Integral Conscious Creation

Dinner & A Dead Gal, Session 277

2008-08-19T00:54:00Z

August 16, 2008, 4:41 PM. Participants: Joanne, Paul, Ursula, George, Sarah, Tom, Catherine (Tennessee), Nardine (Melbourne, Australia), Cynthia (Oklahoma), Mary (California), Marcos (New York), Will (California), Debi (California), and Rumi the cat. We had another long session this past Saturday as eight folks joined us on the teleconference for our second Int’l. Session. We may just name this session Questions & Answers as Rose simply opened the floor for questions after a brief opening in...(read more)

Dinner & A Dead Gal, Session 272

2008-08-04T16:09:00Z

August 2, 2008, 4:45 PM. Participants: Joanne, Paul, Ursula, George, Frieda (Pennsylvania), Joe (Colorado), Catherine (Tennessee), Rodney (New Jersey), Arianna & Sue (Alberta, Canada), Tom (New Jersey), Nardine (Melbourne, Australia), Cynthia (Oklahoma), and Rumi the cat. We continued to prototype our conference phone capabilities, and nine people from three countries joined the fun, making it our first international session! Thanks to all who participated, the energy was really great, and you...(read more)

Dinner & A Dead Gal, Session 269

2008-07-23T19:24:00Z

July 19, 2008, 4:38 PM. Participants: Joanne, Paul, Ursula, Caryn, Tom, Mike, Cat, George, Bob, Joyce, Frieda (Pennsylvania), Eric (Pennsylvania), and Will (California). Newsflash: We officially changed the name of our Rose Potluck Dinners! Now that we have a better sense of Rose’s direction and style, it seemed appropriate to resurrect the name that expressed our irreverent and fun approach to exploring the unknown reality. Since our raison d’etre is to share food, drink, and conversation, we also...(read more)

Rose Potluck Dinner, Session 266

2008-07-07T22:39:00Z

July 05, 2008, 4:36 PM. Castaic, California Participants: Joanne, Paul, George, Sarah, Mike, Joyce, Ursula, Rumi the cat, and Eric (in Pennsylvania by phone). This week it was only 100 degrees by session time , so we were delighted that our new air-conditioning system kept us cool! What was also cool, but in a different sense, was that our postman delivered a registered package earlier in the day from Kriston Laszlo in Budapest, Hungary. It contained two copies of Elixir magazine from last October...(read more)

Dinner & A Dead Guy Lives! (Rose Potluck Dinners)

2008-06-25T21:50:00Z

Some of you will remember that Joanne and I kicked off our Dinner and A Dead Guy series in July, 2004 to help Serge, Mark, and Kris develop The Kris Chronicles website and what would turn into The International Sessions a year or so later. When I look back over the last four years, I can only think, “My we’ve all come a long way, baby!” I really enjoyed that period of helping The Kris Chronicles to test its wings and begin to soar. We learned about the nine sisters, clans and clusters of consciousness,...(read more)

In Memoriam Robert F. Butts

2008-05-29T22:18:00Z

June 20, 1919 – May 26, 2008 Joanne and I received the following email on Tuesday May 27 th : Dear Folks, As some of you may have heard, Robert F. Butts passed away just before 3 o’clock in the afternoon on Monday, May 26, 2008, with his wife Laurel Butts at his side, in St. Joseph’s Hospital, Elmira, New York, after a brief illness. He would have been 89 in June. Up until a few weeks before his death, Rob was active and busy with his many projects, deeply involved as he was all his life with painting,...(read more)

Rose Does Vegas

2008-05-21T00:58:00Z

Well, not exactly, but this was the humorous theme I had in mind as Joanne and I drove to Las Vegas a week and a half ago for our yearly vacation. We had never jointly been to “Sin City,” though I had been there for a couple of days when I was four and my parents drove back from Ventura, CA to Elkins Park, PA. It’s only a four hour drive from our current home in Castaic, and since it was so close we figured this year that we should check it out at least once, though we sensed it might not really...(read more)

A Wonderful Castaic Weekend

2008-04-10T18:34:00Z

We just finished a fun, fun, fun weekend around Mary Ennis’ annual visit to Castaic, CA where the Elias phenomenon began thirteen years ago. During that time, Mary’s delivered over 2,400 sessions! Jo and I hosted this year’s session in our Community Clubhouse, which had been completely refurbished since Mary’s last visit, so the room looked great with its new furniture. Around thirty-two people attended, and there were several new folks as well. Elias spoke for close to two and a half hours. He opened...(read more)

2008 Elections

2008-03-21T00:11:47Z

(This post was inspired by a topic started by John McNally on Sethnet by the same name. I began to write a reply and I realized that it belonged here.) I am more optimistic about the Democrats chances in November, even Clinton will be better than McCain, though ironically, some Republicans are debating that! However, it is now possible that a groundswell of Barackomania may sweep him into the White House in January. I don't often post political speeches, but Barack Obama has a real gift to galvanize...(read more)

Integral Impressions on The Nature of Personal Reality by Jane Roberts: Part 1 of 5

2008-02-15T16:42:00Z

(Preface, Chapters 1-4) Foreword Several attempts have been made over the years to review The Nature of Personal Reality chapter by chapter in our online forums, but due to the immensity of the challenge have never gotten past the initial chapters. Recently on NewWorldView, however, Tom Sherlock stepped up to the plate and is attempting this heroic endeavor once again by publishing a précis of each chapter in order over the next few months. This inspired me to commit to a five-part series - a sort...(read more)

The Survival Files: A Review

2008-01-24T20:53:00Z

The Survival Files: The Most Convincing Evidence Yet Compiled For the Survival of Your Soul by Miles Edward Allen, Momentpoint Books (2005) . Is there a soul? Is there an afterlife? What about reincarnation? In the spirit of William James and F.W.H. Meyers, Miles Edward Allen provides an overview of scientific evidence for the existence of the soul and its survival of bodily death. Given the ineffable nature of the subject matter, the results are hardly final, though as we will see, they provide...(read more)

An Integral Overview of Channeling

2007-12-07T18:45:00Z

I have studied the channeling phenomenon for the past ten years. The main thing I have learned is that channeling is not a phenomenon in the singular sense, but rather an umbrella of related phenomena that have been with us for thousands of years. As such, to better understand what channeling is we need to explore the wide range of human abilities involved. Let’s begin with a little history. There is a premodern tradition known by many different names that dates back to the earliest written records,...(read more)

“A Kiss for a Crone”

2007-11-29T19:19:00Z

Joanne and I are celebrating her 50 th birthday this week. Since it occurs near the Thanksgiving holiday, there is always a feeling of appreciation on various fronts. But this year there is something extra special to be thankful for, namely, this gift of Rose that continues to weave into the fabric of our lives. As many know, Jo began an energy exchange with the essence of Rose back in April, and it’s taken us a good six months to better understand and assimilate this multi-faceted experience into...(read more)

"Wildfires, Families, and Stuff, Oh My!"

2007-10-29T20:21:00Z

It’s Monday, October 29, 2007 and the wildfires that continue to burn across Southern California have persisted for nine days, though they are mostly contained. It’s been a surreal experience and hundreds of thousands of people have been directly affected. While the human death toll is very low, the amount of land burned and property or "stuff" destroyed is estimated at over one billion US dollars. While a billion of anything is difficult to conceptualize, the scope of the fires is also beyond understanding,...(read more)

“Fun, Fun, Fun, Fun, Fun, Fun, Fun…!”

2007-09-19T22:05:00Z

Joanne and I just returned from five wonderful days at the Colorado Seth Conference in Longmont, CO, about 45 miles north of Denver. This was our second visit, and it felt like a family reunion since we saw so many familiar faces. I can’t tell you how incredible the group feeling gets and I hope that many of you will consider going next year! “The Committee” that organizes this event is loaded with talented, creative, and fun-loving folk. It includes Jim and Carol Funk, Jim and Loretta Gilbert, Dawn...(read more)