MY LETTER TO MY MOTHER (almost word for word)
Hmm, this is a bit unexpected. But hey, I'm shocked and surprised on an hourly basis these days.
I was under the impression you had become aware of some of the things I've only recently become aware of. But every day I learn how I'm wrong about things, while still becoming increasingly aware that I have to trust myself. When you see enough things that add up to only one answer, they become mathematically overwhelming and impossible to ignore. I'm still a man of science, logic and reason, even while I now understand that everything I once believed was wrong. Up is down, left is right. Think mirror.
Oh and never feel any pressure to answer my super long messages promptly or at all. And I truly mean that. Even when I'm inclined to answer yours quickly. I'll have days when I can't reply for a long while either, so I really don't take it personally if you don't reply.
I'm told I shouldn't try to awaken anyone who isn't ready. But I thought you were years and years ahead of me on all this, but maybe I was wrong about that too! That's not new! ;-) Or maybe you really are ahead of me still. Anyhow, I want to share so much of what I've discovered, because it's all so shocking, fascinating and incredible, and you are somehow connected to it all, but maybe I'm supposed to only use the same method that reached me – the socratic method – as maybe that's the only method that really works. It starts as a game, like a puzzle. And each of us makes our own connections through all the "coincidences" of our life, until we connect enough dots to start to form a picture. The picture is fuzzy and really, really big, so you can never see it all at once, but it eventually forms an impression in your mind and you're changed for it. I'll say it again: I remain a man of science, logic and reason. Logic and reason are the tools I used to arrive at my "conclusions," or theories or ideas about what's happening. Hey, I was the consummate atheist only two or three years ago, and had been my whole life, with a bookshelf full of Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris. Grandma and I always had that in common. I'm the LAST person on earth I ever thought would have a spiritual awakening, or who would ever be relating such things. But shit happens, apparently.
Your insight about the definition of "cult" is eye opening, as it was one of the questions put to me and I've been seeking an answer. I'm going to meditate on it more. There's something in what you said.
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