Monthly Archives: November 2011

NEWT’S CHURCHGOING IMMIGRANTS

Posted by & filed under 1st Amendment, Can Different Faiths Get Along, church and state, church attendance, Illegal Immigrants, Immigration, is Jesus God?, Law and Equity, Newt Gingrich, Republican Debate, Spiritual Renewal.

TweetShare  I listened with interest to the Republican Debate the other night, and was especially struck by Newt Gingrich’s comments on immigration. Despite being of a very different political persuasion, I often find Gingrich’s comments to be thoughtful and intelligent, and far prefer to listen to him than to the others. When he first began…
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COMMUNION, SALVATION, & MYSTICAL UNION

Posted by & filed under blood of christ, bread and wine, Communion, Eucharyist, Frithjof Schuon, interfaith, meaning religious symbols, sacraments, where in the Bible.

TweetShare Jesus tells his followers that “unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you…. [F]or my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink.” The ritual of Communion is a ritual of sacrifice and rebirth, a renewal of the binding compact…
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ARE ALL RELIGIONS REALLY TEACHING THE SAME THING?

Posted by & filed under Abraham Isaac Jacob, are all religions the same, Carl Jung, Demeter, different Faiths get along, father son holy spirit, interfaith, is Jesus God?, Persephone, St. Augustine, where in the Bible.

TweetShare “Isn’t this idea offensive to many adherents of different faiths and sects who believe they are following the only ‘real’ teaching?” First of all, I would say that they are right, they are following the only ‘real’ teaching. Because there’s only one real teaching – just different ways of expressing it. Here’s an example…
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IT’S BLACK FRIDAY! WHY ARE YOU SURFING THE INTERNET? LET’S GO SHOPPING!

Posted by & filed under American Culture, Black Friday, Holiday Shopping, Shopping, What is the Meaning of Life.

TweetShare In the years immediately following WWII, a remarkable shift occurred in American economic life. For the first time in history, we reached a stage of prosperous development in which we could produce far more goods and services than anyone needed. Various factors combined to create this new situation, including advanced industrial technology, wartime expansion…
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ARLO, “ALICE’S RESTAURANT”, AND A VERY HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Posted by & filed under Alice's Restaurant, Arlo Guthrie, Berkshires, is Islam a religion of peace, Songs of Peace and Joy, Stockbridge, Thanksgiving, the '60's.

TweetShare I know, it’s a little off-topic, but we do talk about Peace and Getting Along here. So here’s a Special Post of a Thanksgiving Tradition: Arlo Guthrie reprises his incomparable ‘Alice’s Restaurant’. HAPPY THANKSGIVING! {By the way, at the end of this video, Arlo solves a great historical mystery! You don’t want to miss…
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THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS – SOLVING THE WRONG MYSTERY

Posted by & filed under Christian Mystery, Dead Sea Scrolls, Essenes, LiveScience, Mary Magdalene, Noah, Perfect the Soul, Socrates, What is Bible about, where in the Bible.

TweetShare “The Dead Sea Scrolls consist of nearly 900 texts, the first batch of which were discovered by a Bedouin shepherd in 1947. They date from before A.D. 70, and some may go back to as early as the third century B.C.” There is “big news” today on Yahoo about the Dead Sea Scrolls. Mystery…
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AFTER THE FIRE AND THE STORM

Posted by & filed under Allan Bloom, Allegory of the Cave, Boob Tube, Homer Simpson, meaning of life, morals and values, Plato, Science and Religion, symbols meaning, Television, Tocqueville.

TweetShare “After all the fire and storm of the historical process, the struggles between good and evil, progress and reaction, the long and difficult climb from barbarism and slavery up into the light of civilization and finally of free civil society, at last and at length we struggle up to the peak of the mountain…
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TODAY’S SATURDAY. LOOKING FOR SOMETHING TO DO?

Posted by & filed under Andrew Cort, are all religions the same, Changing Times Changing World, Gospels, religious unity, Rite of Initiation, Sacred Feminine, Torah.

TweetShare If you’re looking for something to do today (Saturday, November 19, 2011), and happen to be in or near the Western/Central Massachusetts area, I’ll be giving several talks as part of the “Changing Times, Changing World” Conference at the UMass Amherst Hotel at the Campus Center in Amherst. Come Join Us! Here’s what I’ll…
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JULIET SCHOR’S ‘E. F. SCHUMACHER LECTURE’

Posted by & filed under Bankruptcy of Macroeconomics, E. F. Schumaker, Juliet Schor, meaning of life, Small is Beautiful.

TweetShare In her beautifully delivered lecture, Juliet Schor describes the current “bankruptcy of macroeconomics” and proposes a new path for economic development in the North: shorter work hours and greater collaboration in the workplace combined with high-tech applications — all presenting a “transitional strategy for an exit from highly destructive large firms that now dominate…
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THE GOSPEL OF MARY MAGDALENE

Posted by & filed under Christ, Gnosticism, Gospel of Mary, Mary Magdalene, Sacred Feminine, spiritual awakening, where in the Bible, Women in the Bible.

TweetShare Today’s post is an Excerpt from: The Gospel of Mary of Magdala: Jesus and the First Woman Apostle, by Karen L. King (Polebridge Press, Santa Rosa, California, 2003), pp. 3-12  Early Christianity and the Gospel of Mary Few people today are acquainted with the Gospel of Mary. Written early in the second century CE,…
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PETER AND JUDAS – A SOMEWHAT DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE

Posted by & filed under Esoteric Christianity, Jesus and Satan, Judas Iscariot, Judas' Kiss, Last Supper, Peter denies Christ, religious symbols, St. Peter, symbols meaning, where in the Bible.

TweetShare  “Contrary to his reputation as a treacherous sinner, Judas is the apostle with the highest understanding of Christ’s mission.” When Passover came, Jesus and his disciples celebrated the Seder. While they were eating, he said, “Truly I tell you, one of you will deliver me up.” (The Greek phrase is usually translated “will betray…
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THE TITANS

Posted by & filed under Cronos Rhea, Gaia, Greek gods, greek mythology, Noah and Ham, Noah castrated, symbols meaning, Titans, What does the Bible mean, where in the Bible, Zeus.

TweetShare In Greek mythology, the universe gets going when Reason makes Order out of Chaos. The Greeks represented Chaos as the first goddess, Gaia: that is, Gaia is the spiritual essence of the world, the transcendent mother-principle of the Nature that will come. Her husband (and, in some tales, her son)* was the first god,…
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THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD

Posted by & filed under Bible Symbols, Dante, Divine Comedy, Moses, Red Sea, religious symbols, sacred quest, spiritual awakening, symbols meaning, where in the Bible.

TweetShare In his Divine Comedy, the great Dante would weave a tale of waking up to find himself “lost in the woods”. He looks up and sees his home a short distance away on top of a hill, so he sets off to return there by the quickest possible route, i.e., by walking directly up…
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VETERAN’S DAY 11-11-11

Posted by & filed under American University Speech, Can Different Faiths Get Along, Kennedy, Pax Americana, Peace, Veteran's Day.

TweetShare Today, 11-11-11, as we remember with gratitude the sacrifices of our soldiers and their families, and we hope for a future of peace, security, and happiness, I think it is worth recalling these beautiful words of John F. Kennedy, in his commencement address at American University in 1963: “What kind of peace do we…
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EROS PERVERTED

Posted by & filed under Casey Anthony, Eros, Herman Cain, Holocaust, Jerry Sandusky, Priests abuse, sex scandal, Socrates, Strauss Kahn, Victor Frankl, What is the Meaning of Life, Yeats.

TweetShare Eros, the Greek god of Love, represents the passionate Desire for all that is good, true, beautiful and meaningful. Eros is the driving force and motivation behind all the great discoveries of science, all great art, all great social endeavors, all the magnificent efforts of the human mind, heart, and spirit. In Plato’s Symposium,…
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AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN

Posted by & filed under An Officer and a Gentleman, Debra Winger, Hit Bottom, I got nowhere else to go, Louis Gosset Jr, Maya, Richard Gere, transformation.

TweetShare There’s a wonderful moment in one of my favorite movies, An Officer and a Gentleman, when Richard Gere, who plays a troubled, arrogant, and selfish young man named Zack Mayo, is being pressured and tormented by his Drill Sergeant, Sergeant Foley (played brilliantly by Louis Gossett, Jr.), who understandably wants him to quit the…
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