• Romanticism, revolution and hierarchy

    “The idealization of the primitive and the spontaneous, the natural and the effortless, was in origin a salutary revolt against life-denying systems of order. The adventurous exploration and settlement of the planet provided a counterpoise to the mechanical routine introduced by capitalism. Vitalities too long held in check by archaic institutions had reason to crave…

  • Resources for self-improvement

    This site: http://onlinenursingdegreeguide.org/2008/100-awesome-self-improvement-blogs-improve-your-physical-and-mental-health-achieve-your-goals/ is, as the URL says, a list of 100 blogs aimed at self-improvement. In this case, not self-improvement as in “make more money!” but as in the important things in life, the physical, mental, spiritual warp and weft of daily life. To my surprise and delight, not one but two of my…

  • Sample chapter of Babe in the Woods

        Chapter One March 18, 1995 Saturday Evening   My first thought was: What in the world am I doing here and how am I going to last the week?   I got off the plane in the early evening darkness, walked through the automatic doors and there I was in the Charlottesville airport,…

  • “The Evangelization Of The World In This Generation”

    This was my column for September in The Meta Arts, an online magazine, which is to be found at http://www.themetaarts.com/pages/frankdemarco.html “The Evangelization Of The World In This Generation” I got involved in one of those arguments. You know the kind, where the two sides start from so far apart, believing “facts” that are diametrically opposite,…

  • Babe in the Woods is in print

    If you ever wondered what it would be like to go through a program with a couple of dozen people all looking for extraordinary potential — here’s an easy way to get the idea. Babe in the Woods is about a skeptical news reporter’s entry into a world that he had always assumed did not…

  • Paul von Ward appearances

    A challenging schedule!

  • What could be more delightful…?

    …than somebody really getting it? Babe in the Woods is being offered on Amazon and in other places by Doyle Whiteaker, a friend from one of the Monroe Institute-oriented email groups. He requested that a friend of his read it, and he sent me her review, which follows:

  • The world’s invisible Internet (1)

        So here I am, more than 60 years old, and I am talking to people who are not in bodies. Some have been dead a few years, some for decades, or centuries. It doesn’t seem to make any difference how long they have been gone or how famous they were or weren’t. Apparently…

  • The world’s invisible Internet (2)

    When the breakthrough came, it didn’t take place out of thin air. I had been preparing myself for it – unknowingly – for a decade and a half. We need to talk about automatic writing as I experienced it. I began just by beginning, not knowing what I was doing. I sat down with pen…

  • The world’s invisible Internet (3)

    In March 1993, three months after doing Gateway,  I did another TMI residential course called Guidelines, designed to get participants into closer touch with guidance. Although I didn’t realize it until later, I entered the program not only expanded, but wildly ungrounded. This must have been hard on the other participants, but it made it…