Here's the text of today's Live from the Afterlife podcast:

“Let’s talk about connections. There are experiential connections, which are the stuff of the physical world (like that scene from Hot Shots) where you connect in terms of time and place and family. And then there’s idea connections, in which you find resonance about concepts (you read a book and think ‘spot on!’), and those curious concepts that can’t be negated out of hand, so they fester until you see their connectedness. And then there is spiritual, or essential, connection. You just sense a connection with an entity. Notice I didn’t say just ‘another person.’ It is a sense that one and something else have a shared spiritual identity--already or not yet. It is easy to trace the patterns of what has been already appreciated and understood, but it is harder to discern what isn’t yet appreciated or understood.

“So, folks often think and talk about connections to people of the past, but what about entities yet to be experienced. This is the exciting work, because spiritual connections transcend all others. Get my drift. It is like knowing most of a word, but antici... pating the rest.

“So, don’t get all hung up on the usual connections to the point you miss the essential ones. Might have a great opportunity for complexity but miss out trying to figure out if grandmothers in Topeka knew each other. Always look for the largest, grandest connections. But most people settle for the smallest. ‘You like vanilla ice cream, too!’ Big nothing.

“But to sit silently with another entity and feel connected, ahhhhh.” (8/13/2016)

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