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Re:Babies, Bathwater, and Bailey

Nov 01, 1997 11:24 AM
by Annette Rivington


ramadoss@eden.com wrote:

> I love this. It is inaction that, IMHO, is more destructive than action,
> action, action.....

Hi Doss: glad you responded. My additional comment, rational now
rather than intuitive, is that I think I need to understand that it is a
process for all of us. Hence, when we comment, we are opening a debate
in which, as we progress in the acceptance of experiences of others ( I
will not use the word "facts") we increase our own experience and
understanding. If we decide not to comment or act until we "know the
absolute truth", we will be silent, perhaps for thousands of lives.

I think most people make an unconscious decision as to which "method"
they will use -
* Follow some dogma or leader, take years to learn that explanation, and
reach understanding.

* Try many ideas/ways, compare and assimilate, and hope to find one or a
mixture that works best for them.

* Intuit that the truth is available to all and open up to receive it,
whether from guides, spiritual records, connection with the oneness ...

There seems to be no doubt that listening to the ideas and experiences
of others (including reading their records of such), getting involved in
community works, living in relationships, i.e. Life here, affords a
great opportunity to speed that process. It also seems, logically and
intuitively, that this Life process, at some point, becomes unecessary.

What we say and write now will not be the same as what we do later.
"The moving finger......". It is our choice to participate.
Sometimes I feel that I would like to go back and erase all those things
I said and did before, so that I could do it "right" this time. Until I
"see" a spiral in which I am erasing continuously. If I did not say and
do it then, it would not be there to redo and I would either have to
come into this life perfect with nothing to do, or not come at all.
Well, I'm here, so I do.

Nice thing is Doss, even if we disagreed here, I think we would continue
to debate. Continue our processes. I believe that is what your few
words meant this time.

P.S. My friend has "seen" in meditation a flooding of most of the two
coasts of N. America and herself in a small group of previously and
currently alive people safe and watching in sadness. I was a little
disappointed to learn that I was not in her group, however, she reports
I will find a group of my own. Care to join?!
Annette

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