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Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
over a river. A Course in Miracles was a part of the bridge, and
when I first started my thought system was much more like the
North Carolina Southern Baptist thought system. I knew nothing
about oneness. I saw God definitely as separate from me. I didn't
even know about the ego. I'd never even heard the word manifest.
That was my starting point, and A Course in Miracles was the
absolute perfect place to greet me and begin moving me out of that
thought system into seeing.
TRIP: Yes, beautiful. We've got about nine more minutes, and I
don't have any more questions prepared here.
WIZARD: Well we've got a message from Ted Poppe. Thanks for
having Regina on the show; she wears her quiet time well. Love
you guys. Ted.
REGINA AKERS: Now Ted Poppe is the one I told you had the…,
he had received guidance in the shower to start a publishing
company and publish The Teachings of Inner Ramana. I never
had any thought of publishing those messages; I saw them as just
something that I received because I was to receive them. But
when he approached me, and told me that he was going to start a
publishing company and publish them, I started to say, the
personality started to say, “Well Ted what do you know about
publishing?” But then the inner prompting that came was just say
yes, so I said, okay, yes. And he did start a publishing company.
It's called Diamond Clear Vision, and he did publish The
Teachings of Inner Ramana, and it's a lovely little book. So that's
Ted Poppe.
TRIP: Great, I love the name of that company.
WIZARD: I've got a portrait that was painted by Wendel Field,
who lives in Tiruvannamalai in the winter next to where Arthur
Osborne used to live across the courtyard, and it was very
synchronistic; I met him and he was just finishing up a painting of
Ramana Maharshi, and my son had turned me onto him. And I
still go to the that portrait at any time, and it comes alive for me, it
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