Posts in Chronological Order

Thursday, February 10, 2022 3:25 a.m. F, R, C, P. Last week you were talking about flares v. firecrackers, which I take to mean something that serves as continuing illumination v. something that sets off a sudden readjustment, perhaps what Bruce Moen used to call a cascading belief-system crash. This, I think, in context of…

Friday, February 11, 2022 4:40 a.m. Hard to settle down to see if there is going to be a conversation, when every time I pull out the journal, Lila meows. But I don’t think she wants anything special, even attention. I think she’s just vocal, and perhaps is wondering why she is in a strange…

Saturday, February 12, 2022 Dad’s 107th, Mr. Lincoln’s 213th. 3:50 a.m. All right, gentlemen, anything in particular on your minds? Want to continue where we left off yesterday morning, cat allowing? Yes, continue, but I think abandon our thought-experiment and attempt to address the subject directly. So let’s consider the dynamics of your life in…

Sunday, February 13, 2022 6:35 a.m. So, gentlemen, unless you have something better in mind, I thought we might talk a little bit about Emerson. Setting switches: focus, receptivity, clarity, presence. (And again I need to lean on the acronym to remember! How’s that for presence??) We can discuss Emerson, if you wish. You had…

Monday, February 14, 2022 1:40 a.m. Since I can’t seem to sleep any longer at the moment, let’s try a session. Setting switches. Do you have an agenda, or shall we go with what came to me last night as a possible topic? Let’s try that. Anything “uncaused” or out of left field, as you…

Tuesday, February 15, 2022 5:20 a.m. Well, guys, anything on today’s agenda? Setting switches, just in case. A couple of points might be mentioned, from your paragraph after we finished yesterday. Here it is: “9:50 a.m. A similar phenomenon is remembering scenes from movies or novels or stories, I think. I replay scenes or even…

Wednesday, February 16, 2022 6:05 a.m. If you gentlemen don’t have any particular item on your docket, we could pursue something you said yesterday. But I’ll offer you first choice, and I’ll set my switches to maximum focus, receptivity, clarity, and presence. At this point perhaps you can see the underlying method in our practice…

Thursday, February 17, 2022 3:50 a.m. I wake up thinking, “But let’s keep it practical.” That seems to be more and more our theme song, these days. It’s all well and good to talk about the souls of our machines, and about the shared subjectivity – unfinished business of humanity, if not indeed of all…

Friday, February 18, 2022 5:10 a.m. “Your friends would help you, you know.” In the dream, she had done something quite mundane – on the order of changing batteries, though it was not that – that I find sometimes beyond me. I awoke thinking of that line – delivered last and therefore remembered by me…

Sunday, February 20, 2022 3:30 a.m. John Glenn orbited the earth three times in 1962, a long, long time ago, when I was young. The date stuck in my mind. Open for business, if you have something to pursue. I trust my slight headache will dissolve as we proceed. It usually does. And, writing that,…