Editor:

I find continual perplexion from letter writers and opinion columnists concerning their presentation of issues. Most opinions appear to be based on half-truths, from how to hide from bear bites, to whom health care does not concern, to which compass point in Afghanistan a crevice may be found for peace to hide, to which side of the Potomac Barack Obama casts his vote to fish, to what our U.S. Constitution is doing in the balcony.

All of this amounts to a puzzle and after gathering enough pieces of the puzzle to see what the picture is about, I become dismayed that in the year 2009, precisely that many years since spiritual freedom was preached, we as a people, still practice ego worship, the idolatry of falsity.

One's spiritual nature is fully able to witness truth. One's ego nature fully resides in prejudice, living in the past of one's own fear-based personal experiences, rendering the closed mindedness of crossed-eyed sightedness, prejudice.

The gates of Heaven are here today but getting there for most persons is like getting through the needle's eye (in Jerusalem) with one at the helm of a B-52 bomber. It's not that getting to Heaven is impossible, it's that getting there requires the shedding of all egoic burdens, leaving the past behind inside the Great Pyramid, never to be seen again by passers by.

The cultured ego is the testament of judging others. "Judge not that ye be not judged." In how many languages must the truth be stated before the alien ego must understand? The ego may never understand. Spiritual freedom is possessed by leaving the ego with its past behind, where it exists anyway. The past, regarding human relations, is all the performance of egoic illusion, as such events no longer exist anywhere, except in the fear-based cultural ego.

The gateway to Heaven is in the here and now. "The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand," by Jesus, and leave it to the politicians, ego practitioners, to be perplexed to find which hand, the right or the wrong.

As a spiritual entity, the bear knows but ain't sayin! And perhaps man will know by the year 2525, if man is still alive!

DAVE FINK, Casper