years old due to stroke-induced dementia. I wrote a piece about it in a personal sharing last year. I recently found a great picture of him at my aunt’s (his sister’s) art studio. I’ve retroactively added the pic to the May 27, 2022 post. If you want to see my pa, just scroll to the bottom.

In talking pyramids with Aaron Maret, he sent me this link to a 3D model of the Great Pyramid that you can navigate through and look around. You have to create a free account to use the site, but if you’re like me and have been fascinated with the pyramids most your life, it will be worth it. I’ve never experienced so detailed a virtual, interactive model of the pyramid. Little things I wasn’t aware of, like the niches in the Grand Gallery floor, or the ways the passages intersect, or the height of the Grand Gallery. It is no substitute for the in-person experience, but much more immersive than my previous forays. Particularly how long and narrow the descent is down into the resonating chamber. Holy cow, that alone might rattle the psyche, especially if you hear a giant stone slab shut behind you…

Our friend and Romanian translator, Horia, shared this beautiful personal creation with us on youtube.

Recently I put together that Ra’s total third-density population is almost the exact equivalent of the current population of Canada (and around the same as California and Tokyo). Can you imagine, they had a whole planet to themselves. Venus is very similar in size to Earth, though we don’t know the amount of landmass that was available in their third-density experience; and of that, how much was inhabitable. But still, lots of space compared to our densely if not overly populated world.

And about the sorrows of our world… Soon after the the devastating first day of earthquakes that hit eastern Turkey/northern Syria, we received outreach from a shaken Hakan, the kindhearted Turkish translator, asking for help in the form of sending love/light in our meditations. The whole L/L team, staff + board, mobilized to meditate a few hours later, and we issued a request via social media to join us in the effort. We invite all to continue to be of support, energetically and financially if possible. Here is a collection of charities with various services in the area via Charity Navigator. If interested: https://www.charitynavigator.org/discover-charities/where-to-give/earthquakes-turkey-syria/

The magnitude of the loss and the suffering is difficult to comprehend. We try to remember the nature of eternal life in these moments, and we look to the Creator in the trust of things we do not understand, but the heart also vibrates pain for the total devastation of communities and families – a lot of which would have been prevented if the buildings had been built to code, it seems – and a trauma to the wider region. May our divisions and bellicosity melt in the increasing light of love as we move toward the fourth density of evolution.

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The Art of Self-Healing Weekend

LL_Central February 27, 2023February 27, 2023

Trish: This is the journal entry of my experience at the healing circle retreat conducted by Beatriz last month (mentioned in the Blogworthy entry above).

Sincerely, I do not know how I would begin to describe this weekend. The first word that comes to mind is powerful, but even that feels far too one-dimensional to fully encapsulate my experience. So perhaps starting from the beginning and working my way to the present is my most effective and efficient means of putting words to this event.

I have long struggled with low or inexistent self-worth. Feelings of self-hatred and self-condemnation go back to early childhood. I never tried to understand from where those feelings were sourced, mainly because I figured that I brought them with me into this incarnation.

As I grew older and experienced catalyst, I chalked up those moments of challenge to be reflections of my inabilities. “I had this experience because I am unable to [love/be loved/understand/be understood/etc.]” I could recognize my own part in catalyst, and I could grasp the idea that all is as it should be. But I lacked the perspective of co-creation, and I allowed immense wells of guilt and judgement build up within me.

In this incarnation, I have found that allowing that guilt/self-judgement to grow unchecked can lead to a vicious feedback loop of self-sabotaging behavior, which further compounds the guilt and self-judgement. Work in intensive group therapy and individual therapy sessions definitely helped me to find ways of coping with this internal dynamic, however healing the wound at the core of the cycle was never accomplished.

Flash forward to earlier this year when our dear friend Beatriz offered to share her self-healing practice with us over the course of a weekend. In preparation for the weekend, she recommended reading one of two books: Anita Moorjani’s Dying to be Me and/or David R. Hawkins’ Letting Go. I went with Anita Moorjani’s book and found so much inspiration from her experience and wisdom.

A central message of her book is that true living requires one to fully be themselves without fear or judgement. That message caused me to realize that I really do not know myself. I have seen myself through foggy lenses for most of my life. Hence, my assumed identity was based upon untrue assumption and judgements I held for myself. So before I could ask myself to love myself, I needed to actually get to know myself.

And that became my intention for the weekend: I will know myself. And through knowing myself, I can then take steps to love myself.

The hours leading up to the healing weekend were so sweet. We got to welcome dear friends from Vermont, Ohio, Texas, and Colorado into our home. We swapped funny stories over a shared meal. Just really jovial moments with loved ones.

We began the healing work Friday evening, with Beatriz sharing pieces of her own self-healing stories which were incredibly moving. After a bit of tuning and some logistical planning, we went our separate ways to adjourn for a night’s sleep.

Saturday was the day when the work really started to ramp up. I don’t mean to imply that this work was arduous, simply that it was the work we were there to do. Through a process of vulnerable sharing, each in the circle created a collection of statements meant to help steer the process of healing. It was through that sharing that I had yet another groundbreaking discovery: I could now pinpoint the exact moment in my incarnation when my low self-worth took root. It was an incredible realization that not only provided me immense insight but also genuine understanding for that catalytic moment so many years prior.

With intentions and new information in hand, Beatriz guided us through her self-healing practice. This simple process takes only 30 minutes, but those were some of the most transformative minutes of my life. I knew from the second we started that huge shifts were occurring within me. The tears began the instant I closed my eyes and did not stop until the process was complete. I, at once, felt reborn.

Beatriz gently concluded the practice, informing us that the healing was already in motion and that its results may begin to manifest in the coming hours. We shared a dinner and then separated once again for the night. As I laid in bed, my exhaustion was overpowered by my excitement. My being felt lighter than it had before. There was much more peace in my soul.

In my case, Beatriz was right about results. I woke up Sunday morning without a negative thought about myself. This is truly extraordinary as my mind’s baseline processes have been chronically mired in self-judgement and self-hatred prior to this experience. Imagine my disbelief when I went to bed that night without having witnessed a single hurtful or unkind thought within myself that entire day.

And that healing continues to this day.

Again, I cannot fully explain how remarkable this weekend was. I am a more fully realized entity now – one who is loving herself as she discovers her true nature. I will forever be grateful for Beatriz and her sharing of her healing practice. I will forever be grateful for the other-selves who helped co-create this healing circle and shared so vulnerably their own desires for healing. And I will forever be grateful for the catalysts in my life – even that one experienced so long ago and that had such an impact on my ability to love myself. 💙 Trisha Bean

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2022.11.21

LL_Central November 21, 2022November 24, 2022

7/16 – 11/4

Law of One Gatherings: After a three-year hiatus, we returned to form and held three major gatherings in August and September! Scroll down to the posts below this one to read write-ups for all three, or if that would break the mouse to scroll that much, go directly to the:

Channeling Circles: There were two channelings offered at our recent gatherings, along with our continuation of the Intermediate and C/C Channeling Circles:

Youtube: The Ra Contact Youtube project is nearing its completion and should be done by the end of the year! There were several sessions published in this period, along with one narration from A Book of Days read by Jim:

One-Year website: For those who have been with us over the years, you may have some awareness of what a long and challenging journey it was to build a brand new website from scratch that would house, organize, and share the library of L/L Research’s work with the world. Thanks to the considerable skill and sweat of the one known as Daniel, our dream became reality when we were able to launch the new LLResearch.org on September 24, 2021.

A year later we still pinch ourselves that the site exists and continues to evolve. Over the course of this past year we launched the first search engine capable of searching the entire span of the Confederation philosophy through L/L Research channels. (The search engine is the second most visited page on the site). And not a month has transpired without improvements made. The 6,000-page* library website has met and wildly exceeded our hopes for serving the readership and sharing the work of this mission with the interested seeker, with lots of evolution yet ahead.

We invite you to lift your glass – of water, tea, kombucha, or something for adults – in celebration of the new LLResearch.org’s first birthday! And if you have any feedback about the site, please feel free to reach out.

*If you printed everything on the website, from transcripts to books to web text, you would get, we don’t know, 10–20x that number of pages. 6,000 is the number of unique web pages on the site (designated with a unique URL).

Audiobooks: We had made a decision earlier in the year to outsource the editing of our audiobook library, with many books having been recorded, but requiring editing and post-production, an incredibly intensive process. Despite the best efforts of Julianne, the demands of life overtook her dedication and spirit, so Trish broke the sound barrier in the production of audiobooks. She located a professional team, dialogued with their lead and got everything set up so that they could edit and master Secrets of the UFOs. And we’re excited to announce that TWO whole audiobooks have since been published! Thank you Julianne for all of the work and effort invested. Check out the new audiobooks on Audible:

And Voices of the Confederation should be up in the next few weeks!

Since Austin first joined Gary over nine years ago, and with each new addition since then, the Blogworthy Report has been designed not to identify authorship of any given task or project if it was completed internally. That way, the work becomes the unified work of L/L Research, whoever undertakes it. However, in this case, we give shout-outs to Trish and Joanna a couple places to identify their authorship in this collective report.

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Translations publish: Many translations were published in the months since the last Blogworthy, demonstrating the incredible dedication of the translators working to make this material more available around the world. These include:
- Ra Contact Volume 1 – Czech
- Ra Contact Volume 1 – Romanian, new edition
- Secrets of the UFO – Indonesian
- Ra Contact Unified Index – Indonesian
- 6 channeling transcripts – Russian
- 27 (!) channeling transcript – Spanish
- 3 channeling transcripts – Italian
- 6 Dutch channeling transcript translations
Translators, working with:
- Pinged 21 translators for help in building foreign-language versions of the website. See next main bullet point, “Library website,” below.
- Bulgarian – Received more individual Ra Contact sections along with gaining greater familiarity with the funny and synchronicity-traveling Kirilina. Thank you, K!
- Chinese 1– After multiple rounds of dialogue in this period, received from Li-Yun a completed Chinese Traditional-language A Concept Guide! (That will make ACG available in French and Chinese, will Polish to begin soon.) Thank you, Li-Yun! And to Terry, for his support!
- Chinese 2 – Dialogued with Sean about the backlog of Chinese-language channeling transcripts and the event solution that will allow Sean and his partner to publish them directly to the site as they edit them. (👋Hi Sean!) | Added a Simplified Chinese-language place of study for the Law of One to the existing Traditional Chinese on the Community Resources page. | Connected a new Chinese translator, Iris, to Sean and Terry after onboarding her. | Received the semi-annual sales statement from the Taiwanese One Center, a traditional publisher who publishes a few L/L titles in Chinese.
- Czech – Received from the Czech team the first volume of the Ra Contact completed! Thank you, Vojta/Radim/Romi/Bara!
- Dutch – Received from Erik a few Dutch transcripts. Thank you, Erik! (See Personal Sharings for a prayer request for Erik as he undergoes cancer treatment.) | Connected Erik with to other once-Dutch translators. | Onboarded a new Dutch translator, Martine, and received a couple of Dutch transcripts. Thank you, Martine!
- Farsi – Received our first ever Farsi (Persian) piece for publication, a Farsi translation of a transcript. Thank you, Meysam, Pupak, and Julien! And dialogued about the development of the Farsi Ra Contact. Meysam wrote about their work: “It has been such a joyous process, this co-editing journey; The quality of the translation has improved immensely; Many bright ideas have shown up, so many refinements made to the text. thank Pupak for initiating this change of plans right at the time. Two minds are better than one, and I guess this is the kind of work best done in a group. The more we proceed, the more it becomes clear how miraculously the three of us found each other and how this service evolved.” (See Personal Sharings section for a prayer request for Meysam, a resident of a violence-torn country right now.)
- Greek – Onboarded Vassilis, a Greek translator who is going to take on the Ra Contact. Welcome, Vassilis! And after establishing mutual interest, connected him to he who had previously made the same attempt, also Vasilis (one “s”) to a very positive meeting. Received from Vasilis his work up to that point (the front matter of Vol 1 + Session 1 of TRC) and our first ever Greek piece for publication, a Greek-language transcript. Thank you, Vasilis and Vassilis! May Ra enter the language of philosophers.
- Hebrew – Onboarded a new Hebrew translator, Alina, welcome! And connected her to Erez and Ori. After three incomplete attempts by other translators so far, Alina will help Ra enter a language of the Logos.
- Hindi – Received one of two Indian-language volunteers offers, this one from Ishan for Hindi. Onboarded Ishan through our standard procedure of establishing relationship and familiarity, and agreeing upon upon terms, including the necessity to remain faithful to the English original, whether by literal translation of the words or non-literal conveyance of the same meaning. Welcome, Ishan!
- Indonesian – Received two significant works in this period from the ever-positive Faitiha, including an Indonesia Secrets of the UFO and TRC Unified Index. Thank you so much, Fatiha!
- Kannada – And for the second Indian-language appearance, received contacted from and onboarded Prajwal for the language known as Kannada, a south Indian dialect. Welcome, Prajwal!
- Polish – Dialogued with Pawel on the Polish TRC, and connected him with Jochen so that they could explore the prospect of printing the Polish translation. Also, set Pawel up to begin translating ACG into Polish. Good luck, Pawel!
- Romanian – Dialogued with Horia (who we got to meet at the Homecoming Gathering and whose energy in-person was just as great as it is over email), about some last-minute refinements to the Romanian Ra Contact, and received from Jochen a version formatted for eventual printed publication. Thank you, Horia and Jochen!
- Russian – Received from Vladimir his first Russian transcripts. Thank you so much, Vladimir! His desire to serve is all the more impressive in light of his present circumstances.
- Serbian – Had an amusing but enlightening discussion with Sheyla about the differences, if they can be so-called, between two virtually identical languages, Serbian and Croatian, and the politics that go into it, for the library website. Received an update from Dejan about his work on the Serbian TRC. Thank you Sheyla and Dejan!
- Spanish – Received loads of transcripts from the ongoing Henry. Thank you, Henry! | And from Gabriel dialogued about some updates re his work on the Spanish TRC.
- Swedish – While in Berlin, we re-met Klas (our last meeting being at the 2019 Prague event) where we learned of his interest in taking up or supporting the Swedish translation of TRC, a project of one of our dear personal friends, Lana, that has been quite stalled for some years. When about to connect the two, Lana reached out with notification that, after some personal dark night + transformation experiences, she is resuming the work! Subsequently connected Lana and Klas to explore working together. We have a sense that it is just what the universe ordered.
- Turkish – And received from Unity100 a translation of the search engine pieces we sent out several months back. Thank you, Unity100!
Library Website: Celebrated one year! (Described above). And…
- Foreign-Language versions of the website: Starting with a lunch meeting while Daniel was in town in September, began a large project that is still underway. Presently, if you click on one of the 21 (soon to be 22) foreign languages (available on the home page, or in the upper-right corner of any page via the icon of the “A” merging into a Japanese character), the site opens a simple “Welcome” page that lists the works available in that language. In an evolutionary step forward, we will offer foreign-language versions of the website itself. The foreign-language versions will include:
  – The Home page
  – Library page
  – Channeling page
  – A language-specific search engine
  – A dedicated Ra Contact page
  – A means to toggle seamlessly between the English original and other available languages that preserves the position of the text.
  – And essential site-related information for the foreign reader
  On the front end, we identified every piece necessary to create a foreign-language version, assembled it, tailored it for the non-English reader, and reached out to a list of 21 translators seeking translation support. Thank you (so far) to Sean, Terry, Laszlo, Faitha, Mauro, Pawel, Edgard, Horia, Catherine, and Gabriel for your contributions!! On the back end, Daniel has been a coding and re-coding machine.
- Search Engine refinements: Worked with Daniel with some intensive dialogue his updates to the search engine to make it more mobile friendly, clearer, ready to accommodate more search filters as projects get underway to make the Library site a stronger resource for spiritual seekers.
- Collaboration & Revision: Digested Daniel’s youtube tutorials, put together a short guide, and dialogued on his updates that allow revision histories and create more collaborative tools for publishing to the website.
- Mobile Menu: Examined and talked about an upgrade to the navigation menu on mobile that will now allow for sub-menues.
- About & Connect pages: Made updates to the Connect page following the closure of Bring4th and the Patrick and Steve’s launch of the Law of One Forum (see below), and planned for coming updates to the About page to better convey the new team.
- Transcript edits: Made edits to errors in past transcripts.
- Study groups: Two study groups were born out of the Coming Home event, added Philly (thank you, Luis!) and Chicago (thank you Greg, Peggy, and Stephanie!) to the site. And then had a series of dialogue with a group in Mumbai who live translates and discusses the material in Hindi whose info we added to the site. (Thank you, Ginni!)
- User roles: Thanks to Daniel’s tutorials, Joanna and Trish trained on using our content management system, and with Austin’s training, Joanna is learning how to format books for publication to the website and recently completed the majority of the work for the Indonesian translation of (same book) Secrets of the UFO, in addition to being a machine in getting a backlog of foreign-language transcripts + podcast transcripts published to the site.
- Otherwise: After checking in with Daniel he said that he is “mostly focused on updating the website to handle translations better, upgrading a lot of code and cleaning up a lot of things that were out of date, because the website is already 2 years older or more since we actually started coding. Changing the way menus load on the website so it’s more dynamic, updating the design to handle different languages better.”
Interviews and podcasts: We joined the unstoppable Jonathan Tong for a few more lively Q&A sessions:
- July 23 – Austin and Gary’s Q&A with Jonathan Tong
- July 27 – Jim with Erez Batat
- July 30 – Jim’s Q&A with Jonathan Tong
- August 3 – Jim with Rafa Martinelli
- August 27 – Jim’s Q&A with Jonathan Tong
- September 9 – Jim with The Zenith
- September 24 – Jim’s Q&A with Jonathan Tong
- November 5 – Jim’s Q&A with Jonathan Tong
Law of One Podcast transcripts: Thanks to Joanna’s hard work, we have been able to publish a total of 23 new Law of One Podcast transcripts that we had waiting in a backlog, mostly thanks to Christine P. You can read them on our Law of One Podcast page.
Bring4th: A lot happened in the Bring4th world since the last Blogworthy Report, including the closing and archiving of the previous MyBB forums (read more on the Bring4th homepage). But the valiant Steve and Patrick took up the task of envisioning a new discussion forum and management approach that could solve many of the issues behind the archiving of the old Bring4th, and they launched a new iteration – the Law of One Forum!
Light/Lines: The Fall edition of Light/Lines was published, the transcript dealing with the Divine Feminine and Harvest.
Public Meditations: Trisha writes: After many moons being on hiatus, we are happy to announce that we will be resuming our semi-monthly public meditations. When our area went into lockdown in March 2020 due to the pandemic, we made the painful decision to refrain from holding any public gatherings. While we love communing with fellow seekers, even if the time/energy commitment can sometimes be quite challenging, we felt a responsibility to safeguard public health.
These meditations will also include a new panel of channels (now that’s a pleasing rhyme!). Jim will be supported by students Kathy, Trish, Austin, and Gary. We look forward to continuing in our journey of stepping into the unknown alongside the company of dear fellow selves.

Seeker Ministry: Trisha writes: The Seeker Ministry continues to gift us with opportunities to hear from seekers all over our planet. It is ever and always our goal to respond to every email we receive from a human seeker. (Sorry, robots. We do not have the capacity to respond to your message asking us to verify our Netflix account or notifying us that we have won some kind of sweepstakes or offering us some kind of great deal on Bitcoin. Perhaps next lifetime. And thank you for the lessons in discernment you provide.) Each week, these emails are divvied up between four of us that we may answer questions, engage in spiritual conversation, offer humble guidance, share stories, accept appreciation (always with immense gratitude), offer prayers, and just act as a place for a fellow seeker to feel heard. The practice is one we cherish deeply, for we strive to show up for our fellow selves, and we benefit greatly from the connections fostered.
Morris Interview: Finally returned to this slow-burner project. Processed edits Morris made, dialogued with Jim, and reached the penultimate step before getting this little addition of L/L history published to the website.
Tilting at Windmills videos: And speaking of the backburner… received from Ken the almost-almost final versions of all the videos! Found a way to compress them to share with Jim for private viewing. Each passing week there is an attempt to find time to begin the final chapter of the journey: To determine which footnotes to add to the video, and which questions might benefit from the text being on screen, and then to figure out a system for editing that into the video. And with each passing week it keeps getting pushed back.
Meet the team: After working with Daniel for over three years, and working with Joanna for half a year, got to meet them in person, at the same time! They both came in for the back-to-back Coming Home and Homecoming Gatherings, where we also converged with Tiffani. See the “Homecoming” post below to read more about the meeting.
Gatherings: In the opening text above, we link to write-ups of the events. This bullet point is an even drier detailing of some of the logistical work, because it was a significant amount of work in these period. It included: Tons of inter- and intra-team communication and meetings | Attendee correspondence. | Training Tiffani, incl designing new systems | Handouts | Travel | Working with venues | Designing curriculum and group sessions | Figuring out balanced covid policies | Food coordination and preparation | Our first ever damages bill from a venue for some damages that took place in a room that sent us on a Scooby Do-style investigation | exploring creating a live digital version of the open space grid for attendees | rentals | building and sending out a survey to all attendees of all three events to get feedback for improvement | and scouting for the venue for the 2023 Coming Home!
If you wondering about the scholarliness of these events and, you are envisioning a gathering of expert scholars, you are envisioning a different event, as we communicated to one attendee. Everyone gathered has different depth of experience with and grasp of the Law of One, but there is generally a collective attitude of humbleness in the approach to understanding the Law of One. The beautiful thing about it being such a thoroughly advanced and transcendent philosophy is that it makes it challenging to claim and assert expert-level status, no matter how accurate the recall. Not to mention that it’s ultimately about things ineffable.

Prison Ministry: Joanna writes: Over the last few months the prison ministry has received dozens of letters from spiritual seekers across the country. In response, we work with our ace team of volunteers to coordinate replies to their in-depth letters. We also send free books by request to interested incarcerated seekers. Many of the seekers write to us saying that they heard from a fellow inmate about our offer of service, which always brings a smile to our faces and a warm glow in our hearts. To know that love and light finds a way to shine and be shared amongst other selves even in the most oppressive spaces is profoundly inspiring.

There are several seekers who write to our volunteers regularly. It’s such a touching experience to witness the beautiful connections and growth that can happen through handwritten letters and dedicated service. We could not be more grateful to our gracious volunteers for serving an integral role for this ministry!
Nuts & Bolts:
- Fixing online store: The platform we use for our online store was upgraded some months ago and the upgrade did the opposite of what upgrades are intended to do. The upgrade was necessary because of a needed update to our Bring4th server, but it introduced a game of whack-a-mole that has been unceasing ever since. The most recent issues are caching issues that are preventing the proper product pages to be created for the new audiobooks, and a stubborn CAPTCHA addon not doing its job and allowing fake accounts to be created. Both have required an unreasonable amount of investigation without any real progress so far.
- Fundraiser: Several weeks before this Blogworthy, we began the yearly pilgrimage known as the annual fundraiser. It’s a long and tedious process with many stages to gather all of the necessary information and materials in order to generate an appropriate list of addresses, print envelopes and letters, and stuff the envelopes. Thankfully, the envelope stuffing is complete as of this week, and the email campaign will be launched next week, and we’ll officially be fundraising! While it is a large and difficult task each year, it is always a humble honor to connect with seekers who wish to offer their support to the work of L/L Research.
- Bookkeeping: On a weekly basis, completed bookkeeping for the span of this entry, which, if we count on all our fingers, is sixteen weeks. This comes with many of its own sub-tasks, questions, and occasional challenges that engage a different portion of the brain than the one that is attempting to see the Creator in all things.
- Disbursements: Issued semi-annual royalties to Tobey for TRC sales, and to Jim for audiobook sales. And disbursed into the operating funds the very first disbursement of the endowment, a one-third portion of the annual allotted amount.
- Form 990: With the extended deadline coming up, finally returned to this project to review the CPA’s draft of the 990. Found various small tweaks and places to ask questions, but thanks to the past few years of intensive investigation and note-taking, was able to use the notes to understand how the 990 was built. Got it submitted!
- Typos and publisher: Since the last report, we officially wrapped up our process of untangling the mess introduced by the publisher and triple checking their work before it went to press. The production timeline after all materials are complete takes several months, but this past week we had a meeting with them to get word on when the corrected versions will be available, and circled back around to the card deck project they had introduced before the typo debacle consumed all of our attention.
- Tech and online services: There is also an ever-evolving need to stay aware of the various online services that have become vital to our operation. Recently, one giant updated the way their non-profit Cloud Organization system worked, and thankfully the changes were all positive. (One of the biggest issues with being reliant on these companies for operations is that they could, at any moment, decide to change something that breaks a vital part of our processes, as Facebook recently did.) We also had to do some shuffling around with our other account that required some investigation and hair pulling. We are still trying to figure out how to optimize our newsletter email service. It’s a bit of a constant juggling act.
Smatterings: Met with Jim to re-record portions of the audiobooks and troubleshoot recording discrepancies | Designed, built, and implemented a reservation system for attendees of the meditations. | Held a meeting with Aaron Maret about developing an online course to be built on a donation basis, but this project is likely not a near-term prospect | Worked with a seeker interested in donating artwork | Planned to soon rededicate ourselves to the 102 project | Migrated many of our accounts away from an old email address to a new one | In dialogue with Jim, supported him in declining an offer of a third-party to create a Don Elkins bio in light of a strong sense of commercial motivation | Updated the seeker connector page | Planned for and scheduled a healing circle retreat facilitated by Beatriz for the L/L team next year | Dialogued with a longtime reader about their nascent eco-village in Hawaii | And enjoyed a catch-up with the one known as Scott Mandelker who is always a joy to exchange sound vibration complexes with.
Channeling Circles of all types: Met for the various channeling circles, which, save for the two that occurred at the two gatherings to which we are honor/duty-bound, are on our own time, on 7/21, 7/29, 8/14, and 9/18.

German and Czech Operations

Czech Q2 – Q3 reports:

Focus mainly on the preparing of the gathering
finishing the RC vol.1 translation aiming for Q3, we’re getting there >]
had public and private meetings online, seems like we are kind of going back to our original group, but we weren’t really advertising it much. Which is okay.
compiled and checked the Vol. 1 and put it into PDF
published S57-71 on the website (meaning it’s done and after proofreading)
also updated website with the new PDF for Ra Contact, and update some other stuff to keep it up to date
sent the newsletter and made a call for a translator, and one person responded, working now with a new translator Viliam (already translated and edited some sessions)
getting involved in the Europe group with Daniel
everybody on the team has something assigned if they have time
will explore possibilities of printing after the final PDF is nice and cooked, seems like the time for finding a good printing vendor is not ripe yet x] so I will also exercise a little bit of patience >]]

French/German Q2 – Q3 Report:

Celebrated 8 years of working with DGDEV (Das Gesetz des Einen Verlag)!

from her study group two members seem to have found other occupations, at least currently, but that she did have daily contact with Vassilis.
and that Misha completed the revision of a channeling session (2016) with Q’uo, translated into French by a newcomer: Geoffroy
First 47 pages of ACH into French
Connected with Pawel to discuss publishing a Polish Ra Contact
Misha, Trisha, Gary and Austin met at Misha’s and spent a wonderful time together, and Misha turned to the magic age of 80 trips around the Sun
… and continued translating of the “Channeling Handbook”, as much as possible despite difficult circumstances.
But what stood out in that quarter leading up to the 8th anniversary of DGDEV was our meeting and events in Berlin and Prague. I feel that we opened up a much deeper chapter in our relationships and cooperation. And how many people we inspired! These events shine the light and and bring people together.

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PERSONAL SHARINGS

Trish: In my personal time, I began a personal project of reading and digesting the conscious channeling archives from the very beginning as a means of both expanding personal knowledge and to better understand how L/L’s particular school of channeling has evolved over time. It is illuminating.

Gary: If you have a few moments to open your heart and from a place of compassion and sincere intention, send some prayerful energy to:

The Farsi translator is in that country you’ve probably heard about in the news where protests centered on women’s rights are rocking the nation. He and his family have been directly impacted. Prayers for them and for their country are requested.
The translator of an aggressive country has needed to take drastic measures to protect he and his family. His spiritual outlook remains strong as he processes the moment through something higher than the priorities of the material realm, that is to say, with the eyes of hope, faith, and love.
The Dutch translator, Erik, was diagnosed with colon cancer earlier this year. The hope was that radiation and chemo would stave off the need for surgery, but alas, a portion of the colon with have to be removed. He goes in for surgery on November 23. A father of two and a husband, his journey has been a challenging one, to say the least, but his reflections along the way thanks to this hard catalyst have been a source of inspiration and insight.

For instance, Erik wrote: I’ve begun to hear so many stories of illness now of neighbors, friends, family who suddenly come out with their own stories because I am now ill “too” and am beginning to realize that there is more than enough suffering going on right here and now, behind closed doors or in hospitals, that you normally never think about. But it’s a kind of suffering that is just “there”, there isn’t really anything to be done about it, there’s no injustice or perpetrator to get worked up about such as with war or social injustices. This kind of suffering just goes hand in hand with life.

Congratulations to Wen, a volunteer transcriber, for her new first baby, a girl named Willow! Who is beautiful, by the way.

And then I recently learned of Google’s Books Ngram Viewer. It is incredible. From the year 1800 to 2019, it shows you how words and phrases have occurred in books in English (and other languages). Instructions here. Like other things Google has done, it is a social memory complex-level power, at least at the diaper level.

Here is one that I put together that shows that love and friendship may be on the rise in the thinking of the collective mind. 💚💙

love,fear,hate,courage,anger,resilience,despair,depression,enemy,hope,friend

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Coming Home to a New Earth Gathering 2022

LL_Central October 27, 2022November 24, 2022

While this piece is written by that strange entity known as Gary Bean, The Blogworthy Report is contributed to by four people total. The usual bullet points will resume soon. Today, a report on our recent two gatherings and the expanded team.

This is the first of two posts.

Planning

As you may have read in our last BW entry, the L/L home team expanded to include those positive presences known as Daniel, Joanna, and Tiffani. The third in that group we’ve had close relationship with for over 20 years. Daniel and Joanna we had never met in person. All were scheduled to converge in space/time for our two back-to-back events: Coming Home Sep 8–11 and Homecoming Sep 16–18. We were very eager for this pow-wow.

How did two events come to be on consecutive weekends? With a September Coming Home in Asheville, we were originally aiming for an October Homecoming, but upon seeing Jim’s mild sadness that an Oct date would risk the first frost, we reconsidered. He works all year in his gardens with the expectation of showcasing his flowers and plantings at Homecoming. So, Trisha proposed holding the event the weekend following Coming Home. I gasped—that is huge. That is something we’ve never done before. We might die. Austin said… Let’s be legends. And when we realized… Wait-a-minute… that might make it possible for all of Team L/L Research to be in attendance for both events, we knew that destiny was calling to us. And so we ran with our madness.

To Asheville

Following a full day of travel from South Africa, Daniel landed at Muhammad Ali International Airport (Louisville’s airport was recently rechristened a few years ago in honor of its most famous citizen) on Tuesday. On Wednesday, Joanna made the journey from the other coast of this country. And on Thursday we set off together to meet Tiffani in Asheville. In her role as Event Manager, Tiff had landed at the retreat center outside of Asheville on Wednesday to begin prepping for the Thursday event.

[Sidenote: I realized recently that Muhammad Ali and Carla had very similar lifespans: Carla: 1943–2015 | Ali: 1942–2016. Moreover, both were from Louisville. Both two of the Greatest of All Time. Both service-to-others oriented beings, just one with a better right hook.]

We’ve had lots of correspondence and video meetings and shared work over the months/years, all to great harmony, but one can never know for sure what it will be like to meet an other-self in person, especially for an extended duration. It was really, really good. Our individual notes harmonized so well that, while we weren’t singing along to Weezer’s blue album (a favorite of mine in the 90s) on the 6hr drive to Asheville, we were making melody. I’ll offer some of my characteristically positive portraits later on.

Arrival Asheville

It would be great to detail all the fun, stressful, and banal logistical and interpersonal aspects that go into the pre-production of hosting an event, but I’ll just focus on a unique role Tiffani played this time. Coming Home was being held at a retreat center where nearly all attendees would be lodging during the course of the event. It was our first time using this center, and the first time we had to manage all the lodging: motel-style rooms, tent and RV sites. So, in addition to usual event production, she was something of a retreat manager for a weekend.

Tiffani arrived early to ensure that everything was set up as it should be, get the handouts together that we mailed, and coordinate with the staff on site. We arrived Thursday afternoon, a gorgeous mid-70s sunny day, to find that everything was in good order and that Tiff was at the front door greeting early arrivals. We all hugged, introduced, and smiled big. Then, with enthusiasm, we met with our Carebear cousins, Jess, BJ, and Aaron —our friends of TOTOH (Temple of the Open Heart) with whom we collaborate on this event. It was from them that we learned Open Space Technology, and it was in partnership with them that we launched the Coming Home series in 2018. Among their services to this event, we were very grateful that Jess had led the way in coordinating various drivers for the airport arrivals and departures.

Aaron, BJ, and Red setting up the grid for Marketplace

We got settled into our rooms, and then my brain went to preparing for the sequence of evening events to kick-off the 3.5 day gathering, starting with the cold open.

Opening Night

Moment One: It’s always the most nerve-wracking moment for me. People from all over the country, and sometimes world, are gathered in the circle for the first time. Many don’t know what to expect. Many are nervous or anxious. Some or many have never attended a Law of One-oriented event. Some are even quite new to the material.

Their energies are individual. They are not yet blended. It is silent—an expectant silence. And you become their first voice and point of orientation. This role does not harmonize with that confidence-challenged part of yourself that wants to hide and not be looked it, that doubts your ability to be of much service, that is sure you are a buffoon. But you push yourself off the cliff, you don’t falter, and you share what you came to share; which, in short, welcomes everyone to a safe, inclusive, and inviting atmosphere; emphasizes the beauty and the possibilities of healing and transformation when together in a container of shared seeking; and deemphasizes any specialness on the part of the event facilitators or our corresponding organizations; and calls oneself a monkey, which I did.

AVL Welcome: From there, Aaron welcomed the circle and introduced TOTOH on behalf of their team. Our friends in Asheville are beautiful human beings who are always on the beam, not of perfection but of doing work in consciousness, particularly the hardest work of them all: how to harmonize with one another. We’ve learned a lot from them over the years in cross-cultural conversation.

Logistics: Tiffani gave a weekend logistics report and opened for questions. It was her debut, and she knocked it out of the park.

Open Space Introduction: Austin introduced Open Space Technology, further priming the group for the design of the weekend.

Meditation: And then Trish held a silent meditation with an inspirational closing prayer she made before dinner in the dining hall.

Round Robin: Upon returning at about 7pm, we conducted one of my favorite activities: the Round Robin. Going around the circle clockwise, each introduces themselves. The ice breaks and the blending of energies deepens when people have the chance to speak their voice into the circle.

Banishing Ritual: Following the Round Robin, our friend Zachary Adama stood in the center of the circle, the sun already set, and conducted his variation on the Banishing Ritual. Unlike L/L’s practice, which uses a very intense and sharp enunciation of each word and gesture, Zachary chants (what to my ears are) variations on the words while gracefully flowing through the ritual.

ARG: And then, BJ and Jess, with some help from our mutual friend Red (formerly Jana), conducted the Authentic Relating Games. The first time I heard that term some years back, my culture-soaked brain thought: now that’s cheesy. But upon seeing the games in action, I was immediately converted. There are lots of variations, with the principal goal being to encourage releasing our barriers in order to facilitate authentic (aka: true, real, non-pretentious) connection. In my experience, these exercises help me personally break out of my own shell, somewhat.

Concluding around 9pm, the games were a hit. So far as I could perceive, everyone seemed loosened up, more open, and ready for the weekend to come.

BJ, Red, and Jess modeling one of the games.

Venue
Our host venue was a Christian retreat center that Jess, BJ, and Aaron scouted. At first, we weren’t sure if they would have a dogma-sourced aversion to our group. But they hold an attitude of inclusivity and open-heartedness. We felt embraced. And the grounds echoed the human energy. It was beautiful. Green abounded around us, interspersed with a mixture of facilities, stone buildings, open spaces, gardens, and adjacent small mountains.

Now, everything wasn’t perfect. Our main meeting space was a balcony with three open sides. Aesthetically, it was really pleasing. Acoustically, not so much. Our first evening featured roofers pounding away on a building nearby, along with some nearby lawn equipment, and some cars moving in and out of the parking lot just below the balcony. It was a panoply of aural accompaniment. And the food was pretty conventional and underwhelming, even under-serving some of our vegan friends. But it seemed to mitigate little against the purpose and positivity of the weekend. We’ve made a detailed analysis when considering a venue for next year.

Marketplace
As communicated in the Prague Law of One Gathering write-up:

We utilized the Open Space format that has proven so successful in the past. In this format, each attendee has an opportunity to pitch their presentation to the circle during the morning Marketplace portions. With feedback from the group, they then determine in which venue and time slot to situate the presentation. Offerings can run the spectrum of brain hemispheric activity—from the left-brained intellectual lectures and discussions to the right-brained artistic and emotional explorations—to body exercises, group activities, and everything in between.

Except that this was double the attendance of the Prague event and included an extra day. It was a buffet of spiritually productive offerings. I wish I could have attended many more.

BJ and Aaron DJ’d the first Marketplace on Friday morning, sharing both the spirit and the technical workings of OST. The large grid of columns (time slots) and rows (breakout spaces) began to fill rapidly as people stood in a line to pitch their offerings to the gathered group.

Presentations

As I wrote about for the Prague gathering, no two attendees have the same experience. Each time slot presents at least two, sometimes three or four, options. You can see the full lineup here, with tabs on the bottom for each of the three days, or tabs on top if on mobile. (Thank you to Trish for typing and organizing them.)

Here’s a quick synopsis of those I can remember attending, just a sampling of the many offerings available:

Presence Play – Improv Workshop – Stephanie has innovated techniques through her work using improv with troubled teens as a means to help them express and heal in university-sponsored group settings; and she’s done stand-up at Second City. She led the first improv experience I’ve ever attended that was equal parts uncomfortable (because of my personality), fun, and insightful, and that blended in humor really well. And it got off to a good start when, during her intro talk, I leaned back on my chair and it folded underneath me, causing me to fall on my ass in front of the gathered circle. Red-faced, I offered my fall as tribute to the improv session.
Harmony Council – Jess and Red shared their work pioneering the women-powered Harmony Council, which is best described in their own words from the Marketplace grid: “The Harmony Council is a template for a process we’ve developed in community over the last 3 years or so to resolve conflict at nearly every level, from person to interpersonal to community. It is a way to harness the transformational power possible when we’re willing to be surrounded by, and surrendered to, a circle of sacred witness and the open-hearted mirrors of our other selves.”
Seeker Seeks the One – This was my offering. We discussed the mystical seeking of unity, springboarding from quotes that I had collected and passed out to everyone.
Meet the Monks – First, some backstory: One attendee, Helga, was a riot just by being herself. Hailing from Appalachia, as she described it, she had an unmistakable presence, projecting her voice with candor and salt-of-the-earth humor. Helga reached out to members of the conference of black-robed Anglican priests which was happening at the retreat center simultaneously to us. She asked if they might want to speak to our group! lol. Surprisingly, they said they would.

Also… she took the print-out of Ra quotes (that I had distributed in the session mentioned above) and gave it to the priests at lunch. After she told me of this interfaith exchange, I looked over to the other side of the dining hall to see the 8.5×11 stapled printout being read with studiousness by a priest robed in black, then passed to the next, and the next, each holding a poker face that didn’t reveal what was going through their minds. I can only imagine! Given that the quotes I selected were centered on the mystical seeking of the Creator, I would like to think that there were spiritual essentials that might resonate with their dogma-bound but God-loving hearts.

Well, two of those priests came to speak to our group. They shared some of their biography and their religious path. Honestly, it was great. For me, not so much because they and we learned something about our mutually odd beliefs, but because we shared ourselves across different worldviews. They didn’t proselytize or seek to gain converts. They were actually quite brave in showing up in such an open spirit when they could have rejected the offer or sought to utilize the opportunity to serve their specific religious mission in some way.
Negative Greeting – Red led a group discussion on the ins and outs of navigating, identifying, and responding to negative greeting that did a great job exploring it through theory and personal example.
Essential Principles of Soul Evolution – Shahla, someone with whom we had corresponded but not yet met in person, and who was a delight to meet in person, led a discussion on spiritual evolution grounded in quotes collected from the Law of One.
Start a Study Group – Aaron led a talk about his years of facilitating and co-facilitatating the Asheville Law of One study group, along with discussing the principles of coming together for shared study. It was interesting: four of the facilitators for three Law of One study groups were present at Coming Home: Aaron and BJ for Asheville, Luis for Austin, and Rhonda for Birmingham, among other members of the various groups. The same happened with different people at Homecoming the next weekend. They were all cross-pollinating the flower-strewn Law of One field. 🌻
Sexual Energy Q&A – Suzanna, a longtime friend and board member, offered a second talk opened to everyone (the first was a women’s circle) to explore sacred sexual energy transfer. It was illuminating in revealing greater possibilities.
Spoon-Bending – In the over 19 years since I moved to Louisville, it is surprising that no bizarreness like this has come up on a group level. Daniel, L/L’s web developer, facilitated a group activity on what’s called “quantum spoon-bending.” It’s not spoon-bending using telekinesis alone. Instead, there is some visualization performed on the spoon, along with a request made, followed by a sensitivity to receive a response from the spoon, as it were. When it cues you, then it’s ready to bend with ease using minimal mechanical action from your hands.

Much to my astonishment, most everyone fulfilled the exercise as I watched them bend spoons with little applied effort. I didn’t, despite sincere intentions. The spoon I was working on felt like steel. I could bend it with applied force, but it would require two hands and some juice. Eventually I surrendered and passed the spoon to Trish. She did the exercise for a second time (having already mauled her first spoon) and, sure enough, when the time was right she bent that spoon like it was a paperclip. Amazing.

Inspirited with newfound confidence in the group’s spoon-bending prowess, we took an unplanned step further and attempted a Matrix-style, mind-only spoon-bending. We gathered in a circle around a vertically situated unbent spoon. Throwing together an ad hoc procedure for how to go about harnessing our collective mind-lasers to bend this spoon, we checked in with Daniel, the session’s facilitator, about what request we might make to said spoon. Laughter erupted when he quipped, “Please bend spoon; please, please, please.”

Despite that powerful incantation, and a period of intense silence and group focus, the spoon defied our collective will and remained in its full upright glory. But we had a great time.
Ten Fire Dance – The retreat boasted a sizeable firepit with concrete benches around which about 30 people could sit comfortably. On Saturday night we were treated to poi fire dancing by Ten, a professional fire dancer. It had a sacred edge to it as the talkative crowd gathered around the bonfire became silent to witness this dance of fire against the night’s blackness.
Creating 4D+ intentional community – Karin and Jess gave a presentation and opened the discussion for Q&A about their work building and sustaining intentional community modeled on fourth-density positive values.

Austin and Aaron each also offered a group study session using quotes from the Law of One, with one about service to others and the other about deepening authenticity.

Closing

What a continuation and intensification of the energy experience in Prague and Berlin held just a few weeks prior. Intensified because it was an extra day, there were more people, and we were all lodging on site. It was spiritual caffeine, and with longer lasting effects than its chemical counterpart and without the jitters.

Judging by various conversations I had combined with the reports at the end—that you can read here courtesy of the notes that Trisha took—everyone eased into the event really well. Gratitude was widespread. Many committed to returning as long as the event would be held.

Attendees contributed about a third of L/L’s scholarship funds for the event which helped people be there (thank you!). It was a big group for us. We’re uncertain about the net value of a group that size. Is important intimacy lost? Shouldn’t we try to meet the need as best we can? Questions we must consider, which will be aided by a poll that we’ll issue to gather attendee thoughts.

But it, along with the Prague/Berlin events, and the subsequent Homecoming gathering, really stoked our fires. We hope to have more next year, including online opportunities.

Also, two new Law of One study groups sprung from the Coming Home gathering: one in Chicago and one in Philly! And incidentally, at the same time they formed, we heard from a group in Mumbai that meets online to study the Law of One in Hindi. Ra’s ripples in the mass mind ricochet around the planet.

BJ welcomes the 🌞 with her own Logoic self

This post continues below with the Homecoming Gathering.

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Homecoming Gathering & Meeting the Team

LL_Central October 27, 2022November 4, 2022

This is a continuation of the post above.

To Louisville

The day following the event’s closing, we got to introduce the L/L crew to the Village, which is just the name that our Asheville friends have for their loose intentional community where many of the group live near one another. We enjoyed one of their daily communal meals. We met for a meeting to discuss the plusses and deltas of the Coming Home event and to plan for next year.

Austin, Daniel, BJ at Betsy (a house in the Village). The topic of conversation is probably spoon bending.

And the day following that, we embarked on a six-hour roadtrip back to Louisville! As a full group this time, with Tiffani in the van. (Cumberland Falls is just a few minutes off I-75 in Kentucky on the way. We stopped for a minute. The second largest waterfall east of the Rockies after Niagara, it is beautiful.)

Preparing for Homecoming

Upon arriving home, our six-person crew—Daniel, Tiffani, Austin, Joanna, Trish, me—forgot all about the event that just occurred in order to clear our minds and bodies for the event that was just 2.5 days away! In all my years, I never thought we could pull something like this off. Homecoming is a very intensive production effort, converting a suburban home into a weekend venue for usually up to 40 people, for whom we provide five homecooked meals and transportation assistance from/to airport and hotels. It is a long L/L tradition to help assist people flying into the event that is important, not only to help reduce the cost for attendees, but to help them to feel welcomed and at home from the moment they exit the airport.

The L/L office, where Carla, Jim, Austin, and I have spent much much time working

From receiving the tent and setting up the circle, reengineering and cleaning the house, preparing the meal arrangements, making big Costco/Kroger runs, coordinating with attendees, and so forth, it went surprisingly smoothly and was less stressful than it’s been in years past. We have a really good team. And we were aided by Anthony, an alumni attendee who is an intensive reader of the L/L library with seemingly infinite personal energy (at least I have not sensed a limit to it), who arrived early to help out.

Thanks to his loving tending from late winter onward, Jim’s gardens were a bounty of beauty and color. And minus some pain in his hip for which he would get a replacement surgery in late October, Jim was in great form and ready to receive the coming invasion with open arms and a corresponding heart.

The morning of Daniel and Joanna meeting Jim for the first time in person.

Jim and Joanna in the backyard of his home

Jim lunching down while Daniel shows him things on the website

Nothing ever goes completely according to plan, though. Jim’s basement had flooded at some point during the pandemic. This destroyed the boxes of meditation cushions (for the seated backjacks) stored down there, along with the burlap curtains we purchased and cut to string around the perimeter of the 40x40ft tent to block sun and add an aesthetic comfort to the large canopy. We discovered this the day before Homecoming and had to improvise.

Homecoming Commences

The hours leading up to the start of the event are among my highlights. I love seeing people who haven’t seen each other hug and shared updates and smiles, along with those who are new to each other embrace in open spirit. The exuberance felt particularly high this time around. Primarily, I think, because there was a three-year gap since our previous Homecoming. Many of our friends have been coming for years. It had an air of a family reunion, along with several new faces in the mix.

We join Morris and Linda in meeting Jonathan for the first time in person

Except for some baked chicken, Trisha prepared an entirely gluten-free vegan dinner that included: the aforementioned seasoned chicken, tofu, stir-fry vegetables, homemade stir-fry sauces, rice noodles, rice, garlic green beans, and sesame cabbage salad. And when stomachs were full from that, she brought out vegan/GF chocolate cake and vegan/GF pineapple-passionfruit cake.

She began work on this a month or so in advance, freezing what she made knowing that we’d be at Coming Home the weekend prior. It is an incredible amount of work that she has volunteered of her own initiative for nine Homecomings now, beginning before she was a staff member, and now undertaken in addition to her staff responsibilities. She is a sight to behold. Though tending to all that during the weekend in a kitchen not designed for 30–40 people causes her to miss much of the event, so this year she is finally showing signs of relenting and considering alternative options for future events. Fingers crossed.

The Schedule

As mentioned, this all takes place in a suburban home. We rent a canopy and pay the company to set it up in the backyard behind the garage. Because we got started with Homecoming later in the year than usual, every tent company was booked up for September. On a hail mary, we found a company who would make the 1.5hr drive from Cincinnati… at a premium.

The canopy goes in the one semi-open space that Jim hasn’t occupied with stone structures built by hand over the decades, mostly using limestone that he hauled from the Avalon property he and Carla used to own. (Avalon was nestled away in a small valley next near the Ohio River about an hour away. No electricity or running water, just an ancient shack with a foundation of stacked stone, it was a lovely place.)

Due to the lack of space for breakout areas, we cannot create a true Open Space Technology format with the circle pitching their ideas each morning. Instead, we build the schedule in advance from attendee submissions. We received 18 total that we were able to split between the tent and the living room. You can read the curriculum here, if interested. Everyone contributed great material, whether it was a lecture, a discussion, a practice, or a slideshow.

Homecoming tends to be a little bit more left-brained and a less embodied practice. It is, however, a great complement to Coming Home. As always, it is a socially boisterous event, balanced by moments of silence and meditation.

Tiffani led the authentic relating games

It carried that same spirit of gratitude for connection, with several of the attendees describing that feeling of absence making the heart grow fonder. It was a boon to our spirits that made a wonderful consummation of our journey of three major events and one minor in the span of five weeks. This was enhanced by the sense of being in our home space with family members.

These obviously higher-quality photos are courtesy of Ken (in bright blue).
He has a really nice Google Pixel phone camera.

At the Prague event, I mentioned that Austin, Trish, and I had the opportunity to cross a barrier and channel in front of others for the first time. The Homecoming also presented a similar opportunity. Unfortunately, I was too pooped to get energized and clear enough to channel, so I reluctantly bowed out. However, Kathy, one of our channeling circle members and a dear friend with an angelic gentleness about her, made her first go at it(!), alongside Jim, Trish, and Austin. Trish was particularly impressive considering that she’d gone through everything I had—including two weeks of people hosting + rotating driving duties with me to/from Asheville—and spent a lot of the weekend busting hump for the food production. The channeling circle did wonderfully together! I was filled with gratitude and a sense of home watching them channel Q’uo.

Synthesis

Throughout this writing I’ve referenced the energies and orientations of those sisters and brothers who joined us in these sacred spaces. I’ve spoken in highly positive terms because that reflects what I saw and experienced. But the joy and the meaning experienced by each arises in a context of suffering in the journey of service which unfolds in a hard, sometimes cruel-seeming illusion. Buddhas do not attend—except in the sense that, in truth, we are all buddhas—but people with wounds and scars, loss and limitation, confusion and episodes of privation, despair, and anguish.

What each shares in common is what they seek to do with that pain. There is a whole menu of options available in our third-density plane, from playing victim, to becoming embittered, to waging war, to seeking answers through material gain, to distracting the self, to… nothing. The spiritual seeker, instead, seeks healing, learning, and growth. In other words, they seek to use their catalyst—that wonderful word the Confederation uses to describe all life experience, the pleasant and the unpleasant. This is true of any embarked consciously upon the path of seeking the Creator, whether or not they read L/L’s work. The Law of One just offers a particular frame and platform for that seeking, and creates a common vocabulary for those who come together in its study.

And that is probably what most impressed me about everyone. There is an aspiration for the light. There is a desire to learn the ways of love. There is a need for healing the self. There is a quest to use the hard experiences for positive growth. There is a current of service.

I loved the personal stories I heard. I do have one representative example to share that doesn’t come from the events, actually. Because it was emailed, I can more accurately represent it in the person’s own words. This is a seeker with whom we’ve had some correspondence from India. They wrote:

Also wanted to inform the team that last Sunday (6th and 7th Sept) I had a heart attack, a symptom that was being built up for about 60 days with symptoms of fatigue, frequent headaches, blocked nose and gastric. On 8th I went for a healing treatment and on the same evening before I could begin, I had a massive attack, almost deadly. I somehow managed to breathe enough to get to emergency and surgical procedure was done on same night. So I survived 😅. Perhaps isn’t ripe enough for harvest

They put a stent on one of my arteries (LAD) which had 95% block. Whilst the experience was scary, due to the Ra Material I learned how to harness the love of one eternal creator to embrace, love and internalize this catalyst. I continue to pray for effective learning from the catalyst which I believe with the love energy of the creator I will learn it. I was peaceful throughout the experience, except for extreme painful situations where the mind was disturbed, but otherwise settled down with complete acceptance.

It’s not so much the Ra Material’s role in supporting this seeker that I wish to highlight here, though that too is of note, but rather, this being’s consciously intended and cultivated acceptance of their catalyst. This attitude, however variously and imperfectly embodied, is representative of what we witness at gatherings. And it humbles the self to be in its presence.

The Team

It is so good working on a team, together seeking the Law of One in shared mission. Austin, Trish, Jim, and I all loved meeting Joanna and Daniel in person, and reuniting with Tiffani. I will not do any justice to the fullness and complexity of the three new team members, but maybe I can offer an infinitesimal window into their depths.

Daniel

Meeting Daniel in the physical was a seamless continuation of the work we’ve done together for a few years over messaging apps and video. He is gentle and preternaturally calm. His voice has a meditative quality to it. With me driving and him riding shotgun, I learned pretty quickly that it was easy to be silent in his company, which is something I greatly appreciate as I am not a natural extrovert in social situations (I typically have to turn it on).

Though possessed of a gifted intellect, particularly, obviously, in the realm of web development (if you could see the magic he’s worked), there is an uncomplicated spiritual simplicity to Daniel that is easy to feel affinity with. The positively connoted simplicity that the spiritual seeker strives toward.

We have become great collaborators on the website, but it’s not just us leading ideas forward. He is constantly staying on top of the workflow, initiating new projects, and innovating new design strategies to meet and exceed the potentials of what’s possible. (There are great things in the pipeline.)

This was his first trip to the States, and his first two Law of One-centered events. In his opening introductions for both events, he mentioned that one of the primary values for him was getting to interface with some of the actual readership instead of the programs, numbers, and abstraction of web design. I think that it really inspired him to see the living impact of L/L’s material and of his work on the website.

I mentioned his meditative-like energy. At the Homecoming Gathering in the living room, he led a guided meditation that he created. Those gathered were very surprised that this was his first time. He took the group to a place of serenity and focus. One male attendee was even in tears at the end, feeling his heart very open. Daniel has plans on designing a meditation app that will integrate with the website and allow us to finally be able to support meditation practice and interactive shared meditation events.

Joanna

I’ve learned some of the snippets of Joanna’s own life journey in this incarnation, so I was greatly looking forward to deepening my understanding of her unique path. That, fortunately, was fulfilled. To a degree at least, as learning about an other-self is never-ending. Born in the Philippines, she spent the first portion of her life growing up in the slums of Manila. After her family was able to relocate to the States, and long before she knew what wanderers were in the Law of One-sense, she had distinct experiences of being different. In fact, her first US ID card listed her as “alien,” seeding or maybe intensifying an awareness that she was other-than that set up a condition of learning in the years to come.

There is a strong conscious drive in Joanna. A desire to examine herself and to confront those areas of where growth is needed. Combined with a desire to advance her understanding, in surrender to the inability to fully understand, of that which is beyond the boundaries.

What I think is one of the keys to her integration into the L/L team is that quality of the heart that exercises those spiritual disciplines Carla liked to speak about: praise, prayer, and thanksgiving; seeing the beauty of the human experience; finding creative ways to bring out the interconnectedness of all things; and bringing alive the magic. I think that this core attitude helps to develop the magical personality through the challenges that arise.

She’s also a great pun master, which makes sense as she earned her degree to become an English teacher. And she has been such an appreciated addition on multiple levels, including leading up the prison ministry and her support of the seeker ministry. She puts a good deal of effort in to meet seekers as best as possible.

We had the opportunity to be with Joanna and Daniel for two solid weeks through two gatherings, with both staying at Trisha’s and my home. A couple of my most cherished moments from that period came from just relaxing with a glass of wine and conversation at our place with these two between and after the events.

Tiffani

As I’ve talked about in a podcast that Tiffani joined us for (oh, that dusty podcast… someday soon we shall return to you), Tiffani and I met the same weekend we both first met Carla and Jim. It was April 2002, in Louisville. We were different people then, but we were both alive in the relative newness of Law of One study and the spiritual path itself, but where she was self-confident, I was not. Tiffani has had a long journey of friendship starting with Carla, Jim, and me that has grown to include Trish, Austin, and others at L/L.

As described in the BW report when we announced the new team, Tiffani was the only applicant who had any experience at L/L Research events. Almost 20 years in her case. So after proper vetting, we, in consensus with Jim, designed the new role of Event Manager. Holding space for spiritual seekers at in-person events is an important priority for L/L, but it is intensive and more than our existing workloads can accommodate.

We have various divisions of duties and specialties at L/L Research. Since Carla threw me into the ring in 2006 and asked me to produce an event with no experience, I’ve been leading up their production, learning how to improve every year. So this year I put in a lot of time and showed Tiffani the ropes of event management through three unique events–one international, two stateside. Coming Home was where she had the most opportunity to shine, and shine she did. She was like a multi-armed Hindu deity, holding together the various logistics of the event while playing hotel manager while liaising with the venue staff. She was able to take a lot off my/our shoulders. We’ll see next year she’s ready to more independently lead up production of gatherings.

We’ve explored in the podcast and I’ve written previously about her strength of will in the direction, as she describes it, of surrender in recovery from alcoholism. What I also admire about her is her social fearlessness. She doesn’t have my social hang-ups, awkwardness, or frequent avoidance of social situations. An extrovert by nature, she can talk to anyone. Unlike the quieter Daniel, when Tiff is in on-mode she externalizes her thoughts in a steady stream of consciousness. She did great speaking to the group, blending warmth, humor, and information.

What strikes me most when I consider her spirit is the strength of her will and faith. To pull through what she’s pulled through, and to come out with a cleansed and forgiven heart that takes responsibility for her creation, the shadow included, and sees always the best in others. Tiffani, like the others, is strong in the ways of the heart.

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Prague & Berlin Law of One Gatherings 2022

LL_Central September 6, 2022November 24, 2022

PRAGUE

We didn’t realize how much we missed this, how much we needed this. To be with spiritual seekers again. To blend the energies in service to others. To share not only a love for this philosophy but – more importantly – to share each other. My eyes welled with gratitude at multiple points during the weekend. Magic is everywhere in a universe made of and by the Law of One, but it really becomes evident and inspiring when like-hearts connect in a space focused upon collaborative work and sharing. Three weeks later I can see everyone’s face, hear everyone’s voice, and bring to life in my heart everyone’s particular energetic signature.

What I am pointing to is L/L Research’s first in-person event since before the pandemic: the recently completed August, 2022 Prague Law of One Gathering. Our last event was, funny enough, the October, 2019 Prague LOO Gathering. Almost three years! A drought that was so gradual we didn’t quite realize how parched our throats were, though our cracking skin was a growing sign.

27 people registered from nine different countries. It began Friday evening with introductions and what we call authentic relating games, which are just mechanisms designed to break the proverbial ice and begin the process of blending the individual into a harmonious whole.

Having been over three years during which the world became…different, we didn’t know what to expect; but from the first moment forward, each seemed to merge in the open heart the way it always happens at these gatherings. We do various check-ins over the course of the event, from beginning with questions about expectations/hopes/desires to sharing reflections at the end. Invariably there are reports of feeling at home, feeling an inexplicable familiarity and kinship, being where one is supposed to be (along with some accompanying sadness at times to return to the routine life and its attendant challenges); this due not to any special powers of L/L Research, but to the way the Creator makes Itself more known when humble seekers come together in shared seeking and service.

Breaking into smaller groups for Friday’s authentic relating games

Three dinners, two lunches, all vegan, including this pizza

Open Space

We utilized the Open Space format that has proven so successful in the past. In this format, each attendee has an opportunity to pitch their presentation to the circle during the morning Marketplace portions. With feedback from the group, they then determine in which venue and time slot to situate the presentation. Offerings can run the spectrum of brain hemispheric activity, from the left-brained intellectual lectures and discussions to the right-brained artistic and emotional explorations, to body exercises, group activities, and everything in between.

Each attendee has a different experience, as no two attend the same exact offerings throughout the weekend. I loved every presentation I attended. To highlight a few:

Bara, a member of the Czech translation, held a discussion about forgiveness where she courageously shared a tale of traumatic events in her past, her own struggles with forgiveness, and the very recent moment when it suddenly shifted and she moved into that sweet eternal river of light. The discussion that followed highlighted some of the difficulties (which I too grapple with) regarding the lived practice of forgiveness in a world such as ours.
Jochen, the German translator and L/L’s partner in publishing German and French translations, shared his deep and extensive background with the spiritual discipline of using chanting as a means of communion and purification. (He spent some years of his 20s in an ashram.) He is drawn toward sacred words such as “Adonai Vasu.” We participated in a chant set to a rhythm of those two words. I wish we had had more time, because as we chanted, I could feel an emotional knot of pain begin to open and the tears begin their journey to the eyes as my voice faltered during the chanting. But it was only a hint of a beginning.
Narek, a multinational friend with whom we’ve shared time at past Louisville and Prague events, led a breathwork session that was very much like the breathwork I did at a Stanislav Grof/Jack Kornfield workshop at the Omega Institute many years ago. Following Jochen’s session, the access to that buried crystallized emotional knot of pain began to re-open. Laying on my back on the ground breathing rhythmically and intensively to music playing in the room, the tears began to flow and the body began to convulse. But again I felt I was not reaching what needs to be processed and released. Outside of my sister Noelle’s sudden passing almost two years ago, which hardly let me stand upright at times, I haven’t had a deep soul cry in so very long. And I really need to cry.
Radim, another member of the Czech team, spent a whole session examining the Lord’s Prayer, line by line, a prayer that he had integrated into his own practice upon learning how important it was to Carla and integral it is to L/L’s channeling service. It was incredible how much insight and richness of meaning there was in each turn of phrase.
Sarah, a return attendee from the UK, held what I and others felt was a much needed service: a woman’s circle. Naturally I was not present, but each who did, including Trish, was quite grateful. Trish in fact decided to forgo offering her heartshare in favor of giving space to this woman’s circle.

And many others! This is just a small taste of the great variety of offerings at these events.

We were able to travel with Jim to the 2019 event, but this year Jim had cat commitments (the literal four-legged feline entities). Travel was not in the cards for this home-rooted Taurus. Fortunately, the group connected with Jim via Zoom for some Q&A. And we kept him with us in our hearts.

Channeling

Also in highlight, Trish, Austin, and I did the unthinkable. Prior to the event, we were invited to channel. We conveyed to Vojta not to build a channeling into the schedule. In our years of practice, and thanks in large part to the pandemic which put public meditations on hiatus, we had yet to channel in front of other people. We had taken plenty of live questions, just not with other people join us in the room. (Exception: Morris did once several years ago.) We were expecting to break that barrier when public meditations resumed this fall, but at an event on another continent with almost 30 other people? Unlikely.

But, we kept our minds and hearts open. Austin performed the Banishing Ritual every day in the space we might use just in case, and, come the day before, Trish, Austin, and I combined hearts and decided… yes, we would try it. We gave appropriate disclaimers to the circle and set a time for the next day.

Come Sunday evening, one of the attendees, Miroslav, played sacred sounds for the circle while we three human instruments performed our individual tuning/challenging process in the space to be used for the working. (Miroslav is one of those entities who anchors a grounded and expansive presence that gifts the circle tremendous light. He spent much of the weekend in meditation.)

We finished our processes a minute or two before the group began solemnly streaming into the space, Trish had tears flowing. In what I think may be a first, she reported seeing Carla “clear as day.” Trisha said that Carla was present and aglow with pride for her proteges, and also some light admonishment for taking ourselves too seriously. Trish received the message that we should essentially loosen up and enjoy ourselves—we were supported and would serve great. We were quite nervous.

It was an ordinary channeling like any other non-Carla (read: extra-ordinary) channeling. It was positively oriented information, but ultimately just a perspective inherent with its own incompleteness and biases. But special for us because we did what we thought we wouldn’t be able to do. In the moment after the session, my eyes were water-filled as I looked over to my companions. Austin transcended the role of colleague/friend and Trish transcended the role of colleague/wife, and I saw each as something… larger… a brother and a sister, each an equal peer and teacher to me, the three of us with arms linked taking another step on a long road of fulfilling the incarnational mission of service. It was a moment I and we will cherish for years to come.

By the end of the day with eyes I could barely keep open (dinner was very…celebratory), I excitedly report the event to Jim by email to receive a very heartfelt and supportive reply in return.

The gathered circle was so supportive in their beingness and attitude. What seemed a daunting prospect was made possible because of the generosity of their hearts. It actually turned out to be a highly conducive space to take this leap! Now, so long as we never have to do it again, because there are still apprehension-causing hurdles to cross, we can rest easy and put up our feet… : )

A Few People

Readers of L/L Research may recall the name Romi (or Roman) mentioned over the years by us or by Carla and Jim. A Czech transplant to Louisville in the early 90s, having defected when it was under the Iron Curtain, he was a very faithful friend to Carla and Jim, and then us, over the years. In 2013 he gave up his life in the States to return to his native country to care for his mother. He and we were eager for a reunion at this event, and then just days before it was scheduled to begin… he contracted covid. It was quite sad to be unable to see our old friend.

I wish I could speak about each person and shine a light on just some facet of the beauty I see in each, but that’s not possible. There are a few other highlights I wish to make.

Vojta, the lead of the Czech translation team and our dear friend, really came into his own. This was his second effort to lead the production on the ground in Prague following the 2019 event. It is always a lot of work, and it always presents new challenges, but there is a certain quality of copy + paste when you establish your precedents, so we were able to carry over the good work of 2019 and improve upon it. Thanks in large part to his efforts, the event ran without a hitch! Including filling our bellies with delicious vegan food for dinners and lunches.

Vojtech (nickname: Vojta) is someone with an irrepressible quality of energy and zest for life. A tall entity, he speaks loudly and seems often incapable of modulating to lower decibels (I joked that I imagine he is permanently banned from libraries throughout the Czech Republic), and he fills up whatever room he occupies. He is always laughing, whether at other people’s jokes or his own, sometimes halfway through what he is saying; and oh, he is ever on the lookout for a new English idiom. Vojta welcomes all into his heart and is very much himself with little pretense, an authenticity that he’s learned to embrace over the years.

And while I’m at it, a shout-out to Prague in August! Weather was a bit on the hot side but amazing nonetheless. It was great walking to the local small vegan restaurants for dinner.

It was also a first partial run for L/L’s first-ever dedicated Event Manager, Tiffani. (Since 2005 when Carla threw me into the ring and asked me to produce an event without training or preparation, I have been leading the production of L/L events.) Tiffani had helped to produce the event, processed all the registrations and various attendee-related questions and needs leading up to the event, but this wouldn’t yet be the platform for her to put her skill set to use—that is still upcoming. She was able to lend support and did a fantastic job designing and leading Friday’s authentic relating games and keeping the European attendees flowing from one session to the next.

Left to right: Emilly and Tiffani greet people at the door at the start of the event

And Sheyla! A member of the Serbian translation team for the TRC. We previously had correspondence and “met” through Jonathan Tong’s live zoom Q&As, but this was a first in-person meet-up. Among that which I personally needed was her humor. A barrel of laughs, that one; and fluent in the sarcastic arts, but not in the condescending or cynical way that many are. She threads that very fine needle of imbuing each quip with the green ray so there is always a sense of embrace and safety, even as mutual barbs are being exchanged. A delight to share energies with.

Left to right: Trisha, Gary, Jochen, Emilly, Vojta, Austin, Sheyla

And in the way that Ra describes the exponential possibilities of the mated relationship, Vojta’s life mate, Emilly, also passionate about the Law of One—and oh what a story of synchronicity, their coming together—supported the production and synthesized so effortlessly with Vojta and the rest of us in keeping the event not only logistically viable, but energetically clean and vibrant. While grounded, greatly intelligent, and pragmatic, she has the energy and the light of a flower. She just shines.

Emilly and Vojta distributing food during Saturday’s dinner.

Holding physical space for seekers of the Law of One has been part of the lifeblood of L/L Research. The absence of that space was beginning to become acutely felt. Being in a live circle of seeking again, giving and receiving service, was so reenergizing, uplifting, and heart-restoring. And hearing the same from others… I wish I could hug each one once more. I never want to again go three years without this

BRUSSELS

Among the translators that have remained dedicated to their service over the years is one entity forever rooted in our hearts: Misha Deschreider. A professional translator by trade, she has gifted L/L Research 13 different books in the French language. As she said recently, “Translating L/L Research books is always a great joy for me since it gives me a feeling to be closer to you all, and it is also the best way for me to learn fascinating things. How fortunate I am in this respect!” But it’s not her service alone that she has gifted; it is her energy, conversation, culture, and charm. Misha has been a friend since we crossed paths in September, 2007.

In the rooftop garden of Misha’s apartment complex

Sadly, she had to cancel her registration for the Prague LOO gathering. At almost 80 years old, her knees wouldn’t allow her the journey she made for the 2019 Prague LoO gathering, so we knew what we had to do: go see her. In between Prague and Berlin, Austin, Trish, and I made a stop for a couple of days in Brussels to spend with Misha.

Living in a well-maintained and comfortable senior living center, one of her neighbors brought over a paella dish for us to share together on day one. And we were joined by one of Misha’s LOO study group members, Mia, a transplant from Finland, for a blend of spiritual and personal discussion. The next day, Misha guided us through the public transit system to make our way to Brussels, the Grand Plac in particular, where with great care and meditational speed, we were able to walk, visit shops, and share a lively meal together. Though operating an aging body, she has such vitality of spirit, wit, good humor, questions, and stories to share.

It was sad to say goodbye. We all agree that the time was too short, though next year there is scheduled to be a sleeper train up and running that will allow her to travel to Prague.

This visit also intensified the repeating clock digit phenomenon. They arrive in clusters, and our first day with Misha I experienced five of them. They’ve continued, but less intensely.

BERLIN

And for our final stop, we were met by Vojta and Emilly (the latter of whom organized much of our weekend) in Berlin, the home city of Jochen Blumenthal who is the head of Das Gesetz des Einen Verlag. For the few who follow this Blogworthy, you’ll have seen Jochen’s name repeated over the years. In 2014, with Carla and Jim’s blessing and joy, Jochen officially pioneered something new for L/L Research: a satellite operation authorized to translate and publish L/L’s work in German. (Later Misha would join the arrangement to bring in French.) And since then he has been a faithful and much valued partner in the mission of L/L Research.

In conjunction with Daniel, a German student of the Law of One who we met the weekend prior in Prague, Jochen hosted a small public gathering that Saturday. We met at Daniel’s workplace for an event live-streamed via Zoom. As with the channeling effort the weekend prior, we were a bit nervous because being in front of a camera recording and streaming us, that’s still pretty new after all these years. But it went so well. As with Prague, the atmosphere itself was just beautiful—seekers gathered together in shared focus and positive spirit.

It was the first event we’ve participated in that was bilingual: every question that Jochen asked or relayed, along with every reply, Jochen translated into German. And extra exciting: Trisha finally joined Austin and me for our three-person panel. Uncharacteristic for her, she was nervous but spread her wings and, in our opinion, soared. It was strengthening for us three to be upon this adventure as a group, from the channeling the weekend prior to this live Q&A. We three have gone through a lot together, and thanks to catalyst both wonderful and not-so-wonderful, we’ve grown closer into a tight-knit, well-oiled operational unit, each of us dedicated to the mission and each other.

I had never seen Jochen in this role before. He was great and much more at ease than us. Jochen is a good speaker with a melodic voice. He is a great (albeit often meandering) storyteller who’s lived like an ascetic much of his life, including some years in an ashram, and has undergone a good deal of hard experience.

Being with him in his home environment gave me a deeper window into soul. He loves the streets. He loves the people. Smoking his rolled cigarettes and observing the world around him, he interacts with all walks of life, talking compassionately with whoever he encounters—from drug addicts, to the homeless, to religious sectarians, to business people, to young, old, and all manner of mind/body/spirit complexes.

Jochen showing Austin some aspects of his operation

We enjoyed meeting some new seekers at the Berlin event, re-seeing some faces that had been in Prague the weekend prior including Lin and Maximillian, and seeing some old ones like Matthias Galke who had helped us to produce the series of YouTube videos in 2019. Matthias led the Berling event in a couple short yoga sessions and spoke about his own Law of One-based tour de force: Intelligente Unendlichkeit . (Kids in the 80s may remember Johnny 5 from the movie Short Circuit. Matthias’s reading habits remind me of Johnny 5. He has consumed thousands of non-fiction books in years of research and study, the fruit of which he synthesizes into that book.)

I could also add a personal note about the fascinating and…painful history of Berlin. I am forever passionate about history, one of my great loves after metaphysics, and Berlin was a particularly rich place to be in that regard. Among the historical places we visited while in Berlin on our time was a walk along a preserved section of the Berlin Wall, which now features a variety of painted murals. (I didn’t quite realize that West Berlin was totally encircled by the wall, though being an enclave in then East Germany, that would make sense.)

But in the way of positive transmutation, we also walked by the site of the future House of One. From their website:

“Berlin is soon to become home to something truly unique. Jews, Christians, and Muslims are planning to build a house of worship here – one that brings a synagogue, a church, and a mosque together under one roof. The three separate sections will be linked by a communal room in the center of the building. This will serve as a meeting place, where worshippers and members of the public can come together and learn more about the religions and each other.”

Berlin is a hotbed of clashing and cross-pollinating cultures. Jochen called it a microcosm of the world.

HOME

Returning home, we were faced with a backlog of accumulated work that converged with the need to kick the engines into gear to ready ourselves for TWO more in-person gatherings coming in mid-September! (The first of which is this coming weekend.) This was not the universe’s brightest scheduling idea.

Time moves soo fast. It’s difficult to soak in and savor any one of experience. I blinked and Prague was over. And I am back in this fast-flowing river of duty and commitment in the service of this organization. But the aftertaste of the two events in Europe grow sweeter.

On the organizational level, to return to form after a three-year hiatus, to feel oneself of service, to see impact, to actively support other seekers in their journey, and to play a part in holding a container of connection, healing, and transformation—it was well worth all the effort. Also, the opportunity to work more closely with Jochen (who may one day head up a European publishing center for a variety of foreign languages) and Vojta (who is growing into leadership for European event production) was in good support of L/L’s mission.

On a personal level, Trish and I are somewhat isolated in our day-to-day lives (which was especially intense during the first year of the pandemic given that Trish is an immunocompromised person). But generally, much of our human interaction comes mitigated by technology. Outside of a week here and there spent with birth families, I can’t recall the last time we both spent such a span of time with loved ones/peers/fellow adventurers on a path of service on this strange planetary outpost. It felt so good.

My mom has six siblings. My dad seven. I had cousins galore growing up, combined with friends in school. Living with my grandmother from grades 7 – 12, my parents loved to host. We always had family members and friends over, whether something my parents organized, or our school friends visiting my brother and/or me, and all the dumb things that kids get into. When adulthood and the spiritual path commenced, I drifted and detached from all of that, losing a universe of relationships, along with the identity that was part of that world. While I’ve welcomed many beautiful people into my heart thanks to the Law of One, it’s been over 24 years since I had that sense of local community. It took some years to make peace with its loss, but I still feel its ache; perhaps an echo of that faint subconscious memory of being one with a planetary society of loved ones…

The above accounts of our journeys of service are not to be read as being experienced by perfect beacons of love and light. We are dumb, imperfect, ordinary mortals. I struggled with low energy at various points. One afternoon in Berlin I became somewhat withdrawn. After abstaining in the lead up to the Prague channeling, I keep my system clear for channeling, I succumbed to the inner seduction of nicotine and vaped on an off. But, save for a private moment of tension between Trish and me unrelated to the event, the venture was conducted in harmony. I love people. I love their stories, their aspirations, their talents, and their humor, especially. I love their individually unique light. I will miss everyone encountered during our European journey. The sights now are upon our upcoming events!

Prague, here and below, is an exceedingly beautiful city

An overlook of Prague near the event venue

Addendum

After the event, Radim reached out to a few of us regarding his presentation on the Lord’s Prayer at the Prague event. With his permission to publish here, he wrote:

I wanted to describe you what I imagine during the prayer but we were running out of time. So let me do it now. I altered this after digestion of the words and inspiration/thinking that came to me after our session.

I imagine space, infinite space and try to feel love and gratitude

– Our Father who are in Heaven, I imagine how this space forms Sun, logos, as a concentration of love, as a facet of the One

– hallowed be Thy name. Sun, its surface starts to move in a dynamic endless process

– Thy kingdom come, Sun starts to glow more into outer space being its Will to be received on Earth

– Thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven. Moving to Earth where all people have what they need in 3rd density, no thirst, no starving.

– Give us this day our daily bread I imagine people smiling, then hugging, all nations doing that

– and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. I imagine a person(s), balanced, knowing his/her incarnation purpose

– And lead us not into temptation I imagine people in great armor of light – but deliver us from evil.

I pause here for a while, trying to feel what comes back, no words

– (For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever.) Amen.

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