Bruce in 1998, working

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I sketched this from life, then started to paint it, but never got around to correcting the color and the arms. Bruce was working on one of his many electronic projects, in Dave Wallis’ then-unfinished house on Creekside Lane, on the New Land near TMI. I wish I had finished the painting while I still had Bruce living nearby, but it didn’t happen. So, instead of hanging in the Tate, it will have to remain as a reminder of a friendship and of another time. Hard to really feel the fact that this was nearly 20 years ago.

Meeting Bruce

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Some of you may not have heard. I am informed by Pharon, Bruce Moen’s wife, that Bruce, who has been in hospice care for months, is beginning his transition. We all owe him a lot, not only for his five books but for the afterlife exploration workshops he conducted not only in the States but in Europe and Asia.

For me personally, it is bringing back memories, of course, such as the day we met, at Ed Carter’s instance. Bruce wrote about it in his third book. I, like he, like Ed, were all being shepherded, it seems.

This is a little blurry, but is the best I can do.

Interesting film on reincarnation

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Keith Parsons is a filmmaker in Great Britain who has sent me a link to his second Youtube documentary, 37 minutes long, on reincarnation.

Clearly, he has done his homework. He cites many books, some of which you will have heard of and some not, and shows old film clips of Dr. Ian Stevenson of UVA’s Division of Perceptual Studies. It also discusses a book I edited years ago, Under the Inquisition, by Linda Tarazi, and cites some things I said about that remarkable book.

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2Aty9BbEF8

I think you will find this very interesting. I am told that Parsons’ first documentary, This Life, Next Life, received 130,000 views in its first year.

 

Reincarnation and braiding

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Friday, July 31, 2015

[A member of a Hemingway list I am on posted photos from the Hemingway collection at the JFK library, including a photo of a ticket stub to a bullfight Hemingway had attended. I copied the photo to Nancy Ford, adding “nice coincidence, if you look at the date,” because July 27 is my birthday.

[Knowing of my long connection with Hemingway, she wrote back,” I would really like to know how far back the two of you originally shared lives. I don’t think this is the first time and when I saw this ticket, I thought, `Of course, he was a strand of EH during those days.’ Regardless of the timing of birth and all that, the feeling was very strong and to have you find this with your birthday on it feels like a smile from Hemingway to you, like `hi.’”

[As I thought about it, I suddenly thought, “Of course! If people share lives, they are available to be a strand in one another’s future mixtures, and so on and so on. It can be quite an intricate braiding, perhaps.” The fact that it produces an “of course!” doesn’t make it right, but it did draw my attention. So I decided to see what I could find out.]
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More on reincarnation from John Wolf

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Expanded Reincarnation Input

(by John Dorsey Wolf)

“There are beginnings and then there are beginnings.”

One view of ourselves in the 3D is that we did not exist before we were born, and in one sense of the formation of our unique soul that is valid. However, the ingredients for our existence existed beforehand, and the capacity to exist as we are is inherent from before that. So when looking at reincarnation as a sequence of lives, where do you start? Following the flow “upstream” it could be envisioned that the consciousness stream that eventually became what we are did not even include Earth life reality. So is it accurate to say your spiritual heritage is only a product of Earth lives lived?
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Kennedy’s Vision (2) The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

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John F. Kennedy knew that in his time we stood at a crossroads. He knew where he wanted us to go, and he knew some of the steps to take, and he knew how to lead so that the people would follow.

And then – and therefore – he was murdered, in cold blood, in broad daylight, in front of the crowds that were cheering him, and everything changed.

What didn’t happen can’t be mapped. But if we look at what he said, and did, in his short 34 months in office, we can get a sense of where he wanted us to go, and we can get a sense of how far ahead of nearly everyone else he was, and we can see what his murder cost us, and our children, and their children. And we can see what was saved from the wreckage. For one thing, he saved us all from being poisoned.

The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

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Kennedy’s Vision (1) — Civil Rights

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Kennedy’s Vision

It was the worst day in American history. For almost three years, we had had a man with a unique historical perspective, with an independent place to stand,  in a position to make real changes. We stood at the crossroads of two very different paths, and he knew where he wanted to take us, and he knew how to do it, and he knew how to bring the people along with him. And then – and therefore – he was murdered, in cold blood, in broad daylight, in front of the crowds that were cheering him, and everything changed.

I’m not going to write about the fact that he was killed by a conspiracy, nor who the members were, nor their motives. It’s all on the record, for any who want to know. If I pieced it together by long widespread and judicious reading, you can too. Instead on this 50th anniversary of the crime, I want to look at Kennedy’s vision for the United States and for the world, as it can be deduced from his words and actions.

What didn’t happen can’t be mapped. But if you look at what he did in his short time, the man’s course can be plotted., and we can get a sense of what the nation and the world lost as a result of a criminal conspiracy to murder him, followed by another conspiracy to cover up the truth of who was responsible.

Civil Rights

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