I already think of human beings as virtual god-soul-beings temporarily trapped in man-bodies on this little planet, living out lives of almost total illusion and horrid limitation as a result of that mind trap...and I'm not a Scientologist. ;-D I only found out about scientology's ideas on it in the last couple of days.

What they call body, mind, and "theta" I call body, mind, and spirit. The same concepts are well understood in the East. It is the mind that leads people astray and makes them think small. Very small. Very scared. Very critical. Very jealous. Very demanding. Very argumentative. Very intolerant. Addicted to being "right". Very stressed. Very hungry...but for what, it truly doesn't know.

The main purpose of meditation in Eastern religions is to quiet that nattering little mind and discover something far wiser and greater and much kinder in the silence that comes when it finally shuts up.

That will never happen on this forum, needless to say. The chattering and arguing and the continual being "right" (at someone else's expense) will just go on forever here or until the site crashes for the last time or Max shuts it down or until they drop "the big one".

Whichever happens first.