What exactly happened to Don Elkins?

[rva_jeremy]

For someone to say "I personally will not cease while still incarnate to disseminate this.", doesn't really appear to me as a detached, scientific attitude.

I think this is very insightful. Sometimes it is hard to square the gifts that Don brought to the contact with the way it all turned out. We want this story wrapped in a neat bow, and we try really hard to put it in a way where all is understood and places our individual journeys in a larger framework. But we are as subject to the paradoxes as Don, Carla, and Jim were, and nothing in the part of ourselves that demands perfectly tractable logical order will make this stuff both understood and workable. It is something we must accept, warts and all.

Re-reading book 5, I noticed this time how many times Carla would mention affirming the perfection of the situations she recounted. As we survey the transient events that surrounded the contact, it's not an uncalled for exercise for us to practice as well.