Originally posted by Blissful
Any insights? What to look out for (other than the obvious; fear nothing, nothing can harm you, stay calm to be in it longer, don't get power greedy, don't mix the two worlds (sleep world and awake world), and don't tell anyone who you don't trust completely because they will think you are nuts and have you committed).
That's one good thing about the net -you can remain anonymous so that you can't be committed!
Insight? Here's something to consider (although I suppose you've probably heard or read this having been a "former" born-again Christian. (isn't that term "born again Christian" kinda redundant?... A true Christian is by default "born again" ...hmmm) The following is one of my favorite passages written by the same dude who wrote the book of Revelation...
1 John 4:7-20
"Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God demonstrated his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might have life through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sin. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another in truth, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
We know that we live in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Holy Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he lives in God. And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment, because in this world we are like him. There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. We love because he first loved us. If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen."
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