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"It is as though I'm on the brink of breaking through something, and the fear of letting go is losing its grip on me." Yep. Me too. Reminds me of the story -- I know you've heard it before -- of the fellow who had fallen from a cliff and was hanging on to a branch ten feet down the side. L...

Ah, yes, the question of sleep ... and dreams. I pay little attention to "dream interpreters"who can give me a list of symbols that appear in dreams and what they mean. My dreams are so bizarre and random that I can make absolutely no sense out of them at all -- or of what little I can rem...

Of late I have been immersed in the writings of the late Loren Eiseley, works of rare beauty and sensitivity, written by an anthropologist/paleontologist. This is a passage from his best book, The Immense Journey , which particularly touched me, one I felt I had to share with you so you could rejoic...

It does seem that things can go along "as is" for a while, and then, suddenly, the universe pokes a finger in and says "Okay, now we're going to change all your parameters; stand by for Changes." It always seems to be a disaster,and it always turns out to have been a good thing a...

Speaking of separation ... I am a bit sad, but relieved, that the time has come for me to abandon the "ChristianBoard.com" forums. I made some interesting friends there, and will miss them, but a spirit of anger and of spiritual one-upmanship has taken over the boards, and it is like wadin...

"Is there some kind of balance that is needed here that Simone talks of, to prevent one from wanting to run to the collective." Certinly it would seem a balance is needed. There are aspects of personal growth that can only happen in isolation and silence, much as the germination of a seed ...

"I was present with a lady and her sisters this afternoon when she passed on from her earthly body." This may be off topic, but I feel impelled to resond. That is an experience to be treasured. Reading of your experience reminded me of my own. I was with my mother when she left this plane....

"Then we have to let go of God?" That is probably a good idea; if we have a grasp on "God," what we have grasped is not really God. (We can get into semantic games at this point.) The first step in the process is, however, to let go of whatever God we have created in our own imag...

With regard to the realtionship of body to mind, I can't quite see applying the word "prisoner" to either. I see what is (at least for now) a symbiotic relationship; the body serves the mind, by providing it a tool to experience reality, and the mind serves the body by maintaining it alive...

I think none of us here would fail to relate to what you have posted. Even the greatest of saints have described periods of alienation, loneliness, feelings of dissociation, emptiness, you name it. Notably, of course, St. John of the Cross, who wrote about The Dark Night of the Soul . Even more nota...

OK, Anna, now you done quit preachin' and gone to meddlin'... "Cause that is the conundrum I am fiddling with right now. I see the absolute valuelessness of the ego. I see the absolute necessity of relinquishing the ego, if nothing else, to prove that Alan Watts was right when he said that &quo...

I know what you mean. I am (read: I was) trying to get through on another board to an individual of exactly the description you give. Unfortunately, the only sound he can hear is that of his own voice. In such cases, one simply lets it go: in the context of infinity it doesn't make a whit of differe...

" I rejected dogmas based upon "because I said so," or because a book says so, in my youth." It took me a while longer, but I found that step at last to be the doorway to awakening. I had to get past not only "because I said so" but past "because the bible said so&...

"that in every school class, something very shocking and unexpected should be done to students, to shake them out of their stupor" Reminds me of the 2 years we were living on Kwajalein. At that time, we were practicing Roman Catholics, and worked with the Jesuit priest assigned there. At t...

"I would suggest that Jesus, like every other Self-Realized Teacher, did not have a religion, that there is no religion "of Jesus". Indeed, I can only agree ... were I to revise this sentence it would read "the difference between the religion abut Jesus and the revelation offered...