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If you've listened to the show in the past, you've probably heard me volley around this quote

from the French philosopher Pierre Telliard. We are not human beings having a temporary

spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a temporary human experience, we are spiritual beings having a temporary human

experience. And the more I read and listen, the more that I am convinced that in fact we are

living between two realities, a subjective one that conforms to time and space, location and form,

the reality that Lao Tzu calls the world of the 10,000 things,

and the infinite reality of the soul, the spirit, that does not take physical form,

when it is not easily perceived through the limited ability of our five senses but exists in the mystery that we call consciousness.

Now, these realities are not distinct.

In fact, you, as infinite consciousness, is experiencing the human condition

through a wide array of phenomena that includes objects, thoughts, and emotions.

We exist within this paradoxical duality of infinite time and timeless presence.

Now, one of the inevitable facets of our human reality is loss.

More bluntly, death.

The physical death of a loved one, the death of a marriage or of a friendship,

a job, the sale of the family home. Unless you are incapable of love, and that sounds bleak,

then in life you will grieve some kind of loss. The question is, how does one grieve? There's not a lot of guidance on this

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