The Ancient Astronaut Theory

The ancient astronaut theory is a theory which proposes the idea that deities that are mentioned in ancient religions are actually visitors from other planets and their technology was taken as proof of their power. Some believe that ancient astronauts were instrumental, not only in our cultural development but also in our creation. Some ancient stories speak of genetic engineering. These ideas have been championed by Erich von Däniken, Zecharia Sitchin and others.

This is a full length 1976 documentary portraying the ancient astronaut theories of Swiss-born researcher Erich von Däniken, who wrote "Chariots of the Gods" (posted elsewhere on Google Video). The film is hosted and narrated by William Shatner. Everything from the Peruvian Crystal Skull to the megalith structures in the jungles of Southeast Asia is accepted as evidence for the Ancient Astronauts theory. Cave drawings, old legends, Biblical stories and even some psychic visions of Jeane Dixon are presented as stone cold facts. Eric von Däniken's reputation was still quite unspoiled at the time so all the arguments (even the most far-fetched) are shown with great confidence.



Are We Alone? Ancient, History, Civilization, Sumer, Sumerian, Planet, Nibiru, Earth, Mars, Extraterrestrial, Alien, UFO, Genetic Manipulation


This is an extremely rare TV re-edit of Harald Reinl's "Chariots of the Gods", based on the book by Erich Von Daniken, produced by Alan Landsburg, and narrated by the one and only Rod Serling. This was a sort of pilot for the later "In Search Of" television series (which was narrated by Leonard Nimoy). Short but sweet!

Entheogenic Shamanism Ancient Astronauts History


The Celestine Wars - Freeman
Freeman compares and contrasts the philosophies of Star Wars and The Celestine Prophecies. Take a little magic and sprinkle in a dash of ancient astronauts and a miraculous purpose in life and you have, The Celestine Wars.

Bacteria

Einstein – Wisdom from Wonder

Einstein – Wisdom from Wonder

by Anonymous

“We all appear here involuntarily and uninvited for a short stay without knowing why. To me it's enough to wonder at the secrets.” Albert Einstein. At the moment of our birth we know nothing, and it feels as if our consciousness arose of itself, or possibly as a reaction to our first physical sensation. However it began, it is our inborn curiosity that develops our mind and leads us to knowledge. As we build our mind with thoughts, and an early attraction to shiny things, we approach a stage in life where our speech can express our thoughts. We’ve all seen the young child incessantly asking his or her mother, “What’s that?” “What’s that?” “How?” “Why?” It is in our nature that we question what we do not know. It’s like an itch we must scratch. God doesn’t bring us into life and say, “Here’s life, and this is how it works.” We can’t even all agree if there is a God or not. But for all of us, life is a learning process from the very beginning. We question everything until we understand it. However, with so much to think about in life, many of us abandon our early questions in search of answers to others, or we simply get caught up in the seemingly infinite stream of distractions. While our attention leads elsewhere, we stockpile the mysterious riddles of life like “What am I?” “Why am I?” and “What is this experience?” somewhere in the back of our minds. Perhaps because we’ve concluded that finding an answer seems so out of our reach. Or perhaps because we’ve convinced ourselves that a “good enough for now” answer is really good enough. Yet some of us aren’t satisfied with good enough. We challenge inadequate answers by thinking deeper, longer, harder, and facing life’s mysterious questions with such contempt for distraction that our focus becomes strained as if searching for light in a black hole. Our efforts may be futile, but we know that if we don’t look, we won’t find. If we rely on chance and good fortune alone to bring us the answers while we focus on something else, it’s quite possible we will not get our answers. But wonder goes with wisdom in the same way that search goes with find. We look because we know it’s the best way to see. And just by questioning the very nature of existence we are engaging ourselves in the search for truth. One person, who understood the value of questioning perhaps more whole-heartedly than most of us, was Albert Einstein. One of the greatest scientific and philosophical minds we’ve ever known was an expert in wonder. The very reasons he found so many truths hidden deep under the skin of this world was that he wondered, he questioned, he exercised his imagination, and he would never abandon the child in him that lies inside all of us and asks “What’s that?” “What’s that?” “How?” and “Why?”

Einstein’s scientific curiosity about life began in his youth with an experience that forced him to revise the way he thought about the world. When Albert was 5 years old his father gave him a compass. And as he turned the compass he noticed the needle always moved to point in one direction. This was very mysterious to the young Einstein who had previously thought that in order for something to move, something else had to touch it. But with this compass needle, there was something invisible doing the work and that sparked the idea in his head that everything may not be as it seems. Einstein wondered, he thought, he experimented and even nurtured his young mind by exploring Euclid’s great book on Geometry, Elements. As his intellect grew, his passion for thought and wonder stuck with him. At the age of 16 he found himself asking what he would see if he were to ride a beam of light. This profound yet simple question eludes most of us, but Einstein didn’t take the “everyday” for granted. Why should he pass over a subject clouded in such mystery simply because it wasn’t commonly contemplated? This unique focus and early curiosity about light launched him into a perpetual state of wonder which eventually lead him to some of his greatest scientific discoveries as a man. One such discovery came from the common knowledge that the speed of light was constant. With this understanding and a few simple “thought experiments” Einstein was able to uncover the fact that there was not a single speed of time throughout the entire universe, but that the speed of time itself actually changes depending upon the position and motion of each observer. Einstein continuously postulated, conducted thought experiments and with a childlike stubbornness, he never gave up on one of his questions just because of consistent failures. Einstein was aware of his childlike nature and not only embraced it but believed it was an undeniable part of all humans as he noted, “People do not grow old no matter how long we live. We never cease to stand like curious children before the great Mystery into which we were born.” It was this ageless wonder in Einstein that always kept him humbly in awe. He never lost the child inside him because he never wanted to. He knew that the secret was to grow with this child and let it be his guiding light in a dim world of hidden truths and adults who were far too busy to lose themselves into a world of wonder.
Einstein’s wonder began in his childhood, and as a man he remained constantly lost in thought. He loved going for walks and sailing on his small boat as these activities provided him perfect environments for contemplation. He took great pleasure in being able to think about things which were truly important to him. He preferred science so much that he didn’t even bother to remember trivial things like his own phone number so he could save as much of his memory as possible for his science. At one stage in his life Einstein wanted to be a teacher, but not for typical reasons, his main interest was using the school’s facilities to further his own scientific studies. Einstein loved studying and living in a state of wonder, not only because both provided him an “escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, [and] from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires,” but also because they were satisfying in themselves. He also knew they were both essential to making discoveries. Another legend of science, Isaac Newton, had described the effects and workings of gravity, but he never really knew exactly what gravity was. When Einstein put forth his Special Theory of Relativity in 1905, it was a “special” case because gravity wasn’t included in the theory. He wondered, he thought, and racked his brain about gravity so much over the next 10 years that the end result left him with severe stomach pains and an exhausted mind and body. But in 1915 his wonder had also brought him to the wisdom of how gravity works. In 1915 he submitted his new theory called the General Theory of Relativity which now included gravity. Einstein realized that in order to understand gravity, you must first attribute some physical properties to space-time similar to the properties of a stretchable fabric. (Space-time is not an actual fabric, but it helps our understanding to think of it as one rather than some kind of empty and featureless void.) With all space-time being connected as a single “fabric,” matter warps the space around it similar to the way a weight can warp a taut fabric when placed at its center. And as Albert himself explained, “An object marks its place in the fabric of space-time with a dent, a pocket, into which other objects that pass within its sphere must fall.” No doubt that over those 10 years of straining his brain trying to understand gravity, Einstein must have brushed up against failure and frustration more times than most people can imagine. But his wonder was relentless, his focus was uncanny, and his questioning never ceased until it brought his imagination the answer for which it was searching. As he himself once explained, “It’s not that I’m not so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” And he truly did. After ten years of hard labor and sticking to a question like a comb might stick to his hair, he had finally solved the age old mystery of gravity. And while this was one of the greatest mental victories any human had ever won against the unknown, it did little to silence the persistent wonder that dwelled eternally in the mind of Einstein.
At an age when Einstein was a well established scientist, his wonder stood by his side as consistently as his shadow. When Albert’s Special and General Theories of Relativity were well known and scientifically accepted, when he had won a noble prize for proving that atoms actually exist, when he spawned and rejected the idea of quantum mechanics, he still remained a wonderer. Einstein was always searching for truth and he was always questioning reality. He had a feeling of wonder in his bones, a questioning of nature which was enticed by a certain religious feeling. He explains, “Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernable laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in fact, religious.” Einstein knew there was something behind life, some explanation or thing behind it all. He wanted to know what it was. Occasionally he referred to it as God, as when he said he wanted to “know God’s thoughts.” And there was one of “God’s thoughts” that Einstein was particularly interested in. Most likely influenced by the well known relationship of cause-and-effect, he believed that all the laws and theories of the universe must have come from one initial idea or principal. In the sense of God as the Creator, Einstein wanted to know what God used as His general principal from which every other theory, law, and condition in the universe arose. He felt if he could find this base principal, everything else in the universe would connect and make more sense. It would be the source from which everything arose, and by understanding this source, he could better understand all that came out of it. He knew he might never find this foundation of reality, but that wouldn’t stop him from trying. His wonder motivated this search for this truth in what has been called “The Unification of Physics” or “The Theory of Everything”. His General Theory of Relativity explained how large bodies such as people and planets behaved in the universe, but it said almost nothing about the behavior of energy at an atomic level such as protons and electrons. Einstein’s gut instinct was that nature preferred simplicity over complexity, and that meant it was more likely that a single theory would explain both the big and the small, rather than each having its own separate theory. James Clerk Maxwell before him had combined the forces of electricity and magnetism, with a mathematical explanation, into one force called “electromagnetism”. With this as his inspiration, Einstein wondered if he could likewise combine gravity with electromagnetism and uncover the fact that they are really just different ways of seeing one unified super-force. That is to say, all forces in nature are really are just one force, but our limited understanding separates them into different forces because we do not yet see the underlying connection. Einstein spent the last 30 years of his life hammering out equation after equation in an attempt to unify physics, in an attempt to draw out the greatest wisdom from the noble wonder that had shed light on so many treasures of his intellectual past. Innumerable failures over thirty years would not suppress his wonder or his determination. And when he’d get discouraged, he’d take comfort in the old proverb he once quoted, “The search for truth is more precious than its possession.” He knew he could be happy even if he never solved his puzzle. There is a joy that comes from the effort one puts into their journey as well as an exciting energy that arises from the uncertainty of the outcome. It is the state of being to which the Taoists referred when they claimed, “The journey is the reward.” Perhaps that’s why when Einstein was in a hospital bed with stomach ailments at the end of his life, knowing he would not survive the night, he asked the nurse for his pen and pad. Einstein was fully aware that after 30 years of effort, he would not stumble upon the final equations which would unify physics in his last night on Earth. Yet on his final note pad, with his final scribbled and unfinished equations, his legacy was not to bring us to the promise-land, but to let us know that the real beauty in life lies in our attempt to understand and in our will to exercise our imagination. He wanted to show that one of the best ways to improve one’s intellect, as well as connect with pure joy, is to dance with an unanswered question in the wondrous realm of infinite possibilities.
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.” Einstein embraced the mysterious. Rather than overlooking the mysteries of life, he indulged in them. He was an artist of science. With his constant violin playing, he was a musician. And with his ponderings on existence, he was a philosopher. Yet throughout all his life, he was first and foremost a child. A young boy who was never afraid to ask “Why?” or “How?” A juvenile spirit that time couldn’t conceal with its usual tricks. The wrinkles in his face and whiteness in his hair did little to mask the youthful wonder which radiated from his eyes, the twinkle his eyes shared with the stars, and the deep beauty they shared with the ocean. The curiosity in his thoughts was insatiable and his quest for wisdom was nothing less than astounding. Albert Einstein was more than a man, he was eternally a boy. A boy who wondered, a boy excited to learn, and a boy whose stubborn persistence brought him success and wisdom time and again. His path to wisdom always came first and that goal would never be intimidated or silenced by friends, fellow scientists, governments or media. He was a lone traveler on a quest for truth and he believed we should all face the world “as free beings, admiring, asking and observing” because he knew, “Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the life-long attempt to acquire it.” Einstein is widely known as a scientific and mathematical genius, but those labels are purely the product of the philosopher in him, the child who marveled at the unknown. It was this curious nature in him that led him to wisdom. It was his wonder that opened his eyes to worlds that very few humans have ever seen. It was the twinkle in his eyes that shed light on the darkest places in the universe. If we learn one thing from Albert Einstein, we should learn to not silence our inner child and regard its questions as “childish” or arbitrary, but we should graciously give this child a microphone and allow it to scream its questions at the world and indulge in the delicious mysteries of existence. Because while we may make excuses for ourselves by saying, “I’m no Einstein” or “He had certain genetics or a unique position in life that I don’t” we should always keep in mind Einstein’s own explanation for his genius, “I have no particular talent. I am only inquisitive.” It was this attitude that brought him wisdom and for him, it was all quite natural. “One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.” “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reasons for existing.”

The Kabbalah

Anthony Kosinec introduces “what Kabbalah is” and “what Kabbalah isn’t” in this overview of some of its basic concepts, and the difference between authentic Kabbalah and how Kabbalah is popularly viewed. He speaks from the perspective of “practical Kabbalah,” as taught today by Rav Michael Laitman, PhD. Essentially, this is the process of how to reveal Kabbalah’s hidden aspect: the Upper Worlds—what is hidden behind our five senses. Kosinec explains that understanding the Kabbalistic “language of branches” is the key to starting a practical application of Kabbalah. He also puts across that a misunderstanding of this language is the reason Kabbalah has been misinterpreted in myriad ways—as religion, mysticism, magic, and many others—and that the key to start applying Kabbalah practically is to first understand that its language only describes the Upper Worlds: higher levels of consciousness completely removed from everything we receive through our five senses. From this basis, one can begin learning what one can do in order to attain these higher levels of consciousness. http://www.kabbalah.info

Spotlight on Religion: Buddhism

Robert Thurman on Buddhism part 1 of 2
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Robert Thurman on Buddhism part 2 of 2
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Buddhism, Meditation, Yoga and Nirvana-Interview with Ven Dhammadipa
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Tibetan Buddhism; Lama Thubten Yeshe: "Anxiety in the Nuclear Age,"
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2932554957344849758&q=buddhism&ei=qWFOSJCqLIOWrgKz7eTNDA

Dalai Lama - The Four Noble Truths Part 1/4

Dalai Lama - The Four Noble Truths Part 2/4

Dalai Lama - The Four Noble Truths Part 3/4

Dalai Lama - The Four Noble Truths Part 4/4

Human Evolution

Human Evolution: Tracing Our Origins with DNA



Human Evolution - Bones of Contention



Session 1 - Stony Brook Human Evolution Symposium 2005



Session 2 - Stony Brook Human Evolution Symposium 2005


Session 3 - Stony Brook Human Evolution Symposium 2005


Critical Analysis of Evolution vs. Creation - Part 1


Critical Analysis of Evolution vs. Creation - Part 2


The Origin of the Human Mind: Brain Imaging and Evolution


Primate Evolution and Human Disease


The Creation of Man! (Islamic View)


Sumerian Origins of Humans
Sumerian Origins of Humans



Creationism & The Origin Of Races



The Puzzle of Ancient Man

Evolution by Jim Kent

Evolution
By Jim Kent

We are here to make a choice.


According to classical Shamanism, existence can be compared to a seven tier "Tree of Life", which really didn't mean a lot to me, as I couldn't understand what this meant. It was only when I became aware of the paradigm of what has been called by some contemporary Shamanic sources a seven layered Universe, starting with "First-Density" and reaching up to "Seventh-Density", that I began to grasp what this meant. As this paradigm is the one I'm most comfortable giving the benefit of the doubt, I shall detail a little more about this multi-billion year Universal-Spiritual-journey as described by The Confederation and others.

The Confederation claim to not know the precise nature of the beginning of the Universe, but claim that they are aware of the evolutionary Spiritual journey as follows:

Planets evolve up through the densities with their accompanying beings…

1st Density: Spirits start out in physicality as the elements, earth, air, fire and water.

2nd Density: Then they eventually evolve to inhabit tress and animals.

3rd Density:
Humanity's current evolutionary level of existence, involving a 75,000 year cycle of opportunity. This density is called "the density of choice" and is claimed to be specifically structured to promote the natural tendency towards "polarizing", which is choosing either the path of "Service-To-Others" or the path of "Service-To-Self" in time to "graduate during a Harvest Season at the end of a major 75'000 year cycle".

4th Density:
"The density of understanding". Having reached "Harvestable Polarity", 4th density inhabitants can expect average life spans of 90,000 years and be telepathic and telekinetic.
We are in a "Harvest Season" now, an opportunity that will cease as of the end of 2012!!!!
But Humanity's transition to 4th density proper might take a few hundred years longer.

5th Density: "The density of wisdom".

6th Density: "The density of unity"

7th Density: "The Gateway density"

According to the Confederation group, Ra, there is at least another density beyond 7th which not surprisingly is called 8th density, but they claim that this is a "mystery that they do not plumb"!

In my opinion, the most significant AND urgent claim I have come across, is the claim that Earth and Humanity are in a "Harvest Season", and I'm quite prepared to give this claim the benefit of the doubt, not only because I'm starting to trust this source, but because if this opportunity is genuine reality, it is an opportunity of massive global significance and I'm not prepared to ignore something so potentially universally important!!!!

Especially when the primary necessity to qualify for "4th density positive Harvest" is being at least 51% STO consistently, something I believe is a very positive ethic anyway…

So if the opportunity were to turn out to be false, then I feel that I would have lost nothing!

This (edited) excerpt is taken from "A Wanderer's Handbook"
By Carla L. Rueckert

Harvest On Planet Earth

"Harvest" is a trigger word for a lot of new age personalities across a wide range of orientation. I feel there are two harvests going on in the Earth world today, a harvest of its peoples and a harvest of the planet itself. This sense of living in a time of culmination or completion is very common among wanderers. Confederation entities have talked about cycles of time within which the planetary population has the opportunity to learn the lessons of love that make up the curriculum of the Earth school of hard knocks. According to them, we are at the end of a minor cycle of 25,000 years, roughly, and also at the end of the major cycle of 75,000 years. There is a harvest of souls possible at the end of each of the three minor cycles within a major cycle, but Earth's first two minor harvests have not happened except for a tiny few who were able to graduate, and so all those incarnate at this time are living in a time of mandatory major harvest. Some will graduate and move on to further lessons, some will repeat this "grade" or density of the school, as their lessons have not yet been learned. So many people have set ideas, and my feeling is that all the timetables are probably wrong! It's hard to realize, from the earthbound perspective, how foreshortened time itself is when seen from the metaphysical universe. Truly is it said that "A thousand ages in His sight are but a moment gone." I feel quite certain that metaphysical processes are indeed occurring, but that they will be far more subtle and take place over a far longer period of time than is generally thought by those keen on bringing in this new age. In orienting us to my version of what's happening in this harvest, I begin with the concept of seniority by vibration. I feel that each person on the Earth today has achieved an incarnation at this time because each has the capacity to achieve a successful graduation.

Those of Q'uo state:
There has been a radical upswing, shall we say, in awakening souls. It is for this reason that some within this group chose incarnation upon this sphere at this time. This is indeed an harvest season for those entities who now dance the dance of third density. This is a time when each of those who has been allowed to incarnate has the possibility of graduating into the next density at the end of this incarnation. The line to get into the physical third-density planet Earth atmosphere is a long one, for the need here is great at this time.

How does one judge seniority of vibration? Don asks those of Ra:

Questioner: Would the red ray, an intense red ray, then be used as an
index for seniority in incarnation as well as an intense violet ray?

Ra: I am Ra. This is partially correct. In the graduation or harvesting to fourth-density positive, the red ray is seen only as that which, being activated, is the basis for all that occurs in vibratory levels, the sum of this being violet ray energy. This violet ray is the only consideration for fourth-density positive. In assessing the harvestable fourth-density negative, the intensity of the red as well as the orange and the yellow rays is looked upon quite carefully as a great deal of stamina and energy of this type is necessary for the negative progression, it being extremely difficult to open the gateway to intelligent infinity from the solar plexus center. This is necessary for harvest in fourth-density negative.

This quote presents a tangle of information on energy systems and polarity.
We will look at the concepts of chakras and energy centers in the next chapter and the concept of metaphysical polarity in Chapter Six. There is also information on these topics in the Glossary. The concept of a mixed harvest is central, for that is what we are having, with some few souls now able to graduate from this density in the positive or service-to-others sense, and some, even fewer, souls graduating in the negative sense. There is still time for people not quite sufficiently polarized to achieve adequate polarization to make the grade, and at present, the Earth is populated by those who have won the right to a life now because it is within their reach to do it:
Many of those who are seeking at this time are those who have, by seniority of vibration, been given the opportunity of incarnating at a time when both the positive polarity and the negative polarity are attempting to increase the intensity of their distortions toward service to others for the positive entities and service to self for the negatively
polarizing entities. As we Earthlings say, "Katie, bar the door!" We certainly are having interesting catalyst these days! And all to prepare us for something called harvest. A more clear term for it, I feel, is "graduation." We are in the third density, call it the third grade. We may have wandered here from a position in late-third, fourth, fifth, or sixth grade, but when we incarnated here, we all became third graders again, and we shall join all Earth natives in having to pass this third-density graduation in order to leave third density at the end of this incarnation. Again, bear with me here, we will discuss densities further in the next chapter. Now what are the requirements of this graduation of souls at harvest on planet Earth? The first requirement sounds simple enough: we need to be thinking about service to others more than half the time: It is necessary that the student have the persistent desire to be of service to others in excess of the fifty-one percentile in order that this student might be able to withstand the more intense light emanations that are the normal boundaries or givens, shall we say, of the fourth-density experience.
This 51% rule, let's call it, applies to those who are on the service-to-others, or positive path. For those with a less stringently literal and scientific bent, we could say that the rule is to think of others more than of ourselves. For those who are on the service-to-self, or negative path, the requirements are different:

Ra: The entity who wishes to pursue the path of service to self must attain a grade of five, that is five percent service to others, ninety-five percent service to self. It must approach totality. The negative path is quite difficult to attain harvestability upon and requires great dedication.

Questioner: Why is the negative path so much more difficult to attain harvestability upon than the positive?

Ra: I am Ra. This is due to a distortion of the Law of One, which indicates that the gateway to intelligent infinity be a gateway at the end of a strait and narrow path as you may call it. To attain fifty-one percent dedication to the welfare of other-selves is as difficult as attaining a grade of five percent dedication to other-selves [i.e. ninety-five percent service to self ]. The, shall we say, sinkhole of indifference is between those two.

So positively polarized people need to reach 51% service to others, whereas negatively polarized people need to reach a grade of 95% service to self. We may see here the action of polarity, with one's will very important in keeping the self focused upon one's goals within the daily life. It is in this focus that so many people remain distracted or sleeping during this momentous time. Even the keenest among us may sometimes rest in what those of Ra called the sinkhole of indifference, where we are doing a good deed, then a selfish one, then a good one again, back and forth, never getting off dead center and starting that swing of intent and focus to one or the other pole of love of and service to others, or self. To polarize, we need to choose again and again to serve others at the expense of the self, for the path of service to others or radiation, or to manipulate and control others for benefit to the self, for the path of service to self or magnetism. Next, the usual requirement is that graduation or harvest take place after the death of the physical body: The end times are not drawing near, the end times have well begun; and they shall continue for many of your years to come. It is impossible to tell you, even if we could, when the transition will be complete. We can tell you that it shall be non-dramatic, that those who are harvested shall be harvested as their natural lifetime of incarnational lessons draws to a close.
Although it is extremely rare, there is, very occasionally, a special soul who achieves graduation while in incarnation, but the chance to leave the Earth plane and advance alone is almost never taken:

Questioner: You stated at an earlier time that penetration of the eighth level or intelligent infinity allows a mind/body/spirit complex to be harvested if it wishes at any time/space during the cycle. When this penetration of the eighth level occurs what does the entity who penetrates it experience?

Ra: I am Ra. The experience of each entity is unique in its perception of intelligent infinity. Perceptions range from a limitless joy to a strong dedication to service to others while in the incarnated state. The entity which reaches intelligent infinity most often will perceive this experience as one of unspeakable profundity. However, it is not usual for the entity to immediately desire the cessation of the incarnation. Rather the
desire to communicate or use this experience to aid others is extremely strong.
The last requirement for harvest or graduation is, surprisingly perhaps, knowing that one does not know anything:

Questioner: I am assuming that it is not necessary for an individual to understand the Law of One to go from the third to the fourth density. Is this correct?

Ra: I am Ra. It is absolutely necessary that an entity consciously realize
it does not understand in order for it to be harvestable. Understanding is
not of this density.

It occurred to Don to ask how usual it is for a harvest to be mixed:
Questioner: How common in the universe is a mixed harvest from a planet of both positively and negatively oriented mind/body/spirit complexes?

Ra: I am Ra. Among planetary harvests which yield an harvest of mind/ body/spirit complexes approximately 10% are negative; approximately 60% are positive; and approximately 30% are mixed with nearly all harvest being positive. In the event of mixed harvest it is almost unknown for the majority of the harvest to be negative. When a planet moves strongly towards the negative there is almost no opportunity for harvestable positive polarization.

There we have it. About one in three harvests is mixed as ours is now. We are not as weird as some may feel! Harvest, as far as I have been able to determine, takes place after the physical death. Just how does that work? Those of Ra say:

Those who, finishing a cycle of experience, demonstrate grades of distortion of that 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.
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.
This "line of light" or "proper place of love/light" is something I have come to call "the steps of light." It is easier for me to visualize the process this way. I can see walking into the light that grows ever dense and more light-filled, until the glare stops me. I just hope that fullest light I am able to welcome, when I walk the steps of light, is that of my home density!

Now, for the other harvest: the harvest of the planet, Earth, Terra, or Gaia. How does this planetary harvest work? Don asks:

Questioner: 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. 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. Obviously, our planet is having trouble being born into fourth density time/ space and space/time. Hence the many catastrophes, as the planet attempts to balance itself. The Confederation feels that we are basically in fourth density space/time already, that it has been moving into it as a solar system for some time. We cannot see this with our third-density senses. When this process is completed, in a century or three, what will Earth be?

Questioner: On this planet after the harvest is complete, will fourth density beings be incarnate on the surface as we know it now?

Ra: I am Ra. The probability/possibility vortices indicate this to be most likely.
Some few souls are already incarnating in fourth-density bodies:

Questioner: Would the purpose in transitioning to Earth prior to the complete changeover then be for the experience to be gained here before the harvesting process?

Ra: I am Ra. This is correct. These entities are not wanderers in the sense that this planetary sphere is their fourth-density home planet. However, the experience of this service is earned only by those harvested third-density entities which have demonstrated a great deal of orientation towards service to others. It is a privilege to be allowed this early an incarnation as there is much experiential catalyst in service to otherselves at this harvesting.

So we have early souls pioneering fourth density. But will fourth density take over from third density? Not on this Earth plane. Those of Ra clarify:

Questioner: At present we have, in third-density incarnation on this plane, those third-density entities of the planet Earth who have been here for some number of incarnations, who will graduate in the three-way split, positive polarity remaining for fourth-density experience on this planet, the negative polarity harvestable going to another planet, and the rest [of ] unharvestable third-density going to another third-density planet. In addition to these entities I am assuming that we have here some entities already harvestable from other third-density planets who have come here and have incarnated in third-density form to make the transition with this planet into fourth-density, plus Wanderers. Is this correct?

Ra: I am Ra. This is correct except we may note a small point. The positively oriented harvested entities will remain in this planetary influence but not upon this plane.

For us third-density folks who are working towards harvest, what are our aims? The first and central one is to BE. Those of the Confederation talk about this challenging concept:

During the incarnation, it is well if one attempts to be one's self, to be that pattern, to be that choice, to be true to the self, for the self to which you are true is the greater self, the higher self that has laid the path before you in a fashion which allows for the free will interpretation of many, many details and yet which assures each entity that the path has been laid and laid clearly.

Two wanderers talk about being:

For me, it is about balance. Yes, the potential for any number of disasters or disastrous events is there. And quite probable. And yes, our time on this planet is growing shorter. All the more reason to be and not react.

Follow your own heart. If you are led to help with the harvest, help with the harvest. If you believe you will be here after the harvest, be here after the harvest. If you believe Jesus Christ is coming again, look for the coming. If you know that ETs are trying to contact us, listen for the message. Just be who you are, and know that no matter how unique or alienated you may feel, you are not alone. Just BE and the rest will take care of itself. Being is a hard thing for us to think about, because of our Doing mentality, the work ethic of our culture. But once we are able to see the task clearly, the way is open for our efforts. Another worthy aim for those working towards graduation is oneness with the heart of self and Creator:

As you enter this season of harvest you know there is service to perform and you wish to be about it, and we say to you that the way to serve the Creator at this time is to open the heart to the present moment and practice that precious oneness with the Creator.
A central aim of those approaching harvest is polarizing:

Each of you is capable within this lifetime of achieving a harvestable attitude towards love. That is, each of you is capable of caring more for another, for loving another, understanding another, comforting another, consoling another, forgiving another, more than each cares for being understood or being loved or being consoled or being forgiven. This sacrificial nature of love, where one spends more of one's time concerned with aiding others than one does concerned with aiding oneself, is a tremendously helpful way to move in polarization ever closer to the point where, when you do enter the larger life after the death of the animal which has carried you about, you shall be able to use the requisite amount of light from the infinite Creator.

Those of Ra suggest that balance is an aim for those working on harvestability:

Each mind/body/spirit complex has its own patterns of activation and its own rhythms of awakening. The important thing for harvest is the harmonious balance between the various energy centers of the mind/body/spirit complex. This is to be noted as of relative import. Work with the will and intensity of desire round out this short look at the aims of those approaching harvest:

As your planet nears that [which is] called the harvest, the experiences of many shall be intensified, for as time for harvest grows short, the work in order to achieve harvest must be accomplished in a shorter time. When time is short, then intensity must replace the time that is no longer available. Great work in consciousness can be done in this short time that remains before the harvest of souls from your planet. There is, of course, the risk that the work shall be more difficult, yet there is the great opportunity to move forward in the process of evolution as has never been possible before upon this planet.
It is to be noted that another name for wanderers is harvesters. Our being here now has everything to do with the harvest: The overriding reason for the offering of these Brothers and Sisters of Sorrow in incarnative states is the possibility of aiding other selves by the lightening of the planetary consciousness distortions and the probability of offering catalyst to other-selves which will increase the harvest. There are two other reasons for choosing this service, which have to do with the self. The wanderer, if it remembers and dedicates itself to service, will polarize much more rapidly than is possible in the far more etiolated realms of higher density catalyst. The final reason is within the mind/body/spirit totality or the social memory complex totality which may judge that an entity or members of a societal entity can make use of third-density catalyst to recapitulate a learning/teaching which is adjudged to be less than perfect. This especially applies to those entering into and proceeding through sixth density wherein the balance between compassion and wisdom is perfected.

The Confederation entities are here in thought to aid us at this time:

We are those who come to your peoples at this time in hopes of being of service by providing information and opinion concerning spiritual evolution. It is our understanding that this present period, which you now enjoy, is part of a season of harvest or completion upon your Earth world. In this time of transition to a more densely lit illusion there is great opportunity, we feel, for entities who are seeking to accelerate their process of spiritual evolution to do so. We are those who wish to assist, as we may, those who request our opinion and presence.

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This chapter is taken from Jim Kent's on-line book and can be found at the following address:

http://www.eternal-unity.org

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