Hi augoiedian Thanks for your beautiful words of love.

Love and God bless you Juditha

It's really hard for me to say what brought me to this site.  Although I don't post much, I read the postings two to three times a week.  Some I respond to and at other times I create my own.
I guess you could say it was a multitude of things but, I firmly believe I was led here.  I have always believed that reincarnation must exist whether science has proven it or not.  Look at the tree leaves and flowers.  They bloom, blossom, fade and die.  Eventually, the dead leaves are replaced with new ones.  What's really fascinating is that just like us, no two leaves or flowers are exactly alike!  
A few months back, while on my way to work, I was thinking about it again and decided to look it up.  I found multitudes of sites and greedily scanned, read, discarded and took in what made sense to me.  Some of the sites included: FST Spiritual Teachings, multi-dimensions.com and Maitreya Teachings.  I then studied Catholicism and the history of reincarnation, the origin of the Bible and Comparative analysis of World Religions online, before accidentally discovering thsi forum.  Never heard of Bruce Moen until I got here, but found the forum interesting.  I joined.  I have to admit, I read through all the postings daily before I actually posted anything.  Something within this forum (can't remember what) made me decide to learn how to change my way of thinking.  I wanted to be a more positive thinker hoping maybe things would improve in my life.  I backslid occassionally, but for the most part, I am now a positive thinker.  I even try to speak that way, which requires thinking about everything you say before you say it.  It took a while and I still have a ways to go, but it's woriking.
I have this forum to thank for most of what I have learned and it is gratefully appreciated.  It's always nice to have somplace or someone to share your thoughts with no matter how crazy they may seem.  One thing I would like to pass on though is this:  Take everything with a grain of salt and form your own opinions and beliefs.  Keep an open mind.  You never know....

Take care

D.

Greetings all,

I too felt imprelled to find out more about Bruce Moen's ideas after reading the first book I got. Desmith outlines that trail for me too.

And Caryn, your thank yous are great! Sometimes it just wells up and it has to come out, right? Thankyouthankyou thankyou All! I was thinking of starting a thank you topic but that seemed a bit much.  Better your way of just popping them into a thread whenever the mood strikes!     

Much gratitude to you all, spiritual family!

Love,
betsi/ bets/ betson

thanks Desmith, its interesting to learn that some of us come here once a day, others 2 or 3 times a week, its just good knowing there is a world out there to stay in contact with as you can't get what we have here, by going into a bar or even a church, etc.
I think its because we don't have a set way to believe or rules, except the rule of being respectful of someone else's belief which, yea, we have had some times here where folks were leaving, not staying. including yours truly.

I learned to be more positive too Desmith, yea, then we take that attitude into every area I do think.  well Vicky my dear, you talked me into another story
one thing I was thinking Vicky hoped to keep the thread alive but the average life of a thread is a week at the most, <but!> the nice thing about that is one of you out there will start another good thread which will make us forget this one because it will be good too. u might notice the more folks that come, the more we generate consciousness and interesting topics. and Vicki, if you don't mind, would like to find in the archives your story and put it up again. people will want to read about whats in your book, not that we don't all have a book in us, but hey, not everybody has the time and desire to write books.
ok, ta da. heres me story, which pardon me I repeat myself, but I have been here a long time when we were much smaller in size, also as one ages, one repeats oneself   is why I love fresh faces come here.

back in 2000 I was hanging at an ACIM website forum, looking to fit in, build the old group thing. in the 80's I had undergone a radical transformation from having read ACIM. I was simply hanging in the universe waiting for god to take the final step. towards the end of the book, it says he will. (no, I am not about to explain what god is, but we can look at somebody who was flesh once and try to understand that pathway without becoming like a sheep or something)

so be that as it may, I hung on that other site to see if I could serve there. didn't happen. one day a young spirit came and was turned away from the forum for asking for help for her many illnesses. instead of telling her, or directing her to a place where she might get the assistance she needed, our forum director over there told she was not on the right forum. I disagreed. mentally I started arguing with his authority to turn her away as I thought she would be hurt. I know I would be if someone told me I was in the wrong place. I never told this guy what I was thinking but one day in a response to his post it just came out of me and I asked someone "who he was."  ACIM always says we have forgotten who we are, and so I didn't know I was questioning his authority but I was.
he never responded directly to my question of who he was and I was sure he could deal with it. ACIM puts your ego thru its paces, and I figured it was an innocent remark and since we talked about "forgiving" as the #1 priority in our lives, well, gee..don't I get some of that forgiveness too?

all was quiet on the board. not many boat rockers there, small group too. then one day, I was walking in my back door and heard a shouting voice, yes, shouting, in my poor cavern of my brain a reverberation of sound. ALYSIA! YOU GOT A PROBLEM WITH ME?  the voice repeated itself as I stood in my door unable to move from the shock of hearing it.  this is why u don't want to hear voices folks, you don't always get the nice ones.  well, since my visitor was asking, I admitted I had a problem and that I was not coming back to the board, and so his problem was over.
hmmm. kicked out of church again, lol...

so I was looking for a place where I could serve and since I'd read Robert Monroe's books I looked up his name on the internet and somehow ended up here, possibly thru a link from the TMI institute website. Not sure, but they were talking about retrievals when I landed here and it jogged my memory I had done a retrieval after reading Monroe, like a spontaneous one. but before I joined I was debating it was the right place for me or not, so I read Bruce's vision of Curiosity. ACIM had never gone this far with me. It had told me not what to believe, but what not to believe. Bruce's curiosity story resonated strongly within me and I could understand that I could very well be a curious and adventurous soul who just couldn't resist the earth and what it offers and never been sorry I stayed to talk about what interests me the most in life, whats on the other side.
theres one thing for sure, I won't be looking around for the guy on the other forum. I surely don't like being shouted at! lol. its nice here, we hardly ever shout.

love, alysia

Hello all of you Beautiful kindred spirits.............so full of love, wisdom,strength,knowledge and courage. I am touched by this post and all of your words of love!

Augoeideian, what you said about everyone was Oh so true!!!!
Especially what was said about Alysia, she's has the greatest sense of humour! (What you said about everyone was true!)
If only we could all have such a way with kind words, Hallmark would be out of business!

I felt as if I was definatly led to this sight by nonphysical beings, even felt as if my posts were being read by them, don't know why,just a feeling.

Betson and Karmickiss (karmickiss you are very warm and wise and intuitive. You always make me feel understood so I bet you make a wonderful counselor!):

I was told that I'd be guided by Pat to find another man. He'd actually supposedly picked out  this man for me in advance and he'd end up being alot like Pat. I had difficulty with this concept,especially in the beginning,I didn't want to beleive this. But he wants me to be happy. The other day I received an extra cheque for $50.00 in the mail. I decided to treat myself for a glass of wine at the Irish Pub down the street. I had just started on my glass of wine when a nice young man approached me. He found $50.00 in an old birthday card that evening, so he decided to go to the Pub to treat himself to a drink aswell. He told me he noticed me immediatly. We had an immediate connection. He was very similiar to Pat in someways, it was almost errie! I felt very comfortable with him and he has expressed a strong interest in me and we plan on meeting again very soon. He is single, my age and he lives down the street from me. Was this synchronicity? Only time will tell..........Perhaps Pat had something to do with this?! Who knows, but I feel Pat wants me to be happy. I feel the timing was right. Karmickiss, I never beleived I'd ever move on, like 2 weeks ago,and it took 8 months to see it as a remote possibility. Life is unpredictable and you never know what might happen next.But now is your time to heal  and we will be there for you ,we all have lots of love to spare/share!

BD