Incarnation, Harvest, 4D and helping others ascend

This is an extract of the free e-book from David Wilcock The Shift of the Ages and it is major stuff.
CHAPTER 15: CAYCE AND RA SPEAK ON THE GREAT SOLAR CYCLE | Divine Cosmos

He re-formulates for us in 3D language passages from The Law of One (Q&A with Ra), that describe in quite a very precise language what Incarnation, Harvest and 4D are about, mentioning concrete anecdotes.
In particular, if you read the text several times, you have a concrete idea of what the "spirit" is. This is real.
Also, the extract touches the meaning and the how of assisting others people ascend to 4D.

A must.

Q: How were you able to make the transition from Venus? Did you have to change your dimension to walk upon the Earth?

RA: I am Ra. You will remember the exercise of the wind. [This was a process regarding opening the pathway to higher consciousness.] The dissolution into nothingness is the dissolution into unity, for there is no nothingness.

From the sixth dimension, we are capable of manipulating, by thought, the intelligent infinity present in each particle of light or distorted light so that we were able to clothe ourselves in a replica visible in the third density of our mind / body / spirit complexes in the sixth density.

We were allowed this experiment by the Council which guards this planet.

Again, what Ra seems to be referring to here is that they are taking each “distorted particle of light,” and manipulating its frequency to a lower vibrational level in order that they might become physically visible to us on Earth.

What they are obviously referring to is consciousness units, which have been central to our discussion. Ra then seems to hint at some form of cosmic government or Council that allowed them to do this. Naturally, Elkins jumped on the opportunity to ask about this.

Q: Where is this Council located?

RA: I am Ra. This council is located in the octave, or eighth dimension, of the planet Saturn, taking its place in an area which you understand in third-dimension terms as the rings.

Q: Are there any people such as you find on Earth on any of the other planets in our solar system?

RA: I am Ra. Do you request space/time present information space/time continuum information?

Q: Both.

[David's Note: I laughed when I first read Elkins' response. But I then thought to myself that with a question as serious as this, if they offered you two choices, you would have said "both" too.]

RA: I am Ra. At one time/space, in what is your past, there was a population of third-density beings upon a planet which dwelt within your solar system. There are various names by which this planet has been named. The vibratory sound complex most usually used by your peoples is Maldek.

These entities, destroying their planetary sphere, thus were forced to find room for themselves upon this third density which is the only one in your solar system at their time/space present which was hospitable and capable of offering the lessons necessary to decrease the mind/body/spirit distortions with respect to the Law of One.

Right away, we see that Ra provides the perfect explanation for the "exploded planet hypothesis" of Van Flandern, years before it was ever put before the public. The planet's explosion was due to the fact that its own people destroyed it.

Q: How did they come here?

RA: I am Ra. They came through the process of harvest and were incarnated through the processes of incarnation from your higher spheres within this density.

[Understand that Ra has made this statement without having explained what harvest was at any point in their work so far.]

Q: How long ago did this happen?

RA: I am Ra. I am having difficulty communicating with this instrument. We must deepen her state. This occurred approximately 500,000 of your years ago.

Q: Is all of the Earth's human population then originally from Maldek?

RA: I am Ra. This is a new line of questioning, and deserves a place of its own. The ones who were harvested to your sphere from the sphere known before its dissolution as other names, but to your peoples as Maldek, incarnated, many within your Earth's surface rather than upon it.

The population of your planet contains many various groups harvested from other second-dimension and cycled third-dimension spheres. You are not all one race or back­ground of beginning. The experience you share is unique to this time/space continuum.

Now, we can clearly see that Ra is referring to a form of planet-hopping, which they are calling harvest. They are also implying that most people on Earth had lived on other planets in the past and were harvested from them.

Since harvest was not yet explained, Elkins took the opportunity to try to figure out exactly what it was.

Q: I think that it would be appropriate to discover how the Law of One acts in this transfer of beings to our planet and the action of harvest?

RA: I am Ra. The Law of One states simply that all things are one, that all beings are one. There are certain behaviors and thought-forms consonant with the understanding and practice of this law.

Those who, finishing a cycle of experience, demonstrate grades of distortion of that [higher-dimensional] understanding of thought and action will be separated by their own choice into the vibratory distortion most comfortable to their mind/body/spirit complexes.

This process is guarded or watched by those nurturing beings who, being very close to the Law of One in their distortions, nevertheless, move towards active service.

So, to translate what Ra is saying here, harvest occurs when an entity “finishes a cycle of experience,” which we will soon learn from Ra as being our 25,000 year interval.

At that point, the entity can make a freewill decision to go into a higher dimensional frequency, or a “vibratory distortion most comfortable to [its] own mind/body/spirit complex.”

Furthermore, we learn that this process is not automatic, but rather coordinated by “nurturing beings very close to the Law of One,” or what we would term either extraterrestrials or angelic beings. We continue:

Thus, the illusion is created of light, or more properly but less understandably, light/love. This is in varying degrees of in­tensity. The spirit complex of each harvested entity moves along the line of light until the light grows too glaring, at which time the entity stops.

This entity may have barely reached third density or may be very, very close to the ending of the third-density light/love distortion vibratory complex.

Nevertheless, those who fall within this octave of intensifying light/love then experience a major cycle during which there are opportunities for the discovery of the distortions which are inherent in each entity and, therefore, the lessening of these distortions.

You have to read that paragraph carefully, as the implications of what Ra is saying are vast. An entity could be “very, very close to the ending of the third density,” but if the entity is not ready for the fourth level, the entity must experience another “major cycle” of the third dimension.

Obviously there is a quite good reason to overcome your lessons of third-density polarity and karma!

Q: What is the length, in our years, of one of these cycles?

RA: I am Ra. One major cycle is approximately 25,000 of your years.

There are three cycles of this nature during which those who have progressed may be harvested at the end of three major cycles. That is, approximately between 75 and 76,000 of your years.

All are harvested regardless of their progress, for during that time the planet itself has moved through the useful part of that dimension and begins to cease being useful for the lower levels of vibration within that density.

This paragraph is perhaps the single most important statement we can glean from Ra to point in the direction of the reality of this cycle.

It says that any planet in the cosmos with intelligent life apparently goes through a 25,000-year “major cycle” as part of the functioning mechanism of the universe. This cycle obviously determines when the entities there are “harvested.”

Plus, we learn that no planet has to “put up” with more than three of these cycles. Obviously, third-density life is very hard on a planet; the Maldek entities even went so far as to destroy the entire planet. Luckily, we haven’t done the same thing here.

Q: What is the position of this planet [Earth] with respect to the progression of cycles at this time?

RA: I am Ra. This sphere is at this time in fourth-dimension vibration. Its material is quite confused due to the society memory complexes embedded in its consciousness.

It has not made an easy transition to the vibrations which beckon. Therefore, it will be fetched with some inconvenience.

As you can already see here, and becomes even more obvious later, Ra is saying that we on Earth have almost finished our passage through three major cycles. It is so close to us now that the fourth-dimension vibration is already extremely strong.

Ra speaks of the "inconvenience" in our transition to the higher vibrations; this fits very nicely with the Cayce information regarding Earth Changes and pole shift as we approach these turning points.

Q: Is this inconvenience imminent within a few years?

RA: I am Ra. This inconvenience, or disharmonious vibratory complex, has begun several of your years in your past. It shall continue unabated for a period of approximately thirty of your years.

Since the Ra Material was written in 1981, the target timeframe is 2011-2012. Remember, this was BEFORE all the hubbub about the Mayan Calendar end-date came out... in all five books, Don Elkins never once mentions the Calendar or 2012.

After that point in time, Ra says the inconvenience is over, because the cycle itself has ended. Therefore, some time after Dec. 22, 2012, or thereabouts, the Earth will be 100 percent fourth-dimensional vibration, and all life upon it will be fourth-dimensional or higher.

We can again see how the Ra Material is fitting perfectly with all the data that we have before us. This data correlates perfectly with the ending date of the Mayan Calendar, and vastly increases the knowledge gleaned from the Cayce Readings regarding these cycles.

Q: After this period of thirty years [1981+30 = 2011] I am assuming that this will be a fourth density planet. Is this correct?

RA: I am Ra. This is so.

Q: Is it possible to estimate what percent of the present population will inhabit the fourth-density planet?

RA: I am Ra. The harvesting is not yet, thus, estimation is meaningless.

Wilcock’s own sources indicate that the numbers are still lower than they should be, however many of the great Earth Changes prophesied for 1998 in other readings by Cayce did not come to pass. Hopefully, more progressive spiritual events will occur in our societies to raise the numbers of people who are "harvestable."

Q: Does the fact that we are in this transition period now have anything to do with the reason that you have made your information available to the population?

RA: I am Ra. We have walked among your people. We remember. We remember sorrow: have seen much.

We have searched for an instrument of the proper parameters of distortion in mind/body/spirit complex and supporting and understanding of mind/body/spirit complexes to accept this information with minimal distor­tion and maximal desire to serve for some of your years.

The answer, in short, is yes. However, we wished you to know that in our memory we thank you.

What we can see from the above paragraph is that the whole reason for a contact like Ra to occur now is to prepare this planet for harvest, or Ascension. This is literally identical to what Ra keeps saying through Wilcock as well.

We are at the most crucial turning point of the entire 75,000-year cycle. Notice that Ra said that 2012 was the completion of the planet’s progress into the fourth density; they did not say that it was the first time that human entities would be able to Ascend. They tell us that the “inconvenience”, or Earth Changes, will last this whole period of time.

And now, we jump ahead to the next quote, where Ra reveals the true scope of the organization and vastness of the multidimensional or extraterrestrial forces that are around us at this time.

Q: Do any of the UFOs presently reported at this time come from other planets, or do you have this knowledge?

RA: I am Ra. I am one of the members of the Confederation of Planets in the Service of the Infinite Creator. There are approxi­mately fifty-three civilizations, comprising approximately five hundred planetary consciousness complexes in this Confeder­ation.

This Confederation contains those from your own planet who have attained dimensions beyond your third. It contains planetary entities within your solar system, and it contains planetary entities from other galaxies.* It is a true Confederation in that its members are not alike, but allied in service according to the Law of One.

Q: The way that I understand the process of evolution is that our planetary population has a certain amount of time to progress. This is generally divided into three 25,000-year cycles. At the end of 75,000 years the planet progresses itself. What caused this situation to come about with the preciseness of the years in each cycle?

RA: I am Ra. Visualize, if you will, the particular energy which, outward flowing and inward coagulating, formed the tiny realm of the creation governed by your Council of Saturn. Continue seeing the rhythm of this process.

The living flow creates a rhythm which is as inevitable as one of your timepieces.

Each of your planetary entities began the first cycle when the energy nexus was able in that environment to support such mind/body experiences. Thus, each of your planetary entities is on a different cyclical schedule as you might call it. The timing of these cycles is a measurement equal to a portion of intelligent energy.

This intelligent energy offers a type of clock. The cycles move as precisely as a clock strikes your hour. Thus, the gateway from intelligent energy to intelligent infinity opens regardless of circumstance on the striking of the hour.

Note that Ra refers to the energy as “outward flowing and inward coagulating.” This is an indication that the Sun itself is a giant, pulsating consciousness unit, existing in all dimensions and pulsating throughout them.

This provides a very tidy explanation for the 'cycles of the solar activity' referred to by Cayce. And as we can repeatedly see from Ra, this pulsation takes on a geometric and geographical counterpart.

This pulsating cycle of the consciousness units is so exact, according to Ra in this quote, that it can be precisely timed and measured. This might also be related to the precision of our modern atomic clocks, which we now use as an absolute standard for timekeeping.

We also see from the above statements that each planet, since it occupies a different position in the Solar System, also has a different “cyclical schedule.”

The above excerpt makes it very clear that there is a harmonic order to the movement of large-scale planetary, solar and galactic bodies, an order which determines the length of time that it takes them to move very precisely.

As we move towards the conclusion of this book, we will cite mathematical evidence, including never-before-seen findings of Wilcock's own, that provide a much firmer basis for this understanding.

In the next excerpt, Elkins tries to obtain more information on exactly how it is that harvest takes place, in terms of the “planet-hopping” we had been discussing.

Q: When graduation occurs at the end of a cycle, and entities are moved from one planet to another, by what means do they go to a new planet?

[Notice that Elkins asks a question in the plural; “entities.” His answer is in the singular: “… totality/beingness.” In other words, the planet’s intelligent life is One.]

RA: I am Ra. In the scheme of the Creator, the first step of the mind/body/spirit/totality/beingness is to place its mind/body/ spirit complex distortion in the proper place of love/light.

This is done to ensure proper healing of the complex and eventual attunement with the totality/beingness complex.

This takes a very variable length of your time/space.

It is important to note that Ra tells us in other places that a mind/body/spirit/complex/totality/beingness is the full summation of a planet worth of beings as one identity.

So to translate this, the individual entities are referred to here as “mind/body/spirit/complex distortions;” they are distorted forms of the whole that are only apparently individual.

What we see is that the whole group consciousness of the planet places its apparent individual entities into “the proper place of love / light” in order to “ensure proper healing.”

After this is accom­plished, the experience of the cycle is dissolved and filtered until only the distillation of distortions in its pure form remains.

At this time, the harvested mind/body/spirit/totality/beingness eval­uates the density needs of its beingness and chooses the more appropriate new environment for either a repetition of the cycle or a moving forward into the next cycle.

This is the manner of the harvesting, guarded and watched over by many.

What we can see here is that it appears that the entire planet of entities chooses what its mass karmic lessons are, or what it needs to learn. If it needs to incarnate as a whole on a different planet as many apparently separate and individual entities, then it will do so.

If it hasn’t fulfilled its evolutionary obligations to, in our case, the fourth density, it might choose to find another third-density planet for “a repetition of the cycle.” And again we are reminded that this whole process is “guarded and watched over by many.”

So what this means is that there are entities in the universe that are powerful enough to guard and watch over an entire planet worth of beings as their group-mind decides what to do in this harvest situation.

Q: When the entity is moved from one planet to the next, is he moved in thought or by a vehicle?

RA: I am Ra. The mind/body/spirit/totality/beingness is one with the Creator. There is no time/space distortion. Therefore, it is a matter of thinking the proper locus in the infinite array of time/spaces.

Our next excerpt of questions shows us that since we are so close to the end of the cycle, our world is almost completely in fourth-density already. The only thing holding it back now is our own consciousness. But once the cycle completes, the changes will be permanent, as Ra has said.

Q: What is the density level of our planet Earth at this time?

RA: I am Ra. The sphere upon which you dwell is third density in its beingness of mind/body/spirit complexes. It is now in a space/time continuum, fourth density. This is causing a some­what difficult harvest.

Q: How does a third-density planet become a fourth-density planet?

RA: I am Ra. This will be the last full question.

The fourth density is, as we have said, as regularized in its approach as the striking of a clock upon the hour.

The space/time of your solar system has enabled this planetary sphere to spiral into space/time of a different vibrational configuration.

[Again, remember Cayce's line, "the cycle of the Sun's passage through the various spheres of activity'"in describing this same cycle. We can clearly see the parallels here.]

This causes the planetary sphere to be able to be molded by these new distortions.

However, the thought-forms of your people during this transition period are such that the mind/body/spirit com­plexes of both individual and societies are scattered throughout the spectrum instead of becoming able to grasp the needle, shall we say, and point the compass in one direction.

Thus, the entry into the vibration of love, sometimes called by your people the vibration of understanding, is not effective with your present societal complex. Thus, the harvest shall be such that many will repeat the third-density cycle.

The energies of your Wanderers, your teachers, and your adepts at this time are all bent upon increasing the harvest. However, there are few to harvest.

In our next Ra quote, Elkins has asked if it indeed is true that in our third dimension, “there is actually no past or future, that all is present. Would this be a good analogy?” The answer is surprising.

RA: I am Ra. There is past, present, and future in third density. In an overview such as an entity may have, removed from the space/time continuum, it may be seen that in the cycle of completion there exists only the present.

We, ourselves, seek to learn this understanding. At the seventh level or dimension, we shall, if our humble efforts are sufficient, become one with all, thus having no memory, no identity, no past or future, but existing in the all.

If we look closely at this, we realize that the goal of any entity in the universe is to merge with the One and to lose any sense of individuality or separateness. Ra’s answer reveals that they do indeed have some sense of time, some sense of a forward progression of events, even if it is nowhere near as strict as our own.

Thus, even though they can move through time and see the different potentials, they are not currently exempt from a feeling of linearity in at least some form.

Q: Does this mean that you would have awareness of all that is?

RA: I am Ra. This is partially correct. It is our understanding that it would not be our awareness, but simply awareness of the Creator. In the Creator is all that there is. Therefore, this knowledge would be available.

And now that Ra has explained the seventh density and the one-pointedness of mind therein, Elkins seeks to elicit a similar understanding for what we ourselves are heading into; the fourth density. Ra’s answer should help us start to understand what we have to look forward to in the now very near future.

Q: Thank you. Is it possible for you to give a short description of the conditions in the fourth density?

RA: I am Ra. We ask you to consider as we speak that there are not words for positively describing fourth density. We can only explain what is not and approximate what is. Beyond fourth density our ability grows more limited until we become without words.

That which fourth density is not: it is not of words, unless chosen. It is not of heavy chemical vehicles for body complex activities. It is not of disharmony within self. It is not of disharmony within peoples. It is not within limits of possibility to cause disharmony in any way.

Approximations of positive statements:

it is a plane of type of bipedal [humanoid] vehicle which is much denser and more full of life;
it is a plane wherein one is aware of the thought of other-selves;
it is a plane wherein one is aware of vibrations of other-selves;
it is a plane of compassion and understanding of the sorrows of third density;
it is a plane striving towards wisdom or light;
it is a plane wherein individual differences are pronounced although auto­matically harmonized by group consensus.

In the last line, Ra says that “individual differences are pronounced,” but that the group mind automatically harmonizes these differences. It is clear that the closer you are to approaching true Oneness, the less you have any individual sense of identity.

That would explain why in the seventh density, there is no apparent self-consciousness, only the consciousness of the One. With the next question Elkins asks, we get some insight into the causative forces behind the Earth Changes as we head towards harvest or Ascension.

Q: We are now in the fourth density. Will the effects of the fourth density increase in the next thirty years? Will we see more changes in our environment and our effect upon our environment?

RA: I am Ra. The fourth density is a vibrational spectrum. Your time/space continuum has spiraled your planetary sphere and your, what we would call galaxy, what you call star, into this vibration.

This will cause the planetary sphere itself to electro­magnetically realign its vortices of reception of the in-streaming of cosmic forces expressing themselves as vibrational webs so that the Earth thus be fourth-density magnetized, as you may call it.

This is going to occur with some inconvenience, as we have said before, due to the energies of the thought-forms of your peoples which disturb the orderly constructs of energy patterns within your Earth spirals of energy which increases entropy and unusable heat.

This will cause your planetary sphere to have some ruptures in its outer garment while making itself appro­priately magnetized for fourth density. This is the planetary adjustment.

What Ra is saying here is that the Earth will “electromagnetically realign its vortices of reception” with what is emanating from the Sun. This same realignment is indicated in the Cayce Readings and many other sources as a shifting of the poles.

Elkins’ question specifically asked for events within the next thirty years, not at the end or afterwards. This would fit in well with the Cayce Readings indicating a date for polar shift of approximately 2001 or thereafter.

You will find a sharp increase in the number of people, as you call mind/body/spirit complexes, whose vibrational potentials include the potential for fourth-vibrational distortions.

Thus, there will seem to be, shall we say, a new breed. These are those incarnating for fourth-density work.

There will also be a sharp increase in the short run of negatively oriented or polarized mind/body/spirit complexes and social complexes, due to the polarizing conditions of the sharp delineation between fourth-density characteristics and third-density self-service orientation.

Those who remain in fourth density upon this plane will be of the so-called positive orientation.

Many will come from elsewhere, for it would appear that with all the best efforts of the Confeder­ation, which includes those from your peoples' inner planes, inner civilizations, and those from other dimensions, the harvest will still be much less than this planetary sphere is capable of comfortably supporting in service.

This last sentence exemplifies the problem that we, as Lightworkers, are still trying to solve in the present. The data about the “sharp increase… of negatively oriented [entities]” is very similar to Cayce’s description of the end of Atlantis, with the battle between the Sons of the Law of One and the Sons of Belial.

It is becoming more and more obvious that great tensions between people are developing, and this answer helps to explain why.

One must then ask, if the harvest is so low, as Ra is indicating, what can we do? Is there anything we can do, and if so, how do we do it? Ra’s insights with regards to the form of the solution are quite interesting.

Q: Is it possible by the use of some technique or other to help an entity to reach fourth-density level in these last days?

RA: I am Ra. It is impossible to help another being directly. It is only possible to make catalyst available in whatever form, the most important being the radiation of realization of oneness with the Creator from the self, less important being information such as we share with you.

Again, Ra defines “catalyst” as the outside circumstances and energies that lead people towards the Light of Everlasting Love; sometimes with subtlety, other times with great intensity.

Earth Changes are a form of intense planetary "catalyst" to get us out of our houses and to start living and cooperating with each other.

We, ourselves, do not feel an urgency for this information to be widely disseminated. It is enough that we have made it available to three, four, or five. This is extremely ample reward, for if one of these obtains fourth-density understanding due to this catalyst then we shall have fulfilled the Law of One in the distortion of service.

We encourage a dispassionate attempt to share information without concern for numbers or quick growth among others. That you attempt to make this information available is, in your terms, your service. The attempt, if it reaches one, reaches all.

We cannot offer shortcuts to enlightenment. Enlightenment is, of the moment, an opening to intelligent infinity. It can only be accomplished by the self, for the self.

SUMMARY

With these few lines, we will end this chapter detailing Ra's insights on our solar cycle. It is made very clear here that even with how low the numbers are for harvest, there are many entities who are just not ready for it yet, and though might seem depressing to us, it is what it is, and we simply need to respect it.

Our focus should really be on those who are on the edge, who are very close to remembering and understanding the truth, so that we might then steer them in the right direction.

Therefore, if even one person makes the harvest as a result of our own efforts, we have succeeded in what we are here to do. And that realization greatly takes off the pressure.

So now, with all that we have uncovered with Ra in this book there is a complete framework to understand this cycle.

The problem, as we have said, is that this type of information does not appear at the outset to be "empirical" or "provable" in the sense that most physical data could be.

However, it appears that this material predates a number of physical discoveries that were made by at least seven or eight years. This therefore adds great weight to the case that can be made for its validity.

In the next chapter, we will start examining the physical evidence that suggests the reality of Ra's complex statements regarding this Solar Cycle.