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Becoming Christian Mystics Again

09/11/2013 06:48
Matthew Fox Albert Einstein was asked toward the end of his life if he had any regrets. He answered: "I wish I had read more of the mystics earlier in my life." This is a significant confession, coming as it does from one of the greatest geniuses of the 20th century, a man who moved beyond the...

Mystic Christianity

09/11/2013 06:46
THE true story of the life of Jesus of Nazareth has never been unfolded to the world, either in the accepted Gospels or in the Apocrypha, although a few stray hints may be found in some of the commentaries written by the ante-Nicene Fathers. The facts concerning His identity and mission are among...

Mysticism

08/11/2013 17:19
The term ‘mysticism,’ comes from the Greek μυω, meaning “to conceal.” In the Hellenistic world, ‘mystical’ referred to “secret” religious rituals. In early Christianity the term came to refer to “hidden” allegorical interpretations of Scriptures and to hidden presences, such as that of Jesus at the...

The Implicate Order

08/11/2013 17:10
Based on:- Wholeness and the Implicate Order – David Bohm David Bohm took the view that quantum theory and relativity contradicted one another, and that this contradiction implied that there existed a more fundamental level in the physical universe. He claimed that both quantum theory and...

The Decline Civilization

08/11/2013 17:07
by Rohaan Solare Social, economic and environmental matters here and abroad are not getting any better and they won’t get better until radical changes are wrought in the governmental, corporate and monetary-economic system realms. The current economic system failure maybe our long awaited...

Emergent Culture

08/11/2013 17:04
Raymond Williams, the cultural historian defined emergent culture as“the result of processes where “new meanings and values, new practices, new relationships and kinds of relationships are continually being created.” Williams also used the terms dominant and residual culture in referring to two...

Platos Cave Revisited

08/11/2013 17:01
In the “Allegory of the Cave” we get a depiction of the human cultural condition according to the Greek philosopher Plato, who lived approximately 2400 years ago. [Read more] …  

How Culture Programs Your Mind

08/11/2013 16:59
Subconscious tendencies are biases existing independent of outside influence. We are born with them or it may be that our cultural language structure may predispose us to certain ways of thinking. [Read more] …  

The Art And Science Of Synchronicity

08/11/2013 16:53
Most of us have a sense of what synchronicity means and have had experiences referred to as being synchronistic. It is common for people to say that “things happen for a reason” when referring to coincidences. Though, we may not know what the “reasons” are or we may attribute a “reason” when an...

Meister Eckhart - passing beyond God.

08/11/2013 16:49
Johannes Eckhart was one of the greatest of Christian mystics. He was born at Hochheim in Thringen, Germany, in 1260, and entered the Dominican order when he was 15. Later he occupied several high posts in the order in Germany. Eckhart also taught theology at the Universities of Paris and Cologne....
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