Dear Doreen, you have been an "official" member of this forum for 35 minutes. We have to celebrate that. WELCOME DOREEN!

Wish for more ( if I may incite you, Normand), he belongs to history and history is...a lark. I also look at the Great Ones, can we count them to ten ( including me of course)?
If we had to pick Jochen's invitation to come out of hiding, I would be the most awkward of all. But we still cope with egos ( ours and others ) and can't afford to be free. It would be so amusing, though. I try now and then to break the rules of comunication and what I see is discomfort.

I think that however it is for you, Normand, it's fine. It has to be all right because that is who and how you happen to be. Otherwise we, you, would have to assume there is something wrong with you, and that is exactly what we want to end. You know we are very different. You are "not of the romantic type" you said. I am. I am all emotion with some learned intellectuality on top. So our ways to handle life and to express ourselves on this forum are bound to be different. My writing is absolutely emotional, you might even say instinctive; I use mind only as a translator into language and to keep my impulsiveness and craziness within reasonable bounds. I dont feel ego is overly involved in my writing. It's all impulse (but ego may kick in later, of course).

We have here a God, let's say God, who cannot be please or appeased or angered or slighted, blasphemed, offended etcetera. That's a totally new situation. A God who ist not a reactor (!). Have we realized just how new this situationt is? That this God is not Zeus or Odin and not like, um, some humand elders in our lives used to be? That as long as we treat our human neighbors kindly and thoughtfully, everything can be asked and said, especially when it comes straight from our heart. If we have been brought up to be cautious about what we say or ask, now is the time to finally say it without caution. In that sense, I feel very strongly, the time for trying to be good girls and boys, the time to be reasonable, is over.

...Ego always does it. If we were really free from any conditioning about good and bad, and from what people may think of us, we would speak the truth and there would be no space for ego. As it is now, we almost always try to conform our speaking to some learned idea (for instance ideas about love, the subtlest ones ) and so we keep expressing our egos with the convinction that we are instead speaking from our hearts. Freedom is an aspect of love, in my world, while all rules and laws ( even morality or ethical principles or ideals) belong to ego's language and are the other side of ignorance. I don't think that there can be such freedom in relationships.

That is the logic of the system, dear Señora, demanding that all earlier responses and secondary responses to a particular comment come before any new ones. Mentioning the name would be helpful in such a case of comment and response ending up widely apart.

With respect to your question, since no one took that position, I wonder what makes you ask. There are innumerable ways doors can open, and I'm sure every one of us has written about a case of enthusiasm or inspiration opening a door.