SNN Books

22/07/2024

From Frank DeMarco:

Some counterfactual speculations from my novel Papa’s Trial: Hemingway in the Afterlife.

http://ofmyownknowledge.com/2024/07/22/hemingway-at-125-what-if/

Papa's Trial: Hemingway in the Afterlife

15/03/2024

Excerpts from The Sphere and the Hologram:

Frank DeMarco: This book originated as transcripts of a series of sessions Rita Warren and I conducted with “the guys upstairs,” (TGU) unnamed non-physical entities who were willing to address our curiosity as to the nature of the unseen world.

Co-author Rita Q. Warren on the impact of the TGU material:
What has changed for Frank and for me as a result of these experiences? . . . I have made some mental, emotional, and psychological changes during our adventures. There have been a number of ways in which the statements of The Guys Upstairs have been particularly powerful for me.

1. Choosing. Our assignment in this life is to choose and choose and choose again. Being exposed to all of the contacts with TGU led to greater awareness that we are continually choosing minute by minute in our lives. After all, if that is our main purpose in life, it is much better to bring it totally into consciousness. It is our way of continually creating ourselves . . .

2. Stretching our consciousness. Our current step developmentally is to bring all parts of ourselves to awareness. “Filling our crystal with awareness” is the way TGU phrase it. Looking at everything from an Upstairs (Oneness) and a Downstairs (individual) perspective is TGU’s recommendation; I am trying to do that as a way of redefining myself, remembering that the greater part of myself remains in the nonphysical.

3. Losing the dualities of here and there, now and then, us and them. In the timeless and spaceless world of TGU, we are in no way separate from them, and only here and now exist. We can bring our conscious focus on to the here and now, as is often recommended, and it is a useful thing to do since this is really what we have to work with. And knowing that we are One with our guidance is reassuring indeed.
. . to be continued . . .

The Sphere and the Hologram: Explanations from the Other Side / 15th Anniversary Edition

07/11/2023

It was an extraordinary three-way partnership, and it produced extraordinary results.

The physical side of the collaboration involved Rita Warren--professor of psychology and for four years the director The Monroe Institute's laboratory--and Frank DeMarco, an author and editor who had learned to bring forth messages from the non-physical world.

Over the course of several months, DeMarco entered an altered state while Warren asked important questions about life, the afterlife, channeling, the nature of good and evil, history and much more.

The Sphere and the Hologram is a record of the answers they received from the other side.

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31/10/2023

A happy coincidence: October 30th is Robert Monroe’s birthday and also the republication date of of Frank DeMarco’s The Sphere and the Hologram. The connection is that Frank spent considerable time at The Monroe Insitute, first doing their Gateway program and then a number of others. His experiences there taught him, as he writes in this book, “how to get into touch with internal guidance, and how to contact and assist those who had died and not realized that they were dead,” among many other things. He also opened a conscious relationship with “the disembodied entities I somewhat whimsically call The Gentlemen Upstairs (TGU). No point in trying too hard to define what they are. I think of them as roughly the parts of ourselves that extend beyond time and space.”

After a series of “black box” sessions in TMI’s sensory isolation booth, Frank and Rita Warren—a psychology professor and for four years the the director of The Monroe Institute’s laboratory—joined forces to communicate with TGU. Frank would enter an altered (yet still conscious state) and Rita asked a wide range of fascinating, nuanced, insightful questions—which resulted in equally stimulating responses.

It’s a little hard to narrow down the incredible range of topics in this book, but here are a few section headers: The Nature of Individuals, Free Will and Conscience, Higher and Lower Impulses, How TGU See the World, Emotions, Life’s Goals, Two Kinds of UFOs, Holding One’s Center, Countless Realities, The Meaning of Disasters, The Uses of Physical Matter, Shifting Consciousness, Alternate Realities, Channeling, Intelligence Inherent in the Universe, Creating Reality/Being Dreamed, The Question of God, Seth and TGU as Phenomenon, and . . . well, it goes on and on. This is a five-hundred page book organized in Q&A format, so you don’t have to read it from beginning to end to get something out of it.

As Frank advises in his new introduction, “Wrestle with the ideas presented to see whether they ring true. Neither automatic acceptance nor automatic rejection can change your life. Test what is said here; think about it; question whether your own life experience supports it. My hope is that this material will encourage you to do your own exploring.”

Frank has gone on to publish a number of other books as well, and weplan on republishing several of these as well as new work. The Sphere and the Hologram should be the first of many fascinating projects that invite us to explore reality in new ways.

p.s. A 15th Anniversary Kindle version is expected shortly.

The Sphere and the Hologram: Explanations from the Other Side / 15th Anniversary Edition

02/07/2022

“Extremely well written… Frank DeMarco knows the subject well.”

This is the 61st anniversary of Ernest Hemingway's su***de. He has been called one of the greatest English-language writers since Shakespeare, but on July 2, 1961 he took his own life, thinking it would be the end. But what if it wasn't?
What if life is followed by a continuation of consciousness in other conditions? And what if the first thing we have to do is come to terms with the life we have just led? That's the premise of "Papa's Trial: Hemingway in the Afterlife." Hemingway goes through his past-life review, believing himself to be on trial, and his own conscience leads him to expect condemnation. But nothing is that simple.

Some excerpts from Amazon reviews:

“A heart-wrenchingly honest conversation on the purpose and meaning of Hemingway's life from Hemingway himself.”

“Extremely well written… Frank DeMarco knows the subject well.”

“Illuminating and satisfying.”