• Medicine by faith

    My brother sent me an old book called The Northwest Coast, or Three Years Residence in Washington Territory, by James G. Swan, an immigrant from the east. Upon arriving at Shoal-water Bay, in November, 1852, Swan quickly learned about medicine-by-faith: Russell… introduced me to these savages as a celebrated doctor, a fable which my utter…

  • 9 – John Muir

    Well, you wouldn’t think it, but I was getting older. By 1854 I was 32 and I felt like I was getting on in years. Now, if I had been doing the same thing all the time, the way you do in your time – or even some in my time, come to think of…

  • 10 – A changed country

    [December 23, 2005] My friend, this sequence has been a great happiness to me, even in the midst of my usual angst. : As you well know, I woke up with questions and – suggestions from you? We have interested others in your story, so, I’m ready if you are.The closest I came to interacting…

  • Psychic’s Disease, scriptures, and ambiguity

    Some years ago, I came up with a concept I call Psychic’s Disease, which I define as the certainty that something must be true because you believe it so strongly. This pitfall is particularly relevant to people who are learning to live by intuition, which often requires that you suspend or overrule logical thinking. Sometimes…

  • An orchestrated incident – 1

    Monday, April 9, 2007 Alright, it’s 7:30 a.m., who’s up? Joseph again? Maybe nobody. Too much wine last night maybe…. All right, 10 minutes and a cup of coffee further on – I’m open to communication. I guess I will ask a question and see what develops. Someone please, what are the implications for him,…

  • Context

    One day I got into a discussion of context with my friends Upstairs, and this is what they said: It is a temptation, in learning something new, to see that “something” out of the general context of life. It is said that if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Well,…

  • 11 – A house divided

    (9:15) Wound up typing in that piece, which maybe made it clearer in my mind. Well, I do go on, I know. But it is important that you see that one difference between you and us, or you can’t really understand what happened. I mean, you can’t really know what we were thinking, why we…

  • Learning to Connect

    My friend Richard and I met at a Monroe Institute program, Lifeline, a dozen years ago. Since then he has gone on to do several programs with shaman Hank Wesselman and his wife Jill. (Rich presently writes a blog that I have mentioned before, http://thesacredpath.wordpress.com/. Well worth a visit.) When Rich and I met, it…

  • 12 – They fired on the flag!

    12:40 p.m. We’re racing something to get all this on the record, Joseph, aren’t we? What? Things move. You don’t want them to move past the point where you can do something about them, or – by definition, as you and the other guys always say – you missed your chance. It’s time to clean…

  • An orchestrated incident – 2

    Tuesday, April 10, 2007 Would you like to say more about the discontinuity between who Michael had been and who he was after the incident with the door? Sure. Good idea. We smile. You think yourselves much more stable, more unchanging, than you are. You think this so unconsciously that it can be hard to…