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...but With My Clamoring Ego Solidly In Place, I Considered The Title, 'memories Of A Failed Nobody'.

God Enters Our Lives When Through Our Creative Interchanges We Make History More Just.

The Heart Of Religion Is Not Altered States But Altered Traits Of Character. For Me, Then, The Test Of A Substance's Religious Worth Or Validity Is Not What Kind Of Far-out Experience It Can Produce, But Is The Life Improved By Its Use? That's The Test. Now, On That Score, If You Remove The "religious Cocoon," The Experiences Don't Seem To Have Much In The Way Of Discernible, Traceable Effects.

As The Twentieth Century Began, Science Equaled A Materialistic Worldview. As The Twenty-first Century Began, The Worldview Of Science, At Least Of Physics And Astronomy, May Have Traded Place With That Of Religion. Consider Einstein's Famous Equation E = Mc2. Nothing Of Matter Dies But Continues On In Another Form, Elsewhere. The Church Divines And Theologians For Two Thousand Years Have Devised Arguments And "proofs" Of Immortality But Nothing Equal To This.

If We Take The World’s Enduring Religions At Their Best, We Discover The Distilled Wisdom Of The Human Race.