Conversations August 17, 2010

Posted on by Frank DeMarco

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

5:30 AM. All right, let’s talk more about threads.

We are proceeding in a straight-line direction. First we showed that you as individuals aren’t individual in any meaningful description — despite how a life feels separate, often alone. Then we showed that — as in so many things — it isn’t significantly different on this side. Despite popular mythology of many kinds, there aren’t the individuals on this end that you may be tempted to think us, any more than on your side. All this, though, certainly should raise the question in your minds — where is the continuity among so much flow? Where is the source of the feeling of individuality that is an inseparable part of life? Further questions should include that of traditional religious belief — how is it that people have believed in reincarnation or in judgment followed by heaven or hell, if we are not individuals in the way such ideas seem to require?

Continue reading Conversations August 17, 2010

Conversations August 16, 2010

Posted on by Frank DeMarco

Monday, August 16, 2010

6 AM. In the middle of the night I had a thought — or the thought had me — that we could talk about the process of increasing access to guidance, once people know that it is indeed possible. That is, not the process of convincing anybody, but a mental attitude that would facilitate it.

Without censure — if you had re-read yesterday’s work, you’d see that we could just proceed from there.

Continue reading Conversations August 16, 2010

Conversations August 15, 2010

Posted on by Frank DeMarco

Sunday, August 15, 2010

5 AM. V-J Day 65 years ago. Not a simpler world then, although we tend to think so, but a very different one. What a long, long way toward global integration and disintegration we have come since that time. The coming of the Internet alone is a revolution upon a revolution upon a revolution. Television, satellite links, facsimile machines, international corporations, cell phones — just the revolution in communications alone could fill pages, detailing the rewiring of the global brain.

Back on January 15, 2006, I had an interesting exchange with the guys, in which I — well, I’ll just copy the text from my files.

[On January 14, 2006, the guys said, “Now, let us connect a couple of dots. When is it Joseph and when is it `the guys’ and what makes for the shift and what if anything does the shift imply.” I put them off, feeling it was too much to deal with at the moment, but returned to it the next day:]

Continue reading Conversations August 15, 2010

Conversations August 14, 2010

Posted on by Frank DeMarco

Saturday, August 14, 2010

4:30 AM. Finished making notes, and noting themes, through January 2006. Tremendous amount of work to do yet.

I have two alternate questions, but am open to suggestion.

The question from Jim and Carol is a good one to address.

Continue reading Conversations August 14, 2010

Conversations August 13, 2010

Posted on by Frank DeMarco

Friday, August 13, 2010

6:30 AM. It feels like I’ve lost the morning, starting this late, which is ridiculous not least because I tried to stay in bed longer so as not to get up at four or whatever. But I have a headache and don’t feel particularly in tune.

I did do a little bit of work yesterday. I have now gone through the last half of December 2005 and the first half of January 2006, making notes on cards, and noting themes in a separate place. This is going to work. It is reminding me of things I have since incorporated into my life, and of other things that I had forgotten. I can see that it is the intermediate step — the next step, anyway — that will make it all manageable for me.

Continue reading Conversations August 13, 2010

Conversations August 12, 2010

Posted on by Frank DeMarco

Thursday, August 12, 2010

2:30 AM. Going to bed earlier merely results in getting back to this that much earlier, I see. Very well. Gentlemen?

We think you will find that working on the notes will prove rewarding. You barely started, but you did start.

I know, I hear the same subtext everybody else seems to be hearing — “but you must hurry.”

But you must move, at least. The times begin to move more swiftly; you must move if you are not to be left behind.

Continue reading Conversations August 12, 2010

Conversations August 9, 2010

Posted on by Frank DeMarco

Monday, August 9, 2010

4:30 AM. I couldn’t do a thing yesterday, other than the morning consultation which went extraordinarily well, I thought. Wasted the rest of the day evading impossibility. (Also, complaining about it, a bit.)

Bob Friedman says outline it. Nancy Ford says, ask. Her point, and it’s a good one, is, if you want the job done, give me the sense of it. So I write down a few questions based on a conversation with her:

What do you want me to accomplish with this book, or these books?

What is the purpose? What is your purpose for the book? Is it —

— that we can communicate back and forth with you?

— that Hemingway’s life is an example of the dynamics of human life?

— is it a new metaphysics for our new circumstances?

— is it a correction of wrong concepts?

What is the center of it, and the way to find the structure of it? Re-reading the material first to last may not do it.

Continue reading Conversations August 9, 2010