This is going to take a while to work out, I think, and probably I will wind up making pdf files. But I don’t know how to figure out what to do except by trying, so here’s a first attempt.
Continue reading First stab at illustrating the TGU material
If you can’t figure out why the buttons don’t work…
It’s because the site is still under development, but we didn’t want to freeze this blog while waiting to finish the site.
We’ll get there. Meanwhile, if this site is new to you, there’s a boatload of material here: Check the archives, for instance.
Monroe Institute photo
It occurs to me, perhaps I haven’t ever posted any photos of the Monroe Institute buildings and grounds, for the benefit of those who have never visited. Here’s one I like, part of the Nancy Penn Center taken from the side of the building that is away from the road.
A Change of Heart
By way of the PEERS network. This message is available online at http://www.WantToKnow.info/071106heartmathchanges
“HeartMath’s research shows that emotions work much faster, and are more powerful, than thoughts. And that-when it comes to the human body-the heart is much more important than the brain to overall health and well-being-even cognitive function-than anyone but poets believed. Briefly re-experiencing a cherished memory creates synchronization in your heart rhythm in mere seconds. Through its research, the Institute of HeartMath proves that health starts with love.”
— Ode Magazine, June 2005 Issue
Dear friends,
The Institute of HeartMath (http://www.heartmath.org) has conducted extensive research showing that good health starts with love, and that love can reduce stress. Simple, quick exercises such as re-imagining a cherished memory can significantly improve your health when done on a regular basis. With a client list which now includes such leading companies as Hewlett Packard, Shell, Unilever, Cisco Systems, and Boeing, the HeartMath Institute has developed a powerful track record in helping managers and employees to decrease stress and increase joy in their lives and work.
In the space of less than 15 years, the HeartMath Institute has published a large body of scientific research in established and respected publications such as the Harvard Business Review and the American Journal of Cardiology. I highly recommend the HeartMath exercises and a visit to their inspiring website. The below, highly inspirational article on HeartMath was published in the excellent magazine, Ode. Every issue of Ode is filled with stories which deeply inspire and empower. As stated in the below article, may we all remember that we can change the world, starting with ourselves.
With heartfelt love and best wishes,
Fred Burks for the inspiring and educational PEERS websites
A way of connecting without sleeping
August 3, 2001. I was in the Monroe Institute’s black box, in a mildly altered state talking to the unembodied beings that I call the Guys Upstairs, Skip Atwater in the control booth conducting the session (keeping me from drifting too far, for one thing). Note that when he tries to get me to ask guidance to describe the experience directly, what we get is a dictated passage very unlike my normal cadence.
I have posted this session in its entirety, in several parts, under Black Box session 08-03-01, but as things tend to get lost when the entire transcript is given, I thought I’d pull this segment out.
All right my friends, it’s your show, it’s – we’ll go where you want to go. [pause]
Immediate sense of a vast night sky, and I immediately want to say, in the tropics. [long pause]
A sense of lying in the sand, how one would scoop out places for shoulders and hips and stuff, and just lying on my back in the sand that’s been shaped to fit me. [pause]
With a – I want to say a blanket, but I don’t think it’s a blanket. It’s some kind of covering, because I guess in the desert the night must be cool. [pause] It’s more like a reed kind of a thing; that doesn’t make sense. It’s almost like somebody spread a hammock out on top of me, rather than under me. [pause] Continue reading A way of connecting without sleeping
Mr. Lincoln’s Specialty
One of my altered-state conversations with Joseph Smallwood, an American of the 1800s, contained this description of Abraham Lincoln’s persuasive powers as part of a discussion of how everyone sees the world differently. As usual, sentences in italics are mine, those in Roman are Joseph’s.
[December 27, 2005]
Your mental processes furnish the analogies, always. That’s what they do. What somebody sets in front of you is one thing. The connections it suggests is a different thing. That is why three people looking at the same thing not only have their different opinions about it among them—they each are in their own world about it in a way. They each think about other things that suggest themselves. So you can see how rich this makes things. You take a thousand men surviving a battle, or even a hard winter, and they will each one of them have been associating it with stuff from their past before that – and not just in that lifetime, either! Everything they are is affected by everything that happens to every part of them. You think that’s simple?
It ain’t that it’s hard to understand how disagreements arise. It is more surprising when any two people see things the same! That’s why if you want to persuade people, you have to do it with pictures. And that was Mr. Lincoln’s specialty.
Now, don’t fight me on this, and you might learn something. State your objections so we get it on the record, so to speak. Continue reading Mr. Lincoln’s Specialty
Exercises for Spiritual Advancement
More than one person has pointed out that the TGU material can be a bit daunting. From time to time I intend to pull out particularly interesting or important material to let it be more easily found. This is from a session on October 9, 2001, in response to a question from someone who had been reading previous transcripts.
Exercises for Spiritual Advancement
Rita Warren: Well, here’s an easy one. A question from the same person.
F: We’d like to know what an easy question is. It’ll be interesting to see this.
R: [chuckles] What would you recommend as the five best exercises for spiritual advancement?
F: [pause] Not an easy one, but it’s an awfully good one. Continue reading Exercises for Spiritual Advancement