Religously, I am very much alone.

[lisagurl]

I feel rather intimately tied in to "Life" in all it's forms, from viruses and minerals right through humans and whatever else may be beyond us

Thinking outside the box might be more than it sounds. A new book " Out of Our Heads" Why you are not your brain, and biology of consciousness  by Alva Noe.

It is an interesting take on how consciousness of the mind is also outside the physical body.

[NicholeW.]

Yeah but it really was Gary Snyder who really first saw that.

True. Allen was more Mahayanaly inclined. But I still bet Allen loved the notion, even if he had to credit Snyder with the idea.

[jainie marlena]

It's really been wearing on me lately, that I really seem alone when it comes to religion. I know there are other people out there, but they don't show themselves. I feel like I'm only in the company of dead people. Well, on some points anyway. I don't think there is anybody whose beliefs are really quite that close to mine (but I hope so). It's just so lonely, and I'm always on the defensive as there as I don't have anyone to help stand my ground. I'm not sure what my point was with all of this. I guess I just wanted to say it.

If God is omnipresent he has to be with you and in you and all around you for this statement to be true. everyone feels alone at one time or another, even Jesus on the cross felt like he was alone. " my God, My God why hast thou forsaken me." were the words spoken by Christ, yet three days later the same God that had forsaken Christ raised him from the dead.