Session seven of ten continued

Friday, October 27, 2000

S: Mm-hmm. Let’s try just absorbing the kinesthetic side of the house for a while. Stop talking for a minute and just kind of unity/become one with this energy.

F: Okay. [pause] [sigh] [pause] I’ll tell you one thing it does; it emphasizes that I feel well otherwise. [pause]

It’s all on the inside of the knee, and then on the outside of the shin. It’s both a very intense cold and a very sharp pain in the knee. [pause] But everything else feels very pleasant and warm and – I don’t know how to – healthy. [pause] I’m going to try to going into that space where the knee is. [pause]

[sigh] [pause] (more…)

Did you ever wonder why it is that Jesus could perform miracles and you can’t, even though he specifically told his disciples that they (and presumably others) would do greater things than he had done? Why are you unable to performing miracles? Or – are you?

This is a chapter from an unpublished manuscript of mine on health and healing.

Chapter 5. Intuitive knowing

Everything we need to know to heal ourselves or to help others to heal themselves is to be found in the world’s scriptures. That’s why they were put there. This shouldn’t be a surprise. What should be a surprise is how little we use what we have been given.

An old joke says that the churches are filled with Christians who want to go to heaven, but don’t want to die to get there. What if they are misunderstanding what Jesus meant? Jesus said that “the kingdom of God is within you.” That doesn’t sound much like “wait till you’re dead and hope you get to heaven.” Similarly, Jesus said, “I have come that you may have life and have it more abundantly.” I think he meant “life more abundantly” not merely after we die, but now. (more…)

Session seven of ten

Friday, October 27, 2000

Background

[The sickness continues to permutate, mostly unnoted here. Wednesday night, I had a headache all night, and threw up dinner soon after eating it. My teeth hurt sporadically. But Wednesday and Thursday nights I slept pretty well, and Thursday morning I felt more or less well for the first time in – a long time. Skip said I looked better, said I had a sparkle in my eyes again. And that’s how it felt. There will be more to come here, later.

[Before the recording started, I said, “I bet I cross the null point today.”] (more…)

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Session six of ten (continued)

S: Extend now to 21 and examine the heart-space.

F: There’s something specific about my right – um, leg? – down by the ankle. Because that’s always where the cold comes first, and the strongest, like a pain right now. Something – I don’t know. [yawn] Wherever we’ve come to is very – uh, cold. Very – It’s strong energy, to feel that cold. [pause] Again, my right foot and my right leg are just dying of cold. (more…)

9:30 a.m. Sunday March 12, 2006

All right, friends, I am going to be working on the assumption that I am working on a book about guidance – sort of not realizing it – this past 15 years, not to say 40. As Henry sat at Walden accumulating the wisdom and experience that became Walden, he thought he was doing something entirely different, at first, which was writing A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, which wasn’t nearly so important. And perhaps I have been doing the same. So – comments, suggestions? Oh, and what was going on Friday night/ Saturday morning?

You understand me instinctively in the same way you understood Colin Wilson, and the result is that our consciousnesses and yours are linked in ways unsuspected by the outside world. Walden is a finished product, and could never be changed now because too many minds link to it, and share their being with it. But I live, and I am affected, as are we all by each other. (more…)

My recurrent theme here is, “learn it for yourself.” As long as you’re taking someone else’s word for something, you don’t know.  Even if they are reliable, even if they are great reporters, even if they are experts in their field, and even if God almighty were to assure you that they were right in every particular, unless and until you experience it yourself, you won’t know. Belief is a valuable halfway point between not-knowing and knowing,  but that is all it is. We believe because we do not yet know.

That’s not to say that everything we  would like to know can necessarily be known. I have resigned myself to the fact that I am going to die ignorant, as are we all. But perhaps we can learn the things that are most important to us. That seems the logical place to put our effort, anyway.

My friend Richard has absorbed experience that includes Monroe Institute techniques and, more recently, the shamanistic techniques taught by Hank Wesselman. Richard has his own blog, “The Sacred Path” — http://thesacredpath.wordpress.com/ — which is well worth your time.  I mention him here because of his most recent post,  “The Power of Intent and Commitment.” No point in my summarizing it for you when you can go to his site, which I highly recommend.

Yes, it’s still second-hand. Reading and understanding and believing are not the same thing as the knowing that can only come from first-hand experience. But, like faith, other people’s testimony may serve to keep the spark alive against the time when first-hand knowledge is to be obtained. That’s what this site is about too.

I am very pleased to report that the month of June marks my first monthly column in The Meta Arts, an online magazine published monthly “for the metaphysical, spiritual, and healing communities.”

Here I find myself in very distinguished company, not least my friend Hank Wesselman, anthropologist turned shaman, author of the Spiritwalker trilogy.

My column has the same title as this blog — “I of my own knowledge…” — and the same message: Our culture does not and cannot provide a reliable and definitive guide to reality, so we are required to explore the testimony of others and – mostly – to find out from first-hand experience what is real and what is illusion.

This is a particularly classy site, as you will discover by clicking on http://www.themetaarts.com/.

Its welcoming message says:

“Come explore! Discover, learn, and grow from fascinating articles, columns, and special features devoted specifically to the metaphysical, spiritual, and healing communities. Each issue features the information and resources you have been searching for. You’ll find internationally acclaimed and noted Psychics, Tarot Readers, Astrologers, Theologians, Philosophers, Healers, and professional practitioners of every metaphysical belief system and discipline. You’ll find something fascinating and new everyday to intrigue and inspire.

”Serious students, novices, as well as professionals, will enjoy the concentration of in-depth information in the “Special Topic” sections, as well as the insights provided by the gifted experts who share their wealth of knowledge in the Columns and Other Features sections.

”The Meta Arts Magazine provides a spiritual feast for the soul to deepen understanding, and nourish spiritual growth. Come learn and grow with us!”

Do come visit.

Session six of ten (continued)

Friday, October 20, 2000

Well, I don’t know. [long pause] The image of a triangle. [pause] Maybe it’s a pyramid. [cough] Of course I think Hampton Roads when I see pyramid. [long pause] Maybe we should move up a little. Maybe 15?

S: Very good. (more…)