[john6630]

[QUOTE=NightOwlNation;46752][COLOR="DarkRed"]Dear John~~

I'm sure your son and anyone we love, that their lives are significant, have meaning -

You are correct, my son's meaning is being lived out in his two children...who are the loves of our lives (along with my other children and grandchildren). I have thought of finding someone to try spiritual contact but do not know where to begin to look.

In the meantime, I believe there is a spiritual (Bohm's implicit) order. That we live on and live again through this spiritual order...perhaps not in this particular universe but somehow and somewhere. Perhaps it is just wishful thinking...but then why not wish? When it comes to beliefs, we must be deeply satisfied with our personal philosophies. And this forum is great for expressing and exploring those philosopies.

At this time the ideas I am very comfortable with are:
1. There is an organizing force at work in the universe and it is the Universe. I look around and can not accept that reality is merely a probabilistic accident of quantum paticles, atoms and molecules coming together to create the Wonder that is life.

2. We are each a manifestation of the Universe and that we indeed do the manifesting. But only within the context of the Universe. SubR within ObjR.

3. The manifesting mechanisim within us actually is us and is our spirit, our soul. And when we die, that spriti/soul moves back to the spritual/implicit order to be re-manifest later. We all go to that "place" and return....perhaps not in this form but somehow somewhere.

All in all, my thoughts are definetly a work-in-progress. But I do know that looking to the LoA makes my life happier and my relationships much more pleasant. I owe that to Depak Chopra's Creating Affluence and The Secret. And sometimes I think it is good not to think too much LOL.

John