Month: January 2016

Boredom and other messages from the mind

What do you do when you’re bored?
I was thinking about how active children’s minds are and how easily they get bored. Then I found myself being taught how boredom can be viewed as a signal from the mind. That message can be found below from my joint mind. I did a search of Frank and Rita’s The Sphere and the Hologram, and there were (not surprisingly) some interesting comments about boredom!
Being retired and having a number of friends who have recently retired as well, I’m aware that one of the greatest fears of retirement is boredom, along with loss of identity. I believe both are tied to how we’ve imbedded ourselves into our external world, mostly to the exclusion of our internal one.
Here’s a different take on boredom, along with some other advice from Me to me, which takes on a Bob Monroe flavor.
Chime in!
Continue reading John Wolf on boredom

Poking through some old files, I found this description of a consultation with The Guys Upstairs, the last I ever did for my friend Ed Carter. Ed made more use of TGU than anyone but myself, perhaps because he knew I was always delighted to “go Upstairs” and talk to them. At the end of November, 1996, he sent me, by e-mail, this question to ask:
EC: “Both my earth brain and my eternal mind accept as a fact that C 1 existence requires three spacial dimensions plus the dimension of time. While my brain does not comprehend it, my mind can accept as reality the assertion that I also exist in the totality of all mind states, however many that may be.
“The question: When I die and discard the earth body I chose to occupy during my C 1 life, do I then only exist as `the collection of mind states’, or do I also exist as some kind of C 1 image, and if so how does this work?
“Note: I am painfully aware that I do not have the words to express what I am trying to convey, but I expect you know what it is.”
Continue reading After we die…