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The dream I decided to share, unedited. The significance I leave to each one's interpretation. So, the answer is: "whatever it means to you." There could be a tease or a wink, if that's where you're at in your psychospiritual development.

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The World Renewal issue linked by jannisder has an article by that luminary of Western BKs, Sister Denise. She seems unconflicted in her faith. The fact that many find issues with aspects of the BKWSU, as we see on this forum, need not exclude the ability of individual BKs to lead rich and fulfilled...

I've long been drawn by the emotional power of my dreams, my unconscious working to make sense of my life. People deprived of REM sleep (during which dreams occur) exhibit a variety of problems. Recently dreaming has been shown to be a part of the process of establishing long-term memories. Over sev...

Interesting to read about Barbara Ann Brennan again. Her book, Hands of Light, was in a box of books sent me on loan from a friend when I was beginning to explore other paths outside the BKs. I did not follow up at the time, wanting a more immediately grounded way to experience the world. I have no ...

Virtually every organization and business and government I ever had contact with has an official front and an inside reality. It would surprise me if the BKs did not make themselves look their best in the public eye. In Japanese there are the expressions, honne and tatemae for the inner reality and ...

Hi Primal, I am not walking away, rather waiting. I'd asked some questions to confirm if he believes that accepting a formulation of the Law of Karma is a precondition to moral behavior and to effectively manifesting one's intentions to help others. I'd like to distinguish between universal principl...

Good to hear from you Bansy. And to hear about your reasons for choosing to focus on the other forum. I'll be sure to drop by for look! Not sure how you've experienced it, but over the years in this forum I feel you've been a kind of emotional counterweight ... if that is the right expression ... su...

Actually, there was also a lot of talk in the BKWSU about how African service was not going well because negroes were too lustful. I pass no judgment. I heard that, too! Is that the highest wisdom of all? Just to cut back to the topic title, when Janki Kripalani, relative of the "Father of Hum...

I am posting in this thread as there is a lot of discussion of Prozac and other SSRI drugs that are often prescribed for people diagnosed as depressed. I know several people whose lives have become managable thanks to using these medicines. On the other hand, I find a site that describes negative co...

Others seem to be getting upset here Diiogenes. Is that what you want? What is your aim in participating here? I quote you: "I'd be remiss not to share what I've learned to be most valuable, agreed with or not." If you are here to serve me, no thanks! I'd be more interested in hearing abou...

Safe trip and blessed life. Keep an eye on the ocean!

Diiogenes, We've been writing quite a lot here, and I hope we can find ways to hear each other as well as we are both expressing ourselves. The point of understanding it as a unversal law is that it forms a cornerstone of moral understanding and behaviour for the individual, something they can build...

Yes, John, if these answers help one gain more understanding over life, then there is every reason to take advantage of them. Obviously if there is justice, it seems fairer than if there is not! I agree that karma philosophy would certainly need an acceptance of reincarnation to make sense, since ba...

We're all subject to the universal laws, of which karma is one ... You either did not understand, Joel, or you're choosing to be willfully ignorant. Hi again D, If you look over what I wrote, I said that "for myself, I examine my participation, conscious or unconscious, in all that befalls me....

You sound quite passionate, Pururavan, about saving BKs. Good luck to you with that. For me, the BKs are in their own particular heaven or hell. I cannot imagine trying to save them from what they have chosen. Probably it is their karma to be there ... wearing white and praying to Baba everyday. I h...