• Chatting with Bernard Baruch on investments

    I no longer remember what gave me the idea to contact Mr. Baruch, but it makes interesting reading nine years later. Thursday May 4, 2006 8:30 a.m. F: All right, for what it’s worth – that is, assuming this is real and not only imaginings, regardless if it is real within imaginative trappings – I…

  • Ed Carter on ever-changing relationships

    My old friend Ed Carter — Bob Monroe’s age, Bob Monroe’s friend before I met either man — was author of the remarkable novel Living is Forever, which we published, then partner in Hampton Roads Publishing Co., and friend, and mentor, and psychic co-conspirator. He died in December, 2006, after scarcely half a dozen years…

  • Joseph P. Kennedy and the assassination of his sons

    When David Poynter led me to Joseph Smallwood, and Smallwood led me to Lincoln and Jung, I realized that who we can communicate with probably is limited more by our assumption that it can’t be done than by any other factor, except perhaps lack of resonance between us and those we might like to talk…

  • Rita on life planning

    I have long wondered about the concept of “life plans.” And here we start a discussion of the concept. Friday, April 3, 2015 F: I have to begin working harder, longer, better – I feel myself spinning wheels, slipping. That is not satisfying. And, Miss Rita, I hear you ready to come in, at just…

  • Wilhelm Reich — How you contribute to fascism

    Sunday June 4, 2006 F: I am reading Wilhelm Reich on therapy and realizing / remembering / suspecting that I am deeply crazy. Not a new thought, but persuasive. But what can I do about it? If we are irrational, if we are systemically flawed, or malfunctioning – how do we get out of it?…

  • Rita: Vectors and karma

    Saturday, April 4, 2015 F: 3:15 a.m. So, Rita, you said “there is a vector to your life, to everyone’s life.” Would you care to explain? R: Of course, and you will find it obvious when once stated. At least, I think you will. It is the elaboration, and the implications on a wider scale,…

  • Mom

    In 1915, like today, April 5 was Easter Sunday. My grandfather, making his way home through the snow that had fallen overnight, met the doctor on the street, who told him that he had another daughter. And so my mother came into the world she would inhabit for nearly 90 years. (I am inhibited from…

  • Rita on communication and secrecy

    Sunday, April 5, 2015 F: 5:15 a.m. Well, Miss Rita, I trust that you are as gratified by the response this work is meeting as I am. It occurs to me to ask, have we gone far enough that you can give us hints as to what you are up to? If this is to…

  • Rita answering various questions

    Monday, April 6, 2015 F: 5:10 a.m. Here we go again. Shall we begin as you advised me to yesterday, Miss Rita, with queued-up questions, or do you have something different in mind today? R: Everything connects. I think you will find, in the long run, that one’s plans and short-term maneuverings mean little as…

  • Rita on context, processing, and bias

    Tuesday, April 7, 2015 F: 2 a.m. Back again, Rita. Feeling pretty buoyed up. Shall we continue down the list, or do you have something in mind? R: Let’s finish the deferred questions, though there are some you did not print out, that we can get to another time, when Charles lists them for us.…