• Consistency and carrier waves (from November, 2017)

    Wednesday, November 22, 2017 Definitely feeling better. A pretty good night’s sleep. Gentlemen? What about your reaction to “Beat the Devil”? I can’t say I much cared for it, though it had some funny lines. Basically a waste of time. And – why? I guess spoofs and take-offs bore me. It’s so easy to take…

  • An end and a beginning (from November, 2017)

    Thursday, November 23, 2017 All day in the company of Tom Cutter, yesterday. How many times now have I re-read Nevil Shute’s Around the Bend, and it is still as fresh as ever. Several people have asked, is this to be a book, and I have said I presume so but don’t know. Do you…

  • Discernment among urges (from Life More Abundantly)

    Spending time accomplishing many little practical things is not a waste of time, is not “killing” time. Neither is doing nothing in particular. The idea that one must be continually doing something in order to be productive is a mistake rooted in the idea that one earns one’s place in the world. But you don’t…

  • The right tools for the job (from Life More Abundantly)

    A friend said meditation often seems to him a waste of time, and I sense that you wish to comment. Meditation isn’t the right tool if you aren’t using it on the right job. You can’t tighten screws with hammers, or pound nails with screwdrivers. At least, not very efficiently! But this hardly exhausts the…

  • Herds, outliers, and situation reports (from Life More Abundantly)

    You live at a remove from the physical world, mentally. Even when you spend your time reading of the world, understanding the world, conceptualizing the world, you aren’t really participating in it the way other people do. Which is why I interact so badly with practical things, have such anxiety when faced with the prospect…

  • Harold and John and our 3D lives (from Life More Abundantly)

    I awoke from a dream in which I was Harold (from the TV show “Person of Interest”) on a bus listening to John helping a woman, promising her chocolate, something she longed for, against the life of taking abuse that she was enduring and would be going back to. Then I interacted, saying I was…

  • Like lightning (from Life More Abundantly)

    Watching Peter Jackson’s 90-minute film “They Shall Not Grow Old,” comprising restored footage of British doughboys in World War I, I remembered an experience I had in 2001 or 2002. I was in London, walking near Trafalgar Square, trying to give David Poynter (experienced as a past life) a sense of modern London, knowing that…

  • Consciousness and experience (from Life More Abundantly)

    As I look back on my life, it seems to me I didn’t stay conscious enough. I rarely turned the inner spotlight on me, except as a sort of non-introspective self-awareness. I was there, but not thinking about what I was doing or reacting to. I couldn’t learn from experience, because I wasn’t altering my…

  • Integrity and intent (from Life More Abundantly)

    Return continually to Jesus’ helpful suggestions, all of which were meant to give you reliable ways to proceed. He preached integrity – that is, being the same thing inside and outside. Don’t do things behind your own back. Know your intent and hold to it. When listening for the small still voice, or talking to…

  • A process of kneading (from Life More Abundantly)

    I received an email yesterday morning from a man named Hanns Oskar Porr, asking if strands upon strands and communities wrap around “like in a hologram, where each point contains all else and at the same time feeds into the others?” He had an experience of cosmic unity, “maybe best described as an analogy … like being…