Re: Completely off topic.

On Sep 18, 3:22 am, Stephen Calder <cald...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Norman Draper wrote:

Stephen,

Would you do me a favor? Please explain (in a semi-Reader's Digest
version) just what has brought you to this point in your life. You
have made a number statements regarding your recent... would
transformation be too strong a word?

No, but I'm not sure what you're asking. You have already stated a
scientific bias which would tend to exclude openness to what to you is
not scientific.

If really want to know how I got where I seem to be, it started about 11
years ago when I had a life-changing experience and found my true
purpose (complete happiness through connection with the divine within).

I have a website that I won't promote here but tells the story in more
detail. Email me for the address.







Ahhhh..... never mind.... From your earlier post:

"I go further and say the world is a holographic virtual reality; a
mental construct. I can have more effect on it by the way I think
than
by doing anything in it. It changes as my mind changes."

"As for connection, I see the world not as something "out there" but
as
something "in here". Also "in here" is the source of everything, the
perfect part of myself that is always joyful in creation. Connection
with That brings about a change in state that translates directly to
the apparent world. Everything I think affects the whole world I think
I see."

A woman once told me that I existed because she believed I existed.
She also said that the universe existed for the same reason.... AND
she could walk through a wall "if she really wanted to".

I guess that's possible provided the limiting beliefs that prevent it
now can be cleared. For me, doors do the job just fine.

I told her

to step out in fron of a bus doing 50mph and see if she just passed
through that. And I guaranteed her that the universe would tick
merrily away when she was gone... and that it wouldn't miss her at
all.

No doubt. It will last as long as there are minds that still want it.



I welcome you to your beliefs. New Age ideas have an appeal to plenty
of people, as does science.

I choose science.

I have no problem with that. I think science is very useful within its
limits. There's a lot it doesn't explain about what seems to be going
on, so at this early stage in its development it's not yet adequate to
the task of discovering how to be happy.



By the way, do you have a guru?

Not any more. I'm going to hang out with Adyashanti when I go to Sydney
next month. The first guru whose teachings I read was Ramana Maharshi.

--
Stephen
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Email the site to me.... you have my address on here.

More later....


Norman (Old School Cosmic Consciousness Here!) Draper

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