... dear life, not looking for a savior to come and take us out of danger. Primary religious experience typically includes the sense of dread danger and being...
In a series of mystic-state sessions, the problem arises that one keeps temporarily attaining enlightenment (grasping the transcendent worldmodel) but losing...
... The title of the thesis is "Early Christianity as a Mystery-Religion". The author is James Faubel. The thesis will be available as a Web page. -- Michael...
... ignorance, but I'm playing catch-up here. These postulates mutually support each other: o Jesus didn't exist (or, equivalently, there were 100 genuine...
... Who is this assumed "Christ" fellow? John Allegro was less half-baked than the authors of Apples of Apollo. One of my peeves is seeing people switch...
... himself. ... He may have been the authentic one. In the mystic climax, the mind's perfected logic says that the lower self must be killed, as God offered...
I found http://www.truthbeknown.com/freewill.htm incorrectly <titled> Is God a Transsexual? This article is *truly* written in "rant" style, because her...
... I haven't seen exposes of this fraudulent theory. What's your opinion about this scenario? Is there known relevant literature about these traditions ...
... Back" which went on a couple hundred pages saying we are all bringing the demons back to haunt poor old Christianity. It was written by a childhood friend...
... have to wait for death to reach it. Nirvana is the realization of the Self; and after having once known that, if only for an instant, never again can one ...
Formulating an Esoteric Theory of Christianity That Is Completely Independent of, though Informed By, the Beliefs of Particular Original Christians and Later...
... I'll pre-brand myself closer to home as a heretical Christian or Gnostic Christian. I agree with the Christian orthodox doctrines but in the esoteric, not...
... humanists who know nothing of religion -- if you mistakenly assume that words such as "death" have one meaning. ... saying. The expert on myth, Joseph...
... Christianity, they had to in principle declare Christianity to be completely independent of any and all possible evidence. ... essentially written by God,...
... separately....now apparently out of print. I had heard the term New World Order kicked around my philosophy group and wanted to know first hand what it ...
... legends of his having trained in India are quite feasible. I have no problem with the possibility that a Jesus, one of the Jesus-like men on whom the Jesus...
... to be Mary Magdalene, and "John" is a code-name for her. ... There are numerous sources. In all good paintings of the Last Supper, the beloved disciple...
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when i imagine confronting literalists, i imagine pointing to the part of the gospel story where the christ says to the disciples: "I am the vine, you are the...
"Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered." Luke 11:52 I...
Here are chapter and verse for the generations of Jesus: Luke: 3:23-38 Matthew: 1:1-16 ... _________________________________________________________________ ...
An astrotheological interpretation Of Jesus walking on water is that Jesus represents the sun. At certain times of the day one can see the reflection of the...
okay, not to discount this possibility of an astrotheological dimension, but as a myth pointing to the inner life, i have found the walking on water imagery to...
... represents the sun. At certain times of the day one can see the reflection of the sun on a body of water. Therefore the sun/son walks on water. Many...
Self-control tends to seize, in self-control seizure, in the mystic state. "Faith" amounts to a way to relax out of this seizure which calls like the sirens....
... problem. ... intelligent understanding of religion and esoteric understanding is doomed to failure because ... most people are not ready, or capable, or ...
well it seems to me that you people are just a bunch of showboaters who love to wave there "knowledge" around in other poeples faces and make them feel stupid....
... to be perceived as superior in their attainment of knowledge, and the desire to elevate their apparent prestige and esteem while (and through) portraying ...
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