Timeline

Louisville, Kentucky

Lake Forest, Illinois. Family relocates to Anniston, Alabama soon thereafter.

Don is a student learning to fly at Bowman field in Louisville, KY.

Kearney, Nebraska

National Guard pilot who gained country’s attention when his plane crashed in pursuit of a UFO. Incident sparked Don Elkins’ interest in UFOs.

Upon graduating Louisville Male High School. He is stationed in Germany at some point.

At the University of Louisville’s Speed Scientific School in Louisville, Kentucky.

Elkins gives this as the year that his intensive investigative efforts began.

Or stoic, if you prefer. Determines that the world is, shall we say, crazy, and in order to survive he must become indifferent, a coolheaded observer who is not swayed one way or the other, especially by emotion.

Vulcans are a fictional species from the TV series Star Trek who are characterized by living according to reason and logic only without interference from emotion. Toward that end they control and suppress their emotions.

Given choice to move on or return. See Ch 13 and 27 of Tilting at Windmills for more info.

Receives the Detroit Group material (and The Brown Notebook). Visits Walt Rogers’ group in Detroit sometime thereafter.

Through Jim D., a student in Don’s engineering class and Carla’s romantic interest.

Don gathers first experimental channeling group. Carla is the 13th member and only female.

Prior to Rogers’s visit, the channeling experiment was “scientifically clean, but null.” Rogers visits the Louisville Group and channels his Confederation contact to the group. Gist of message: “Why aren’t you speaking our words? You are receiving them, but you are not saying them.” Actual channeling begins soon thereafter.

At eight years old due to childhood UFO experience described in Secrets of the UFO and referenced in The Law of One. Develops lifelong friendship. Eventually becomes VP of L/L Board.

Becomes a pilot to fund his research and devote more time to it. Eventually rises to the rank of a 727 Captain.

They unite immediately following Carla’s divorce from Jim DeWitt. Don attempts intimacy with Carla for six months.

They receive or “see” the entire story as if watching a movie, except for the very end, which they have to create on their own.

Leaves librarian position of thirteen-grade private school to devote herself full time to Don’s investigation.

A private partnership focused on research.

Arranges for Larson to speak at the University of Kentucky. Don and Carla subsequently join the board of International Society for Unified Science. Remain until publication of Secrets of the UFO.

At T. D. Lingo’s Adventure Trail Survival School.

In Marion County, Kentucky. Influenced by the “Back to the Land Movement,” and wanting to follow Lingo’s dictum to teach brain self-control, Jim builds his own log cabin.

Spends first six weeks in a tent before moving into the cabin.

A 501(c)(3) non-profit modeled after Lingo’s own school. Designed to teach the same methods.

After twelve years of participating in the group but never channeling. She, we now know, was a natural. Likely born for it.

And realize that his house was featured in their book, The Crucifixion of Esmerelda Sweetwater, and he was the character Pablo.

Named after a term in the book Oahspe, formed as a 501(c)(3) light center with land near St. Francis, KY. Carla and Don eventually drop out.

Develops and tests the protocols of tuning and challenging.

Don and Carla travel to investigate (and experience) psychic surgery.

“L/L” is short for Love/Light

Summarizing their research to that point.

Featured on a WKQQ radio broadcast out of Lexington, KY, Jim hears them while alone on his land, listening to a battery-powered radio.

Don and Carla travel to Mexico to investigate (and experience) psychic surgery for a second time.

Meets Carla on the front steps of the main meeting hall at Ken Keyes’s new “Living Love Center” in St Mary’s, KY. Meets Don at a meditation in Don and Carla’s Louisville apartment not long thereafter.

Pulled to leave his solitary experience of six years in order to be of service in a channeling community. Spends two months there.

Becomes a DBA of Jim’s non-profit, The Rock Creek Research & Development Labs.

Offered lucrative employment while in Oregon, Jim sets aside weekend to meditate on the question of whether to stay with Cosmic Awareness, take high-paying work, or return to Louisville to accept Don and Carla’s offer to live and work with them. Receives answer in a matter of seconds: “Go to Louisville.”

Don Elkins, and universe, jump for joy.

A quarterly publication featuring the best of L/L’s channeling. Continues into the present.

To move closer to Don’s work as an airline pilot. First signs of Don’s illness.

The only session outside of their original home in Louisville, KY.

Moves into new home in Louisville.

Commits suicide after a year of declining mental health at 54 years old.

18 years after it was written.

Hatonn, Latwii, Oxal, and others had been around for some time. Q’uo first appearance on this date.

At Calvary Episcopal Church in Louisville, KY.

A professor of philosophy who would become a dear friend, one of Carla’s best two channeling students.

Jim and Carla meet Romi, who will become a longstanding and faithful friend to, and volunteer for, L/L Research, and also the third member who will make possible many of the channelings in the ’90s.

Roughly eight years after Don died, Carla finally forgives herself and leaves a long spiritual desert experience. Her health rebounds and she regains the ability to be fully mobile again after a grueling physical therapy regimen.

Thanks to multiple people but primarily Ian, a professional who volunteers to digitize all of L/L’s work, and subsequently builds L/L’s first website, LLResearch.org, to share that work with the world. Ian serves as volunteer webmaster and editor/publisher for 17 years.

Produced by Scott Mandelker, Carla and Jim speak at this seminar and meet a young Gary.

A website dedicated to sharing The Law of One material. Later will host the Relistened version, and will become the best study tool for The Law of One material.

After group discussion, Carla & Jim invite attendees of Feb, 2003 Homecoming, including Gary, to start an experiment in community.

Re-listens to all 106 sessions of the Ra Contact. Discovers un-transcribed Q&As and other modifications to the text. Begins creation of Relistened Version, an actual exact transcript, and the precursor of the Lightly Edited Version, that which will be used for The Ra Contact: Teaching the Law of One book.

Everyone eventually moves away save for Gary who stays on with Carla and Jim.

A daily online blog chronicling the life and work of L/L Research, and the personal lives of Jim and Carla. Journal continues uninterrupted into the present.

Gary produces his first event, and L/L’s first large-scale Homecoming (large by L/L’s standards).

Carla, wanting to be freed to focus on creative work, creates new position and offers it to Gary, who accepts reluctantly but soon embraces it. Several years later becomes L/L’s Administrator.

A subscription-based newsletter designed to keep subscribers apprised of L/L happenings and to connect others via a directory of study groups

Steve Engratt had a vision for a community website congruent with Carla’s seed idea, and the technical chops to get it done. Signs on as webmaster and together with Gary, builds L/L Research’s first community website.

As a result of which Carla and Jim do not have to fund L/L Research out of their own pockets for the first time in its history.

Carla’s attempt to break down the Law of One into simpler terms.

L/L’s quarterly newsletter The Light/Lines features the best of its channeling.

An 18-volume set spanning the years 1972 - 2008.

Including Facebook, Twitter, and, at the time, Tumblr.

Submitted daily to Carla, it reports the highlights of L/L Research’s work each day and is published in her Camelot Journal. It will become an independent publication in August, 2019

Originally hosted by Monica Leal. Will evolve over time to include Jim, Gary, and Austin. Continues now as the Law of One Podcast.

Carla designs a course based on her book Living the Law of One 101 and offers it through online school IMU (International Metaphysical University).

Undergoes spinal fusion surgery soon thereafter. She intends to resume channeling but the surgery leaves her bound to a hospital bed with an open wound for next four years. Thus April 13 marks the end of a 37-year vocation of channeling.

Shares audio with the public for the first time, allowing others to hear the slow-moving conversation.

And sparks fly between he and L/L.

…is a day like any other.

Recognized for excellent volunteer work as a moderator for Bring4th.org, invited to Louisville to work alongside Gary at the L/L helm.

In collaboration with Jochen Blumenthal who creates Das Gesetz des Einen Verlag for the German translation of all L/L Research material. Soon thereafter incorporates Micheline Deschreider’s French translations into Maison d’édition La Loi Une (Allemagne).

After a four-year struggle with an open wound and a lifetime of medical hardship, Carla passes away in Jim’s arms in their home at 71 years old.

Written initially as a presentation for Homecoming, 2015. Book uses material from TAW.

Guidelines, Principles, Mod Docs, Reorganizaing.

Simply formalizing their existing roles of service to the organization.

Portuguese, Chinese, French, German, Hungarian, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish. With Italian, Czech, and Bulgarian on the horizon.

The first ever comprehensive and unified biography of L/L’s founders and the organization. Also, the fruit of Austin and Gary learning how to bring book publishing entirely in-house.

Jim and Steve launch the first post-Carla series of channeling intensives designed to teach a new generation. What remains of the circle continues into the present with Jim, Austin, Kathy, Trish, and Gary.

The Czech team of Vojta, Romi, Radim, and Bara form Spolek Zákona jednoty, becoming L/L’s second publishing partner.

Narrated by Jim, L/L Research’s first ever audiobook

The definitive and final version of the 106 sessions and a milestone for L/L’s flagship work.

First of what will become an annual gathering held in collaboration with the AVL LOO Study Group, uses open space technology and focuses on transformational practices.

After seven years of volunteer service and with board approval, Trish adds power to the output of L/L Research.

Narrated by Jim, first ever audiobook of the conversation with Ra.

Merges the original audio recordings of the Ra contact with the transcribed words for the first time. (As of 02.2021, up to Session 53.)

After years after publication in Carla and Jim’s Camelot Journal, the Blogworthy finds its own space to report the work of L/L Research.

In collaboration with the Czech translation team, L/L holds its first gathering outside of the States. 16 countries represented.

Thanks to an anonymous donor, L/L Research announces the gift of its first ever endowment.

The first book in the Ra Contact Resource Series, it studies and synthesizes key concepts from Adept–Will.

Thanks to the indefatigable efforts of Nadine and Thomas, L/L begins publishing its first ever high-quality video presentations.

Being like brothers in leading L/L’s operation, they figure they should share the designation. Austin accepts offer that was made in Aug, 2018.

Due to pandemic, L/L and its AVL collaborators move the Coming Home to a New Earth gathering online to great success and future online events to come.

The publisher of the original Law of One books publishes the first ever hardcover boxed set.

In a major upgrade to L/L’s online community at Bring4th, the stewardship circle is launched thanks to the efforts of Aion, Diana, Flofrog, Louisabell, Patrick, and Spaced.

After a long journey, the new site wildly exceeds what we hoped to achieve for a more reader-centric experience. Our basic goal was to make this treasure trove of spiritual information more accessible, sortable, searchable, and useable for you.

For the first time in the history of the universe, one is able to search the entire breadth of the Confederation channeling - the Law of One and almost five decades of conscious channeling - as a single, synthesized body of material. Language-specific searches soon follow.

A local circle continues to meet to channel Q’uo. The work of L/L Research goes on. And the material at this point is translated into Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, Farsi, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, and Ukranian – with Arabic, Greek, and more on the way!