13.73 Billion Years (Give or Take)
Well I’m back in the deep end again. I should have been a philosophy major in college. But neeeeeewww… I hadda jurn the NAVY! But, you know what? If I hadn’t joined the NAVY, I wouldn’t have learned electronics, and if I didn’t learn electronics, I wouldn’t have done so well in the class, and I wouldn’t have gotten to pick what kind of ship I wanted to be on, and where I wanted to be on it, and I wouldn’t have gotten stationed in Mayport, Florida on that broken down destroyer, and I wouldn’t have found In Search of Schrödinger’s Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
Now. Kinda glad things worked out the way they did. A secret I learned a while back reminds me that this was the ONLY way it could have happened. And here I am, in this particular point in my life just absolutely AMAZED at how the universe took 13.73 BILLION! (+/-0.12 billion) years to bring itself to the small body-mind named Mike, and question what the hell is going on! Of course, all of that’s based on a few assumptions on my part, but you get the idea.
So, what the hell is going on here?
And for those of you that know, or maybe care… Randall’s still with me, putting up with my crap! I’ll keep you posted, but I think you’ll see it in the tone of my posts if something is realized. Huh?
Possibly…. or maybe not… sounds like you might be hoping something will happen?
Exactly… possibly… or maybe not. The only thing I’m hoping will “happen” is that it clicks, and I understand. Don’t want any miracles, or singing angels, or superhuman powers. Just the recognition of the truth other than that of faith.
I started reading the book The Most Direct Means to Eternal Bliss. It is so unbelievably simple and straightforward. Just yesterday things clicked and I “get it” now. I’m not saying I’m enlightened or anything, but I finally understand what all this “I AM” business is about. And it’s so simple I almost can’t believe it.
Do you plan on posting some of your dialogue with Randall? I’d be really interested to hear how it goes!
Hey Christine. I read that book, too. I can’t remember who recommended it, maybe Jerry Katz, I don’t know, but I should go back and find out so I don’t drive myself crazy trying to remember. Let’s see… the Awareness Watching Awareness method is in there, isn’t it? Perhaps I should drag it out for a second read, but I remember it being very monotonous and very, very repetitive, like, “alright already, I got that… can we move on?” It was annoying to read. But I seem to remember there was some good stuff in there too.
I’ll have to run it by Randall to see if he minds me putting his words on this blog, but yeah, I think it’d be good for folks to see how this process is going. Although I might wait a while, so I don’t respond to him in a way that makes me feel like I’m writing to an audience. He’s very thorough, and I think you would benefit even more from the dialogue in the “I AM” business understanding, the way he presents it. I’m a scientific-type of seeker… I want proof, and apparently he was that way too. It makes for a very difficult search because it’s not easy to rely on faith at all. Anyway, yeah, I think that would be a good idea for future posts.
Mike