• An experiment in guidance

    Saturday, July 25, 2009, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., I am going to host a workshop in which I will attempt to teach people how to get into touch with their own guidance — their own Guys Upstairs. I’m pretty confident that it can be done, but it’s sort of an experiment, so I…

  • Sixth Dimension Bees

    In response to a news article I posted here, my friend Jim Price wrote a humorous piece and sent it to me. I liked it and asked if I could post it here. So, here it is.  Sixth Dimension Bees By Jim Price

  • Teaching access to guidance

    Last weekend, I conducted a little experiment. I made a little bet with myself that in a three-hour period, I could help a small roomful of people to come into contact with their internal guidance. For some, it would be contact for the first time. For others, it would be a stronger, more definite connection.…

  • As Japan’s Mediums Die, Ancient Tradition Fades

    My brother alerted me to this story from The New York Times [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/21/world/asia/21japan.html?_r=1&emc=eta1] that to my mind shows the continuing impact of Western ways upon the rest of the world — not always to the non-Western world’s advantage. The old tradition seems pretty much gone, in Japan. Is that a bad thing? Good thing? Somewhat both? Neither?…

  • The placebo effect and the nature of healing

    This article, from Wired magazine, came to me via the Schwartzreport. Editor Stephan Schwartz rightly says: Think about what this report is saying. The meaning beneath. It is saying that our consciousness has the power to affect the functioning of our physical organism down to cellular level. Additionally, the data shows we know which component…

  • Hyman Bloom, a Painter of the Mystical

    Fascinating. One would give something to know this man’s life from the inside. From the New York Times — http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/31/arts/design/31bloom.html?_r=1&emc=eta1 —  via a friend. Hyman Bloom, a Painter of the Mystical, Is Dead at 96 By HOLLAND COTTER

  • Hemingway’s not-so-unfinished Business

    My column for the July, 2009, edition of the on-line magazine The Meta Arts was titled Hemingway’s Unfinished Business. It read as follows: Who would have thought that the dead have unfinished business? But, if the model of our lives on the other side that the guys upstairs have provided is anything like correct, it…

  • Hemingway’s Service

    I mentioned yesterday that I had discovered a book called The Hemingway Patrols: Ernest Hemingway And His Hunt For U-Boats, by Terry Mort. I highly recommend it. The author respects Hemingway without being blind to his failings. Indeed, he seems troubled by them, in the same way I am. That’s a long way from condemnation,…

  • Forty-three and counting

    How do you try to estimate the effect on your life of a habit that continues 43 years? It was September 6, 1966. I was 20 years old, at the end of a summer of working in a glass factory, a few days away from heading out for my sophomore year in college. For a…

  • Hemingway’s reaction

    Speaking to “dead” people involves a lot of guesswork even after the fact. This morning I went fishing to see what Papa Hemingway thought about a book, and — more to the point, for me — how certain aspects of communication between this side and the other side work. Or, sometimes, don’t work.