Yes, that is the divine of you.

A very good analogy. Thanks-and keep well.

Yes, so can I. Eric Butterworth is a real favorite of mine. Cheers!

An interesting thought!

You're welcome. 😊

Thank you.

No problem!

Glad you liked it. Cheers!

All the very best! And thanks.

Jon, I had a very similar upbringing--raised as a Baptist. Yes, I, too, have had to unlearn a lot. I attended classes at Unity in Sydney, Australia in the 1980s and was introduced to the writings of Eric Butterworth, Emmet Fox and many other enlightened, progressive spiritual writers. It was a real eye-opener. Thanks for sharing your story, which is very similar to mine. (And, yes, that book Discover the Power Within You is a real gem!) Love and Blessings, Ian.

@@drianej Thank you Ian... your posts are so very uplifting in what can appear a troubled world. Life and Death is the name of the last chapter in his book, Life is for Living and dovetails very beautifully with chapter 17 of Discover the Power Within You. Eric offers the idea of reincarnation being part of the answer to this question of what happens after we die, and he ties into his explanations. The idea that Jesus said that we shall be perfect as our heavenly father is perfect. If we look at the idea of our heavenly father being perfect as being analogous to our own personal god potential, the Christ within us, I can actually see how that explanation may fit in to my experience. Experience. I believe that I have two specific, if brief, fragments of memories of past life experiences. Experiences. I would not be able to prove this or disprove this. And he makes the point that we should not trouble ourselves trying to search out the details of past life experiences. Because he gives you analogy of the way moving towards the distance. Sure, and the only place you can find the activity of the wave that was, is to look at the activity of the wave. That is. Because life is movement and moves ever forward. In the book from 1965 he talks very briefly about the idea of a surfer, and I think I now know why he made that analogy, although he did not explain it in the book. Book. The surfer is riding the movement of the energy that is passing through water and forming itself as the wave. The server is in front of the crest of the wave perpetually during the surfing activity and not lingering far behind in the wires that previously contain the wave. So I think it is an analogy to help us understand the idea of always moving forward on the crest of the wave as we go through our experience. I've also had numerous experiences that some people may classify as being clairvoyant or perhaps even paranormal. I have seen and felt and heard the activity of people and animals after they passed. I don't mean to go off on a tangent there. I'm just saying, it does appear that the bond of love and of conscious attachment to our loved ones persists after we pass to a brief shadow, from one patch of sunlight to another. William Wordsworth wrote a beautiful poem talking about the pre-existence of souls... Ode:Intimations on Immortality. There's a section in this beautiful poem that Eric was very fond of..... " Our birth is but a sleeping and a forgetting: the Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, have had elsewhere its setting, and cometh from afar: not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home..." I do not have all the answers. In fact, a friend of mine, who's 96 years young, is a friend of Mr. Rosemergy, a Unity minister who knew Eric, personally. My friend likes to remind me that, we never arrive. Meaning, that we are always on our quest. That said, had the conclusion of this particular part of my eternal experience, I will be happy to say, with Jesus, that I commit my spirit to the father. Blessings in love to you all, Jonathan

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Amen.

You’re so welcome. Glad you liked it. 😊