"I of my own knowledge…"

One of my altered-state conversations with Joseph Smallwood, an American of the 1800s, contained this description of Abraham Lincoln’s persuasive powers as part of a discussion of how everyone sees the world differently. As usual, sentences in italics are mine, those in Roman are Joseph’s.

[December 27, 2005]

Your mental processes furnish the analogies, always. That’s what they do. What somebody sets in front of you is one thing. The connections it suggests is a different thing. That is why three people looking at the same thing not only have their different opinions about it among them—they each are in their own world about it in a way. They each think about other things that suggest themselves. So you can see how rich this makes things. You take a thousand men surviving a battle, or even a hard winter, and they will each one of them have been associating it with stuff from their past before that – and not just in that lifetime, either! Everything they are is affected by everything that happens to every part of them. You think that’s simple?

It ain’t that it’s hard to understand how disagreements arise. It is more surprising when any two people see things the same! That’s why if you want to persuade people, you have to do it with pictures. And that was Mr. Lincoln’s specialty.

Now, don’t fight me on this, and you might learn something. State your objections so we get it on the record, so to speak. (more…)

In the fall of 2001, as Rita Warren and I were doing weekly sessions with The Guys Upstairs, I was transcribing each week’s session and posting them to a mailing list of people interested in Monroe Institute type topics. In time, some began proposing questions for us to ask the guys. At the end of October, a few weeks after the September 11 incident, one asked a series of related questions, asking what the guys knew about the reptilian agenda, the 13 Illuminati bloodlines, control of humans by chloride, chemtrails, injection of minute computer chips by flu injections, the building of prisons and concentration camps throughout the United States for people after martial law is declared, and FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency officially tasked with coordinating response to disasters such as hurricanes, but suspected by some of having another agenda.The guys responded, more or less, “nothing” — and then went on to what Rita and I thought was a very important and illuminating answer.

F: Now, let us really get down to this. This is going to take a little bit, but it’s very worthwhile We began by telling you that this is quite disturbing material, and not many people are going to like it, necessarily. Which is bothering Frank, you see.

R: Mm-hmm.

F: [pause] When a person who is idealistic, or even decent – using good and evil terms, but we need to use them for the moment – when a good and decent person sees what to them appears evil, it is very natural for them to oppose the evil. That’s the nature of things. (more…)

More than one person has pointed out that the TGU material can be a bit daunting. From time to time I intend to pull out particularly interesting or important material to let it be more easily found. This is from a session on October 9, 2001, in response to a question from someone who had been reading previous transcripts.

Exercises for Spiritual Advancement

Rita Warren: Well, here’s an easy one. A question from the same person.

F: We’d like to know what an easy question is. It’ll be interesting to see this.

R: [chuckles] What would you recommend as the five best exercises for spiritual advancement?

F: [pause] Not an easy one, but it’s an awfully good one. (more…)

My friend Richard’s blog, The Sacred Path  (http://thesacredpath.wordpress.com/) features a post by him on The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events, one of the Seth books.

Are you familiar with the Seth books by Jane Roberts? Read Richard’s entry for an easy introduction. Well worth reading.

An excerpt from the TGU material (one of the 2004 black box sessions) that may be of interest:

Rita: Yes. It raises the question about whether human life is just a casual side-process, byproduct, of some other things that are going on, or is this the true purpose of the whole chain that you’re talking about.

Frank: Well – to us that’s a meaningless distinction. We don’t know what a by-process would be, as opposed to a primary result. Because, what is, is. You have a human – or I should say you have a space-time – tendency to say “this is important and that is unimportant,” or “this is primary and that is secondary,” or “this is trivial, you said, and this is essential.” And we can’t see things that way. The motion through time – going from one time-slice to another — tends to tempt you to prioritize moment by moment. That’s not the kind of temptation that we have. (more…)

Another excerpt from the TGU material posted here, this from one of the 2004 black box sessions, one of a series of questions submitted by others.

Rita: You’ve said that Frank is part of your mind; that’s one of the quotes from last week. What is this role that you play? Can that be specified? As opposed to the role Frank plays, which we understand to be an attempt to voice your ideas. Can you speak about what parts you play in your relationship with Frank.

Frank: Sure. We gave an image a long time ago to him in the black box. He was in 27, paddling a canoe on a river, just for fun, and found that he couldn’t keep his perspective at canoe level. It kept popping way up in the air, and looking down on the canoe and the canoer, and then going back to the canoe and back and forth. And that was just our way of showing just what you’re asking. The person in 3D experiences everything immediately and vitally. The person outside of 3D experiences everything in a non-time-space perspective. So you might look at it is, the part of yourself that’s outside of 3D holds the page and keeps perspective, remembers what the game is all about, and gives off helpful hints as well as receives feedback. The part of you that’s in 3D is there specifically to not remember the perspective, but to react immediately to the life. Now, what we’re saying “immediately” may mean to you 80, 100 years, but it’s “immediately” in terms of it’s confined to that life. (more…)

“Science” is to our time what “the church” was to pre-Reformation Europe. It assumes itself to be the ultimate authority; it has privileged access to funding, it has the ear of the powerful — and it is as corruptible and fallible as any other human institution. Where is the Martin Luther who will begin to liberate us from this new form of intellectual oppression? No human institution can long survive unscathed if it once begins to borrow the prestige and authority of the reality it is attempting to interpret, as though the institution itself were the thing and the underlying reality merely information. This column comes from the Wall Street Journal, home of dismal, reactionary editorials and outstandingly excellent journalism. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118972683557627104.html

SCIENCE JOURNAL

by Robert Lee Hotz

Most Science Studies Appear to Be Tainted By Sloppy Analysis
September 14, 2007

We all make mistakes and, if you believe medical scholar John Ioannidis, scientists make more than their fair share. By his calculations, most published research findings are wrong.

Dr. Ioannidis is an epidemiologist who studies research methods at the University of Ioannina School of Medicine in Greece and Tufts University in Medford, Mass. In a series of influential analytical reports, he has documented how, in thousands of peer-reviewed research papers published every year, there may be so much less than meets the eye.

(more…)

I encourage you to dip into the various TGU sessions that I transcribed and entered here. It is a wealth of material, with gems repeatedly turning up unexpectedly. Here’s a “fer instance”: In a few short lines, the question of relevance, the introduction of the concept of the Living Present and the Dead Present, and the aliveness of all matter, including plastic.

Rita: All right. I don’t want to ask questions that are trivial and not worthwhile in terms of the general themes, but as I read over our last sessions, things occur to me to ask about. If these questions are too distracting from the way we should be going, just let me know.

Frank: Let’s have a word on that for the moment. We were puzzled when you said it, trying to figure out what a trivial question would be. Because, if the question is in the moment, it’s in the moment, and it can’t be –

Well, let’s see. Could it be?

Given your underlying intent, we don’t understand how a question could be trivial, but – we’re willing to be instructed. (more…)

Czech Matej Kus, 17, was banged on the head in a racing accident – and came to speaking perfect English

Czech speedway rider knocked out in crash wakes up speaking perfect English

When Matej Kus’s teammates heard him talking after he was knocked out in a speedway accident, they were relieved he was conscious.

But they were also a little surprised.

For although the 18-year- old Czech knew only the most basic English phrases, he was conversing fluently in the language with paramedics.

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If you would like me to send you a file containing the text of all ten black box sessions in 2004 (thus providing you with a sort of horseback searchable data base of the ten) send an email to muddytracks@earthlink.net