Rip Parker
1 min readAug 1, 2022

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BOOTS ON THE GROUND

INVALUABLE

Such is our earthly incarnation, or incarnations. I don’t want to put limitations on the “heavenly experience”, beyond time, but there clearly are important, necessary experiences that are best found through material incarnation. Dream though it may be, it is an important dream with special teachings.

In my eighty-fifth year of this adventure I am in no rush to return home. There is so much more to learn, to experience. Although some of it will be quite difficult, that is the purpose.

Among the most important experiences in earthly incarnation is relationships.Difficult, problematic though they may be, relationship with other incarnates is of greatest value. There is our deep learning. Difficult and deeply rewarding.

It sometime seems we are completing relationships we have begun before this life. I must believe this is the case. This concept adds color and deeper meaning to our current relationships with others. Indeed, we experience the meaning of “oneness”, that we in our relationships experiencing ourselves playing a different role.

Relationship with another person is in some real sense relationship with ourselves. Our “boots on the ground” experience” makes this unfolding drama very real, and fulfilling (eventually).

And, on and on it goes, through linear time into the timeless Now. This is a Wonderfull experience, life is. I am pleased to share it with you. You play an important role for me, whether or not we ever meet face to face in this life.

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Rip Parker

Geophysicist, lawyer, mediator, student of Jung, phenomenology, semiotics