{"id":1434,"date":"2009-01-20T06:37:50","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T11:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=1434"},"modified":"2009-01-20T06:37:50","modified_gmt":"2009-01-20T11:37:50","slug":"dr-paul-danielle-founder-college-metaphysical-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/dr-paul-danielle-founder-college-metaphysical-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Paul Danielle, founder College Metaphysical Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday January 19, 2009\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I received news this early morning that Dr. Paul Danielle, founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cms.edu\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\">The College of Metaphysical Studies<\/a> passed to the Spirit world on January 15, 2009.\u00a0\u00a0 I went to the Memorial Guestbook Page and read the heartfelt words of beloved friends and family.\u00a0 I added my own:<br \/>\n<!--more-->My most heartfelt regard to Barbara and the rest of Dr. Paul&#8217;s family,and to everyone who is part of the College of Metaphysical Studies.\u00a0 His love and light will be missed, but carried on through all of you.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/the-flood-blank-72.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1436\" title=\"the-flood-blank-72\" src=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/the-flood-blank-72.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"144\" height=\"89\" \/><\/a>A favorite cartoon of mine, entitled <strong><em>Final Freedom<\/em><\/strong>, shows 3 frames: in the first frame is a goldfish in a fishbowl; in the seond frame there are flood waters rising above the table and bowl; in the third frame, the fish has happily floated out of the bowl into the great open water.\u00a0\u00a0 <strong><em>Free at last.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Perception Upon Dying by Andrea deMichaelis<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>A message received for a friend years ago that gave me comfort<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As you watched my body lapse and fail,<br \/>\nI watched Creation unfold in all its Glory;<\/p>\n<p>As my body contorted as though in pain,<br \/>\nall I felt was joyful bliss at glimpsing what lie beyond.<\/p>\n<p>My final tears were not in frustration of incapacity,<br \/>\nthey sprang forth in welcome relief and freedom.<\/p>\n<p>My lack of response concerned you so<br \/>\nyet I heard every word and felt every kiss.<\/p>\n<p>While my tongue was quiet, my mind\u2019s eye was filled<br \/>\nwith sights and sensations of such Loving immersion<br \/>\nthat no words could begin to describe it; so I didn\u2019t even try.<\/p>\n<p>Rather, perhaps selfishly, I chose to slip my grateful shell of a body<br \/>\nand merge myself in the brilliant Light and Radiance<br \/>\nof that overwhelmingly loving and comforting Presence<br \/>\nthat so benevolently graced my final days.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Rock on, Dr Paul.\u00a0 See you on the next go &#8217;round.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"s-share-buttons\" class=\"horizontal-w-c-circular s-share-w-c\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/dr-paul-danielle-founder-college-metaphysical-studies\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Dr. Paul Danielle, founder College Metaphysical Studies&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/dr-paul-danielle-founder-college-metaphysical-studies\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/dr-paul-danielle-founder-college-metaphysical-studies\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Google Plus\" class=\"s3-google-plus hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/dr-paul-danielle-founder-college-metaphysical-studies\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to LinkedIn\" class=\"s3-linkedin hint--top\"><\/a><div class=\"pinit-btn-div\"><a href=\"\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/\" data-pin-do=\"buttonBookmark\"  data-pin-color=\"red\" title=\"Share to Pinterest\" class=\"s3-pinterest hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\"><\/script><a href=\"mailto:?Subject=Dr.%20Paul%20Danielle,%20founder%20College%20Metaphysical%20Studies&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/dr-paul-danielle-founder-college-metaphysical-studies\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday January 19, 2009\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I received news this early morning that Dr. Paul Danielle, founder of The College of Metaphysical Studies passed to the Spirit world on January 15, 2009.\u00a0\u00a0 I went to the Memorial Guestbook Page and read the heartfelt words of beloved friends and family.\u00a0 I added my own:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}