The Other World

Saturday, June 30, 2007
Nearly 10 a.m. awoke thinking of something worth recording here, but too many things between awakening and picking up the pen. That’s why I often do my morning’s work before I shower and shave.

So — if one of you splendid gentlemen will deign to get on the line and remind me — or set some other rabbit running — I’d be obliged as usual.

I had a stray thought that I put on the blog this morning — I used to think that what a person made of his mind — the things he learned, the connections he made — were lost when he died. It made everything seem so pointless. Realizing that the pattern of mind created by that effort survives and is there to be used recasts it in a different light entirely.

There is much more, obvious to me but probably not to others (because of just the kind of work I have been doing, it occurs to me!) and would need to be spelled out.

It’s hard to find the organizing principle that will let me spell it out, who and how this network is used. So, friends — David, if no other is more appropriate —

Continue reading A working model of minds on the other side

Friday April 7, 2006

I would like to talk to someone about the Gospel of Judas that is in the news. What is going to happen (what is happening) to Christianity, and is there any part in it for me? I don’t know who to ask to contact. Bertram is closest, I suppose. For a silly moment I was thinking, Bertram, that you couldn’t help because you wouldn’t know what’s going on in modern times.

A reminder of how others see our lives. If you are able to disturb the idea that the past is dead and the dead are past, it will be a valuable contribution. 

Yes, I can see that. I really was casting about. I didn’t feel I could call on Jesus, and considered Columba, but it all seemed too close to what somebody called autography-collecting.

Unnecessary. You have within you connections to all, as all are one being – but it is unnecessary to go to the most exalted or even the most outré for information. Someone close to you will always have it, or will be able to get it. Continue reading How could Jesus have been betrayed?

For those who followed the long thread — 46 parts long! — that I called Chasing Smallwood, I went back today and renamed each part so that rather than saying, for instance, Chasing Smallwood – 46, it says, 46 – Life’s end. I realized, rather belatedly, that since the thread is all contained in one category, there was no reason whatever to repeat the name in the title of each post, and there was every reason to rename each one as descriptively as possible, so that if you are searching for a remembered post you may be able to find it easier.

Sooner or later I will email this to those who have signed up to receive the thread in one neat package rather than as is. (Go to the page named In Email Form)

[All good things come to an end, or at least to fundamental transformation.]

[Monday, February 27, 2006]

(11:50) Wonderful material, Joseph. You know how it moved me, and why.

Yes, and you learned something about yourself, though actually I believe you came to know it a while ago.

After the war

Yes. So what happened to you after Johnston’s surrender? This version. Continue reading 46 – Life’s end

[Monday, February 27, 2006]

From Savannah we came up through South Carolina and there I came across evil where I didn’t suspect it. It was lucky for me – or lucky for both of us? – that I had experienced an angel at Gettysburg. South Carolina was the heart of the whole rebellion. It was the families that ran the state that had cost us thousands of our own acquaintances and literally hundreds of friends each by that time. How we set out to tear that place to shreds!

But you already know what I’m going to have you write, here. You can’t ever find the right person to take revenge on. And the part of us that wanted revenge was somehow part of the same thing that had caused the war, and even somehow had caused slavery. Continue reading 45 – Encourntering evil