• End of an era

    Michael Ventura is retiring from writing his Letters at 3 a.m. column.  I can’t begin to express how sorry I am to hear it. http://austinchronicle.com/columns/2014-10-03/letters at 3am-a-long-goodbye      

  • Ventura — Three dots

    MICHAEL VENTURA LETTERS AT 3AM – THE FUTURE DOT-DOT-DOT Austin Chronicle – Oct. 17, 2014   You get accustomed to the nonsense that passes for commentary. It functions as the political equivalent of elevator music. You get so saturated with empty views that when, say, The Economist editorializes a whopping absurdity, it buzzes right by…

  • Ventura Column – THE WORLD THAT CALLS ITSELF “THE WORLD”

    Michael Ventura’s next-to-last column MICHAEL VENTURA LETTERS AT 3AM – THE WORLD THAT CALLS ITSELF “THE WORLD” Austin Sun – Oct. 31, 2014 The most significant sentence of the 20th century was written in 1950 by James Baldwin: “The world is white no longer, and it will never be white again.” Baldwin knew most of…

  • Michael Ventura’s last column

    Forty years after the first column, Michael Ventura has posted his final column. After 40 years, Letters at 3 a.m. is no more.  I’ve posted his final column on my facebook page; alternatively you can find it at the austin chronicle site.

  • First Copy

    Yesterday Bob Friedman dropped off advance copies of my latest book, Imagine Yourself Well a book that was a long time in the making. A lot of practical experience went into this one, and I got it into only 100 pages.   I meant for it to be severely practical. Here’s the first part of…

  • Waking up

    I posted this on Facebook November 6, but i should have posted it here as well. Would have, if i had not been having computer problems (redundant term) at the time. Working with a Guidelines group at TMI I took a break from my life as hermit, last night, to speak to the Guidelines class…

  • Rita’s book, the beginnings

    Looks like I am involved in yet another book brought in from the non-physcial side of life. Here’s how it developed last month. Future posts will present the sessions one by one (today’s was the fourth). Rita’s Book 2014 Cumulative Saturday December 6, 2014 7:30 a.m. Well, Miss Rita, a dream tells me that you…

  • Rita — question 1

    Saturday, January 17, 2015 F: 7 a.m. Time to get started. Miss Rita, care to take a shot at Charles’ first question? [Discussing the matter with my friend Charles Sides, I proposed to that he ask one question at a time, and I would ask Rita. After reading her response, he will then provide another…

  • Rita — Question 2

    January 18, 2015 [Charles’ question: [Rita says, “We are put into an Earth-life, and we are both a continuing entity and, at the same time, a new entity. Beginning from a pool of potential elements, a relative few are selected to live together in one body, fusing themselves into a new soul, or a new…

  • Rita — Question 3

    Monday, January 19, 2015 F: 7 a.m., All right, Miss Rita, I will put Bob’s question here, and I will re-read it, and hopefully off we go. [Question 3 (from Bob Friedman) [The material [on Saturday] prompted some thought on the transition period. I understand broadly what Rita is saying about going from the limited…