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poliphilo Our friend Edna passed me a magazine which carried a review of this book. Channeling and Rudyard Kipling- two of my favourite things. I had to have it.
Sullivan started chanelling in 2013 and was introduced to Kipling in 2018. The "passages" of conversation in the book (passages is her preferred word) postdate Covid. There are dark times in her recent past....
Kipling in spirit is a wise old thing. He regrets putting less intention into his life as Kipling than he did into his writing. He addresses Delilah as "dearie' which the reviewer found tiresome, but I find, well, endearing. Did Kipling in life call people "dearie"? Well, why not? It would be in character. His love of language embraced the vernacular. For instance he called his children "kids" and sometimes "beloved kids." "Dearie" is something he'd have heard his Sussex neighbours say....
He eschews the language of religion and the New Age. He doesn't speak about "God' or the "Unity" and all those other terms that are losing their vibrancy the more they're used. instead he says "Fortune". He says "Beauty". You know what, I'm tempted to start using them myself.
And he's still a poet. Here's a passage I really like....
R.K. You know Delilah, when I used to write at my window, I would see the horizon upon the fields. Sometimes the horizon would speak to me. But I wouldn't listen. I would let it wash over me. but I wouldn't listen.
Delilah: What did it say to you?
R.K. It would say: Keep still while I look at you.
Sullivan started chanelling in 2013 and was introduced to Kipling in 2018. The "passages" of conversation in the book (passages is her preferred word) postdate Covid. There are dark times in her recent past....
Kipling in spirit is a wise old thing. He regrets putting less intention into his life as Kipling than he did into his writing. He addresses Delilah as "dearie' which the reviewer found tiresome, but I find, well, endearing. Did Kipling in life call people "dearie"? Well, why not? It would be in character. His love of language embraced the vernacular. For instance he called his children "kids" and sometimes "beloved kids." "Dearie" is something he'd have heard his Sussex neighbours say....
He eschews the language of religion and the New Age. He doesn't speak about "God' or the "Unity" and all those other terms that are losing their vibrancy the more they're used. instead he says "Fortune". He says "Beauty". You know what, I'm tempted to start using them myself.
And he's still a poet. Here's a passage I really like....
R.K. You know Delilah, when I used to write at my window, I would see the horizon upon the fields. Sometimes the horizon would speak to me. But I wouldn't listen. I would let it wash over me. but I wouldn't listen.
Delilah: What did it say to you?
R.K. It would say: Keep still while I look at you.
