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Paul Selig and The Guides
We’ll leave it to the reader to figure out why The Church of BuVu would find Paul and The Guides worthy of attention in our Church Bulletin.
Here’s a link to his website: paulselig.com
And here’s a YouTube video of Paul being interviewed by Alex Ferrari, a much-watched podcaster when it comes to Near Death Experiences (NDEs) and other Spiritually Transformative Experiences (STEs). It’s a wonderful intro to Paul and The Guides.
(Ignore the scary title. This is all about Love and Hope. It’s the Fear and Dread that’s “collapsing.”)
Realization Lab
A podcast “laboratory for exploring the most fascinating phenomena in the spiritual world.”
These two episodes revisit NDEr Jonathan Ashford:
Please Don’t Worship Me
In this Near Death Experience account, Claudia Edge talks about her NDE and being subsequently introduced to “Spirit School,” a lucid dreaming state in which she has had breathtaking sessions. A favorite, for this writer, is when she meets Jesus:
Having been mostly accustomed to traditional Christian doctrines, she wanted to “kneel and touch the hem of His garment.”
Instead, he started laughing and told her to “get up. I don’t want to be worshipped.”
He had fun talking and joking around with her and reminded her that he is “her older brother,” not some exalted Being commanding worship and obedience.
YESSSSS!!!
What Would Jeebus Do?
For me, it all began with Jeebus, who was made manifest to the world in the fifteenth episode of the eleventh season of The Simpsons. In this episode, titled “Missionary: Impossible,” Homer flees a mob of angry PBS telethon hosts by hopping a cargo plane to hide out as a missionary in Microasia. Realizing the gravity of his situation, Homer gets on his knees, clasps his hands together, and appeals in all humility to Jeebus: “Save me, Jeebus. Jeebus, where are you?”. . .
. . . hearing this contortion of the name, image, and historic effect of Jesus triggered something deep in the recesses of my stock orthodox images of the Christ. It is Homer’s great Davidic moment. In this episode, he has finally come to grips with the tragic implications of his slapstick self-reliance and turns to something grander and more meta than anything The Simpsons had ever offered its characters: Jeebus. For both Homer and myself, this moment had the texture of revelation. . . .
M. Leary The Alternative History of Jesus (TheOtherJournal.com)
Whatever.
Near Death Experiencers (NDErs) who have passed through the Veil of incarnation, back to The Other Side, but returned to tell the rest of us what they experienced, report that if and when they met Jesus, he had a great sense of humor. Betcha he enjoys The Simpsons.
Just Be!
Christian Sundberg is one of those relatively rare ones who have had a Pre-Birth Experience (PBE) that they remember. He remembers being on “The Other Side” of the Veil, (the one between this human life on Earth and our true Home), before being born for this go-round.
That’s all very wonderfully interesting, but what’s equally interesting is what his PBE has helped him discover and know about how to live on THIS side of the veil.
You will love what he has to say:
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Yet Another NDE Interview
Here’s Part 1 of a marvelous story from NDEr, Jonathan Ashford, as told to Heather Tesch on her YouTube podcast:
Here’s Part 2:
Wow!!
R.I.P. Tom Robbins
It’s just a few days past the one year anniversary of Tom Robbins’ move through The Veil to The Other Side (2.9.2025). That said . . . ERLEICHDA! (Lighten Up! from Tom’s novel, Jitterbug Perfume.)
Here’s a link to a page where this notion is considered in depth, via quotes and links to some of Tom’s writing on the matter: ERLEICHDA!
Here’s one of the best bits from that page:
The Soul
If you need to visualize the soul, think of it as a cross between a wolf howl, a photon, and a dribble of dark molasses. But what it really is, as near as I can tell, is a packet of information. It’s a program, a piece of hyperspatial software designed explicitly to interface with the Mystery. Not a mystery, mind you, the Mystery. The one that can never be solved.
To one degree or another, everybody is connected to the Mystery, and everybody secretly yearns to expand the connection. That requires expanding the soul. These things can enlarge the soul: laughter, danger, imagination, meditation, wild nature, passion, compassion, psychedelics, beauty, iconoclasm, and driving around in the rain with the top down. These things can diminish it: fear, bitterness, blandness, trendiness, egotism, violence, corruption, ignorance, grasping, shining, and eating ketchup on cottage cheese.
Data in our psychic program is often nonlinear, nonhierarchical, archaic, alive, and teeming with paradox. Simply booting up is a challenge, if for no other reason than that most of us find acknowledging the unknowable and monitoring its intrusions upon the familiar and mundane more than a little embarrassing.
But say you’ve inflated your soul to the size of a beach ball and it’s soaking into the Mystery like wine into a mattress. What have you accomplished? Well, long term, you may have prepared yourself for a successful metamorphosis, an almost inconceivable transformation to be precipitated by your death or by some great worldwide eschatological whoopjamboreehoo. You may have. No one can say for sure.
More immediately, by waxing soulful you will have granted yourself the possibility of ecstatic participation in what the ancients considered a divinely animated universe. And on a day to day basis, folks, it doesn’t get any better than that.
Midlife Crisis Dance Party!
In addition to DJ Ray’s creative and well-informed goofball storytelling and commentary, there’s a boatload of marvelous music (except for “The Worst Song of the Week”), and … drumroll … Word Play (!!), a 4:30 segment featuring poetry and prose (short, please!), submitted by listeners. (Email your submission to DJ@kptz.org as soon after 3:00 p.m. as possible.)
Listeners submitting typically include three of our longtime BuFoons, Richard Coletta, Mary Marinkovich, and Steve Gillard.
You should consider tuning in!!
P.S. Just in case you need dance lessons:
Another NDE
Near Death Experiences (NDEs) are becoming marvelous and widespread vehicles of spiritual transformation. Here’s a really good one: