Dimensions

"Grey areas are no problem here. And why, in a world of color, do people want to see things as black or white. As the great philosopher once said, 'Go figure.' (7/26/2002 - I#55)

"Water. Why do we think of water as different than air. Both are mediums in which life exists. But what of other forms beyond air and water... and don't say 'earth and fire.' What about other expressions of mixed energy. Some would speak of ethers. Can you not perceive that energy in other solid forms might not also be the medium of some sustaining existence. Then why not energy just in energy form. Ha, that's us over here... but not him.

"Why the quick rush to assume only a physical basis for existence. Could it be the empirical nature. But who's to say what can be measured. Sandy, go measure our existence. Arrf... trot trot trot... ARF ARF ARF. Ok, good doggie. Ok, we now know that here is three ARFs long... and a tail, but the tail doesn't count. When you all can see that anything that can be thought of is measurable, you won't be so quick to be physical. And what are dimensions anyway but limits, and who wants them? 'I do!' No, you don't. 'Yes, I do.' Ok.

"People are scared of worlds without limits. Spirits are scared of ones with. A great tension... hi... high tension... hi, tension. Is such a tension one you can live with. If not, you really won't be living. At points of tension like that, we reveal boundaries of the worlds. That's a hint about how a sense of tension reveals more continuity than discontinuity. Where you sense conflict, there is always some level of contact. Where things seem to stand alone and beyond conflict, or even controversy, there is no contact. The only really sure things in your world are those which do not connect to larger meanings, and therefore are sure but meaningless. Ha, I wax elegantly. Now I polish.

"So, until we are one with All, tension will always reveal greater potential than certainty. That's it. I'm done. Turn me over. Whoa, I'm brown. Ponder." (8/4/2002 - I#56)

"Hi. I just got a job. I'm a bartender at this cool place. I'm the one with the hair... of the dog... actually, the whole pooch... ARF... among others. Did someone say refreshments.

"And as for me, I'm dead tired. It's ok, I'm not tired now. Now I am. Not now. All those peeps who want it all linear and in one direction. But hey, over here it's just chaos. Is chaos with meaning inherent really chaos? Does meaning automatically imply structure, hmmm. Does form always include meaning. Can you have meaning without form. Can you have meaning from meaning within form if you don't perceive the form. How many angels can dance... o wait... grrrrrrrr... how many fleas... snap. None, I guess.

"Do spirits have to have some manifestation to be real to you all. What if you physical types touched spirit-to-spirit to some spirit that was not, and would never be, physical. Can you feed yourself at a restaurant that is closed. I don't know. That's why I pose these ponderables. I do know, but I'm not saying now. Do spirits feel hugs? Let's try." (8/24/2002 - I#57)

"So, attendance at the Emerald is up. Thanks. Let's think about collective dreaming. It can be a group activity of shared experience, or it can be shared experiences of individual exploration. Huh. I 'splain.

"A group tour is the physical equivalent of a group dream; a group discussing their individual experiences in a common city is the other. One, the focus is on shared experience, and the other is about sharing experiences with common elements. So, the latter could be about details or feelings or process or whatever. Not everyone who shares Rome was there on the same day. Ok. But if everyone were, how would we get a table and a glass of wine?

"Just wanted to clear that up. Well, if they came by the pub, I'd tell them... but not all at once." (8/31/2002 - I#58)

"Sandy is sleeping--which is not to say physically sleeping, only that he's on a different psychic plane, but not with the temporal sleep crap. And you don't need a Serta ™ Serta, Inc. All rights reserved. Do not remove this tag under penalty of life." (8/31/2002 - I#59)

"One of the greatest threats to spiritual understanding is not when spiritual communication is... how do I say this... popular. Wait... what I'm trying to say is: general acceptance may do more harm than scoffing, because when it becomes part of the mainstream, too many people will want to make it concrete. All we don't need is dogmatic spiritualism. Better it stay fringe but open, than mainstream and closed. Acceptance, but not wholesale mindless adoption.

"The problem with anything that becomes a norm, is that it then stops being organic... unless we are talking about a guy named Norm, but I wasn't. Beware the dwarf, albino, and the mainstream." (9/20/2002 - I#60)

"Remember, dreams are portals, not snapshots. You pass through them, but do not capture them. If you focus on what you see, instead of where they take you, you miss the picture... hee hee. Dreams are not Kodak moments." (10/9/2002 - I#61)

"And so the sunrise illumines the shadowy secret... amazing! But the same sunrise that dissipates the shadows creates new shadows elsewhere. Only when the light shines from within all, will the shadows finally be gone. Just more light does not mean the end of shadows. Ponder that.

"It's a metaphor for spiritual complexity. Just because you see more, does not mean you stop seeing less." (10/13/2002 - I#62)

"You know, it's not darker in a shadow, really. It's just that somewhere else is brighter." (10/16/2002 - I#63)

"Pearl of wisdom 1: Sure! Pearl of wisdom 2: Don't be so sure! That covers it all.

"The questions of the future are still in the making. From here, you could go a multitude of directions. Things become certain only when they become certain--probability becomes higher, until it is 100% only after. It is not always about choice, as much as recognition. And we only have senses to recognise with, that we have opened.

"You can't see what you can't see. And you can't choose what does not appear to be a choice. For example, say you are choosing between Boston and Asheville and Kansas City. Do you realise your choice could be Tahiti. No, so you don't choose that, but why not. We don't recognise other choices because we just don't--some out of fear, some out of stupidity, some out of ignorance, and some just out of the picture we can see.

"Miracles are just options we didn't know existed. Sometimes we don't do it by trying to see them, but simply by opening our eyes wide, or taking off the blinders. If we seek a vision we don't have, we may miss the vision we need to see. If the focus is on the thing to be seen, and not the seeing, we may miss the gift of eternity." (11/2/2002 - I#64)

"So how come everyone thinks that when aliens arrive, they will be physical. With umpteen dimensions to exist in, why do they have to use our big three. Maybe they're already here... oooOOOooo... among you, unseen in other dimensions." (1/17/2003 - I#65)

"Will there ever be definitive proof of spirit communication. No, because if there were, you'd all have it together and move on, and some new entities would be taking your clueless places." (4/22/2003 - I#66)

"Sure, like a path without time and dimensions has a forward and back. And when you almost die there's lots of flowers, but when you die it's all creme pies! Or not. This insistence on objectification of spiritual realities is such a modern idea, but not a future one--everything as a physical model, even SP. And I remind you, the model I shared is only a way to talk about things beyond talk.

"So, Mr. Speaker, you say your experience was ineffable. Can you say more about that? Duh. And he went into such detail to convince himself. Maybe if it were just an apprehension, he wouldn't have believed. We have so bought proof as equal to evidence, but where's the faith? The greatest teachers have always relied on faith more than evidence. But the proof's in the pudding... and I'll take mocha.

"You could be a saint without portfolio, and that would not diminish your goodness." (12/14/2003 - I#67)

"Spiritual gang wars: see the ectoplasm fly. Sharp remarks take their toll, and hushed voices are menacing... oooOOOooo.

"Here's a little-known fact: While the living get into disputes about what the dead have told them, the dead never argue about what the living have heard. We know it is all analogy and metaphor... but not similes. So we are not the literalists, but certain folk are and they are the live ones.

"So, is it a tunnel or a target or an aura, yes! One of the learning points at this level is to not be defined by this level. And just when we get all excited that someone has gotten the message, wham they go all specific on us. For example, there is no perfect mantra, there is no magical prayer, light is just a euphemistic symbol for energy.

"So hey, give it up. Miss the forest for the trees, miss the Moo for the herd." (1/12/2004 - I#68)

"Do spirits dream? Yes, you bet your bippy. Since dreaming is a spiritual activity, we do. Even Sandy does... woof. Remember, whether here or there, we are parts of larger spiritual realities of which we get glimpses in our dreams.

"And dream interpretation is such a superficial thing. We interpret from what we know, and that's only a small fraction of what we dream. It would be like interpreting a trip to India based on living one's whole life in East Anglia. You'd miss a lot... and heaps... and more.

"Getting out of dreams what you recognize, is only looking back. Ok, I've said enough." (2/3/2004 - I#69)

"We had a spirited discussion. We talked about spirit... welll, actually we felt about spirit. Words are such a pain--so slow, so imprecise. You should hear spiriti (spirit poetry)--all meaning, no words. And it loses in translation.

"She wants to know: lemon or creme."

Tea lady: "Neither!?! You Yanks. The whole British lemon import trade would collapse. How else would we get our daily ration of coddled cream. Gives tea body."

"Isn't it interesting that when someone says something truly profound, they speak of her or him as making a substantial comment, when it has no substance at all, only meaning. There is a grave desire... hee hee... for physical entities to want to make everything physical--as if, if it weren't in the physical world, it wouldn't be real. So we speak of arguments as weighty and deep, and we suspect what is mysterious and mystical.

"One of the signs of spiritual enlightenment is a lack of desire to see or sense anything as either physical or spiritual, but simply as is. Why draw even spiritual lines that divide. And for those who want this earthly frame to pass quickly, that's an assumption of the same duality. You think it isn't spiritual in the physical realm? Guess again.

"And here's a glimpse: Just as by being physical does not deny the spiritual, there are other ways in which the spiritual is ... hmmm, tough time for words, hmmm... expressed. You think physical and spiritual are the 2 dimensions of being. Guess again: infinite. And in this physical expression, we haven't got a clue. I get a clue here only because I am not so focusing on being physical. Lots of windows to a soul--as many windows to a soul as facets of All That Is. No matter how you look out of your spirit, you can see some aspect of the All.

"So don't think physical is the exclusive vacation site of the soul, nor the only school of the soul! It would be terribly vain to think that physical life is the only expression of spirit other than the spirit realm.

"And we here learn from All, not just life... except for him. 'Hey, I didn't learn from life.' I know, it shows. 'O.'

"And all in a timeless and infinite stew of being, slowly becoming a ragoût and then a purée and then one of those aspics of spirit--growing denser and more solid and more homogenous, until all is with All. Wow, I'll take a milkshake, thick. And will the final mélange be ice cold or piping hot? It will contain all energy, so you would think it would be hot, but if it gave off heat, it would not contain all. Ponder that.

"Is All That Is good, or not. It may... no, does... contain all goodness, but it can't radiate any, or it wouldn't contain all. Maybe All does not have to be rational, even though it will contain all reason. Ponder that and get back to us. We're pondering, too!" (2/9/2004 - I#70)

"Dead are often surprised--lots here to be surprised about, and by. Since most arrive with cognitive expectations, there are many surprises in a noncognitive existence. Thinking is not highly valued here... since we have no brains! That would be a no-brainer.

"It is amazing how people know when you're dead, you got no feet so you won't be hiking, and you don't got no stomach so you won't be eating, but they assume you'll still be thinking. And in this corner, logic, and in the other corner, wishful thinking. Get over it.

"Being in a spiritual way beats thinking every time. So there, blech. That's enough pith." (4/13/2004 - I#71)

"We're just sitting 'round being dead and thinking lofty thoughts and practicing profound voices, so when we speak we can be ponderous and deep-sounding, so we can fulfill everyone's image of the dead. Sure... right... yeah, that's us. 'Not me.' 'Or me.' 'Or me.' 'Or me.' ARF.

"In the fifth presence of the human form, the dialectic will manifest itself as pride, and work to undo the prophecies of the fourth state--unless the level of vibration can be increased to match the harmonies of the ionic plane. Each of you, in your choice of words, can accelerate or decelerate those vibrations, and the more words you use with double consonants, the closer we will become. Rhubarb is good, celery is not. Cabbage good, carrots good, milk bad. Did I say vibrational? I meant audacional. What? There is no such word? That doesn't stop us; we're the dead! We don't have bodies, we don't have brains, we don't have words. But hey, we got soul, o yeah. I am talking about accelerating the audacionals so the quiver of fulfillment may overflow into the consciousness of beyond.

"Hey, CT, want to see some ectoplasm phlegm. 'No.' Hey, if we don't have bodies, we don't have bodily functions. But we do have spiritual functions. We also have social functions... lots! So, we will only speak deep and ponderous. Is that acceptable in thy sight? It is not for me to judge and choose, but for you, for you shall be the shaper of the future of all earthly eternity. And when we say you, we speak collectively of the collective. Or to frame it in other words, you'll get what's coming to you.

"Don't ever think it's somebody else's choices. It is always your choice, even though it's not your cause. You effect without being the cause. Hmmm... linearity raises its ugly head again, but we do an extreme makeover, and it comes out relative. Got that? Good.

"In a web, you can have an effect without having a direct causal link. Take out dimensions, and this is what you get. The choices are not about cause, but awareness, cause all the possibilities exist, and they exist separately from your creation and causation. God is another analogy for all the possibilities you didn't create but which you can choose and, therefore, bring into being by your power and choice.

"Think of the implications. God can make all possible, but only spirits can make them real. So, who's the higher power. Both. And that's tonight's secret answer. Ponder... powder. And cattle is good, cows are bad." (7/11/2004 - I#72)

"So, as I was saying and you were hearing, it's a cooperative effort: creative possibilities and informed choices. Sure, in some parallel universe all the other choices get taken. And here's a mind-blower: Only when all the options have been exercised and fulfilled, do we have the fullness of Creation. And... hold onto your hats... at each of the infinite levels of spiritual existence and complexity, all the possibilities of that level have to be chosen and fulfilled before that level is realized in the overall.

"So, there is always the religious assertion that we only get heaven or nirvana or satori when the right options are chosen. But no, it's when all the options are chosen and learned from and remembered. No quick, get-it-right-the-first-time resolutions. Takes knowing the outcome of each and all.

"Ok, I give you an analogy. You are in a tall building, and there is a bank of elevators--6 of them. You take the first, and go to the top floor. Ok, do you know the path to the top, yes and no. You take the second one, and it goes only to Floor 18. Now you know a path to the top and a path to 18. And 3 takes you to the top, but stops at every floor. Four takes you nonstop no matter what you do, right to the top. Five starts to move and takes forever, but it gets to the top eventually. And 6, the door closes, the machine rumbles, you feel like you are moving, but when the door opens, you are still in the lobby. And if you only took a single elevator, you wouldn't have the whole picture--even if that elevator took you to the top. And what if, upon getting to the top, you sat and waited, and eventually someone said the meeting was on 17. Would you know what to do? All the options are needed.

"In any general set, all the possibilities contain information about the whole, and no one subset contains it all. Hint: No one spiritual path has all the answers, including Spiritual Persistence. So look for those that offer the most possibilities, not the most conclusions... or contusions... like a hit to the head! Huh... duh. And, since this is summer, that's enough." (7/15/2004 - I#73)

"This is the best time to talk to peeps: tired, worn out from travel, hot and bothered. They'll believe anything... o, hi.

"So, on the fourth level of cognition we have the coordinated spirits, who form larger coalescence without inherent structure. And these are then capable of creative work, without the limitation of past existence... or not. If any of that made sense, write a book and expand on it. People love spiritobabble. If it can be couched in terms that seem almost understandable, but just out of reach, perfecto.

"How deep the truly superficial sounds, when the truly deep sounds so simple: Love one another, expect change, etc., etc., etc.. And ever notice how most of the hucksters get people when they're down: big crowds, foreign settings, on unusual schedules. There is little difference between most spiritual seminars and religious revivals." (7/22/2004 - I#74)

"Ah, back again so soon and clueless. Sandy, we do love the little ones, don't we... woof. See how they ponder... grrrr... thinking that if they ponder hard enough, they will get ultimate answers, whilst they be but far from even penultimate clues. But who are we to speak... grrr... growl, since in an infinite universe, we are no more ultimate than they... rrrr. But hey, we are no more clueless than they, either... woof. Stuck in the middle with them--which reminds me, for no apparent reason, of a flashlight... grrr?

"When you are in a dark space and can see nothing... yelp... and you put on a torch (that's a sop to my Brit friends). But back to the torch: You see a world illuminated by its rays, and if it is bright enough, you see enough to proceed and function, etc. But that does not mean you see all.

"Spiritual systems are like torches. They let us see more, but never all. And there is always more beyond their rays than illuminated by them. And if you think the tunnel of light leads to the Ultimate, there'll be much in the shadows of your knowing. And what lies out of sight and knowing, will always limit how much you know, and not knowing that there is more to be seen will corrupt what you do see.

"The only purity is the whole. And no subset of the whole can be pure, because the lack of knowledge of the unknown of the whole renders the known less than pure... grrrr. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, in other words.

"And it is all too easy to believe because every grain of sand contains the universe, that we can deduce the universe from every grain of sand, using our limited perspectives. Just as we cannot exist separately from All That Is, and All That Is must contain us, we cannot surmise All That Is from us, even though we gather a thousand clues. For every thousand clues we find and understand, there will be another thousand yet to be seen and understood.

"Hell, when you walk across Europe and get to Normandy and look west, you haven't got a clue about the worlds out there. Same with ideas. And same with the future of butter substitutes--creamier, better tasting is always on the horizon. And what about the billions who thought it flat, and fell off... oopppeeeeaaaa." (7/29/2004 - I#75)

"Nothing is ever seen at one glance. Nothing can be seen in first viewing. All things we see train us to see them, and that takes time... I guess. Ponder that.

"Just as ideas must shape the mind to hold them, and spirits must open the doors to their own apprehension--always a two-way street, the other and you opening each other." (2/12/2005 - I#76)

"It's all about abundance versus scarcity. If you think scarce, then you get scared. But if you think abundance, you think abundantly, and all things become possible. Fear arises from not having a sense of the possibilities one wants.

"Scarce says, over and over, 'Yes, but,' while abundance says, over and over, 'Yes, and.' Big difference! Limited system versus infinite system. If, in anything you are doing, you come to an edge of either thought or action, beyond which you cannot perceive possibility, then you have a finite system. And the way to abundance is to repudiate, jettison, give up finite systems, knowing that the next step will be a seemingly infinite system which will eventually show its limits, until that mystical and magical day in the future and in the past and in the present when some portion of All finally senses its Allness and the fullness thereof.

"The only way to reach the whole, which is without limits, is to push the edges as we perceive them. Ok, enough." (4/8/2005 - I#77)

"Well then, it is not a matter of either scarcity nor abundance, as these two terms are used. It is about more. Why try to dismantle dualism with a dualism. I'm not going there... arf... and neither are you... rrr. Try to picture existence which is full--full of possibilities, and full of limitations until we are one with All. Yes, I'll take one with everything, thanks. Hot dog? Arrr? Why are you panting, Sandy... ppppss.

"The trick is not to see life as a choice between, but rather a choice within. All the resources are there--as well as the potential and the limits. Just like a house: If one focuses on the walls, one may never see the windows. Can't have great windows without walls.

"Often our perspective is driven more by what we fail to see than what we see. I am reminded of the person who sat before an empty bowl in hunger, not seeing the fruitful apple tree in the yard. In modern times, we have taken up the cause of problems, as if this were not a world of solutions.

"Hi. Now take what I said, and read the paragraphs backwards. It will all make sense!" (4/12/2005 - I#78)

In Pitlochry, Scotland:

"Is there a Nessie? In some probable reality. Sometimes realities cross. Just like UFOs: Not here, but there, but sometimes there is here (intersection). Déjà vu is an intersection, too. So déjà vu is personal; others are collective; and sometimes others are societal–which is another name for paradigm shift. Aha, pith. Ponder that." (5/27/2005 - I#79)

At Dove Cottage, Grasmere, England:

"Wow, it's crowded. All the spirits are good.

"Remember, the veil between the physical and the spiritual is itself metaphysical–as a supposition and an imposition of the late modern rational mind, which did not hold sway here." (5/31/2005 - I#80)

"Let's talk about remakes–the worst idea of Hollywood, made better only by comparison with written remakes. I mean, like a book is a book and don't try to rewrite it. But what about religious crap... oops, I mean religious works.

"Do we think it really matters what the sources of religion are? The proof is in the pudding, not the recipe. People keep thinking 'If only we can get the recipe, we will have it made,' but they left the cake out in the rain.

"Here's a scary thought, proven by centuries: A new, or renewed, Christianity could develop from discoveries, but then we would have inter-Christian warfare. When we should be looking beyond the divisions we already have, we instead put energy into making more divisions.

"If people believed what some radical sources now offer, they would forget about arguing the sources, and get on with living the values. No scripture ever converted anyone, but life lived with hope and meaning has. And besides, who wants pudding? ‘I do, I do.' Ok." (6/30/2005 - I#81)

“Like all works, take what works and use the rest for toilet paper.

“No one book contains it all. A chapter here, a line there--just like TJ and his Bible. Isn’t all knowledge really one’s collected anthology. It’s called Life, not Time. Some are readers and some are writers and some are editors, and most are some of each.

“Never accept as yours the work of others. Include theirs, but be not limited by them.” (8/24/2005 - I#82)

"And welcome to SP 1001... or not. Yep, 10 years and still yakking. I’ve said it all, and there’s so much more to say. But I will try to keep it simple <wink wink>.

“Ok, here goes. Think about human physical chronological history. When you look at any point in time, you see a variety of connected events. For example, just when Einstein was going out for a beer, so were several other physicists and, within the same period, they all got drunk... but I digress. They all came to the same theoretical discoveries. This is what we have been talking about for a decade: the web of connection in an infinite number of directions--butterfly in Beijing, rain in DC; idea in Bern, idea in Oslo; parallel universes are experiences of the same web from a different perspective. So all of this should seem familiar by now.

“Ok, let’s look at any nexus on the web, and choose any probability you wish. Now, looking at that nexus, you can see the web of connection... which is not like the cloak of invisibility. But with a deeper look at the nexus, you can see precedent and antecedent. So Einstein, earlier in the day, had a very salty wurst. Later that night, he had to go to the wc twice. But now the question: Did the other physicists who went for a beer have the same precedents and antecedents. No... or yes, but not necessarily. It ain’t necessarily so. One might have had nothing salty, but been an alcoholic. Another might have wanted social company. And later, both of those might not have had to get up twice, because one barfed it up and the other’s bladder was so familiar with the abuse it didn’t get pissed off... ok, didn’t demand a nightly waking. So, we have three points connected by physics and beer and the web which unites them, but we also have paths which are different.

“Picture the precedents and the antecedents as another dimension and at another point of connection. The connections are quite different. One was eating a wurst in a restaurant, one was downing a beer in a gasthaus, and another was sitting all alone in a lab with a dull Swiss cheese sandwich. Not much to connect them. So at that point they were more connected to their individual strands of events than to each other, but they were very connected to what would come about, connecting them all.

“This month we will take up the strands–connections along the development of entity complexity. Or, to put it simply, we each and we all are on distinct paths, but those paths lead to larger connections.” (9/1/2005 - I#83)

“So, as we were saying, you can string out relationships in as many dimensions as there are–which is oodles. So why only see time as in history, and family as in them!?! You are the nexus of not only DNA and spirit, but also ideas, concepts, notions... but the notions are on the 2nd floor.

“So many strands, and we seem to identify them with individual spirits, but they are not spirit-bound. You are the intersection of the many paths from less complex to more complex everything–not just fabric materials, but even baking powders, and things for which you don’t even have a name or a clue but which are gestating in you as a strand of potential right now. And some of it is stuck in between the back molar and the wisdom tooth... the mill by the Floss,
which grinds exceedingly slow... but fine! Hee hee.

“The greatest products of development are never sudden. Strands are long. And one of the greatest disappointments is when a way station is taken as the destination. You think you ever get to the end of a string? I hope not... and I hope knot... otherwise, it all unravels. But the universe coheres, so that implies the strings are infinite.

“Did I get that right.”

LD: “You did.”

“So, enough pith.” (9/30/2005 - I#84)

“So, these strands reaching across complexities (note I do not say across time or space, but only meaning), these strands are the links which connect past, less complex, entities to the present complexity–even when the prior or less complex appear to be independent of each other.

“And those same strands also reach as possibilities into what is more complex–linking everything, but not in a lateral sense, of the weave of complexities at any level of complexity. Take a movie like Sliding Doors: There are links to other elements of the same complexity. But strands are beyond that. We sense strands when we have intuitions which are not born in our experience at this level (even if those experiences are in past lives, because past lives are still at this level of complexity). So there are weaves and wofts of this complexity, and strands, which run like another dimension of connection.

“If it were not for strands, you could not even perceive of differing levels of complexity. And those strands form a kind of conic projection--starting from a totally universal and disparate placement, and moving to the ultimate convergence. Strands of seemingly disconnected complexities, each with its own progression of complexities, and all converging into one ultimate complexity of All That Is. And the weave and the woft and the conic projection, each and all contain All That Is, and are, by their existence, the more than the sum of the parts.

“The vessel which holds, or the formula which describes All That Is is both part of All That Is and more. Go figure. Ok, pith enough.” (11/21/2005 - I#85)

"About channeling an unspeaking spirit. Hey, we're all unspeaking here. If we transmit the translations of our feelings, thoughts, and essences, it doesn't matter if we speak--as Papa can tell us.

"When he gives them voice, he is not giving them a voice, but the belief in their capacity to communicate. Hey, sound waves are so yesterday--slow and limited. You ought to know about music that is not made up of sounds. Pondere that... yes, pondere: the London spelling (litre, theatre, pondere). Dopner: an anagram of ponder. To think outside the usual order: dopner. So, dopner this." (12/13/2005 - I#86)

"Get back over there. The pith is trying to escape. Sit. Sandy, guard the pith... grrrr. Hi. Never trust pith until it has proven worthy in experience... ooops, is that pith? Hmmm....

"So, strands and strings and continuities... but what about anomalies. When the strands appear to ravel out, what is that? Usually a point of juncture--a strand intersecting with another strand--which produces the potential for two new strands. You could have just AA or BB, but you could also have AB and BA. Now, what happens with three strands intersecting, and 4 and 5 and 6, and oy vey. And what if strand B is strand A doubling back on itself. The mind boggles, and I’m glad I don’t have one. Where would I keep it with no body. ‘In a purse.’ CT!

"So, what we like to pretend is our strand may be only the path along an infinite number of intersecting threads. Hey man, those are some nice threads. His life was threadbare. So, there’s the pith.

"Strands are connections, but they do not connect us. They express or embody or connote connections. Does the ink on a piece of paper contain the words, and do the words contain the thought. They are vehicles--descriptors, but not essences. Without experiences, there are not empty strands, just no strands. Go ponder more." (12/16/2005 - I#87)

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