80 now. Cancer survivor, gained enormous personal and spiritual growth from the cancer. Work out 3 times weekly. Ride an exercise bike 2 hours daily. Photo is from 5/25/2025. I write that because some people post photos of what they looked like when they were younger. I like realism, lol, even though I look uncharacteristically serious in that photo (Never been photogenic).
I have written over 2,800 poems to date in two years, and just resumed writing short stories usually under 1,000 words. I have an unquenchable thirst for knowledge and often research information for my stories and poems.
I’m not enlightened, but I’ve seen the white light that is bright like the sun and received a permanent spiritual experience from it since age 27.
I believe compassion is important for true spiritual growth, and, to borrow from a Sufi saying, that there are as many paths to God as humans have souls.
Last, I see death as the awakening of a lifetime and the ultimate relocation. I base this on reading and listening to many near death experiences since the 1970s.
Bob Boyd