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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (14857)	2/13/2003 10:43:32 AM
From: James Calladine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28931

OK, so what is the human path that led you to a "hunger for God"...or vice versa? Did you look at various religious traditions and find them inadequate or misleading before you discovered a guide who satisfied your "hunger for God"? HUNGER FOR GOD: In my experience this develops out of the FAILURE of one's efforts to find happiness/understanding/meaning in life through conventional means. HUMAN PATH: Householder life: 3 marriages 17yrs, 12 yrs and 7 years ongoing; 3 children, 3 grandchilren; some other relationships in between. Money: Net worth $0 to $15mil to $0 several times. Business: started up, bought, sold some 35 companies, the largest of which were doing about $.5 bil sales annually. Careers: Entrepreneur; computer developer(2 startups); psychotherapist(12 years). CONCLUSION: Same as Adi Da's statement--"You cannot BECOME happy, you can only BE happy". This led me to questions of what was involved in BEING. SPIRITUALPATHS & INFLUENCES ENROUTE: -- Anglican/Episcopalian Church(Canada)left at age 11 -- Unitarian Church -- Investigation of psychic phenomena -- Stanislav Grof -- Carl Rogers -- Wilhelm Reich/Alexander Lowen/John Pierrakos -- Teachings of Seth -- Psychosynthesis (in some of its aspects) -- Gurdjieff/Ouspensky work -- Urantia Book -- Became devotee of Meher Baba (for 7 years) -- Became devotee of Adi Da (for 18 years, continuing) In summary, that's it! What about you, Solon? And others? Namaste! Jim