• Bill Ebeltoft: A conversation with John Prine

    [This is an example of what we all can learn to do in these changing circumstances we find ourselves in. The main requirement seems to be a willingness to open to undefined input without immediately shutting down. As Bill shows here, it is as much a matter of going with the flow as anything else.…

  • 2023-02-25 Beyond either-or (from June 2018)

    The other day you referred to “we” humans. I take it that was you slipping in a further redefinition. Drawing a connection that is not necessarily obvious, let’s say. There is still a tendency to think of non-3D elements as separate from 3D individuals. It may be time to remind people that sometimes what those…

  • It is stupid to distrust life (from July, 2018)

    Sunday, July 15, 2018 So, guys – “wheezing”? I started to ask, “clarity?” but got diverted, probably by you yourselves. Well, we did want to put in a word about wheezing and your life. Though it is now only a mild annoyance, once in your life it was a major annoyance, a disruption, even a…

  • Second tier (from August 2018)

    Saturday, August 4, 2018 For the longest time, I have relied upon these conversations for a sense of purpose and of achievement. Absent them, nothing. That isn’t good. An old pattern, an old problem. Doing as a way to validate being. — Re-reading journal 114, I come to that dream of July 19 that had…

  • Stillness and connection (from August, 2016)

    Wednesday August 17, 2016 Words don’t mean the same thing to different people – and I’m not talking about vocabulary or semantics, but meaning, communication. That is an advantage as well as a disadvantage, as usual. Slippage is opportunity, not just inefficiency. Ambiguity is a door we can use to suggest things, and of course…

  • The ship is here (from November, 2021)

    Wednesday, November 17, 2021 You are at the threshold of greater things, and perhaps it would be as well to point out that sometimes greater things come to you whether you are willing or not, and in such case your own free will takes greater importance than even usual. I think you are saying, in…

  • An organized system

    Thursday, November 25, 2021 6:25 a.m. In The Demon Lover, as in her other novels, Dion Fortune gives so clear a description of realities the guys have given us, that the similarity or identity of the two sets of teachings is plain. Someone not having had the guys’ explanations might not find her statements so…

  • Ripping and cross-cutting (from December, 2021)

    Sunday, December 19, 2021 Life always goes easier in certain directions than in others. But just as in cutting lumber you may need sometimes to rip and other times to cross-cut, so in life you can’t generalize to say, “Only do what comes naturally,” or even, “If you are finding it hard, you’re going the…

  • Ionization (from September, 2020)

    Wednesday, September 30, 2020 Okay, guys, up to you. After yesterday’s fiasco, I don’t know where we are or how you want to proceed. We wouldn’t call it a fiasco. Interesting to watch you redefine things as you go. Your reaction may serve to illustrate, in fact. We were proceeding smoothly. We hit a speed…

  • A journey and a poem

    A journey Down the stairs as usual A pool to the left as I descend A long dive into the pool I am breathing water: No limit to the depth, no limit to my ability to dive. It gets brighter as we descend. Still diving, I surface in a new world, Bright, glistening, silent, Hushed…