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To: jbe who wrote (30211)	6/27/1999 11:40:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

No, I don't think I said he was a Physicist. Just a guy. duh mo'pissant. I knew about the degree; but the "two years of doctoral study in Systems Science" ~ what is that? Does it take subway tokens? <<Although I do not like the Amazon term "cutting-edge spirituality"<< I noticed it too. I think they meant, "This will be valid fifteen minutes." Or, "If you're wacky, we're snacky." The book is actually interesting. Possibly, particularly if one enjoys physics. I do not mean this offensively, honest, but most of the rest of your post was over my head. I'm not a grasper. Type person. I don't know many references or categorize archivally. I don't remember concepts or their names. Also, I sort of gave up trying, because I became doubtful of the value of mind, or perhaps mine, for discernment or comprehension. So I just try to remember what is interesting about what I learned, or stories, or things that seem peculiarly interesting. (It's that LRR Peculiar Faith thing. :o)) It's folklorico to me now. Besides; my brain sucks. Donkey eggs. So I can't really discuss or engage in conversation maturely; I can only shoot my mouth off. I'm reading the Hartshorne article.

To: jbe who wrote (30211)	6/28/1999 9:33:00 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

events, experiences, momentarily-developing minds, are conceived as the only concrete realities. Since reality is a recurring topic lately- For me, events often seem unreal until I write about them, when they then take on meaning for me. ("There are no events but thoughts and the heart's hard turning.") Which probably explains why my stories seem perfectly accurate and truthful to me, but Dan laughs at them and asks why I can't just tell things straight. ANd also why I'm very spacey and not quick at all in real life- because it hasn't happened yet for me- I'm not there until I relive it. However, I am now greatly reassured that this isn't a unique quality or a symptom of mental incompetence. Last night I came across this sentence in the Bayley book- "Only memory holds reality." A lot of writers apparently have this same experience, particularly the Romantics, who discovered taht "to remember and write was to create their lives...that the actual experience was nothing beside it, a mere blur always on the move, always disappearing." Also this weekend came across a reference to "Esoteric Christianity." LIke your Process Philosophy and your search for "soulmates", I keep trying to find something that will allow me to stay within the structure of Christianity, where I am comfortable and where most of my friends have their spiritual basis, but helps me overcome my inability to accept it as it is presented. Somehow I wound up with this term from somewhere. THe little I read felt rather New Agey though. I know the New Age movement is laughable in many ways, but it also seems touching and sad to me, a generation searching for meaning but not finding it in the older mythologies. Joseph Campbell wrote that moral breakdown was occuring because people had no new mythology to hold onto. We are between beliefs.