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Bob Turner

OMG, I graduated 57 years ago and have already lived most of this incarnation! I muse, “Suppose I could return to being 17 again and repeat this life ~ could I do better?”

In startling response the Living Universe whispers to temporarily expanded consciousness, “Well, Bob, I can wipe out your life after June 1959 and restore you as a young man, with the same environment and potential. Whatever impact you made, grand and ignoble, will be erased. Want a replay, Bob?”

“Lord, will I be able to take whatever knowledge and wisdom I may have accumulated in this life back into that 17 year old mind and body? Will I again graduate from Cal and earn a PhD? Will I have a rewarding industrial career and finish as a professor of Mechanical Engineering? Will I become financially independent? Will I avoid stupid and selfish errors I made? Will I…”

“No, Bob, you may flunk out, get killed young or worse; or you may become a superstar in the assessment of others. Wisdom derives from experience, mistakes and reflection. You will have different risks and rewards, because the parallel world will unfold differently in the next running.”

“Unfold differently? Will I be able to pursue the hobbies and interests that helped develop my persona? Will I enjoy hiking mountains? Will I still read for pleasure? Can I avoid the one enemy in my life that vigorously tried to snuff my career (but didn’t)?”

“Learn, Bob, that ‘enemy’ was really your friend. He hated you and challenged you to hate him. You learned My Lesson well from your mother, and in the end prevailed, so you burned otherwise bad karma. If not he, I would have challenged you with another. Heheheh!”

“Will I enjoy that wonderful life-expanding sabbatical experience in Turkey, where I learned enough Turkish to get by, and in return the gracious Turks taught me new levels of hospitality and unconditional friendship that touched my heart?”

“You will likely learn those lessons via a different medium, here or later.”

“Lord of Kindness, generally will I be able to relive The American Dream?”

“Bob, understand that you and your classmates woke in this life to Mankind’s Golden Age. Never before has such a large society and individuals been blessed with such prosperity, opportunities, lack of hunger and disease, ability to direct its/their own destiny, health care and longevity, and ability to seek Me (or not) in each person’s own way. Your time was unique and is coming to a terminus. A civilization prospers or becomes senescent depending on the dissoluteness of its people and leaders. But this whole life is a dream designed to test and eventually develop your spirit and character.”

“Well, God, what about Nancy? Will we be married 47 years and counting and have the same family? Will I share a similar but different experience with the same friends and family?”

“No, but you will attract other wonderful and challenging relationships that will stimulate your spiritual growth, appropriate to your needs.”

“Divine Friend, in 1959 I called myself an atheist. By grad school I realized the only valid goal of life was to understand and establish my place in the Living Cosmos, and that the mind is just a tool for the soul. Will I again become a yogi seeking Self Realization and Christ Consciousness?

“Sooner or later all My precious children will be absorbed into My Spiritual Essence; the path you choose can hasten or delay your evolution.”

“OK, I’ll take this life ~ it turned out far better than I could have dared planned! Thank You God!”

Bob Turner extends Greetings to the Berkeley High Class of 1959! [email protected]

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