"I of my own knowledge…"

Thursday, November 10, 2011

6 AM, nearly. All right, I’m here. [Psychic] Katherine[Rone] said my higher self is mad at me for not listening. I am listening at least at this moment, so please do tell me what I need to hear.

You don’t need to sacrifice your own well-being for the sake of concentrating on your message. In fact, your message can be undercut by contradiction to the message your life itself communicates.

For instance. If you were foolish and financially incompetent and malicious and petty and — add up a list yourself — that would be true and would be seen to be true regardless of whatever you said or advocated; regardless of any true message you might bring forth.

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This 1.5 minute clip is wonderful! Not, at all, a self-consciously “inspirational” clip, but if it doesn’t set up your day, I don’t know why, maybe you’re dead.

http://www.wimp.com/flybird/

If the download falls behind the play, just pause it a few seconds. (I go back to the beginning and start again.) Truly wonderful, via wimp.com

Papa, I can see that my work is being sabotaged by my own self-doubt. (Is it really Hemingway online? Will anybody believe it? If they do, will they care? If they would, can I put the material into an enjoyable, accessible format? Etc.)

How would you expect to avoid such doubts? That’s part of the territory. You know the writer’s three fears.

I do. I have nothing to say, I can’t say it, nobody would care anyway.

Well, if you know they are common fears, why give it to them when they visit you? Or dwell within you, if that’s the case?

It takes a monumental self-confidence, it seems to me, to be so sure that what you’re doing is worthwhile and can be done.

Yes, or courage to do it without being sure.

All right. Sort of like me working on the novel, not really knowing how I’m going to do it, not having any surer footing — at all — in what I am doing now.

So? That’s part of the admission ticket.

This month’s column in The Meta Arts magazine. (If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you read this here a while ago.) It’s always a question: Among the competing demands on our  time, how can we tell which are legitimate demands for us? Naturally, the guys upstairs had an opinion.

http://www.themetaarts.com/pages/frankdemarco.html

Last August, , in a talk with Whitley Strieber, I said the mind could travel in time but the body couldn’t. In response, his wife Anne sent me an e-mail link to his description of two instances in which he apparently time-slipped to another century, and was told if he did anything he’d wind up there permanently. I thought, I’d better ask the guys. So, on Wednesday, August 31, 2011, I did.

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