"Hi, and ouch. See, when we talk it is really 'us,' not me and you. We become as one, and you get my thoughts but I get your pains... so, ouch. It is your paw... ARF... and his paw, too... grrrr. He didn't hurt his paw, but Dad did. So, if you want to channel Sandy, he has to channel you--which can have its ups and downs. But it's never a one-way thingie. The veil is very thin. You want to know about here, and we want to remember there. We consolidate... groove... get on the same track, so to speak. This is temporary, while connecting into entityship is more or less permanent. This is not creating something more complex spiritually. It is still in one plane.

"You get my spiritual shit, and I get a taste of physical--which can be a real pain... or something like that. But it is a spiritual translation; just as your physical sensations are a translation of spiritual experiences. We can recognize the feeling without actually experiencing it. You don't have to have an upset stomach to know what it feels like... baaarf. No, Sandy. It's like empathetic sympathy... or is that sympathetic empathy. I won't say whether we also get your emotions and thoughts, but yes. And you can catch some dimensions of me if you really really REALLY try, but most don't. I am sensing the letter W. Does W mean anything to anyone. And I see a book, and W is written inside with a pen. It's a book with pages of paper. The cover is either gray or colored. I think it's a checkbook. Wait, it's Papa's."

"So, that's my big giveaway for the night. That's it. It was hard for all of us at the beginning. How could it be real and otherwise. But it's natural, just like my hair is naturally straight... every 6 months. But just because something takes work and energy does not mean it is not natural. Ponder that." (5/29/2002 - I#46)



"Have you ever noticed that sometimes islands allow you to look beyond boundaries that you could not see on the mainland. Just a thought... or not." (6/16/2002 - I#47)



"All those people say this is a fake. This is all a sham. I said this before. This is not happening. It is just a projection of your own personalities. But then, our entityship is also just that. Why should a projection of personal spirit not be considered real. Actors live off the projection of the audience's appreciation. God lives off the projection of personal faith. Colonel Sanders lives off his fingers... oops, erase that... sregnif sih ffo sevil srednas lenoloc. All reality is just collective projection of interpretation... and a few spare parts. Wow... bow wow... ARF.

"So anyway, just remember that most great movements of thought and feeling began as a projection of personal desire which became personal possibility and then collective idea. There are no new ideas, but only new collective acceptance of them... or not. It is not real until it is collectively perceived as real. Before that it's a theory, and before that a short story... no no no no... before that, a sense--which is a sensation of remembering.

"Sometimes progress is just remembering the past, which proceeds down the endless corridors of existence past the edges of time and space. A flicker of a point of reflected light from the eternal illumination, bending round the corners beyond where we can see. I wax poetic. Now I wane... and here's Garth. You're not worthy, but you are. Fireworks in the soul of creation. So that's the scoop." (7/5/2002 - I#48)



"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#49)



"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#50)



"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#51)



"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#52)



"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#53)



"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#54)



"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#55)



"People smile a lot, so to speak, here. More like a spiritual effervescence. Their energies just bubble out like an alpine spring--fresh, clean, clear, cooooool... and without end. And all those rivulets coming together in a grand flow of spirit. Now there's a river on whose banks to build your mansion. I do go on.

"Once you get the hang of the infinite you never want to let go... ahhhh... dancing amid the energies. Religions are systems of poor memory of this--making substantial what is purely spiritual. Rules are made by fools, I fear, but only Schlitz can make a beer.

"So travel safely, those who go and those who stay home. For even staying is a form of travel in a world that is constantly transforming. That's about eet for now." (4/3/2003 - I#56)



"Walk with. Guides simply do that, and I should know! We walk gently with our folk, and in the shared path they come to sense what we know. Conversation always is better than conversion." (4/16/2003 - I#57)



"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#58)



"And now the question we have all been debating: Which are the aliens... hmmm... by whose perspective. Or to play with the language, the only true aliens are those who can cause alienation. And since alienation is a construct of the perceiver's mind and psyche, then those who are alienated are the aliens themselves. Ponder that!

"Those who can perceive otherness must be other. And those who perceive only connection can never be alien no matter where or how they go. Deep thoughts for shallow people." (6/6/2003 - I#59)



"No body knows the trouble I've seen, no body knows but Sandy... arrrf. He has a dog dish on his head. He says it's brain food... woof. Silly, especially since we don't have brains... or heads or dishes. It's all metaphor... or similes, man. Since we use thought, not language, image is as possible as letters. Here, see this: a speckled cow. So, you take our thoughts and put them in forms you understand. But wait a minute, even the concept of thought is only a metaphor. We get into the spiritual you, and you don't have a word for that because you really don't understand and neither do I. I just share what I sense. An apprehension might be a good description. You apprehend it without knowing it. And if you totally understand that, what are you doing slumming down here. But just low... moooooo... but don't bull. Tauri.

"Now, I've been thinking about... just using your metaphor, as in pondering... I have been playing spiritual chess with some notions. People with bodies and brains keep wondering if there is other life in the universe. Welll, define life. If you mean biological carbon-based entities, sure, but that's only a fraction. What makes you think that your path to complexity will be based solely on carbon life forms... or even forms. In the vastness of All That Is there are an infinite variety of expressions of being--some physical, some otherwise but the equivalent of physical for their realities. And somewhere up ahead around the bend we can't see beyond, there are complexities composed of elements whose very nature you couldn't describe if you wanted to. But their spirits are informed by those realities as much as yours are by physical. In other words, don't get too attached to your bodies. You're not taking them with you when you really go... and on and on and on. So, Heaven with stagnant dead peeps is a dead end... o hahaha I slay myself. So ponder that!

"It's not just about no brains or bodies. It's about transcending any specific expression of the universal All. Until you are one with it all, or All, then the expressions are only metaphors themselves. And even the concept of spirit is a metaphor, not a reality. But it's the best we can do right now... or not. But if we did better, we would not really know any more. For now, this is it. This is it, life as we know it." (7/1/2003 - I#60)



"oooOOOooo the clock strikes 12 and the spirits are awake. 'I'm not!' Aaaarrrrrf. And so the physical and spirit worlds touch and all the saints can't stop it. It's our night to frolic. Ok, I'll wear the pantyhose.

"Now, here's the one serious note of the evening: Is it that the veil thins or is it that the humans are less dense. Maybe with the guise of fun, they can let their guard down... oooOOOooo." (10/31/2003 - I#61)



"Why do people fear horizons and what's on the other side. Ponder.

"We fear the known and project that because we would live in terror if we admitted that, so we claim the known and fear the unknown as a compromise. That's why even when the unknown is known we still fear. You would think knowing the unknown would help us relax, but it doesn't. Get it. Maybe this spiritual level is about anxiety and learning to live beyond it. Just a thought from a mindless spirit." (12/6/2003 - I#62)



"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#63)



"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#64)



"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#65)



"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#66)



"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#67)



"And first, I want to apologize for him. So, I was going to tell you something vital, but what? You already know it all, but do you pay attention. The universe tells you.

"There is nothing which I can say which would imply anything unnatural... or even supernatural. All I share is the very natural. You see, all your discoveries will always be limited to the natural. And one test of their validity is if others can understand them, too--not agree, but understand... which is not the same as standing under.

"If anyone asks you to suspend belief, don't. They are asking you to do the unnatural, for what is more natural than using your powers of understanding.

"We do not seek other worlds and other realities, we just seek this one more thoroughly.

"Beware the supernaturalists. They envision their own world, not yours... and many are wacko. The heart of any real exploration is reality, or so I was told during my alien abduction. I abducted an alien and ate it. It tasted just like chicken... yum yum. And fried delusions on the side. Hey. Hi. Ho. Hum. Here's my dog... arrrf. He's been eating an alien bone... aarrf...rrr..aarraarrbaarrrf. O sorry, but I already apologized for him... r. But did he have to do it on the ruby sandals (summer wear in Oz).

"Pronouncement is not revelation. It has to be real to be revealed. Pipe dreams do not verify the pipe. It seems easy, but it's not, because their sense of the ordinary is not special enough. For example, peeps like to think of fairy godmothers who will--with a wave of a wand--make them ok, when the real path might take some work. Cinderella needed to say 'No' to the stepmother and free herself of subjugation. Do you really believe that, after the prince wed her, she wouldn't fall into the same resentful subjugated role with him. And damned if Sleeping Beauty didn't nap a lot, when all she really had to do was get up. His kiss wouldn't work come the next late night. But we love magic because it implies craft but not work.

"There is magic, but it is contained in the ordinary world and work of learning. Remember when you really learned and remembered something, wasn't there a feeling of magic afoot--like long division, wow! And fractals! And death! With the ordinary so magical, who needs otherwise. Ok.

"Their sight is so short, and they don't see the lives ahead. Expedient, not prudent. In a world in which you think nothing will work, you allow yourself the delusion of promise. And for awhile, it works. (See reference to Great Escape.) And those whom you cannot understand may well be elsewhere in their journeys to wholeness... or not. Remember the little engine: 'I think I can.' Lack of faith leads many to a surfeit of assumptions. Pith." (7/8/2004 - I#68)



"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#69)



"Sandy will now play the mouth organ... wwrfff... badly... grrrr... lack of lips. There's a lesson in this: Don't try what is beyond your equipment. For example, those in wheelchairs should avoid escalators. And those at this level of spirit should avoid universal generalizations. You just make a fool of yourself. Even your elf knows better... but does that stop us, noooo.

"One of the greatest realizations is that whatever we see clearly can only be about what is less complex than the present experience. We do a dangerous thing when we extrapolate from what we know to the unknown. It works if you test the theory out, but few do.

"For example, when people experienced the world as pretty awful, they created the concept of Heaven. But has anyone really tested that theory. I thought not! So it remains at best a theory, and at worst a delusion or distraction." (10/2/2004 - I#70)



"Now as to the question of pigs in heaven... oink oink. You swine... squeal. Just a test of your sanity: Are pigs in heaven kosher. No, but nothing else is, either. When things are defined by limiting physical traits, then it all dissolves before you get here. 'Is this heaven?' 'No, this is death.' 'O, it 's still nice.'

"So I offer this to ponder: What could possibly be true as a foundational element of existence which is not true here. If it doesn't matter in spirit, then it doesn't matter in the physical. Yet most religions stake their identities on things that won't matter here. How ironic.

"Real spirituality is formed by what is true of spirit, not body or mind. Here I have neither body nor mind. But I have spirit here and there." (10/9/2004 - I#71)



"Hi. Things are about the same here--just different spirits, plus the infinite number of usuals  trying to make the universe safe for spirit. A safety warning from here: Don't use lives as shortcuts to eternity. You never know when you might get caught in a disassembly! Follow your own path.

"Yes, some spirits have been known to try to short-circuit the process--try to co-materialize with a more enhanced entity. Can we say schizo. Don't go there. One spirit per body, please. Dumb idea--one form of schizophrenia, and an energy-sucking one at that.

"Walk-ins? Walk-ins are when you need a haircut but don't have an appointment. You're talking about cameos. Sometimes spirits get a little vacant or distracted, and another makes a brief cameo so you don't have a body without a spirit. Didn't know that, did ya. And what else is new?

"So once in awhile, especially with very intense spirits, you get a short aberration... ah, cameo! The spirit doesn't remember... wasn't there (spiritually, that is).

"Wise one I am. Yota I am (Yoda is copyrighted). Yoga is something else. Yehweh is everything else. Yankees were something else. Whoa, lots of spirits wearing red sox... lots of dead fans. Hey, Garcia, come here! 'Hey, man, wha.' Go back to sleep. 'Sweet.'

"So, in honor of your soft brain, I will keep this simple: Sometimes the wisdom of the universe is just hanging together without wisdom... don't have to learn every time. Here, just sit on my bench. No, not there. You sat on TJ, but he's napping. You know, my bench is always available for sitting, even when there's no chat. Sometimes you just gots to sit and see what you can see from here and not worry about the words. So sit, hug. The dog will curl up at your feet... f. And all of Creation is out there. Look! And all I am is a spiritual pair of binoculars to better see the view--which is available to anyone."  (10/26/2004 - I#72)



"Well let's see, did we resolve the spiritual-physical dichotomy. No, and we never will... so there. You think it strange for peeps to talk about the physical aspects of spirit, wait to hear about spirits getting the 2 confused. And they don't have a leg to stand on... hehehehehe. Hey, bozo, you got soul, not soles. 'Huh... wha.' Wake her up and tell her she's spirit. O, she is awake. Newcomer? I thought so... and I thought it without a brain.

"Want to know who some of the most unhappy people are here: Mensa members! Big brains don't mean shit here. Big IQ? What's that. And hey, if you think you're so smart, here's LD! Always stops 'em. Just like when some clergy arrive, spouting scripture, and we say 'O yeah! Right! Here, talk to this dude'... and it's JC: 'I never said that! Hey Paul, get your ass over here!' We are a jolly lot.

"No link. Some common people are the most essential building entities of complexity–almost like Type O blood.

"Ok, let's review. In much of your physical world you have rings of carbon–common as dirt. And you have other elements, like indium. Now, the common carbon is found in--and essential to-- gazillions of thingies, but indium just to a few. Stand out too much and you may be precious, but not as useful as something more common. And the most complex entities we are creating all arise from common as well as precious... o, my precious. So don't think any thing of earthly significance is a determinate of your future complexity possibility.

"Calvinists got it right but missed it by a mile. You can't make your own perfection, but it does not come from afar, but from being close. And there are always those in spirit who don't connect into complexity because they want to wait for perfection. And let me tell you, the other elements of their potential get really pissed off by this. 'I'm waiting!'

"Until we are one with All, all levels of spiritual complexity are imperfect... but still beautiful. It takes extreme arrogance to think that one could be the missing building block of perfection. Lots feel so, but lots are also disappointed. Hard to believe that some hold on to ego even when their psyche is gone.

"Spirit is not ego. Spirit is not psyche. Spirit is spirit--sort of like a great energy jelly without the energy. Look, if I could tell you what it is in your terms, I'd have to kill you and then you'd understand. It's like if I mention gefilte fish without the fish. It's something... but I'm not sure what. And I wouldn't order it again.

"You can't say spirit is pure energy–not unless you know what you're talking about as energy, and you don't! And if it were pure energy, then you could affect it with forms of energy, but you cannot. And when people talk about energies like white light, that's an effect, not a cause." (11/9/2004 - I#73)



"In this season of yours, it is interesting that so many seek the certainty of abiding mystery. They don't want mysteries per se, but want the assurance of it. 'Tell me the old stories,' the modernists say, 'so I can both feel superior to those dumb clucks back then, and also feel akin to them. I know it's just a story and they didn't.'

"But something primal drives folk to hear what they say they can't believe. The really great stories are beyond belief.

"The greatness of real mythic tales is that they are both unbelievable and compellingly true. And that is the mystery for a scientific age: that the story of antiquity holds up against all modern discovery.

"In mystery are all answers and all possibility. In knowledge there are limits, and the appeal of mystery is that it speaks to our spirits--which have no limits and are infinite and universal and filled with potential.

"The future is a mystery; the past is known. Even the past mysteries are of the future. Like 'What will I get for Christmas?' and 'Is that all?' Greedy little Ericka... actually, joyful little Ericka, who didn't want to know there were limits on joy." (12/17/2004 - I#74)



"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#75)



"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.

"You can only communicate that by pushing back your edges and showing that there is life on the other side of those edges. Fighting other people's edges will not do. And you can't give them reassurance, but you can give them example. A person going through a traumatic loss cannot be given a sense of well-being, but they can see and sense others who have gone down that path." (4/8/2005 - I#76)



"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#77)



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. Déja vu is an intersection, too. So déja 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#78)

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