What are your Unique Paths, and What are you Seeking?!?
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I became a Rosicrucian back in the early 80's. However, I continued to do research on various Spiritual and Consciousness explorations along the way and let my membership in AMORC falter.
In '09 I once again renewed my membership and have continued to fill the void I had created by trying to do things on my own. I am finding a new sense of who I am and I'm glad I renewed my interest in AMORC. It has been a tremendous help with finding the "Master Within" and letting me become more aware of how to be myself.
How about you?
What are your interest?
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over 10 years ago. Buddhism has bought more peace in my life and makes more sense to me. I'm still a beginner and enjoy learning 
We are always students, learning as we go. That's what I love about AMORC there are always things to learn and improve upon.
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I'd never heard of that ancient Greek philosophical school of extreme skepticism, but it turns out to be very much where I'm at in my journey right now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrhonism
It feels a lot like Buddhism in its aim to reduce suffering (achieve mental imperturbability) through non-attachment (suspending all judgments). Add a dash of Advaita, a dollop of direct experience and voila - a spiritual dish fit for No-One!
Hey there GliderGuider 
It's what I live for, discovering the mystic within. Belief systems are strange indeed. I live within the boundaries of suspended beliefs.
I started out using power point, but it had some issues. So, I imported all the slides into Final Cut Pro and made a video instead.
We had a good turn out and everyone was very interested in the subject.
What comes next? Well I think we all return to the Source. The all encompassing Source Consciousness. Same as it ever was!
If you would like to PM me about your experience then that would be awesome. I 
me some NDE stories.
and I remember wondering how long I had to live myself. So I made contact with two psychic mediums, George Anderson and Laurie Campbell. Laurie is a part of the Arizona State University Afterlife project and she had been someone I researched before contacting her. She works with the FBI and police to solve murders and she had a show on Discovery Science Channel where she and a partner looked for answers to murders. George Anderson is considered the greatest medium alive and is the most tested.
When I contacted Laurie she told me over the phone 60 things that were known only to me. Even sibs didn't know. I had never spoke to her before this and she said no info, just yes or no if I ask. She only asked about three times. She said my mother was young and awesome, that she had been met by my dad when she came over. She said it was like 'stepping from one room to another' and that she and Daddy were with me all the time. She then went into detail to describe the layout of our house which has a very unusual fireplace. She talked about the 'red birds' which were cardinals. We have them all over the house because they were Mom's favorite bird. She told of the Christmas tree in the yard, a small pine that Mom wanted to make into a Christmas tree. She told me that i had to "CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS!" which I had decided not to do that year. She said feed the birds, which was a family project for us.
One of the things I do for a control for me with mediums -besides going to the greatest pros around- is to have a couple of things that only I know and set up. I had taken all the pictures of my family including relatives that were born in the 1800's and invite them to come to the meeting. I ask them to come, that I love them and to show up. All through the seance Laurie kept talking about the 'old people'. She explained it meant people from way the hell back in time. She said she had never experienced that before in decades of readings. She told me about my great grandpa Scott and told me about a 'jeep' going here and there. I told her I didn't know what that meant but she said its okay. Sometimes it takes a while before things make sense. A year later I bought a Honda Element that sort of looks jeep like.
I was told about old dogs and family, about the house and Mom's desire to live outside during the winter rather than spend hard times in Alaska with the snow and cold. It was the most awesome experience of my life. It changed me so fundamentally I could face anything. This came before the NDE.
Roguevally, who will send a PM about George Anderson and the shadow man.
That we can only see "approximately 4 or 5 percent of all that is".
I've experienced a few instances of mental telepathy and a bit of precognition...Had someone else
claimed these experiences before I had them I would have been very skeptical of their story.
That being said, it's very hard to tell someone who's experienced something
that it's non-empirical and therefor "impossible"....I know what I know. 
When I'm ready to stop playing this role on planet Earth and go to something else here, I will. Got some more stuff I wanna learn. It's fun now, but it's a choice.
Otherwise it is very difficult to do 
I often wonder what the "other" Earths are like 
seeking peace from the question "what should I do with the rest of my life"...
with your quest
[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]Grew up very sheltered, a good little Catholic girl. The "real world" was a devastating shock, but I began to recover after a couple of years, and to explore other beliefs and ideas. This has been an ongoing process with lots of phases and changes, but it all keeps coming back to union with universal Love (actually not so far from where I started).
Currently, I'm mostly in a panentheistic/pagan/Buddhist mode -- learning how to sense the divine in those I have a hard time loving or even liking, learning to maintain an inner serenity no matter what else is going on, and learning how to remain consciously aware of that universal Love connection at all times.
That's a lot to learn and I expect it to take a very long time.
What I am seeking:
enlightenment, balance, healing
Paths? Any that help get me there. I AM a lone wolf, completely untrusting of organized groups. So I tend to hang out on the fringes of many groups, take what resonates, offer what I feel called to, but never adopt any one total path.
I believe that all, or almost all, paths have the same destination, and something worthy to help along the way. I prefer to focus on the commonalities of various paths, and choose from those universal agreements what seems needed on my own unique path.
I have incorporated elements of various christian sects, buddhism, various native american and pagan systems, some new age stuff...
Edited to add: also logic and reason.
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