Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site fortune.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhuxl!houxm!ihnp4!fortune!crane From: crane@fortune.UUCP Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Thou Art God Message-ID: <1903@fortune.UUCP> Date: Tue, 6-Dec-83 19:51:08 EST Article-I.D.: fortune.1903 Posted: Tue Dec 6 19:51:08 1983 Date-Received: Fri, 9-Dec-83 04:44:58 EST Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA Lines: 38 Yes I've given a lot of thought to that concept and have read "Stranger in a Strange Land" about 5 times. I absolutely love the book! It literally changed my life! A lot of Christians believe that God can dwell in your heart. Some religious people believe that God is everywhere. The Latter Day Saint (Mormons) believe that every person is a god in embryo and that given the proper development can develop into a god or godess and create his/her own universes and populate them with his/her own creations. The Scientologists believe that human beings do have a lot of god-like abilities and that once a lot of hangups in a person's mind are eliminated, the peson is freed as a spiritual being and has almost limitless powers. Psychologists believe that we use only a small part of our potential abilities. Many positive thinking books say that if you visualize something and make it real enough in your own personal universe it will eventually also appear in the physical universe. Read "Illusions" by Richard Bach, author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull. Believe it or not. Faith healing happens. A person can believe in a doctor, Oral Roberts, Kathryn Kuhlman, God, a minister of God, or even HIMSELF and get better. I believe it is actually our own faith or power within us which effects the healing. Don't laugh. I've seen it happen. All the above, plus my own experience, suggests to me that we all have a great deal more potential that we allow ourselves. There surely is a Supreme God, but if we are really His offspring then some of it must have rubbed off.