How on Earth did I get HERE

http://www.taoiching.com/ came thirty years later. I was told at the beginning to expect 'side effects' to meditation, and to ignore them as diversions. However, Lucid Dreaming (when you wake-up in a dream, and the dream continues and you are awake and aware) totally changed my view of reality, and my perception of myself. Meanwhile, it took me 2 years to go through every verse of The Bhagavad Gita, and at some point to discover (seperately, or was it my overwhelming drive to find it) "The Meaning of Life" - not so grand that it couldn't be written down on the back of a postcard, although it did totally stop me in my metaphysical tracks for 6 months. Making sense of 'The I Ching' wasn't really necessary, but I found it very interesting, even though it took me about 15 years to do it. Sometimes study isn't everything and you have to wait for your awareness to catch-up or for life's experiences to divert you slightly. What I found out, in any 'useful' areas that I could perhaps pass-on, is to be found in "Tao I Ching - The Mystic Gateway".