A Friend was putting together a book a few years back and she included my little story in it.
It's a little about my lifes journey. I am sure you all have your own "story"
if you would care to share.

This one always knew she was somehow different. Genetics played it a part. Out of six kids I am the only one who did not have blonde hair and blue eyes. Things that make you go Hmmm?
I remember looking up at the stars and begging to be taken home. Or stamping my feet
in protest of not wanting to be here. Of course I had to be here. Did I not
put my hand up when the call went out? You bet I did!
It was a lonely life for this one as a child. Feeling that I never really belonged here
was not a help. Locking myself up in a room so I could read, or listen to my always
beloved music. Thanks to the library and a tiny radio that was given to me.
Home life was difficult at best and a horror more often than not.
Even my family thought of me as different. Never fitting into any mold.
Just always wanting to be me. I always had to do it my way regardless of the outcome.
Questions always comming into my head. I was always searching for
answers. Never believing what was told to me in Catholic School I
began to search for the deeper meaning of life, and my purpose in it at a very early age.
How could a Just and Loving Father give you a life (a grain of sand in time) and then punish you
for ALL of eternity if you went against church teachings? That's when I started
snooping around into other religions. To see what they were about. Sadly, some were
worse than what I was being brainwashed into believing.
Being an avid reader as always books became my life! At first Science
Fiction and then metaphysical. Sitting at a table for hours with books spread about me.
A questioned answered but two more hammering at my brain. The Nature of Personal Reality,
Yoganada, Kahlil Gibran and so many others helping me to find my way.

I had my first out of body at about age 25. Then came the lucid dream.
I was standing in a clearing with other people.
I knew I was there before and knew I would be again.
There was no fear at all. The ship came and hovered above us about
500 feet or so. Each of us stepped into the soft diffused light that
was eminating from the bottom of the ship. When it was my turn and I stepped
into that golden light I could feel myself being pulled
upward. But the feelings are so hard to describe. Total love
enveloped me and I felt it to the very core of my being. A blissful
state. I became aware that it was really happening and that it was
not just a dream. I saw the stars through the ships window and met
AA Michaeland other beings. We communicated by telepathy. They knew me and I them.
In my dreamstate I kept going to places to help. Places that seemed
to be at war. I would keep returning to one place all the time and
then that stopped.

My physic self also developing more and more. I would get glimpses
of what others had going on in their heads just by standing next to
them. At times walking into a room was so disturbing I had to walk
out. All the jumbled thoughts that I was picking up on was so loud!
Also around that time I realized that I was a healer/teacher.
Doing healings with energy coming from my hands, and not really knowing how I was doing it.
Seeing aura's and teaching friends how to see them, and about energy amongst other things.
It was a very happy time for me. Exploring, doing meditations, and
"getting" things that had been over my head before. Always an "ahhhhh",
Now I know what that meant! The ahhhhs came from music too.

As with most of us on a path, my life has been
accelerated. Seeming to be living many lifetimes within this one.
Having many different experiences/lessons more so than most people.
And on many different levels. It's been quite a ride!
When I first saw the name Ashtar Command years ago with my first
computer the excitement I felt was unexplainable. I had to find out
who this Ashtar was and what the Command was. SpiritWeb was up back
then and I learned alot from that wonderful site. I also found RevDeb
and Janisel. So when the call came out for the Gathering of Souls
Conference I just knew I had to be there. It was just an awesome
experience. To be with so many others like myself at one time. I
walked around high for four days from the energies! It was also there
that I had my first rebirthing. And a visit from AA Raphael. It took
me months to fully anchor back into my body from that one! That is
also when I got my command name. Shanara Ra.
All the wonderful people that I met and of course, am still in
contact with. When I look back at all that I have experienced, and
how much I have grown since then. It has indeed been quite a ride!
I still visit the ships and have more and more recall of what I am up
to when I am there. I know that I am an entertainer onboard. Doing
dance nothing like what is done here, and expressing music. That is
my fun job. My other one aboard is much more serious.
The flying lessons are great fun too! And last year I was graced with
a private showing of a ship right above my house that I managed to
catch on film. It was confirmed to me that it indeed was for my benefit.

Yes indeed, it has been some ride. A ride that I could not have
missed for all the stars in the galaxies. There is so much more that
I could tell you about and keeping this short is hard.
There is so much more to come and I welcome it with arms opened wide!
May we all walk into our "future" with dignity, grace, honor, clarity, joy and ease. The best is yet to come!
Blessings and Love,
Namaste,
Ja-harra En-Ra EL

My Friend Wrote:
Dear Ja-Harra,
Thank you so much for your wonderfully told life story
and what a welcome addition to the book! Your life is very inspiring
and you have many gifts. I, too, can't wait to see what lies ahead as its been an incredible ride so far
and, being 70, I realize that most of it is behind me but I also know that what lies ahead will be the best!
Thanks again.
Hugs,
Bettie