Here is the text of today's conversation:

"So, why is it so hard for peeps to get the concept of moving toward the universals. Because it means change. Having to let go of the familiar. So there will be grief and most people try to minimize grief. They do not yet perceive the greater meaning that will come, so they feel like there is loss only.

"This then is a point of faith: to believe that more inclusive, more complex, more universal will always mean more meaning. Most of the world’s religions teach just the opposite, while their inspirations all taught this. Religions believe in single set patterns, while spiritual explorers always know there are many routes and all of them are good. Can’t go far wrong following a path of connection, but easy to go wrong following a path of differentiation. And most people settle for the single path of differentiation because it promises to be free of loss and pain and grief. The greatest journeys of being will always involve some pain and loss or else it wouldn’t be a journey, it would be a staying while all creation journies on. [discussion of spelling … journies vs. journeys]. That’s my pith o’ day. Dial 800-MOO for Pith O’ Day.

" ‘I’ve come this far, so?’ You think the road stops here? Here be dragons and dogs... f. So, if this is the end of the road, where are all those other spirits going? I don’t know. So, the pundits of faith say the others are going to delusion or Hell or a hell of a delusion. They, meaning the others who journey on, are under some kind of spell and that spell is spelled courage and vision. Those who stop not just to rest but to stop, have lost vision. And if SP is about anything, it is about the abundance and reality and infinitude of vision. Around that bend is always something more beautiful and wondrous than has been known.

"So, sit it out if you wish, but don’t stop. Rest, yes; end, no. That’s SP. SP in a nutshell."