As we move through chaos

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Interesting “coincidence,” if you happen to believe in coincidence. I got an email from someone asking to see the 10 black box sessions from 2004 that I had offered readers some while ago. Took me a while to find them. Then, sending them off, I glanced at the material and found this, which seems very appropriate today.

This material features me in the black box at The Monroe Institute on May 4, 2004, with Skip Atwater acting as monitor from outside the booth. TGU means The Guys Upstairs, meaning whatever unidentified intelligences I was contacting.

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Politics, society, and the individual

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A thoughtful friend of mine responded to one of my political postings a while ago by saying (rightly) that our system was designed for a relatively small number of voters and a relatively short campaign, but today has become a “monster we know and dislike, where one’s vote counts one 200-millionth toward some outcome, where voters know that no matter how they vote, their entire state has been declared `safely’ in one camp or the other.”

He went on to say, “fortunately, each of us lives in an individual and not a mass world.”

I have thought about his comments for more than a month because on one level he’s absolutely right and on another level — well, I’m not so sure.

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Neglecting this blog

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It is always a delicate balance, like breathing. You can’t always be breathing out, you can’t always be breathing in. If the two halves of the rhythm don’t alternate smoothly, you’ve got problems. Similarly, you’ve got to keep a balance between absorbing new material (whether by reading or other experience) and expressing what you know. At least, that’s my experience.

When I began this blog in another format in March 2007, the result of a kind and perceptive suggestion from a friend who pointed out that I was already blogging, in essence, in the amount of material I was sending out to my friends via e-mail, at first the material poured out. Already I have hundreds of pieces blogged, and potential hundreds more, because I read a lot, think a lot, talk to myself pretty continuously, and keep a journal as I have done since I was 20. That makes for a lot of material.

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Too much news

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“The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.”

Wordsworth wrote that 200 years ago, before telegraph, telephone, radio, television, or fax machines, let alone PCs, internet and PDAs. He should see us now!

I awoke this morning dissatisfied, aware that once again I had allowed myself to shallow out, aiming my attention outward rather than inward, toward ephemeral things rather than enduring ones. Or, as Henry Thoreau puts it in “Life Without Principle”:

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Orbs at a post-election rally

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Digital cameras have certainly revolutionized the orb-chasing business. This from an email via a friend, who had received it from a friend who had gone to the election night Obama rally in Grant Park in Chicago. There were more photos but I have limited the number to three (and turned them from bitmaps to JPEGs) for the sake of practicality.

“When we were on our way home from the rally Tuesday, we ran into a couple of ladies on the train that had taken some pictures I wanted to share with a few people.

“The lady who took these didn’t believe in this stuff beforehand, but does now. These are some amazing orb shots from the Grant Park rally the other night. I shot these from her camera screen with my video camera, because I didn’t have my regular camera on me at the time. But you get the gist when you see them. Lots of happy souls out there.”

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Our election seen from Asia

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I don’t know who the person below is. This was sent me by a friend. I am going to assume it is genuine. It matches my personal experiences and those of my friends.

How I wish I could get to the people who are in fear because of this election and tell them, “be strong and of good courage, be not afraid, neither be dismayed.” We’ve done a very good thing regardless how this presidency works out.

Hello,

The world rejoices with us. I wanted to share this with every one in my address book. My daughter Brook works in Thailand and traveled back to there from a conference. The following is her report of her day yesterday.

Katherine

My dear friends,

Today I have had to travel from the island of Borneo…from SABAH and the town of Kota Kinabalu. Then to Kuala Lumpur where I had a 5 hour lay over and finally arriving very late at night in Bangkok. The election has already begun….

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