What a dope I am. I forgot to post part two of this interview. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. Sometimes I wonder about myself. I’m in La-La Land most of the time. For example, yesterday, my sister, her husband, my husband and I were talking about how around 10,000 people per year die from a fall while putting on their pants. Well, guess what I did this morning? Yep. Hit my head on the edge of the TV. Thirty minutes later, I slip on wet grass and hit my head on the edge of a deck and various other body parts on god knows where. Fortunately, I hit the other side of my head so it whacked my brain back into place from the first knock. Silver lining, folks. Silver lining. I’m going to post a couple of your stories today, too. There are just too many in queue to post them only on weekends, so I’ll post them on other days from time to time to try to get through them. I love them all! Oh, and one person said that as soon as she submitted her story, she felt like she was being wrapped in a goosebumpy hug. Erik saying thank you, I guess.

Jamie: Erik’s helping me listen in, because he’s talking about Greek mythology. Who’s the sun god, Apollo?

Me: I think so, yes.

Jamie: The similarities are there and it’s almost as if they’re worshiping the same character. So, in many parts of Africa, before time was structured, the Sun God,

(Pause)

Jamie: Oo! We just got into a big argument. Listen to this! Erik is arguing the fact that it’s kind of known that people who believe in a sun god, that’s really God Itself. You know, God, He/She, the God Source Energy.

Me: Right.

Jamie: Light brings life, and all that. Metaphorically, it makes a lot of sense. But then, Ra said God doesn’t need any honoring or separate title. He left these worships to other people. People in quotes, right? Deities, gods, religious icons, saints, angels. And when Ra was discussing mythology, the belief system of African tribes—old days when they had the belief in a sun god, a water goddess, Mother Earth, that he was also a part of that belief. He said just because he donned that one title in Egypt doesn’t mean that he was that one entity for those spans of their dynasty. Erik’s talking across to Ra.

Erik: It’s like (unintelligible) approach to reincarnation. Like my mom, she has her name, her character, blurred in time. Though she’s experienced other lives, uh, is living other lives, she’s only putting on this character for this one moment.

Jamie: And Ra agrees. I’m so sorry. I was listening to the words and translating and not comprehending what that was, so did that make sense?

Me: Yeah.

Jamie: It did?

Me: Yes.

What a liar. I knew no amount of re-explaining would get me there. I just wanted to move on to put me out of my misery.

Jamie: Erik will teach me later what just happened. I get so busy just focusing on the words. They’re quiet.

Me: Okay. Now, why did they create this whole story about you and the Underworld, that you had all of these dangers and foes? They say you have battles with this creature, Apep, and you win the battle and become Kapera, etc. What was the purpose for this folklore?

Jamie (chuckling): He’s letting me know he is smiling!

Me (laughing): Oh, okay! Cuz you can’t see it!

Jamie: As you were talking, he said, “I am smiling.”

Ra: This story is about fear—it represented the need for the human to fight their own fears when that time came. When the lights go out, you have a different (unintelligible) and it is often weaker than the one you have when the lights are on. So, day and night in ages long ago tended to be very frightening. To feel connected to a god or a deity that had struggled in the nighttime as well in the moments of lack of senses, which also represents death—you’re “in the dark”, no longer in the light, being life—there were some similarities that comforted, hence they created these stories to pacify and understand the fear of being human.

Me: Okay. Now, it is also said that when you wept, your tears created Man, and when you cut yourself—you’re a cutter! Uh oh!—you transformed into two intellectual personalities: Hu, or authority, and Sia, or mind. Why did they create this?

Ra: It is also understood that when I masturbated—

Jamie blushes.

Me: Oh my god.

Ra: –I created my children. This made them feel I was one of the gods who lived on Earth.

Erik: Whoa, whoa, whoa! What god did live on Earth?

Jamie: He’s not necessarily calling them gods, but he’s talking about Jesus, Buddha, Sai Baba—

Ra: –those entities who, let’s say, are godlike that lived on Earth, the stories created about them were based on meeting them in person. The stories that are about me, Ra, are stories created by Man to emotionally understand themselves. It was not the scientific object to talk about how emotions are triggers and what hormones are or why was there a rush of adrenaline or why do dreams occur when you close your eyes at night, why were you still alive? All of these had to be told as a story. The Egyptian storytelling, healing, forms of communication are like those of your Native Americans.

Jamie: I would never have put those two together, but I guess I’ve never studied them in step.

Me: That is interesting. Now, through the Egyptian times, it was said that you merged with other entities or gods like the god, Horus, and later the god, Amun. Can you elaborate? And why did they make this story up? What’s up with the merging? They also say that Horus is your proxy on Earth. It’s said that you’re strictly a celestial god instead of an earthly god.

Jamie: That’s interesting. It’s him being a celestial god instead of an earthly god makes sense about the description of stories he just gave.

Erik (laughing): Oh, you’re awake now, Jamie? You’re going to join the conversation?

Jamie (to Erik): You’re a brat! Now I forgot the question!

I repeat it for her.

Ra: It was based on the warriors and the pharaohs that were taking over the dynasty.

(Long pause)

Jamie: Oh! Oh, that’s very interesting! He’s saying that when a new pharaoh came in to (unintelligible), if there was not some shift or change that the gods made, it would look poorly on that pharaoh and their power or understanding the gods and their light and the humans—they’re supposed to be the middle ground. They consider themselves to be not only the ruler of the people, but the priest, the spiritual conduit. If the gods didn’t make some arrangement or some shift, then maybe that pharaoh didn’t have the power to be in the place where he was.

Ra: So, there’s always new twists and turns in a story when a new pharaoh takes over. You can correlate or associate these to who was in the seat of power.

Me: What do you think about the amount of worship ancient Egyptians gave you including the erection of so many structures and temples?

Ra: I was very touched and honored, but me, myself, was not asking for buildings to be erected in my name. I was asking—

(Pause)

Jamie: I had to listen to that again before I said it out loud.

Ra: I was asking for Man to coexist with those from alternate dimensions. There was a lot of understanding of the stars and power. Not power as in a ruler, like a Pharaoh, but power as –

Jamie: Oh, I don’t know how to explain this. Help!

Ra: Energy. If you want to use scientific terms, electricity, gasoline, machines. But when my time was over and Christianity moved in, the openness and willingness to communicate with the people of the stars was closed off, shut down.

Me: Okay. Do you have any central philosophies or beliefs?

Ra: Life is beautiful.

(Pause as Jamie strains to listen.)

Jamie: He’s talking about pain, suffering, struggle—that’s they’re imagin—sounds like there’s a t in there. Imaginitory?

Me: Imagination?

Jamie: I don’t know. Something about imagination.

Ra: The human mind is extremely powerful and can retrain itself thoughtfully to heal or understand concepts larger than what it is. I find that fascinating—how falsities can lead to truth and healing in the end.

Jamie: It’s weird. He talks about deeper concepts, but it’s not really in word form. It just kind of hits your body. It hits my head. I know there’s a word to it, but I have to sit with it for a second before I can know what the word is. It’s not like how I can listen to Erik banter. He makes it wave in and you have to sit with it and feel it and then say it, so it comes as an image.

Me: Interesting. Okay, so Ra, do you have any human qualities like an ego like jealousy or insecurity, etc.?

Jamie: Does he have an ego?

Me: Yes. Any human qualities.

Ra: No.

Me: Okay. Did you have some sort of spiritual mission here on Earth? I know you came here to teach concepts of measurement including time, but did you have a spiritual mission as well?

Ra: Yes. To continue to build a bridge between Man’s dimension and star’s dimension—the communication between alternate dimensions.

Me: Do you think you accomplished that mission?

Ra: Yes, in my timeframe, yes. It since has died out.

Me: Were you here to teach anything other that what you’ve told us?

Ra: No. Only what you’re able to learn.

Me: Were you hear to learn anything? Like humans, were you here to remember who and what you are?

Ra: No. I have full consciousness.

Me: I figured. Do you have any regrets?

Ra: No. That word is not in my vocabulary.

Me: Again, I figured. Have you had many lives? Do you have past lives, um, other lives, past and future, in terms of linear earthly time, for example?

Ra: No.

Me: So, there’s no life you can share that most influenced your life as Ra, then?

Ra: No.

Me: So, you’ve never reincarnated; you’ve never been an ordinary human—

Erik: That’s like asking an angel these questions, Mom! They’ve never had another life or incarnated.

Me: So, Ra, you don’t die and go to Heaven like an angel would do. Okay. Can you describe your dimension in greater detail?

Ra: It’s based on the one you live in, though it encompasses a world much greater than yours.

Jamie (giggling): That’s all I hear! It’s really quiet.

Me: All right. Well, when I say greater detail…

Jamie and I laugh.

Me: I think he misunderstood the assignment. Toss me a bone here, Ra!

(Pause)

Me: Crickets, crickets, crickets.

Jamie: Um, he’s still not sharing any details.

Me: No details. Okay. So, Ra, tell me what you think about the state of the Middle East, including Egypt.

Ra: It’s broken.

(Pause)

Me: And?

Ra: I do not feel sorrow for the lessons that are learned on Earth. I’m only going to assist the growth on Earth. If it must be this way for the humans to awaken, then it must be so, and I will embrace them even in their moment of fight. One day we will build the pieces back together and Egypt will be lively again.