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I of my own knowledge…
Use the phone!
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by Frank DeMarco |
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For more than 20 years, starting slowly but acquiring confidence and fluency as I went along, I have been learning to communicate with The Guys Upstairs on subjects of all kinds, ranging from high-flying discussions of “the way things are” to severely practical (and helpful) advice on how to deal with this or that personal or professional problem.
I never know what I’m going to get, but I’ve never yet found it dull.
Beginning in late 2005, the nature of the interaction deepened and became even more personal, as I began regular conversations with Joseph Smallwood, an American of the 19th century, a man who had ridden out to the Oregon territory, alone, in the 1840s, and had later fought in the Union army in the Civil War.
Moving from talking to a generalized “them” on the other side to talking to a specific individual was a big step. It became a bigger step when I began talking not only to him but to a succession of different people, most of whom I knew from having read their books. And this year, beginning at the end of April, I began an intense series of conversations, primarily with Ernest Hemingway and Carl Jung, that, as I write this in early June, has passed 100,000 words and is going strong.
In the middle of the conversation on Monday, June 7, what looked like an aside moved into a full-fledged discussion by the guys upstairs that is aimed as much at you as it is at me, and so here it is.
Monday, June 07, 2010
[They began by saying that my learning (or, I suppose they would say, their teaching me) to dialogue with them “has not been for the purpose of filling time.”]
The short of it is, we are moving in a certain direction and you are moving with us in that direction, and both halves of the process are meant to instruct and to encourage. We are bringing in new concepts; you are experiencing how it feels to receive them, which is part of the information.
[Me] Just as a point of interest, that seemed to start off as Papa, then somehow morphed into one of the unidentified "guys."
Happens all the time. You don't always notice. And -- you may find it a little hard to understand, or maybe not -- it doesn't matter. If you're centered on some subject and you're talking to two or three guys (in-body, I mean) you don't necessarily care who it is who says any particular thing about that subject. Sometimes you do, often you don't. Mostly when you do is when that person's point of view is as important as what's being talked about; when the subject itself is front and center, who says what doesn't as much matter, and in fact you've been in groups where you felt impelled to say some specific thing, and have refrained from doing so only to hear someone else say it in a few minutes. It is as if the information wanted to be said, and tried first this one, then that one, until it found outlet.
Not so different a process in-body to not-in-body or vice versa -- and why should it be? It's the same process exactly -- not-physical communication from one mind to another, with the only difference being the presence or absence of a physical body to channel the thought through.
This wasn't what we intended to talk about today, but as it's here, let's finish.
You, being in bodies, think that your minds are physical or primarily physical, because your concepts (much more than your experience) lead you to see things that way. You push and modulate air, and so you speak. Your ear translates modulated air (so to speak) into sound, and so you hear. Your eye recognizes the written code you have learned, and so you read. Communication is clearly sensory, right?
Wrong, of course. Scientists make themselves look pretty silly, trying to reduce to physical causes what are physical manifestations. Thus Scrooge’s dream (he thinks, according to the science of his day) may be a fragment of an underdone potato.
But what are dreams and where do they come from? And intuitions? And out-of-body experiences, for that matter? What are flashes of inspiration, and psychic hunches that prove true? What are memories and foreshadowings and déjà vu experiences and pre-cognitions?
The body is primarily physical, though intimately connected to the non-physical for sustenance moment by moment, as the Scriptures point out. But the mind is not physical, and shares none of the body's constraints.
Your communication with anyone or anything is non-physical because it is mind to mind, and the mind resides not in the physical world but in the non-physical. That communication may depend upon sensory transmission because you are closed to active non-physical transmission, or for whatever reason of time, space, or attention -- nonetheless the communication itself is mind to mind; non-physical to non-physical. It must be, because that is "where" minds reside.
Years ago you were told, everyone who ever reads any particular author's book is directly connected to that author and to everyone else who ever reads the book. You didn't have the background then to be told in such a way as to use the threads and rings analogy, so we left it at that, and you were content to take it as given. But perhaps now the mechanism is a little clearer to you.
It is one more way in which life may be regarded either as many interconnected individuals, or as all one thing, sub-specialized but interconnected. If you cannot grasp the inherent uselessness and in fact misleading nature of further “more definite, more precise” definitions, you can't go where you need to be in order to understand how this side and that side, physical and non-physical and sort-of-either interconnect and function. There is no bigger obstacle to understanding, perhaps, than inability to change viewpoints and concept without discarding the former and adopting the latter absolutely. No, awareness is awareness of flow and of ambiguity and of what can be said only between the lines.
So, to return to our starting-place, regard the process of communication between physical and non-physical as the same process as the communication you're used to experiencing in the body. This should take some of the awe, some of the strangeness, out of it. You're just doing what you've always done, but under slightly different constraints. It's like a long-distance party-line telephone call, perhaps. Maybe there's noise on the line sometimes and you have to shout. Maybe there's the presence of other people on the line, horning in on your conversation. Maybe you've even dialed at random, or the switchboard mis-connected you. It's still easier to use the phone than to drive to the other end (and maybe it's beyond driving distance anyway) and it's faster than writing a letter (and maybe the post office doesn't have RFD on the other end) and the Internet hasn't been invented yet, or if it has it's still in its beta-testing stage. (This last isn't a bad analogy for this process, in fact.)
Use the phone. When you pick up the physical telephone, you don't first prepare yourself with a purification ceremony, or go through a communication ritual, or worry whether you're intrinsically worthy to use it, or wonder if it will work for you as it does (or so you've been told!) for others. Just use it! The important thing is not the deification of the process; it's what you have to communicate.
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Frank DeMarco,
Author, publisher, editor, & psychic explorer.
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Frank DeMarco holds an M.A. in History from the University of Iowa and a B.A. in History from George Washington University.
His work as co-founder and (for 15 years) chief editor of Hampton Roads Publishing Company brought him into close association with many brilliant and insightful minds, including psychics, remote viewers, channelers and mystics, and showed him the human side of extraordinary abilities.
In 1992, his psychic abilities opened up at a Gateway Voyage at The Monroe Institute in central Virginia. Since then he has been engaged in first-hand exploration of the nature and limits of all things psychic, especially including such areas as healing and guidance, direct access to knowledge, communication with past lives, and the integration of the spiritual dimension into everyday life.
His autobiographical work Muddy Tracks: Exploring an Unsuspected Reality describes the first stages of his discovery of the key to expanded awareness, and offers pointers for those just beginning their quest. In his weblog, www.hologrambooks.com
wordpress.com, he shares the journey and the results of continuing explorations. His blog, “I of my own knowledge…” investigates what individuals can know first-hand about the purpose and conduct of life.
Contact info
www.hologrambooks.com/
hologrambooksblog
email:
muddytracks@
earthlink.net
www.hamptonroadspub.
com/blog
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