There has never been, nor can there ever be, a single unproblematic definition of what it means to seek the truth. The pathways to knowledge and to human perfection are as numerous as the stars, and as resistant to synoptic characterization.
If one may speak, therefore, of a unity of truth, a one truth, one must have opened a gateway to a way of relating to this problem that transcends all known limitations, and in fact leaves behind all readily delineated requirements of knowledge itself.
From any point of view achievable to experience, such a gateway can only be hard won; and to win one's way to assimilation and integration of such experience surely that much harder.
It is thus always something of a miracle—and in any case certainly an inspiration when the thick veil that surrounds our human consciousness thins even a little to afford the most fleeting glimpse of glory.
And when there comes through that veil a finely constellated light so bright that it positively penetrates, in discretely articulated points, the entire fog of incarnate existence, that is an occasion worthy of the utmost attention. To a growing number of seekers of the way, the Ra Contact is just such a light.
To be sure, the communications contained in this work have a cultural genre into which they have long since been fitted. They belong to the category of channeled communication.
There is indeed a good supply of channeled material already available to the seeker of truth, and more discerning seekers have long since realized that a great deal of careful discrimination is required when surveying what is on offer.
Yet, to report only on my own experience, the Ra Contact stands alone in this genre as a source that has stood every test I have been able to put to it. In terms of scope, in terms of consistency, in terms of depth, and in terms of inexhaustibility it is without parallel and without peer.
But all of these judgments are merely evaluations from one reader. Each of us must reach our own conclusions. Let me therefore simply commend to you the text, conveying to any earnest reader my sincere blessings.
Viewed from the outside, the gatherings of those whose interest in the Law of One is deep and abiding are somewhat remarkable. Hardly anywhere else does one find scientists, engineers, philosophers, poets, mystics, economists, farmers and office managers collected into one circle of seeking and able to find common ground in what is brought forward.
That speaks to a multivalence of the material that is quite striking. I know of no other way to enter into this multivalence than a careful reading of the text, pondering, one after another, so many turns of phrase that offer openings onto a cosmic landscape that is staggering in its scope, even while at the same time they give clues to possibilities for further exploration.
The story of the three brave adventurers whose collective efforts made this communication possible is itself a narrative well worth hearing. This narrative is told in considerable detail, and with as complete a fidelity to the actual truth of events as I have ever encountered, in Gary L. Bean's Tilting at Windmills.
The story, it must be admitted, is genuinely poignant. One learns that an undertaking of the kind necessary to bring forth the Law of One was not without cost. And that the cost was, indeed, great for all concerned.
I therefore wish to conclude this brief preface by expressing my gratitude to those intrepid travelers who have gone before me, and have played a decisive role in opening a clearing filled with love and light. It is a clearing in which I have learned to stand with others of like mind, like spirit, and like commitment to seeking that truth which beckons ever from a place just beyond the reach of the grasping mind, but not at all remote from the open heart.