"I of my own knowledge…"

Taking stock of my experience of guidance over the years, I see that it has indeed been a long strange trip, as Michael Ventura says, quoting somebody.

First there were undoubted certainties that went unexamined. Why did the boy that I was “know” that he could fix his health through his mind alone? What gave him the irrational conviction — only half maintained, and that not by his conscious reasoning mind — that if he read the books in the right way the past would change? (more…)

Chasing Smallwood

When I took a trip to Gettysburg to validate Joseph’s story, I experienced strong feelings, and received messages from the other side. But – I could not and cannot find objective evidence of the man’s existence. In 15 years I have been unable to find it. What’s more, the only evidence I have found for any of the various “past lives” I have seemed to find has all been internal. Strong, meaningful, life transforming, but internal.

Am I being lied to? Did Joseph perhaps not exist? And if the famous men who supposedly talked to me said they knew Joseph, doesn’t that mean they too were illusion? And if the guys upstairs said so too, doesn’t this mean they are lying to me? Yet they have woven themselves into the fabric of my life. They’ve helped me do good. They’ve accompanied a lot of growth. Where am I? And now what do I do? I feel a little bit like Daniel Boone, who was asked in his old age if he had ever been lost in the woods. “No,” he said, “but I was confused for three days once.”

Let me explain.

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BEIJING — Scientists have created the world’s first human-sheep chimera — which has the body of a sheep and half-human organs, according to news report Monday.

Our Scientists Play God

If everything that could be done

should be done, and if we were

intellectually or morally qualified

in any way, to play God, it

would be different.

Insane tinkering, in this dying

materialist civilization –

civilization so-called – breaks

all bounds, restrained by nothing,

carrying us along.

How hard is it to understand?

Some boundaries, it is not safe to cross,

regardless the good intentions,

regardless the promised rewards.

And the end is not yet.

One of the attractions of the Monroe Institute, beyond the content of whatever course you happen to be taking, is the other participants. No matter how busy the course keeps you — and Skip and Carol certainly kept us busy enough — there is always time to talk, if only at meals or during the breaks between formal sessions. And although you might think that people sharing such an unusual common interest would tend to be all of a type, you would be wrong. Not only do people come from “all walks of life” as they say, but — or perhaps I should say therefore — all varieties of political opinion are to be met. Naturally, these opinions are not front and center during the week. Still, they come out.

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In this Email, Nancy, one of the RV class at TMI, discusses the relative value of sketches and words in remote viewing. I agree with her, actually, and did not mean to imply that words had no value, only that sketching was far less likely than words to convey inaccurate “story.” - Frank

I just read your last blog on the importance of sketches, and not words, in doing remote viewing.

Skip certainly knows tons about this subject. However, he did read several of my “words” from my CRV protocol to the group, and it has been my experience that the more CRV I do, the better I get at words and sketches. Rambling can lead to lots of “castle building or stray cats,” but there is not much rambling in my sessions.

I find that the structure of CRV uses a lot of paper, but leads to more specific data, not just good sketches. So, I hate to hear the notion that following a good procedure to do Remote Viewing means throwing out the words and only looking at sketches. That’s throwing out the baby with the water. Sketches may be very important when trying to eliminate three other pictures, but sketches and “words” are helpful in trying to provide good information on a singular target that may need more accurate and detail information. Monitors often record words, and I imagine they have an impact on the outcome.

You don’t need a lot of in-depth information to throw out three other target pictures, but many targets require much more information than sketches. This has been my experience after “years” (three) of Remote Viewing studies. I prefer good sketches and good words.

- Nancy

My friend Richard (http://thesacredpath.wordpress.com/2007/03/17/hello-world/) alerted me to the on-line magazine called “the Meta Arts,” and to the fact that Hank Wesselman is a regular columnist there. After you absorb the information about him (in the column to the right of his article) I predict that you will go looking for his first book, Spiritwalker, and that you will then continue on to his others. He is an important voice in our time.

This is the beginning of Hank’s latest column. Go to (http://www.themetaarts.com/pages/hankwesselman.html) to find the rest.

Encounters on the Shaman’s Path
with anthropologist Dr. Hank Wesselman, PhD.
by Dr.Hank Wesselman, P.h.D.

The Creator Reconsidered

Our last several columns (11/06-2/07) have provided an overview of the general spiritual reawakening that is going on within an important subculture emerging in the Western world-a group that could be thought of as the Transformational Community. We have also considered the beliefs and values that the transformationals hold dear.

This broad social movement is significant for two primary reasons: 1) Demographer Paul Ray (The Cultural Creatives) has revealed it is represented by at least 60-70 million people in the United States alone, with close to another 100 million in Britain and Europe, and 2) the beliefs and values held by this steadily growing cultural group carry the potential to change the directions of world history.

Either of these points are worthy of a Time Magazine cover story yet curiously, we are still under the radar of the media at large.

Part four. The target, and why

This is the target.

CANTERBURY, New Hampshire

The Shaker dwelling-house bathroom at Canterbury bespeaks communal life. The sister who lives there placed the rocking chairs in front of sinks perhaps on a whim.

Does this look like the Alamo to you? If so, I have a bridge I’d like to sell you. And yet, look at how many elements that I had described are in this picture.

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Somebody said once that we go through life looking in one direction, moving in another. Gurdjieff once said, more or less, “suppose you spent your life in an office, spending a lot of time on the telephone, doodling while you talk. Maybe you find out at the end of your life that the important thing was not the talk but the doodling.”

Similarly, I think sometimes that whatever we accomplish here gets done in the most casual way. I have a good friend who I met a dozen years ago at a Monroe Institute program called Lifeline. He writes a blog called The Sacred Path. (http://thesacredpath.wordpress.com/) In a recent entry, he talks about how he has given up following the news for a while, because he realized that it was making him too negative. He gives me credit for having pointed that out to him.

Well, the same thing had happened to me, and friends had pointed it out. Presumably the same thing had happened to them, and friends had pointed it out. I had become more aware of it most particularly after seeing the DVD “The Secret.”

So my friend Rich was reminded because I had been reminded because others had been reminded. This is something small that we can do for each other — something small that may result in something big. Probably it would be a good idea for us to remember to do it more often.

Part three. The target pool

Can you pick the photo that best matches my remote viewing? None of these pictures looks much like the Alamo to me! And yet, concentrating on what I had perceived — as revealed in my sketches, rather than in the story I attached to them — the judges were able to pretty easily conclude what it was I had perceived, however little I had been able to put it back together.

I was not privy to the deliberations or reasoning of the judges (ordinarily a viewer never gets to see the other three photos in the target pool) but I would make a small bet that they were able to eliminate one of the photos pretty quickly.

My next posting will show the picture that had been my target, and I think you will agree that this particular picture is the only one containing most of the elements I described.

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When we are moved to do things and don’t know why we are moved to do them, surely we should at least consider doing them! Particularly if no harm is likely to come from it. This is the voice of other parts of us, nudging us. Do we have any reason at all to resist opening the connection?

[November 27, 2005]