(Thanks, F. :)

Reader F. sends us this link to an article written in 2004:

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Universal Law, Application to Everyday Life
http://educate-yourself.org/lte/universallaw05nov04.shtml

Article begins:

I grew up in Northeast Philadelphia and even though my foster parents sent me to Catholic school most of my friends were Jewish. I hung out with my Jewish friends after school which further separated me from those at school. My first two real girlfriends were Jewish. This has afforded me some insight that my Gentile friends did not get.

The contradictory nature of what I was being taught in school and what I saw happening (nuns, priests) effectively created in me a distrust of authority. However, in the back of my mind, that little voice told me to keep searching, constantly looking for the "truth".

While my own experiences with trying to understand and find answers in various organized religions was not as integrative as some, I still would try to understand their point of view in my search, only to find some contraditions or some other human condition that has crept in and left its mark.

All during this search (years), I would keep those concepts from each tradition which rang true in the back of my mind; collecting them and trying to fit together the pieces. While not fully embracing any particular organized faith, I began to develop my own personal connection to the source within with my own set of beliefs, based on all I had learned up to that point.

Then in 1999, everything took a quantum leap forward ...

Full article:

http://educate-yourself.org/lte/universallaw05nov04.shtml

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