• Ideology and consciousness (from March 25 and 26, 2018, edited)

    You will notice that you have had conversations about the social crisis developing around you, and your (and by reflection, our) views on the causes and nature of the crisis differ somewhat from those with whom you are in sympathy on most other things. You mean because I am critical of both liberal and conservative…

  • Faith, hope, and charity (edited from Feb. 8 and 9, 2018)

    In discussing the three virtues the Christians added to the classic four, we are less interested in what Christians may have understood by them historically than in their relevance for today and tomorrow. For, after all, nothing permanent ever changes, but everything seems to change – reveals other facets – as the point of view…

  • Stop, Look, and Listen (from March 30, 2018)

    The present center of interest is how you live your lives, and for what purpose. If you can’t get a useful perspective on that, the rest is just spinning theory. Thoreau’s “Where I lived, and What I Lived For.” Both halves, yes. Ignore the former part, and you have only theory. Ignore the latter and…

  • Inner and outer strength

    Saturday, August 27, 2022 7:15 a.m. A late start at 6:30, then choosing and sending a morning message, and here we are. If I get nothing else from re-reading old stuff, I see that it is good material, and I see that I am a better writer than the guys are! Maybe because they have…

  • Reading and self-awareness

    (from Sept. 11, 2018, edited) So, guys, the issue of staying in contact. It’s more complicated than I have been thinking of it, isn’t it? It isn’t clear-cut. Let’s say it isn’t on/off. A book like Trask has multiple layers. In so far as the story includes the element of a man needing to learn…

  • Emerson and Yeats, and us (from Nov. 30, 2018)

    Emerson and Yeats (from Nov. 30, 2018) Friday, November 30, 2018 Lately I have been “sinfully strolling from book to book,” as Emerson once put it, re-reading at the same time The Heart of Emerson’s Journals and W.B. Yeats’s Autobiographies. Here are some gems that may be of interest, recorded in my journal as I…

  • Fluctuations physical and mental (from Oct. 18, 2018)

    So, guys, how about elaborating on your statement of yesterday? You said, “Those of you who can, now is the time to take advantage of these heightened energies to work on your own longtime project, which is not this lifetime, yet must work through this lifetime. If you can believe that all is well, when…

  • People as fractals (from Sept. 17, 2018, edited)

    I was reading a lot of Morris on Theodore Roosevelt in quiet accustomed discouragement at the waste of my own life by comparison. I have to wonder, given that I don’t profit from the examples, and given that these famous lives only dishearten me by the contrast, why is it that biography, and history, has…

  • Wrong and right ways to explore past lives (edited from Nov. 10, 2021)

    Bertram, how much of what I felt yesterday was me dramatizing, and how much was emotionally true with specifics perhaps invented, perhaps distorted? [A different “voice,” though not heard.] You overlook the thing that came to you, considering. Yes, I suppose I do. Dion Fortune – Violet Firth that was – welcome. Are you in…

  • Changing times, changing rules (from Sept. 11 and 12, 2020)

    Into a new world I would be interested in your personal disquisition on experiencing 3D life as independent time-sharing terminals versus experiencing it as part of an inter-conscious network. We smile. Those are your data-processing analogies, not quite ours. But you have the general idea. We don’t want to tie the discussion too closely to…