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"It is hard to think in terms of time. Here is post-temporal. We do things for as long as they take or happen. We schedule activities, not times. Some vacation, try my way.

"Time is only a quantity if you choose. Einstein was right: You use time to avoid the infinite nature of reality. Time implies beginning and ending, but that ain't the way it is. Do circles have beginnings and endings? So, why must other things? You see a line, and you can't tell where it started. Maybe it is still happening. Who can say. But you can't say where it started or stopped. Rulers don't measure anything more than themselves. Enough" (10/3/95 - B#1)

"And a gracious good morning to you. Now I will resume dictation... always wanted to say that. You may take your break. Seriously, when I talk about a time to talk, I have to translate my reality. If you received my words as I have them, you would get a burst of words, and then an hour of your time might pass before another word might come; then 15 minutes later you might get 150 words in a minute. So, I have to convert the flow so you can understand. I schedule so the flow can happen. Like files onto different computers, if you don't get the two hooked up at the same time and speed, you get nothing.

"In spiritual terms, there are some times (in your terms) that connect to larger communications. Holy days are based on these times. The natural converters touch your world at those times. That's why civil holidays don't pack the wallop that cultural and religious ones do. Holy days arose because of what people felt and experienced, not because of some event in human history. The high points of this are all natural, like the seasons and the universe. Each person has his or her own times of connection. Astrology begins to understand this, but there is so much more. Astrology is very primitive, but do not misunderstand--most other ways of knowing, like sciences and philosophy, are more primitive. But astrology should be seen as a small and clouded window that one has to wipe clean with the waters of experience, and open wider with the powers of mind--start, not finish; vehicle, not destination. It won't save the world, and science and religion won't either. People will.

"And don't wait for God to do it. He's gone fishing (whales... white whales). Seriously, God is not a repairman. He's more of a reference resource. When you get it right, the universe lets you know because you have become part of God. You become a reference point for others and a resource for all. You join in the great flow of wisdom and life.

"The goal of the spirit is to increasingly be part of the wisdom of the universe and the meaning of life. Nirvana hints at this. JC said you have to lose your life to find it. The point of life is not to differentiate yourself, but to integrate yourself into the universal wisdom and living. You may take a break. And a gracious goodbye." (10/5/95 - B#2)

"Things are different for me. You think physically and temporally, but I think spiritually and eternally, so for me, we are together. Some day you will experience this, too.

"My time is different than yours. What I have been doing has filled the time since we talked, but it has not been seven days to me--just a period of being. Our times are not parallel; I just connect to yours in your time. I could, right now, give you the next 20 conversations. But you would not understand them until their time had come. They would be just a lump of communication, waiting to be spread out by your time." (11/19/95 - B#3)

"All of those human celebrations tap into our spiritual reality. At those times, you sense the eternal more strongly; for us, it is always strong. But on Halloween and Summer Solstice, we tap into your material reality more strongly, but it is always strong for you... and some traveling cosmic days (when the moon is in the seventh house, etc.). Astrology, babe. When certain conjunctions occur in the material and spiritual planes, we get closer, and all the great human holy days were based on those times. That's why Christmas works but July 4th is crap." (11/24/95 - B#4)

"What we do can connect to any point in your time." (12/30/95 - B#5)

"Sometimes morning here lasts 30 minutes, and other times it lasts two weeks. So, if I say I am going to do this or that tomorrow morning, then tomorrow morning lasts until it gets done. Time expands or contracts to meet your needs.

"Think about this. You tell someone you will meet them at 10. You think you can get ready by then. Whatever time it takes, you are ready at 10--never late, but always the time you need. Time is elastic. If time is a function of our perception, why be trapped in a social perception. What your world calls time is only an average of all of your perceptions. Here we go the individual route, but in your world that only works if you are alone. And some people have more time dominance. In your relationships, time is not an average of the two of you. So we have Latinos, whose time is different from gringos. One dominates in New York, one dominates in Santo Domingo, and they fight it out in Miami.

"Time exists as a function of existence. That's also why kids and adults have different senses of time. Psychologists say it is a matter of the development of abstract thinking, but no, it is just abstract; you realise how much there is to do versus time. But... and here is the big but... those who know how to choose life's opportunities and shape their lives will find all the time they need, and they will experience a fullness, not a rush, of time. Interesting that those who most understood this got a lot done with their time, no matter how short, and they seem to move beyond time. We even call them timeless (Buddha, Jesus, etc.). If you are doing what you really really really want to do, you will do as much each day as the greatest have done. Don't compare to anything or anyone but yourself. When you compare, you buy back into the average-time trap.

"Think about this story: Someone takes a day to do just one thing. Is that great? If it is 'Let there be light,' it is quite a day. A day in Genesis is measured by accomplishment and purpose, not by hours. First lesson to billions and they miss it. It was an analogy, but not about creation or time, but about purpose and choice and fulfillment. Enough.

"The world and all that is in it have always been. The story of Genesis is about focusing and choosing to be there, and finding fulfillment in that life. And the story gives us all the clues. We have the world and life, etc., and we have dominion, but that does not mean control; it means access. So we can choose to be in that world as we wish, and our days will be measured by what we do creatively--just as God's work is measured, so to speak, by her creativity in six days. The chapter is not about God, but about us; and we form us in our own imagining. We get what we envision and choose, and we have the potential of all the time we need and one day of rest to get everything done we need to do to create our own Eden. Now, enough." (2/9/96 - B#6)

"Here's a little tidbit: Einstein talked about time curving, but it is neither linear nor curved. It has its own pattern that is not represented by any word or thought construct in your world. In later entity development, you will experience this greater reality of time. Even I only hear about it, since I have yet to merge and move on.

"Your world has been both experienced and built on linear quantitative time, so it is right and true for you. But there are more worlds than you have dreamt of. But, once in awhile, the other senses of time break through and become manifest to you. Dreams are one place, déjà vu is another, and inexplicable events are often also--like foreknowledge, or events that seem out of time or place. Hint: Building the Pyramids is not an issue of aliens, but a matter of time. Puzzle that one. No, don't try. You don't have the tools of language or thought yet... but I do, haha.

"Actually, the universe is lacking in specific intelligence, and overwhelmed in inherent intelligence, and all this development and merging is trying to get one into the other. When what is waiting to be known is known, the process will be over and we will be one with everything. But hold the mustard. All smart people do have a sense of humor. The universe is one big chuckle. So, that's the tidbit." (4/30/96 - B#7)

"Time is not a reality, so vacations make no sense. Sometimes I am working hard and doing nothing at the same moment. If physics can say a thing can be in two places at once, then I can be doing two things at once. So there." (6/22/96 - B#8)

"About the meaning of time if time is eternal. Time is a construct of the mind and spirit to see the sequence of spiritual development as more than just a lump. In one sense, we have already become all that we will be, but in another, we are still getting there. Time is a measure of getting there--meaningless in its own right, but with extrinsic value as opposed to intrinsic. And that's all I'll say about that now. Ponder." (4/8/97 - B#9)

"Let's just think peaceful thoughts, and cherish our present realities for what they are. We will be neither nostalgic nor anxious. We will be right here in the eternal and evolving Now. All the insights one gains are not to understand the past, nor prepare for the future, but to be present. Some too slow because they cling, and others too fast because they chase. But some are just right, like porridge. 'And when you are in a place just right, 'twill be in the valley of love and delight.' And you will be so together, and ready to combine; for combinations into entities at this level, only occur when time is no longer a factor. Ah.

"Time is a linear construct that divides continuity. Like a person on a streetcar named Desire, if you keep getting on and off, you are never there for the ride. Time is like way stations for those who can't go the long haul yet, which is all of us at this level." (10/21/97 - B#10)

"Holidays are the natural response of humans to the lengthening of biological rhythms. From 60 heartbeats a minute, we are not ready to go to 365 days; so we divide those days into periods, and put in holidays. Someday we won't need as many each year, but decades will be important. Some religions have too many because they belong to the past. We move towards eternity. Amoebas think in split seconds." (12/27/97 - B#11)

"We all need to put things in perspective. Either you let time order things or you can order them. But since time is an illusion, then such history of time is illusionary. But the glimpses of life's moments are better measures of life than time's arbitrary standard.

"Think of a snapshot album. If you arrange all the pictures chronologically, you get one story. But if you group them by unfolding stories, you get many strands. Sometimes the next thing to happen is not the next piece of the story. So, we take the snapshots we get, and weave them into a fabric, not a linear ruler.

"Nothing ends and everything ends. That's a pair of ducks (paradox). And with geese, you can choose eider one... but don't let it get you down." (1/2/98 - B#12)

"Now about this time thing. It ain't a thing. It's a way to let brains that don't process instantaneously to get it. But when it's all said and done, chronology isn't what it's cracked up to be. But the strands of one's existence are like sands in the hourglass... no, not the Days of Our Lives... the life of our days. And, over time, you forget time but remember the essences.

"Easy things are from the past. To get to the future is always hard work and hard to explain, but once you get there, they seem easy. The future will always be more surprising than predictable. In the strands, you don't know what came before, so you can't predict what comes after. And, if you do, you focus on your assumption of strands, which is based on past knowledge. But hey, things change, and you don't know when and how until they do." (1/5/98 - B#13)

"So, if you take time and divide it, you still have time; multiply it, the same. Was yesterday a long time ago. How about 1997... 1897... 97. You don't know, and nobody does: twisted time and/or Mobius strip. You think you should be able to connect with a strand at a certain point, and then access everything that's there, but how. Theoretically, but not on this level. This is 7th: menswear and ties. Time exploration is on 14." (1/20/98 - B#14)

"Here's another image: time strands woven into a hypertime that is a fabric which makes a new strand of higher time. History is a written attempt to replicate it. Someone should design a computer 3D simulation of it. Hey, they will... or they did. Both true. You can't manipulate it, but you can see the patterns.

"A question to ponder: A program generates random strands that, over time, become interlocked and form a pattern without intent or plan; yet, from there on, the fabric has order. Wha' happened." (1/29/98 - B#15)

"Transience is not always change, but only the perception of change. Is something changing, or is your vantage. And just because something seems permanent, doesn't mean it is; it could just mean its changes parallel yours. And that's all I have to say about that." (4/5/98 - B#16)

"If you try to think of existence in terms of time or space, you will miss out on most of what's happening, babe. While an image of Spiritual Persistence may look like physical realities of time and space--like here and now, or there and then--it is all beyond such, except as it plays out in your spiritual dimension.

"Why do people with the first vestiges of intelligence think they know it all and it all looks like their first meager inkling. It would be like trying to describe New York City from the glow on the clouds seen from Trenton. That's it.

"Use the images that work, but remember they are just approximations--no better than an Impressionist's canvas as a road map to anywhere." (7/5/98 - B#17)

"People have this problem of priorities. They often choose to see secondary ones as primary. Look at the trajectory of your life. Are you focused on where you are aiming, or on where you've been, or where you are. Can't get on with the journey facing away from your direction.

"Here's a simple task (no, not to do, but to consider). Write every aspect of your life on a separate 3" x 5" card. Now spread them out, and then look at them all. Which ones look to the future? Throw out the rest. Now, from those, place them in the order of happening. What comes first, and then what will be most productive of the end ones. Those are your priorities. Things that look forward, are doable now, and have the highest likelihood to get you to your goals. It's that simple. Doing now what has the greatest potential to fulfill you in the future. That's Rikkity's lesson for the day." (8/11/98 - B#18)

"Do we get glimpses of the future in dreams, yes and no. This is not a deterministic universe, but there are certain paths we travel. So, you plan to go to New York City. Will you pass through Philadelphia, yes and no; some will, some won't. And maybe a dream about a cracked bell is not about going there, but about one's crazy family. We learn things, but don't always know where they apply. And sometimes, being clueless lets us be the most aware... or not." (10/6/98 - B#19)

"About the Earth changes. Look to the flow of time and the cycles of being. It's a cycle, not a trend. Hey, why do you think all that sand is out there in the desert... waiting to be a beach, ha. But yes, there are changes going on, and in about 3 million years this place will look different. And just think about how insignificant the Y2K problem will seem in 2M.

"It's about projection of an inward desire for, or need, to an outward reality. Look back at Jesus's time; it was the same. Apocalypse here and apocalypse now. Yearnings of the soul take root in the prophecies of culture, but manifest in the evolution of perception. The shift is not in reality, but in perception. A long time ago I said that... or not." (11/13/98 - B#20)

"All the celebrations of the spirit are more about what will come than about what has happened. So D-Day is a loser; Easter is good or bad, depending on your theology; 4th of July can be either as well. Most are ambi-meaningful. But a few are just awful, like Hiroshima Day and Holocaust Remembrance Day. Ramadan is interesting because it embraces both themes--day is loser and night is winner, but only in contrast to day. And anything that celebrates a military victory is a loser, and fleeting anyway. If it doesn't connect beyond one people, POOF. And we are on the verge... don't step on the verge... of some new transglobal celebrations of hope--already but not yet." (12/4/98 - B#21)

"In fact, the biggest problem we have is when we get the answers and solutions before the questions and problems. So here's a Point to Ponder: The energy spent on a solution with no problem is wasted. And the solution is also wasted, because once shown and found meaningless, it will not be accorded respect when the problem arises, and so it is wasted. So ponder that... or not.

"A road to nowhere is just as much a dead end as a quiet cul-de-sac with beautiful trees and coordinated Cape Cod houses. If you can't get anywhere you need to go on it, it is not a path to you. Pretty deep shit.

"So, while time is not a universal, if things within the moment--which you break out as time, but which has no such inherent quality to it--happen in a different sequence, then your reality would be different. And o yes, Pierre will say you can't have sequence without time, and I ask him why he is stuck in one paradigm without any imagination. Hey buddy, much of what you claim as fact and truth was once as foreign to most thought as this idea is to you. If it doesn't make sense, that doesn't automatically mean it ain't so. In fact, if we stuck with only what we know, we'd be stuck in both time and sequence. Let me just say, Amish and Hassidim. Get the picture. But hey, they both eat kraut (look for connections). They both like to wear black and be irrelevant." (12/9/98 - B#22)

At a chat session on New Year's Eve:

"I have a few words I'd like to share with all of you: from, to, gone, awesome, dude... haha. Ok, but seriously, this is a special night for all of you Earthlings, but really it is just another day. But it does give us a wonderful excuse to speak to each other about certain things that are central to our lives and that are always important, but we focus on them today because we feel an urgency that comes from saying it is the last day of the year. It is just the same with the apocalyptic talk about the last days, and the scary stuff that some people would have you believe about the paradigm shift of the new millennium.

"We are facing a change, it is very true and very real. I should say you are facing a change, but actually it is a change from both sides, because both the physical and spiritual worlds will change--and the rumblings are being heard on both sides. This is a joint effort, you see. You are not here by chance, and we are not where we are by chance. I won't give you details, because the details are in you and in the future you and we here will create together. But I will tell you this: what is coming will connect us. What is coming will bring your world and ours together. Think about that. It sounds so simple, and yet the meaning is huge in scope and importance.

"But you each have work to do before that can happen. And for this New Year's Eve, I would like you to take a look at your life. Take a look at the phases--not each and every day, but the phases and segments of your life. Take what you need from it, treasure what you've learned and remembered, take it with you, and leave the rest behind. But leave it behind knowing it will always be there for you and you will never lose anything. Then look at where you are now. Look around you and at the friends gathered here beside you, look at what matters in your life and who is with you and what fulfills you. Take a good long look at those things and don't rush past them, for they are the keys that will open the door of your future. The future will not come to you by rushing toward it. The future will only be there when you are ready for it--when you know who you are and where you are going and what you need. Then and only then, look ahead, turn your gaze down the path to what shines in the distance, and you will find a new world that shines and sparkles with all the hopes and dreams and yearnings that people have had for all time, and that will connect you with both what you now feel as losses and with a future of peace and wholeness and love that was not even dreamt of, Horatio, ever before. With this I leave you. Ponder it, cherish your dreams, love one another. Be well and be whole and carry the word of spirit into the physical. Goodnight and Happy New Year!" (12/31/98 - B#23)

"Time is something of a commodity, as one dimension of energy. How we invest our time is not a matter of time, but focus. I give you a strange analogy. Bob lives in Ohio. Poor Bob. But wait, Bob just stays home and reads classic literature. Is he really in Ohio. Does it matter. His focus is elsewhere. So, too, with time. Every 70-year-old lives the same number of days, but not the same length of time. Ponder that. Some are more connected to each second, some to minutes, some to days, some to decades, and some to all of it. So time is a focus issue, not a duration issue. Get it. Notice that the magazine called Time is not about time, but about lives and events. Every man (sic) lives the year, so how can there be a Man of the Year unless time is about something else.

"When you are sick, you often live in the seconds, the heartbeats. When you're in pain, every second counts and you can rely on Anbesol for fast relief. And yet later in retrospect, that same time will seem to collapse into just a moment. Time is a river... or a spring, ever-flowing. But if I could put time in a bottle, I could sell it as the Fountain of Youth. But here's the catch: If I could hold back time, then you would not grow old, but you would not grow anything or any way else." (5/27/99 - B#24)

"I offer a conundrum. My work as a guide ended long ago, and I have moved on, but we still talk. How. I am alive again on Earth, yes, but not yet. How is this possible. Clue: time ain't time. Ok. Why do the living impose their linear time on us who are beyond it. Can we be here and in another life at the same time, yes and no. It is not a matter of time, only sequence, and there are many sequences. So, for you, I wait until you get here, years from now. But I also leave and get on with it. My sequence is right for me, and yours for you, and as long as we don't impose arbitrary time, it's ok. So picture me here if you want that--your thing. I'll picture me elsewhere--and that's my thing. So ponder that." (8/23/99 - B#25)

"So, a Thanksgiving Day thought. Too often, people think of thanks as a relationship with the past. It can be that, but it also must be a relationship with the future. When we give thanks that is true, we are saying that, as we aim ourselves through the web of being, that for which we are thankful will inform and guide and shape our paths. To say thanks, and not be changed in the act, is a fraud... book 'em, Danno.

"So, always as you say thanks in any way, ask yourself how you will be different because of that for which you are thankful, and it is the transformation for which you should be truly thankful. So yes, don't just say 'Thanks for holding the door for me, Mr. Brown,' but also say 'It reminds me to be polite to others.' Thanks is only the opening phrase of a whole sentence, and it is the dependent one--even if not grammatically--because you could live without giving the thanks, but you can't live without the learning part." (11/25/99 - B#26)

"Yesterday will always seem more certain than tomorrow. But both are equal realities." (11/25/99 - B#27)

"Focus gives substance to the theoretical framework called possibility." (12/31/99 - B#28)

"Ok. Serious time, and I'm going to make some people mad at me. I'm going to speak my mind, ha. So there. Viable organisms... ta-da... don't just deal with the present. Re-creation and procreation are all about looking forward. If you aren't focused forward, you are part of the past. And here comes the sticky part: Those who try to live in the present are part of the past. Don't glorify the present. Don't make it an icon over and against thinking ahead. So often, the mellow people dislike and disclaim those who think about what will happen, but those with an eye on the future get to shape it, and living in the eternal Now doesn't. Now is only valuable as a starting place, not a stopping place.

"So when all those people who dream meet those who try to be only present, let the dreamers take heart; for theirs are the winds of change, which are the only true movements of being. In fact, living in the moment is just a copout for trying to avoid the demands of the future. The great teachings about being aware were not about just being aware, but cleansing what had been, so one can move into the future without contamination. The current fascination with the Now is just a way to cover fears of dealing with a future. Ok, that should piss off a few.

"In fact, those who spend time thinking through possible scenarios for the future are the closest to the field of their being. First-timers are clueless, but the next several layers focus on the past ('Who do you think my great-grandmother was,' etc., etc.). And in the middle of the process are the Now people, and in the more-ready-to-be-fulfilled-and-move-on is a renewed sense of future as important. Remember the garbled reports about Jesus speaking of the future. He was there, mon. Talk of future times has always been seen as prophetic, but it is just a quality of being into the future--all ready to move on, but with only a sense of this world for planning. That's it and that's all and that's enough.

"Being open to the future here is a sign of openness. You expect maybe you die and POOF you get it all together. No way, José. It is a process over many lives of changing lives. A leeetle here and a leeetle more there and a scooch there and a quack quack here and a quack quack there, here a quack there a quack everywhere a quack quack... moo. So ponder that. Being too attached or focused on the Now, and where can you go from there but to Now, which is already past, bye-bye, ta-ta." (1/25/2000 - B#29)

"Many of the living seem to prefer the past, and there are 2 reasons and both have to do with change. Those without a profound loss think it will keep them at bay, and those living with profound loss think it will keep them from losing the loved one forever.

"Those who dwell on the Now are also trying to avoid the awesome and awful reality of loss. 'I won't think about then, I will focus on now and maybe meaning will catch up to me.' But here's the clinker: While we are stuck with the past or fixated with the present, our loved ones move on and they are no longer past and they are no longer present, but in our futures they hold meaning. That very place many fear going--the future, where they think the loved one has no place--is the very place the loved one is. For it is there that our meaningful connections will be manifest again.

"So don't fear the future. It is not a place and time of loss and separation. It is the time and place of connection. But that's not the way I, or most others, think when alive. I was as dense as the rest. I worried about Papa dying first. But it wouldn't have really mattered, if I saw him as part of my future, not just part of my past. And I had to get here and see him in bathing trunks here to realize that. O how many will mourn the years lost in pining and grieving when they get here. Regrets, no... more like duh. So, that's the scoop." (1/30/2000 - B#30)

"So, I foresee we will talk about prophecy. I think I will have three things to say:

"1. In a web of probable realities, as long as the prophecy is related to some piece of central reality, then it will come true somewhere in the web. If you hear something predicted and say, 'no way,' then it probably won't happen. But if it sounds at all possible, then don't think it is wrong if it doesn't happen in your present perceptual reality. Hey, if it's in your field, it is still true. Ok, like I say I am going to hit a triple into right field, but I hit one into left. Still in your field, ha... not at all coming from left field. So, that's 1. Prophecy must relate to your field, but not necessarily your current perspective. Ok...

"2. Many prophecies, once they are in your field, become self-fulfilling. Why. Because you look for signs and signals, and unconsciously shape choices in their direction, and also because you stop looking for further outcomes once the predicted occurs. So maybe the prophecy is only a minor step, but you take it as a total omen. And...

"3. And this could be the hardest of all. The introduction of an idea into your system alters the system. 1812: If someone said you could someday travel at 100 mph, that would be a prediction. But the very notion made its reality possible, so by 1900 it was possible, and trains could go that fast. It may take time, but that which is predictable is then possible, but not before. And now we have many railroad prophecies. They call them timetables, but they are nothing more than prophecies of what will occur on any given day, more or less. Once the field of being admits the possibility, then prophecy becomes predictive reality. And that's all I have to say about that.

"Prophets are just people better tuned to the reality in which they exist, so their visions are more likely to become realised. Prophets are not connected to a higher plane, but more connected to this one. And I mean this one as in, the one in which a person is. Actually, prophets are specialists because they can focus the probable here without the interferences of there. Wackos can't do that, and they then give off visions that are just wacky. Their prophecies may be true, but not here. But again, the test is: Does it become even a little possible in your thinking, or is it just wacko. It could be possible in some people's thinking and wacko to others. Aha. It has to do with your field... or his field or her field or its field or our field or their field. You think the Jewish prophets made sense to the Canaanites. I don't theeenk so.

"And it's not relative. If it were relative, it would have some relation, but we're talking separation of specific areas of field here. It is all part of one field, but not as we can know and understand yet. We still have separation because we still have gaps of understanding, and will until our entity is one with everything. Hold the mustard." (3/12/2000 - B#31)

"So, let's talk physics. Physics is based on the idea that there is a here and a there. Without that, you can't have acceleration, for that depends on time and distance. So without time and/or distance you can't have acceleration. Ok. Now force is mass times acceleration, or mass is acceleration divided into force. Ok, so if you don't have here and there, you don't have acceleration, and then you don't have mass. And if E = mc² and there is no mass, then you have no energy. So take Geritol and get your energy back.

"So, a puzzler: How to have a physical reality of energy and mass without a differential of here and there. Ok. You say... or someone says... 'We know there is a here and there because it always takes time to get from here to there, even at the speed of light.' But what about faster. Is there a limit. If not, eventually here and there collapse into one, and with that, bye-bye physical existence--at least at the formula level. So, how to speak of existence without a here and there. Parallel doesn't do it, but simultaneous does. And that's all I have been given to say, because I wouldn't understand shit beyond that, and neither would you, until we all move on." (6/7/2000 - B#32)

"Let me make this clear. I'm not here, but I'm here. A big issue. People say, 'What if, when I die, those I love have moved on. Then I won't see them.' First, here we don't see. But if time is only a physical construct, then it has no meaning here. So, someone who has moved on will be right here waiting, too. And the person here or the spirit here or the entity here will seem to be like how you want it. Want a person just as they were when they died, that's possible. How about how they have become. That's possible, too. Any way they have or will be is available when time is not an issue.

"There are an infinite number of Moos here; you just connect to this one. There are also little Brindls and Rikkis, and also Selenes and peeps you have yet to know--all existing simultaneously in terms of what you call time. Is that clear. Did I or did I not make myself clear. So you get here, and you get the Moo and you get that sassy 16-year-old and you get the monkey girl. All time flows. All that has been and will be exists, so why not. Hi, I'm Ericka's zygote. Want to meet Rick's sperm. Look, there's someone from the future. Hi. So it is not just that we appear as you see us, but that all of each of us is available. But take a number and wait, she will be out.

"You can see yourself at any point, if you are open to it. I have glimpsed ahead some, but that does not seem to help. And going back is not that much help. Look, I was thinking about how much fun I had as a 7-year-old, but when I met me, I was a pain. Questions, questions, questions, that's all I did. Looking in is not the same as looking out. Ok, that's the heavy stuff." (10/3/2000 - B#33)

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