Thank you for compiling and providing access,
it seems a daunting task you have completed,
congratulations! As some suggest, if it reaches
only one person, the effort is a great success!
It wasn’t the worst. Sometimes the dirty work is done quite nimbly, if the light is piercing under that dirt - metaphorically speaking.
I think it’s worth having this material somewhere on the side, especially since, in fact, even these sessions from the 1970s are still relevant.
Also, it is not said that we will always have access to the Internet with everyday ease. Sometimes we don’t have that access right now - it depends on who is doing what in life.
The next step, for me, would be to have it all printed out on paper and sorted.
For the time being, I intend to expand this folder with all the sessions (on my own computer this time). Which I would also suggest to others. Adding another session as soon as it is published. I’m going to do it with the newest one (January 24, 2024 - Intermediate Channeling Circle - L/L Research), it’s definitely easier to add one than when you have a whole bunch of them
As for sharing, it’s no problem for me. My whole presence on the forum is geared towards sharing and networking, and so I was happy to share this as well.
Thanks for sharing the PDFs, KK. Since you’ve got the thread…
Like you, I also have compiled the entire L/L Research archive offline. My corpus is made of text files. Your PDF archive will be nicer for reading, whereas the text files are better for analytics or even reading the transcripts from a terminal.
Oh yes this is really good. I noticed that you added Ra and even earlier channelings (like 1958).
However I’ll definitely continue to use what I’ve done myself and add new sessions to my folder as they come up. I see today that there are two new ones!
But thanks to you. I thought I would take all your text files and combine it into literally one text file. That might come in handy someday, too.
I did it with a script in Python running it in Jupyter Notebook (maybe someone likes that sort of thing here):
import os
Define the path to the folder containing the text files
folder_path = ‘path/to/your/folder’ # Replace with the path to your folder
output_file_path = ‘path/to/your/folder/combined_file.txt’ # Replace with the path to your output file
Collect the names of all text files in the folder
text_files = [f for f in os.listdir(folder_path) if f.endswith(‘.txt’)]
Combine the contents of all text files into one file
with open(output_file_path, ‘w’, encoding=‘utf-8’) as output_file:
for filename in text_files:
with open(os.path.join(folder_path, filename), ‘r’, encoding=‘utf-8’) as input_file:
# Copy the file content to the output file
output_file.write(input_file.read())
# Add three lines of spacing between files
output_file.write(‘\n\n\n’)
Nice work! I’m a fan of software automation, and a single file is certainly convenient.
I keep the files separate for offline corpus analysis. I use AntConc in my own investigations, and AntConc works on a per-file basis. Separate files allow easy identification of the most important sessions on a particular topic of discussion.