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Friends, a few thoughts on dogma and reality, from my book Muddy Tracks.

“Interestingly enough, this sketch of the way I now see the world encompasses Bob Monroe’s description of earth-bound individuals as part of a larger being that exists primarily in a region beyond what he calls the Time-Space Illusion. This larger being sends out probes to experience earth life; the probes live as if they were separate beings, and at physical death they reunite not only with the part of the larger being that stayed outside what I call 3D Theater, but also with the others who were in the physical. But Monroe’s description also passes for a good description of God as he is understood in the Christian, Jewish and Moslem traditions. In fact, it corresponds with descriptions handed down by mystics and other wanderers in realms beyond 3D Theater….

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Years ago I had the pleasure of listening to, and transcribing, tapes of E. F. Schumacher’s 1977 lecture tour in the United States. Schumacher, a life-long economist, was the author of the brilliant book Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered.

This was in Jimmy Carter’s first term, nearly four years before Ronald Reagan came into office vowing – and delivering on his vow – to reverse Carter’s energy policy, which Carter had crafted to reduce our dependence on foreign oil. Reagan destroyed all federal programs involving support of research into solar energy, for instance, although he had no problem with giving plenty of money for the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) on the theory that SDI would help provide security for America. (As if energy independence would not!) Within a couple of years, the oil was flowing again and everybody went back to sleep, because the alternative was too disturbing to think about.

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