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Absolute WOW. Thanks for that link Arthra! bfg

Steven-- thank you for the links! I've read the interview by Patricial Locke. Excellent! I'll try to get back to the thread in a few days when I can give it more time. rudolf-- I've bookmarked your page to come back to it and give it the attention it deserves when my schedule eases up a...

I appreciate your thoughts. No doubt all these images are signs of Realities far beyond the reach of our perception. I seem to be way overbooked for a few days at least -- I'll try to post more on the weekend. blessings & peace! bfg

Thanks for all those contributions, Steven. I have a friend who is a Lakota who may be willing to share some of the traditions about White Buffalo Calf Woman. I would have more confidence in anything he might offer. I just rediscovered his e-mail addy a couple of days ago. Hopefully it is still...

StrangeQuark HI! I want to get back to you and respond more fully to your post later - but tonight I am too tired and my brain doesn't want to work. I haven't read any of the Mercedes Lackey books - they sound interesting, I'll have to check them out. There is perhaps some remnant in...

Interesting mix this one came up with: Neo-Pagan, Baha'i, Mahayana Buddhist. (That's what I get from talking to Vaj all the time. Not sure where the Neo-Pagan comes from tho!) Must have skewed it's formulaic "personal God" question - I needed to be able to check more than one answer! Guess my...

Wow, Lunamoth! A lot of sound, serious thought in that post. You go girl! :-)

It's a puzzle to me why religion and spirituality has been a lifelong passion for me, while for others, like my sister, and perhaps yourself seem to have no particular interest. But this is my path and yours is your own. I don't expect little devils with pitchforks for either of us - just...

Andrew, I don't have time to reply in depth to your comments this morning. I will try to get back to the forum this evening to give your posts my full attention. I don't know anywere near enough about Anandamurti to make a point by point comparison. Yes, the similarities are intriguing...

Ah! but I thought you were a glinting diamond! oops. wrong thread. that should have been in the "what am I?" thread. tis after midnight and the bats are flying out of my belfry. 'night all. bfg

Louis, I don't find Obseving, Evaluating, or making Informed Judgments at all at odds with making an emotional commitment. There are some things which simply cannot be understood "from the outside in." For instance, you will never become a good swimmer if you never get into the water. We...

Well, I guess that makes me a died in the woll "subjectivist!" :-D Louis, no wonder we don't understand each other, since I think the objective world pales to insignificance compared to one's inner experience of reality! "It's all good" as one of my favorite friends would say. bfg

"As for a "master", I have always been master of myself - no need to seek another master or become master of anyone else." Louis All due respect, but if you are indeed the absolute master of yourself and 100% free from every possible influence -- well, you are a unique creature indeed...

Eepers, I should be in bed, but I want to reply a bit more fully to your questions about "where is He now?" (paraphrased, obviously) and "do we invoke Him?" Just as the "Abha Kingdom," or the spiritual realms of the soul following this life, are shrouded in mysteries, so, in any exact way, is...

Louis - I don't think it is a matter of the two worlds being mutually antagonistic; with the exception that if material/physical reality is your "god and master" - your ability to "soar" in the realm of the spirit may well be sacrificed. Thus Buddhism teaches that all our suffering stems from...

In answer to your question "what am I" I would answer: You are a spiritual being, a soul, seeking the Object of it's desire. Does that work for you? Good luck in your quest! bfg

Hi Louis! Well, let me give you my thoughts on these mysteries: soul, God, spirituality. I too have been from religion, through agnosticism and atheism and back to religion, struggling with these concepts. 'tis why I have so many gray hairs, I suppose. We are, materially speaking, bundles...

Hi Brian! Which metaphor? "spiritual rigormortus" is my own (minetend not to be very elegant). The "stars" metaphor is Baha'u'llah's. Sense of, those who should have been "guiding lights" by which people traditionally "navigate," no longer shed light or point the way to the true path, but...

Hi Steven! Poor dear, left to talk to himself.... (sorry, I've been taking a little break from the discussions) I think it is a process of rigidification that takes place over time... a "spiritual rigormortus" where "correct doctrine" gradually strangles the spirit of love, the joy of...

And it's interesting to note, that in the case of the Bab, He indicated that "He Who Arises" should be sought in 9, and 19 years. Baha'u'llah fulfilled both "dates," receiving His mission 9 years later and publicly announcing it and inauguerating His faith 19 years later. So there is no fixed...