Tim takes us on a journey from the tomb complex of Ramses II to the spiraling arms of the Milky Way, tracing the threads that connect ancient Egyptian mythology with the Law of One. Beginning with an inscription found in the world's oldest known library — Psyches Iatreion, "The House of Healing for the Soul" — Tim explores Ra's stated purpose in coming to Earth: the healing of mind/body/spirit complex distortions. That word, distortions, becomes the interpretive key. Ra didn't come to fix something broken in us. They came to address the warping, the misalignment — a distinction Tim unpacks with a lawyer's eye for language and a seeker's heart.

From there, Tim walks us through Ra's contact with the wanderer-pharaoh Akhenaten, the Trinitarian faces of Ra (Khepri the scarab at dawn, Ra the falcon at zenith, Atum the human at dusk), and the eternal nightly battle between Ra and the great serpent Apophis — chaos personified, endlessly regenerating, never fully vanquished. Through stunning Egyptian art and reliefs, Tim reveals how Apophis coils around canopic jars, boxes in Ra's light on all sides, and mirrors the spiral of the galaxy itself. The way up, it turns out, has always been through descent.

The group discussion opens into rich territory: the ankh as the archetype of archetypes (dying and rising, loss and renewal), the universality of serpent symbolism across cultures, and Tim's memorable metaphor for the Law of One as a "hairnet" — holding together Steiner, Jung, Eastern philosophy, process theology, and a Mormon upbringing without forcing any of them into a rigid mold. His wife's grounding question echoes through the evening: How has this made you more loving?

Key Ra Material references: Sessions 2.2, 14.23, 14.26, 23.6, 1.5

A friend forwarded a New York Times essay — Katya Ungerman's "We Are Sliding Back Into the Middle Ages" — cataloguing the strange new texture of American life: Tucker Carlson's reported demon attack, a FEMA official's teleportation claim, the Easter surge of conversions to Catholicism and Orthodoxy, sworn UAP testimony about nonhuman "biologics," a humanoid robot on the White House red carpet. Ungerman's diagnosis is sociological — information overload, AI-fabricated evidence, institutional decay. In this episode I offer a different reading.

Working from the scholastic axiom that whatever is received is received in the mode of the receiver, I walk through how four levels of consciousness — pre-modern, modern, postmodern, and post-postmodern — each meet the same "high strangeness" and name it incompatibly. I argue that the universe is genuinely enchanted and that much of what is being called re-enchantment is distortion, and that holding both at once is the work in front of us.

Along the way: orange-ray blockage as the recurring diagnostic; the steel-manning of the anti-liberal critique and where it goes catastrophically wrong; the May 17 Rededicate 250 ceremony on the National Mall; Ra's "quiet horror" and the window-balancing principle; why our institutions of formation were so often born inside the Great BASH; the factory farm as karmic substrate; and the hermeneutic I am calling the conspiring wholeness. The throughline, as always, is that love is the great protection — not armor, but a frequency the philosophy of separation cannot grasp.

This is my limited, partial, open-handed offering. Take what is useful. Leave what is not.

The full essay is at cosmicchrist.net.

Doug Scott dissects a volatile week when sacred imagery and political spectacle collided: an AI-generated image of a president as Jesus, a vice president publicly lecturing Pope Leo XIV on theology, and a Pentagon prayer lifted from Pulp Fiction. He traces institutional reactions, shifting Catholic support, and the information networks that shield or amplify such violations.

Through the lens of "Lo tissa," Scott shows how the Great BASH collective thoughtform dresses itself in faith’s symbols, asking readers to examine what name they carry and whether their actions reflect it.