User:Panyd/LawofOne
| Author | Don Elkins, Carla Rueckert, James Allen McCarty (L/L Research) | |
|---|---|---|
| Original title | The Ra Material: An ancient astronaut speaks | |
| Working title | The Law of One | |
| Country | United States | |
| Language | English | |
| Series | 5 books | |
| Subject | LC Class | 82012967 |
L/L Research is a New Age study group founded in 1955 by Don Elkins (1930–1984) in the context of the then-nascent "Ufology" culture in the United States. Elkins started an "UFO contactee group", which was joined by Carla L. Rueckert (1943–2015) in 1962. Rueckert became a partner in L/L Research in 1968.
In 1973, Elkins and Rueckert produced The Hidan of Maukbeiangjow, an exploitation film surrounding the theme of extraterrestrials visiting earth. In 1980, Rueckert began "
The records of dialogues of Elkins with the entity "channeled" by Rueckert were published as The Ra Material (also as the The Law of One in later editions) between 1982 and 1998 by Schiffer Books.[1] "Ra" is described as "a group of individual souls" at "a higher level of spiritual evolution".[2][3] The publishers attribute the authorship to Don Elkins, Jim McCarty, and Carla L. Rueckert.[4]
The book presents "Ra" as being of
"Ra" is claimed to be from the "Confederation of Planets in the Service of the Infinite Creator" and outlines a New Age description of the nature and evolution of consciousness. After Elkin's death in 1984, Rueckert began channeling the "Q'uo group", consisting of three "planetary consciousnesses", "Hatonn, Latwii and Ra". The study group maintained a website at llresearch.org from the mid 1990s, later joined by an "activist website" at bring4th.org.
References
- ^ ISBN 978-0-86091-567-6. Retrieved 6 February 2013.
- ^ a b Kinney, Jay (Summer 1995). Introduction: Stairways to Heaven. Gnosis. Vol. 36.
- ^ The Authors at L/L Research
- ^ "The Ra material: An ancient astronaut speaks". The Library of Congress Online Catalog. Library of Congress. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
- ^ "Admittedly, channeled information from aliens tops most people's list of dubious sources, and I am not touting it as a revealed truth demanding our allegiance. Nevertheless the system is worth at least a few minutes' attention for its sophisticated version of the general doctrine of higher worlds. [...] The drawback of the Ra schema is that it is readymade for paranoid or moralistic abuse, inviting the too neat division of people into positive or negative categories, and projecting those polarized values in even starker fashion onto immaterial realms that are, for most of us, vague intuitions at best". (Kinney 1995, 276ff.)
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