Just finished my third program with George Noory. He’s always a generous host, and tries to help the guest get his points across. Seems like he’s a good friend of the Monroe Institute, too — he has had a lot of TMI-connected guests over the years. My only regret is that we somehow neglected to tell people that the book A Place to Stand is available on Amazon!
Hi Frank!
Sorry to say that I missed your show. When it dawned on me what time it was, as I was about to prepare breakfast, and I frantically did a search on the internet to find somewhere to listen to it, it was over. But I never found a button to click anyway. I guess that it will be archived and I’ll listen to it then.
I’m sure it was an interesting interview and I’m looking forward to hearing it. Here in Denmark we now have a TMI facilitator, Anja Lysholm, that has also translated Bruce Moen’s books, so the word is spreading, and that’s a good thing! 🙂
Christel:)
I am so delighted that TMI is moving more vigorously to establish a presence elsewhere, to make it easier for people to taste what is available.
I just purchased a place to stand off amazon….so at least one copy was sold!
Interesting interview on C2C
thanks
Hi Frank. Just ordered the Kindle version of the book but haven’t read it yet. Will post A-review when I do. I had tuned into Coast in the last segment of your interview, with call-ins, so missed the early interview part. I was so sorry that I missed the first segment. It’s rare to hear really good stuff like you were discussing. Comes just in time since I’m working on a new edition of my book on spirit guides. Some of the Black Box experiences you discussed with George got me thinking about an ongoing theme, that is, that whatever we hold in our consciousness is “true” and “real” at some level, though we don’t always grasp the meaning for us at the time. One of the prolonged NDEs I had (plus an experience I had following a significant surgery) gave me at least brightened glimpses of that. Still trying to find the words to describe the insight clearly. I came out with something similar to that vision of the rings of the tree you were describing while discussing reincarnation yes or no…each ring in this case represented a level of consciousness, all being of the much bigger living piece of the tree that we perhaps never quite perceive, except ultimately, the tree itself has no form. (We give it form because that’s what our brains just have to do in order to create the illusion of knowing.) I’m looking forward to reading the new book. HZB
I am recently thinking that a very productive way of looking at our lives is as if we were in the middle of a lucid dream. Indeed, I kind of think that is closer to reality than metaphor. If one believes, as i do, that consciousness (whatever that is) precedes matter, and that everything we experience is alive, and that past present and future are all equally malleable — what does that resemble if not a dream? And our free will is the “lucid” part of the dream. And just as in a dream, sometimes we are more conscious than other times.
An analogy, anyway, and I am finding it a productive one.
I like your lucid dream concept. I sometimes think of Escher’s drawing, “Drawing of Hands,” where I envision the (C)creator as the artist, the drawing, the drawer, and the (C)creation, all happening simultaneously and all consciousness or perhaps the Dream. I recently watched Stephen Hawking’s “Brief History of Time” video and thought, no, no, no, Stephen, that’s not quite right– because the scientist is still using a finite tool (math) within a finite thinker thing (the brain) to try to understand something that is Infinite and without boundaries. It’s like trying to turn a screw with a shovel or some other inappropriate tool. Of course, I don’t have any idea what the appropriate tool would be, so I am not criticizing. Stephen seems more theologian than “scientist” to me, when it comes right down to it. And it’s all fun to play with in one’s brain. Gotta give him this: He more than most of us know entropy and the loss of boundaries and singularity (because of his ALS) while maintaining a bright visualizing brain and a way to describe what he experiences. But all that thinking is like flirting with a beautiful woman who doesn’t ever go all the way…close but never to that place of bliss and clarity we sometimes glimpse or fantasize. Comes down to it, I really like your lucid dreaming concept where all and everything is “consciousness” or maybe God, boundary-less-ness and non-singularity; where singularity and form are something happening within it all. I dunno. Words are so very limiting in their finiteness. In spite of writing being my craft, it’s a very frustrating way to describe what we sometimes experience during those still moments of our lives. I greatly admire how far you have reached in your books and personal explorations.
Thank you for that, Hal. I appreciate it.
Just finished listening to your interview for the second time, this time on the C2C archives. It was nice to meet you. I’ve been following TMI since the 70’s when I read an article in The Mother Earth News and have used the Hemi-sync technology. We are approximately the same age and I have wondered what to do about my accumulated life “wisdom”. Your comment about deciding to at least write it down so that “someone” could make use of it, really resonated. I have a 13yo grandson who has lived with me most of his life with whom I have a special connection. That could be for him. I have been a registered nurse since Viet Nam (unusual occupation for a man in those days). A Navy chaplain told me once that I had ‘the power to bless’ meaning that people felt better after they interacted with me. I took that to heart and have honed it since. I was especially touched by your interview despite having studied this material since 1970. May you continue to “bless”. JJS
PS. I just started a “bucket list” and a visit to TMI is the first entry.
I hope that people coming to these posts read the comments that you and others leave — not only are they personally gratifying to me (and i thank you for them) but others may find inspiration in remembering that there are others out there of their same “tribe,” so to speak.
Hal Zina Bennett and Frank DeMarco–two of my most important teachers and friends! I am deeply grateful for and to you both–for sharing your wisdom and your friendship with me these many years.
Thank you, Joe. You’re a pretty important teacher and writer, yourself!
Well, I appreciate the compliment. But if it hadn’t been for you two guys, there’d be no books. It was Hal who taught me how to write for a non-academic audience, and you published my first book at HRPC. Plus you’ve both been supportive as friends and mentors. I admire you both as writers and editors in the consciousness exploration field. No one works in a vacuum, and I think it is important to give credit where credit is due. Plus it was great to see you both–literally–on the same page!
Joe, I hope I’m not violating protocol by saying hello to you on someone else’s blog but I guess we’re all friends here. I wanted to thank you so much for your very generous compliment regarding my contribution to your writing. I still remember that wonderful story you tell in your book “The Way Back to Paradise,” about the hummingbird who followed you out on the lake in your inner tube or float, or whatever it was. It’s one of those images that sticks for me like a psychic magnet, organizing experiences around the relationships between human consciousness and Nature/God/Whatever/Whoever that is out there/in here.
Hal, certainly you are — anybody is — welcome to make this a round-robin any time the mood strikes.
Hello, Hal! And Frank!
Yes, we are indeed all friends here–and members of the same “tribe,” as Frank likes to say. Mentorship–not to mention old-fashioned friendship–is almost becoming a lost art. But that old saying, “When the pupil is ready, the teacher appears,” is quite true. Like the hummingbird story, it illustrates the intimate connection between consciousness and what we usually think of as the world “out there”.
A lost art? Maybe, but i think more likely, it is practiced as it has always been practiced, among peers, quietly, rarely or never getting — and certainly not seeking! — the attention of the mass media.
I think to a lot of young people today, the idea of mentors-and thus the idea of apprenticeship, or of authority in general-is a foreign concept. Acquired experience is in many cases a liability that disqualifies one from service.
But that is probably always true of the majority. Civilization is carried forward by the creative minority, as argued in Lord Kenneth Clark’s old Civilization series.
I think that’s quite true. In affirming the value of mentorship, I want to encourage receptive folks out there to find and nurture such important relationships. They may just save your life!
I was listening to the C2C program when I heard you talk about how time past and future are with us now and it hit like lightning because I’ve seem to surround myself with things from the 1920’s and started collecting things like “Models of Yesteryear” toy cars since I was 7. Now it’s Victrolas, radios, a movie camera, silent movies, books, Comptometer and a real car from the 20’s. I have no training at all in this just what I can do on my own to try and receive transmissions from that era. Why your interview hit home with me was because three months ago when asked why I like these things from the so called past I said, “Time stands beside me.” It’s like if you have an interest and you try on your own you kinda have made the phone call and very slowly and not all the time someone answers. When it happens it does so in a way that actually made me nervous! It’s clear and very distinct and the transmission just takes off on its own. It only happened twice in the year I’ve been trying. So needless to say when I heard you talking about your work I said OK this is the guy! I’m a fan for life! So I have a Place to Stand now from Amazon and I want to thank you for what you have done.
Thanks, Randy. I can remember before i became an author thinking that the author was an important person and i was just a reader and had nothing to offer. But now i know, first hand, how much of a gift it is to put ones thoughts out to the world, and how much of a return gift it is when someone says it was of value.