--- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> As we see from this world's "great religions", lifetimes can be > spent deciding what to wear, what color, drape of fabric, what shoes > to put on, how to step, in what order progress will be made, what to > think, how others may have explained it in the dusty past, before > the very first step of the spiritual journey is made. What a waste > of time, and a waste of life.
Certainly looks like it, doesn't it? "Life is wasted on the living." *lol* But there's one thing I've learned here: the living can not really see the dead, and the dead cannot really speak to the living. To us the so-called living are like ghosts -- i.e., the dead who refuse to acknowledge they are dead, because of some attachment they still hold to earth, some overriding past-memory or future-desire keeping them out of Here and Now. We can speak to them, but they refuse to hear. The dead can only be truly heard by the dead, or, on rare occasions, by someone on their death-bed. Then they can see us, and we can serve as a welcoming-committee, as was my pleasure with you :-)
