Story versus perception – 3

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Wednesday, April 18, 2007

8 a.m. More, then, on perception versus story? Or do you want to start another rabbit running?

So, you wish more on perception versus knowing, and you remember that there were several threads, and you can’t remember any of them, and you worry lest we be unable to dredge them up — though it ought to be obvious that for us it is not a matter of dredging.

We spoke of the subject — the difference between perception and story as you learned by experience at the remote viewing class at the Monroe Institute — in terms of certainty and in terms of morality. It ought to be obvious that this pertains to your major subject — the subject of your blog, of your book, of your quiet teachings with others — of the fact that truth converges, when approached from many sides, and that descriptions that seem to go diverging ways Continue reading Story versus perception – 3

A New Model of Consciousness in Space and Time – 1

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This long thread began with my request to my friends upstairs to help me tell people how to get into touch with guidance, at least as I personally have understood and experienced it. I shuddered to think of beginning an epidemic of Psychic’s Disease, but still it is no less dangerous for people to rely on external authority when they will have to choose which authority, not having any basis to do so! It amounts to them depending on their guidance to find a source of external guidance. Perhaps not so bad a plan, but not without its eccentric points.

[Wednesday, January 18, 2006]

So – friends – I don’t know quite what has been going on this past week – is it just a funk, or what? For whatever reason, I certainly haven’t done much work. I did note, yesterday, a decision point early on, when I picked up a John Sandford novel to finish re-reading it, rather than buckling down. And I suppose there was another, later in the day, when I picked up [Joshua Lawrence] Chamberlain’s The Passing of the Armies rather than work. A lot of reading as in the old days. I don’t much like it, though: It is as if I have a bad choice, of wasting time reading, or reading what may be worthwhile (Robert Johnson) but it’s still a diversion, or anyway killing time – or doing work that has lost its savor. I suppose the easy obvious answer is just to do the work – yet it can’t be that simple emotionally, or I would do it, ever if after some hesitation and delay. Continue reading A New Model of Consciousness in Space and Time – 1

19 – Mr. Lincoln’s specialty

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[December 27, 2005. 8:20 a.m.] All right, Joseph—let’s revert to my question the answer to which got interrupted [the night before]. What’s going on here? Where are we going? What is all this in aid of?

[I can always tell when it’s TGU – or, anyway, I can always tell now – because for one thing everything is “we” with them. When I hear “we” I know it isn’t one individual unless he’s doing what I often do. I often say “we” – I do it all the time when I’m talking to myself. “We’ll just do this,” etc. Anyway – as Joseph says a lot – I thought this a short diversion but I begin to see that it is part of what is happening. Rather than just sit down and report what has happened with me in re guidance, or analyze the rules that seem to apply—which is what I thought I was in the process of doing once I conceptualized folding the healing and guidance sections together—instead I’m experiencing new growth in access and understanding, so it will become a more profoundly important book—because after all who cares about someone else’s experiences except insofar as they shed light on the listener’s own potential?

Okay, back to our regularly scheduled programming. Continue reading 19 – Mr. Lincoln’s specialty

Story versus perception – 2

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Perception and Morality

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Alright I guess I am finally ready if you are. Perception versus story, part 2 — which aspect now?

Nervous in the service, for fear that we won’t know our lines? It would have been more instructive for you not to have reread the first installment so you wouldn’t know until you came to enter it into the computer whether we were repeating ourselves. The more faith you bring to this, the easier it goes — validation comes after you have something to validate, not before! Continue reading Story versus perception – 2

18 – Steamboats and slavery

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By now, you are probably wondering the same thing I was wondering: What is going on here, and where is all this going? I was fascinated by Joseph’s story, and it was interesting to get a different slant on things than I had ever heard, and his opinions were not necessarily opinions that I had ever formulated consciously, which gave me a little more confidence that perhaps I was not making this all up. But what was going on? Why had it showed up just now?

Remember, my conscious intent was not to produce material from talking with Joseph, but to write a book about the use of visualization in healing. For several weeks I regarded my work with Joseph as a form of goofing off. It was pleasurable, interesting, but I thought perhaps mere self-indulgence. It took awhile for me to begin to suspect that more was going on here than I was consciously aware of. Not that that’s any change. Continue reading 18 – Steamboats and slavery

17 – Politics north and south

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2 p.m. All right. More? What else would you like to talk about?

Well, how about politics?

Sure. What about politics?

Well you know they say it took politics in the ’50s for Henry Thoreau to find out he had a country. That’s the kind of smart-aleck remark people make who don’t see behind the surface of things, or don’t want to be out of step with everybody else. The fact of the matter is that politics is mostly a waste of time, and always will be, except for one big thing: It keeps the machinery in being against an emergency. It’s like a standing army, mostly you don’t need it – in our time, at least – but if you do happen to need it, you need it, and what you spent on keeping it in being isn’t any too much, considering.

Now you know that the whole game of politics ain’t usually principles and statesmanship and high purposes. Usually it is offices, and government contracts, and everything we used to call “the courthouse crowd.” You could call ’em parasites and you wouldn’t be wrong. That’s why when the people finally have reason to pick up the machine and use it, it works so poor – they haven’t been maintaining it, they’ve been milking it. Continue reading 17 – Politics north and south

16 – Appreciating Mr. Lincoln

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[Monday, December 26, 2005] 9 a.m. Well Joseph – James? – I know it is vastly easier for me to bring through values and attitudes and opinions than fact. So, what would you like to talk about?

Mr. Lincoln.

I can’t say that you folks appreciate Mr. Lincoln the way you ought to. There ain’t any use in putting him on a pedestal as if he weren’t just like you. He wasn’t, but he was. He was a man. The kind of man that don’t come twice in a thousand years. Perfectly placed, perfectly suited, perfectly willing – yet he didn’t get all full of himself, so he served without diversion.

Now, you take Napoleon by comparison. Ability in many lines – a genius, really. He was used by destiny to bring the middle ages to an end, and he more or less did that. (He died just a year before I was born, like Hitler and you.) Continue reading 16 – Appreciating Mr. Lincoln