What is a life? Is it merely a succession of the moments that fly from birth to death?
Surely not, for each heart makes its own melodies.
Each melody sounds its own symphony of emotions.
Each emotion offered from the heart creates its own connections that can never be gainsaid.
Perhaps there is no record of a life more telling than the handful of poems a soul has thought to write down.
And so this volume holds my life, its melodies caught in these poor poems.

These eighteen volumes are the a collection of the L/L Research channeling transcript archives. The content is metaphysical and spiritual in nature.

The sources are members of the Confederation of Planets in the Service of the Infinite Creator. Often the format is Q&A, where the source responds to questions from the research group members.

The channels for L/L Research are Don Elkins, Jim McCarty and Carla L. Rueckert, with additional channeling by other group members from time to time. This series of volumes spans the years from March, 1972 to May, 2008.

This large volume had its unpretentious start in 1962, when Professor Donald Tully Elkins of Speed Scientific School, a researcher into the paranormal, found Walt Rogers’ Brown Notebook and decided to produce an experiment in creating extraterrestrial communications.

From the Introduction to The Crucifixion of Esmerelda Sweetwater: “This novel is the first fruit of L/L Research, written in 1968, refined in 1969, and, because of rejections from many of the major publishers, destined to sit in file drawers until private donations made it possible for us to offer this volume to those for whom it may have some value. 

Topics include:

• What is channeling?
• Why channel?
• Psychic greetings/attacks
• Temptations and the ethics of channeling
• Channeling and Christianity

Originally titled Voices of the Gods, it was never officially published and sat on the shelf until the project was resurrected decades later.