Carla L. Rueckert, the instrument

Carla Lisbeth Rueckert (1943–2015) was the voice of the Ra contact: a Christian mystic who offered her body as a trance instrument while Don Elkins questioned and Jim McCarty supported. She did not claim to be Ra. She claimed to be a woman who had tuned her life — prayer, communion, care of the body, refusal of cheap occultism — until a contact of unusual purity could use it. After Don's death she continued as a conscious channel for Q'uo and as a teacher of wanderers. The archive is not a personality cult. It is a record of a group that put harmony above being interesting.