• Simple reassurance

    My friend Emerson lends reassurance across the years, via Emphatically Emerson, page 174. Writing in 1848, he says: “Happy is he who looks only into his work to know if it will succeed, never into the times or public opinion; and who writes from the love of imparting certain thoughts and not from the necessity…

  • “It is in the very dogma and authority that you distrust …”

    Once you get the knack of talking to the other side, any little journal entry may turn out to become an entry into a new dimension. Sometimes you get knocked for a loop.

  • Emma and Grandpop

     

  • Learning the joy of living with less

    From the New York Times, http://happydays.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/the-joy-of-less/?emc=eta1, this article about how little our lives’ happiness depends on ready cash. The Joy of Less By PICO IYER “The beat of my heart has grown deeper, more active, and yet more peaceful, and it is as if I were all the time storing up inner riches…My [life] is one…

  • Upton Sinclair on how (and why) he worked with spiritualists

    In going through old journals, working on another book of conversations with people on the other side, I came across this with author Upton Sinclair that may be of interest.

  • Prehistoric flute shows how little we know about our ancestors

    I found this article among those offered by the Schwartzreport sent out by email daily, free, by Stephan Schwartz (see www.schwartzreport.net). Stephan’s introductory comments follow, and are right on the money.

  • Re-reading — what really goes on

    Going through old journals I found this enlightening little chat. Food for thought. Thursday, April 26, 2007  All right, nearly 7 a.m.. Joseph, I posted your communication about the night you and I connected, when you were injured at Gettysburg. I can see that there was much you wanted to say as recently as last…

  • Papa Hemingway’s unfinished business

    On July 2, 1961, Ernest Hemingway, old and ill, shot himself to death – “took the family exit,” to put it his way, as he was neither the first nor the last Hemingway to kill himself. My column this month for The Meta Arts concerns some unfinished business of his. Not a retrieval – he…

  • Why Are Humans Different? Is it because of cooking?

    As usual, a materialist explanation. Interesting one, though, except for the silly speculation about gender oppression. This book review from the New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/27/books/27garn.html?pagewanted=all Why Are Humans Different From All Other Apes? It’s The Cooking, Stupid DWIGHT GARNER New York Times May 26, 2009

  • Six-dimensional living?

    Via a friend, I received this, which apparently is being passed around — with reason. http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/viewnews.php?id=73651 Those Amazing Quantum Honey Bees By Ken Korczak