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SDPC Introduction Valerie metaphor grief hospital death

There’s little I can say that will offer comfort to you about your mother’s death. On the other hand, I can say everything — for her life encompassed the world, the universe, just as much as yours does, or mine, or Laurel’s. She lives then, as I’m sure you know. From my own experience I can say that she’ll surely communicate with you, expressing new and unfathomable facets and attitudes of the universe — always brilliant, perhaps inexpressible in ordinary terms, yet reaching you and touching in unexpected ways. I think I know my own parents better now than I did when they were ‘living.’ I understand so much more about them now, and with compassion see and feel their strivings and hopes, loves and successes and failures in ways I was not consciously aware of before. I think this kind of heightened knowledge and awareness always comes to those still ‘living’ — but also, that those who have ‘died’ are more alive and adventurous than ever, and at least sometimes in ways we just cannot comprehend. I know this is the case with Jane. So, I think, it will be with you and your mother and father. My love to you and your son.

SDPC Part Two: Chapter 10 Mark Rob furniture arrangements bookcases

[...] In your case, as I have told you, you overcompensate now for past fleshiness by a most unnecessary self-punishing attitude. [...]

Rob felt my attitude was rigid, and it was, of course. [...]

[...] Just the same, with the attitude I had at the time, I’m glad I didn’t know about the letter that was to arrive the next day.

SDPC Part Two: Chapter 7 camouflage Malba instruments Decatur senses

[...] I mentioned this experience briefly in How To Develop Your ESP Power, but here I’m including Rob’s notes which provide a fuller version of the event and our attitude toward it at the time.