Year: 2016

Saturday, May 7, 2016

[Prior to this entry, I wrote of a friend, “Chris and I talked for an hour last night. I hope he finds that his way clears.”]

F: 6:30 a.m. Rita, do we talk this morning?

R: You can see that your view of life has moved along to a different perspective. Partly this is from having younger friends, partly it is from having a longer view. Neither way do you see life only as you saw it when young.

F: No. Time does bring us that, doesn’t it? We may not be intrinsically wiser, but we can at least remember other viewpoints, and can compare.

R: It is like that once you are no longer confined to the 3D, only with greater freedom to move viewpoint. In one sense, you are remembering, just as may be in the 3D, but more you are reliving, rather than remembering, and even more than that you might be said to be living, rather than merely re-living. You are there with the initial intensity, yet the “you” that is there is deeper, wider, more enduring, more extensive, than the 3D version of you that was there at the time.

F: That isn’t quite what you mean. I could feel the slippage at the end of the sentence.

Continue reading Rita — Life is

Friday, May 6, 2016

F: 4:50 a.m. Rita, I’m sure many people value what you have been bringing forth for us, but I’m lost as to where next. So, I hope you haven’t been neglecting your lesson-plans!

R: You may take time off whenever you wish, you know. No need to do this if you are too tired. It [tiredness] weighs you down.

F: Well, I’m a little weighed down, it is true, but not from lack of sleep. A couple of beers for supper last night and I went to bed at 9 or so and got up when I felt like it, and down again, and up again. My friend cat – my daughter’s cat, visiting for the week – is always ready to be up and around when I am, so that probably abets the situation. But it is too early to be making the coffee, I think, so I’m maybe working at half-steam.

You have as good a take on where I am as I do. You tell me. Go [that is, go ahead with a session], or wait?

R: Wait, perhaps.

F: Okay. Later, maybe.

7:45 a.m. Maybe it’s time to ask people for questions on the latest things they’ve gotten.

John Wolf listened to Schubert – in two senses of the word “listened” – and sent me a brief guest post.

8 a.m. Well, Miss Rita, after our misfire at 5 a.m., I’m ready to try again. But where do we start?

Continue reading Rita — communities and knowledge

[John refrains from asking the useless questions, and has an interesting experience that may yet lead onward.]

Listening to Schubert

by John Dorsey Wolf 

Last Saturday night, we attended a small venue performance of two of Franz Schubert’s works that he wrote in his prolific 31st and last year of his life. One was F Minor Fantasy for Four Hands, D940, (which a husband-wife duo played on the piano) and the other was one of his final three piano Sonatas, D960.

If we connect to an author by reading their books, then perhaps we connect to composers when we listen to their music. It was a quiet environment, with just the sounds of the music, so I decided to experiment.

I asked in my mind, “Did you know you were dying when you wrote this?” Almost instantly there was an answer: “No, but I knew I was very ill.” I was a bit taken back. As Frank has taught us, one characteristic of connection is answers arriving almost simultaneously with the question, so despite all the usual concerns about the validity, I continued while the music played.

There was sufficient room in this brief dialogue for plenty of misinterpretation and distortion, and to add to it I was not able to put down notes until we were home later in the evening. Given all the caveats, here are some of the thoughts that came with the music:

Schubert’s life as he was living it felt rushed and driven from the inside out. His drives and emotions were very strong and it shows in the life he had. Now he sees that those drives and emotions were from his constituents (“strands” as Rita refers to them). It was his challenge and opportunity to put them together.

Music was his expression, but more than that, the expression of his combined constituents. His totality and his becoming whole was via his music composition.

His life as an expression is quite notable (pardon the pun) and can be replayed by replaying the music. He can hear himself in his expression via listeners and performers of his music.

Nevertheless, our lives are no less of an expression than his was. We bring together our constituents and express them as a whole just as Schubert did with his compositions of music. We express our totality and, although we may not understand the symphony we’re playing, we are making “beautiful music” with our lives as well.

I picked up something about variations or themes in the music that represented each of his fundamental constituents, and thought I got the number 22. I did find later that he had 32 “introductory variations” to a companion piano Sonata, D958.

When he was writing the music I was listening to, he knew he was inserting at times his darker moods and emotions, but now he recognizes the beauty of those parts of the music, particularly in the context of the whole.

We may see dark parts of our lives, parts we label as “bad” or even “evil”, but eventually we will understand they are also parts of a greater symphony, and we will understand them differently. We each are a symphony, or series of symphonies, while simultaneously a part of a larger one.

That’s how the concert went, as best as I can remember and translate it.

Continue reading John Wolf — While listening to Schubert

Thursday May 5, 2016

F: 7 a.m. Rita? Care to continue?

R: Let’s go into even deeper waters. Remember your friend Maureen’s experience.

F: I was wondering when we would get into that. Maureen Caudill was a convinced scientist who turned into something entirely different, though still remaining a scientist, because of the experiences she had in [the Monroe Institute’s] Gateway. I assume – I feel – you want me to talk about her experience in retrieving a machine.

R: Of course.

F: That shook her world! In essence, she went out to do a retrieval – that is, to connect with any discarnate intelligence that might be lost and needing assistance to get “with the light” or however one would choose to describe it. In short, we find someone stranded and without a clue, we give them a lift. To her surprise and dismay she found herself giving a retrieval to the soul of a machine! It was some probe we had sent to the surface of Mars, if I remember correctly. I’m not sure she even believed we had souls, at one point. Certainly she didn’t believe machines did.

R: You were concerned lest, in your exercise for your weekend course, anything you tried might be “a bridge too far.” Imagine how she felt.

F: The whole Monroe experience was a salutary shock, as far as I can see. As you know, eventually we published her account as Suddenly Psychic. That was several years ago, and I’ve lost track of her, but it was interesting, working with her on it, as she learned to balance her old way of seeing, and the experiences that changed it, and her new tentative conclusions. So in terms of the relevance to us –? Continue reading Rita — A concept too far?

Wednesday May 4, 2016

F: 10:30 a.m. So, Miss Rita, too late today?

R: The time constraints – and the energy constraints – are on your side, not mine.

F: Shall we continue, then? Were you going to go into the similarities between all created beings?

R: We can approach the subject, but this is not your strong point.

F: Theory?

R: Well, careful dissection of logical derivations, say.

F: Did I get that right?

Continue reading Rita – Creators and creations both

Tuesday, May 3, 2016

F: 5:40 a.m. Miss Rita, anything to say, this morning? Presumably you are aware of our weekend workshop.

R: Anything going on in 3D is available to those in non-3D provided there is a “hook,” as you say, on either end, or on both. And we can talk about that, if you wish.

F: It sounds interesting. Please do.

R: A “hook” on one end – on the non-3D end – would be strong interest rooted in one or more of many things. A hook on your end – on the 3D end – would be a desire to communicate with us, or, indeed, any strong emotional link that resulted in automatic feed. I will proceed a bit slowly, so as to proceed carefully. I think you have found that careful explication helps sort things out, and produces greater clarity.

F: Yes. I still proceed headlong, and the result is that I lump a lot of things and don’t see them very clearly.

Continue reading Rita – 3D and non-3D interactions

Moving Toward or Away From Our Divinity

By John Dorsey Wolf

What is written below came to me as “a chunk here and a chunk there” over a period of a couple of weeks. Each chunk seemed to say, “Here’s another part of your lesson” and until I put in the effort to put the pieces together, they pestered me like an itch that wouldn’t go away until it was scratched.

It is one perception – mine — no more no less, and I consider it “work in progress”.

I was waking up one morning, a concept came to mind how force and counter-force bring pressure within our 3D “pressure cooker” for making new souls. The pressure cooker is an analogy used by Rita.

The nature of the insight I received was that forces and counter-forces serve a purpose and bring opportunity. The purpose they serve is to force choice by making the status quo unsustainable, and the opportunity is to connect to our greater consciousness and call upon our non-physical guidance for willfulness.

This willfulness is beyond determination because it comes from the greater self. It is the conscious recognition and interaction with the invisible forces that bind us together. What results from that interaction is not a recommended choice but a broader perspective on the consequences of our choices, allowing us to simultaneously determine our value system along with our choices.

Continue reading John Wolf – force and counter-force