Greetings from Russell's Remnant:

We do not get the truth because of maya on the etheric part of the physical plane, glamour on the astral plane and illusion on the mental plane. We have foreshortened consciousness and must correct our faults on each plane.

The soul dispels illusion. The illumined mind dissipates glamour. GLA 83

Maya of the past distorts one's point of view. Only soul sees things as they are. DNA 463

Maya is the result of both glamour and illusion. It connotes an integrated personality. GLA 33

Discover the form (glamour, illusion, maya) which your Dweller is likely to assume as you come in contact with it. GLA 34

"The mind is the slayer of the real." - Patanjali

"Two plus two was four at one time." - Whitesell

Heisenberg's Theory of Uncertainty affects the outcome of all experiments. One can know the time of an event or the quality of the event but not both at the same time. That is why two plus two was four at one time, but each person affects the answer. Your answer is four plus your influence whereas someone else's four is different because of their influence. The Teachers also point out that nothing is ever repeated exactly.

The concrete mind can only give you an opinion. All of this is fine for those who aspire to discipleship, however in everyday life humanity must learn to get out of the emotional realm and into concrete mind. Unfortunately, after we have developed the concrete mind, we must then develop the abstract mind; and then we must get out of the mental plane onto the Buddhic plane.

Russell Whitesell told his students to get at cause, not effect. Science often does not get at cause because it starts from the wrong premise. Obviously, if you start from the wrong premise you can only go further wrong. One can also go wrong from drawing the wrong conclusions from valid observations.

Many in the research community, or any community for that matter, haphazardly choose to set up experiments without fully understanding that they may come to totally wrong conclusions involving their results. It depends on consciousness - ignorant, slow, average, bright, intelligent, intuitive or clairvoyant. Let us emphasize with the following anecdote.

"There was once a researcher who wanted to see what would happen when one would cut the legs off of a frog. So he cut the front, right leg off the frog and he told the frog to jump and the frog jumped. Then he cut the front, left leg off the frog and he told the frog to jump and the frog jumped. Then he cut the back, right leg off and he told the frog to jump and the frog jumped. Then he cut the back, left leg off and he told the frog to jump and the frog did not jump.

So the researcher concluded that the frog became deaf." (From The European Journal of Classical Homeopathy - Summer 1995)

Of course this sounds farfetched to most of us but when we are dealing with unknowns and new data, such things do occur. To those above us in consciousness we are just like that frog researcher.

(Editor's Note: Beginning with the last newsletter, the T.N.G. Newsletter will be dated and posted on the new moon. This is in keeping with Dr. Russell Whitesell's advice to start things on the new moon. In fact, an artist in our group was asked to draw a picture of the Buddha for another member of the group. When Russell heard that she was going to do the drawing, he suggested to her that she should try to start all important projects on a new moon.)