An inspirational reflection on the session of February 9, 1981.
What helps a soul grow? In Session 20 of The Law of One, the answer unfolds through the love shared with animals, the direction of our daily choices, and the opportunities offered by life among other people. Beneath the discussion of humanity’s beginnings is a question we can bring into the present: How are we using our freedom to become more loving?
This session combines practical spiritual teachings with Ra’s account of ancient Earth. The historical, biological, and physical claims are presented here as part of that channeled account, rather than as established findings. Its spiritual invitations can be considered on their own, with personal discernment.
The Love We Share With Animals Matters
The session opens with the movement from second density—the stage Ra associates with growth toward individual awareness—to third density, where self-awareness becomes central.
Ra identifies the familiar relationship between a person and a pet as a common setting for this transition. An animal receiving personal attention and affection may develop a stronger sense of its own individuality. Within Ra’s account, that development can prepare it for a later incarnation in third density.
This is a tender way of looking at the animals who share our lives. Feeding them, comforting them, recognizing their personalities, and welcoming their affection become expressions of a relationship that may reach beyond what we can see.
The teaching also gives us something immediate to practice: pay attention to the living being before you. Love recognizes an individual where habit might otherwise see only a species.
Session references: 20.1–20.5.
A Brief Discussion of Vibration and Physical Change
Don Elkins asks how changes in vibration might relate to the transition between densities and the development of a different physical body. Ra agrees with his proposed connection and discusses Dewey B. Larson’s system of physics, describing it as useful but incomplete.
Within the session’s spiritual framework, consciousness, embodiment, and the conditions of experience develop together. Ra anticipates a broader understanding that includes gravity and additional dimensions.
These passages belong to the material’s speculative cosmology. For the reader seeking inspiration, their wider theme is the possibility that reality extends beyond the forms we currently recognize.
Session references: 20.6–20.8.
Free Will Gives Our Spiritual Life Direction
One of the session’s central teachings concerns polarity: the growing orientation toward service to others or service to self.
Don compares polarity to electricity. Ra develops the analogy by describing a coil that is prepared to function but still needs a charge. The individual supplies that charge through choices made with free will.
The practical implication is that potential becomes active through how we live. We may read about compassion, speak about unity, and understand the language of service. Our orientation develops as those ideas enter our actions.
When someone needs patience, we have an opportunity to offer it. When we have influence, we can consider how its use affects others. When we feel hurt, we can become curious about what our response will strengthen within us.
Repeated choices give our intentions substance. A loving direction becomes clearer through the ordinary moments in which we choose to express it.
Session references: 20.9–20.11.
The Difficulty of Remaining Spiritually Undecided
Ra makes a distinction that is easy to overlook. Asked whether negatively oriented arrivals from Mars caused humanity’s early decline, Ra rejects the suggestion. The greater difficulty, in this account, was a failure to develop positive orientation.
The issue was spiritual stagnation: opportunities were present, but people were not making sufficient use of them.
We can receive this as an invitation to participate more consciously in life. Good intentions need expression. A small act of generosity, an honest acknowledgment of a mistake, or a willingness to listen can turn a vague wish to grow into an actual experience of growth.
This need not become anxious self-monitoring. The useful question is gentle and concrete: What loving action is available to me now?
Session references: 20.16–20.17.
A Shared World With Different Spiritual Beginnings
Ra describes the early third-density population as a mixture: approximately half from Mars, one-quarter graduating from Earth’s second density, and one-quarter from other planetary sources. Those from Mars were already partway through third-density experience.
According to the session, these populations remained largely separate, creating conditions for distrust and conflict.
Whatever a reader makes of this account of origins, its spiritual theme is recognizable. People can share a world while struggling to recognize their relationship to one another. Different experiences become reasons for distance, and distance can harden into hostility.
The Law of One asks us to look more deeply. A person whose habits, beliefs, or background differ from ours is still an expression of the same Creator. Remembering that relationship can change the way we meet disagreement.
Session references: 20.18–20.23.
Time, Experience, and Spiritual Maturity
The session describes an early average human lifespan of approximately 900 years, declining to about 700 years by the end of the first 25,000-year cycle. Ra links the shortening to growing disharmony and separation.
Within this account, a long lifetime allowed experience to mature into understanding. Ra describes third density as unusually intense in its opportunities for learning, with an extended early period needed to develop the discipline to understand those experiences.
These lifespan claims should be understood within the channeled narrative. They do not establish that a person’s illness or short life reveals a spiritual failing.
The practical reflection is about the use of the time we have. Experiences accumulate naturally; understanding often needs attention. Quiet reflection, honest conversation, forgiveness, and meditation can help us recognize what an experience is teaching us.
Growing older gives us experiences. Integrating those experiences helps us grow in wisdom.
Session references: 20.12–20.25.
Spiritual Help Respects Our Freedom
Ra describes the Confederation’s assistance during Earth’s first major cycle as limited. Some help came through inner-plane beings, alongside assistance associated with the transition from Mars. Yet people were largely allowed to develop their own thinking.
This reflects the material’s emphasis on free will. Learning requires room to choose, including room for uncertainty. Ra also explains that a planetary population can develop spiritually without needing outside information of this kind.
That is an encouraging teaching for any seeker. Access to extraordinary messages is not a prerequisite for loving well. The opportunities of relationship, responsibility, and everyday service are already available.
Ra compares the Confederation to a gardener waiting for seeds to sprout. When the expected growth does not occur, the gardener becomes more involved. The image suggests patient care that remains attentive to what is actually needed.
Session references: 20.26–20.29.
Harvest and the Possibility of Awakening
Ra explains that spiritual graduation, called “harvest,” commonly occurs across successive major cycles. A small number may be ready after the first cycle, more after the second, and the process culminates in the third. In Earth’s first major cycle, Ra reports that no one reached readiness for either positive or negative fourth density.
Yet the session also allows for the possibility of immediate realization. The purpose is to seek and become one; the cycles describe opportunities for development rather than a required delay for every individual.
For daily life, this offers patience alongside responsibility. Growth can take time, and the next opportunity to choose is already here.
Session references: 20.27–20.29.
Awe, Power, and Spiritual Discernment
The later discussion turns to the Orion group and Ra’s claims about stone monuments, the heads of Easter Island, and formations at Nazca. Ra attributes certain structures to remote creation by thought approximately 60,000 years ago. These are extraordinary claims within the channeling.
The spiritual concern running through this discussion is the influence of awe. Ra describes how people facing forces they cannot control might assign power to an imposing object. That perceived power could then support attempts to exercise authority over others.
This offers a useful question for spiritual discernment: Does an impressive experience encourage love, freedom, and responsibility, or make us more willing to surrender our judgment?
Ra also explains why fourth density can describe both orientations. Love and understanding may be directed toward the self or toward other selves. Within this framework, spiritual development includes the question of how awareness and power are used.
Session references: 20.30–20.43.
Bringing Session 20 Into Daily Life
The session closes by returning responsibility to the questioner’s discernment. That ending fits its central teaching: we must make our own choices.
We can begin with the relationships already entrusted to us. Give an animal undivided affection. Meet a difference with curiosity. Notice when fear makes power seem more attractive than compassion. Take time to reflect on a difficult experience before repeating the same response.
The spiritual life takes shape through such moments. Each offers a chance to recognize another being more fully and to give our intention to love a living expression.
Source: The Law of One, Session 20, February 9, 1981. Home of The Law of One material; L/L Research.
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