• The roots of thinking

    Saturday, September 28, 2024 7:30 a.m. I am ready to begin, assuming you have a topic. I haven’t been going through the transcripts yet, though I hope to begin soon. But you must have something that bubbles up to you as you wait for it. Use that. A very circular process – I remember mentioning…

  • Lenses and scaffoldings

    Sunday, September 29, 2024 6 a.m. Jon, in our conversation of Aug. 15, you said, “I don’t see it the same way I did when I was under the pressure of 3D constrictions and expectations. It didn’t occur to me, what I mentioned the other day, that restrictions are focus. I never thought about it…

  • Allowing, not constructing

    Monday, September 30, 2024 5:15 a.m. Jon, I have gotten through August’s entries. That of the 30th had something that seems worth pursuing:  “…in 3D, conscious reasoning is more obvious to you than the unconscious factors that are frequently – you might almost say usually – more important. If your thinking is being fashioned from…

  • Signposts

    Wednesday, October 2, 2024 5:40 a.m. I was watching “El Ministerio del Tiempo” last night, and this morning as I was remembering somebody in medieval times referring to “la santa iglesia” (the holy church), I had a thought. There was a time when people thought of it as the holy church. They weren’t thinking of…

  • Meditation excerpt from Messenger

    From Messenger, Chapter Eight: The Monkey 2 Mr. Conway sat across from me in the little study. “Now you have had your first experience with the drunken monkey,” he said, smiling. “It’s unbelievable!” I cried. “I just couldn’t hold onto it.” “You will, with persistence. I did. Others did. Success does not come easily, to…

  • Religions and our future

    Thursday, October 3, 2024 9:30 a.m. Let’s talk a little bit more on religion and whatever it is we’re heading toward. (As so often, I feel that this is a prompted question, but that’s okay with me.) You have been hammering on this point sometimes, whispering other times, and wondering if anybody at all is…

  • Drawing distinctions

    Friday, October 4, 2024 6:10 a.m. I was thinking, as I lay drowsing on the recliner after feeding the cat, that recently I have had to explain two things about myself, one being asthma and fear, the other being the difference between reputation and accomplishment. I don’t think I’ve done either explanation adequately. but the…

  • More than we think we are

    Saturday, October 5, 2024 5:50 a.m. Curious experience. I was taking down the words of someone purporting to be Nevil Shute – at least, that was my assumption, as he was talking about what he was doing in writing On the Beach, and I had written a page when I realized, with a bitter sensation,…

  • Unseen threading

    Sunday, October 6, 2024 6:05 a.m. Blank, at the moment. Your move. Talk a little about fame. Yes, interesting how that bubbled up after I wrote about it. Sometime later that day I realized, as a boy I was obsessed with becoming famous. We used to play a board game – was it called Life?…

  • Filters

    Monday, October 7, 2024 5:45 a.m. It occurred to me last night, we could do a session on filters theoretical and practical, if you like. Your idea of asking your friends to each contribute a list of every practical suggestion they can remember having been made is a good one. Many heads are better than…