January 27, 1981
What does it mean to help another person without taking away their freedom? How do we grow spiritually without becoming dependent on someone else to tell us what to do?
Session 9 of the Ra Material brings these questions into focus. Its conversation moves from past lives and healing exercises to planetary cycles, Mars, and unusual accounts of beings on Earth. Running through these subjects is a practical spiritual concern: learning love while honoring the freedom of each being.
This article reads the session as a channeled spiritual teaching. Its accounts of planetary history and hidden beings belong to that teaching and are not established scientific or historical findings. The reflections below distinguish what Ra says from ways we might apply it in daily life.
1. Spiritual Teaching Leaves Room for Your Own Discernment
The session begins with a surprisingly brief exchange. Don Elkins asks whether Ra can suggest a publisher for the book. Ra answers no, without explaining why. Later, when Don asks which healing exercise he should practice that evening, Ra explicitly connects its refusal to choose for him with respect for his freedom. (9.1–9.3)
Ra offers a process instead: review the exercises in the order already given and begin with the first one that, in your own judgment, you have not fully understood or appreciated.
The distinction matters. A teacher can illuminate a path while leaving the student responsible for walking it. Spiritual learning asks us to develop our own discernment, including when receiving guidance from a source we respect.
An everyday application is to ask: Does this teaching help me become more aware and responsible? Does it leave space for honest questioning and personal choice?
2. The Present Life Deserves Our Full Attention
Asked about the group’s previous incarnations, Ra says that such information is carefully guarded by the totality of one’s being so the experiences of the present life remain undiluted. Ra offers only a general account: the group has worked together before, their relationships have varied, and each has been a teacher to the others. Their shared work reportedly included healing, Earth energies, and helping civilizations that requested assistance. (9.2)
The spiritual implication is that knowing every detail of a supposed past life may not serve the work before us now. Such knowledge could introduce expectations about who we are, whom we should trust, or what we must become.
Our current relationships already give us opportunities to learn. Someone may teach us patience, another forgiveness, and another the importance of boundaries. We can attend to these lessons without first resolving the mystery of our past.
3. Build the Foundation Before Seeking Greater Abilities
Ra compares the healing exercises to preparing sound ground for a building. Progress depends on returning to what is not yet fully understood, and the group is reminded that this is a demanding program requiring patience. (9.3)
In the context of the exercises introduced in earlier sessions, the emphasis is on inward preparation for healing. Session 9 reinforces the need to work through that preparation with care.
For a seeker, this invites a simple practice: notice the emotions, judgments, and recurring reactions that still need attention. A desire for extraordinary experiences can coexist with ordinary unfinished work—resentment, fear, impatience, or the need to control.
Patient self-examination can become an act of service. As we understand ourselves more honestly, we may become better able to meet another person with compassion.
4. Creation Is Described as Having a Living Rhythm
Don asks about three approximately 25,000-year cycles within a 75,000-year period of planetary development. Ra describes the timing as a rhythm of intelligent energy, with each planet beginning its cycle when its environment can support the relevant experiences. Different planets therefore follow different schedules. (9.4)
Within this account, the opening from intelligent energy to intelligent infinity occurs at the appointed point in the cycle, regardless of circumstances.
As a spiritual reflection, this picture invites us to consider growth within a larger rhythm. We cannot force every stage of development to arrive on demand. We can, however, attend to the opportunities available now: to understand, to forgive, and to practice love.
5. The Mars Account Centers on an Unfinished Lesson of Love
Ra states that the first third-density arrivals came from Mars after its environment became unsuitable for their continued experience. According to this account, guardians prepared genetically adjusted bodies for their incarnation on Earth, and the transfer occurred approximately 75,000 years ago. The exchange describes reincarnation following physical death on Mars, rather than a conventional journey by living passengers. (9.6–9.12)
Ra attributes the loss of habitability to the inhabitants’ tendencies toward warfare. They had been attempting to learn the Laws of Love but did not complete the cycle successfully, and continued that learning on Earth.
The inspirational significance is an interpretation of this narrative: intelligence and power do not by themselves ensure compassionate choices. A civilization’s treatment of other beings and its environment matters deeply.
Applied personally, the unfinished lesson of love appears whenever we choose how to respond to conflict. We can ask what our response will nourish—understanding, hostility, reconciliation, or further harm.
6. Even Well-Intended Help Must Respect Freedom
The guardians’ intervention is not presented as uncomplicated. Ra says other guardians judged that the action had abridged the free will of the Martian beings. This concern led to the institution of Earth’s quarantine. (9.9)
This is one of the session’s strongest practical themes. Wanting to help does not automatically make every intervention wise. We may sincerely care for someone while imposing our own expectations on their choices.
In ordinary relationships, love can include offering support, asking what is needed, and recognizing the other person’s capacity to decide. Discernment also means considering the effects of our assistance, beyond our intentions.
7. Consciousness Develops Toward Awareness of Self
When asked about Earth’s earliest entities, Ra begins with water, fire, air, and earth. The discussion then describes second density as higher plant and animal life and affirms that some Earth beings developed through evolution from the planet’s original material. Ra also describes early bipedal forms and says the transition to third density requires learning consciousness of self, with no guaranteed number of cycles for that transition. (9.5, 9.13–9.17)
The account also mentions visitors over approximately four million years, while distinguishing those visits from the beginning of Earth’s third-density cycle.
Within this framework, spiritual development involves an increasing capacity to recognize oneself as a conscious being. One practical reflection is that awareness brings responsibility: we can observe our reactions and begin to choose more deliberately how we treat others.
8. The Unusual Accounts of Maldek and Bigfoot
The later discussion describes three categories associated with the name Bigfoot. Ra identifies one with beings from Maldek undergoing karmic restitution in second-density bodies, another with radiation-resistant bodies maintained as a reserve gene pool in the event of nuclear war, and a third with a thought-form. The first group is said to live in underground passageways, while the second inhabits remote forests. (9.18–9.22)
For an inspirational reading, the passage can prompt reflection on consequences, continued opportunities to learn, and the material’s concern about destructive uses of power. Those reflections do not require certainty about the beings described.
9. Spiritual Work Includes Care for the Body
The final question returns to the instrument’s ability to participate in another session and her physical comfort. Ra recommends adjustments for tender portions of her body and attributes the difficulty to what it calls a pineal energy-center blockage. This is the material’s metaphysical explanation, rather than a medical diagnosis. (9.23)
The exchange brings attention back to the person through whom the work is being done. However expansive a spiritual undertaking may feel, the comfort and needs of those participating deserve care.
The Main Message of Session 9
Read as a whole, Session 9 invites us to practice love with patience, discernment, and respect for freedom. Its opening exchanges place personal choice at the center of spiritual learning, while its planetary narratives portray the consequences of power exercised without sufficient love or regard for others’ autonomy.
We can carry that invitation into the present through a few honest questions:
- What part of my spiritual foundation needs more patient attention?
- What is this relationship teaching me now?
- How can I offer help while respecting another person’s choice?
- What response to conflict would express greater understanding and love?
The invitation is to make these questions part of everyday living. Each encounter offers another opportunity to become more conscious of what we are choosing and more compassionate toward the beings who share our path.
Source: The Law of One, Session 9, January 27, 1981. Section numbers refer to the supplied transcript. Read the full session. https://www.llresearch.org/
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