Bucky and Me
(Lloyd Steven Sieden)

How I got to know, love and work with a true genius!

For me, this is particularly important because I have yet to find a person who can “get it” in a single session. Even if the content is exactly the same for each session, we hear or learn something different each time. My personal belief is that it takes about ten sessions before something really sinks in, and because of his complexity I figured it would take hundreds of sessions. I was prepared to do whatever it would take to be with him for those hundreds of repetitions until I was devastated when he passed on in July of 1983 after just four Integrity Days.

I love being in the same room with such Master Teachers, and I continue to pursue those experiences today. I can’t get enough of the experience of transformation and hope they exude as well as listening to their presentations over and over again. So, I figured that by working on the production of Bucky’s events, I would get to be in the room absorbing all that I could from him several times each month. Little did I know that he would present only four Integrity Days before he was no longer operating within the confines of what he labeled “yesterday’s breakfast” – the physical body we called Bucky Fuller.

I was shocked when he passed on, and I felt cheated out of an important aspect of my personal growth as well as his guidance as to how I could best contribute my gifts toward the success of humankind. However, I soon realized that I was one of the few people involved with him who did not buy into the physical version of Bucky Fuller. I also recognized that by consciously documenting his life as an experiment for fifty-six years, he had created the greatest archive of an “average human” attempting to make the greatest difference ever know to humankind.

We still had Bucky with us, just not in the physical form that most people recognized. We had thousands of hours of recordings of him speaking and sharing his insights as well as letters to and from him with luminaries and other ordinary individuals. We also had all the visual images that he had amassed over the years, and all the input he had received from other people concerning his vast knowledge and inventions.

I then felt called to continue the Bucky Fuller education process for myself as well as anyone else interested. My initial way of doing that was by producing Bucky events using archived video. This was actually a better learning experience than having Bucky speaking live because we could stop the video and discuss what he had just shared. It did not convey the transformational context that so many people loved about simply being in his presence, but we all learned from one another and often had a sense of his presence in the room speaking through us.

For me, this is particularly important because I have yet to find a person who can “get it” in a single session. Even if the content is exactly the same for each session, we hear or learn something different each time. My personal belief is that it takes about ten sessions before something really sinks in, and because of Bucky’s complexity I figured it would take hundreds of sessions. I was prepared to do whatever it would take to be with him for those hundreds of repetitions until I was devastated when he passed on in July of 1983 after just four Integrity Days.

I love being in the same room with such Master Teachers, and I continue to pursue those experiences today. I can’t get enough of the experience of transformation and hope they exude as well as listening to their presentations over and over again. So, I figured that by working on the production of Bucky’s events, I would get to be in the room absorbing all that I could from him several times each month. Little did I know that he would present only four Integrity Days before he was no longer operating within the confines of what he labeled “yesterday’s breakfast” – the physical body we called Bucky Fuller.

I was shocked when he passed on, and I felt cheated out of an important aspect of my personal growth as well as his guidance as to how I could best contribute my gifts toward the success of humankind. However, I soon realized that I was one of the few people involved with him who did not buy into the physical version of Bucky Fuller. I also recognized that by consciously documenting his life as an experiment for fifty-six years, he had created the greatest archive of an “average human” attempting to make the greatest difference ever know to humankind.

We still had Bucky with us, just not in the physical form that most people recognized. We had thousands of hours of recordings of him speaking and sharing his insights as well as letters to and from him with luminaries and other ordinary individuals. We also had all the visual images that he had amassed over the years, and all the input he had received from other people concerning his vast knowledge and inventions.

I then felt called to continue the Bucky Fuller education process for myself as well as anyone else interested. My initial way of doing that was by producing Bucky events using archived video. This was actually a better learning experience than having Bucky speaking live because we could stop the video and discuss what he had just shared. It did not convey the transformational context that so many people loved about simply being in his presence, but we all learned from one another and often had a sense of his presence in the room speaking through us.

This begs the question, what are we? Bucky’s answer is that we are eternal pattern integrities. Some would define pattern integrity as soul, but Bucky preferred the more scientific terminology. In any case, the pattern integrity Bucky Fuller remains very active today whenever and wherever people are open to gaining his wisdom and guidance.

His pattern integrity frequency is just like a radio or television tuner. You have to tune into the frequency Bucky Fuller, and that, too, is easily done. Initially you will be more successful in a quiet place away from the distractions of daily life. Then, it’s just a matter of your intention, ongoing practice and trust that what you receive is the genuine article. I have personally had thousands of such encounters, and I know the distinct feel of Bucky’s pattern integrity and guidance. With practice, you can learn this too.

The real issue is that most “Bucky experts” and people in power have limited their experience of Bucky to the physical. Yes, he was an architect, poet, philosopher, inventor, writer and speaker, and he operated in many other physical modes when he was working through a physical body. Now, however, he works in very different ways, and those who knew and loved the physical form can’t imagine this new form – even though he often spoke of it. Humans as pattern integrities was a major element of almost all of his thinking out loud presentations. We would not call those channeling sessions as he was simply sharing insights as they came to him without the notes or editing used by most speakers.

In order to connect with Bucky as I have over these past decades, you need to go beyond the physical. You need to no longer cling to the context of fear, scarcity and greed that has so overtaken much of our culture. You need to recognize that a few “powerful” people are doing all that they can to convince us all that there is not enough to go around and that we must fight for our share. This is the opposite of Bucky’s carefully researched philosophy. He realized that we are living on tiny Spaceship Earth inhabited by billions of billionaires. We are each rich beyond our wildest dreams, but we have to stop believing our media and our “leaders” because they want to hoard that wealth for themselves. They also want to keep us enslaved as good workers striving to make a better life for our children. The truth as Bucky researched it is that our children already have that better life available to them, as do each and every adult. All we need to do is shift our way of functioning from scarcity to abundance, from competition to cooperation, from weaponry to livingry. It’s just that simple. Then we can all live in peace with one another on the beautiful, sustainable planet that God, Great Spirit, Higher Power, Source or whatever name you choose to use provided for us.

That’s what I learned from Bucky, and that’s what he continues to whisper in my ear as he guides me to the next step of our work together. Please consider joining us in whatever way you feel moved because there are plenty of issues that need to be addressed very soon in order to create that world that works for everyone.