This World

This came out in two pieces, the first reflecting upon the process of reflection, and the second — quite unexpectedly– discussing the concept of “the guys upstairs” as a sort of bridge concept.

Thursday, April 26, 2007

All right, nearly 7 a.m.. Joseph, I posted your communication about the night you and I connected, when you were injured at Gettysburg. I can see that there was much you wanted to say as recently as last year that I was not yet in a position to understand, or maybe you just didn’t want to break the flow.

That’s right. Both of those things. Think how much better you understand the process since you went through the “perception versus story” theme. It unexpectedly answered a whole lot of things you never expected to get an answer to! Continue reading Reflection and our lives, and TGU

“Everyone is engaged in the same kind of creation-by-decision,” my friends say; “that is what human life is.”

[Tuesday, January 17, 2006]

Surely you see that your culture’s way of making you feel guilty about not doing what you want to do, and doing what you don’t want to do, will work only for a certain kind or person, in a certain kind of belief system. So by living it and living it though – or perhaps we should say living through it – you break the way for others who are like you in this. Continue reading Breaking Trails

This is a slightly edited transcription of a transmission from the guys. As usual, my interjections are in italic.

Friday, April 20, 2007

1:20 a.m. Watched “Seven Years in Tibet,” purchased when I went grocery shopping. I was full of thoughts as I watched the first part of the movie. The loneliness of the boy. The line between superstition and insight into people. Much more. The truth about communism that so many — including me — were blind to.

8:15 a.m. More than 3100 hits on the blog. I am in the process of putting several books into cyberspace. Friends, how am I going to make any money? For if not from this it will need to come from somewhere.

You heard the Dalai Lama’s quoted wisdom on the film last night — don’t worry. It is a waste of time.

Yes, I do know that. When I am to do something, then it will be known what to do.

Certainly. What will leave you more able to deal with the circumstances of the given moment than clarity?

Alright then, on to more important things, and I shall continue to trust.

Trust, discern and practice honesty and compassion. Anyone can do this; few will. Instead many trust to their discernment — their weakest natural gift, if they only knew it — thinking trust in the universe (as you often put it) and honesty and compassion luxuries rather than reliable guides. For it is in the practice of trust, honesty and compassion that one clarifies one’s perception as a sort of side-effect: one stands away from the lens one is trying to see through. Continue reading The Dalai Lama, the soul, and you

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Would you like to say more about the discontinuity between who Michael had been and who he was after the incident with the door?

Sure. Good idea. We smile.

You think yourselves much more stable, more unchanging, than you are. You think this so unconsciously that it can be hard to persuade you that it is so. It seems to you that you see changes in yourselves over time that “prove” that you don’t see yourselves as basically unchanging. But we would say that as usual, this is a problem of language making a thing seem like its opposite. Continue reading An orchestrated incident – 2

Monday, April 9, 2007

Alright, it’s 7:30 a.m., who’s up? Joseph again?

Maybe nobody. Too much wine last night maybe….

All right, 10 minutes and a cup of coffee further on – I’m open to communication. I guess I will ask a question and see what develops. Someone please, what are the implications for him, for me, and for others, of Michael’s experience with a crack on the head opening him up?

That is the proper question, and this will provide you with a theme to be translated into a post. Continue reading An orchestrated incident – 1

“This is what immortality is, and you can no more forfeit immortality than live without breathing.“

A friend told me that she was having a hard time with the idea of talking to a past life. She had had regressions and said it didn’t feel like the description the guys had given and I had passed on. So I asked them for something on the difference between a completed life and an in-process life. Continue reading Complications in talking to past lives