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THE GREAT MYSTERY CALLED “LIFE”

Rip Parker
10 min readDec 14, 2022

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Dare I presume to address such a great subject? Am I too presumptuous or proud when I even consider exploring this greatest of mysteries? How dare I not, at the risk of ego-tripping.

We find ourselves mystified by many things. First, who and what are we, and why are we here? To deal with this question, we find we must engage what we know as “spiritual issues”.
In pursuit of an answer to this central question, we quickly discover we tend toward a choice between three considerations. First, in order to relieve our minds of questions seemingly two great for our mental abilities, some chose to ignore the questions, and just go about their daily lives, living life on the surface.

Others presume simple and final answers based on bias created by people and institutions they accept as authoritative, and to whom they assign their thinking. They accept the answers provided to them by these people as final, do not challenge with…

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Rip Parker
Rip Parker

Written by Rip Parker

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

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