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Friends,

Here we plan to share information on many topics, usually daily, perhaps more than one post per day. Personal growth items. Extraordinary abilities. Inspirational true stories. Things you can use. Things you ought to know but probably won’t hear about in the conventional media. Politics, sometimes, in the largest sense of the term. Stay tuned.

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Frank DeMarco

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Friends,

I don’t doubt this boy’s story for a moment. For one thing, there’s no reason to unless you’re terrified that reincarnation is true. For another, he’s a kid, and kids don’t tell that kind of lie. For a third, I remember a friend I had years ago who remembered being a crewman on a bomber in WW II over Europe. He too was shot down.

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/dailycourier/news/s_463166.html

This via a friend.

Love,

Frank

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Boy tells of pilot’s experiences

By Patti Dobranski
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Monday, July 24, 2006

James Leininger’s parents want their 8-year-old son to have a great life — his own life.

But for the past 5 1/2 years, the Louisiana boy has been reliving pieces of the life of another James — Lt. James McCready Huston, a World War II fighter pilot from Uniontown who was killed near Iwo Jima more than 50 years before James was born.

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A friend sent me this piece, and i liked it a lot.

The power of forgetting

The Daoist ideal of ’sitting quietly’ could help us break the cycle of escalating violence

Karen Armstrong
Saturday August 19, 2006
The Guardian

Zhuangzi, the great Daoist sage who lived in the 4th century BCE, told an illuminating story about Confucius. One day his favourite disciple Yan Hui triumphantly announced that he could not remember anything Confucius had taught him. “What do you mean?” Confucius asked uneasily. “I sit quietly and forget!” beamed Yan Hui. Instead of being dismayed, Confucius acknowledged that his pupil had surpassed him. The intellect, he explained, could only “tally things up”, but the deepest core of the human being, whence enlightenment comes, was vacant and receptive. “The Way is found in emptiness. Emptiness is the mind’s fast.”

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Friends,

It seems to me that I hear the same message from all sides these days: Our prayers can help the dead!

This is what I was taught in my Catholic boyhood, and later discarded, and now realize is true. Rudolf Steiner has something to say on the “why of it.

This via a friend, about his wife Joy’s experience.

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