• An interesting little computation

    I said a while ago that it is now realized that the subconscious mind processes about 42 million bits of information in the one second that it takes the conscious mind to process about 42 bit, for a million-to-one difference. This means that if I glance at something for one second, the subconscious sees what…

  • Archibald MacLeish — seeing our future

    In going through old journals, I found this poem copied out, by Archibald MacLeish, titled “Conversation in a Belfry,” from Ten Conversations. It was written more than 30 years ago, and is, unfortunately, truer now than then, even. Conversation in a Belfry Centennial bell that will not ring, Tell me why your iron tongue Rusts…

  • Clouds

    What could be lovelier? If people had to pay to see them, perhaps they’d value them more. Thoreau said (after the woods around Walden Pond had been logged, some years after he’d lived there) “Thank God they cannot chop down the clouds!”  

  • Witnessing Clouds

    Jim Price and I have never met, but we are friends, brought together by temperament and indefinables. I know him as a gifted writer, for one thing. Yesterday he sent me an email saying, “In response to your blog entry today, here’s a poem I wrote years ago about clouds. A spell of clouds is…

  • Monroe Institute photo

    It occurs to me, perhaps I haven’t ever posted any photos of the Monroe Institute buildings and grounds, for the benefit of those who have never visited. Here’s one I like, part of the Nancy Penn Center taken from the side of the building that is away from the road.  

  • The Spiritual life

    For the past week, as my friend Rita Warren has been slowly dying, I have been occupying my mind partly by going through old journals, continuing a task I set myself of finding and indexing all the quotations I have noted in 41 years of journal-keeping. Among them I find this one, to which, despite…

  • Rita’s legacy (1)

    This entry, and the one to follow, were two parts of an introduction that Rita and I wrote to a book about the TGU material that has yet to appear. We wrote these explanations in 2002 but nothing needs changing. I can’t think of a better way of expressing Rita Warren’s legacy as experienced by…

  • Rita’s Legacy (2)

    This was to be part two of the introduction to the book that would explain what Rita and I had learned in extensive conversations with The Guys Upstairs. Rita’s training as academic comes through quite clearly here, I think. By Rita Q. Warren The background As Frank has reported, Bob Monroe turned his Explorer program…

  • Rita

    Rita Warren (1920-2008)

  • A conversation with Rita

    Before we get into this short transcript, a caveat. To the question, “How do you know that you were really talking with Rita and not making it up?” there can only be one true answer: I don’t know. I think so, but I don’t know so. I can’t prove it, any more than I could…