Given the state of the world at the outset of 2026, Jamie and Jeremy discuss the Confederation's thoughts on the subject of despair. Laleema shares their view on the condition with regards to the mind, body, and spirit complexes, finding spiritual despair to be an absolutely necessary experience for the seeker. The task then becomes to work with our bodily and mental despair to transmute them into that of the spirit, where we can surrender our limitations of mind and body to the Creator and do Its will. The ideas of Søren Kierkegaard on despair are sprinkled in, and a Q'uo transcript from a few years sheds light on the operation of despair as part of a cycle in the life of love.

1. Laleema on despair (September 22, 2005)
2. Sickness Unto Death (Kierkegaard, A&D Press, 2008)
3. Q'uo on Empathy (First Channeling Intensive, Session 10: August 1, 2021)
4. Q'uo on Witnessing Planetary Sorrow (Sixth Channeling Intensive, Session 19: November 4, 2024)
5. Pluribus (Apple TV)
6. Reality (Kingsley, Catafalque Press, 2020)
7. Q'uo on the Cycle of Desire, Love, Despair, and Healing (First Channeling Intensive, Session 11: August 2, 2021)
8. Auxhall on Freedom and Direction (March 12, 2023)
9. All despair-related sessions on HARC (High Altitude Receiving Center)
10. Working Notes (Substack)

When asked about the disciplines of the personality, those of Ra responded with three directives: “One, know yourself. Two, accept yourself. Three, become the Creator.” What does it mean to know yourself? Which self? How much knowledge? What is this knowledge, its nature? Jamie and Jeremy discuss these questions in light of emotions, dreams, energy system blockages, desires, and the neverending search for the center of ourselves and other selves.

• Episode 17: The Discipline of the Personality (inaudible.show)
• Ra on the discipline of the personality (Session 74, Question 11)
• Q’uo on working with emotions (January 7, 2008)
• Ra’s balancing technique example (Session 46, Question 9)
• Hatonn on knowing the universe through the self (November 9, 1977)
• Ra on imagining infinity as a unity (Session 1, Question 7)
• Laitos on desire magnetizing the self (November 9, 1977)
• Episode 62: A Deep Dive Into the Archetypes, Part 3 (inaudible.show)
• Q’uo on “Who Am I?” (September 22, 2007)

Contact Jeremy via email: jeremy at otherselvesworking period group

How should we relate to the more fantastic elements in Confederation philosophy like contact with extraterrestrial entities, the effects of the pyramid structure, and UFOs/UAPs? How do we know what's real? Is any of it required study for our spiritual progress? What role does it play in our lives, our faith in the Creator, and ability to polarize and serve others? Jamie Liestman joins Jeremy to discuss how seekers might work with these less philosophical parts of the philosophy, recounting their personal experiences with the sublime, the supernatural, and where service fits into that.

Note: My audio is not as good as it could be, I'm out of practice setting levels. Sorry.

• Jade Norby's new Law of One podcast (YouTube)
• Jade Norby's substack with Discord community information (jadenorby.substack.com)
• Ra on using the pyramid (Session 57, Question 13)
• Carla joins the Working Group (June 10, 2024: Working Group Gathering '24, Session 6)
• Ra on understanding in third density (Session 16, Question 39)
• Ufos alerting people to mystery (Session 7, Question 12)
• Flying Sauces: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Sky (Jung, Princeton University Press, 1979)
• Episode 14: The Transient and the Timeless (inaudible.show)
• Hatonn on blending energies (August 15, 2025: RMC 2025 Invitational, Session 1)
• YouTube version (YouTube.com)