The Inexplicable Occurence of Human Life

http://inlink.gaia.com — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:58:58 GMT

I'd be surprised to get much commentary on this post. The fact that I'm not cut out of the same cloth as most folks accounts for the many mysterious coincidences in my life, starting in the spring of 1975, which I think are worthy of at least my comment. I can't to this day fully explain how it was that when everything should have gone wrong everything went right. I can partially explain it but there remains uncertainty. Dr. Evan Harris Walker calls it the "Supreme Consciousness." See my following comments in Explaining the Boundary: Science & Spirituality.

The strange events in my life commenced shortly after my departure from everything with which I was familiar. I engaged myself in the totally unfamiliar, where it was strictly up to me whether I lived or died. I'm important enough to have lived through the experience, because, not only did I live through it, I saved six other lives from a watery grave.

In one instance, I mentally homed in on three scuba divers who got caught in an ocean current and were miles from their dive boat. Nobody knew but me and the three scuba divers, who were total strangers. I sailed straight to them. It was dusk when I pulled them into my boat.

In another instance, I was caught, with three crew members, in a violent storm in the Bermuda Triangle. You've heard of ships and aircraft disappearing in the Bermuda Triangle and never seen again. The storm should have blown me far off course. For some inexplicable reason, I arrived at my destination at my estimated time of arrival. By all reason, I should not have been there. Breakers extended completely across Lake Worth Inlet. I sailed straight through them. Seas were breaking on both sides. I slid down the sea behind to safety. It never broke.

Why do terrible things happen to good people? I'll tell you. I don't think many have lived the charmed life I've lived since I went on my own in 1975. I'm surely no paragon of virtue. However, this charmed life never would have happened had I remained in my old puritanical life, looking down my nose at people who didn't think and act like me. The worst problem in this world, proven over and over, is being convinced that one's concept of life is right and all others are wrong.

In May 1980, I met my fourth wife in the singles bar at Greenwood Inn in Portland, Oregon, two weeks after my third wife departed. I never put wife number three on the pedestal she demanded. She brought out the independent me. I'd never seen Karen before, but it was like meeting an old friend I hadn't seen for a long time. Call it intuition. I'm certain that it was my unconventional life. I AM that I am, you are who you are, that gave me the feeling I should have had for married bliss. Karen is still the best friend anyone could ever ask for and we don't think alike on lots of things. Because we've got the right chemistry, something neither of us ever learned in our former marriages, we've adjusted to being on equal terms. It suits both our natures that I'm out to save the world and Karen is wrapped up in family matters.

We've been retired for the past seven years, living in our RV. I'm 81 and Karen is 71. Last year I figured that we'd be flat broke in another seven years, but I didn't worry. Something always had turned up, and it did. I applied for financial help as a disabled veteran. This February, financial help came. I was a combat infantryman during World War II. It resulted in my current 70 percent hearing loss. Thanks to the Veteran's Administration, we now have no financial worries.

For the past five years, I've been writing my memoirs. It turns out that it isn't just my life that I'm writing about. The book of my life keeps getting more and more involved with universal consciousness. The strange thing about it is that I keep running into coincidences that make me believe my mind is far ahead of the conscious me.

The more I use my mind, the stronger, mentally, I become, the more my awareness expands. In quantum mechanics, there is the uncertainty principle. Blessed with human consciousness, my life reveals that chance favors the prepared mind, which ties in with the Bible's Genesis 1:26. "Let us make man in our image." It seems to me that our image is the galactic image. When I think about our being in that sense, I'm awed by the fact that we are placed exactly the right distance from the sun to sustain life as we know it, in a universe that is hostile to life. We've been placed with conscious awareness far in excess of any other life form on Earth, and potentially far more aware than we are now.

Thus, if it is true that we are placed with increasing purpose-and everything points to this-the facts don't bear me out. The facts say that we are driving in reverse down a one-way street that ends at a cliff, but rather than face this fact, although we know better, we prefer to look at the street we've left and let the future take care of itself. How some of us can rationalize reality is a puzzle to me.

I get my kicks out of being heavily involved with life. Would someone please explain to me why it is desirable, as much as possible, to remove the world from the mind. We are driving in the reverse of the philosophy in the Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation: Matter is derived from mind, and not mind from matter. How can we take that to mean we should strive to clear the mind of thought? If we were able to successfully do that, it seems to me, it would be the utter obliteration of all consciousness, the end of all matter. I don't mean that we should never remove ourselves to take stock.

It is taken as a great compliment to say of a person, "I never heard him say a bad thing about anyone." If we could only partially remove ourselves, as a matter of principle see only good, never evil, it would restrict our reality, leave us removed from the best that life can bring us, it seems to me, yet I'm offensive to some folks. If I'm wrong, since there is always going to be evil in our world, please explain in detail why it is better to be like the three monkeys, seeing no evil, hearing no evil, speaking no evil.

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