Caustic Ramblings

Violet, thank you so much for this comment. Not to derail the conversation too much, but this mental model you present seems to accord with my mostly-underdeveloped underlying sense. I don't personally have conscious awareness of communication from/with divine beings, but I'm alive! There's a relationship with air(!) and water (!) and all the many beings that support my life! Ok, so nobody is whispering in my ear, but that which has created all conditions has done so, and I am inseparable from that. All the luck and all the lessons, the continuous path itself ... If a person is going to allow for the existence of deities, well, it's a bit *small* to assume they are only revealed in certain ways and not grant credit for the incomprehensibly *whole* shebang.