The real enemy

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This 19-year-old risked his life on Marye’s Heights to give aid to the wounded on the other side while the battle was still going on. The federals when they realized what he was doing stopped shooting and sent thunderous cheers. The boy was killed the following September, a month after his 20th birthday–but his generous act had assured that his name would live.

Overcoming the real enemy

Last Friday and Saturday, my friend Jim and I visited the sites of two Civil War battlefields: Fredericksburg and The Wilderness. In 2006, similarly, we had gone together to visit the battlefield at Gettysburg,

Those who have been following this “Chasing Smallwood” thread know that I am in contact with a Union veteran named Joseph Smallwood. Jim is similarly connected to a Confederate veteran named Hank who, like Joseph, survived the war. But Hank, unlike Joseph, has continued to be bitter about the war, having lost his home and his previous way of living to what he considered to be an unjustified invasion of his homeland.

When Jim had suggested that we visit the site of Fredericksburg I instantly agreed–but I also felt butterflies in my stomach. I wasn’t sure that Joseph was looking forward to revisiting that particular ghastly experience. Yet I knew it was important.

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Jung on terrorism and awareness

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When a man of wisdom speaks, and his words continue to ring true after more than half a century, maybe it would be a good idea to listen. This is from “A Study in the Process of Individuation,” in Carl Jung’s The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious.

Conclusion

Our series of pictures illustrates the initial stages of the way of individuation. It would be desirable to know what happens afterwards. But, just as neither the philosophical gold nor the philosophers’ stone was ever made in reality, so nobody has ever been able to tell the story of the whole way, at least not to mortal ears, for it is not the storyteller but death who speaks the final “consummatum est.” Certainly there are many things worth knowing in the later stages of the process, but, from the point of view of teaching as well as of therapy, it is important not to skip to quickly over the initial stages. As these pictures are intuitive anticipations of future developments, it is worth while lingering over them for a long time, in order, with their help, to integrate so many contents of the unconscious into consciousness that the latter really does reach this stage it sees ahead. These psychic evolutions do not as a rule keep pace with the tempo of intellectual developments. Indeed, their very first goal is to bring a consciousness that has hurried too far ahead into contact again with the unconscious background with which it should be connected…. Continue reading Jung on terrorism and awareness

Astronaut back again in India?

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This clipping goes back to July 2007, but I don’t think it has lost any relevance in the past few months. The guys have convinced me that our views on reincarnation are simplistic at best, downright distorted at worst, but regardless of what we think is “really” happening here I think you will agree that this is fascinating, on a level with the little boy who “remembered” being a flier who was killed in World War II. As this came via a friend, I don’t know what the source was.

 

KHURJA (Uttar Pradesh): A four-year-old girl who claims her name is Kalpana Chawla and that she died up in the skies four years ago is drawing huge crowds in a village here in Uttar Pradesh. Continue reading Astronaut back again in India?

Conspiracies, fear, and our inner connection

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In the fall of 2001, as Rita Warren and I were doing weekly sessions with The Guys Upstairs, I was transcribing each week’s session and posting them to a mailing list of people interested in Monroe Institute type topics. In time, some began proposing questions for us to ask the guys. At the end of October, a few weeks after the September 11 incident, one asked a series of related questions, asking what the guys knew about the reptilian agenda, the 13 Illuminati bloodlines, control of humans by chloride, chemtrails, injection of minute computer chips by flu injections, the building of prisons and concentration camps throughout the United States for people after martial law is declared, and FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency officially tasked with coordinating response to disasters such as hurricanes, but suspected by some of having another agenda.The guys responded, more or less, “nothing” — and then went on to what Rita and I thought was a very important and illuminating answer.

F: Now, let us really get down to this. This is going to take a little bit, but it’s very worthwhile We began by telling you that this is quite disturbing material, and not many people are going to like it, necessarily. Which is bothering Frank, you see.

R: Mm-hmm.

F: [pause] When a person who is idealistic, or even decent – using good and evil terms, but we need to use them for the moment – when a good and decent person sees what to them appears evil, it is very natural for them to oppose the evil. That’s the nature of things. Continue reading Conspiracies, fear, and our inner connection

Retrieval at Gettysburg

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[This was written in October, 2005, but seems as timely now as then.]

My friend Jim and I went to Gettysburg intending to help retrieve soldiers who may have died in the battle and remained fixed on earth. (Some souls who get killed may not realize that they are dead. Others may know that they are dead but may be essentially imprisoned by their beliefs about the afterlife, for instance thinking that they must lie in the grave waiting for the last trumpet and Judgment Day.) Drawing on our own experience at retrievals, we figured that we could help. We didn’t at first realize that as usual we were being employed – blunt instruments! – for greater purposes.

For those who came in late …. Continue reading Retrieval at Gettysburg

Hemingway on pretending and lying

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Tuesday, July 31, 2007

6:05 a.m. Mr. Hemingway, you said you couldn’t stand phonies, and clearly you couldn’t. How do you reconcile this with so much pretending and rearranging and lying and misremembering and leading people on?[This referred to his early life as described in The Young Hemingway, a book that I bought and read in England.]

That is quite an indictment, but I have to concede it. In my defense I could say this. It is one thing to pretend until you can achieve — fake it until you make it, as your business partner says — and another very different thing to pretend that you are what you are not. It is true, there isn’t much difference in a boy.

I am sorry, I can’t see much difference in a grown man protecting a territory of lies however young he was when he created them. Continue reading Hemingway on pretending and lying