A Gnostic Childhood - Gnostic Liberation Front

Spiritualism and Near Death Experiences
In fact, I didn t even see myself. No arms no legs, no body at all.
When I woke up, still sitting on the sofa with the book on my lap, I
felt so good and blessed. Everything, even the mundane
surroundings of my room, seemed "electric" and so very
alive...vibrating with meaning and love.
Through the course of my life I have reflected on this first mystical
experience almost daily. It has given me encouragement and
strength in times of despair and doubt and it has always encouraged
me to move ahead with the spiritual quest. It compelled me to seek
for answers to the meaning of life at a very early age. Of course, the
answer was given to me in very simple terms: the universe is like a
structure, and I, as well as everybody and everything else, are a
vital and living part of this living universe, which is the body of the
living God and that "death," is nothing but transformation and
evolution. Like actors on a supernatural stage we "audition" for and
play the parts which we need to play in order to learn and grow. Life,
material life on this material plane, and spiritual life on various
spiritual planes, is serious and yet nothing but "play-acting" in a
universal comedy which, if misinterpreted by us and taken as
ultimate reality, becomes a deadly drama absorbing us in its warped
script like in the suffocating
embrace of a demon from which
even our physical death can not
completely free us, as we must
learn "to play the game" by the
rules of the universe in order to
attain liberation from the bliss and
the horrors of material life. And the
most important rule, as I
understand it is, to Not Ever take
this material existence too
seriously.This is not to say that our
present material incarnation is not
important, because it really is. No,
we chose to live here under the
conditions we find ourselves in and
must act-out our assigned roles until
at least this "play" is over. But we
must not take play for ultimate
reality and forget that it only is a temporary role which we are
playing. In other words, we must not identify with the temporary
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