• Increased access across time

    Saturday, June 18, 2022 6:05 a.m. I had a night of dreams about Sept 11th, my unconscious mind playing with themes for the novel, as best I can tell. But I woke up thinking – as I had thought yesterday – how June 18, Waterloo Day, is mostly forgotten after 207 years, but it shaped…

  • Communicating

    Sunday, June 19, 2022 6:30 a.m. Trying to balance working on the novel-to-be and staying in touch with you, hence with myself. Yesterday’s session was a good one: Do you have something cued up for today? You know that your focused intent helps give point to the interaction. Why not discuss the movies you saw?…

  • Reflections in Space

    Two-thirds of a lifetime ago – 50 years ago, somehow! – I spent a couple of years as audio-visual librarian for the Tampa, Florida, public library, and among the many films I oversaw was a half-hour documentary that remained with me. This film, made in the early days of the space age, though toward the…

  • Context in the process of learning

    Monday, June 20, 2022 6:30 a.m. A lot of thought and musing overnight on the themes of the novel. Have nearly completed annotating my three published Chiari novels, but then there is so much unpublished material to go through for ideas and reminders, and a lot of notes made previously. A good lot of work…

  • First contact with Carl Jung

    Poking around my notes, I found this from 16 years ago, which seems worth sending around. This will have to do, in place of a new conversation today. I note that I began it by saying, “Not being particularly fond of the idea of being laughed at, I still don’t see any choice but to…

  • Using symbols with others

    Wednesday, June 22, 2022 [What I always call Hitler-Destruction Day, as it is the day in 1941 that he attacked Russia, not the smartest thing that lunatic ever did.] 6:30 a.m. Gentlemen, Louisa asks good questions, and I am getting a general sense of your answer, but I look forward to hearing it spelled out…

  • Imagining new possibilities

    Thursday, June 23, 2022 6:25 a.m. Care to expand on yesterday’s answer to our drumming question? [“What possibilities may we be overlooking?” [Look for things that seem too good to happen, and visualize them, instead of reenforcing that they can’t happen. This means internal changes no less than external ones. Rather than specify for you…

  • Consciousness and choice (1)

    Friday, June 24, 2022 6:40 a.m. The convergence of inner and outer becomes more evident, the more attention we pay to it. So, I am trying to plot a complicated story of inner and outer relationships centering on the events (and the meaning!) of Sept 11, 2001, and I find a series on Netflix called…

  • An opportunity likely to be wasted

    Sunday, June 26, 2022 6:15 a.m. I have the persistent urge to discuss the opportunity – that almost certainly will be squandered – presented to people by the overthrow of Roe v. Wade by the Supreme Court. But all it will do is make people mad at me. Is it worthwhile, for the sake of…

  • The elements of empathy

    Sunday, June 26, 2022 8:50 p.m. Our little conversation this morning didn’t meet a lot of response. One agreed with us, two laid out opinions on the Roe v. Wade opinion, and one went off on a tangent. Nobody has proposed burning me or you at the stake yet, which I suppose should be encouraging.…