Less a described body than a moral position with a constellation attached.
Usually the antagonist in channelled cosmologies: a hierarchy pursuing what the Ra material calls service to self, as against service to others. There is very little physical description because description is not what the material is for.
Said to come from outside the Earth, whether another star system or another dimension, and to have no physical body now. A few traditions say they once had one; most never say.
Degree of embodiment: varies
Scale, 1 to 5
5 is an ordinary biological body. 4 is physical but manifests oddly. 3 comes and goes. 2 is energetic or subtle. 1 is consciousness with no persistent form. Note that this tends to fall as a tradition ages.
N: channelled material
Source code
Received by a medium speaking on behalf of the intelligence. The content is generally ethical and cosmological rather than descriptive: instruction, not testimony.
Channelling
Term
Material spoken or written by a person said to be relaying a non-human intelligence. It shifts the evidence question entirely: there is no encounter to examine, only a text.
The Ra material
1981–84
Channelled sessions introducing densities and the distinction between service to self and service to others. It supplies the moral architecture that later starseed literature inherits wholesale.
Engaged through channelling
Practice-side
Contact in this tradition means trance, mediumship or automatic writing. The risks are the practice's, not the entity's: dissociation, sustained altered states, and the difficulty of telling one's own material from something external. Least suitable for anyone with a history of psychosis, mania or dissociation.
Deliberate contact work
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The hazard in this subject attaches to the method, not to which name you aim it at. Ouija work, invocation, sustained channelling, induced hypnagogia, deliberate sleep deprivation and hypnotic regression are the practices associated with difficulty, and a session aimed at a benevolent civilisation is not safer than one aimed at something considered lower. What raises risk is doing it alone, doing it repeatedly, doing it while sleep-deprived, and doing it with an existing vulnerability to psychosis, mania or dissociation. People who get into trouble here overwhelmingly got there through practice, not through reading.
Who should be careful
Practice-side
Anyone with a personal or family history of psychosis, bipolar disorder or dissociative conditions, anyone in acute crisis, and anyone isolated from people who would notice a change in them. Intensive contact practice is destabilising by design (that is what it is for), and destabilisation lands hardest on people already close to an edge.