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To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (541)	11/18/2001 10:11:13 AM
From: James Calladine	Respond to of 2926

Very nicely expressed post! "Stages are interesting until one realizes that they too are part of our created reality" Agreed. I think that they are just a description of sign-posts that might be seen on the Way itself. However, when the description of the sign-posts is provided by some one who has traveled on the road previously, they can be helpful, perhaps preventing some wrong turns! Of course there really is NO Way, because you always already are lived by God! And any sense of getting from "here" to God is based on the ego's sense of separation from God. "In Meher Baba's God Speaks there are amazingly detailed charts and diagrams illustrating all manner of stages, realms, cycles, etc" Yes, I found that book fascinating, as a description of the evolution of consciousness through the multiplicity of forms. However, Meher Baba's basic instruction to his devotees, as I recall, was something like "Just love Me!" (meaning love Guru, love God, love everyone). "God cannot be analyzed or otherwise structurally composed" There is an account in the Urantia Book of Jesus coming down from the mountain and finding His disciples discussing various elements of what he had taught them. And Jesus says something like "You haven't understood at all. This Way is to be LIVED. All the time!" "All structure is thus fundamentally illusory from the perspective of ultimate reality" Absolutely! In Adi Da's terms, any sense of "structure" is as a result of ego's sense of separation. Namaste! Jim