[pct-l] God and G-d

[metam01 at earthlink.net (Monty Tam)]

OK...............................
I've been hitting delete, delete, delete with this god thing, but I admit
that a concious connection with my inner self is just as much a part of my
hike as the scenery.  They can't be seperated.

Before even hiking 300 miles from Campo on last year's thru-hike, a few of
us were amazingly, and miraculously aware enough to identify our inner most
focus, our inner most desires.

This is what I wrote:
"...we (thru-hikers) seek not so much the spiritual experience of the great
American wilderness, as that of a Seven-Eleven chili dog."  -May 2004
It was true!  If thoughts are prayers, it was always in our prayers.  After
describing that chilidog in detail, Donnie B.(aka Popcicle or Donnie Veto)
begged me to stop talking about food.  (The next day we had AYCE spagetti!!)

Warner Springs Monty


> [Original Message]
> From: Kraig Mottar <kraig.mottar@verizon.net>
> To: <Mtnned@aol.com>; <jdawud@yahoo.com>
> Cc: <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
> Date: 9/23/2005 10:18:12 AM
> Subject: Re: Re: [pct-l] God and G-d
>
> Starting this thread was a mistake, it was intended for a different list
of a different topic, but you're going with it. So, I'll put in 2 more
cents.
>
> It is, I think, relevant to hiking, if meditation is an interest which is
what hiking is to begin with. Meditation and solitude is the only way to
come close to and communicate with God, the Universe, the All and any name
it goes by. The clutter of day to day living are what keep us separated
from the Universe.
>
> I don't know about these principalities and  powers of the spirit but if
you like inventing terms. Real truth goes beyond religion. Though, it is
doubtful people realize this til they die, or leave this part of the
universe we now inhabit.
>
> Kraig
>
> ps- If anyone wants to continue this thread it will continue, if you wish
to continue it you will reply to it, if you do not, don't reply and ignore
it.
>
> >From: Mtnned@aol.com
> >Date: Thu Sep 22 23:03:02 CDT 2005
> >To: jdawud@yahoo.com
> >Cc: pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net
> >Subject: Re: [pct-l] God and G-d
>
> >Junaid,
> > 
> >Yes, as it is, complication does distract the mind from the heart and 
its 
> >issues of great spiritual importance.  Why do you think this world  is
so full 
> >of mental information appealing to our self-will and pride or why  there
are so 
> >many fears and temptations?  To keep us from spiritual matters  of
greater 
> >importance (that effect our very lives).  
> > 
> >Reality is, if you are willing to see it this way, ours in not a  battle 
> >against flesh and blood but against principalities and  powers of the
spirit.  
> > 
> >When we hike, we leave behind the responsibilities, obligations,
deadlines  
> >and over all hassles of daily, worldly life.  We must or we would always
have 
> >something "hanging over our heads" as we walk down the trail.  In  this 
> >absence we are less distracted and begin to hear, think, and  feel
better.  We 
> >become healthier in body, soul, and spirit.  As  if a "weight" has been
removed 
> >from each of us.  We feel the wind, smell  the humid pines, and let
ourselves go 
> >in the vast space of the mountains as  if we had never been this free
before. 
> >It is this freedom and simplicity of life  that allows our pummeled
spirits to 
> >soar.  Though we may not have known it,  nor choose to recognize it, we
find 
> >we do have a spirit within us and for some  we miss it when we go home.
> > 
> >Food for Thought.
> > 
> >Mtnned
> > 
> > 
> > 
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