hese are all explorations of reality which can and should be seen as partial views of Ultimate Reality. I see these viewpoints as alike and interconnected in many ways which are not widely considered, if at all. I have come to see that we are all like the blind men in the traditional tale, encountering an elephant and each extrapolating the nature of the whole creature from their own limited, single sense, single point contact with it. Where you are in your life colors the part of Ultimate Reality which you experience and how you observe it. I say this having been given the gift of the opportunity of experiencing two different viewpoints which I see as equally valid. I see us all as examining different parts of the Elephant and I am trying to integrate our individual viewpoints into a cumulative, more comprehensive, viewpoint and a more complete understanding. The author of "The Celestine Prophecy", James Redfield, has even commented on the interconnections of some of these same points of view noted above, as I do in this web site, in a magazine interview several years ago. He did not elaborate at that time and I have not seen that he has carried this further since then in his writings. If anyone else has done so, I am not aware of it. Everyone stays within the limits of their own private vision of God ~ Ultimate Reality and therefore within the limits of their own private vision of their own nature and place in Reality. Having a wider viewpoint is another of the gifts which I feel I have received.

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