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	<title>Wayne (Wirs) - Down-To-Earth Enlightenment &#187; Ego Fading</title>
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		<title>Five AM</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:43:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne (Wirs)</dc:creator>
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<p>During creative periods of my life, whether working on an interesting project or - as I am currently doing - writing a book, I often wake up around 5 am with a powerful insight, new idea, or an answer to a problem that has troubled me. I wish I could take credit for these thoughts, but they seem to come out of nowhere - gifts from the Ethereal...</p>
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		<title>The Male Battle Dance</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 17:32:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne (Wirs)</dc:creator>
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<p>In my meditations, I've been working on seeing the the ego clearly - as the illusion that it is. I've been practicing so much that it is starting to affect my dreams...</p>]]></description>
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		<title>Introspections</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 01:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne (Wirs)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent quite a bit of time the last few days looking deep within. Looking into my story. Finding nothing there to grasp hold of. In trying to clarify it, I&#8217;m refining my basic &#8220;levels&#8221; of spiritual development&#8230; In Fading Toward Enlightenment, I defined three levels of spiritual development, Solid, Liquid, and Ethereal. My current [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Source and the Man of Steel</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 04:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne (Wirs)</dc:creator>
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<p>What I look like and who I am are two totally different people. Inside, there is almost no one left. At times I feel nothing but this radiating flowing outward (no nouns, just verbs). But what people see on the outside is almost completely different...</p>]]></description>
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		<title>Being the Soul: A Useful Lie</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 01:46:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne (Wirs)</dc:creator>
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<p>I want you to lie to yourself today. Ironically, with this lie, I expect you'll experience life lived True...</p>]]></description>
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		<title>The Siren</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 23:54:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne (Wirs)</dc:creator>
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<p>I have been working. Working and working and working and it has felt <em>good</em>. It has felt <em>right</em>.</p>
<p>Living this life - the life of a solitary nomad - requires sacrificing much, but the rewards... I could have never imagined the rewards.</p>
<p>Solitude awakens creativity. She awakens passions. She reminds you of your life's purpose and motivates you to pursue it.</p>
<p>The nomad lifestyle simplifies you. The lack of room, the transitory nature - it clarifies what is important. The lifestyle keeps you honest and whole and true.</p>
<p>It's not a life for most, but for those to whom She calls - listen. Listen to Her urgings, to Her siren's song. All sirens sit on deadly rocks, but to those who can put aside their fears - who can keep their heads when the doubts arise - those are the ones who will find their way around the dangers. Those are the ones who will find the rewards hidden in the mists.</p>]]></description>
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		<title>Reincarnation as the Missing Spiritual Link</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:16:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne (Wirs)</dc:creator>
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<p>I had posted a comment on a <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nde/message/167854" target="_blank">Near Death Experience Yahoo Forum</a> and got what read like a bit of attitude from one of the readers, probably due to a misunderstanding of my terminology. My clarification is below the break, but the point I was trying to make was that thinking of yourself <em>as a Soul</em> is not a hinderance to enlightenment, but rather a very important <em>step</em>...</p>
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