Research & investigation · Texts & cultural history
Don Elkins
Ra-session questioner and contact researcher
Also known as Donald Elkins
Who they are
Don Elkins was the questioner in the recorded Ra dialogues conducted with Carla Rueckert and Jim McCarty. The participants’ introduction describes their roles and recording procedure. His questions helped shape an extended discussion of spiritual unity, consciousness and claimed nonhuman contact, preserved in the books known as The Law of One.
He connects the timeline to the history of reported channeling and its published spiritual teachings.
Selected contributions
- Served as questioner in the Ra sessions; Rueckert and McCarty had distinct participant roles.Source ↗
Primary records
Primary text · 1981
The Law of One — session 1
The opening dialogue of the Ra series records the participants’ claimed contact and introduces its spiritual vocabulary. It is a record of the exchange attributed to Ra, rather than independent identification of the claimed speaker.
Session dated January 15, 1981; linked online transcript is a later edition. A portion relies on an earlier printed transcription because the original tape was reused.
Reading scope & citation
Reuses documented prior inspection: Supporting passages inspected; not a cover-to-cover audit of every linked publication
In the timeline
- Jan 15, 1981 – Feb 17, 1981Ra sessions begin: the material later collected in Book I
- Feb 21, 1981 – May 6, 1981Book II sessions develop the creation framework
- May 13, 1981 – Oct 31, 1981Book III sessions explore spiritual practice and balancing
- Feb 3, 1982 – Jun 10, 1983Book IV sessions turn toward the archetypal mind
- Mar 15, 1984Session 106 is the final dated session in the Ra archive
Biography sources
- Introductions to The Law of One, Books I and V ↗L/L Research, reproduced at Lawofone.info
- The Law of One — session 1 ↗Lawofone.info