{"id":243,"date":"2010-12-08T22:43:02","date_gmt":"2010-12-08T22:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/?p=243"},"modified":"2011-03-11T01:50:53","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T06:50:53","slug":"as-sacred-as-123-intro-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/?p=243","title":{"rendered":"As Sacred As 1,2,3–Intro. Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Filled with Meaning<\/p><\/div>\n

Sunny Greetings! Welcome to the de-light-filled, meaning-full, Home of Wellness and Spirituality! I’m offering another glimpse of my book today:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Whole Kit and Caboodle Is…As Sacred As 1,2,3<\/a><\/strong> <\/a><\/p>\n

available at www.elizabethrichie.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Part II of the Introduction:<\/em> The Chosen<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now, allow me to tell you a little about myself.<\/p>\n

I had a powerful mystical experience when I was 18 years old. For roughly a week\u2019s time, I experienced love as if it were bombarding me from all directions, as if every physical thing was made of a radioactive element emitting love.
\nEvery cloud, every leaf on every tree, and every stone on the ground or lodged in an ivy covered wall–that is to say– every substance was a sun unto itself, emanating love.
\nIndeed, at that ripe old age of 18, I came to see that humans were\u2014for the most part\u2014totally oblivious to the profundity and reality of the \u201cground of the universe\u201d\u2014the Love that underpins everything.<\/p>\n

At the time, I said that I was \u201cBorn again in Christ.\u201d But\u00a0 the experience went beyond a specific religion because the Christ, the Spirit of Love, transcends any one religious doctrine.\u00a0 No one people or tradition holds the exclusive rights to love. How could they?
\nI am also quite confident that both Science and Religion will one day totally embrace these ideas.
\nBut today as in 1972, humanity does not act in accordance or \u201cat One\u201d with the logic of love, the Logos. Humans have the choice to act Divinely and give love or to act profanely and not to give love.\u00a0 Or rephrased, we all have the choice to prolong the agony of separation\u00a0 from\u00a0 Love, or to live in the passion of being One with it.
\nIn 1975 I earned a BA in the academic study of religion. I\u00a0 have followed a winding but always enriching path ever since. I\u2019ve hung back silently for a long time. But now, this One called Du\u2019Tsu shall\u00a0 \u201ctell it like it is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sooner or later, we the Created MUST come full circle and acknowledge the Divine Loving Creator in ourselves and in all other things. It\u2019s an ancient Truth that\u2014apparently\u2014must be spoken a hundred zillion times or more because humans are so thick headed. It\u2019s a Truth that defies the barriers between Catholic and Protestant, Muslim and Jew and so on;\u00a0 and is as factual as any scientific \u201cfact.\u201d
\nIf you accept what I write in The Whole Kit and Caboodle Is…As\u00a0 Sacred As 1,2,3,\u00a0 you will\u00a0 understand that Truth is\u00a0 both simple and complex\u00a0 and such a mysterious paradox! We are a species, born out of the Divine. We are evolving toward a divine future by pulling ourselves up by our own flimsy bootstraps denying our destiny all the while.
\nSo, I now present this sweeping theological frolic to the family\u00a0 of humanity, the children of the Most High, to every human being. These\u00a0 shocking Revelations are for pompous windbags and self-righteous critics; for half a brain rednecks and no-brainer snobs; for blue bloods and HIV positives; for rosy cheeked crones and lovable old codgers; for clueless, alienated, teens, cynical scientists and wizened, wheezing academics; for obsessive golfers and bikers; for bridge players, antique car collectors, college students and dropouts; for\u00a0 wall flowers, perverts, deviants and hateful killers; for hillbillies, hairdressers, and cosmopolites; for rich men, poor women, beggars, thieves, doctors, lawyers and indecent cheats;\u00a0 for Blacks, Reds, Whites, Blues, Yellows and Greens; for Arabs and artists, and arch fundamentalists; for\u00a0 arch liberals, arch enemies, arch conservatives, and arch dukes; arch fiends, architects, archaeologists, archbishops, archers and archetypal New Agers; for nostalgic hippies, the baby boomers and Generation Whatevers; for materialistic slobs, hot raunchy rappers and nice or obnoxious talk show hosts; for xenophobes, Zorastrians and zymologists (those who study fermentaion.) It is especially for Americans who claim to be of the Christian creed.
\nI try not to use too many big words because I want to give EVERYONE a chance to understand. I am purposely repetitive because humanity is a STUBBORN, stiff-necked, bone-headed lot. I SHOULD KNOW.\u00a0 I\u2019M ONE OF US!<\/p>\n

And now, without further adieu, allow me to introduce you to yourself…………..
\nHERE’S GOD!!!………!!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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HERE'S GOD!!! SO BETTER LISTEN UP!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Sunny Greetings! Welcome to the de-light-filled, meaning-full, Home of Wellness and Spirituality! I’m offering another glimpse of my book today: The Whole Kit and Caboodle Is…As Sacred As 1,2,3 available at www.elizabethrichie.com Part II of the Introduction: The Chosen Now, allow me to tell you a little about myself. I had a powerful mystical experience […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[47,48,46,140],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wellness-and-spirituality","tag-as-sacred-as-123","tag-elizabeth-richie","tag-the-whole-kit-and-caboodle-is","tag-wellness-and-spirituality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250,"href":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions\/250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellnessandspirituality.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}