Text attacking Law of One and Ra Material

[yossarian]

I've found another one. Attacking also other channelings. What do you think?

"Channeling is simply a new word for mediumship. It is in no way different from the 'spirit' messages received by spiritualists in the 19th and 20th centuries. The deceitful entities responsible for such communications, wrongly perceived as 'spirit guides' and 'extraterrestrials', swarm like a shoal of hungry sharks within the Astral gloom; ever on the look out for easily influenced and gullible individuals, in order to unload within their untrained minds the fantasies they can no longer hold themselves ... "

More: http://www.occult-mysteries.org/channeling.html

1//They agree that All is One (if you read to the bottom)

2//They believe channeling is a real phenomenon

3//They say that some channeling has true contact with high beings, but this is only possible if the channeler is pure

4//They agree with Ra & Carla about tuning and about the low quality of most channeling

5//They agree with much of the Ra content, but complain that much of the content pre-existed the Ra contact and that content which is new lacks proof.

5.1//For example, they strongly reject the idea of 75,000 year major cycles. I partially agree with them: without evidence or rational basis for the 75,000 year claim, the reader can't make use of the claim and can't consider it true knowledge. But being unable to prove or use a claim does NOT make that claim untrue and does NOT invalidate the claimant, which they are implying. So they are making a logically invalid implication based on the logical fallacy "argument from ignorance".

6//They say "when the student is ready the teacher will appear" or in other words... "You are wrong. I am right. But I won't tell you why and you won't find out, unless some magic happens." This is not very helpful or useful.

6.1//The reader, in this part, is presented with an implicit suggestion to accept their unsubstantiated authority, but doing so falls to the same criticism by which they criticize the unsubstantiated authority of Ra/Carla/channeling.

7//They point the reader, instead, to occult works like Blavatsky. Again... there is nothing in the life or works of Blavatsky that is more rigorous or proven or substantiated or authoritative than any other random person or voice or entity. Their alternative to Ra has the same failings that Ra does--fundamentally lacking legitimate authority and also lacking any kind of rational or empirical substantiation.

Should we believe Ra? No. Ra says as much. Ra is as authoritative as any random homeless person. You must evaluate the content on its merits. The way in which it was created and the source does matter too, and in the case of L/L Research, I think we've all seen that they are transparent, ethical, sincere, and generous. L/L Research created the material and there is nothing to suggest its a scam of some kind. They aren't hiding anything and they don't hold themselves as authorities. So an analysis of the source doesn't undermine the authority of the material but actually supports it.

At another page on their site they say you should recognize a true teacher by their fruits which should be things such as compassion, service, honesty, stability, ethics, etc. Again, by their own standards, L/L Research shines more brightly than their own occult-mysteries.org site does. To be honest it would be hard to find a more ethical, transparent, and downright generous organization than L/L Research.

Compare the ethics of L/L Research to the best Church, Sangha, Temple, University, or Non-profit you can think of. L/L Research comes out very favorably. One might say LL has the advantage of being small. But LL consciously chose to stay small. They could have chosen otherwise a long time ago. Even back in the 70s, they could have been pumping out an army of channelers each bringing in money selling writing, training, all kinds of different products and services, building up a hierarchy with outposts across the globe, selling retreats and seminars. In the last 20 years they could have sold personal audiences with Carla and hyped her up as a magic superguru. They could have capitalized on the 2012 phenomenon but didn't even try at all and often downplayed it. Jim could be doing the convention circuit touring around hawking books and pyramids, giving speeches and personal readings. I wonder if LL people have even had these temptations presented to them? Or if they are so pure such suggestions never even entered their mind complex?

The fact that Don insisted that they give the material away for free is remarkable. This initial decision has echoed down the decades and resulted in LL today--an organization so admirable in its transparency and lack of profit-seeking that its hard to even believe it can exist in such a capitalist world. At some point the ethics of the organization become more remarkable than the material itself! It will be very interesting to see if these standards can be maintained in the long term.

(Huge thank you to Don, Carla, Jim, Ian, Steve, Gary, Austin, Plenum, Monica, Jade and all the other employees/helpers/moderators I don't know about)