"I of my own knowledge…"

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

6:30 AM. Life between entries is becoming more or less a blank, accomplishing most necessary things — not all — and waiting for the next session. Very aware of not working.

Okay, proceed. Tempted to say, “chastise away,” but don’t want to interrupt the flow of such good material.

The next analogy to consider is at a lower level. Just as it is true that a person-group may be considered one thread of a larger organism, [which is] a person-group of its own, so it is true that each thread — each trait — of your own may be considered a person-group of its own at a lower level. And of course all of this will need to be spelled out — or hinted at, really, as we must proceed mostly by analogy. It remains true that we are attempting to convey information that cannot be expressed directly in words.

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Tuesday, August 24, 2010

6:30 AM. Open for business — if somewhat later than usual. Our spiritual heredity?

The temptation here will be to retreat into cliché or evasive generality, which we suggest is what Rita Warren experienced in questioning people in the black box. But they had only a short time to concentrate; it is natural.

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Monday, August 23, 2010

7 AM. I had to go back to Saturday’s material to remember where we were. For good and sufficient reasons, I have felt unable to do any of the work I had started doing in making notes and thereby making lists.

And in the absence of questions, and in the absence of a continuation of our line of explanation, you find yourself dependent upon us for continuity. If we were blank this morning, if you couldn’t hear our prompting, where would you be? We mean this not as any form of chastisement but as observation on the process — for you, for others. One effect is to loosen your connection to the material at the moment. Another is to tempt you to discouragement. A third, the most potentially disruptive, is to tempt you to put off working until another day.

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Saturday, August 21, 2010

4:30 AM. Must be getting close to entering Virgo. Nights are noticeably longer.

Yesterday we did two shamanic journeys — Nancy, Dave, Linda and I. in the first, my message seemed to be, take the experience itself of flying itself — enjoy the ride. In the second, it was a long portrayal of downstairs life — pointless, empty, boring, solitary. I didn’t think to put the two together in that way until now.

We three took a walk to the lake, and a paddle on the lake, between the time Linda and Dave came in from RMR and the time Nancy arrived. My legs can feel it this morning, though. Enjoyable but I’m so far out of shape. I concede, I’d feel better if I did it regularly.

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Friday, August 20, 2010

6:15 AM. A little hard to get moving today.

Remember to balance. You observed the exhaustion in your son-in-law’s eyes from work and child and too little sleep. Your life is easier than his — but you are older, too. So, be wary of disregarding balance, in your anxiety to press ahead. No, not anxiety, exactly, but anyway your continued enthusiasm and avid interest and deep satisfaction. Any of these might tempt a person into imbalance; together they are a powerful lure.

It isn’t much different from Hemingway in the middle of writing a book, I imagine.

No, quite wrong. He tried to balance every day. You do that mentally but not physically.

All right, I’m trying to be careful. And I just got that (of course) this is as much for the benefit of those who can overhear us as for myself.

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Thursday, August 19, 2010

12:30 AM. Unable to sleep longer, might as well use the time.

You were going to replace “threads and rings” with a more animated concept, one not so static or mechanical. Up to the task at the moment?

We shall see, won’t we? For of course it depends more on your calmness and absence of mental chatter and emotional anxiety than on any variables on our side.

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Tuesday, August 17, 2010

5:30 AM. All right, let’s talk more about threads.

We are proceeding in a straight-line direction. First we showed that you as individuals aren’t individual in any meaningful description — despite how a life feels separate, often alone. Then we showed that — as in so many things — it isn’t significantly different on this side. Despite popular mythology of many kinds, there aren’t the individuals on this end that you may be tempted to think us, any more than on your side. All this, though, certainly should raise the question in your minds — where is the continuity among so much flow? Where is the source of the feeling of individuality that is an inseparable part of life? Further questions should include that of traditional religious belief — how is it that people have believed in reincarnation or in judgment followed by heaven or hell, if we are not individuals in the way such ideas seem to require?

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Monday, August 16, 2010

6 AM. In the middle of the night I had a thought — or the thought had me — that we could talk about the process of increasing access to guidance, once people know that it is indeed possible. That is, not the process of convincing anybody, but a mental attitude that would facilitate it.

Without censure — if you had re-read yesterday’s work, you’d see that we could just proceed from there.

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Sunday, August 15, 2010

5 AM. V-J Day 65 years ago. Not a simpler world then, although we tend to think so, but a very different one. What a long, long way toward global integration and disintegration we have come since that time. The coming of the Internet alone is a revolution upon a revolution upon a revolution. Television, satellite links, facsimile machines, international corporations, cell phones — just the revolution in communications alone could fill pages, detailing the rewiring of the global brain.

Back on January 15, 2006, I had an interesting exchange with the guys, in which I — well, I’ll just copy the text from my files.

[On January 14, 2006, the guys said, “Now, let us connect a couple of dots. When is it Joseph and when is it `the guys’ and what makes for the shift and what if anything does the shift imply.” I put them off, feeling it was too much to deal with at the moment, but returned to it the next day:]

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Saturday, August 14, 2010

4:30 AM. Finished making notes, and noting themes, through January 2006. Tremendous amount of work to do yet.

I have two alternate questions, but am open to suggestion.

The question from Jim and Carol is a good one to address.

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