have spent my life, in the times between the requirements of normal living, studying mysticism from the inside and from the beginning: Why am I strange and concerned about these weird things?; Am I really a mystic?; What path should I be studying?; Out of all these traditional paths, which are hints and guesses?; which are real?; and so fourth. At the same time in my normal life as an engineer, I have solved many design problems and fixed many broken designs by applying a few principles and figuring things out for myself. Eventually I reached the point where I realized that these engineering and life based principles could be applied to mysticism and my desire to understand the Nature of God ~ Ultimate Reality.

ventually I began to understand some things, not by any effort or merit on my part, but as a gift of knowledge (or sometimes a rap on the side of the head). Things were still not necessarily clear and required study and further gifts to be understandable to me.

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