The Other World

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

[Monday, February 27, 2006]

Slide-switch as a concept

(8 a.m.) I went to bed asking Joseph to give me his biography in a dream. Edgar Cayce pointed out years ago that dreams are the purest form of psychic experience – presumably because the common self does not infect the content with assumptions, wishes to be fulfilled, and an active interpreting mechanism ready to leap to conclusions and thereby distort the experience. So I spent a night that was – well, different! No dreams remembered, however. So let’s see.

Joseph, was it a good idea, asking for you to send me information while I slept? And was it your idea? And – did it work? I don’t seem to know any more this morning but I notice that in these past few weeks I learn by writing it out; it isn’t like I knew ahead of time what I was going to write.

Any idea is a good idea. How do you know it won’t work ahead of time? But this assumes common sense, of course – for them in the studio audience, as you would say. Was it my idea as opposed to yours? That’s way too big a question for the moment because it means tearing down a lot of assumptions and building ‘em back up different, so let’s put that aside. Did it work? Well it didn’t work the way you had in mind, did it. But not many new things do. You might look at it this way – your asking for a dream giving you my life story translates out to your pushing your slide-switch all the way up. On your control panel you have got these switches for things in general, and for other lives you set it to 80% so you wouldn’t be overwhelmed. But you just set up a separate switch for me and pushed it as far as it would go. You see? It’s just a way of looking at it, but it does give the idea. Continue reading 44 – One Life. Two versions.

[Sunday, February 26, 2006]

8:30. I could get quietly excited over this. It almost seems a way forward.

It is a way forward, and maybe the only way forward for millions of people. And, you see, all the threads we been weaving these past sessions are a part of it.

I wouldn’t be able to summarize them but yes, I get the sense of it.

Well, that is where you are wrong. You can summarize it, and that is something you can do as well as anybody. I know what you mean – you don’t have it all in your head ready to spit out again – but after all that’s why the good lord made pencils and paper.

Now, consider. If you’re going to have a world-wide movement, one thing you don’t want is a center and somebody in charge. That’s just King Stork all over again. But instead you are going to see a whole boatload, as you say, of different movements, different organizations, different bodies, and the only thing they’ll have in common, maybe, is that they start to see the problem in more or less the same way. Continue reading 43 – A way forward