We are spiritual beings having a human experience."
Wow, thanks! I totally have been wondering where that quote came from. First saw it 5 years ago, scrawled in bright green day-glo paint on the wall of a broken structure that housed a hot spring at an old hotel that burned down in 1958. I never knew where it came from; I had kind of fantasized that some some sweet kind hippie girl with stars in her eyes and flowers in her hair made it up and wrote it there, sometime around 1967, while experiencing the wonders of peyote.
In the 1920s, the hotel was a "swingin' joint" complete with jazz, Hollywood, and flappers. During Prohibition, L.A. gangsters used the secluded location for drinking and gambling; lookouts were perched atop the long grade leading to the Springs to get a jump on the cops. A fire on Christmas Eve 1958 leveled the hotel and the land eventually reverted to the U.S. Forest Service. It's like 22 miles down this really rugged dirt road...lots of *freaks* (the good kind) have hung out there at times since the early 60's.
So that quote is special for me in more ways than one.
Anyway, the quote was my sig line at DU for awhile. Like LG, I'm going to have to check out more on Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, seems like lots to learn there.
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