• So You Think Your Life Was Wasted (15)

    This entry continues where the previous one left off. It was still Wednesday, January 18, 2006. (9 a.m.) Beautiful day, and not only because of this splendid contact. All right, friends, so what is your proposed model. The elements of this model have been given to you in bits and pieces over the past five…

  • Taming our inner fundamentalist

    Henry Reed is an author, lecturer, psychologist, and teacher. This book review appeared in the January 2010 issue of Venture Inward, the magazine of Edgar Cayce’s A.R.E. (www.EdgarCayce.org) It’s a good reminder that it’s always easier to see the mote in the other person’s eye than the beam in one’s own.

  • George Leonard: “We have heard enough of despair”

    My brother sent me this obit of George Leonard from the New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/18/us/18leonard1.html?emc=eta1). The name wasn’t familiar to me, and as I read it I was amazed to see how much we owe him.

  • So You Think Your Life Was Wasted (16)

    Who never gets discouraged? Helpful, in such times, to have friends…. But this entry is about a lot more than how to deal with discouragement! Saturday, January 28, 2006 Speak, friends; I will listen. Learn to manage your depression of spirit. Rather than being overmastered by it, channel it, use it, and all will go…

  • “As if I’m some sort of hopeless dimwit”

    We never know when we may be serving the purposes of something well beyond ourself. I have a thoughtful friend, a professor of philosophy. I thought he’d be interested in a blog post I found about attempting to comprehend man, so I forwarded the URL, which is http://pavellas.wordpress.com/ In due course I received my friend’s reply:

  • So You Think Your Life Was Wasted (17)

    Several short topics here, given as they were given to me day by day. The benefits of routine, the nature of time, and the advantages of staying in contact with guidance. And between the lines are hints as to what we as humans really are, and therefore how we function best.

  • Happy Birthday, Miss Rita!

    Rita Queen Warren, Ph.D., scholar, academic, consciousness pioneer, initial director of Robert Monroe’s altered-state laboratory, wise old woman on the hill, would have been 90 years old today. Trust me, she’s glad she isn’t still here! She had no fear of moving over to the other side, and toward the end she had a sort…

  • Out on a Limb, long ago

    It was, if I had only known it, the beginning, finally. It was 1987. I was 40 years old. I was writing editorials for the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, a  job that paid well and had rescued me from the world of computer programming. But my primary interest in life, besides writing, was psychic exploration, if I…

  • So You Think Your Life Was Wasted (18)

    As on every Friday  for the past four  months, another excerpt from my on-going conversations with various disembodied beings. This series hopes to illumine for you, as it did for me, aspects of the interconnections between this side (3D reality) and the other side (outside of time and space). My ultimate goal is to nudge…

  • So You Think Your Life Was Wasted (19)

    Henry Thoreau’s words and example deeply influenced  my life since I first read Walden at age 24 and wound up writing my M.A. thesis on his early social views in the light of his personal religion. This is a man! And his stalwart, straightforward life is such an example of virtues lived that an earlier…