• The Dead Present

    I encourage you to dip into the various TGU sessions that I transcribed and entered here. It is a wealth of material, with gems repeatedly turning up unexpectedly. Here’s a “fer instance”: In a few short lines, the question of relevance, the introduction of the concept of the Living Present and the Dead Present, and…

  • Most Science Studies Appear to Be Tainted By Sloppy Analysis

    “Science” is to our time what “the church” was to pre-Reformation Europe. It assumes itself to be the ultimate authority; it has privileged access to funding, it has the ear of the powerful — and it is as corruptible and fallible as any other human institution. Where is the Martin Luther who will begin to…

  • TGU and us — how it works

    Another excerpt from the TGU material posted here, this from one of the 2004 black box sessions, one of a series of questions submitted by others. Rita: You’ve said that Frank is part of your mind; that’s one of the quotes from last week. What is this role that you play? Can that be specified?…

  • priorities and space-time

    An excerpt from the TGU material (one of the 2004 black box sessions) that may be of interest: Rita: Yes. It raises the question about whether human life is just a casual side-process, byproduct, of some other things that are going on, or is this the true purpose of the whole chain that you’re talking…

  • Seth

    My friend Richard’s blog, The Sacred Path  (http://thesacredpath.wordpress.com/) features a post by him on The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events, one of the Seth books. Are you familiar with the Seth books by Jane Roberts? Read Richard’s entry for an easy introduction. Well worth reading.

  • 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…

  • Conspiracies, fear, and our inner connection

    In the fall of 2001, as Rita Warren and I were doing weekly sessions with The Guys Upstairs, I was transcribing each week’s session and posting them to a mailing list of people interested in Monroe Institute type topics. In time, some began proposing questions for us to ask the guys. At the end of…

  • 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.…

  • The Master Game

     The following is from Hank Wesselman’s October column in The Meta Arts magazine (www.themetaarts.com) titled The Life Game. As Hank points out, religion may be a matter of externals but it may not…   Fortunately, there was, and is, another, quite different element to the Religion Game, and it is here, precisely here, that we…

  • 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…