A Gentle Death
Ruby was an 11 or 12 year old Australian shepherd dog who had been kept confined in a trailer and overfed to the point where she was virtually immobile. When my housemate Dina adopted her back in June,...
View ArticleOn Oneness and Loss: A Trance-Persona Talk by “The Family”
Mr. Rand has asked us why the Earth kills so many of its creatures on a daily basis. It it because the world is out of balance due to sins of humans and their first parents, Adam and Eve? Is it because...
View ArticleStuart In the Sky, With Diamonds
The week after my lover Stuart died, I took our wolf-dog, Kaz, out into the wintry New Mexican woods. Snow had softened the ground’s harsh clays. The sun was shining brilliantly off the white-clad...
View ArticleThe Emperor’s New Clothes: A Message from “The Family”
The Emperor Essence, the Manifesting Doer. In physical reality, things change. This is both the gift of physical reality and its curse. Only in physical reality (and its immediate support structure,...
View ArticleA Message From “The Family”: On the Yearning For Love
Mister Rand has been involved of late with much pain concerning loves lost, ignored, feared, or missed. He wonders whether he will ever find freedom from his inner child’s need to cleave to another...
View ArticleA Message from “The Family”: On Those Who Have Gone Before
Jeffrey Robert Lee (L); Rand Benjamin Lee (R) On those who have gone before there is much to say and little: much, because, from our viewpoint in the plane of light and sound, the joyous celebration of...
View ArticleA Message From ‘The Family’: On Giving Thanks
Gratitude, Mister Rand informs us, is a muscle he has yet to build up hugely. He says that when he hears slogans in his Twelve Step meetings such as, I need an attitude of gratitude, he says with a...
View ArticleOn Casual Malice
A few days ago an act of casual, impulsive malice on my part caused a possibly irreparable rift between me and a dear, emotionally vulnerable friend. The impulse to hurt this person’s feelings did not...
View ArticleA Message From “The Family”: On Ghosts, Aliens, Spirit Guides and Hauntings,...
And we thank you for sharing. On the subject of ghosts and spirits much has been written, yet Mister Rand is desirous of our thoughts on these subjects. So we share what we know of them from our...
View ArticleBreathe and Release
I don’t know about you, but I find the holiday season pretty stressful. I have to remind myself all the time these days that I don’t need to be perfect in order to be acceptable to Spirit or myself. I...
View ArticleA Love Letter To Alex, On the Anniversary of His Suicide
Dear Alex, Today, January 27th, is the anniversary of the day I found you dead on your bed in 1988. My elderly cat has been sick, and though I love him dearly and will miss him terribly when it is his...
View ArticleA Message From “The Family”: On Pets
Mister Rand is today facing the possibility that his pet feline, Urdwill, may have more cancerous tumors growing upon his body. They may be malignant or they may be nonmalignant, but in any event...
View ArticleAftermaths
One of the most painful things about the death of a beloved is not how much difference it makes in one’s days afterwards, but how little. My sweet 14-year-old cat, Urdwill (a.k.a. Burd), was as much...
View ArticleMy Landlord’s Dog
My landlord’s dog is a white female American bulldog named Julie. She is 8 years old, and exudes sweetness and love to such an extent that nearly everyone who meets her tells my landlord, whom I’ll...
View ArticleA Message From “The Family”: On Eating Disorders
Mister Rand has long suffered from what is termed an “eating disorder,” in his case the compulsion to eat more than his body requires especially of carbohydrates, sugars, and fat-laden proteins. As a...
View ArticleA Message From “The Family”: On Human Goodness
Jeffrey Robert Lee (L); Rand Benjamin Lee (R) Mister Rand has found himself deeply upset by the carnage in Florida’s gay and Lesbian nightclub, the club in which half a hundred individuals lost their...
View ArticleA Message From “The Family”: On The Beloved Dead
[On January 27, 1988, I walked into my love Stuart’s bedroom and found him dead on the bed. He and I had been lovers for only 2 years. We worked as psychics together in Key West, Florida and Santa Fe,...
View ArticleA Message From “The Family”: On the Theory of An Evolving Deity
When Mister Rand first entered physical reality in zygote form in the womb of his present incarnation’s mother, he … brought with him into physical reality many experiences of standards fallen short,...
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