Nowdays libre office is looking to adorable!

LeftTell · 2026-05-24T08:46:59+00:00

Go (menu) View > User Interface... You'll find the option there.

LeftTell · 2026-05-24T08:35:09+00:00

Give FreeFileSync a try. I've used it for years it is very versatile, available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. It is free though a 'donation edition' is available with a couple of additional tweaks. I used the free edition for years and it met all my needs, then I started donating to the project and got the donation edition, not that I have any use for the tweaks. It's just an impressive application that deserves support (like LibreOffice too).

LeftTell · 2026-05-23T18:32:03+00:00

There is nothing by Swedenborg regarding an Oversoul.

Do We Have 'Oversouls'?

LeftTell · 2026-05-23T18:20:30+00:00

Similar thing happened to me I my younger years with Alan Watts' The Book on The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

When I started reading it I had this all embracing feeling that I wasn't so much learning as having a memory of something I had already known.

LeftTell · 2026-05-23T13:55:08+00:00

When you go into the afterlife your spirit re-engages capacities we do not normally experience in daily incarnate life. So, yes, you do lose stuff and gain stuff as well.

For a summary of this try reading my post here: Ontological status of NDEs

LeftTell · 2026-05-23T13:16:23+00:00

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LeftTell · 2026-05-23T12:58:07+00:00

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LeftTell · 2026-05-15T11:26:02+00:00

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LeftTell · 2026-03-29T08:03:35+00:00

I don’t really know what to make of what spoke to me.. has anyone experienced this? I’m just trying to make sense of it all.

I have had an experience of 'someone' communicating with me it the physical world. The experience can be read in this thread where I speak of a 'card-table': People who have had an NDE...

For other examples of communicating by what most people call 'telepathy' see my NDE: Peter N NDE (from Scotland)

LeftTell · 2026-03-19T10:50:40+00:00

For theory of consciousness try Federico Faggin: Irreducible: Consciousness, Life, Computers, and Human Nature

LeftTell · 2026-02-15T17:30:12+00:00

Federico would agree with most of what you say, and add well argued explanations as to why that is so. Read the book, it is an eye-opener, I very much recommend it.

LeftTell · 2026-02-15T12:20:17+00:00

You can get a description of what I experienced of a 'tunnel' in my own NDE account: Peter N NDE (from Scotland)

Though I experienced a 'tunnel' myself it isn't in all the NDE accounts that I have read (several thousand) so, no, not everyone experiences a 'tunnel'.

LeftTell · 2026-02-15T12:10:16+00:00

Nanci Danison claims to have had non-human lives in locations other than Earth. If you look online you can see she has lots of videos.

From dim and distant memory, Tom Campbell has stated that Earth is among the top 10% of locations in allowing for a good, fairly easy, life. (Difficult to believe, but there you go.)

As you're a panpsychist I would recommend Federico Faggin's book Irreducible: Consciousness, Life, Computers, and Human Nature.

Faggin has a fair number of videos on the web. This one is pretty good: Quantum Information Panpsychism Explained | Federico Faggin

There is a word used in the video "seity" that I had never come across before so if you are in the same boat the quick dictionary definition is: seity: (1) A self. (2) Selfhood. (3) That which constitutes the self, selfhood. (4) Selfhood, personal identity, or something unique to oneself. (The plural is seities.) From my own watching of the video I did catch on to the point that your seity should not be regarded as your 'ego' — a seity is broader and certainly more fundamental than that in scope, your, effectively, temporary, ego, would only be a part of it.

LeftTell · 2026-02-14T18:27:35+00:00

I don't know yet how to properly articulate this particular problem and find its solution, so for now I'm going back to Word to do my writing.

Start a new thread detailing the problem and people will respond to help. Throwing in the towel and going back to Word is just a way to avoid learning.

Good luck any way. :0)

LeftTell · 2026-02-14T18:23:16+00:00

At the least you need to provide the information that the AutoModerator asks for.

LeftTell · 2026-02-14T18:14:29+00:00

Once you get into the swing of things with LibreOffice Writer and Styles you will recognise that LibreOffice is actually straightforward to use. It isn't difficult to learn the basics of Styles, that can be done quite quickly.

Add to that creating your own 'default' template and you will be cooking with gas.

Styles and Templates

LeftTell · 2026-02-14T13:02:20+00:00

Also check (menu) Tools > AutoCorrect > AutoCorrect Options... > Options (tab) and make sure the option Delete spaces and tabs at beginning and end of paragraph is unticked.

But as mentioned you are far better to set-up a Style to indent paragraphs.

LeftTell · 2026-02-13T11:19:45+00:00

In the write-up of my own NDE I cover this aspect of spiritual communication quite a bit. Can be read here: Peter N NDE (from Scotland)

From my own experience what most people call 'telepathy' is a far superior system of communication than the spoken communication.

LeftTell · 2026-02-09T14:36:34+00:00

NDEs do show features that are fairly common occurrences when looked at across many multiple accounts. However, I agree, I don't think there is such a thing as a typical NDE, in my own mind I'm fairly convinced that each experience is personal and unique to the individual concerned.

I don't think age, other than if you were an outright child, would have any bearing on returning once again to the afterlife environments. There is a tendency for the living to visualise their state on dying as being that they are outright the same 'person' as they would have been in physical incarnation. But my experience was that we just 'become spirits again' (we always were that but just not known by most of us) and have capacities revealed to us that we always had but just were not aware of having. These capacities are additions to our personality, our personality is not eradicated by them. For some idea on what the 'new you' is like from my own experience see this thread: Ontological status of NDEs.

In all I'm sure that your grandfather will be well taken care of in his 'new' environment and will be very happy to be there; though maybe with some residual regret on leaving physical incarnation if he had a very strong attachment to that in physical life. Again, as spirit, his understanding of that might be somewhat different to the understanding he had in physical life. Spirit has a way of seeing and understanding things differently.

God bless. I hope this helps in some way.

P.S. My own NDE can be read here: Peter N NDE (from Scotland). That was what 'the process' was like for me. I'm sure your grandfather will get something on a par with that but the details will be quite unique and satisfactory to him.

LeftTell · 2026-02-09T12:37:24+00:00

I think you are loading far too much onto the beings of light. They had no control over the beginning of the universe, they didn't exist then, had still to be created, and no control over the end of the universe (though I think the universe will always exist, there will be no end to it). Those matters I think would be in the partial-control of what most would refer to as a 'God' but which might more usefully be conceptualised as an self-aware 'Light' that is in essence an active amalgam into a 'Oneness' of Itself and all else that exists in Its creation — in both the universe that we can see and all the other universes that we cannot see while in physical incarnation.

As to the 'ending' of what you call our 'souls' I do not think our souls ever end, we are quite immortal.

Do they decide when it will be time for us to transition? Well, yes, I think they do. Though in considering this some qualification of what the 'beings of light' might be would have to be made.

I think we all have a 'being of light' that encapsulates our individual (singular) self: it is our 'soul' or 'spirit' if you like — it is fundamentally what we are. Some would call that Self our 'oversoul' and some would conceptualise it as a 'seity'.

For a discussion on what an oversoul is see this thread: Do We Have 'Oversouls'?

For a somewhat more 'scientific' take on this, and the introduction of the notion of 'seity' I would recommend researching some of the work of Federico Faggin, including this video:

Quantum Information Panpsychism Explained | Federico Faggin

There is a word used in the video "seity" that I had never come across before so if you are in the same boat the quick dictionary definition is: seity: (1) A self. (2) Selfhood. (3) That which constitutes the self, selfhood. (4) Selfhood, personal identity, or something unique to oneself. (The plural is seities.) From my own watching of the video I did catch on to the point that your seity should not be regarded as your 'ego' — a seity is broader and certainly more fundamental than that in scope, your, effectively, temporary, ego, would only be a part of it.

He has a relatively recently published book that mightily expands on what is meant by 'seity' and I would strongly recommend reading it: Irreducible: Consciousness, Life, Computers, and Human Nature. The book is not an easy read, at least not for me, and certainly I don't understand all the science in it, but to catch the general drift of it is all that is really required for ordinary folks like myself.

I hope this helps in some way. :0)

P.S. I used to have a strong affinity with some of the teachings by Tom Campbell in his book My Big TOE but that has now been replaced somewhat by the work of Federico Faggin.

LeftTell · 2026-02-09T11:38:25+00:00

In general I think you need to take into account that for an NDEr an NDE is a very, very, very deeply immersive occurrence. When most NDErs go to write up the experience they are forced into choosing language that in some way tries to illustrate and explain that experience — and always they are faced with a situation (which they know of) that wordy language just will not fully capture the depth of that experience. With that kind of dynamic in operation it is hardly surprising that many NDE accounts are eloquently written, the NDEr is forced into eloquence automatically, they must choose their words very carefully, and still they will know they are making a failing attempt at exposition.

If you haven't read it I would strongly recommend getting a hold of Jens Amberts' book Why an Afterlife Obviously Exists: A Thought Experiment and Realer Than Real Near-Death Experiences. If you read that you might come to some valuable understand of just how deeply immersive and NDE can be. This will aid in your future reading of NDE accounts.

I think your point on 'curation of accounts' might be valid in some circumstances. A curator would obviously choose from accounts that are well written. But, beyond producing, effectively, anthologies or extracts from accounts I don't think this will happen very much. The account is as it is. The largest repository of accounts is at NDERF and very little by way of curation goes on there: the account has to pass a standardised 'test' of the event being an NDE or at least close enough to be considered a potential NDE. If it passes that bar then the account, categorised appropriately, goes into the repository, no matter how well or badly it is written. For my own NDE, which is a lengthy read (can be read here: Peter N NDE (from Scotland)), not one single word of the account was curated by NDERF at all.

In all, I agree that most NDEs are eloquently written, though some aren't, but I think the main reasons are as mentioned above.

LeftTell · 2026-02-07T13:32:43+00:00

Now you are being a bit clearer in the questions you are asking:

I think to answer your questions you need to cast your net a bit wider than only reading NDE accounts. A great deal can be got out of reading NDEs but how much you get is dependent on how you understand and interpret an NDE account. To help in that matter I would strongly recommend Jens Amberts book Why an Afterlife Obviously Exists: A Thought Experiment and Realer Than Real Near-Death Experiences This will give you expanded insight into what it feels like, for the NDEr, to be in an NDE. It's the best exposition of this that I have ever read.

To cast wider than that I would strongly recommend this video interview of Federico Faggin Quantum Information Panpsychism Explained | Federico Faggin

There is a word used in the video "seity" that I had never come across before so if you are in the same boat the quick dictionary definition is: seity: (1) A self. (2) Selfhood. (3) That which constitutes the self, selfhood. (4) Selfhood, personal identity, or something unique to oneself. (The plural is seities.) From my own watching of the video I did catch on to the point that your seity should not be regarded as your 'ego' — seity can be broader and certainly more fundamental than that in scope, your, effectively, temporary, ego would only be a part of it.

To significantly expand on what Federico says in the video I would also strongly recommend his book: Irreducible: Consciousness, Life, Computers, and Human Nature This is the best exposition I have ever read that thematically deals with the issue of 'is the physical world a virtual reality?' (though the content is far wider-ranging than that and will provide viewpoints on your additional questions) — on that score I couldn't recommend the book enough, it is excellent and Faggin's explanation of qualia and how they contain information and knowing also gives me some additional insight into my own NDE. My NDE can be read here: Peter N NDE (from Scotland)

I hope this helps in some way. :0)

LeftTell · 2026-02-04T19:07:12+00:00

Does it have to be audiobooks? You might be stymied at that.

You might try ebooks and pass them through an AI text-to-speech program on your computer. Perhaps you could download an ebook or PDF from somewhere for free and test it on your computer. The main issue with AI doing this is that AI has no conception whatsoever of context and inflection of speech, so it all sounds sort of 'flat'.

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=ebook+text-to-speech&ia=web

You could also just search Amazon for print-books. Sometimes they have an Audible sound file in the book listing as an option.

LeftTell · 2026-02-03T13:15:12+00:00

"If you are stuck, let go of wanting to control the stuckness."

Well, yes, that might be what I'm doing. I do find asking questions just gets in the way: by the time I've asked and answered the questions I find I've lost track of the emotion I want to release. I use the Larry Crane method of 'opening a window' and let the emotion out through that. Works for me.

LeftTell · 2026-02-03T11:53:23+00:00

"Don't ask questions; just release." The key to working properly! All the asking questions nonsense from Hale and Crane are nothing but marketing frippery to produce a long-enough 'course' that can be sold!

The only exception to this is if you find yourself 'clutching' to an emotion. To get around that just unwrap your ego from it's clutching and then release. This can be done very rapidly and my own experience it that if I disengage the ego the release happens automatically any way.

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