The inner thread behind my writing A woman who knows me only through my books asked me to provide a précis of what they are and what they are aimed at. I sent her this and she liked it, and I thought, well, maybe others will too. Maybe it will make the inner thread more visible. Books by Frank DeMarco Although I didn’t consciously intend it, I see in retrospect that my non-fiction books document my experience of learning to explore the non-physical side of life. Different parts of my story may be useful to different people at different stages of their journey. Thus: Muddy Tracks: Exploring an Unsuspected Reality (2001) This deals with 50 years of trying to figure out what my life was all about, centering on four residential programs at The Monroe Institute, but beginning with my earliest years, a mixture of Catholicism, Edgar Cayce, Colin Wilson, and various strange experiences that took quite a while to be better understood. Not least of these was an introduction to the non-physical guidance system which I experienced as an undifferentiated set of intelligences which I called The Guys Upstairs. A Place to Stand: An account of the process and results of ten booth sessions at The Monroe Institute in the Fall of 2000. (eBook, 2014, paperback, 2015.) After Muddy Tracks was written, though before it was published, I did ten booth sessions in TMI’s black box and transcribed the resulting tapes. A Place to Stand comprises those transcripts, and the physiology charts electronically produced during the sessions, and post-session discussions with monitor Skip Atwater. These sessions permanently altered my view of the world, hence permanently altered my life. The Sphere and the Hologram: Explanations from the Other Side (2008) The booth sessions led Rita Warren and me to begin a series of weekly altered-state sessions exploring the ramifications of the material. Those sessions were taped and transcribed and published as The Sphere and the Hologram. This remarkable body of information further changed Rita’s and my worldview, which led to other changes. Chasing Smallwood: Talking with the Other Side (2008) In the Fall of 2005 I took a six-month sabbatical from my editorial duties at Hampton Roads, intending to write a book about guidance and healing. The agenda changed when for the first time I got into a dialogue with Joseph Smallwood, a 19th-century American who incorporates (and perhaps explains) many of my lifelong traits. A six-month sabbatical became early retirement, and I published my dialogues as Chasing Smallwood, which remains a sort of over-the-shoulder view of learning to engage in this kind of communication without either choking off the dialogue or going off the deep end. The Cosmic Internet: Explanations from the Other Side (2011) was a pretty successful attempt to condense and codify what I had learned about getting into touch with guidance and therefore living in a new and richer way. Afterlife Conversations with Hemingway: A Dialog on His Life, His Work and the Myth (2012) is the record of a long interaction that began in 2006, increased in frequency and depth over the next few years and became a daily encounter for several months in 2010. I don’t think this could have occurred without what I had learned about dealing with individuals such as Joseph. The Hemingway interaction centered on his own life, of course, but proved to be about far more than that. Imagine Yourself Well: A Practical Guide to Using Visualization to Improve Your Health and Your Life (2014) was my book about healing, finally. Short, simple (but not simplistic) and thoroughly grounded in experience. I couldn’t have come to this without the changes resulting from my long exploration, as documented in the earlier books.
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