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  <title type="text">a reasonable mystic Google Group</title>
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  The visible trail of my journey from reluctant fundamentalism, through evangelical by conviction of Jesus as the only way, charismatic through encounter with the Holy Spirit, postmodern by choice, to protestant mystic as the only sensible response to the presence of God.
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  <updated>2009-05-03T11:11:37Z</updated>
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  <name>eaeqaaeamamx@yahoo.com</name>
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  <updated>2009-05-03T11:11:37Z</updated>
  <id>http://groups.google.com/group/reasonablemystic/browse_thread/thread/ee0644f2f1d6246e/135e57be9c1259c7?show_docid=135e57be9c1259c7</id>
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  <title type="text">Reach Your Goal by Affirming and Visualizing!</title>
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  Your thoughts determine whether you reach your goal or not. If you are &lt;br&gt; constantly in a negative state of mind or succumb to fears and doubts, &lt;br&gt; then your goal will remain far from your reach. But if you feed your &lt;br&gt; mind with positive thoughts and imagine yourself having reached that &lt;br&gt; goal already, then you are almost certain to reach it!
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  <name>eaeqaaeamamx@yahoo.com</name>
  <email>eaeqaaeam...@yahoo.com</email>
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  <updated>2009-03-19T12:04:07Z</updated>
  <id>http://groups.google.com/group/reasonablemystic/browse_thread/thread/e519d3a59563e837/7ba2db40cf047f84?show_docid=7ba2db40cf047f84</id>
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  <title type="text">Reach Your Goal by Affirming and Visualizing!</title>
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  Your thoughts determine whether you reach your goal or not. If you are &lt;br&gt; constantly in a negative state of mind or succumb to fears and doubts, &lt;br&gt; then your goal will remain far from your reach. But if you feed your &lt;br&gt; mind with positive thoughts and imagine yourself having reached that &lt;br&gt; goal already, then you are almost certain to reach it!
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  <name>eaeqaaeamamx@yahoo.com</name>
  <email>eaeqaaeam...@yahoo.com</email>
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  <updated>2009-02-10T13:10:55Z</updated>
  <id>http://groups.google.com/group/reasonablemystic/browse_thread/thread/32260074d4a4a0dd/a17deeed3a476c07?show_docid=a17deeed3a476c07</id>
  <link href="http://groups.google.com/group/reasonablemystic/browse_thread/thread/32260074d4a4a0dd/a17deeed3a476c07?show_docid=a17deeed3a476c07"/>
  <title type="text">Reach Your Goal by Affirming and Visualizing!</title>
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  Your thoughts determine whether you reach your goal or not. If you are &lt;br&gt; constantly in a negative state of mind or succumb to fears and doubts, &lt;br&gt; then your goal will remain far from your reach. But if you feed your &lt;br&gt; mind with positive thoughts and imagine yourself having reached that &lt;br&gt; goal already, then you are almost certain to reach it!
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  <name>Mal</name>
  <email>malsbl...@roaring-mouse.com</email>
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  <updated>2009-01-27T06:34:13Z</updated>
  <id>http://groups.google.com/group/reasonablemystic/browse_thread/thread/d14395bbdab0ba00/3ca9d65ce5ae0735?show_docid=3ca9d65ce5ae0735</id>
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  <title type="text">[a reasonable mystic] A Short and Easy Method of Prayer - Chapter 24</title>
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  Of the way to attain Divine UnionIt is impossible to attain Divine &lt;br&gt; Union solely by the activity of meditation, or by the meltings of the &lt;br&gt; affections, or even by the highest degree of luminous and &lt;br&gt; distinctly-comprehended prayer. There are many reasons for this, the &lt;br&gt; chief of which are as follow:-First, According to Scripture &amp;quot;no man
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  <name>Mal</name>
  <email>malsbl...@roaring-mouse.com</email>
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  <updated>2009-01-27T05:21:57Z</updated>
  <id>http://groups.google.com/group/reasonablemystic/browse_thread/thread/3ef041a566e2a034/fa04218422fec415?show_docid=fa04218422fec415</id>
  <link href="http://groups.google.com/group/reasonablemystic/browse_thread/thread/3ef041a566e2a034/fa04218422fec415?show_docid=fa04218422fec415"/>
  <title type="text">[a reasonable mystic] Defining Christian Mysticism</title>
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  [&lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=nofollow href=&quot;http://www.listening2god.com/blog/blog.html&quot;&gt;[link]&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;br&gt; First, let me apologise for the disjointed order of these posts, &lt;br&gt; although I shouldn&#39;t need to apologise - blogging gives an author the &lt;br&gt; freedom to post items as they come to mind. The reader must wait in &lt;br&gt; anticipation to see if and when some order emerges from the heap. Why
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  <name>eaeqaaeamamx@yahoo.com</name>
  <email>eaeqaaeam...@yahoo.com</email>
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  <updated>2008-12-29T10:17:21Z</updated>
  <id>http://groups.google.com/group/reasonablemystic/browse_thread/thread/7b10ac1326d01cf7/9f6769394398fd1d?show_docid=9f6769394398fd1d</id>
  <link href="http://groups.google.com/group/reasonablemystic/browse_thread/thread/7b10ac1326d01cf7/9f6769394398fd1d?show_docid=9f6769394398fd1d"/>
  <title type="text">Invest Five Minutes a Day to Survive!</title>
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  Can you spare five minutes a day to practice a mental conditioning &lt;br&gt; technique that can literally save your life? The answer better be &lt;br&gt; &amp;quot;yes!&amp;quot; &lt;br&gt; Physical conditioning and skills practice comprise only 50% of the &lt;br&gt; training necessary to help police officers survive a critical &lt;br&gt; incident. The other 50% lies in something most officers have
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  <name>Mal</name>
  <email>malsbl...@roaring-mouse.com</email>
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  <updated>2008-12-06T02:20:12Z</updated>
  <id>http://groups.google.com/group/reasonablemystic/browse_thread/thread/6f44dc7e9eb1eb3d/232c3b76c1c7540e?show_docid=232c3b76c1c7540e</id>
  <link href="http://groups.google.com/group/reasonablemystic/browse_thread/thread/6f44dc7e9eb1eb3d/232c3b76c1c7540e?show_docid=232c3b76c1c7540e"/>
  <title type="text">[a reasonable mystic] A Short and Easy Method of Prayer - Chapter 23</title>
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  To Pastors and TeachersIf all who laboured for the conversion of others &lt;br&gt; were to introduce them immediately into Prayer and the Interior Life, &lt;br&gt; and make it their main design to gain and win over the heart, &lt;br&gt; numberless as well as permanent conversions would certainly ensue. On &lt;br&gt; the contrary, few and transient fruits must attend that labour which is
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  <name>Mal</name>
  <email>malsbl...@roaring-mouse.com</email>
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  <updated>2008-12-06T02:14:17Z</updated>
  <id>http://groups.google.com/group/reasonablemystic/browse_thread/thread/5ad92904e72dd2bc/a3abaa3b82dc7f55?show_docid=a3abaa3b82dc7f55</id>
  <link href="http://groups.google.com/group/reasonablemystic/browse_thread/thread/5ad92904e72dd2bc/a3abaa3b82dc7f55?show_docid=a3abaa3b82dc7f55"/>
  <title type="text">[a reasonable mystic] Imagine That! - Part 1</title>
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  Those with an interest in exploring and understanding how the human &lt;br&gt; brain operates, and the relationship between brain and mind, generally &lt;br&gt; operate with an overriding assumption – that the human mind is alone, &lt;br&gt; isolated from all other minds except for communication processes &lt;br&gt; relying on the five physical senses – sight, hearing, touch, smell and
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  <name>Mal</name>
  <email>malsbl...@roaring-mouse.com</email>
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  <updated>2008-11-28T11:01:29Z</updated>
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  <link href="http://groups.google.com/group/reasonablemystic/browse_thread/thread/7987c3c0a239177d/3cbd368281f722ae?show_docid=3cbd368281f722ae"/>
  <title type="text">[a reasonable mystic] A Short and Easy Method of Prayer - Chapter 22</title>
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  Of Internal ActsActs are distinguished into External and Internal. &lt;br&gt; External acts are those which bear relation to some sensible object, &lt;br&gt; and are either morally good or evil, merely according to the nature of &lt;br&gt; the principle from which they proceed. I intend here to speak only of &lt;br&gt; Internal acts, those energies of the soul, by which it turns internally
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  <name>Mal</name>
  <email>malsbl...@roaring-mouse.com</email>
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  <updated>2008-11-26T10:08:33Z</updated>
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  <link href="http://groups.google.com/group/reasonablemystic/browse_thread/thread/b57af7d8655f7604/c2d3f90803b7150f?show_docid=c2d3f90803b7150f"/>
  <title type="text">[a reasonable mystic] A Short and Easy Method of Prayer - Chapter 21</title>
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  The Noble Results of this Species of PrayerSome persons, when they hear &lt;br&gt; of the prayer of silence, falsely imagine, that the soul remains &lt;br&gt; stupid, dead, and inactive. But, unquestionably, it acteth therein, &lt;br&gt; more nobly and more extensively than it had ever done before; for God &lt;br&gt; Himself is the mover, and the soul now acteth by the agency of His
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  <name>Mal</name>
  <email>malsbl...@roaring-mouse.com</email>
  </author>
  <updated>2008-11-26T10:05:29Z</updated>
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  <title type="text">[a reasonable mystic] A Short and Easy Method of Prayer - Chapter 21</title>
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  The Noble Results of this Species of PrayerSome persons, when they hear &lt;br&gt; of the prayer of silence, falsely imagine, that the soul remains &lt;br&gt; stupid, dead, and inactive. But, unquestionably, it acteth therein, &lt;br&gt; more nobly and more extensively than it had ever done before; for God &lt;br&gt; Himself is the mover, and the soul now acteth by the agency of His
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  <name>Mal</name>
  <email>malsbl...@roaring-mouse.com</email>
  </author>
  <updated>2008-11-26T09:59:05Z</updated>
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  <link href="http://groups.google.com/group/reasonablemystic/browse_thread/thread/b57af7d8655f7604/01df5659bea2761c?show_docid=01df5659bea2761c"/>
  <title type="text">[a reasonable mystic] A Short and Easy Method of Prayer - Chapter 21</title>
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  The Noble Results of this Species of PrayerSome persons, when they hear &lt;br&gt; of the prayer of silence, falsely imagine, that the soul remains &lt;br&gt; stupid, dead, and inactive. But, unquestionably, it acteth therein, &lt;br&gt; more nobly and more extensively than it had ever done before; for God &lt;br&gt; Himself is the mover, and the soul now acteth by the agency of His
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  <author>
  <name>eaeqaaeamamx@yahoo.com</name>
  <email>eaeqaaeam...@yahoo.com</email>
  </author>
  <updated>2008-11-24T11:15:17Z</updated>
  <id>http://groups.google.com/group/reasonablemystic/browse_thread/thread/e7bbcb9f3c3bb411/3fe3eb454edabf9c?show_docid=3fe3eb454edabf9c</id>
  <link href="http://groups.google.com/group/reasonablemystic/browse_thread/thread/e7bbcb9f3c3bb411/3fe3eb454edabf9c?show_docid=3fe3eb454edabf9c"/>
  <title type="text">10 Simple Steps to Program Your Subconscious Mind</title>
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  If you know anything about computers, you know there really is not &lt;br&gt; intelligence driving these machines. The only output you can expect &lt;br&gt; from a computer is only as good as the input. &lt;br&gt; Some software programs work efficiently and seems intuitive to our &lt;br&gt; needs. While, other software programs are slow and clunky and can&#39;t be
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  <author>
  <name>Mal</name>
  <email>malsbl...@roaring-mouse.com</email>
  </author>
  <updated>2008-11-21T02:39:48Z</updated>
  <id>http://groups.google.com/group/reasonablemystic/browse_thread/thread/b30b6bc5ec9c03e2/868eec6c1f356ec4?show_docid=868eec6c1f356ec4</id>
  <link href="http://groups.google.com/group/reasonablemystic/browse_thread/thread/b30b6bc5ec9c03e2/868eec6c1f356ec4?show_docid=868eec6c1f356ec4"/>
  <title type="text">[a reasonable mystic] Too many blogs</title>
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  [&lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=nofollow href=&quot;http://www.bethtephillah.com/weblog/blog.html&quot;&gt;[link]&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;br&gt; If the previous post seemed a little out of context, it was!I&#39;ve &lt;br&gt; written elsewhere about having too many blogs, and one result is that &lt;br&gt; the post on Hiding Christ from New Agers was posted here instead of &lt;br&gt; where it was intended, at Mal&#39;s Meanderings.But, hey, let&#39;s spread the
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  <author>
  <name>Mal</name>
  <email>malsbl...@roaring-mouse.com</email>
  </author>
  <updated>2008-11-21T01:36:27Z</updated>
  <id>http://groups.google.com/group/reasonablemystic/browse_thread/thread/59fc085a81e8389d/fc68e8cdc5ee4407?show_docid=fc68e8cdc5ee4407</id>
  <link href="http://groups.google.com/group/reasonablemystic/browse_thread/thread/59fc085a81e8389d/fc68e8cdc5ee4407?show_docid=fc68e8cdc5ee4407"/>
  <title type="text">[a reasonable mystic] Hiding Christ from New Agers</title>
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  [&lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=nofollow href=&quot;http://www.reasonablemystic.com/&quot;&gt;[link]&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;br&gt; This morning I was reading &amp;quot;My Prayer Journal&amp;quot; in the Victorian Baptist &lt;br&gt; Witness. Part of the diary for Wednesday and Thursday went as follows: &lt;br&gt; Something interesting happened today. Saw Greg put &#39;religion&#39; and &#39;new &lt;br&gt; age&#39;books together (in the &#39;new age&#39; section). He even put the Bibles
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