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The Personal Life of Almine

 

 

What a diverse and interesting journey life has been!  From the sleepy coastal town of Newport in Oregon, to the Palaces of Europe and Britain it has led me.  I have climbed the mountains of Peru, waded through the jungles of Belize, surfed the waves of South Africa and swum in the cradle of the Black Sea…and everywhere I’ve gone my heart has overflowed with the joy of living and the adventure of discovering life’s secrets.

 

Mortal boundaries have been my challenger and adversary, spurring me on to higher and higher flights of the spirit.  I have sought the unknowable and expanded the paradigms of my life with every breath of my body.

 

I have had to travel lightly – many I have embraced in my heart, but few could maintain the pace of my journey.  The higher I flew the less chance I had to put down emotional roots.  To assuage the loneliness, my friendships reached into the hidden realms and spanned realities … a bitter-sweet experience, alienating me even more from the realities lived by others.

 

They drew circles that excluded me.  I drew a larger one that included all life:  In 2000 I entered into God-consciousness which is a state of losing all identity and becoming a being as vast as the cosmos, having a human experience.  It is about finding my home and my emotional roots – within.  Welcome to my home…

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