• Jon Holt on focus and access and health

    Monday, August 12, 2024 5:10 a.m. Several things. Can I put them together? Breathing. Sneeze impulse. By extension, control over the idea of the body, just as I always dimly knew, if not how to direct it. “Thinking is the hardest work there is, that’s why so few people do it,” as Ford said. It…

  • Ouspensky on our lives in time

    My friend Charles Sides writes me: “I thought the following quotations might be of interest to you as you are going through your journals.” They are, and i think they will be of interest to many. From A Secret History of Consciousness: P 48 Ouspensky realized that at any time our picture of ourselves is limited…

  • Limitation and perseverance

    Tuesday, August 13, 2024 5:30 a.m. Lila got me up at about five. Lungs feel on the edge of trouble, yet I am able to prevent it. Do I have energy enough to continue with Jon? It’s only 5:30, why shouldn’t I have it? Jon? Start with the concepts of limitation and perseverance. Considered together,…

  • Toward a new civilization?

    Wednesday, August 14, 2024 I was thinking, nobody believes in Communism anymore, and they don’t believe in Capitalism either, not as saviors. We have moved away from belief in economics and are into new territory. The social war we are engaged in centers on something else, and people don’t quite know what it is, because…

  • Group dynamics

    Thursday, August 15, 2024 4:50 a.m. I don’t know if this will work, but maybe. Jon, I wonder what we can say about yesterday’s disappointing session. You mean, what do we dare say, or what can we attain clarity on? Either. Both. Maybe keep it to ourselves. We don’t have to. You can if you…

  • Expectations and compulsions

    Sunday, August 18, 2024 5 a.m. Ready to talk, Jon, if you are. Clearly the block over the past two days has been on my end. Yes and so what? There isn’t any obligation. It is a free gift or it is nothing at all. Well, I feel vaguely guilty when I don’t make even…

  • One way to proceed

    Monday, August 19, 2024 6:05 a.m. Okay, Jon, what shall we talk about? Are we going to contend between ourselves, as Wilbur and Orville did, thrashing out intellectual puzzles without ill feelings resulting? Is that why I have been rereading in my books on the Wright Brothers? It’s your life. Don’t ask me! But I…

  • Getting a handle on fears

    [An edited account of a consultation between myself and Jon Holt, a friend, a psychiatrist and long-time Monroe participant, who moved over to non-3D earlier this month. My particular issues are nobody’s business, but I thought the example of how interaction can work might be of interest. Tuesday, August 20, 2024 5:30 a.m. Jon, it…

  • Fears and consciousness

    Wednesday, August 21, 2024 7:50 a.m. Suppose we make an attempt? Prudence and providence. Let’s look at that Freudian slip [from the 20th]. You were thinking of your undetermined future, and how to live in faith without being foolish about it. You heard “providence,” knew it wasn’t right, then heard “prudence.” But as I pointed…

  • A drumming on getting our emotions to serve us better

    Yesterday’s drumming Our small group did a five-minute journey on the question, “How can we learn to use our emotions to serve us better?” What I got follows: “You are all on the same track, and it is the right track: Observe. Even when you find that you have gotten caught up again, go back…