Andrea Gibson
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And when I was having the experience right after I got diagnosed, I had thought what the biggest things were, were, you know, human love and, and all of, all of that human connection. And that's enormous and that's part of it, but it is the most important thing. thing in my life. It is the most eternal.
It is also the relationship in my life that makes me show up to the people in my life in a way that I respect. And I wasn't having that consistently before this experience. And so that's why initially I couldn't say this is just a disease. It was also medicine. And I'm trying to think if there are any words, but Whenever I tried to think about it, it almost, it escaped, it runs away.
It is also the relationship in my life that makes me show up to the people in my life in a way that I respect. And I wasn't having that consistently before this experience. And so that's why initially I couldn't say this is just a disease. It was also medicine. And I'm trying to think if there are any words, but Whenever I tried to think about it, it almost, it escaped, it runs away.
It is also the relationship in my life that makes me show up to the people in my life in a way that I respect. And I wasn't having that consistently before this experience. And so that's why initially I couldn't say this is just a disease. It was also medicine. And I'm trying to think if there are any words, but Whenever I tried to think about it, it almost, it escaped, it runs away.
It runs away in my thoughts. But it's an experience, a sensory experience and an emotional experience of being absolutely loved and feeling that I am immensely and completely loved every moment of my life and always have been. And everyone I have ever encountered has been too.
It runs away in my thoughts. But it's an experience, a sensory experience and an emotional experience of being absolutely loved and feeling that I am immensely and completely loved every moment of my life and always have been. And everyone I have ever encountered has been too.
It runs away in my thoughts. But it's an experience, a sensory experience and an emotional experience of being absolutely loved and feeling that I am immensely and completely loved every moment of my life and always have been. And everyone I have ever encountered has been too.
And I think that was the thing that was so healing because when you have trauma in your history, what it does is it, it sort of undoes your sense of being unconditionally loved and When this came in, this knowing, all of a sudden I knew that I was unconditionally loved and it almost felt like it just washed through me and started immediately healing all these wounds.
And I think that was the thing that was so healing because when you have trauma in your history, what it does is it, it sort of undoes your sense of being unconditionally loved and When this came in, this knowing, all of a sudden I knew that I was unconditionally loved and it almost felt like it just washed through me and started immediately healing all these wounds.
And I think that was the thing that was so healing because when you have trauma in your history, what it does is it, it sort of undoes your sense of being unconditionally loved and When this came in, this knowing, all of a sudden I knew that I was unconditionally loved and it almost felt like it just washed through me and started immediately healing all these wounds.
And then in that sense of feeling just unconditionally loved, it was so easy to unconditionally love everyone I was around.
And then in that sense of feeling just unconditionally loved, it was so easy to unconditionally love everyone I was around.
And then in that sense of feeling just unconditionally loved, it was so easy to unconditionally love everyone I was around.
Yeah. Yeah, he's rad. So they have changed so much over the years. You know, even when I was really angry and angry at the church and coming out. And I wrote about it once. I said I had to kill my own God to fall in love for the first time. That's what it felt like. I'm like, I'm going to kill my God so I can love this woman. And so I sort of I didn't identify as a Christian person.
Yeah. Yeah, he's rad. So they have changed so much over the years. You know, even when I was really angry and angry at the church and coming out. And I wrote about it once. I said I had to kill my own God to fall in love for the first time. That's what it felt like. I'm like, I'm going to kill my God so I can love this woman. And so I sort of I didn't identify as a Christian person.
Yeah. Yeah, he's rad. So they have changed so much over the years. You know, even when I was really angry and angry at the church and coming out. And I wrote about it once. I said I had to kill my own God to fall in love for the first time. That's what it felt like. I'm like, I'm going to kill my God so I can love this woman. And so I sort of I didn't identify as a Christian person.
And for a long time through, as I was a young activist, I had Jesus as a role model, as a revolutionary. And I was writing poems about Jesus being a revolutionary. But now when all of this happened, every time I would go to some Buddhist text or watch something online about consciousness, it was so consistently people were, the Buddhist folks were leading me back to Jesus. And
And for a long time through, as I was a young activist, I had Jesus as a role model, as a revolutionary. And I was writing poems about Jesus being a revolutionary. But now when all of this happened, every time I would go to some Buddhist text or watch something online about consciousness, it was so consistently people were, the Buddhist folks were leading me back to Jesus. And
And for a long time through, as I was a young activist, I had Jesus as a role model, as a revolutionary. And I was writing poems about Jesus being a revolutionary. But now when all of this happened, every time I would go to some Buddhist text or watch something online about consciousness, it was so consistently people were, the Buddhist folks were leading me back to Jesus. And
And talking so much about how the teachings are very, very similar and how the teachings of Christ have been misinterpreted. And to sort of, in many ways, undo our own sense of the God within us all. And now, yeah, I love Jesus. I get my mag. Meg, who is like not really a Jesus-y person, has I have to listen to stuff all night right now to sleep.