Year: 2016

Saturday, March 5, 2016
F: 4:05 a.m. Michael [Langevin] and Sofia [Axelsson] suggest that I print out a one-paragraph precis of each day’s session, for people who can’t necessarily take the time to read each installment as it comes. What do you think of that idea, Rita?
R: Like most things, it has its advantages and disadvantages. The major advantage would be for you; the major disadvantage, for others.
F: And I get that quite clearly as you say just that much. An advantage for me to have to acquire that extra edge of clarity that the effort of summarizing would provide, corresponding disadvantage to others in encouraging them to skim, thinking that recognizing words is the same as absorbing the underlying concepts.
R: I will remind you – you plural, that is – that all the grounding that takes place between the lines is an essential part of assisting the material to change you. If you wanted entertainment merely, it could all be said more concisely, without the dialog, or it could be said more dramatically, less matter-of-fact-ly. On balance I think the idea would be a mistake, although I would like it well enough if you, Frank, would provide such a one-paragraph summary for each session and keep it to yourself.
F: At least until this turns into another book?
Continue reading Rita — “do the work”

Friday, March 4, 2016
F: 5:35 a.m. Onward?
R: You are feeling somewhat at sea, but we are moving steadily and I haven’t forgotten what we want to accomplish.
So, to continue the probable course of the soul’s journey after separation from the link to the 3D. As I said, at some point – not necessarily right away, and not necessarily ever, in a way (in that loitering may go on essentially forever, even though it doesn’t usually) – the ex-3D soul will realize that it is holding itself back from realizing who it really is (so to speak), and will again let go of the sliding board. And then it will know that it is only relatively real.
F: Now we’re getting somewhere.
R: Yes, but you have the advantage of a more direct linkage to my mind, so you intuit what I mean. Just as the preceding exposition was necessary if what I am about to say was to be understood, so a considerable amount of careful definition is required here.
F: Well, I’m right here, pen in hand. I’m not complaining and I’m not champing at the bit. But it is nice to see that we’re getting to new territory.
Continue reading Rita – a deeper redefinition

Thursday, March 3, 2016
F: 3:35 a.m. Miss Rita, you’re up. I have forgotten exactly what trail you were following – it seems to me we detoured a little, recently – but I assume you know.
R: We haven’t detoured, not really. We are still pursuing what happens to the ex-3D soul, tracing its probable changes in awareness after physical death, so that we may sketch the nature of life in the new conditions. Fear of death is a part of what many souls bring to the experience, and a blankness of expectations, and a lifetime of outwards-looking attention that reinforces the idea of things happening to them, and of things being separate from them, and of things being somewhat arbitrary. All these misconceptions, or call them misperceptions, can get in the way of successful readjustment, which always depends, obviously, upon reestablishment of the ability to perceive accurately.
It should require no great intuitive leap to realize that in a non-physical-senses world – that is, a world where there is nothing “external” to oneself – one’s connection to and communication with one’s non-3D component is vital. Therefore, reestablishing that contact is vital, and primary – and also often most difficult and unpredictable in nature.
F: Now, that is a little bit of a surprise. I guess I had expected that the readjustment would be seamless once the ex-3D soul was in the same environment as the rest of the larger being.
Continue reading Rita on obstacles

Wednesday, March 2, 2016
F: 4 a.m. Today is the day my good friend Dave Schlachter died, back in 1970. That was hard. It makes me think how our lives are shaped by events that scar us, and how none of those events may mean what they seem to, at the time. I don’t remember, Rita – did I ever talk of David to you?
R: I think perhaps once, only. The impact of other deaths was more obvious.
F: Oh yes. JFK when I was 17, his brother – but not unexpected, that time, though the event blindsided me coming that early – when I was 22, then Dave at 24. Those things mark you even if you have changed your ideas about what death means. And of course I realize, ideas are one thing, emotions another. But the pattern remains. I remember as soon as I heard that Dave Wallis had been in an accident, my first response was, “I’m so tired of all my friends dying,” even though at the time there was no reason to think that’s what would happen – and I was, well, however old I was in 1998 – going on 52, I guess. It was just a natural response. It seemed like the pattern.
Somehow I don’t think this is off-subject. Is it?
R: No, of course not. Everything connects. Follow it to the end.
Continue reading Rita — our ideas about life and death change everything

Tuesday, March 1, 2016
F: Nearly 5 a.m., Rita. I’m ready if you’re ready.
R: Let’s return to the main line of explication. We’re still looking at how the soul readjusts to its new environment.
Bear in mind, it isn’t “new” in the sense that the soul has been elsewhere. Everyone lives in all dimensions, all the time, as we said earlier. But that doesn’t mean everyone is aware of what they’re living. And here we are beginning to get into new trouble with definitions.
When we say, “you are conscious of this but not of that,” or [pause]
F: Is that me losing the track, or you reconsidering?
R: Well, there’s a difficulty, here. More than one, in fact.
F: And one is my head, stuffed again?
Continue reading Rita – the three-body problem

Monday, February 29, 2016
F: 6 a.m. Rita? We were in the process of explaining how the newly ex-3D soul (I like that way of putting it) experiences and redefines itself as it gets oriented.
R: Yes. There is a need for such description, you understand, in that so many older ways of imagining it no longer speak to people, and this because they are ready and able now for more sophisticated explanations.
F: Readiness is all.
R: It wouldn’t do any good to argue that reincarnation both is and isn’t an accurate model unless and until you could first explain that what looked like a unit was actually a community, and what looked like communities could equally well be seen as one vast interconnected being. And much more important, it doesn’t do to have a sophisticated explanation that cannot be rendered as images, as stories, as examples. It would be like expecting people to change their lives because they believe in mathematical formulas.
F: I felt cross-currents while I was writing that out. Yours? Mine? Ours?
Continue reading Rita — beliefs and knowns and the non-3D

Sunday, February 28, 2016
F: 4:55 a.m. All right, Rita. Shall we?
R: I think you will find that you feel better as we proceed.
F: I usually do, that’s why I am not begging off. Paying attention to something other than the body seems to smooth things out, at least for me. And, as we both know, that has been the story of my life.
R: Challenging and yet perhaps making possible what otherwise would not have been possible.
F: Oh, I know. It occurred to me long ago. So, the ex-3D soul.
R: Beginning your conscious life after 3D is a process of continuous redefinition, as I have said. Remember, I am not ascribing a sequence, nor a definite path, only a generalized rule of thumb.
Continue reading Rita — imagining the non-3D