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Hey, Beachboy, A Swede here... :) So what´s your connection to this here native soil of mine...? Interesting about your passion for writing. I was always fond of it myself, but can´t say I´ve actually cultivated it in any real way... Not too late just yet, though, I guess. Music is...

Hi Deborah, such an interesting memory:thumbsup: and moving, somehow... Not least your experiences of working and deep prayer. Apparently that´s also a benedictine motto: "orare et laborare".

Thanks, Tanguerra, for sharing Carol´s story. To me, for one, it means a lot hearing it since I seem to have been active in similar times and surroundings only from an opposite perspective, as a german soldier and a guy. I, too, felt Sunnivas comments went straight to heart.

Interesting you mention that, Titus. After watching the video and being intrigued by it, I discussed the strange fact of "no deaths in the family" with my wife who´s a great practising medium. The first thing she comes up with is the same theory. What if he had lived and died close by or in...

Sweden, the very south, just a hop across the water from Poland, Germany etc.

Hi John, Rephrasing your question a little: "What is the "I" that that go from body to body from name to different name, from one personality to another?" Or, in effect: "Beyond the time-bound, who am I?" In my opinion this would be kind of like a "koan-to-end-all others" and really one of...

I´ve been reading the gospel of st.Thomas again recently and here´s a saying that might sit well with this topic: (18)"The disciples said to Jesus: Tell us how our end will be. Jesus said: Since you have discovered the beginning, why do you seek the end? For where the beginning is, there will...

Hi Karoliina, Giotto and Goya are two of my favourites that come up. I guess they were both sort of "proto-" of what was to come; the high renaissance/ a more personally expressive modern art. They both seem to have this keen psychological eye, at the same time sharp, empathetically down...

Well, that´s really basically the way I read it, but I can see how my use of the words such as ´instructions´and ´leader´may be off in that context. Actually, the courage etc. I mentioned, I think comes in precisely at the point of being willing yourself, as the one decisionmaker, to decide for...

Whatever... following guidance ain´t so bad either;) . And taking an old misgiuded capacity for far-reaching loyalty and using it to follow the instructions of another, better leader is probably about as creative a use as you could put it, and yourself, to. At least, that´s how I´ve been...

I just wanted to say your post effected me deeply. It hit me hard - if Himmler can be, in some sense of the word, forgiven, then it would be, more or less, a kind of inverted arrogance to think that someone else involved on the same side (like I believe I was) wouldn´t be able to be... were...

Extreme opposites... with the exception that behind the scenes of these very varying appearances there´s somehow always the same little old lost fool fumbling for a way out... Still I think this present life must represent at least a beginning of... or a return to, maybe... a willingness to...

I remember, years ago a friend of my wife´s brought her 1 year old boy over and while we were sitting in the garden they had him do this special little dance he used to do. His parents jokingly used to call it his ´rain-dance´ complete with chanting. Well, that time a fine drizzle actually...

Redgod, Well, I think your analogy presented a good case for itself as, if not the truth (thank god;) ), a good working model of it. Kris, I agree there...I think LOL.Tricks with mirrors... ;)

Redgod, that´s a really nice and, I believe, accurate analogy, I think:thumbsup:! ... now what´s so terrible about believing it a little?;) ;) Well, like you already said: to the ´me´ it can be perceived as not very appealing (ranging to intensly threatening). Logical, if we identify with...