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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: E who wrote (25749)	10/30/1998 2:47:00 PM
From: Rick Julian	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

E, I'm beginning to sniff the aroma of understanding.(Or does my Bolognese sauce need stirring?) One of the principle reasons I've devoted so much energy to this thread is to examine the veracity of self-described atheists' claims of not believing in a god/essence/great one/tao/spirit . . . . With your last post, I no longer worry about you being a genuine, literal, dyed in the wool atheist (you only play one on TV) and that eases my mind more than you can ever know. I don't seek solace in my beliefs as a refuge from the realities of the life cycle. My body is but a vessel for my soul, with this incarnation giving me yet another opportunity to crystallize my unity with The One, eliminate my fear, my sense of boundaries and separation, and then transmute to an existence which transcends this corporeal one--to one of pure essence--essence which no longer needs form to give it meaning. I believe our souls are born into bodies because of an unfulfilled want or need, and once this has been satisfied, become comfortable with an etheric existence. Tangentially: A fellow songwriter recently wrote a beautiful phrase for a song that has played in my mind for weeks now: " . . .our souls are God's batteries . . ." Rick