My growing and learning beckons questions which crave answers. One particular area in my studies is man’s “spirituality.”

When asking myself about the essence of “religion,” I also want to feel back to what “religion” was before the Great Forgetting (GF).

I feel the animist-glow sometimes and then follow the linear evolution until the ability to think in abstract ways seems also to form (or allow room) for “the gods/God,” etc. I trust I’m making sense to you—the concept I’m trying to convey. So all this brings me to question WHAT IS spirituality?

Taker or not, how does one enact his story on a spiritual level accordingly? Sure, the Buddhists, Christians, etc., (as well as the Lakota Sioux, for that matter) have some beautiful expressions of spirit (whatever that is). As a Taker, I sensed the need for “salvific” religion. As an awakened Taker, I feel the need for something deeper. If the Lakota Indians’ “religion” wasn’t salvific/salvationistic (which it wasn’t), it was their spirituality nonetheless.

Doesn’t “religion” (spirituality) enter the scene wherever abstract thinkers are (mankind)?

Of course I realize that their spirituality was more of a perception of the world, whereas our religions often include reactive laws, rituals, etc. In the evolution of things, including mankind with his amazing brain/mind, is there room for us to evolve in “spirit?”

What is your opinion of the direction we are to move (spiritually), if “spiritual candy” is simply “candy” which will not save the world? Are you saying we should simply not eat candy? Wait. I know you’re not saying that! I’ve read enough (and listened) to know better!

If spiritual candy will not save the world (which it appears it cannot), then what’s the use of it?

More personally, if I may, how do you express your “spirituality?” Are we just a biomassive blob bouncing around the earth, or is there a deeper realm of reality? Does the term “universal consciousness” or “soul of the universe” make you laugh? What do you distance yourself from, and to what do you draw near?

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After reading all your books to date and listening to The Book of the Damned on audio I keep wondering what exactly you mean by “the gods.”

I took it to mean that Leavers were, and still are, living at the whim of nature and simply taking what comes free and not worrying about what is to come next. I assumed that you did not actually mean any god or gods in specific.

Am I interpreting “The gods” correctly?

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With the up-coming 2000 presidential election upon us, I was wondering how you feel about the whole thing. Personally I figured you’d be a man to vote for the voice of reason in this whole thing, Nader.

It has clearly been shown by the continuously falling numbers in voters, which means the Democrats and Republicans alike are not doing their job. Most of us feel we’re not important to this country anymore and that our vote does not matter.

Either way I understand that you do not condone this current system we have because eventually it will, and it will, collapse in a giant heap of rubble. But, where do you stand?

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