I was sitting at breakfast eating a banana thinking about what I had been reading. I thought about the doctrine of ultimate reconciliation. Apparently an entity can exploit, oppress and even kill. Then, at some point in its evolution, it realizes that it must become altruistic in order to receive a bright shining aura. At that point it does a quick turn around and joins the good side. Poof! All the oppression and murder it committed wiped clean by that little decision, “Guess I won’t be quite so self-serving anymore.”

Now what kind of an entity would want me to believe that? A sales-entity for the negative path, that’s who! What kind of an entity would bribe another entity to use her vessel in order to “channel” some information, some of which happens to be affirmations about the inviolability of another’s free will? I’m not referring to inspired utterance. During inspired utterance the orator is consciously present in his or her own vessel while channeling the holy spirit. Contrast that to medium channeling. The medium is not present during the oration. She has abdicated her volition for that period of time. In order for free will to be untrammeled it must be free to express itself at any moment. Clearly this is not the case with medium channeling. Once she has agreed to vacate her body she does not get it back until the invading entity is finished with it. Any pretense of regard for the channel on the part of the entity is just pretense. 

So the first red flag for me with the Law of One material was, before I finished the introduction, I had become aware that it had been channeled through a medium. But there is a lot of medium-channeled literature around that seems good. The Course In Miracles seems good. Seth Speaks seems good. The Law of One seems good. David Wilcock promoted the latter, and he seems good. Maybe it’s time I challenge my long-held bias against channeled work and read the Law of One with an open mind, I thought.

I continued reading as a student wanting to learn. The second red flag was seeing the words, love and light, repeated at the end of every section, and not feeling any love or light. True there were some inspiring passages that I made notes about, but the being, Ra, seemed devoid of any personal charisma. However, the inspiring passages sprinkled rather thinly through the material kept me going for a while. 

Now, the final straw for me is realizing I am being misled about the judgment of God. There may be an ultimate reconciliation – I’m not discarding that idea – but for the wicked it won’t come without a noticeable period of penance and repentance. It won’t just be a, “Woops, I’m on the wrong path, guess I’ll just jump over to the other one and keep going.”

I may finish the series (I’m about half way into it), but then again I may just put in a few search terms to see if any of my criticisms are addressed, or maybe I’ll just read something else. 

Epilogue, December 3, 2023: Ra is a very old entity, He may have arisen at a time when virtually no one was literate. Therefore finding someone who could write his words as they were spoken, and then finding a literary audience who could read them would have been unlikely. Mediums were condemned in both the Old and New Testaments. Possibly before the time of the Old Testament mediums were used by authentic teachers of righteousness, because of the relative immaturity of mankind at the time. That would have been one of the few ways to reach them. That doesn’t explain why Ra is still operating that way in modern times, but perhaps there is an explanation, although I’m only part way to understanding it.

After reading about A Course in Miracles, and also reading part way through it, I understand that it was not channelled through a medium, but dictated to a conscious person. This is certainly preferred, in my opinion, to medium channeling. I had an epiphany two days ago (right before I posted my review of ACIM entitled, Atonement) that revealed to me that it is true that a person on the negative path simply decides to leave the negative path behind and become positively orientated, and that’s it. There is no condemnation, no hell, none of that stuff, just the eternal opportunity for positive evolution, just as Ra had stated.