This World

Monday, May 14, 2007

7:30 a.m. I immediately started reading The Return of Lanny Budd last night. Well, I am not liable to read the (nonexistent) 12th volume!

Star Trek and Lanny Budd. Strange combination. Nearly nothing of my habitual mental world can be translated to others. The richness of it is invisible and certainly intangible.

All right, my friends, I am ready and willing. My batteries seem to be charged most early in the morning as soon as I am not sleepy but before emerging into “normal” life. So tell me the next step in talking about hog-ism.

You heard it, making coffee, but thought of it as a “stray thought” of your own. Stray thoughts? Why should be no-accident rule apply only to externals and not to internals?

All right, I concede that point. So talk about it. Continue reading Star Trek and Joseph’s “hog-ism”

A session this morning with FDR. I know a good deal about the New Deal but I also know that there’s no way I could have put together so succinct and convincing a defense of what he did and tried to do. As always, you will have to decide if this was Franklin Roosevelt speaking through me, or me fooling myself, or a little of each, or what. I tell you only that I do the best I can.

Sunday May 13, 2007 

7:25 a.m. All right, looking back I see that I was on the same thing yesterday at the same time: it is time to write again. This morning I thought, write the guidance book and I guess I will.

8:15. But I read instead, reading the 10th Lanny Budd. At the death of Roosevelt, and it occurs to me that he would not be left out of the discussion on “Hog-ism” as Joseph Smallwood calls it. If Lincoln is part of it, Roosevelt would be part of it.

Mr. Roosevelt, may I have a word? I am learning that there is not much use for tact on your side of the veil, so I won’t try to pretend that I hold you as high as I do Mr. Lincoln, but high enough. It’s harder to approve your conduct these days when so many bad precedents have returned to haunt us. But to your immense credit you did believe in the people, and try to govern the people and not just any part of it. Your words on “hog-ism” and a worldwide anti-slavery society would be invaluable, 62 years and one month after your release from that crippled body.

Frank to Frank, eh? And speaking frankly. Well, certainly, it is a great pleasure always to be putting your shoulder to the wheel — if it is the right cart! Continue reading Franklin Roosevelt’s defense

Okay, so what is this site about, anyway?

As I said in my initial post, which I have preserved as the page called “I of my own knowledge,” our civilization is dying because it has lost contact with reality. What you have been told, you may believe. What you have experienced, you will know. There is all the difference in the world between belief and experience. Belief is secondhand knowledge, and can never match experience, which is knowledge at first hand.

Neither we nor the universe around us are what our decaying civilization assumes us to be. We are not orphans. We are not machines. The universe is not a wilderness of dead matter. Life is not accidental, is not meaningless, does not end with physical death. Anyone who tells you otherwise does not know what he is talking about. You have the ability to learn these things firsthand. Continue reading What only you can do

At Crater Lake

 

Mr friend Michael and I arrived at Crater Lake at mid-morning, coming in from the north, down the Rim Road that skirts the western edge of the crater. I pulled in to the first turnout, anxious to connect with the energy of what I knew had to be a sacred spot – one of the sacred places of the earth. The earth has no shortage of power spots, but you don’t everyday come across a place, like this drowned volcano crater, so intimately connected with fire and water both.

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Saturday, May 5, 2007

7:20 a.m. Michael Langevin and others asked if I had ever asked you to follow-up on the question of societies that had prevented hypertrophy of wealth. I’m a little worried about it (nothing new there!) But it is a worthwhile question — or is it? I am tempted to do something else, which I suppose is suspicious.

You are feeling responsibility, that’s all. But after all, remember what we gave you yesterday — you aren’t likely to mislead anybody.

Yes. Yesterday walking — well, you tell it.

We merely pointed out that people act on ideas — or, rather, ideas get real for people — when they have received them both intuitively and sensorily. If an idea comes to you and you haven’t been prompted by sensory means, you are very likely to dismiss it or not even notice it. But if someone then says to you the same thing you had thought (or, as we would see it, the same thought that had been offered to you) you will pay attention, often feeling somewhat startled. But if someone says to you — or you read, or hear, or in some way receive through the senses — an idea that you have not had internal preparation for, that idea falls into a well of blankness. It “doesn’t resonate,” as you say. It is only when both intuitive and sensory

Lost the sentence.

Like your favorite example of Lindbergh, who would fly only when gauges and feelings both said go. Intuitive and sensory evidence together produce a “go” and one without the other is insufficient. Continue reading Societies and wealth and us

Every once in a while someone says just the right thing at the right time, and suddenly a lot of isolated and perhaps inexplicable facts and experiences link up and make sense. The new way of seeing things then becomes a powerful new tool. It happened to me at the “Intention Heals” conference in Norfolk, Virginia, in mid-October, 2006.

Continue reading A million times faster

[Thursday, April 26, 2007]

8:30 a.m. I can see that making a regular practice of clearing cords is necessary for me — and I should have done it long ago. So many things I have never been able to say. And, it occurs to me, maybe this goes all the way back to childhood. Cording, I mean. Gentleman?

You are creating a metaphor in a way, because psychic cords are only a metaphor, and it is as well for you to remember it. Easy to adopt a widely used description without thinking what the underlying reality may be. “Cord” is a useful shorthand, but even a moment’s reflection should remind you that it is a metaphor and can only be a metaphor — and therefore by necessity is only a rough and ready description. We don’t — to paraphrase “The Magnificent Seven” — deal in manila, friends.

Nice to see that you spend your time watching westerns. I wondered what you did with your spare time.

We smile too. But that is a diversion we may take up at some other time. Let’s finish about cords. You may find it productive to change the metaphor; there is no reason you can’t continue to use it, and no harm done provided that you remember that it is a metaphor. So — state your understanding of what people mean by cording.

Continue reading A Discussion of cords