• Our Scientists Play God

          BEIJING — Scientists have created the world’s first human-sheep chimera — which has the body of a sheep and half-human organs, according to news report Monday. Our Scientists Play God If everything that could be done should be done, and if we were intellectually or morally qualified in any way, to play…

  • Chasing Smallwood

    Chasing Smallwood When I took a trip to Gettysburg to validate Joseph’s story, I experienced strong feelings, and received messages from the other side. But – I could not and cannot find objective evidence of the man’s existence. In 15 years I have been unable to find it. What’s more, the only evidence I have…

  • Spirit guides, higher self, guidance and all that

    Taking stock of my experience of guidance over the years, I see that it has indeed been a long strange trip, as Michael Ventura says, quoting somebody. First there were undoubted certainties that went unexamined. Why did the boy that I was “know” that he could fix his health through his mind alone? What gave…

  • 2 – Marching Through Georgia

    Marching Through Georgia For some reason I went looking on the Internet to try to pin down Joseph Smallwood’s Civil War service in the Army, interrupting the work I thought I was doing. And one day I googled “Marching Through Georgia” lyrics and found a site that also played the tune. Neither tune nor words…

  • Societies and the gods – 1

    I reproduce this, with minor editing, as it came to me from my friends Upstairs on Thursday January 5, 2006. It’s long, so I will break it into two pieces. (8:30 a.m.) All right friends, I’m ready and willing. Who do I have the honor of speaking to today? Or, if you have no one…

  • Societies and the gods – 2

    Continuing a conversation with the guys held Thursday January 5, 2006. (10:10 a.m.) Friends? We find it difficult to confine any discussion, as you well know. Every subject links up seamlessly with every other subject – in other words, just as, in a sense, there is only one person, so there is only one thought,…

  • 3 – Going West

    [On Sunday, December 18, 2005, I wrote this: “Instead of addressing the guys in general, perhaps I’ll try it this way: David, please put me into direct touch with Joseph Smallwood.” That’s all it took. (David, by the way, was a journalist whose life spanned about 30 years in the 19th and another 30 years…

  • Recapturing the center

    Our society needs to make a shift in its assumptions equivalent in importance to the shift that was made when Copernicus demonstrated that the Sun, not the earth, was the center of the solar system. Putting the center in the center, instead of putting it on the periphery, straightens out a lot of misunderstandings, and…

  • The limits to guidance

    In January 2006, while I was in the middle of receiving lots of information from the other side, several things happened that once again shook my confidence — for in this whole process, I have never been certain that I was right or even that I knew what I was doing. Much closer to say…

  • 4 – North on the river

    [December 20, 2005] An odd thing is that Marching Through Georgia is insisting on mutating into a refrain of “..marching through – Boston.” What the hell? No reason I can think of, and certainly nothing I consciously intended. While we were marching through – Boston?? 8 a.m. All right Joseph – Mr. Smallwood? – you’ve…