SLag,

Don't get me wrong. I am delighted you had such wonderful experiences at a high, mystic level.

But in rattling them off, sprinkled with Authoritative Capital LEtters in Command Words (like god, holy, scripture) you are walking right into the biggest error of testifying. Either you are just preaching to the choir, or you are not really trying very hard to get understood by those who aren't in the choir, because you are waving red flags in every sentence.

Why? Because you are proclaiming and invoking AUhtority which others do not recognize, and freighting your language in ways that implies that authority is, or should be, irrefutable.

This, of course, pushes the buttons of anyone who values their independence of mind. You sound like the kind of person who would want to send each of us who are more skeptical to the Pricipal's Office for disciplining.

I would suggest an alternative approach. Try embodying the enlightenment you have experienced into your acts, and not your words. Use ordinary languiage to show kindness, compassion, and inspiration, instead of citing institutionalized, authoritarian categorical power-buttons at people. It would, oddly enough, not only be more effective communication, it would be far more Christian in the deepest and best sense of the word.


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