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- “The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond
them into the impossible.”
- Sir Arthur C. Clarke
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- I had a dream that I was having great difficulty climbing a mountain.
- When I got to the top, I visited with the great spiritual leaders of all
time.
- However, later I took a train to the top, and there were only monuments
to the major religions on the peak—no spiritual beings. I was disappointed.
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- I realized that taking the train to the top was like participating in
organized religion in form only.
- Climbing Impossible Mountain is like finding your own inner spirituality
and beliefs, & communing with those who harmonize with them
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- Over decades, a mountain rises in Colorado. This is the result of
pressure from an underlying volcanic hot spot.
- It eventually reaches nearly the height of Mount Everest, but the climb
is reputed to be even more difficult.
- Only one climber, Darrell Dogwood, has succeeded in climbing it, but he
will not reveal what he experienced along the way.
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- Rod Allman, philosophy professor and climber, and Lisa Cartan, travel
agent and gymnast, meet when he books a trip to the mountain to scope
out the climb. They instantly sense a special relationship.
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- Rod meets Darrell at the Logger’s Inn. He is invited to join the
expedition to climb Mount Harmony:
what Darrell calls ‘Impossible Mountain’.
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- Rod invites Lisa to join him in the trek up Mount Harmony. She flies to Colorado.
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- Rod and Lisa take a magnetic train to the Village of the Spirit.
- Constructed by a billionaire at 26,700 feet, there is a monument to each
major religion on the top of Mount Harmony.
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- Lisa and Rod begin the climb along a different route than the train, as
part of a large team. Each leg of the journey provides astounding
spiritual experiences.
- Rod keeps a journal of the lessons of Impossible Mountain.
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- Lisa, a new climber,
- makes it to Camp IV
- at 26,000 feet, but she
- has to stay there.
- Rod and a young
- mathematician, Wayne
- Gatlin, make it to the
- top, but separately.
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- Rod, when he reaches the top:
- Reading of Chapter 17: ‘The
Summit’.
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- At the summit, Jesus appears to Rod and suggests that all spiritual leaders were seeing God
through their own colored glasses.
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- We are all more or less
- crippled by the karma of our
choices.
- The better our choices,
- the greater the evil we can
confront with non-violence.
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- He emphasizes the
- Unity of religions:
- “‘Surely those who believe: those
who are Jews, and the Christians, and those who have conversion, whoever
believes in Allah and does good, they shall have their reward from the
Lord, and there is no fear in them, nor shall they grieve.’” The Koran
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- Listen and watch for signs
along each step of the way, particularly miraculous or unexplainable
signs, or those involving synchronistic events. Try to understand the spiritual
explanations of those events, and OBEY your own inner direction.
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- You may be called on to perform
far beyond what you see as your own limitations. Never succumb to the
fear that you cannot function beyond what you ever thought
possible. That could be fatal.
Sometimes we are forced to grow in amazing ways, even in an instant.
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- What is your dream?
- Your Impossible Mountain?
- What is your fear of climbing?
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- Overcome the ego. To let ego
rage out of control is self destructive, impairs judgment. Those who manifest God’s Glory are
humble.
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- The greatest freedom is that achieved by conquering your greatest fears.
Know that you are close to the summit of being if those fears become
very clear. Stand your ground.
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- Learn to recover quickly from
loss. Your life and success may depend on it. To recover, immerse
yourself in the beauty all around you.
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- Responsibility. We never know when an act harming
others will come back to haunt us. We are never victims, we just
experience the results of our decisions.
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- When you have passed to the
summit of your being, you will be given a unique gift from God for the
blessing of others. This will be a transcendent gift that no one else
has had or will have. To qualify
for this gift you must ascend to that summit in humility, knowing that
all of us are special, and each has a special gift waiting for
them. See the seeds of that gift
in all.
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- Understanding is gratitude. Be
grateful for this opportunity to undergo such a radically spiritual
adventure. What does
Understanding have to do with that?
When you are standing under God’s grace, you are certainly in
Understanding. Understanding is just knowing that what you have and what
you experience is right for you and your spiritual development.
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- What the world tells you to
expect will keep you from the ultimate experience of the inner
spark. You must go to a place
beyond those expectations: to a place only you can find--beyond ordinary
reality. You must walk that lonesome valley by yourself.
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- It all comes back to your real
identity in God. Don’t forget it.
One way to affirm it is the simple statement:
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I AM THAT I AM!
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- Unknowable Infinite.
- Sometimes the worst calamities contain the seed of the best
opportunities, especially if one expects that to be so. It is as if God
wants to cheer us up by turning around negative experiences.
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- “The end of one thing is the beginning of another. I am a pilgrim again.”
- Yuichiro Miura,
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The man who skied
down part of
Everest then later became the oldest person (70) to
reach the summit.
- (The second oldest: 57!)
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- Watch for Miracle Mountain, the follow-up to Impossible Mountain, still
in the conceptual stage.
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- Impossible Mountain published by
- Empyrean Quest Publishers,
- EmpyreanQuest.com
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Notes
