“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Those were the famous words spoken by Franklin D. Roosevelt during his first inaugural address, and while he showed much greater insight than most people, before or since, he didn’t have it all figured out. Not by a long shot.…
What follows is an excerpt I recently found in my personal journal. I wrote it Friday, November 25th, 2005, the day after Thanksgiving. It offers the reader a chance to peek inside my mind as I consider some new ideas that I found extremely compelling at the time, and far…
I would like to say something about the only emotions being love and fear. In a sense that is true, but it can be simplified even further to the point where there is only one: love. Here’s what I mean. Fear is the emotion we experience when we have the…
Excerpted from the Time, Myth, and Magic, a work in progress by Ned B. Johnson I awoke one morning after a forgotten dream, but with a scene lingering in my mind from the movie “A Beautiful Mind.” In the film, mathematician John Nash hallucinated a little girl for many years…
Freedom is a word that is bandied about capriciously by nearly everyone in these United States, yet is one of the most abused words in our language. In the minds of the founding fathers, it was thought of as an absolute thing: either one is free or one is not.…
(excepted from The Seth Material) Now, and this will seem like a contradiction in terms—there is nonbeing. It is a state, not of nothingness, but a state in which probabilities and possibilities are known and anticipated but blocked from expression. Dimly, through what you would call history, hardly remembered, there was…
There is a subtle but critical difference between intellectual and personal acceptance. It took me a lot of years to reach the place where I felt I had to go one way or the other, the conventional reality view or Seth’s. When that time came, my choice was to consciously,…
