Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
7:25 a.m. Wednesday April 26, 2006
Wheezing a little this morning – just as I was wheezing, very slightly, on Cemetery Ridge. Just enough for me to note for later significance – for it is tied in to Joseph’s experience, I think.
I can feel that someone else is in the wings for the next part of this little demonstration. Come on ahead.
Continue reading So you think your life was wasted – part three (11)
I don’t often include material here about investing or such-like. But I do know that astrology is not nonsense, and this man’s career seems to demonstrate it in a way that people can hear — he makes money using it. A lot of money! But, as you will see, money is not the point of this very interesting interview.
I got this by way of Roger Reynolds’ financial email. enclosing this from The Daily Crux (www.thedailycrux.com). newsletter.
Papa’s code
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
7:45 AM. Papa, my friend Christel asks an interesting question. Did it occur to Jake (or to you) that a man might have ways to sexually satisfy a woman other than normal intercourse?
Think about it, and you will see that in this case he could satisfy her, but she couldn’t satisfy him, and over time it could only lead to humiliation and resentment, even though it was nobody’s fault. Jake wasn’t impotent, he was mutilated, and had no way to relieve the pressure — and so she couldn’t help him. If he had had his testicles removed or destroyed it would have made him less of a man sexually but it would have been easier to bear, in the way that a forgotten state of mind is easier to bear in memory from a different state of mind than from the same state of mind. In other words, he wouldn’t then have felt the urgency so much as remembered it, which is sort of abstract.
Monday, May 10, 2010
8 AM. Papa, as you probably know, I’m rereading The Sun Also Rises. Can we talk about your philosophy on pages 152 and 153, that I will copy in here?
So You Think Your Life Was Wasted – Part Three (10)
Monday March 13, 2006
(10:30 a.m.) I’m open to suggestion, if anybody is queued up to talk.
When you don’t ask for anyone in particular, your default guidance kicks in. your guardian angel, your conscience, your guidance system. Even when you don’t ask for anyone you occasionally get one identifiable personage, just because that one time and occasion are lined up, but that doesn’t mean you should expect it to happen. So, your friend Henry shows up because it was the time and the occasion – that is, you were mentally in the right “place” – even though you hadn’t thought to ask. Lincoln showed up after you concluded that Joseph had been talking to him after Lincoln’s death, and suddenly it was clear that you could do so as well. Bowers, more or less by request, and Wilson distinctly by request. So you may look upon your connections – anyone’s – as a vast interconnecting library of people. Perhaps a simpler analogy now, that would have been incommunicable in earlier eras, would be to compare us to the internet. It is as if you were hooked into the individual internet, with the difference that here everyone is linked up. You may find someone on line or you may not – but they are linked.
Sunday, May 9, 2010
7:30 AM. A lot of communicating, yesterday — 23 pages of journal. I don’t really know where to go with this today, but I have the sense, still, that you do, Papa. I have the continuing sense that you have your own point of view, of your life from the inside, that you want to get over.
That’s right. And it isn’t just vanity, or scratching an itch. Those things can motivate over here, don’t let anybody tell you they can’t, for people are people whether they have a body or not. But I am working with you on another level — as you would put it — to bring forward another project.
So You Think Your Life Was Wasted — Part Three (9)
March 9, 2010
(9:40 p.m.) A first, a “by request” attempt to reach a specific historical individual. In this case it is Woodrow Wilson, at my brother Paul’s suggestion.
“Here is the quote. If you reach Mr. Wilson, before you ask him about the late amendment ask first if he ever actually said this:
“`I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.’ -Woodrow Wilson”
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