You don't have to take everything personally, TBPL. For all I know you may be as spiritually advanced as Gandhi or even more so. What I meant was: you have a choice who to hang out with in life, right? Depending on what you want to know about. If you want to know about hockey, hang out with hockey players. If you want to know about drinking, go to the bars. If you want to know about crocheting, find people who do it. If you want to know about spiritual philosophy, find people who have put quite a bit of time and practice into it and have some understanding of it.

I did not mean..."find people who are more spiritually advanced than you are, you poor, primitive, knuckle-dragging soul"... :-)

Whenever I run across someone whom I have a strong feeling is more spiritually advanced (or more knowledgable) than me I pay pretty close attention.

And I do run across people like that every now and then. I judge their merits by their actions, not their words.

It's like learning guitar...you look for someone who is better at it than you. Simple.

And I am not advising you to get "saved". No siree. I am advising you to seek out whatever it is that inspires you and get the most out of it that you can.