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TT: PNEUMATOLOGICALLY SPEAKING, MY SOMA THANKS YOU; MY PSYCHE THANKS YOU & MY ALL-INCLUSIVE PNEUMA THANKS YOU--HOLISTICALLY AND SINCERELY! In brief, I thank you! I thank you especially for the way you have recently responded to my request to rephrase certain questions.

I find the three re-phrased questions, in your recent comment following, very stimulating.

THE ART OF TM?
Like our FF, I have serious questions which I would like to ask anyone about the claims that I, personally, heard the Maharishi of TM make--in Toronto in 1964. If he was talking, metaphorically, why did he not say so? I love good metaphors--the Bible is filled with them. BTW, I know the art of TM. One of my assistant ministers was an expert.

Before I say more: In my responses I will abbreviate the word, 'pneumatological' and words having to do with 'pneumatology'--study, or science, of the Spirit (divine and human) as PNT. If you find anything I say, PNT-wise, offensive, I have no objection to having a moderator remove it.

If--as I have done in my comments to you--you find anything that I write unclear, simply ask me to clarify. Not true! Does the following make my meaning clear? When I was a young theological student (1947-1955) I studied at
http://www.mta.ca
http://astheology.ns.ca/
http://www.bu.edu/sth/about-sth/
We were taught to believe the following:
As human and rational beings, we are free to accept--if we so choose--that we are really spiritual (PNT) beings who--for any number of reasons--are now having a somatological (physical) and psychological (mental) experience.

We were taught: What you do with the philosophy and theology you get here is your choice. In my opinion, in the light, grace and love of G~0~D (as ALL-Being) there can be no compulsion.

Is the above clear. Any questions?1. Pneumatologically thinking
It is my personal--PNT-SPEAKING--opinion that, like snowflakes and grains of sand, each of us is, like any work of art, individually unique. Therefore, I like to think that we are G~0~D~like beings. Also, we live and move and have our being within G~0~D--who is not just a being, but Being itself.

G~0~D~like grains of sand:
http://sandgrains.com/Sand-Grains-Gallery.html

http://theuniblog.evilspacerobot.com/?p=6557
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G~0~D~like snowflakes:
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/alike/alike.htm
http://pinterest.com/golddstwmn/each-one-is-unique/

You seem to think that I focus on being "separate".

Not true! As a PNT-thinker--that is, one who has been given the great gift to be able to say "I am, I will, I choose, I think, I learn, I know, I do and I take action"--I am, with the new physicists like Stephen Hawking, I am more interested in understanding what integrates me with you and others, with mother earth, the solar system, the billions of galaxies and, ultimately, with G~0~D~~the infinity of time and space, within and beyond.

Obviously, there there are more questions to be asked and explored about this, and more for all of us to say.

CONCLUDING THIS COMMUNICATION
Anyone, including creative atheists, agnostics and skeptics: Using clearly-outlined and brief paragraphs, feel free to join in. Any beefs? If you want to keep them private, feel free to send me a private message.

It is always helpful to know: What sciences are of personal interest you, especially those in which you happen to have some expertise. My interest is in the philosophy of psychology and in the art of painting. Here, I am trying to learn how to write.

What are your hobbies? Your favourite philosophies and arts? Questions are always welcomed.