Religion

  1. Thoughts on my reread through the Bible #5

    Genesis 9&10 Psalms 5 & Matthew 5 In Genesis 9 - God lays down one of the first laws to foreshadow the ten commandments- “Whoever sheds man’s blood, By man his blood shall be shed;This might seem off considering this comes after the flood until you realize God is warning them - don't let yourselves descend into an injustice, wicked, debased state again. After all they've lived with a wicked generation for centuries. Noah now off the ark plants a vineyard, gets drunk and something...
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  2. Thoughts on my reread through the Bible # 4

    Read Genesis 7&8 Psalms 4 & Matthew 4 How interesting that Genesis 7 includes the flood - the rain of which lasts forty days and forty nights while in Matthew 4 Jesus goes up to the wilderness and fasts forty and forty nights. Forty in biblical terms represents numerous things one of which is trials or testings. Moses also spends 40 days on Mount Sinai and the Israelites spend 40 years wandering the wilderness. Elijah spends forty days to journey to Mount Horeb, David reigned 40 years, and...
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  3. Thoughts on my reread through the Bible # 3

    Read Genesis 5&6 Psalms 3 & Matthew 3. - The genealogy of Adam – this is where a lot of people who have never read the bible or have merely glanced at it have mess up. They assume Adam either had 2 sons – Cain & Abel or 3 Cain & Abel & Seth – the fact of the matter is we have no idea how many sons or daughters Adam and Eve had because they’re lumped together in a sentence after Seth is mentioned and this is because only Seth is important to the bloodline of Christ – and for this part – the...
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  4. Thoughts on my reread through the Bible # 2

    Read Genesis 3&4. Psalms 2 & Matthew 2. The fall there’s so much here – one thing that stood out was when God put the animal skins on to clothe them. I remember reading in Peter Benchley’s the Island how animal skins were placed on a person’s body with the blood etc still fresh so that the skins would mold to their flesh and fit better. As soon as I read that it made me think of Adam & Eve. Jesus’s blood is the only thing that will take away everyone's sins and yet till he arrives – the...
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  5. Thoughts on my reread through the Bible # 1

    Read Genesis 1 & 2 yesterday Psalms 1 & Matthew 1. I like how there are echoes through New & Old Testament - seeds & lineage. Rivers in Eden & Psalms 1 - He shall be like a tree Planted by the rivers of water, That brings forth its fruit in its season, Whose leaf also shall not wither; And whatever he does shall prosper. My favorite scriptures is the creation of Adam & Eve and how after speaking everything into existence God uses his hands to create man and his breath to bring him to life...
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  6. Rereading through the Bible again this year - read along if you like.

    Happy New Year! This year I decided to start reading the Bible all the way through again. I like to mix it up though, by reading the OT & NT at the same time with a psalm as well. If you want to join me here's where I'm starting - Reading tonight Genesis chapters 1&2 + Matthew 1 & Psalm 1
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  7. Transcendent Writing

    Transferred from What are you Reading Now?— Oh crap!! One look at the title and you have to know I'd be all over it in a heartbeat: Transcendent Writers in Stephen King's Fiction: A Post-Jungian Analysis of the Puer Aeternus. Two of my favorite writers, and it's about not only psychology, but transcendence! It's like the quad-fecta (is there such a thing? Well, there is now!). Moreover, it covers pretty much my favorite King stories—Carrie, Salem's Lot, The Body, and The Shining (though I...
  8. Some great videos on spiritual/psychological topics

    One of the best videos I've ever seen on Jung's psychology and alchemy as a spiritual quest. Actually this channel is extremely fascinating.
  9. Hubert Dreyfus lecture series on Homer's Odyssey

    In which I tag along with Odysseus on his little jaunt around the harbor. Feel free to join us if you want.
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  10. Hodgepodge

    I have a couple of videos I want to post here, but they don't fit into a single category (well, they do if you expand your thinking enough). So this is a hodgepodge thread. One of the best overall statements I've seen on the Petersonian understanding of the Bible: And a great talk by Iain McGilchrist about his latest book The Matter with Things:
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  11. Some excellent explanation of Jung's ideas

    Illustration painted by Jung in his Red Book I spent some time scouring the internet for tidbits about the Red Book and suddenly ran across this amazing page: The Red Book: Some Notes for the Beginner Here's a blurb by way of explanation of what the Red Book is for those who don't know: “The years. . . when I pursued the inner images, were the most important time of my life. Everything else is to be derived from this. It began at that time, and the later details hardly matter anymore. My...
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  12. The pattern shown in every story of Genesis

    I'm working my way through the Matthieu Pageau book The Language of Creation: Cosmic Symbolism in Genesis, and it's a real mind blower. The symbolism is pretty simple, but not self-evident to people raised in a materialistic culture that has lost the understanding of this code of symbolism. I'm going to try to explain it here as well as I can. Jonathan Pageau in his videos always seems to leave important parts out, and even Matthieu leaves some things out that need to be understood. I can...
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  13. Jonathan Pageau on Literal vs Symbolic interpretation of the Bible

    This guy is so good at explaining this!! I hope one day to be able to do it as well, or anywhere close. The events described in the Bible happened—of course they happened!! But it's being told in a language that compresses vast cosmic ideas into a few words and uses symbols, such as Adam for Man-as-such, and Eve for woman-as-such. And in the ancient world everyone understood this. At least many did—there may well have been literalists even then. Hard to say, that world is largely lost to...
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  14. Jonathan Pageau explains the esoteric view of Heaven

    This is the stuff I've been going on and on about, only he explains it much better! He's an orthodox Christian. The orthodox religions are very esoteric in their outlook. Heaven in the esoteric estimation is the world of pure abstraction. It's the same thing Plato was referring to with his world of perfect forms. Pure thought, pure idea. The invisible things, that have no physical mass.
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