# Space/time *Canonical page: https://ra.contact/concepts/space-time* *Last updated: 2026-06-25* *Ordinary physical, material reality — the realm of incarnation, where catalyst is gathered.* ## What Ra means Space/time is the material half of a paired framework Ra uses to describe reality. Its hallmark is the dominance of space: matter sits in fixed positions, moves through time, and produces a tangible framework for illusion — the world in which entities incarnate and gather catalyst (71.6). The word "space/time" in Ra's usage always signals the physical, incarnate, third-density domain of experience as distinct from the metaphysical. Ra contrasts it with time/space throughout the sessions. In space/time, an entity can act on present imbalances but cannot see far ahead; in time/space, the grand overview is available but present-moment correction is not (71.7). Healing, for example, is done in time/space by the etheric body, then translated into the space/time physical form — it is the adoption of a configuration in time/space that produces what appears as physical health (66.14). Space/time is also where the veil operates. The veiling that defines third-density experience is a space/time phenomenon — the same conditions did not apply in time/space either before or after the veil was implemented (83.3). This is why dreaming and contact with the Higher Self — both involving a bridge to time/space — take on different characteristics than waking space/time experience. ## In Ra's words The structure of space/time and time/space as two asymmetric realms — what each offers and what each cannot do: > The process in space/time of the forgiveness and acceptance is much like that in time/space in that the qualities of the process are analogous. However, while in space/time it is not possible to determine the course of events beyond the incarnation but only to correct present imbalances. In time/space, upon the other hand, it is not possible to correct any unbalanced actions but rather to perceive the imbalances and, thusly, forgive the self for that which is. > > The decisions then are made to set up the possibility/probabilities of correcting these imbalances in what you call future space/time experiences. > > The advantage of time/space is that of the fluidity of the grand overview. The advantage of space/time is that, working in darkness with a tiny candle, one may correct imbalances. > > — [71.7.2-7](https://ra.contact/sessions/71#71.7) Space/time and time/space as mathematical descriptions of the relationship between the seen and unseen — clumsy but sufficient: > The space/time and time/space concepts are those concepts describing, as mathematically as possible, the relationships of your illusion: that which is seen to that which is unseen. These descriptive terms are clumsy. They, however, suffice for this work. > > In the experiences of the mystical search for unity these need never be considered, for they are but part of an illusory system. The seeker seeks the One. > > — [57.33.5-9](https://ra.contact/sessions/57#57.33) Healing as a time/space event that is then adopted by the space/time physical form: > Healing is done in the time/space portion of the mind/body/spirit complex, is adopted by the form-making, or etheric, body and is then given to the space/time physical illusion for use in the activated yellow-ray mind/body/spirit complex. It is the adoption of the configuration which you call health by the etheric body in time/space which is the key to what you call health, not any event which occurs in space/time. > > In this process you may see the transdimensional aspect of what you call will, for it is the will, the seeking, the desire of the entity which causes the indigo body to use the novel configuration and to reform the body which exists in space/time. This is done in an instant and may be said to operate without regard to time. > > — [66.14.2-5](https://ra.contact/sessions/66#66.14) ## Every use Every line where Ra uses this term, in its own context, chronologically. 260 uses, first at 2.2. - [2.2](https://ra.contact/sessions/2#2.2) — …of stress be placed upon our experiences in your local **space/time**. The teach/learning which is our responsibility is… - [2.2](https://ra.contact/sessions/2#2.2) — …the Eighteenth Dynasty, as it is known in your records of **space/time** distortions, we were able to contact a pharaoh, as you… - [4.13](https://ra.contact/sessions/4#4.13) — …observed, is the healing of those whose activities in your **space/time** illusion do not reflect the Law of One but whose ability… - [5.3](https://ra.contact/sessions/5#5.3) — …from time to time. Also that they not be exposed to that **space/time** in which work is not of importance. I am Ra. I leave this… - [6.9](https://ra.contact/sessions/6#6.9) — Do you request **space/time** present information or space/time continuum information? - [6.9](https://ra.contact/sessions/6#6.9) — Do you request space/time present information or **space/time** continuum information? - [6.21](https://ra.contact/sessions/6#6.21) — …craft of which you speak have not been used by us in your **space/time** present memory complex. However, we have used crystals and… - [6.25](https://ra.contact/sessions/6#6.25) — …which wishes to appear within your third-dimensional **space/time**-distortion requests permission to break quarantine, as you… - [7.15](https://ra.contact/sessions/7#7.15) — …numbers are perhaps one-tenth ours at any point in the **space/time** continuum as the problem of spiritual entropy causes them… - [7.15](https://ra.contact/sessions/7#7.15) — …One, then are placed into operation, and the illusion of **space/time** is used as a medium for the development of the results of… - [9.2](https://ra.contact/sessions/9#9.2) — …your mind/body/spirit being totality so that your present **space/time** experiences will be undiluted. Let us scan for harmless… - [9.3](https://ra.contact/sessions/9#9.3) — …Again, to direct your judgment is an intrusion upon your **space/time**-continuum distortion called future. To speak of past or… - [10.1](https://ra.contact/sessions/10#10.1) — …technology this social complex had at its disposal in the **space/time** present of the then time. This time was approximately… - [10.1](https://ra.contact/sessions/10#10.1) — …first-dimensional life forms at an earlier point in the **space/time** continuum of your solar system.) These entities were so… - [10.15](https://ra.contact/sessions/10#10.15) — …oh, thirty-one thousand [31,000] years in the past of your **space/time** continuum illusion. It was a slow-growing and very… - [11.12](https://ra.contact/sessions/11#11.12) — …in the dimension known to you as fourth. Therefore, the **space/time** continua are not compatible. An approximation of the… - [11.12](https://ra.contact/sessions/11#11.12) — …continua are not compatible. An approximation of the **space/time** locus of each would net no actual understanding. Each… - [11.19](https://ra.contact/sessions/11#11.19) — …Distortion. To name those involved in the future of your **space/time** is to infringe; thus, we withhold this information. We… - [12.7](https://ra.contact/sessions/12#12.7) — …are those who discover windows or distortions in the **space/time** continua surrounding your planet’s energy fields. Through… - [12.33](https://ra.contact/sessions/12#12.33) — …Do not concern yourselves overly with this in the **space/time** nexus present, but do not allow these distortions to… - [13.8](https://ra.contact/sessions/13#13.8) — The next step is still, at this **space/time** nexus in your illusion, achieving its progression as you… - [13.22](https://ra.contact/sessions/13#13.22) — …beingness of mind/body/spirit complexes. It is now in a **space/time** continuum, fourth density. This is causing a somewhat… - [13.23](https://ra.contact/sessions/13#13.23) — …its approach as the striking of a clock upon the hour. The **space/time** of your solar system has enabled this planetary sphere to… - [13.23](https://ra.contact/sessions/13#13.23) — …system has enabled this planetary sphere to spiral into **space/time** of a different vibrational configuration. This causes the… - [14.4](https://ra.contact/sessions/14#14.4) — …approximations as we are not totally able to process your **space/time** continuum measurement system. This was in what you call… - [14.19](https://ra.contact/sessions/14#14.19) — …our desire to be ready for harvest as it approaches in our **space/time** continuum. - [14.24](https://ra.contact/sessions/14#14.24) — …of your mind/body/spirit complexes which will, in your **space/time**-continuum distortion, hear and understand. - [16.5](https://ra.contact/sessions/16#16.5) — …from the Guardians. It operates from the dimensions beyond **space/time** in what you may call the area of intelligent energy. Like… - [16.13](https://ra.contact/sessions/16#16.13) — …sphere. This effort met with some success but was in the **space/time** continuum lessened in impact. Since approximately two… - [16.22](https://ra.contact/sessions/16#16.22) — …an overview such as an entity may have, removed from the **space/time** continuum, it may be seen that in the cycle of completion… - [17.18](https://ra.contact/sessions/17#17.18) — …healer. These are the so-called Natural Laws of your local **space/time** continuum and its web of electromagnetic sources, or nexi,… - [17.23](https://ra.contact/sessions/17#17.23) — …entities have towards the occurrences which are of your **space/time** present. However, those oriented and harvestable in the… - [17.38](https://ra.contact/sessions/17#17.38) — …There are an infinite number of planes. In your particular **space/time**-continuum distortion there are seven sub-planes of… - [19.1](https://ra.contact/sessions/19#19.1) — I am Ra. Your question presumes the **space/time** continuum understandings of the intelligent energy which… - [20.12](https://ra.contact/sessions/20#20.12) — …am Ra. At the beginning of this particular portion of your **space/time** continuum the average lifetime was approximately nine… - [22.1](https://ra.contact/sessions/22#22.1) — …service. This has brought this instrument to this nexus in **space/time** with the conscious and unconscious distortion towards… - [22.6](https://ra.contact/sessions/22#22.6) — …circumstances, a much longer incarnation in your **space/time** continuum is very helpful for continuing this intensive… - [22.8](https://ra.contact/sessions/22#22.8) — …is correct. It is well to remember that at that nexus in **space/time** great isolation was possible. - [22.24](https://ra.contact/sessions/22#22.24) — …in the, shall we say, historical passage of events in your **space/time** continuum. - [24.20](https://ra.contact/sessions/24#24.20) — …you more than you could appropriately deal with in the **space/time** nexus of your present somewhat muddled configuration of… The first 40 of 260 are listed here; all 260 are on https://ra.contact/concepts/space-time. --- Source: *The Ra Contact: Teaching the Law of One* — Don Elkins, Carla Rueckert, Jim McCarty, published by L/L Research (https://www.llresearch.org/). The transcript is quoted verbatim; Catalyst contributes the navigation, the lexicon and the guides. Citations are `session.question` — `14.7` is the seventh exchange of session 14, and reads at https://ra.contact/sessions/14#14.7. Any page's markdown twin is its URL plus `.md`.