Monthly Archives: June 2012

WHEN LOVE REALLY MEANS SOMETHING

Posted by & filed under conscious love, Love, the door is open.

TweetShare “When things are not going well, when life is difficult, when our ‘Beloved’ is being moody and exasperating – this is when real effort is required to give love, and this is when love really means something. When we can honestly wish for the happiness and well-being of another human soul, regardless of their…
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RACHEL & LEAH (Part 2)

Posted by & filed under Genesis, Jacob's children, Jacob's wives, Kabbalah, Rachel and Leah, Sacred Feminine, Shechinah, what does Bible say, What does the Bible mean, Women in the Bible.

TweetShare With cunning and wisdom, the Sacred Feminine protects Jacob and transfers all of Laban’s power to him.   (Don’t like Videos? To read the Transcript instead, click the TAB on upper right) *** PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO LEAVE A COMMENT! *** If you enjoy my Blog, please consider buying a book today.And let me…
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OUR INVISIBLE FRIEND IN THE SKY

Posted by & filed under friend in the sky, fundamentalism, God or Santa Claus., invisible friend in the sky, literalism, Meister Eckhart, Wisdom Teaching.

TweetShare Mythology and Scripture are not literal history and aren’t meant to be read literally. They’re symbolic/allegorical works, filled with a culture’s version of the Wisdom Teaching about how to raise one’s inner level of Being from the material level to a divine level. God is the highest level of creation, but that doesn’t mean…
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THE BEAUTY AND WISDOM OF THE FEMININE

Posted by & filed under Genesis, Jacob's children, Jacob's wives, Kabbalah, Rachel and Leah, Sacred Feminine, Shechinah, what does Bible say, What does the Bible mean, Women in the Bible.

TweetShare In the Kabbalah, Rachel represents Beauty and Leah represents deep Understanding, two sides of the Sacred Feminine — the ‘Presence’ of God in the manifest world.  (Don’t like Videos? To read the Transcript instead, click the TAB on upper right) *** PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO LEAVE A COMMENT! *** If you enjoy my…
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THE BEAUTIFUL REBECCA

Posted by & filed under Beer-lahai-roi, Genesis, Hagar and Ishmael, Isaac and Rebecca, Jews and Muslims, Kabbalah, Keturah, Sacred Feminine, Shechinah, what does Bible say, What does the Bible mean, Women in the Bible.

TweetShare Since Isaac and Ishmael could re-unite as brothers, the story makes clear, there is no reason at all why their children, Jews and Muslims, cannot do the same. Come hear the story of Rebecca, her husband, and her children. Episode 6 of THE SACRED FEMININE: Women in the Bible (Don’t like Videos? To read…
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WHAT’S HAPPENING TO OUR CULTURE, OUR FAMILIES, OUR CHILDREN? THE CASE OF KAREN HUFF KLEIN

Posted by & filed under American youth, bullying, civility, culture, Education, Karen Huff Klein.

TweetShare This is why, when I was teaching High School, I was so enraged by the endless nonsense about how it was supposedly my job to “engage” the students, to make the classroom more “interesting”, so they would be “happy”, and please study, please stop fooling around, please pay attention. Our kids aren’t falling behind kids…
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HAGAR, PRINCESS OF EGYPT

Posted by & filed under Beer-lahai-roi, Genesis, Hagar, Hagar and Abraham, Hagar and Ishmael, Kabbalah, Sacred Feminine, Schechinah, what does Bible say, What does the Bible mean, Women in the Bible.

TweetShare Hagar, mother of Ishmael (with Abraham), was a Princess of Egypt. The Talmud says she was “perfumed with good deeds”. In today’s Sacred Feminine Video, find out about her real conflict with Sarah. (Don’t like Videos? To read the Transcript instead, click the TAB on upper right) *** PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO LEAVE…
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ASK AND YOU SHALL RECEIVE

Posted by & filed under Ask and you shall receive, Christ's sayings, cliches, getting what you want, prayer, spiritual awakening, spiritual growth.

TweetShare  After forty years, the Pharaoh who wanted Moses killed (because of what he did to the Egyptian taskmaster) had died. “The Israelites were groaning under the bondage and cried out,” the story tells us, “and their cry for help from the bondage rose up to God.” God had been silent for all these years…
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SARAH: ARCHETYPE OF THE SHECHINAH

Posted by & filed under Genesis, Kabbalah, Sacred Feminine, Sarah, Sarah and Abraham, Sarai, Schechinah, What doe the Bible mean, what does Bible say, Women in the Bible.

TweetShare  In the Kabbalah, the Sacred Feminine is described as a ‘Vessel’ that holds and protects the ‘seed’, the Light, of the Sacred Masculine, like a chalice filled with wine. Sarah is the archetypal essence of the Sacred Feminine (in Hebrew, the SHECHINAH), and as such, she naturally glows with a heavenly beauty that ordinary…
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AN END TO RELIGIOUS MISOGYNY

Posted by & filed under Adam and Eve, evil woman, misogyny, original sin, Sacred Feminine, symbols meaning, the apple, what does Bible say, What does the Bible mean, Women in the Bible.

TweetShare “Original Sin” is NOT something “a woman did a long time ago”. This is a parable of our own inner life, each one of us, right here, right now. It’s high time we stopped blaming Eve! Today’s video explains. (This one’s a bit over 5 min, a tad long perhaps, but when you’re readjusting…
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EVE and the INFAMOUS RIB

Posted by & filed under Adam and Eve, Adam's Rib, Eve, Genesis, Pandora, Sacred Feminine, Sexism, Sexism in the Bible, Women in the Bible.

TweetShare In this 2nd Episode of “The Sacred Feminine: WOMEN IN THE BIBLE”,  I show how the whole sexist presumption that underlies Western Civilization is based on a mistranslation and misinterpretation. In fact, what the story really is telling us is that “The ‘One’ becomes ‘Two’, and there is nothing in this description to indicate…
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SACRED FEMININE (VIDEO): WOMEN IN THE BIBLE, Episode 1: “EARTH”

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TweetShare Do you think the Bible is sexist? Only if it is read merely literally.  But the Bible can be read symbolically and allegorically, and it reveals the psychological instructions for a soul trapped in a Material State of Being that wants to rise to state of Spiritual Enlightenment. And at every step along the…
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THOMAS MERTON

Posted by & filed under inclusion, religious diversity, religious tolerance, Thomas Merton.

TweetShare One day, on a busy street in Louisville, Kentucky, the famous Trappist Monk, Thomas Merton, found himself surrounded by Jews and Christians, Blacks and Whites, and others. He suddenly experienced a radical sensation of inclusion. “It was like I was waking from a dream of separateness,” he later wrote, “of spurious self-isolation in a…
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THE SOLUTION TO YOUR PROBLEM

Posted by & filed under advertising, marketing, Meaning and Purpose, problem solving, Search for Meaning, selling books, Spiritual Meaning, Victor Frankl.

Tweet Share Like everyone else these days, I struggle to make a living. Knowing that I’m not a very good salesman, I often listen to marketing experts and even motivational speakers in the hopes of becoming more knowledgeable and ultimately more successful in selling my products (my ‘products’ are the books I’ve written). The major…
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