One thing that used to make me despair, nearly: A person will spend a lifetime — months, years, finally accumulated decades of time — learning a subject, going into detail, absorbing unsuspected connections and nuances, penetrating deeper and deeper into the meaning that the subject represents as a metaphor for the whole of life — and then he or she will die, and all that labor of building and holding mental connections ends in collapse and dissolution. So what’s the use?

When we realize that we do not cease to exist, that the mind that we shape continues to function and may be used more surely and accurately and accessibly than ever, then not only was nothing lost, much was gained. Truly, as Henry Thoreau said, you can’t kill time without injuring eternity. It is literally true.

 Session ten of ten continued

 Friday, November 17, 2000

[In focus 23, by request]

F: [pause] Strong clamping band around my head. [pause] Standing on a stairway or an entryway, just watching the people go by, a lot of ‘em, constantly. Like in a big convention center. [pause] They’ve all got their own thoughts, so they’re all in their own world. [pause] There’s come analogy here to the present that we were talking about. They all experience their own world, thinking it’s objectively there, and it sort of is. It sort of is because it’s a group projection, and for any one of the group it looks objectively there. [pause] “As with us,” they say. And as I said that, my feet – my legs are now burning hot. My lower legs. And now icy. (more…)

Some while ago I had this exchange with my friend John King that seems worth passing along, because it applies not just to him and me, but to us all.

It started with him quoting something I said in a blog:

> What was true for him is true for us. We don’t necessarily know what we are here to do. Maybe the work of someone you have helped will become so important to the world that your help will be seen as the most important thing you did in your life. It’s a funny thought, for if true, probably you will never know it. (more…)

“And I thought sitting up awake in the African night that I knew nothing about the soul at all. People were always talking about it and writing of it, but who knew about it? I did not know anyone who knew anything of it nor whether there was such a thing…. Once I had thought my own soul had been blown out of me when I was a boy and then that it had come back in again. But in those days I was very egotistical and I had heard so much talk about the soul and read so much about it that I assumed that I had one. Then I began to think if Miss Mary or G.C. or Ngui or Charo or I had been killed by the lion would our souls have flown off somewhere? I could not believe it and I thought that we would all just have been dead, deader than the lion perhaps, and no one was worrying about his soul….

“But what did this have to do with `In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning?’ Did Miss Mary and GC have souls? They had no religious beliefs as far as I knew. But if people had souls they must have them. Charo was a very devout Muhammadan so we must credit him with a soul. That left only Ngui and me and the lion.” (pp. 172-173)

This long quotation is from True at First Light, a posthumously published work of Ernest Hemingway that was extensively edited (put together, I gather, or rather, culled) by his son Patrick. And that’s what Papa thought, late in his life, about the soul: It couldn’t be proved, it probably didn’t exist, maybe it depended on whether one believed in it or not. (more…)

Session ten of ten

Friday, November 17, 2000

Background

For this session only, Skip video-taped the monitor so I could see later what was going on real-time rather than only in the summary graph. I went into the session without any change in intent, still ready to receive whatever they had to give; still receptive to, and confident in, and trusting of, Guidance. I told him I hoped they would bring the series to some sort of closure, but wouldn’t be surprised if they didn’t, just because I half-expected it. (-:

It seems a long way from where we were when we began this series, 11 weeks ago. (more…)

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Session nine of ten

[continuing]

[after long pause]

For heaven’s sakes! This is the living body maps, but more powerful. [pause] I’m either jumping to conclusions or I’m being prompted; I think this will help psychological problems too. I think one can fix their emotional and mental and physical and their energy level bodies – I think we can do that ourselves, starting from moving to the base chakra and going to 12. I have all kinds of back pains in specific places, and I’m becoming – underneath what I’m talking about – I’m aware of them and I can – smooth them. I don’t know how else to say it. It enters my awareness, and I rather want it corrected, and it corrects. [pause] The thing I didn’t report is that immediately I had said about the potential of it, it felt like my stomach – since I’m lying on my back – it’s like it came in about half an inch or an inch; it like collapsed down. It felt like something that had been held, was released. [pause] I’m losing that focus in there, I’ve got to get it back again. [pause] (more…)

[For those who came in late: We think of the dead as gone, but it is not so.  Their souls live on, as alive as when they were here, but now outside of time and space. When we communicate with them, they know what we know, and can react to that knowledge as they might have reacted to anything that happened while they were on this side. And so we can communicate with them about the things in our life, and get the benefit of viewpoints formed in very different environments of space and time.

[How reliable the messages we receive seems  to depend a lot on our ability to keep our own ego out of it, and no doubt upon other things that vary our ability to receive from one moment to the next. Those looking for certainty won't find it here. But the question is less "Can this be proven" than "Does this information resonate?"

[In this context, I present a little conversation with Hemingway about the English opera singer who just burst upon the scene via a talent contest.] (more…)

Session nine of ten

Friday, November 10, 2000

The session

[I began resonant tuning as soon as I was alone in the box, which Skip heard when he got back to the control panel and donned his earphones.]

S: All right, we’ll move right on to focus 10 then. [pause] Take your time, deepen your focus 10 more and more, and when you’re ready. describe your experience of focus 10.

F: They’ve been building the crystal for a couple of minutes now. It’s about halfway up my shins. Either that, or your air conditioner’s on overtime. [pause]

I’m attempting to be inside of the cold, and welcome it and bring it up. [pause] (more…)

Do you know about Paul Potts?

English television has a show called “Britain’s Got Talent” that, I gather, is produced once a year. Something like the old Ted Mack’s Amateur Hour, it offers people a chance at national recognition. Various acts audition, compete in semi-finals, are voted into the finals, and then are chosen on the basis of call-ins from the audience. The producers of the show claimed to have received more than 2 million votes.

Unlike the days of Ted Mack, when a show missed was missed forever, this is the Internet age (or the beginnings of it, anyway) and millions of people who don’t watch British television — or, in my case, any television — got to see the performance of Paul Potts because people taped it and put it on to YouTube, and then uncounted others passed the link on to their friends and said, “you really should hear this.” (more…)