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Many of you who receive this newsletter are well aware of Seth Network International, its history, and the roles Stan Ulkowski and I played within it.  This letter, then, is written to you as an update of sorts, and as a means of saying hello.

It's been over a year since Stan left this reality, almost a year since SethNet '99 Elmira, and about six months since SNI closed its doors and went inactive.  Those events shape my memories of 1999, as intertwined as they were, and leave me poignant with the emotion of it all.  A long, long year but not without its learning.

The year before Stan died he'd been studying what Seth and others say about emotions, and about how our emotions form our expectations, and our expectations determine the events we meet in life.  He had become so absorbed with the subject that, when asked during a spontaneous discussion with the county recorder in the small county in which our Washington home resides to meet with her staff and explain it to them, he agreed.  In actuality, he met with them once a month for perhaps eight months for three hours each night, at no charge.

I was fascinated by Stan's continual focus on emotions and their creative impact, but didn't get overly interested in the subject until I noticed the changes being wrought in him.  Several months before Stan died I started playing with my emotions, attempting to alter ones that made me unhappy or negative by inserting ones that generally made me feel happy and at peace.  If emotions cause expectations, which dictate the events we meet in physical reality, it seemed a prudent thing to try.

Thank god for Stan's last gift to me, this understanding of how emotions can be chosen and integrated into one's moment point.  Without it I shudder to think how 1999 would have played out for me.  I learned that grief builds upon itself and deepens into blackness if let run.  And I also learned that grief can be mitigated, or softened considerably by understanding the nature of emotions, the creative power within them, and how to remove focus from a debilitating emotion to one more beneficial (however that may be personally defined).

When I started hounding Stan for tips on how he was learning to consciously manipulate his life by manipulating his emotions, little did I know how soon I'd have to use the information.  I hit the road running the week of his death, the week I knew I couldn't survive the onslaught of grief unless I used what he'd been teaching me.  That is not to say 1999 was not the most difficult year of my life; but it is to say there are degrees of difficulty, and comparing where I've been to where I could have been leaves me somber, indeed.

If you've read my books you know of my intense interest in learning the intriacies of creation and consciously applying them to my life.  My other intense interest is in creating forums where these kinds of ideas can be discussed among people who care as much as I do about the subject.  To that end, three friends and I (Jo Helfrich, Paul Helfrich, and Michal Steffen) have formed NewWorldView.com.  We'll offer a web site (hopefully by summer) and conferences (our first is in April, 2001 in San Diego) that will open the subject of consciousness for discussion and examination, with the practical purpose being to help us all create more fulfilling lives based on our developing knowledge, and implementation of that knowledge.  I'm also writing The Book of Fallacies with my actress daughter Cathleen Kaelyn, due in spring of 2001, that will continue the ideas I've developed in my first three books.

So, while SNI has had its day, new constructs loom on the horizon.  Which brings me to an honestly unsolicited call for support for Brass Ring Bookstore and Seth 2000, a conference this coming October.  When SNI closed its doors we asked for others to please step forward and keep forums open that would allow all of us to continue meeting, mentally and/or physically.  Mary Rouen and Michael Steffen of the Brass Ring Bookstore, and Kerin and Jay Foley, of Seth 2000, have done just that.  Mary and Michael can't keep running the bookstore, updating the "old" SNI data base for future use by various Seth groups, or offering this newsletter unless we buy their products (and I'd suggest sending donations to them to cover the cost of this newsletter); and Kerin and Jay need to fill the conference hall at the Colony Inn in New Haven if they're to break even, or make a little for a future conference (even if not managed by them).  Stan and I walked in similar shoes for seven years with SNI; I know of what I speak.  If we want them in our reality; and if we appreciate their efforts, we should support them.

Speaking of support, you may want to send psychic best wishes to Rob Butts and Laurel Davies on their New Year's Eve wedding.  What a symbolic way to start the millennium and their "new" life together!  I'm delighted for them and the obvious love they share.  Perhaps Mary can get Rob to write a brief article for the newsletter one of these days, with his own kind of update.

Well, my friends, my alloted space on these pages has run out, so I'll sign off.  I'll be at Jay and Kerin's conference in October, and hope to see you there.  Take care, and as my late pilot friend Gordon Dressler used to say in parting (and probably still does), Blue Skies!

Warmly,
Lynda Dahl

Thank you Lynda for your unsolicited call for support!  We look forward to your new book.  For more info on the Seth 2000 Conference go to http://people.ne.mediaone.net/s2k/agenda.html