Friday
2-5-10
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 you (as I have been nudged) toward an understandable concept of our place in the universe, one that helps us see meaning in our lives. God knows, materialist reductionism doesn’t!
But the language and concepts of traditional religions as traditionally expressed are dead to us, and need reinterpreting. That’s part of what’s going on here. And, in the process, the guys upstairs are happy enough to knock some dust off long-repeated concepts, and at the same time throw out some bathwater, while holding on to the baby. So — part 18 of the series.
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Monday
2-1-10
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 could ever figure out how to do it.
For reasons I have set forth in my book Muddy Tracks, suddenly there I was, attending the first of Shirley MacLaine’s Higher Self Seminars in nearby Virginia Beach. When I came home, I wrote up a piece about it, which appeared in the Commentary section of the largest newspaper in Virginia on Sunday, February 1.
This article turned out to be the end of some things and the beginning of many others, including my chance to participate in the creation and growth of Hampton Roads Publishing Company. What Shirley MacLaine did was a good thing. The sentiments I expressed at the end of the article remain true today.
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Saturday
1-30-10
Posted by Frank DeMarco under Stray Thoughts | Tags: "Rita Warren"
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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 of resigned impatience with the body and is limitations.
She and I used to raise a glass each January 30th, to toast Franklin Roosevelt, whose birthday she shared. So here’s a virtual toast, Miss Rita. “Thanks for all your help (not least, an ever-listening ear). Thanks for suggesting the sessions that eventually became The Sphere and the Hologram. And thanks, on behalf of so many friends scattered across the globe, for all that you were. Whatever you’re doing, may it be interesting and productive, and may you never lose that curiosity.”
Friday
1-29-10
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.
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Wednesday
1-27-10
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:
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Friday
1-22-10
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 well. So you get to feeling grim. No big deal, as you say – just express it. Your pain is real and of long standing. So is that of innumerable others. You could help some who could come to the knowledge that a path exists, and could perhaps come to it only by your words.
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Tuesday
1-19-10
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.
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Sunday
1-17-10
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.
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Friday
1-15-10
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 years and more. Now we propose to put them together in a way much of which will be familiar to you (now) and some not.
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Wednesday
1-13-10
A friend sent me an email saying, “Thanks for your blog update. Here’s something you might find quite interesting. The TM Sidhis are advanced mental techniques of the Transcendental Meditation Program for expanding human potential and training the nervous system to develop higher states of consciousness leading to enlightenment.”
I did find it interesting, and I hereby pass it on. You might follow these links and see.
http://www.vedic-community.org/tm.html
http://www.vediccity.net/
http://goldendome.org/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2UHLMVr4vg&feature=channel