The Lifetimes When Jesus and Buddha Knew Each Other by Gary R. Renard

Author:Gary R. Renard
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hay House
Published: 2017-11-14T05:00:00+00:00

Gnosticism

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

— WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, HAMLET

One winter night, a couple of months after the conversations in this book began, I posted the following message on Facebook, Twitter, and the Yahoo Discussion Group that talks about my books and the Course. I also sent it to my e-mail list soon after. It describes my experience of the night before.

I was sitting watching a movie I had gotten from Netflix last night when Cindy came into the room. She had a very serious look on her face. Cindy doesn’t usually have a very serious look on her face. She’s usually light and breezy. She told me she had some sad news, and I knew immediately that someone we loved had passed away. The only question was who? Then she told me that Ken Wapnick had made his transition. I was a little surprised, not that it happened, but that it had happened so soon. I guess I thought we had more time.

I met Ken about a half-dozen times, including a few private meetings, and exchanged about 20 letters with him, which I still have. I know I’m going to be thinking about him for a long time, and that things will come to me that I want to share with you. So for now I’ll just say something about the first time I met him, because it speaks volumes about the kind of person he was. Arten and Pursah had guided me that I should meet Ken and learn everything I could from him. I can’t say I learned everything I could from him, but I certainly learned a lot. I had driven 10 hours from Maine to Roscoe, New York, in June of 1998 to see him give a presentation called “Time and A Course in Miracles.” Ken spoke about 10 hours on the subject over the weekend, and I was dazzled by his brilliance. I got to sit down and talk with him in private because I had requested to do so, and he had consented. I wanted to tell him about the book I was writing and that I wanted to use a lot of quotes from the Course, but that I would make sure to credit the Course correctly in an index. I was nervous, and Ken knew it.

I’ll never forget how kind he was to me. Eventually Ken would be the first person to read The Disappearance of the Universe. But more importantly, as the years went on, I would sometimes hear him say, “Be kind.” I already knew from experience that Ken didn’t just say things, he lived them. He was the kindest person I ever met, and he inspired me to want to be kind to others. Of course there is much more to say about the person who Arten and Pursah described as the Course’s greatest teacher. But for now what I’m thinking about the most is what a beautiful person he was, and how he went out of his way to be kind to me when he didn’t have to.

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