Dear Tannhauser:

“Woods and forests have always been the most sacred places” you wrote. I live in a forest area. Unfortunately I can still hear neighbors screaming (last night), but lots of trees, a forest, deer, elk, rabbit, coyotes on the property. And indeed it is magnificent. There is a lot to learn from nature. This is why I suggested earlier to focus on the Natural before focusing on the Supernatural. There is a lot that I don’t know, but I know that it is impossible for me to know. I only have these five senses and this particular human brain. So I am not bothered by the fact that I will never know a whole lot of things. I am not trying to know the unknowable because there is so much in front of me that I CAN learn.

When I learn about people, motivations, and such, I get more and more clear about the ways of the world, how people operate. It is fascinating for me. So when I read what you wrote about confusion in your last post: ” I don’t know why the ‘spiritual realm’ decided to do this, because it left me very confused.” –

…It made me wonder about the truth of your spiritual realizations, because if they are true, why are they confusing? My experience with unearthing truths is that I get less confused. I get clarity.

Going back to part of the title of your thread: “Future bleak”- for all of us, the future is that we, as we know ourselves, bodies and brain, will die. This is an undeniable bleakness. Although in nature it is business-as-usual, neutral. But in our ability to think in ways that other animals can’t- it seems bleak, unfathomable. I think this anxiety, the end of us, spurred lots of religion, making believe we will somehow survive death.

anita