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Darkhorse's avatar

Happy Birthday. I hope there is cake. As always, I enjoy the way you craft your words, the clarity is very satisfying. I identify as an animist and have, for various reasons, an uncomfortable relationship with Christianity. However, personal experience with different states of consciousness have led me to conclude that permeating the cosmos there is a boundless power of joyous love, surrounding and cradling us, waiting for us to open to it and experience enlightenment (however one wants to define that). It is ultimate, unconditional generosity of creation, present in every sun, bacteria, flower, galaxy and tree; a primal urge to come-into-being, the exuberance of life in all its many manifestations.

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Mat Osmond's avatar

This is beautiful, thanks Caro. One of the things it reminded me of is the curious gratitude I've felt of late to 'converted', now formally Christian friends. As if they'd just stepped across a boundary-edge right in front of me, one I hadn't properly noticed until they crossed it and turned back to show me, just for a moment, how much of what I hold to be true is mostly a kind of herding. I loved 'not not a Christian'. My equivalent would be, I think, that I find myself most often in conversation with 'being a Christian'. And happy with that non-exclusive arrangement.

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