as i read Eternal life, Spong's book, (not finished), i can't help but feel inspired even as a devout Catholic as I believe God is not a tertiary being...........outside entity...... I have always felt connections.....but i'm realizing as a student of the Autognomic Institute's (AI)work that intuiting and intellectualizing on our connectivity around the neighborhood and the globe are not enough........Spong and AI are perturbing us to rely more on our intrinsic nature that is God like........or perhaps "has" God..........."is God"........it helps me understand myself better; I used to teach Catholic release time instruction for public school kids in college and my motif was the church as the "people of God"............maybe as I explore and continue to be perturbed i'll change that to a new question, not caring what the church is anymore and developing that new question that i as yet don't know.........

Now we're talkin! I await your new question. And that embracement of all that we are means recognizing all that awaits us within in that connection to God, the divine or co-creator etc.And then being aware that from there you have access to infinite of infinite possibilities as you open to the fullness of your unique intrinsic nature. Because there is so much, the only way we can know it is through the heart and embodied mind where the mind and body are connected that we come into oneness with that Godness of ourselves, the loving and ahh yes the intuitive inspirare makes itself known to us in how to act in this moment.

Actually let me correct myself...connection to God implies again that God is "other" so instead You are part of God just like your finger is part of you. No need to connect to God you are already connected. But just as the finger is part of you, the finger still must fulfill it's "finger thing". This is the way organisms work being both autonomous and connected at the same time. The finger isn't a separate part either. It is constantly connected to the whole, the blood flow, the nervous system AND most importantly the energy field that is forming it and creating it over and over as a unity of the body.