• Seth’s New Year’s Resolutions

    Jane Peranteau passed this on to me, and I pass it on to you as well. [From Dreams, “Evolution,” and Value Fulfillment, Vol. 1, by Jane Roberts, Notes, Session 891.] Seth: “I wish you a MERRY NEW YEAR, into which I hope you manage to insert a touch of light-heartedness now and then. “Now if…

  • Track record

    A friend mentioned that I am not posting regularly anymore, which of course is true. It set me to remembering when posting was a daily occurrence, over many years. How many posts? Over how many years? I looked at the site’s dashboard for statistics: My first post was on March 9, 2007, nearly 17 years…

  • A deeper experience

    Friday, January 5, 2024 7:15 a.m. I got the feeling you wanted to do a session, and I connected it to a thought I had just had, reading Kenneth Whyte’s Hoover. (“It occurs to me, reading Hoover, that I read history and biography as drama, as the most intricate and varied and character-filled drama there…

  • Filling the time

    Saturday, January 6, 2024, 3 p.m. Well, my friends, I hear you knocking at the door. Have heard you since this morning. What’s on your mind? Consistency. Constancy. Reliability. Inertia in the productive sense of the word. Purpose. Filling of the time in the way best for you – with the usual caveat, “Which you?”…

  • Seth on knowledge and growth

    Sunday, January 7, 2024 Let’s begin with a thought I had early yesterday and did not transcribe from my journal. 9:15 a.m. Well, I have escorted Herbert Hoover to the end of his presidential term, with, as usual, a great deal of sympathy. When I was a young man, I absorbed the liberal and academic…

  • Alderman

    University of Virginia’s Alderman Library reopened yesterday, after being closed for a long four years. I went to take a look, and i was not disappointed. Mr. Jefferson, in his old age, said, “I can not live without books,” and of course this was true his whole life. Life-long readers know the feeling.  About the…

  • Alderman, part two

    A photographic report on the first day opening. https://www.library.virginia.edu/news/2024/open-doors-first-patrons-explore-renovated-main-library  

  • A current of ink

    It isn’t my fault. What could I do? These three men had a conversation in a bar in the middle of World War II, and one thing led to another. See, in December, 1943, Jack Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway’s eldest son, was a young officer in the military police spending the night in New York City,…

  • Writing himself back

    I know of no better mirror than the record other people leave of their life stories. Some things are very familiar to us; other thing are about as far from our reality as they could be. But either way, if we pay attention, we learn something about ourselves. Consider Colin Wilson’s battles with depression, and…

  • Three roles in life

    [I am re-reading Colin Wilson’s autobiography, Dreaming to Some Purpose and it came to me that he and I were connected in some way that wasn’t obvious.  So I thought I would ask the guys, in a private session, and as usual things took their own course.] Friday, January 12, 2024 8:10 a.m. I look forward…