So You Think Your Life Was Wasted – Section Three (1)

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Now we begin the third section of this proposed book.

First came Section One: Who and What We Are.

Next came Section Two: How to Live

Section Three: Society and the Individual, this section, will be followed by

Section Four: The Challenge of Our Time.

Thursday January 5, 2006 (8:45 a.m.) All right, friends, I’m ready and willing. Who do I have the honor of speaking with today? Or, if you have no one special, I’ll choose.

You may find it easier to continue your long practice of addressing us as a group unless you wish any one of us, and receiving our communications the same way. We appeared this way for a reason. And perhaps this is as good a time as any to go into it a bit, if only for your book.

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So You Think Your Life Was Wasted (33)

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This completes the second section, “Shaping Ourselves,” of my projected book to be called So You Think Your Life Was Wasted. Next week we’ll start on Part Three, “Society and the Individual.”

Life and Achievement

Friday, August 10, 2007

5:45 a.m. somehow frittered away three quarters of an hour doing — what?? Story of my life, that.

Joyce, where do I go from here? If psychic powers and abilities aren’t an end in themselves — and clearly they aren’t, any more than anything else is — and if no form of external achievement is my focus —

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So You Think Your Life Was Wasted (32)

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“If you missed some chances, so what?”

At the cost of some slight embarrassment, I offer this for those whose life situation it may echo, who may take encouragement from it.

August 9, 2007

Joseph, my friend, long time no see, but I just got the sense that I ought to contact you.

You will notice that you are listening repeatedly to the Paul Potts album and finding tears in your eyes when he sings “Time to say goodbye.” I don’t think it’s because that’s the only line in English, do you?

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Hallucinogens Have Doctors Tuning In Again

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The social hysteria about psychoactive drug use was caused  partly by cynical calculation by politicians, partly by profit-seeking drug lords themselves, I suspect, and partly by a deep pervasive unconscious fear of loss of control. For the moment it seems to be losing ground, and scientists are ever-so-carefully going back to what they were doing in the 1960s in the first place — exploring the fascinating inner potential these drugs can reveal. But nobody wants to be accused of being another Tim Leary (whose main offense appears to be that he was not apologetic about his belief in the potential for transformation), so, as usual, they wrap their experimentation in vigorously defended protocols. It reminds me of how they had to invent the protocol we know as “remote viewing” in order to give themselves permission to investigate even one aspect of extra-sensory perception.

From http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/12/science/12psychedelics.html?emc=eta1

Hallucinogens Have Doctors Tuning In Again

By JOHN TIERNEY

Published: April 11, 2010

As a retired clinical psychologist, Clark Martin was well acquainted with traditional treatments for depression, but his own case seemed untreatable as he struggled through chemotherapy and other grueling regimens for kidney cancer. Counseling seemed futile to him. So did the antidepressant pills he tried.

Nothing had any lasting effect until, at the age of 65, he had his first psychedelic experience. He left his home in Vancouver, Wash., to take part in an experiment at Johns Hopkins medical school involving psilocybin, the psychoactive ingredient found in certain mushrooms.

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Robert Clarke: “Again, it’s down to love, basically”

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In going through some material I have saved, I found this email from my friend Robert Clarke, dated 2-12-2006. I can’t remember what I had written that he was responding to, but his own views are clear enough, and well worth repeating in public.

What a lovely man he was, a man wholly without malice, and well beyond pettiness. He bore his physical suffering patiently and enjoyed his quiet life as it came to him. Saint Robert, I sometimes thought him.

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Jung — “Antithetical values nevertheless have their rights”

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Read this, perhaps, in light of the on-going political turmoil that has led to discussion of the possibility of the coming of fascism. Carl Jung would say, that’s what happens when too many people lead an inauthentic life! At least, Carl Jung as brought through by me in an  altered state. As always, there can be no guarantees. The question is, does the material resonate?

This particular transmission ends pretty abruptly. Perhaps I lost the thread, or perhaps I lost the necessary energy to continue to follow the thought. The part that I did receive seems valuable enough to pass on.

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