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Bruce Moen’s “Exploring the Afterlife” workshop, the second in our series of Applied Learning Series workshops, was held in Charlottesville on July 18 and 19^th. I was one of those attending, and the workshop demonstrated what I’ve always thought, that Bruce would be a great teacher.

Starting with 10 people he didn’t know, and me (I’ve known Bruce for nearly 10 years, and edited three of his five books) he set out to teach us, in two days, how to explore the afterlife, contact people who are deceased, and bring back verifiable details to demonstrate that the contact was not just fantasy.

Big ambition! And he succeeded, as I’ll show.

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Friends,

Someone sent me this speech, and I have been forwarding it in all directions, it is so beautiful. So I thought, I might as well post it here.

You certainly know that Steve Jobs co-created the Apple computer company. But you may not know of other aspects of the man. He is a true visionary, and, more to the point, and rarer, he is a practical visionary. Last month, he shared three stories with Stanford’s Class of 2005, and both the practical and the visionary aspects came through loud and clear. As you will see….

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The question that got me up and out to a little restaurant for a cup of coffee and a quiet place to write on a table, this Friday morning, is: How am I to live this?

My friends Stephen and Rich and I had come to Moab, Utah, visiting Dana Redfield — long-time friend, former Hampton Roads employee, and author among other things of three wonderful novels we published. Wednesday morning Rich and I had gone to Newspaper Rock, about an hour south of Moab. Then on Thursday the four of us went about half an hour north of Moab and saw some less well known petroglyphs.

Now, the Utah desert for some reason reminds me strongly of Egypt, or my idea of Egypt. In this lifetime, I have never been there, but apparently someone inside has, and experiences it as a mystical connection. The rocks seem alive, and one can almost feel the ancient presences that carved these flat-sided panels high in the mountains.

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