• 24 – The winter of ’64

    (6:15 p.m.) Joseph, I set you off on an extremely interesting tangent – a tangent nonetheless – about Napoleon and Caesar. It certainly is persuasive, and of course since it can’t be verified I can’t choke up on it. That’s right, but there’s more things in the world than can be proved, and anyway there’s…

  • A New Model of Consciousness in Space and Time – 4

    [Thursday, January 19, 2006] 7:95 a.m. Starting again, not without apprehension. Can today’s transmission possibly measure up to yesterday’s? Can it continue and flow into a seamless and meaningful whole? Stay tuned. You are doing fine. Faithfulness is all. It isn’t up to you to provide the content. If it falls down, it falls down…

  • 25 – Joseph’s miracle (1)

    I don’t claim that this is believable. I merely claim that it is true. In July 1994, when I knew a lot less about this stuff than I do now, I interacted with Joseph after he had been wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg. I wrote about it in Muddy Tracks, but here Joseph tells…

  • Johnson, Kunkel, Jung and the world

    Robert Johnson said that psychologist Fritz Kunkel told him there are three ways to learn psychology: read all the ancient Greek mythology, or read all of Jung, or wait and watch: “that is really the best way.” I knew Jung was the important man the first time I read anything by him. I really have…

  • 26 – Joseph’s miracle (2)

    [Thursday, February 2, 2006] Now, I don’t want to give the impression I was thinking this all out. I couldn’t think! All I could do was feel, but this one thought was sort of mingled up in it. Everything else was groaning and campfire light and smoke – for some reason the smell of smoke…

  • An inner knowing

    According to Mary Todd’s sister, the young Mrs. Lincoln as a girl used to say that she was destined to marry a president. Well, so she was. And while perhaps a good number of young girls thought the same, their being wrong does not make young Mary’s “knowing” meaningless. To say that young Mary’s knowing…

  • 27 – Fellow soldier

    [I have a friend who remembers a life that ended in the old West, after the Civil War destroyed his life in the South. That Confederate soldier, named Hank, never overcame his bitterness. Curiously Jim and I, in this lifetime, perhaps serve as a bridge between Hank and Joseph who, so far as I know,…

  • A New Model of Consciousness in Space and Time – 5

    [Thursday, January 19, 2006] (8:30) Not a very long break – just time enough for a toad in the hole – but hopefully enough refueling that I can continue. I don’t particularly want to wait. No, go look out the window and quietly have some coffee for a few minutes. Come back at 9, say.…

  • Concentration

    William Herndon, Lincoln’s last law partner, says in Herndon’s Lincoln, “the truth about Mr. Lincoln is that he read less and thought more than any man in his sphere in America.” Repeating it, he adds, “if not in the world.” He credits Lincoln with possessing “originality and power of thought in an eminent degree. Besides…

  • Reflection and our lives, and TGU

    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…