I wrote a journal entry this morning, and spent the day helping my girl friend carry out a b-day party for her 92 year old mother.    When I checked this eventing on what I had written, I found Tom's (Tmasthenes) comment, scanned it and then deleted it.

Here are my reasons, and some background.

I've had a rather odd biography.  Given my many decades work as an anthroposophist and spiritual scientist, I felt that it was incumbent upon me to provide for my readers some biographical background.  I thought they should have access to these odd facts, and be able to take account of them in whatever way they needed in order to make any judgments upon my work as they might wish to make.  Readers who want to take a look at this then should read Biographical Necessity, at: http://ipwebdev.com/hermit/anthro-bio.html [1] This is over a hundred pages printed, so people should recognize that if you want to have a thorough knowledge of what is there, your work is cut out for you.

I wrote this essay very carefully, because I knew full well what some would try to do with the material it contains.  For example, the essay clear states that certain ideas are being represented as hypotheticals, and not as conclusions.  Like I said ... I've had some odd experiences and in this small book I endeavored to treat the whole situation with a great deal of respect (and some humor), given that another personality (now no longer incarnate) plays a very crucial role, which it was my intention from the beginning to honor.  Even so, i knew some readers, having their own agendas, would dishonor this individual and our relationship.

I also expected material from this essay to be turned into what is essentially spiritual gossip.

This is what Tom did.  He took material out of context, twisted it for his own purposes, and then posted it as a comment to my journal entry.  Since I have the capacity to delete this undisciplined and false presentation, that is what I did.

All the same, I leave to those who read this journal entry the above link, and they are free to read the whole thing and decide for themselves what they think to be true.   Here is a comment from the little book, to provide some context (and understand the humor with which I approached the biographical material):

""To give a bit of an advance hint as to the conclusion, here is something that can be found near the end of main body of this essay: "Consider this essay then a very long shaggy dog story, typical of the American Soul with its imaginations of such exaggerated fanciful characters as Paul Bunyan and Pecos Bill.  That is, after all, the only kind of idea we anthroposophist's presently have of the Future Maitreya Buddha - a fantastic exaggeration.  Anyone who thinks they can speak with final truth of such aspects of human spiritual history, had better come back down to the earth.  Remember, Rudolf Steiner only spoke of this at a certain time and place because he was more or less forced by circumstances to do this."