have received several "gifts" over the course of my life.
One was a view of the nature of Ultimate Reality in my youth. This was
in the form of poems which I (thought I) wrote (or rather gifts of knowledge
I received, as I later realized). I now think of this as Ultimate
Reality as Universal Mind. Another gift was an alternate view of the
nature of Ultimate Reality in my 40's. This was in the form of a path
of 8 steps taking us through communication to Union with God. I now think
of this as the Universal Path to God for Humans,
based on my increased understanding in the 20 years ince then. The basic
information in both these gifts is included and freely available on this
web site as linked above. To have received two such viewpoints in my lifetime
has been an especially valuable gift in permitting me to directly see
and experience the fact that more than one viewpoint can be true while
superficially in conflict. It is also utterly clear, since I have experienced
two viewpoints which appear true while conflicting, that others can each
have their own personal viewpoint which is equally true to them. I
see different aspects of the same Reality emphasized in various traditional
mysticisms, religions and other approaches to figuring out Ultimate Reality.
All are incomplete. If anything, my view is only a little more complete,
far from explaining everything, and only more complete in emphasizing
to me what I don't know and how incomplete any possible view by a human
must be. I don't see energy (as Carlos Castaneda describes) nor do I have
great success in remembering clearly all of the things I experience out
of body. I do bring back information when I have a need to answer a question
or solve a problem. I do Talk to God/Talk
with God (that is, pray and get answers back) and have done automatic
writing, starting back in the late 1980's, as Neale Donald Walsch does
in "Conversations With God". Even though I don't see the energy
of the Universe or the "Eagle's Emanations" as described by
Carlos Castaneda, I believe that I "see" as described by Don
Juan Matus in Carlos Castaneda's books: Ultimate Reality shows or tells
me things which I need to know at times. Viewed alternatively, God Talks
to me. A major lesson I am learning is that we/I belong here in the situations
in which we find ourselves and that we can and must (for optimum results)
trust our experience and existence as part of God ~ Ultimate Reality.
As the medieval mystic Hildegard von Bingen expressed it, "to be
a feather on God's Breath".
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