• Yeats on Magic

    Some excerpts from “Magic,” a 24-page essay by W.B. Yeats written in his thirties, in 1901, contained within the book Essays and Introductions, published in 1961, 22 years after his death. “I believe in the practice and philosophy of what we have agreed to call magic, in what I must call the evocation of spirits,…

  • Three strands of influence (from April 2018)

    Wednesday, April 25, 2018 I left myself a note: “The objective reality of the weather we live among. The world not primarily in relation to us.” And even my own note seems cryptic this morning. However, “cryptic” is not “meaningless,” nor “impenetrable.” So let us begin there. To examine the world as it exists, rather…

  • Understanding soul and spirit (from April 2018)

    Thursday, April 26, 2018 It is a mistake to think, “There is reality, separate from me, outside of me, and I am a latecomer to the program.” You as 3D individual came late to the show, but to say that is to ignore your connection to all the rest of you that co-exists with the…

  • The higher self (from April, 2018)

    Friday, April 27, 2018 We are encouraging you to think of reality in a different way, a more comprehensive way, than is usually adopted. Rather than concentrating on human life as it is experienced in the physical world, we brought in the non-physical world which, for a long time, you considered separately. Then we helped…

  • Exploration at the boundary (from May 2018)

    Wednesday, May 9, 2018 We have arrived at the interface between personal and impersonal, or between any one specific consciousness in 3D and all the rest of 3D and non-3D reality that that consciousness interacts with. Your job in 3D is to widen your comprehension of yourself and of “the other.” Naturally you can’t do…

  • The inertia of the present moment (from May 2018)

    Thursday, May 10, 2018 More on the nature of the present moment? We are sketching the present moment as trance, remember. It is real, it exists, but it isn’t what it appears to be. And the deeper one sees into its nature, the more the picture changes. Any present moment has its own inertia The…

  • Shining through the 3D

    Friday, February 10, 2023 Guys, can you tell me what it means, “shining through the 3D”? [This refers to Wednesday’s drumming exercise, which was, “Plug into the feeling of the non-3D.” I scribbled notes during the drumming: Against tree trunk Tree extends upward and down The roots are beneath 3D Humans also extend up and…

  • The plasticity of the present moment (from May 2018)

    Friday, May 11, 2018 Very well, shall we talk about the plasticity of the present moment? Remembering that it is always the present moment, and that somehow it is the same present moment. And remembering to hold contrasting qualities in mind as we do so: The inertia that amounts to the drag of other minds…

  • The Trance of the present moment (from May, 2018)

    Saturday, May 12, 2018 The inertia and the plasticity of the single present moment: So, building upon that –? Vast impersonal forces, vast personal forces, and the trance of the living present moment. Okay. Sounds like you have a lesson plan prepared. We smile. Let’s say, We’ve done this before. That’s my line. Most of…

  • The present moment as altered state (from May, 2018)

    Monday, May 14, 2018 How is our present moment a trance? Like a trance, we said. More like a trance than like a physically fixed phenomenon. It is, you might say, always an altered state, altered in the sense of directed, focused, intended, in a certain direction. Vast forces, personal and impersonal, are always at…