• Synchronizing spreadsheets

    Absorbing new material intellectually is satisfying, sometimes exciting. But how hard it can be to actually live it! It is good to become thoroughly familiar with the Cayce work, or Seth, or scriptures, or the guys upstairs. Certainly all that wisdom can enrich our lives. But if we can’t apply it, what good does it…

  • An amazing talk

    A friend sends me this interview by a Columbian of an Egyptian architect who studied in Zurich. I haven’t listened to it all yet, but it is important.   About an hour and 30 minutes into it, Dr. Karim discusses the human-AI interface and offers some disturbing thoughts about what it portends. (Regardless you position…

  • Adversity as a teacher

    My friend Charles sends a post from the blog of a man named Raffaello Palandri. titled “Adversity as a teacher,” and it could be taken straight from the guys upstairs.  Very true, very useful readjustment of our thinking. press.com/2025/02/25/adversity-as-a-teacher-the-silent-art-of-transforming-hardship-into-strength/

  • Memories, hindsight, self-refinement

    While working on getting the Bronson Alcott book ready for publication, I came across this journal entry, which amounts to a message in a bottle. Wednesday, May 26, 2021 5:20 a.m. The smallest disruption of routine can send you off the rails. I am still waiting for my printer’s cartridge to arrive through the mail,…

  • Introduction to BioGeometry

    Robert Gilbert, Ph.D., in an hour-long talk about the work of Dr. Ibrahim Karim. Very important stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKAVT1t76xI  

  • A few thoughts from Alcott’s Journals

    I have begun reading Odell Shepard’s selection of Alcott’s Journals, which Alcott kept for more than 50 years, and it is like finding an old/new friend. A few samples from the first few pages: The idea that half my life is gone and so little is accomplished worthy a mind and hearty destined for such…

  • Alcott on spirit and matter

    Editor Odell Shepard says in a footnote that this entry from Alcott’s journal is “one of the clearest and most compact statements that Alcott ever made in writing of his main metaphysical idea.” Reading it, I conclude that the guys upstairs that I have been in connection with for so long are themselves Transcendentalists. New…

  • More Alcott

    For the past few days, I have been living among the thoughts of Ibrahim Karim and Bronson Alcott, almost to the exclusion of the world immediately around me. On Sunday, I went to UVA’s beautiful Shannon Library (formerly Alderman) and borrowed Alcott’s Journals and his Letters. A few excerpts. I could cite many more, but…

  • Alcott on Jesus and Plato

    If you had asked Alcott, “Was Jesus divine?”, he probably would have said, “Certainly, and so am I, and so are you, and so are all men and women on the face of the earth.” That would have been a good answer, hardly acceptable to most of his contemporaries. But then, Alcott’s thought processes, his…

  • A little more Alcott

    February 13, 1848: “When a man’s own culture falls behind that of his time, he is conservative. When it outstrips and enables him to over-see his time, he becomes a reformer.” &&& January 3, 1851: “Foreseen and premeditated discourse seldom serves me for occasions, and I am happiest when left to the methods of intuition.…