Dialogues of Love, Grief, & Survival Beyond Death — 21st Century Reports from the Afterlife through Contemplative, Intuitive, & Physical Mediumship.
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"Creativity is the principle of novelty. Creativity introduces novelty into the content of the many, which are the universe disjunctively. The creative advance is the application of this ultimate principle of creativity to each novel situation which it originates. The ultimate metaphysical principle is the advance from disjunction to conjunction, creating a novel entity other than the entities given in disjunction. The novel entity is at once the togetherness of the 'many' which it finds and also it is one among the disjunctive ' many' which it leaves; it is a novel entity, disjunctively among the many entities which it synthesizes. The many become one, and are increased by one. In their natures, entities are disjunctively 'many' in process of passage into conjunctive unity... Thus the 'production of novel togetherness' is the ultimate notion embodied in the term concrescence. These ultimate notions of 'production of novelty' and 'concrete togetherness' are inexplicable either in terms of higher universals or in terms of the components participating in the concrescence. The analysis of the components abstracts from the concrescence. The sole appeal is to intuition.-- (Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality, p. 26)
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"Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustable well. Yet everything happens a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even that. How many times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless." -- Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky
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"The instrument of thought, which has produced this world that does not work properly, is no longer valid. So perhaps this instrument of thought is worn out. Is there another instrument we can use?" -- Krishnamurti
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"...Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song, and the sun for his radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self-congratulation on the excellence of the human mind. Nature is a dull affair, soundless, scentless, colourless; merely the hurrying of material, endlessly, meaninglessly." -- Alfred North Whitehead - English mathematician & philosopher (1861-1947)___________________________________
". . . keeping the Risen concept of weaving in mind, perhaps at this point it can be sensed that what we have before us, from which we are inseparable and as reflected in this book, is a Supreme Tapestry. There appears to be a Very Grand Design which we all follow, either in awareness or not, co-creatively or not -- recalling that creative means fun. As we weave we are free to make it up as we go along in any way we please, simultaneously staying within the Grand Design as imagined by Higher Imaginals, of whom we an inseparable part. The Grand Design is a work of perfections intermingled with imperfections, solutions with mistakes, and stillness within movement. The Higher Imaginals are many things, but for our purposes here, it suffices to say that they are very advanced and evolved individuals, or Higher Selves." (from The Risen: Dialogues of Love, Grief & Survival Beyond Death; Chapter 13, Mundus Imaginalis, p. 165).
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I've just skimmed the interview so far, August (I'm at work), but the parts about the Risen contacting us, their use or non-use of language and their connection or lack of it with their earthly lives were most interesting to me, because of my relationship with Louis.
I really have no idea where he is in Risen terms. He hasn't forgotten his earthly days, despite the passing of over three hundred years; he just wasn't very interested in them when we were first in contact.
He tried to communicate non-verbally with me at first, but it turned out to be a lot easier if he reverted to words, because I had to translate what he said into words anyway, and that was clumsy. Mind you he always was good at languages. :)
Our time together in Spirit, when I cross over at night, is so quiet and domestic, and I really don't know if it's just my earth-mind's limitations on the memories, or whether we do lead such a low-key existence. It's not so much intensity as great contentment and pleasure in each other's company (and serving our feline and canine overlords, of course). He said once that everything we do is making love, whether sex is involved or not.
I had a semi-out-of-body experience yesterday morning, which is very rare for me. It was leaning forward from the body rather than being out of it, like partly shrugging off a cardigan. The main thing was touching his face and being able to feel it as well as see it mentally.
I don't know if this is progress in communicating with him. I do hope so.
PS I've commented here as Madame de Monsieur (that's a pun, not a typo) but I'm trying to use my URL, so it will come up differently. - Louise
It's good to see you here, Louise, thanks for reading and for your sharings, always wonderful!
Thank you, August! :)
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