"I of my own knowledge…"

As we get toward the end of the year, I sometimes re-read my journals to see how I spend it. A major part of “how I spent it” for me is  less what I was doing than what I was thinking about — or what (or who) I was communicating with. This, from last January, proved to be of interest.

Sunday, January 30, 2011

7:30 AM. So, I am very aware that I went to the Florida Keys as an indirect result of some restlessness within me saying that my accustomed way of living had become unsatisfactory. I am equally aware that I am having to avoid temptations — a crossword puzzle, a Nero Wolfe, any of a number of possibilities — rather than slow down enough to do this. Commentary?

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This month’s column in The Meta Arts is the first of three on the subject of talking to the guys on the other side of the veil between physical and non-physical. It’s a process that I often say is “easier done than said,” yet it has its interesting quirks.

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

My friend Gordon Phinn writes an interesting blog,  http://anotherwordofgord.wordpress.com/ and in today’s entry he touches on the issue of reincarnation. If you’ve read either The Sphere and the Hologram or The Cosmic Internet, you’ll know that my views on reincarnation, as shaped by what the guys have been telling me, don’t match the common view. But Gordon has a lot of experience, and you’ll find his views worth considering.

Reader Dave Stephens posted a long reply to my “Tapping Into the Cosmic Internet” entry, and  asked questions that were sufficiently interesting that I asked, and got, his permission to post them here as a separate post, since not everybody reads the comments people send.

I started to reply, then realized that I didn’t know what to say. Of course, the obvious answer was to let the guys speak for themselves, so that’s what I will do, with my initial comments inserted within brackets [like this], and theirs at the end.

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I haven’t forgotten that the over-arching question underlying this blog is, “What is the meaning of life?” Although it may seem sometimes as if the matters I pursue here are merely of personal interest, I suggest that the underlying question is always there, and is important to us all, at one level or another.

This particular entry was written while I was visiting England four years ago. I had just bought and read Michael Reynolds’ The Young Hemingway.

This entry begins with my addressing Hemingway and ends with the guys on the other end of the line prodding me to do something I was reluctant to undertake. (Exposing my own shortcomings may be a way to make real what otherwise might remain only abstraction. Consider it my gift to you.) I feel like the writing and publication of The Cosmic Internet is partial fulfillment of this commitment.

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Today (Saturday, June 18, 2011) I had the pleasure of speaking about “The Cosmic Internet” to about 40 people of the Central Virginia chapter of Institute of Noetic Sciences, in Richmond.

My friends Dave Garland and Linda Rogers accompanied me and staffed a table offering  my six books for sale, and in general offered  moral support. In fact, Dave drove, and also recorded the talk. (Then, following the talk, we drove them to The Monroe Institute to begin a residential program.)

As I say, it was a pleasure, because it is always a pleasure to speak about something you care deeply about, to an intelligent audience that also cares about such things.

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If I had the time and energy, and were scholar enough, I would write a history of the 20th century as the century of the great war about God. It has reached end-game status in our time, I think. Those who believe in God and those who believe in No-God stand and glare at each other, no more able to find common ground than those entangled in our toxic political culture, and for much the same reason. Those in the middle, seeing some valid points being made on each side, experience the usual fate of people who can see with more than one eye: They are ignored, or are attacked  by both sides.

This is one reason I wrote The Cosmic Internet, or rather, this may be one reason the material in the book was given me by the guys upstairs. Our time is desperately in need of an intellectually respectable vision of the afterlife.

In the absence of such a revisioning, it is damned hard to make progress, because people talk right past each other. For instance, Swiss psychologist Carl Jung, in an interview with English journalist Frederick Sands in 1955, said among other things the following:

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That’s the title of my June column for the online magazine The Meta Arts. You can read it by clicking here: http://www.themetaarts.com/pages/frankdemarco.html

[It is reassuring to me to see that the material I have been obtaining from the guys upstairs over so long a time remains consistent. It’s one thing to trust the process when reading about Jane Roberts or Edgar Cayce doing it. It’s another thing entirely – which comes laden with anxiety! – to be doing it yourself. A friend is putting together an e-book version of The Sphere and the Hologram, and in looking over his rendition I was struck by these two extracts that were written in 1997 and 1998. Still true, still appropriate to our situation. Everything in The Cosmic Internet was built upon these foundations, it seems to me. ]

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I’m very pleased to announce that I’m going to be talking about The Cosmic Internet on “Coast to Coast AM”  with George Noory. This should introduce a lot of people to the ideas behind the book, and, assuming that I don’t make a total fool of myself, should provide us with the fast start that is so helpful in making a book a success. Let’s hope it is only the first piece of good news in a long string.

Air time is

Pacific time: 11 p.m. May 31 to 2 a.m. June 1.

Eastern time: 2-5 a.m. June 1.

Not prime commuting time, but this show is very popular, and has been since back when it was the Art Bell show.

I am well aware that I owe this to the efficient efforts and widespread professional contacts of  Sara Sgarlat of Sgarlat Publicity. If you’ve got a book to publicize, she’s the one to go to. (She’s also a former Hampton Roads Publishing company employee; what other endorsement do you need?)