Introduction to Eric
First, let me tell you about Eric. The team that developed the Adventures in Spiritual Living program to foster spiritual experience often felt assisted by unseen spiritual friends in discovering what activities would work. Eric represents those unseen friends. On a few occasions, he has sent us messages of encouragement and advice which seem to us to be relevant to anyone who sets out on the quest to personally experience spiritual reality. Eric is, above all, interested in pursuing thrilling spiritual adventures.
Our image of him is as a young captain of a Viking longboat. Not a war boat, but rather a boat of exploration and adventure, capable of going anywhere. He is happy, enthusiastic, optimistic, and joyous. He is absolutely certain that we are all beloved and privileged children of God, and consequently, we may be totally fearless in pursuing truth. When he talks about the great adventure, he means the adventure of pursuing truth wherever the spirit leads him.
Eric defines truth as the powerful attraction of loving relations with spiritual sisters and brothers. Truth is very related to giving, receiving, and living in a loving relationship with other beings, including God himself. To him, discovering and living within truth is what God intends our lives to be about. Eric’s truth can’t be merely known as fact. It must be lived as an experience of love in your soul.
Well, that is enough about Eric for you to understand why we look forward to his infrequent messages and why we share them. The first message from Eric came in late 1989.
Third Letter from Eric
First Written 1991
Dear Ones
God is not like your father—he is your Father and he recognizes and joyfully accepts the responsibility of personally rearing you to spiritual maturity. And then he will continue to be your Father-friend, encourager, adviser, sustainer and more.
Even right now your Father has plans to share his kingdom and his power with you and these are not plans only for the far distant future. They are plans for now and more for next year and much, much more as eternity unfolds.
You are God’s child. He loves you, he forgives you and he longs to share all that he has and knows with you. You are his child and you can be like him and you can exercise his power for the benefit only of others—just as he does.
Do you want his love? Do you want his personal attention and teaching? If you do and if you believe and if you live like your Father is real and important to you and his way is important, then you have accepted God as your Father. All that remains is for you to talk to him, share everything and imagine his replies for he will speak to you in your imagination.
And if you are God’s child and I am God’s child, then we are brothers and sisters and have family ties one to the other. While we may be unlike in many ways, we bear the cosmic nobility of our Father which longs to be expressed. I pledge to help you express our Father according to your understanding of him, and I pray your support as I seek to express him in my way.
Welcome to our family and all honor to our noble Father.
Eric