"I of my own knowledge…"

November 29, 2001

R: A couple of questions from others this evening. One question refers to ideas that have come up in previous sessions. The first is that “all the preparation work has been done so that you’re now as a species ready to move to the next level.” And then a later discussion about how few people there are who are aware of interactions with guidance and even fewer aware of connections to other lifetimes. She asks whether there’s a contradiction here…

F: Yes and we see why she thinks so, and oddly enough it’s the same old story, it’s the seeing it in time slices. What is “now” to us is not exactly “now” to you. It’s the difference between taking ten years as “now” and taking only this afternoon as “now.” What we mean by the first statement is, you’re ready to take the leap. That doesn’t mean you’re in the air. It doesn’t even mean you have one foot off the ground exactly. But you’re ready to take the leap, right now. But — if you’re ready to take the leap, that means you haven’t taken the leap.

And where you are now is, that most people are not in connection with guidance. As they get in connection with guidance they’ll be taking the leap. So if you look at humanity over the course of a million years, and you say “now you’re in the last hundred years, ten years, thousand years,” you know, what “now” is would depend on your scale. To us “now” is the moment of application. This particular time slices, where you are, is your moment of application. of course.

Even this is almost incommunicable, because every time-slice is your moment of application, and you’re in every time slice. But it doesn’t seem like it to you, so it makes a little difficult to talk about it. (more…)

Yesterday I put all the 2001-2002 TGU sessions together into one file, which can function as a searchable data base. It occurred to me this morning that this may be as useful to others as to myself. If you’d like to have a copy of the file, send an email to muddytracks@earthlink.net. The only conditions of use are that you not publish the material, nor make any commercial use of it, and that you not pass it around without explaining where you got it.

[continued from previous post]

R: Okay, this is another “return to” question. You said that you were about to get into deep water because you were looking for footprints of guidance for you and we were helping you do that. You said you found this puzzling and interesting. I’m not sure if the puzzle and interest were because we were helping you do it or because you were on your own, looking for footprints.

F: No, it wasn’t at all because you were helping us do it. We were very glad of that. It was puzzling and interesting because it was a degree of introspection that on the one hand we’re not accustomed to exercise, and on the other hand weren’t even aware that we weren’t accustomed to exercise. And our own thinking has clarified as we’ve engaged in this process. It’s really a wonderful thing. It’s remarkable to have the fireworks answering you. At this point it’s almost inconceivable that we didn’t always see it this way. The answer presumably is that lots of other parts of us did, but this particular cluster did not. But it’s so obvious now that we are monads, and as monads obviously there’s another level of complexity which would by nature not even be able not to direct us, guide us, impel us.

That is, just as there are individuals at your level who do no introspecting and are therefore unaware of the guidance that comes to them even from their own conscience, let alone other levels of their being, it is still relatively rare for people to be aware that they are interacting with other levels of themselves in other lifetimes. It is somewhat less rare for people to be aware that they are interacting with a form of guidance which whether they call it God or their guardian angels or their higher self, whatever they call it – many more people know that. But probably a majority of people in the west are unaware of this. And this is of course what makes their life so difficult. (more…)

November 20, 2001

R: Frank seems to have had a really good time at this conference he’s been to. [This was a Prophets Conference held in the Florida Keys the previous weekend.] 

F: As we did too.

R: Is there anything that occurred that he didn’t take note of that would worth mentioning?

F: Good question. Very good question. The kind of question you might ask every so often. We’ve encouraged him to say “what am I forgetting to ask,” you know.

Actually, not a whole lot, because he lived very nearly all of the time consciously connected to us. Which is one of the reasons for the euphoria, if we may say so. If there were anything that we would call his attention to, it would be that there was still in him the tension between “what should I do, what could I do?” “What’s desirable, what’s possible?” — that kind of thing. But actually that’s really not worth mentioning, because every time the temptation came up he made the decision to say, “no, no I’ll trust.” And it’s the first time that he’s ever done it for such an extended period of time. There’s nothing he didn’t see that’s worth talking about. The question will be more in his living what he knows now. (more…)

This long thread originally appeared as eight posts between April 19 and May 3, 2007. I have put it back together to make it easier for readers to go through. I will probably do the same for other major threads.

Thu 19 Apr 2007

This long thread began with my request to my friends upstairs to help me tell people how to get into touch with guidance, at least as I personally have understood and experienced it. I shuddered to think of beginning an epidemic of Psychic’s Disease, but still it is no less dangerous for people to rely on external authority when they will have to choose which authority, not having any basis to do so! It amounts to them depending on their guidance to find a source of external guidance. Perhaps not so bad a plan, but not without its eccentric points.

[Wednesday, January 18, 2006]

So – friends – I don’t know quite what has been going on this past week – is it just a funk, or what? For whatever reason, I certainly haven’t done much work. I did note, yesterday, a decision point early on, when I picked up a John Sandford novel to finish re-reading it, rather than buckling down. And I suppose there was another, later in the day, when I picked up [Joshua Lawrence] Chamberlain’s The Passing of the Armies rather than work. A lot of reading as in the old days. I don’t much like it, though: It is as if I have a bad choice, of wasting time reading, or reading what may be worthwhile (Robert Johnson) but it’s still a diversion, or anyway killing time – or doing work that has lost its savor. I suppose the easy obvious answer is just to do the work – yet it can’t be that simple emotionally, or I would do it, ever if after some hesitation and delay.

That is right. People don’t do things without reasons – as we have often reminded you. But the reasons may be obscure to them; they may be contradictory, or self-defeating. Still, to turn the machine, find its mainspring.

Terrible metaphor.

You aren’t all that focused, for one thing. (more…)

[This was written in October, 2005, but seems as timely now as then.]

My friend Jim and I went to Gettysburg intending to help retrieve soldiers who may have died in the battle and remained fixed on earth. (Some souls who get killed may not realize that they are dead. Others may know that they are dead but may be essentially imprisoned by their beliefs about the afterlife, for instance thinking that they must lie in the grave waiting for the last trumpet and Judgment Day.) Drawing on our own experience at retrievals, we figured that we could help. We didn’t at first realize that as usual we were being employed – blunt instruments! – for greater purposes.

For those who came in late …. (more…)

[Continuing from yesterday’s post]

R: Okay. Changing the topic. We’ve talked about all sorts of phenomena like fairies and elves and werewolves and so on as phenomena that have been part of our cultural observations over the years, and one of the additional concepts, even more powerful, is that of Satan. And we have satanic cults operating. I guess you could say we have god cults operating, too, as churches.

F: Mm-hmm. And the symmetry is not accidental.

R: So we have issues like God versus the dark angels in the last chapter of the Bible. And I wonder if you could comment some on these concepts.

F: Well, we’ve given you probably all the clues you need, actually. If you go back to the concept of all pluses or all minuses are impossible, that is to say, an imbalance is impossible, that there have to be as many pluses as minuses. What is Satan and what is God, after all, but the localized congregation of pluses on one side and minuses on another side? Now, in so saying, we’re not talking about God meaning the ultimate source of life or what is above creation, because you don’t have any first-hand knowledge of that anyway. Neither do we. But in terms of good versus evil, that really says it all.

Now, we need to say this carefully. It could happen that as your pluses congregate, your minuses congregate, and you wind up with a more and more clear-cut antagonism, civil war down the middle. However, it could happen that one side will congregate whereas the others remain diffuse. The totals are always going to balance, but some could be real intensely gathered and others, not as intense, cover a more widespread space. And some could congregate at some times, and others at other times. So that things could get worse and worse and worse from one point of view because the only way they could get worse and worse and worse from one is that the opposite ones are congregated at other times. (more…)

Prodded by a reader, i have begun to put Chasing Smallwood together into a form that can be emailed, so that you don’t have to go way back and read it moving backwards, so to speak.

If you want the first installment (parts 1-10 ) email me at muddytracks@earthlink.net and I’ll send as an attached file.

November 13, 2001

R: This is our 14^th session. We still have some questions around the concept of the amoeba. We want to make sure that our understanding is as complete as we can get it.

F: We’ll be glad to ask you questions if you like.

R: [chuckles] Frank noted, the other day, that maybe everyone he’s ever been close to was part of his amoeba. Is that a possibility?

F: Well of course, you know, we’ve been listening to your conversation, by definition. You and your readers are going to have very different ideas, and we want to express things in a way that will have the least chance of being misunderstood, which is difficult.

Yes, you could conceivably have all the inhabitants of the earth in one amoeba. We never meant to imply one amoeba to one person or one amoeba to a few people. But at the same time – it isn’t the case but it could be the case. As far as we know, there’s no theoretical limit to the number of space-time lives one amoeba could generate. You mustn’t think of us as being bound in bodies the way you are. Even the elastic ones.

At the same time, — [pause] we’ll back up a little more. (more…)

[continued from yesterday’s post]

R: Okay, I’ve been wanting to ask some more about duality. Our physical world seems to be wrapped in duality, and I have sometimes felt from your answers that duality seems to exist on the other side as well, but I’m not clear about that.

F: Oh, I think you’re very clear about that. It’s always a mistake to assume that the other side, as it looks to you, is perfect, or completed. When creation split things into duality, in order to create something, it didn’t only happen on the material realm. If you’ll look at your bible, you have the good and the bad angels, or at any rate the angels that fought. Well, that’s a duality well beyond the physical. And don’t get your hopes up, once you go over to the other side it’s not all over. [chuckles]

R: I though it was all going to be love, because love has no opposite!

F: Uh huh.

R: [pause] You don’t want to respond to that?

F: Oh, well, we will if you want! It didn’t sound like a question!

R: [laughs]

F: Well, why isn’t that true for where you are?

R: Well that is true—

F: All right.

R: — but there are a couple of concepts that seem like they don’t have a dual aspect. Love is one of them. (more…)