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Definition and Origin
Wanderers are beings from higher densities who have incarnated on Earth to serve during the current transition period. Ra explains their nature:
“Imagine, if you will, the sands of your shores. As countless as the grains of sand are the sources of intelligent infinity. When a social memory complex has achieved its complete understanding of its desire, it may conclude that its desire is service to others with the distortion towards reaching their hand, figuratively, to any entities who call for aid. These entities whom you may call the Brothers and Sisters of Sorrow move towards this calling of sorrow. These entities are from all reaches of the infinite creation and are bound together by the desire to serve in this distortion.”¹
This concept of the “Brothers and Sisters of Sorrow” deeply resonates with those who identify as Wanderers. As one contemporary student of the material describes it: “Ra very poignantly says, in one place we have walked amongst your people. We have senior people… we know the pain. We feel the pain… a pain. That is this big, and since the one creation is one body, it is as if there is an infection, a wound that must be responded to. Well, one way to respond to these you could call them prayers is to wander.”²
The Elder Race: South America’s Ancient Shepherds
Among the various types of Wanderers, Ra describes a unique group known as the “Elder Race” – the original harvestable entities from Earth’s second major cycle. At the end of that cycle, approximately 25,000 years ago, “There were approximately one hundred fifty [150] entities harvestable”³ out of a total population of “approximately three four five, oh oh oh, three hundred forty-five thousand [345,000] entities.”⁴
This small group of 150 souls had achieved remarkable spiritual development. “This isolated group had achieved life spans stretching upwards towards the nine-hundred-year [900-year] life span appropriate to this density.”⁵ Their isolation in South America had protected them from the planetary influences that were shortening lifespans elsewhere.
The Confederation’s Visitation
At this crucial juncture, these 150 harvestable entities received a profound spiritual contact. “These entities were visited by the Confederation and became desirous of remaining in order to aid the planetary consciousness.”⁶
Ra describes this pivotal encounter: “A light being appeared bearing that which may be called a shield of light. It spoke of the oneness and infinity of all creation and of those things which await those ready for harvest. It described in golden words the beauties of love as lived. It then allowed a telepathic linkage to progressively show those who were interested the plight of third density when seen as a planetary complex. It then left.”⁷
The result of this contact was extraordinary: “And did all of these entities then decide to stay and help during the next 25,000-year cycle? Ra: I am Ra. This is correct. As a group they stayed.”⁸
The Elder Race as Wanderers
These 150 South American entities became what Ra refers to as the “Elder Race” or “shepherds.” “These shepherds, or, as some have called them, the ‘Elder Race,’ shall choose the time/space of their leaving. They are unlikely to leave until their other-selves are harvestable also.”⁹ “The other-selves with whom these beings are concerned are those which did not attain harvest during the second major cycle.”¹⁰
Ra explains their unique status as a type of Wanderer: “These are planetary entities harvested — Wanderers only in the sense that they chose, in fourth-density love, to immediately reincarnate in third density rather than proceeding towards fourth density. This causes them to be Wanderers of a type, Wanderers who have never left the Earth plane because of their free will rather than because of their vibrational level.”¹¹
Unlike other Wanderers who come from other planets or densities, “these entities are not a social memory complex, but rather a group of mind/body/spirit complexes dedicated to service. These entities work together, but are not completely unified; thus, they do not completely see each the other’s thoughts, feelings, and motives. However, their desire to serve is the fourth-dimensional type of desire, thus melding them into what you may call a brotherhood.”¹²
Modern Wanderers: The Cosmic Response
The largest population of modern Wanderers comes from sixth density: “Few there are of fourth density. The largest number of Wanderers, as you call them, are of the sixth density. The desire to serve must be distorted towards a great deal of purity of mind and what you may call foolhardiness or bravery, depending upon your distortion complex judgment.”¹³
As one student of the material explains: “Wanderers primarily come from Ra, says the 6th density… having gone through 3rd and 4th and 5th having come from already an incredibly united organism of being, where a social memory complex… what maybe we can imagine as heaven, or something like that can be the experience of 6th density… 6th entity beings like 5th and 4th but very primarily 6th are like master gardeners that come and garden, the consciousness, the fertile field of the earth of consciousness.”¹⁴
Ra corrected the number of Wanderers on Earth at the time of the contact: “This is approximately correct. There is some excess to that amount. * The correct number in 1981 was somewhat in excess of 60 million.”¹⁵ Contemporary estimates suggest even higher numbers today, with many fourth-density Wanderers now incarnating to assist with the transition.
The Wanderer Experience: Alienation and Mission
Physical and Emotional Challenges
Wanderers typically experience significant difficulties in adjusting to third-density vibrations: “Due to the extreme variance between the vibratory distortions of third density and those of the more dense densities, if you will, Wanderers have as a general rule some form of handicap, difficulty, or feeling of alienation which is severe. The most common of these difficulties are alienation, the reaction against the planetary vibration by personality disorders, as you would call them, and body complex ailments indicating difficulty in adjustment to the planetary vibrations such as allergies, as you would call them.”¹⁶
This theoretical description finds profound validation in lived experience. As one contemporary Wanderer shares: “Very sensitive to energy moods, able to perceive what is going on under the water in other people… the vibrational mismatch between their subconscious memory and disharmony of this world can lead to a deep-seated sense of alienation… I don’t belong here. This place is insane.”¹⁷
Another describes the intensity: “It is a difficult journey, and you do… feel very alone… because you can’t just share this kind of thing with just anybody. They they don’t understand… very, very sensitive to… the different vibrations that are out there… literally, physically, making me sick.”¹⁸
The Childhood Recognition
Many Wanderers report early awareness of their difference. One individual recalls: “I used to tell people I used to tell my parents this is rural Texas… I used to tell my parents. You know… this is 1st grade after my Ufo encounter, said, You know, guys, I’m really not from here.”¹⁹ This echoes the broader pattern where, as a young person noted, “as a kid… while other people were, you know, other kids had playboy or something underneath their mattress… I would have little esoteric magazines on aliens. I was into out of body experiences and telepathy, and all these Atlantis and Pyramids.”²⁰
The Great Risk
Wanderers face a significant spiritual danger: “The challenge/danger of the Wanderer is that it will forget its mission, become karmically involved, and thus be swept into the maelstrom from which it had incarnated to aid the destruction.”²¹
Purpose and Mission
Wanderers serve multiple functions. “It was the aim of Wanderers to serve the entities of this planet in whatever way was requested and it was also the aim of Wanderers that their vibratory patterns might lighten the planetary vibration as a whole, thus ameliorating the effects of planetary disharmony and palliating any results of this disharmony.”²³
They also serve a vital energetic function: “Then each of the Wanderers here acts as a function of the biases he has developed in any way he sees fit to communicate or simply be in his polarity to aid the total consciousness of the planet. Is there any, shall I say, more physical way that he aids in— what I mean is, do the vibrations somehow add, just as electrical polarity or charging a battery or something? Does that also aid the planet, just the physical presence of the Wanderers? Ra: I am Ra. This is correct and the mechanism is precisely as you state.”²⁴
Contemporary understanding emphasizes that “the wanderer is, is less important than what we do, and more important about doing internal work, and then radiating that out in our day-to-day ways of being.”²⁵
Individual Specializations
Each Wanderer brings unique abilities: “You may, at this time, note that as with any entities, each Wanderer has its unique abilities, biases, and specialties so that from each portion of each density represented among the Wanderers comes an array of pre-incarnative talents which then may be expressed upon this plane which you now experience so that each Wanderer, in offering itself before incarnation, has some special service to offer in addition to the doubling effect of planetary love and light and the basic function of serving as beacon or shepherd.”²⁶
The Path Forward: Know Yourself
Ra’s fundamental teaching for all seekers, including Wanderers, remains: “Know yourself, accept yourself and become the Creator, become all that there is.” This wisdom is echoed in contemporary spiritual teaching, where “every single time the enlightened one says, Find out who you are. That is the best thing you can do for this planet.”²⁷
Yet this inner work must be balanced with service, as one student notes: “often we don’t really discover our full mission unless it’s done in relationship. I think we have to have that curiosity to seek inward. But at the same time it’s through relationality that we really find and get honed more into our own ministry.”²⁸
The Paradox of Identity
Perhaps most importantly, mature understanding of the Wanderer concept leads to a healthy detachment from the identity itself. As one Wanderer I know said: “My relationship with the phenomena of Wanderers goes like this: It has been incredibly validating for me personally, and, on the other hand, I don’t care… people who are really Wanderers–and who have done a lot of inner work–don’t need this deeper truth about themselves to feel like they are important. They know that they are important because they know their one mission in life is to be here, now, and to do what is theirs to do. They know that they “way up is the way down,” as it were.²⁹
Imagining the Ancient Visitation
Picture, if you will, the moment 25,000 years ago when the Confederation’s light being appeared to the 150 harvestable souls in South America. These individuals had achieved near-perfect spiritual development, living lives of nearly 900 years in their isolated mountain communities. They had successfully learned the lessons of love and were ready to graduate to fourth density.
The light being would have appeared with an overwhelming presence of love and light, carrying what Ra describes as a “shield of light” – perhaps a radiant aura of protection and divine authority. In golden words that spoke directly to their hearts, it described the infinite beauty of love as lived in higher densities, painting pictures of the paradise that awaited them if they chose to graduate.
But then came the crucial moment: the telepathic linkage that showed them Earth’s plight. Through this connection, they experienced the suffering of the remaining 344,850 souls who had not achieved harvest – the confusion, the pain, the spiritual darkness that would continue for another 25,000 years. They saw themselves as older brothers and sisters to these struggling souls, and their fourth-density love could not abandon them.
As one, these 150 entities made the supreme sacrifice. They chose to remain, to reincarnate again and again throughout the third cycle, serving as shepherds and guides for their planetary brothers and sisters. They became the first true Wanderers – not from distant stars, but from their own achievement, choosing service over graduation, becoming eternal guardians of Earth’s spiritual evolution.
Conclusion
The material describes Wanderers as courageous souls who serve humanity during its transition into fourth density. Their experiences of alienation, sensitivity, and mission-driven purpose find validation in contemporary testimonies of those walking this path. Among them, the Elder Race stands as the most profound example of service – 150 South American souls who achieved harvest 25,000 years ago but chose to remain as eternal shepherds, guiding their planetary family through the long night of third density until all could graduate together. Whether ancient shepherds or modern mission-driven souls, all Wanderers share the common calling to “know yourself” while serving as beacons of love and light in a world desperately seeking both.
Bibliography
Elkins, Don, Carla L. Rueckert, and James Allen McCarty. The Ra Contact: Teaching the Law of One. Volume 1. Louisville, KY: L/L Research, 2018.
Elkins, Don, Carla L. Rueckert, and James Allen McCarty. The Ra Contact: Teaching the Law of One. Volume 2. Louisville, KY: L/L Research, 2018.
Rueckert, Carla L. A Wanderer’s Handbook: An Owner’s Manual for ETs and Other Spiritual Outsiders. Louisville, KY: L/L Research, 2013.
Scott, Doug. “Wanderers Presentation.” Video conference presentation, May 2025. Transcript.
Endnotes
- Don Elkins, Carla L. Rueckert, and James Allen McCarty, The Ra Contact: Teaching the Law of One, Volume 1 (Louisville, KY: L/L Research, 2018), Session 12, Question 26.
- Doug Scott, “Wanderers Presentation,” Video conference presentation, May 2025, transcript.
- Elkins, Rueckert, and McCarty, The Ra Contact, Volume 1, Session 22, Question 10.
- Ibid., Session 22, Question 9.
- Ibid., Session 22, Question 7.
- Ibid., Session 22, Question 11.
- Ibid., Session 22, Question 12.
- Ibid., Session 22, Question 13.
- Ibid., Session 15, Question 15.
- Ibid., Session 15, Question 16.
- Ibid., Session 15, Question 20.
- Ibid., Session 15, Question 18.
- Ibid., Session 12, Question 28.
- Scott, “Wanderers Presentation.”
- Don Elkins, Carla L. Rueckert, and James Allen McCarty, The Ra Contact: Teaching the Law of One, Volume 2 (Louisville, KY: L/L Research, 2018), Session 63, Question 10 (with correction note from Session 64).
- Elkins, Rueckert, and McCarty, The Ra Contact, Volume 1, Session 12, Question 30.
- Scott, “Wanderers Presentation.”
- Ibid.
- Ibid.
- Ibid.
- Elkins, Rueckert, and McCarty, The Ra Contact, Volume 1, Session 12, Question 28.
- Scott, “Wanderers Presentation.”
- Elkins, Rueckert, and McCarty, The Ra Contact, Volume 2, Session 65, Question 11.
- Ibid., Session 65, Question 12.
- Scott, “Wanderers Presentation.”
- Elkins, Rueckert, and McCarty, The Ra Contact, Volume 2, Session 36, Question 24.
- Scott, “Wanderers Presentation.”
- Ibid.
- Ibid.
- Ibid.
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