• 17 – Politics north and south

    2 p.m. All right. More? What else would you like to talk about? Well, how about politics? Sure. What about politics? Well you know they say it took politics in the ’50s for Henry Thoreau to find out he had a country. That’s the kind of smart-aleck remark people make who don’t see behind the…

  • 18 – Steamboats and slavery

    By now, you are probably wondering the same thing I was wondering: What is going on here, and where is all this going? I was fascinated by Joseph’s story, and it was interesting to get a different slant on things than I had ever heard, and his opinions were not necessarily opinions that I had…

  • Story versus perception – 2

    Perception and Morality Tuesday, April 17, 2007 Alright I guess I am finally ready if you are. Perception versus story, part 2 — which aspect now? Nervous in the service, for fear that we won’t know our lines? It would have been more instructive for you not to have reread the first installment so you…

  • A time to be transformed

    My friends said to me one day: It is more than a matter of learning or teaching. More important by far is the need to live the knowledge. To some extent one serves as a model to others in anything one does, and that serving as a model can occur – must occur – in…

  • 19 – Mr. Lincoln’s specialty

    [December 27, 2005. 8:20 a.m.] All right, Joseph—let’s revert to my question the answer to which got interrupted [the night before]. What’s going on here? Where are we going? What is all this in aid of? [I can always tell when it’s TGU – or, anyway, I can always tell now – because for one…

  • A New Model of Consciousness in Space and Time – 1

    This long thread began with my request to my friends upstairs to help me tell people how to get into touch with guidance, at least as I personally have understood and experienced it. I shuddered to think of beginning an epidemic of Psychic’s Disease, but still it is no less dangerous for people to rely…

  • Story versus perception – 3

    Wednesday, April 18, 2007 8 a.m. More, then, on perception versus story? Or do you want to start another rabbit running? So, you wish more on perception versus knowing, and you remember that there were several threads, and you can’t remember any of them, and you worry lest we be unable to dredge them up…

  • 20 – The Question of trust

    The question of verification bothered me more than ever after my session with psychic (and psychotherapist) Karen Storsteen on December 29, has described here in Chasing Smallwood — 15. I know that people think that psychic investigators are willing to believe anything and everything, and are so eager to connect that they fooled themselves routinely,…

  • Verification, Filters and The Control Panel

    Something practical came out of all that angst about verification. [Thursday, January 12, 2006] 9:30 a.m. I thought last night that we need a Missouri Compromise today between left and right, between conservatives and liberals, between religious and anti-religious. I cannot see how we can proceed otherwise. The Missouri Compromise was not perfect but it…

  • A New Model of Consciousness in Space and Time – 2

    [Wednesday, January 18, 2006, continuing the transcript of the same session] Those who perceive spirit as one of the elements of a human being see it as an immaterial “something” that is necessary to life. No spirit, no life. Extinguish life, destroy the bond between body and spirit. We have no quarrel with that view.…