[William Terrell]

Maybe you don't want to dump her. Maybe God wants you to be able to go back and forth at will. That's a presumption on my part, but need for freedom seems to be part of our spiritual makeup and that would be the natural application.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you so very much for your wonderful posts!

I certainly agree with your observations of a “normalizing mechanism” and what a strange thing it would be to go through "successive states of amnesia.” Indeed, we would be full of awe and wonder if we were like children anew moment by moment. Children made anew wouldn’t have the memories to know fear or hate.

In my experience, the more aware I am of my awareness, the more I'm aware of a greater presence.

I agree! And I love the simplicity of the explanation (purple elephants and all) and intend to use it with a certain agnostic I know, who is short on time and patience. LOL!

Maybe you don't want to dump her. Maybe God wants you to be able to go back and forth at will. That's a presumption on my part, but need for freedom seems to be part of our spiritual makeup and that would be the natural application.

Oh I do want to dump her! Please see my post 176 for why. She is a distraction and an annoyance. But I do agree that she is probably there to interfere with my decision making (as if I wanted to listen to her, LOL!)

She and physical death are all that stand between me and graduation and I'm trusting that physical death will be the end of her.