And now I just have poor eye sight. But I am seeing better We ARE what we SEE and I’m not limiting that to just physical sight. You SEE- You BE! Having said that I am talking about the unenlightened being. We ARE so much more than we ARE and so much more than we can currently SEE. The ego will always try and convince us that we know it all. Yeah right! Or if we don’t know it all, we know most of it, and the rest isn’t worth worrying about. This Friday I will try to change your mind about that, but I’ll use the three days between now and then to lay some ground work.
For way too much of my life I separated myself from others: others whom I am really one with anyway, so why and pretend I am NOT, when in fact, I AM! 
Let me give you two examples: one generic, and one specific.
I grew up Protestant and heterosexual! So, you know where this is going right?
I accepted the blinders of my denomination. I was taught that Catholics were heretics, that they worshiped a false god (Mary), and that they were going to hell- they were unsaved! What did I know as a seventeen year old? But why was I still holding to this beliefs at twenty seven, and at thirty seven? I embraced my “belief system” just as we all do. Once you believe, it’s hard to NOT believe!
The ego is always right! 
But once I begin to venture out, at forty seven, forsaking what my teachers had told me, shoving off from shore and heading to the spiritual open waters of the unknown, I started to accept a different paradigm. I did so because I purposefully choose to say NO to staying tied to the shore of my “belief system“. Instead I went where I was not sure.
By the time I was fifty seven, I had ejected that “belief system”. I was reading Catholic authors, Catholic mystics, and engaging in some of the Catholic traditions (can you say Lent?).
Once I was blind and prejudicial (about Catholics) because that was what I was taught to BELIEVE! Now I know that it was their 1600 year history that Luther was able to build on that has brought us all this far.
My vision isn’t 20-20 yet, but neither am I blind!
And if you want to hear about that other archaic, specific belief system- homosexuality, you’ll need to CLICK HERE!
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