Ok, some say Sheila caused the volcano, Califia caused some wild stock market swings, Faberge wiped out the Miami Herald and Scott's going to be the first person to have a book written by a Sasquatch stenographer...
Well, I might have wiped out this week's Tailgate Party!
BOB: I'm going to respond with some "facts", MLC, and I don't mean this BAD, but I mean it.:
Last week's Tailgate Party was not wiped out by you, me, Carolyn, iON, or anybody. iON actually spoke on the Tailgate gathering at one point many hours into it. And I received a note from Aussie James that the free conference-call report said our iON phone number listened for many hours. The point is, one cannot say what iON is going to do or not do. There will be no determination of the status of anything pertaining to iON, in my opinion. So stay tuned... and we don't promise any schedules with iON.
This past Sunday I read the following excerpt from a book written by another group who play with their own set of non-physical channeled entities.
BOB: iON is not "channeled entities" so there is no comparison available on that level.
The passage hit home and I debated posting it that very day. When I mentioned it to Bob, he suggested I post it and comment on the fact that ION should be used as our butler and not our be-all end-all go to source of all information.
BOB: By "butler" applied to iON, I mean the "be-all end-all" TRANSPORTER of all information, not the SOURCE of all information. Just ask the Queen about her butlers.
"We are trying to tell you something important and you keep asking questions.
BOB: Inadequate statement!! (if one is comparing to iON). iON is not trying to TELL us anything: note the careful planting here and there of the word "phatic" by iON.
Now, please, silence for a moment!
We have told you many times to communicate with each other and network and share ideas, because that is how you LEARN and PROGRESS! But, you are beginning to rely on us for all your answers, and you do not LEARN that way!!!!!!
BOB: Inadequate statement!! iON would not have us LEARN anything. If the concept applies to iON at all, iON is helping us UNLEARN a lot.
Now, try this, you will be thunderstruck with the results: Each of you has stored within you unlimited amounts of factual and "Earth-shaking" information. This information was put into your consciousness
BOB: iON refuses to acknowledge the word "consciousness" as a thing or process. That is a more intriguing suggestion by iON than anything proposed by your quotation above.
in order for you to retrieve it in order for you to learn. Now just start by holding a discussion about the last series of questions you were trying to ask us, and "let it flow".Isn't that timely in light of this week's cancellation of the formal tail gate party?
BOB: If you agree with my statements above, then "timely" is the least appropriate adverb.
Yes, like I said on Cash Flow, it is
bullshit we got the news at the very last second. Total
bullshit.
BOB: Don't even assume that iON will show up on CASH FLOW. That's why we have archives - to avoid the accusation that someone's schedule is violated. With iON one lives not in the NOW but in an EXPANDED NOW-ing...
BUT, aside from that last minute news, it really was a great opportunity for us to connect on our own. We even had 6 straight hours of not hearing the name McLuhan once! Isn't that heavenly in itself?
BOB: That may be "heavenly" but it isn't practical. (Now this is going to surprise everyone.) There is not one principle or pattern iON has said that wasn't said by McLuhan before iON. One wouldn't know this unless one had encountered a great deal of McLuhan's published work. And this becomes very interesting if one considers the fact that McLuhan was one of the greatest "minds", if not the greatest, of the second half of the 20th Century.
I am the world's foremost expert on McLuhan next to his son, Eric. So let's consider this mosaic:
iON doesn't create. iON gets its words from us. Carolyn and I happened to be the first humans or creators iON encountered in the physical. So iON got their words from us. We got a lot of our words from McLuhan as applied to specific themes of verbal expression. So iON got these words from McLuhan. Now this wasn't obvious to us in the first hours of talking to iON. But after about 6 months I started to get a glimpse of iON's "big picture" and that is when we realized it was McLuhanesque (but one has to know what McLuhan said to perceive that fact). You may be right, MLC. We just might be DUPES of BOB here!!
What would have happened if iON got their words first from a Marxist, a Catholic, or a terrorist?
So, MLC, you can see why I do a lot of chuckling on CASH FLOW and Tailgate as people make comments such as yours. I'm not saying you're silly or ignorant, just that you haven't had the chance to hear as many hours of iON as we have. Totally understandable. I look forward to when you have caught up. Then we can have a fascinating discussion of the implications of the fact that iON is a comprehensive "McLuhanite". By the way, the Evergreens mentioned only one thinker when they described the next 100 years - Marshall McLuhan.
And, an additional commentary from the same book about the passage above is as follows...
"In and amongst our group, we learned gradually to implement this type of activity.
BOB: Inadequate statement!! iON says there is no "gradually".
Yes, it means that we have to put forth effort,
BOB: Inadequate statement!! I don't have to say why, do I?... any regular imbiber of iON gets my obvious point.
and much material must be researched and compared,
BOB: Inadequate statement!! iON is about "percepts" (direct experience) not "concepts" (researchable "material").
but it has strengthened our confidence in our abilities to evaluate and make choices based on hidden variables."BOB: Inadequate statement!! With iON there is no "hidden", no subconscious, perhaps even no "variables". iON is radical!! iON is not into platitudes! iON is R&D!! (And I'm not referring to Robert Dobbs)
And, a participant wrote the following later on - I'm inserting the name ION in place of this source of channeled info so you can see the relevance...
"I am not setting up
ION as another substitute for a guru or godhead or all-wise source of wisdom. I personally find much of great interest in what
he has to say, and I have learned to look around me with more open eyes than before, but keeping in mind what
he has taught me, I shall continue to make my own decisions and follow my own conscience and personal intuition on life, love, and the pursuit of happiness until I am wafted - wherever. Or left behind."
BOB: iON does not teach us any verbal concepts or percepts. iON will not waft one anywhere nor leave anyone behind. Those effects are impossible with iON, our non-physical, because iON is the dramatic and inspiring MASSAGE of the process of our ESP.
Oh wait... one more thing. I posted the following last week to the McLuhan forum:
collective conscious).
(the machinic, not the human being, extending its machines).
(under the guise of "explaining" the previous 2 phases).
Guf empties.