• Mr. Lincoln on his second inaugural address

    Do you understand what Mr. Lincoln was driving at in his second inaugural address? I’ll bet you don’t. Or, let’s put it this way, I learned something from this little talk, which afterward seemed obvious but hadn’t seemed so beforehand. [Thursday March 29, 2006 (4:32 a.m.)] I awoke thinking about Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address as…

  • Black Box session 10-13-00 (5)

     

  • Woodrow Wilson’s Defense

    [Thursday March 9, 2006]   Woodrow Wilson on the creation of the Federal Reserve System (9:40 p.m.) A first, a “by request” attempt to reach a specific historical individual. In this case it is Woodrow Wilson, at my brother Paul’s suggestion.   “Here is the quote. If you reach Mr. Wilson, before you ask him…

  • Black Box session 10-20-00 (1)

    Session six of ten Friday, October 20, 2000 Background Health situation seems to have turned a corner – subject to change, of course. I was in a pretty bad way late in the evening of Sunday the 15th. Happened to be emailing, happened that Kelly and I were on at the same time. I asked…

  • Elvis, on life after fame

    [Friday March 10, 2006] Michael Ventura had said, as a joke,  if I started channeling Elvis to be careful – but that made me think about it and I had a vivid sense of how imprisoned his life became. Hell. Elvis, if you’d like to me to pass a message to Michael I am willing.…

  • How could Jesus have been betrayed?

    Friday April 7, 2006 I would like to talk to someone about the Gospel of Judas that is in the news. What is going to happen (what is happening) to Christianity, and is there any part in it for me? I don’t know who to ask to contact. Bertram is closest, I suppose. For a…

  • Black Box session 10-20-00 (2)

    Session six of ten (continued) Friday, October 20, 2000 Well, I don’t know. [long pause] The image of a triangle. [pause] Maybe it’s a pyramid. [cough] Of course I think Hampton Roads when I see pyramid. [long pause] Maybe we should move up a little. Maybe 15? S: Very good.

  • The Meta Arts magazine

    I am very pleased to report that the month of June marks my first monthly column in The Meta Arts, an online magazine published monthly “for the metaphysical, spiritual, and healing communities.” Here I find myself in very distinguished company, not least my friend Hank Wesselman, anthropologist turned shaman, author of the Spiritwalker trilogy. My…

  • Nothing matches experience

    My recurrent theme here is, “learn it for yourself.” As long as you’re taking someone else’s word for something, you don’t know.  Even if they are reliable, even if they are great reporters, even if they are experts in their field, and even if God almighty were to assure you that they were right in…

  • Henry Thoreau on guidance

    9:30 a.m. Sunday March 12, 2006   All right, friends, I am going to be working on the assumption that I am working on a book about guidance – sort of not realizing it – this past 15 years, not to say 40. As Henry sat at Walden accumulating the wisdom and experience that became…