• Adaptation

    We’re right up on the 400th anniversary of Jamestown settlement, which I find pretty amazing. But by the time Jamestown was founded, Europeans had been in frequent contact with the Indians for more than a century. Only after a series of epidemic diseases over many decades removed nine-tenths of the Indians was it possible for…

  • Dion Fortune on the role of churches

    From Moon Magic, pages 193-4: “The churches wouldn’t agree with you.” “The churches can please themselves. It is no business but their own what conditions they make for admission to their communion. The mistake comes when they use their influence to legislate for people outside their communion….”

  • 13 – So I was in the army!

      [December 24, 2005] Nearly 7 a.m. Now comes the need for divine intervention! I’m scared stiff to start writing about Joseph’s wartime experiences – because I do not have a clue what they were except a sense that he was at Gettysburg, injured by being clubbed in the lower spine – and the sure…

  • 14 – Perplexities

    [Christmas. 8:30 a.m. I have to laugh. For days I’ve had “Marching Through Georgia” running through my head pretty continuously. This morning I realize it’s Rudolph the Reindeer! It makes a change, anyway. But it’s ridiculous.] Joseph, am I scaring you away – so to speak – by my own being scared about all this?…

  • Story versus perception – 1

    Data vs. knowing [April 13, 2007] All right friends, let’s talk a little about “story” versus perception as it comes to psychic exploration. I can see this as at least a post to the blog, as I think it is an important insight bearing on — that is to say, clearing up — many things…

  • Troubles

    Everyone’s life is hard somewhere, and it is well that it should be. The untroubled life – more so even than the unexamined life – would not be worth living.

  • 15 – A Session with a psychic

    Following up on Joseph’s suggestion, on the night of December 29, 2005 I did a telephone consultation with Karen Storsteen, a talented psychic who I had met at the International New Age Trade Show (INATS) while working the show for Hampton Roads. I took notes at the time, but didn’t reconstruct them into a narrative…

  • Judge not, especially yourselves

    [Saturday, January 14, 2006] Well, I’d like a companionable chat. Which of my friends shall I talk with today? You call me Joseph. [This is not Joseph Smallwood, but an ancient Egyptian, some kind of priest.] Yes. Welcome, friend. You know that one of my friends this life was startled that I was so respectful…

  • Robert Bruce on truth

    [My friend Robert Bruce (author of Astral Dynamics) sent me this and it seemed too long for just a comment, so I decided to make it a post, sort of like a guest appearance on a TV show. :)] G’day Frank! Your email gave me much food for thought, and tied in with a recent…

  • 16 – Appreciating Mr. Lincoln

    [Monday, December 26, 2005] 9 a.m. Well Joseph – James? – I know it is vastly easier for me to bring through values and attitudes and opinions than fact. So, what would you like to talk about? Mr. Lincoln. I can’t say that you folks appreciate Mr. Lincoln the way you ought to. There ain’t…