Hey Gene. First, I think God should shake the hell out of us and
wake us up now! So what if we crap a brick? LOL. But O.K. Maybe He
knows what She's doing. Also, the ascended guys said, "In the end,
everything except for God is metaphor." So I have to think that this
Wapnick guy has the right idea when he says the only way to get the
Course is to realize that the parts of it that express duality
(twoness or division) must be taken as metaphor. Arten and Pursah
expressed the same idea, saying that the parts of it that express non-
duality (oneness) should be taken literally, but not the rest of it.
That's how we know that Jesus isn't an idiot who constantly
contradicts himself. The guy's an artist, and the Course is a
complete presentation. As Martha pointed out, (and Arten and Pursah)
all its parts have to be taken within the context of its larger
teachings rather than dissecting the individual parts.
Now, "Thessa-2k." I love that! Wouldn't it be funny if I met
someone named that? (LOL) In any case, I like your observations and
questions. This is hardly needed, but let me add another dimension to
it. Pursah said on P.404, "We visit you now from *outside* of
time." In other words, they were speaking to me from after they were
already enlightened, out of those bodies and outside of the dream of
time and space completely. Thus only their love (spirit) remains, and
the bodily images I saw of them were projections of their final
incarnation's bodily images that were coming through the part of mind
that knows everything unconsciously, filtered by the love of the Holy
Spirit. So it's not like they were really visiting me from the future
or from their actual lifetimes as Arten and Pursah. They were
manifestations of the love they had returned to, which is beyond
time, space and form. BTW, they talked about the details of this
briefly on P.389. Thanks again Gene. I hope we get to play our
guitars and drink a brew together sometime. Later, Gary.
