bobevenson wrote:...another example of divine intervention.
Okay, Bob... what you are calling "divine intervention", I call "cosmic connectivity and direction" (or something like that). You are assigning a "divine" quality to it, which tends to set you apart and above others -- and which is evidenced by your self-proclaimed status as a prophet. This is where your grandiose delusion has come into it -- where you have decided that YOUR ideas are more significant than all others... in a universe FULL OF CONSTANT IDEAS AND CONNECTIONS. It seems to me that WE ARE ALL RECEIVING directions from the infinitely connected realm (hints, insights, answers, AND further delusions) -- as the universe supports us in however we think. WHAT MATTERS is how we utilize that. I'm quite certain I have said this to you before, but you seem to ignore it because you are so fixated on YOURSELF being uniquely special -- rather than realizing how EVERYTHING and EVERYONE are, in ebbs and flows.
I have also shared with you how I have repeatedly received AMAZING lightening-fast answers/insights, seemingly other-worldly and out of nowhere, as well as ASTOUNDING affirmations against all odds, TIME AFTER TIME AFTER TIME on my path. My friends have witnessed and viewed this with respect... and I just feel very grateful and open for more. Unlike you, I do not see these incidences as indications that I or such insights are somehow more gifted or important than others (maybe growing up in the church impressed on me how tempting, dangerous, and blind self-righteousness can be) -- rather, I TRULY see these indications as what WE ALL HAVE ACCESS TO FOR OURSELVES. And ANY of us can convolute things and delude ourselves at any time. During these years of my life I have gravitated together with very intuitive/insightful friends... and we help keep each other reminded of all that's possible... but we watch each other struggle too, naturally!
So, what do YOUR PARTICULAR INSIGHTS ACTUALLY MEAN, Bob? I think it's hard to know with clarity when you convolute them with your ideas of grandeur and salvation. Perhaps the "hints" could lead YOU to something so much bigger for YOURSELF (which you could then share effectively with others), but it appears that you've become too intoxicated/greedy with certain steps on your path, preventing yourself from going further. So you just keep spinning in THAT circle, drooling over the significance of your supposed "treasures". Meanwhile, THE UNIVERSE IS FULL OF TREASURES AND MOVEMENT BOB!!! So much greater (I am sure) than anything our puny brains have conceived or can conceive! Yet... watching you... it seems as if you've come out of a cave, seen the moon, and then imagined it to be the whole universe, and yourself a supreme being for seeing/defining it as such. Which provides us with a good example for hashing/sorting through such positions/viewpoints. Although you seem too rigid and obsessed to cooperatively and honestly and bravely explore and question ALL ANGLES... such extremism is informative as well.
Until you can be as open to the natural connectivity and flow of all things as you are to only those things which support your particular focus, you won't really be seeing much at all (I think)... because you'll just keep playing in your sandbox and expecting everyone else to remain within its borders as well. (This is true for any of us.) Perhaps, Bob, you enjoy the company/attention of people standing around trying to coax you out of it to experience more?
