• Judging our lives, and, who are we talking to? (from January 2018)

    Wednesday, January 24, 2018 1. You can learn more sometimes from books that don’t quite make it than from more successful ones. An Old Captivity [by Nevil Shute] is interesting enough in that it details all the things that go into a long flight. It doesn’t quite have enough emotional conflict or development in it…

  • Very different understandings (from January 2018)

    Very different understandings (from January 2018) Monday, January 29, 2018 Given the context of what you are, and who you are, relative to the rest of reality, given that your non-3D component has its hopes and wishes just as the 3D component does, and that sometimes they clash, and given that what happens in 3D…

  • Guidance and conscience (from February, 2018)

    Guidance and conscience (from February, 2018) Wednesday, February 7, 2018 I haven’t had enough experience of long-term responsibility to be able to say confidently that what I want at any given moment is the best thing, for me, for anything larger than myself. A lack of external rules means leaning on nothing. Still, it is…

  • Guidance and conscience (from February, 2018)

    Wednesday, February 7, 2018 I haven’t had enough experience of long-term responsibility to be able to say confidently that what I want at any given moment is the best thing, for me, for anything larger than myself. A lack of external rules means leaning on nothing. Still, it is an option. Any way of living…

  • Pinpoints and probability-clouds (from February, 2018)

    [This entry progressed rapidly. First I was talking to myself; then I thought I’d talk to Hemingway if he was available; then I was talking to – someone. Who it was, hardly matters. Attributing a specific source is unnecessary, which is just as well, given that it can never be proved.] Tuesday, February 27, 2018…

  • The context of life’s dream

    Friday, March 24, 2023 6:35 a.m. Finished re-reading Jefferson in Power, skipping somewhat, and am moved to ask a question – not rhetorically – that has often puzzled me. (In fact, I suspect prodding, here.) What do I get out of so much immersion in history, given that I also see life as only a…

  • Bridging to what we are becoming (from March, 2018)

    [A session that came in sort of sideways, and then went on far longer than usual.] Sunday, March 11, 2018 A dream. He is at his desk. His superior comes by. He realizes he can’t do his job any more, at least he’s afraid that’s true, and is pretty sure it is. He tells her…

  • Myth as symbolic representation (from March, 2018)

    Tuesday, March 13, 2018 It should be clear from experience that no one’s life is lived as merely a dramatization of what s/he already is. Life is conflict of forces, and if the conflict were only exteriorization of what is there already from the past – well, how did it get there in the past?…

  • Our lives as chains of consequences (from March, 2018)

    Wednesday, March 14, 2018 You are receiving feedback from unknown individuals, indicating that this material has been helpful to them over many years, unsuspected by you. You mean the woman who wrote that she discovered my blog years ago. Yes. For you and for everyone, the situation is the same: You never know the full…

  • New eyes, new facts (from March, 2018)

    Friday, March 16, 2018 All we are doing in this small series is coordinating two ways of seeing the world, so that they may illumine each other. The large-scale view is “What is the structure of life as we know it; what is The Big Picture?” The small-scale view – not in any way less…