function led() { document.write("Positive and negative. Two extremes. Two poles of a battery. When positive and negative are in a relationship to one another, they supply an energy. They supply a charge. I think that in human beings, it is the proximity of both the positive and the negative and their relationship that creates a kind of charge, a tension that propels us through our life and through our experiences.

Did I always laugh when my childhood best friend hit me? No, sometimes I responded with anger, and sometimes I hit back. Sometimes I felt hurt or betrayed. But sometimes, there would be that spontaneous presence of -- something I didn\'t have a word for -- that would provide perfect protection from harm and hurt. I remembered this experience. During times when I could not or would not find that presence within me, it nonetheless remained in my memory as a reference point.

Similarly, the prodigal son in the Christian Bible story, when his fortunes in the world were failing and times were difficult, might have had a reference point of being safe in his father\'s house, and he might have remembered that there was a place within him that was safe from harm and hurt, no matter what the outer circumstances were.

- John-Roger
(From: When Are You Coming Home? A Personal Guide to Soul Transcendence by John-Roger, DSS with Pauli Sanderson, p. 59)"); }