Autobiography of a Sufi

E. J. Gold is a man of striking contrasts. He is at once affable, warm, personable, objective (in the same sense that scientific method is), close, distant, charitable, dispassionate, ardent, benevolent, radiant. His conversation is effervescent, it sparkles with exhilaration and a scintillating wit which reveals a superior intelligence. "According to your beliefs, how would you describe the purpose of life?" I asked. "The chief aim of human existence s to perfect one's self and become completed through a process of continuous growth. The human lifespan is designed to carry over and through many different bodies in many different times and conditions. This is not for the purpose of amusing one's self with "immortality." It is for the purpose of perfection and is designed to give you a lifespan of the "biblical proportions" necessary to accomplish that great aim. There is a point of transformation but it is an individual choice. One makes it or does not." he said. - Bruce Wilson