OK, next chapter, kind of...
Let me start by saying that I've been searching for the truth for years. Literally, about 45 years of yearning to know more. I've traversed a wild landscape of the theology as well as self led-introspective analysis. I've never meditated before; not really. I don't even know if what I'm doing is right or correct technique. Oh, ya, I've prayed many times but my conscious review of material and internal discussion has been all me.
No real experiences with metaphysics until very lately. I knew what the word meant and at one point decided I should write a book titled; "Ruminations on Elementary Metaphysics/Conversations with God." I wrote a few thousand words before I quit when I found out how crazy hard it is to actually write a book. I still have those pages...anyway.
Almost eight weeks ago I was compelled to write out my "belief system." I don't really know why I started this except as a form of self expression. I had all this stuff inside me that just wanted to get out and I needed an outlet. Well, that and also that someone presented me with a list of numbered questions from an online conversation about religion that had been completed by someone else as part of that threaded conversation. I decided that I would "steal" the questions, delete their answers and add my own answers to the same questions. I guess there were something like a dozen, maybe a few more. When I made it to the end of the list, I continued to write out the remainder of my belief system that had not been addressed in the original list of questions. Somewhere along the process of writing I was looking up references on a specific points when I discovered the Ra channelings. I finished the outline of my belief system recently after reading The Law of One (the first two books). I had continued to add bullet points clarifying myself as it related to The Law and expanding on some points that had occurred to me earlier in my seeking for the truth.
Reading The Law of One is probably my first brush with something clearly reaching into the metaphysical in terms of the intended direction of my searching/researching. Since finishing those first two books I went back and found a book that I had purchased and languished in my book collection since sometime in the early 1990s. I have just finished reading Shirley MacLaine's, "Going Within." I am shocked and awed on so many levels it's incredible! The book is great and I highly recommend it for anyone seeking.
However, what shocks me most are the extensive number of similarities within my belief system and the content of Ms. MacLaine's book. The comparisons are fantastically similar. I cite different sources for my belief and she uses much more credible references, like Stephen Hawkings, but the outline is almost identical. It's freaky scary how stinking close the works follow each other. This afternoon, as I finished the final chapter of "Going Within," I was forced to wonder about the timeliness of reading that old book now. Was I led to read this this specific book, after all these years since buying it? Has some external force tired of waiting for me to examine the contents of that book? Or, was it time for me to see that other people are working through their own methods to discover what seem to be the exact same truths?
I've never been hypnotized and am incredulous when I read of others past-life experiences. It's not that I don't believe that they have had those experiences. It's that I haven't yet been exposed to that specific part of my being (have been).
I am shocked and humbled by these revelations. Just wanted to say something to someone about this experience.
Let me start by saying that I've been searching for the truth for years. Literally, about 45 years of yearning to know more. I've traversed a wild landscape of the theology as well as self led-introspective analysis. I've never meditated before; not really. I don't even know if what I'm doing is right or correct technique. Oh, ya, I've prayed many times but my conscious review of material and internal discussion has been all me.
No real experiences with metaphysics until very lately. I knew what the word meant and at one point decided I should write a book titled; "Ruminations on Elementary Metaphysics/Conversations with God." I wrote a few thousand words before I quit when I found out how crazy hard it is to actually write a book. I still have those pages...anyway.
Almost eight weeks ago I was compelled to write out my "belief system." I don't really know why I started this except as a form of self expression. I had all this stuff inside me that just wanted to get out and I needed an outlet. Well, that and also that someone presented me with a list of numbered questions from an online conversation about religion that had been completed by someone else as part of that threaded conversation. I decided that I would "steal" the questions, delete their answers and add my own answers to the same questions. I guess there were something like a dozen, maybe a few more. When I made it to the end of the list, I continued to write out the remainder of my belief system that had not been addressed in the original list of questions. Somewhere along the process of writing I was looking up references on a specific points when I discovered the Ra channelings. I finished the outline of my belief system recently after reading The Law of One (the first two books). I had continued to add bullet points clarifying myself as it related to The Law and expanding on some points that had occurred to me earlier in my seeking for the truth.
Reading The Law of One is probably my first brush with something clearly reaching into the metaphysical in terms of the intended direction of my searching/researching. Since finishing those first two books I went back and found a book that I had purchased and languished in my book collection since sometime in the early 1990s. I have just finished reading Shirley MacLaine's, "Going Within." I am shocked and awed on so many levels it's incredible! The book is great and I highly recommend it for anyone seeking.
However, what shocks me most are the extensive number of similarities within my belief system and the content of Ms. MacLaine's book. The comparisons are fantastically similar. I cite different sources for my belief and she uses much more credible references, like Stephen Hawkings, but the outline is almost identical. It's freaky scary how stinking close the works follow each other. This afternoon, as I finished the final chapter of "Going Within," I was forced to wonder about the timeliness of reading that old book now. Was I led to read this this specific book, after all these years since buying it? Has some external force tired of waiting for me to examine the contents of that book? Or, was it time for me to see that other people are working through their own methods to discover what seem to be the exact same truths?
I've never been hypnotized and am incredulous when I read of others past-life experiences. It's not that I don't believe that they have had those experiences. It's that I haven't yet been exposed to that specific part of my being (have been).
I am shocked and humbled by these revelations. Just wanted to say something to someone about this experience.
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