# 36
Brian McTear to me
Feb 13, 2009
So you were brought up catholic too? Wow! Craziness! I went to catholic school til 8th grade.
I’ve always considered myself more spiritual than religious. Even as a kid, the politics and heirarchy seemed wrong. My dad would mumble curses about the priest and the pope during church, so I had that influence. As I grew up I became much more sensible, letting my own judgement about things, based on my own morals, my own sensibilities, trump the church and I think that by the time I was in high school, I was completely past catholicism.
What I’m really into is the creative power of the mind. I really love creativity, which of course applies to art and music, but much more so to things like “having a creative outlook on life”, or “creating your inner and outer surroundings”, etc. I think all my thoughts on time, for instance started with the Seth Material, but built into Seth’s approach to everything is this admission that we really each create our own rules and reality. So whatever I make up in my mind is mine to keep. It’s like Star Trek, the way they’ve created this world with systems, science, jargon, etc. To me that’s fun. So I’ve built and know and understand this whole reality that I don’t necessarily “BELIEVE”, but I get it and I can live in it and it’s a system that keeps providing consistent results.
And again, it’s fun. It’s fun to think that time is filing cabinet and really I am much more than just the physical me, that there’s whole parts of the greater, more complete being of which Brian is one small part (one spoke on the wheel), that I have “past lives”, “future lives”, and even other “concurrent lives”. I don’t know what they are, I don’t really seek out the answers, but it effects how I live and treat people, etc.
I really want to get back up and going with yoga. It is meditative, sure, but phsyically it’s so so good.
Well, some day let’s have a picnic or something. Bring a bagged lunch to Penn Treaty Park…. We’ll have a 6 ft rule. We can ask the Dr’s., too. See what the say. If they say no, we’ll figure out something.
Devin and were talking a few weeks ago about how there must be a “super nice” gene that CF people have. He said we both have it!
B