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November 2009 
Where do your answers come from?
Posted on Sep 9th, 2009
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ingebrita
ingebrita
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for September 09, 2009:
In the past, too often from the wrong place, from dogma or doctrine, whether religious or scientific. More often lately from my inner-knowing, intuition, and synchronicity, which I've finally learned to trust. And I've also come to accept and be content with what Thoreau so wisely stated: "A good question is never answered."
And as Barry Lopez said: "There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light."
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You are truely blessed
Beautiful Barbara, love to you my friend.
Thank you for stopping by, Carlton. I don't think or paths have crossed before. Nice to meet you!
Much love to you, too, Gael. And thank you!
I came searching for comfort here on Gaia tonight … someone (an instructor in class this afternoon made fun of me in front of others – I often gesture with my hands when I speak, and she ridiculed it) made me feel bad about myself, and in doing so, I lost respect for her, and am working to not lose respect for the subject, but your post caught my eye; answers are knowledge; I am seeking knowledge in a university steeped in both dogma and doctrine both religious and scientific … provided by people who have agendas and lately the phrase (very Yoda-like) has been parading through my mind: “my own counsel will I keep.” For some reason, your post has made me feel better.
barbara, I'm happy that you found some comfort here… It can be rough in the academic world, a lot of self-important folks who think their ideas are the only way to understand the world. I grew up in a college town (University of Connecticut) and saw how my father struggled to “keep his own counsel,” by staying in the pure research that he loved and by avoiding teaching, and how snooty some of my friends' parents (professors) were. Not all of them, but enough to discourage me from getting a formal education. How wonderful that you're going back to college! What are you studying? I hope you won't get discouraged and will stay true to yourself as you make your way through!
Hi, Barbara – I already have a Master of Public Health, but am pursuing a second Master of Science/Ph.D. in pastoral counseling and spiritual care at Loyola; for the most part, I love the college and the curriculum, and the adjunct faculty are wonderful; some of the full time tenured professors (like the one described above) can be a little tedious. I chose it because it is the closest I can get to the existential subjects that I dearly love.
Oh that sounds wonderful! When I was a kid I had no idea that one could get an education in existential subjects, or genealogy for that matter. :) Wonder what I would have done had I known….