(02-16-2017, 11:36 AM)Bring4th_Jade Wrote:I'm going through the EXACT same thing right now.Quote:I don't mean to offend, but I am moved greatly into sadness by hearing Don be called crazy. Could you please elucidate on why you describe him as having gone crazy? Was he eating bugs or looking into radically irrational ways to do things?
You don't have to speculate. Carla spent many years writing about her experiences after the fact. Jim took over her blog in 2010 after he back surgery, but prior to that she has a lot of writings. Not to mention, Book 5 goes in to a bit of detail as to what happened with Don, and if any of you actually want to know where I make a lot of points about Don/Carla/Jim's life and where I learned nuances, you should also read the almost 600 page book that Gary created with interviews about specific parts of their life. There is plenty of information in there.
Towards the end of the Ra contact (a little over a year before it ended?), Don, Carla, and Jim's landlord was selling the house they were renting. They, at first, were going to buy the house from him, but the owner and Don began to quibble over a $5,000 difference in the asking price. Don wouldn't budge. So, they began looking for houses elsewhere - houses closer to where Don worked, at the airport in Atlanta, since his commute was so long (included driving to an airfield in KY and flying to Atlanta in a puddle jumper). They found a house nearby that was perfect, just a few miles from the airport, but apparently used to be a "party house" for some of the local athletes, so it needed some metaphysical cleaning, and maybe new carpeting, which Don didn't want to pay for. (he was stingy with money according to Carla) After they had visited the house they "should have bought", when they got home a hawk had landed on their porch and then flew away. Jim and Carla saw this as a good sign. Don saw this as a bad sign, because according to him, if they had received NO sign, they would have bought the house. But the hawk seemed like a "wrench" so they kept looking.
Finally they found a house in north Atlanta to which they moved. However, driving from north Atlanta to the airport in south Atlanta in heavy traffic was a worse commute than Don had before, so this was very stressful for the group. Jim told the story in his blog just the other day about how his brakes went out when he was moving their stuff up there - which he regrets not taking as a sign! I think the "hawk" incident, though, is really when Don's paranoia began to creep in. He also began to get more paranoid about Jim and Carla's relationship (as Don began to withdraw more, Jim and Carla spent more time together - but essentially Don was always Carla's everything). And the house in north Atlanta was horrible. As things progressed along, he got more and more paranoid, even telling Carla which chairs she was able to sit in because he was sure the others were bugged. He grabbed Carla once so hard to hug and kiss her that he bruised her arm - which is extra weird because he wasn't ever physically affectionate with her, but this was a function of his paranoia telling him that he was "losing her to Jim". He stopped eating. Jim and Carla knew he was going to die, he had lost like 60lbs, and he was extremely paranoid, so they called the police to try to have him committed. When the police got there, they took over the situation and wouldn't let Jim and Carla help calm down - all they were worried about was that he had a gun, and they had to stop the crazy man with the gun. So they wouldn't let Carla talk to him, she had to wait at the neighbor's house, and eventually Don gave up, because he didn't want to go die in a hospital, or have the police shoot him, so took his own life and died in his home.
Jim also hints to a story that it's possible that Don willingly gave himself to the negative 5th density entity who was primarily targeting Carla. Ra mentioned that Don and Carla had a "deleterious energy transfer" in which Don became the "weak and foolish one".
Don always had guns. Don was a military guy and also a trick shooter, so he always had guns, even when it made Jim and Carla uncomfortable. I think, even, the story goes that Carla tried to remove most of the guns from the house, but this one remained either unbeknownst to her or with her okay that "one was fine/necessary for protection".
Don became increasingly more and more paranoid before he died. Carla talks about this quite openly. It's a very sad story. After Don died, Carla was bed ridden for like, 8 years? Something like that? So she basically almost died too. The efforts the group sustained to receive this information were no joke.
My apologies if my use of "crazy" offends anyone or anything. I'm just trying to make a point. Don devolved into pretty heavily onset paranoid schizophrenia, at least it seems from my perspective that he would have been diagnosed that way. Then he killed himself. Do I believe he would followed this life pattern if they hadn't had the Ra contact? No, I emphatically do not. I think his suicide was a function of the Ra contact, of the deliberate workings of the 5th density negative entity, and even a warning to others about attempting this work.
All along, Don had a lot of trouble opening his heart chakra. I think this was his true weakness. He had made a personal decision as a young man to look at everything objectively and to not be swayed by emotions. By the time he was in his 60s, opening his heart was so painful and scary to him. He wasn't prepared at all. Carla said after their energy transfer, he became so soft hearted he began crying while watching commercials. He was not prepared to begin looking at the world from this new angle.
Anyway, this is the recitation of events to the best of my knowledge. I probably left some stuff out. But according to the indepth descriptions Carla gives of Don in Tilting At Windmills, he doesn't seem like the type who would have committed suicide in a regular set of occurrences. Don had lots of friends, and enjoyed working greatly. He was social and gregarious, and everyone loved him. But, they had a 5th density negative entity who was INTENT on removing the lives of at least one of the group, to stop the contact, according to Ra at least. And it succeeded.
I think we're connected. My partner even had the vision that changed her life on 7 November, the day Don passed.