• Selecting input (from October 2017)

    Sunday, October 22, 2017 Enter your notes from yesterday. [Watched “Terminator 3,” found in alphabetizing my DVDs and tapes. Thinking about the story. The visuals show how much people hate our civilization, and want to see it smashed – trucks, cars, buildings, people, cities. I don’t even know if the movie makers know they are…

  • Creators and reality (from October, 2017)

    Monday, October 23, 2017 Character and myth Just for a moment, it came clear. Can I hold it long enough to express it? We are real as characters, but not as what we think we are. We are a half-step less real than the next level of reality. And I suspect that that half-step away…

  • Actor, character, playwright (from October 2017)

    Tuesday, October 24, 2017 So, gentlemen, I took some time off from direct interaction, and spent the day reading and thinking about things. May we resume? That isn’t actually a question, I hope. I have come to rely upon there being someone on the other end of the line when I call. And you are…

  • Desire (from October, 2017)

    Wednesday, October 25, 2017 Desire “Desire.” That’s the word that finally rousted me out of bed where I lay half-sleeping. Other dreams had been going through the old film projector, but the single word “desire” gave me the sense that this was the theme du jour. Am I correct? You can be. Meaning, it’s up…

  • Free will and predestination (from October 2017)

    Friday, October 27, 2017 I’m anxious to hear you on predestination and free will. It’s very simple – or very complicated, depending upon which end of the stick you pick up. It doesn’t seem so to us. To us it looks like it ought to be an either/ or. But, remember what you noticed repeatedly…

  • Individual and community

    Monday, June 19, 2023 Reading The Clash of Civilizations by Samuel P. Huntington at the same time as doing other things – including plotting “The Stone and the Stream” – is a unique experience, necessarily, because everything we ingest mingles with what else we have ingested in the past and at the same moment. So…

  • Decisions and the higher self (from October 2017)

    Saturday, October 28, 2017 I guess we’re ready to proceed. Then let us proceed to talk about your very interesting speculation. Yeah, speculation – or maybe a planted idea? Does it matter? I don’t know. Okay, here is my journal entry from yesterday. “It occurred to me that our higher self’s choices may be what…

  • Important and unimportant decisions (from October 2017)

    Sunday, October 29, 2017 Very well, my friend. Not all deciders or decisions created equal? Surely it is obvious as soon as broached. It is only common sense, after all. But if there is one thing this work has taught us to suspect, it is common sense. Point. Very well, we shall look at it.…

  • The roots of emotion and drama (from November, 2017)

    Wednesday, November 1, 2017 Let’s talk about emotion, and drama, and the “why” of it. Something I do occasionally wonder about. There sure seems to be a lot of excess drama all the time. Drama, or boredom. Never much quiet excitement or interesting tranquility. Why shouldn’t there be? Except, you are not describing life as…

  • 3D and non-3D geography (from November 2017)

    Thursday November 2, 2017 My friends, I got the idea yesterday that today’s discussion might be called something like “geography and the spirit,” or “alien life in 3D and otherwise,” or something similar. Until now we have been describing All-D life as localized – as indeed it is. As your “guys upstairs” told you, there…