tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69316974727322562042012-02-15T23:28:59.736-08:00MetaRoc Mike...(C) 2008http://www.blogger.com/profile/13023085168338041357noreply@blogger.comBlogger181100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931697472732256204.post-10781218873351809582009-06-01T19:44:00.000-07:002009-06-01T19:48:03.169-07:00Jun 01, 2009 Mike Rayl - personality...<br /><br />12. It is one thing which can be added to spirit, thus illustrating the primacy of the Father in relation to the Son. (Mind does not have to be added to spirit.) page 1226 TUB<br /><br />Personality is a unique gift from god, no two alike, it is our unique contribution to spirit along with our evolving soul...<br />Whereas, there is only one mind, that we all use, nothing new can be added to mind...<br />Our evolving soul is filled with our experiences of spiritual value...<br />It is our unique personality that separates us, each approaching life from a slightly different angle, making life interesting, and adding the spice to life...<br /><br />I find this all so amazing, and awe inspiring, That God has a divine plan, and we are a significant part of it, God is an equal opportunity God, for us humans... thank You God...<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6931697472732256204-1078121887335180958?l=metaroc.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>MetaRoc Mike...(C) 2008http://www.blogger.com/profile/13023085168338041357noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931697472732256204.post-74940961975299599352009-03-22T15:39:00.000-07:002009-03-22T15:43:00.799-07:00"I found the UB in 1979, while living in Lahaina, on the island of Maui,Hawaii...<br /><br /> A friend Eve, pulled out the UB, started reading it at random, while we were high, from smoking da kine, great Maui buds... it was a really mind blowing experience... at the time I thought it was very mystical... I haven't smoked buds for over 20 years now, I'm high on life...<br /> reality, what a concept... I can not imagine a life without the UB, it is such a major part of my life... I thank God every day, for giving me the Urantia Book... I have been in study groups for over 20 years... I am currently enrolled in the urantiabookschool.org provided free by the Urantia Foundation, and part of the group SPAD on ubron.org that reads 6 pages a day, at that rate we read the UB every year... I listen to the UB on my ipod and computer... this year I have listened to 100 papers already and its only February, way beyond 6 pages a day, i love it so much..."<br /><br />The rest of the story, as it appears in the book, "how I found the Urantia Book", can be read online at ;<br /><br />http://www.squarecircles.com/articles/hiftub/hiftub.htm<br /><br />BORN AND RAISED in Catholicism, by the age of seven, at the time of my first communion, I had already begun to doubt Catholicism’s validity.<br /><br />Several years later, in 1979, I was studying with the Ancient Mystical Order of Rosicrucians (AMORC) and living in the town of Lahaina on the island of Maui, when a friend, Linda Gray, started telling me about the Urantia Book. I was always a seeker of truth and I began to read it. For several years thereafter I also studied Unity and Science of Mind. I even converted to Mormonism in 1981, and after the Mormons confiscated my Urantia Book, I bought another one.<br /><br />For a while I tried to incorporate into my philosophy a little from each of the different teachings. But as I continued to read the Urantia Book, more and more I realized that, for me, this was as close to the truth as anything I had ever studied. Being a mystic, this realization was not easy for me to accept. My greatest battle was in letting go of the concept of reincarnation, in which the Rosicrucians strongly believed. For years I struggled with this. I really loved the AMORC as it had taught me to be open to the truth. I had even moved to San Jose to be closer to the Order, and I studied at the Rosicrucian University.<br /><br />But finally I arrived at an unswerving belief in the teachings of the Urantia Book. The book always spoke to my heart and it continues to do so.<br /><br />Once, just for fun, I took a calculator and the calendar and checked the accuracy of the days and dates mentioned in Part IV. They all proved to be correct. That did it for me. Now the Urantia Book is the foundation for my beliefs. Even after having read it several times, the book is always fresh, new, alive, and awe-inspiring.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6931697472732256204-7494096197529959935?l=metaroc.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>MetaRoc Mike...(C) 2008http://www.blogger.com/profile/13023085168338041357noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931697472732256204.post-15401181844659395862009-03-07T18:04:00.000-08:002009-03-07T18:10:52.684-08:00I was DX with ALS in 1999, started having symptoms in 1995...<br />This is what I do, and it works for me:<br /><br />First I trust in God, I give it up to him to sustain me, he gives me peace beyond understanding, I know everything will be alright, one day at a time...<br /><br />Second I choose to have a positive attitude, no matter what...<br /><br />Third, I cherish every day, i have left, by making every day count, concentrate on what I can do, not on what i can't...<br /><br />fourth, Cherish my family and friends, don''t hold grudges, forgive all...<br /><br /><a href="http://mikerayl.com">mikerayl.com</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6931697472732256204-1540118184465939586?l=metaroc.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>MetaRoc Mike...(C) 2008http://www.blogger.com/profile/13023085168338041357noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931697472732256204.post-54335636429391819042009-01-06T20:36:00.000-08:002009-01-06T20:59:19.726-08:00Hey, this is what this inauguration means to me...<br /><br />Change that is real... <br /><br />Inclusion, I have ALS, it is so good to be included as a person who has a disability... Barack Obama seems to be truly sincere, that means a lot to me... <br /><br />Hope, it is a hope that he will lift the ban on fetal stem cells, so i can be treated, where there is no treatment for ALS now in the US... and this treatment is my only hope for recovery...<br /><br />I would love to fly to DC, to be a part of this historic event, in my power chair, the day the people got their government back...<br /><br />If you make a donation to help make Barack Obama’s Inauguration a success, you could be part of the once-in-a-lifetime event.<br /><br />Ten supporters will be selected to join the inaugural activities. If you’re selected, you can bring a guest, and they’ll fly you in and put you up in a hotel for the night.<br /><br />Make a donation now and be there as Barack is sworn in as the 44th President:<br /><a href="http:// www.pic2009.org/tickettohistory"><br />www.pic2009.org/tickettohistory</a><br /><br />Thanks!<br /> <br />mike<br /><br />P.S. you do not have to donate to have a chance to attend, just sign up and tell Barack what this inauguration means to you...<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6931697472732256204-5433563642939181904?l=metaroc.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>MetaRoc Mike...(C) 2008http://www.blogger.com/profile/13023085168338041357noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931697472732256204.post-59968895213676765922009-01-05T16:47:00.000-08:002009-01-05T16:50:08.678-08:00Hi All...<br /><br />I too am reading by listening, its a great way for me to study...<br /><br />Wow, as always for me, its a whole new experience, like reading it for the first time, i get so much out of it...<br /><br />I think sometimes, what my life would be like, not having found the UB... I just can't imagine a life without it... I am so grateful to God, for putting in me the desire to seek the truth, and once finding it, recognizing it as truth...<br /><br />Because of the UB life and death make sense, in a sometime senseless world...<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6931697472732256204-5996889521367676592?l=metaroc.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>MetaRoc Mike...(C) 2008http://www.blogger.com/profile/13023085168338041357noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931697472732256204.post-16043236462282831802009-01-04T19:34:00.000-08:002009-01-04T19:36:39.357-08:00<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ckCMRLPImfw&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ckCMRLPImfw&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6931697472732256204-1604323646228283180?l=metaroc.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>MetaRoc Mike...(C) 2008http://www.blogger.com/profile/13023085168338041357noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931697472732256204.post-46034780604262310122008-12-19T13:08:00.000-08:002009-01-04T19:10:12.486-08:00<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vLuqd3V_GH4&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vLuqd3V_GH4&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6931697472732256204-4603478060426231012?l=metaroc.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>MetaRoc Mike...(C) 2008http://www.blogger.com/profile/13023085168338041357noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931697472732256204.post-72700308253576873542008-11-29T15:27:00.000-08:002008-11-29T16:36:29.008-08:00God thank you for all I have, all the people who love me, my new laptop, my new ipod...<br />Thanks to friends and family, who pooled their money, to get my new laptop...<br />Thanks to Brad the administrator here, who got Kindred to replace my ipod, when it was stolen...<br />Thanks to my daughter Shellee, who made thanksgiving dinner for the first time, it was great...<br />Thanks to my son Steven who helps me do things I can no longer do, like loading my ipod and computer stuff... Thanks to my mom, who does my laundry, brings me lunch and so much more...<br />Thanks to my brother mark, who manages my affairs, gives me spending money, tried to get my laptop fixed and so much more... Thanx to my ex-wife Kat who reminds me of the good times and who got all the people together, to get me my laptop... Thanks to all my wonderful caregivers, who do all the things I can no longer do for myself...<br />Thanks to God, who gives me the courage and strength to face each day, with a positive, cheerful attitude... Thanks to anyone who I forgot to mention...<br /><br />Truly I feel loved, blessed and happy...<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6931697472732256204-7270030825357687354?l=metaroc.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>MetaRoc Mike...(C) 2008http://www.blogger.com/profile/13023085168338041357noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931697472732256204.post-60459834662752303332008-11-12T16:41:00.000-08:002008-11-12T19:06:04.709-08:00The healing has begun... It began the moment Obama won the election... Already there have been many positive comments from world leaders... It won't be easy to make the changes necessary, it will take all of us working together... Barack has a plan to engage and empower all that want to be involved in the solution. <a href="http://www.change.gov">www.change.gov </a> He has so many good ideas. He is a true leader..., with the right positive <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">attitude</span>, to make change happen... Obama is truly right for the time...<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6931697472732256204-6045983466275230333?l=metaroc.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>MetaRoc Mike...(C) 2008http://www.blogger.com/profile/13023085168338041357noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931697472732256204.post-62333678930168704302008-03-11T18:31:00.000-07:002008-03-11T18:43:51.010-07:00<span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"> Hi Jim, Mark told me you looking for me... Well I have been looking for you forever... ever since I heard you were living on lambert in la habra many years ago now... all you have to do to find me is to google me... I am very easy to find... I am very glad to hear your doing well, with a new wife... I wondered what happened to my best friend in high school... I saw you only once since you left high school to join the army... you were living right by Monte Vista and you showed me your harley, I guess you still have it??? Sounds like you have traveled the world, good for u Jim!!! I can remember even in high school it was your dream to one day travel to Hong Kong and Thailand ... I don't know how much Mark told you about me ... It was always a dream of mine to go to Botswana, Africa after my dad moved there to join the peace corp and stayed and made his life there... In feb. 2002 I got to go and fulfill my dream... I had already been diagnosed ALS and confined to my electric wheelchair...</span><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">So I made the trip to Africa in my wheelchair... my dad and sister Babette came here to US to fly with me to Africa... six months later I amazingly flew back by myself... Botswana is a very primitive country... and the village of Maun where my dad lived was in the bush... the whole country never saw the likes of me before or since, with my powered wheelchair... Jim, I have lived a full life... I'm very happy... for a person who was supposed to have been dead by now... I have 2 grown children, who are doing well, Steven and Shellee... Steve just graduated from UCI with a BS in computer science... he is going to create video games... Shellee works as a medical assistant, in a busy pediatrics office... I am very proud of them, 2 fine young adults... as a chef i was able to live in many fine places, Mammoth, Maui, Catalina, Kings canyon, San Jose, Tacoma WA, Huntington Beach... What do you do Jim??? Under water welder??? go to my website mikerayl.com, click contact us..</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6931697472732256204-6233367893016870430?l=metaroc.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>MetaRoc Mike...(C) 2008http://www.blogger.com/profile/13023085168338041357noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931697472732256204.post-57950973562025627082008-02-20T14:44:00.000-08:002008-02-20T14:48:39.369-08:00I'm single again... Relationships are hard... they should not be but they are just the same... the way I feel now I don't want a girlfriend again... All women are the same deep down inside it seems... I don't think I was meant to be in an exclusive relationship... Not that I want to play the field, I don't... it is just too much work... most woman just won't leave you alone, to be yourself, most I've found want to change you into something you're not... love should be easy, but it's not... if I could just find a woman that would just except me the way I am uncondionally... my first wife did, so I know they are out there... somewhere... Life is too short to spend it with one person, I feel... I'm happy...<br /><div> </div> <p>.*.*(\*** /)*.*.*. May the Lord bless you in the<br />*.*.( \(_)/ )*.*.*. year 2008 and may angels watch<br />.*.*(_\l/ _).*.*.* over and guard you and your<br /> *.* /^^^\*.*.*.* family.<br />.* ~~~~~~ .*.*.*<br /><br />Mike Rayl , CTO<br /><br />Kindred of Orange, Room 12 A<br />920 W. LaVeta Avenue<br />Orange CA 92868<br />714-289-0597<br /><br /><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.mikerayl.com/">www.mikerayl.com</a></p> <p><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.mikerayl.com/">www.metaroc.com</a></p> <p><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.mikerayl.com/">www.cluburantia.com<br /></a></p> <p><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.myspace.com/metaroc">www.myspace.com/metaroc</a> </p> <p><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/metaroc">www.youtube.com/metaroc</a></p> <p><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.metaroc.blogspot.com/">www.metaroc.blogspot.com</a> </p> <p> </p> <div><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6931697472732256204-5795097356202562708?l=metaroc.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>MetaRoc Mike...(C) 2008http://www.blogger.com/profile/13023085168338041357noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931697472732256204.post-36870086450022314582008-02-04T19:50:00.000-08:002008-02-04T19:59:36.253-08:00<a href="http://center.spoke.com/profiles/MikeRayl"><img style="width: 120px; height: 30px;" src="http://center.spoke.com/shared/images/spokeprofile_120x30.gif" alt="View Mike Rayl's Profile at Spoke" border="0" /></a><br /><br />What will happen??? its to close to call... I predict it will be the largest turnout ever....<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6931697472732256204-3687008645002231458?l=metaroc.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>MetaRoc Mike...(C) 2008http://www.blogger.com/profile/13023085168338041357noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931697472732256204.post-1213382600923918242008-01-21T11:25:00.000-08:002008-01-21T17:12:55.600-08:00Im torn between Clinton and Obama... Not in my lifetime has there been such fine candidates on all sides... im a green party member... but i want to change to dem or independent... in the primary i will vote for Ralph Nader... whom ever the next president is we will have a fine mess to clean up... bush really put us in the toilet... i dont understand... 8 years ago there was a surplus and we were at peace... what a mess... now there is a record deficit... and the world hates us for what we have done in Iraq... i do not understand how bush with his lack of experience got in there to begin with... and the price of gas i blame bush... but dont get me started...<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6931697472732256204-121338260092391824?l=metaroc.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>MetaRoc Mike...(C) 2008http://www.blogger.com/profile/13023085168338041357noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931697472732256204.post-78004822739420216712008-01-14T18:51:00.000-08:002008-01-14T18:57:04.272-08:00i used system restore to fix... microsoft did something right...<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6931697472732256204-7800482273942021671?l=metaroc.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>MetaRoc Mike...(C) 2008http://www.blogger.com/profile/13023085168338041357noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931697472732256204.post-25525025503552543752008-01-10T19:34:00.000-08:002008-01-10T19:37:57.554-08:00all is well... my computer took a dump...<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6931697472732256204-2552502550355254375?l=metaroc.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>MetaRoc Mike...(C) 2008http://www.blogger.com/profile/13023085168338041357noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931697472732256204.post-17312928365967228902008-01-04T16:55:00.000-08:002008-01-04T17:01:49.797-08:00I am so proud of him...<br /><br /><object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/lwuaxwDj0Nk&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/lwuaxwDj0Nk&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6931697472732256204-1731292836596722890?l=metaroc.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>MetaRoc Mike...(C) 2008http://www.blogger.com/profile/13023085168338041357noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931697472732256204.post-6094508025276236382008-01-03T13:36:00.000-08:002008-01-03T14:13:41.835-08:00I am happy to be alive...<br /><br /><a href="http://groups.msn.com/Urantia">http://groups.msn.com/Urantia</a><br /><br /><a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cluburantia/">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cluburantia/</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6931697472732256204-609450802527623638?l=metaroc.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>MetaRoc Mike...(C) 2008http://www.blogger.com/profile/13023085168338041357noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6931697472732256204.post-45140107502816071052008-01-02T11:35:00.000-08:002008-01-02T11:57:19.944-08:00I am greatful to still be alive... and as healthy as i am... my goal is to blog every day...<br />If you want to know more about me you can go to three websites;<br /><a href="http://www.mikerayl.com/">www.mikerayl.com</a><br /><a href="http://www.myspace.com/metaroc">www.myspace.com/metaroc</a><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/metaroc">www.youtube.com/metaroc</a><br /><br />I was diagnosed with ALS in 1999... I have lived in a nursing home since August 2002... I can't talk or walk... my life is now online. I had a very active life until 11 years ago...<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6931697472732256204-4514010750281607105?l=metaroc.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>MetaRoc Mike...(C) 2008http://www.blogger.com/profile/13023085168338041357noreply@blogger.com1