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“So, we were talking about the inherent incompleteness of every unfulfilled entity and how that is not brokenness and certainly not sin, but opportunity. Without any degree of being unfulfilled there would be no spiritual progress. SP is based on a premise of greater always greater spiritual complexity reaching toward unity with All That Is. Less than All That Is is not failure and not sin.

 “Say you have never been to New York. [R: I’ve never been to New York] Dad! And you get a chance to go. When you hadn’t gone yet you were not bad or evil, just not yet complete in all the experiences possible.

 “Remember you don’t have to have every experience, just the ones that will help you learn and remember in ways that disclose your spiritual truth.

“If there were no New York to go to or you didn’t feel the need to go even though a piece of your spirit might be revealed there, then you’d be stuck. Being incomplete is not failure but possibility. [wait, if there was no NY you couldn’t experience it, so you’d be stuck forever?] Yes. But the universe is infinite so there is a New York and a Schenectady but one is easier to spell. [that’s the main difference] It is. As well as a few minor other differences. Pith for the pithless.

[this whole area is intriguing. What about what you said way back when that in order to connect in a healthy way to others to form a new entity at another level of complexity then each spirit has to be fulfilled] Yes. [so, fulfilled by connecting?] No. So that each entity must have some fulfilling to do or else they wouldn’t be at this level. But if there were no openings for fulfillment then nothing could happen. So many religions focus on trying to achieve a higher spiritual level but that doesn’t deal with the spiritual tasks here at hand. O goodie, another analogy.

 “You sit in college and dream about being in grad school and you even sneak into a grad lecture or two and try to think like the grad students. But as an undergrad you need to fulfill the undergrad courses. Maybe you could eke out a C in a grad course but if you don’t know how to ace the intro course you’ll never move on to grad school. That’s enough."