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I have friends who are tech geeks. They think about gizmos all the time, and it's all they want to talk about. If you are not a tech geek, they sigh and roll their eyes and exchange knowing looks when you try to join the conversation. My 6 year-old is a Star Wars Lego geek. It may not be all he thinks about, but it's all he wants to talk about, and he, too, grows impatient when you cannot tell the difference between General Grievous and Count Dooku. I fear I have become a Spirit geek. It's not all I think about, because I do think about sex and coffee. But beyond those, all I seem to think about is the mystery of Spirit, and particularly why, throughout human history, we have made Spirit so complicated, corrupt and cynical. Everyone likes to criticize other people, and religious people top the list of gleeful finger pointers. I've studied many religions and it seems clear to me that at the core, all religions offer us the choice of how big or how small of a box we want