• Deceptive differences

    Sunday, November 6, 2022 4:15 a.m. Perhaps a little more abut the lives of the artists who see through the scrim of 3D life, yet work hard through it? As opposed to those who take the reality of the world for granted? Presence, receptivity, clarity. It is a great mistake people make, when they view…

  • Integrity (edited from December 9, 2021)

    I hope I’m equal to what I’m sensing you want to give us this morning. A series of dreams in the night, and they had the same trend: something about our road forward, though I don’t remember most of them. Can we skip recording the dreams and just go to the point? If you will…

  • No spare parts

    Tuesday, November 8, 2022 4:05 a.m. Guys, I feel like we still haven’t gotten to the nub of our question about artists and the world. But I don’t know how to rephrase it for greater clarity. Let’s try this: I spend so much time reading stories of other lives: Where is my life? That isn’t…

  • Unfinished business

    Wednesday, November 9, 2022 5 a.m. I don’t have a question, at the moment, but I have one queued up from Martha MacBurnie, from last Saturday: “if the world is only somewhat real, and if there is no demarcation between 3-D and non-3-D, how can the shared subjectivity have unfinished business to finish?  Unfinished as…

  • Toward the superhuman (from December 29, 2021)

    So yesterday you said 3D is a way of seeing, and it led me to an insight that has now become cloudy again. The central insight is of several parts: You are not victims, nor laboratory rats, nor even volunteers involved in some sort of experiment. Your condition is neither permanent nor deplorable nor even…

  • Pain, and suffering, and purpose (edited from May 7, 2022)

    Saturday, May 7, 2022 [The guys had used the expression “mind-stuff,” and it turned out that some people thought they meant “mind over matter,” or “it’s all in your mind.” Yet for quite a while, the guys had been using “mind-stuff” to express the fact that matter, the material world, that looks so tangible, is…

  • Context in the process of learning (from June 20, 2022)

    I have been going back through this year’s conversations, editing as I go. In this particular entry, the guys make some points about our thinking process, and bias, and judgment. Context in the process of learning Monday, June 20, 2022 We can go into the process of learning, if you wish. Go ahead, then, and…

  • Toward Life More Abundantly (edited from Feb. 3, 2021)

    Wednesday, February 3, 2021 What shall we talk about? What are you reading? Gary Lachman on Colin Wilson. Markus Wolf on his life as East Germany’s spymaster. Finished the journals of Wilhelm Reich 1940-1947. Why? Why? I don’t know. I go to my bookcases of biographies and pick something. Or do the same for my…

  • Three fears: death, darkness, and being alone

    [As it happened, we didn’t continue this conversation, but what is here seems worthwhile.] Wednesday, April 7, 2021 6:15 a.m. If I learned anything from the first two parts of the Burns / Novick series on Hemingway, I don’t know what it would be. I have been more aware of what it had to leave…

  • Interpretations

    Tuesday, November 15, 2022 6:15 a.m. So, guys, shall we talk about “life more abundantly”? We can. Am I correct – oh hell, I know I am correct in assuming that my dream reflected on the situation. [The dream: [I was being made to sign a book that I owned, that had been given to…