• TGU – mixing content and context

    Sunday, May 30, 2021 4 a.m. I wake from another absorbing dream, one built, I think, on a Netflix drama I saw last night. Gone instantly upon my getting up. The mere act of standing up and watching to be sure I had my balance was enough to move my mental focus, and while I…

  • TGU – understanding begins with a model

    Monday, May 31, 2021 3 a.m. One thing keeping a journal does, it keeps you aware of the remorseless passage of time. periodically you find yourself writing the date and thinking, “Good God, we’ve already burned through [however many months it is, in whatever year it is].” And the clock never stops ticking. So, gentlemen,…

  • TGU – understanding 3D and non-3D

    Tuesday, June 1, 2021 3:55 a.m. The question we were to begin with is: Can we not understand non-3D without understanding 3D? This, because you indicated that we can’t understand 3D without non-3D: I wondered if the converse was also true. The question as posed answers itself, really, because obviously nothing can be fully understood…

  • TGU – animism and higher religions

    Wednesday, June 2, 2021 4:50 a.m. I don’t know where you wanted to go, and I don’t have a firm hold on the thread of the argument you are developing, but I’ll trust the process as usual. You’re on. The overarching theme is – What is life like as it proceeds without reference to 3D?…

  • TGU – 3D is not localized

    Thursday, June 3, 2021 5:10 a.m. Shall we proceed? Glance back at recent sessions. June 1 – understanding non-3D without reference to 3D. There’s only one reality ultimately, no matter how many local variations. June 2 – we in 3D are both individual and community. Which aspect we concentrate on determines how we see things.…

  • TGU – initial considerations

    Friday, June 4, 2021 3 a.m. You said we’d begin with the moment after death, looked at this time not from the 3D shore we leave, or the ship that carries us, but from the non-3D shore we arrive on. Metaphor, I realize, but still I’m interested. Shall we dance? We are tempted to begin…

  • TGU – initially, a shock

    Saturday, June 5, 2021 3:10 a.m. I often think, “This is an impossible task.” I wake up with the prospect ahead of me of producing more material about a subject I know nothing about, in words that haven’t come to me, heading somewhere (I hope) without map or outline. It takes a tremendous amount of…

  • TGU – assumptions about individuality

    Sunday, June 6, 2021 2:30 a.m. What I chiefly took away from yesterday’s session was that we don’t necessarily experience the afterlife as individuals (in the way 3D life would lead us to expect) but as communities of aspects of a given personality, as we really though not apparently are in 3D life. But I…

  • TGU The immortality of clusters

    Tuesday, June 8, 2021 3:45 a.m. So let’s try again, after a day spent doing other things. [On Monday, The Guys had begun with a promising paragraph: “Let’s continue from the vague realization of yours, that you continue after 3D as the individual you were, and as all your constituent parts as they existed separately…

  • TGU – Who chooses?

    Wednesday, June 9, 2021 2:30 a.m. So, questions on what we have gotten recently. The first that comes to mind was: Who chooses? If Frank is an assemblage of strands, who chose which strands to associate together? The answer that comes immediately – or ought to come, anyway – is that it cannot be the…