|
95f5bad
|
With the illusion stripped away, I could see that we were part of an ocean of light. We are light flowing, moving, and transmuting shape similarly to the way that water morphs into steam and ice and snow.
|
|
gnosticism
|
Jonathan Talat Phillips |
|
198bd48
|
There is no way to tell if we are the pioneers of a visionary new age, whisking humanity into the high vibrations of an interdimensional love party, or post-modern Don Quixotes attacking techno-industrial windmills with our flimsy, rolled-up yoga mats.
|
|
energy-healing
gnosticism
|
Jonathan Talat Phillips |
|
c76ad26
|
Could it be that following our initiatory path and connecting with higher source wisdom might actually be one of our species' best defense systems?
|
|
energy-healing
gnosticism
|
Jonathan Talat Phillips |
|
abdaf8e
|
From this perspective, we were all divine Shakespeares, creating and playing the roles of muscled heroes and conniving villains, pious saints and debauched sinners, corrupt CEOs and disinterested temp workers.
|
|
gnosticism
mysticism
|
Jonathan Talat Phillips |
|
15a81ed
|
Maybe the same essential download was also being delivered to other people--a massive, compassionate battalion of us--at the same time.
|
|
gnosticism
|
Jonathan Talat Phillips |
|
5a2516d
|
Why build entirely new systems for connecting to Christ consciousness when the institutions--whether Methodist, Lutheran, or Baptist--have already been created?
|
|
gnosticism
|
Jonathan Talat Phillips |
|
1a91491
|
However it--or the kind of extreme individualistic epistemology it embraces--can lead historians to an overly skeptical approach particularly to those sources that were intended to recount and inform events of the past, that is, testimony in this restricted sense. Particularly in Gospels scholarship there is an attitude abroad that approaches the sources with fundamental skepticism, rather than trust, and therefore requires that anything the sources claim be accepted only if historians can independently verify it.....
|
|
wisdom
facts
christian-gnosticism
christian-history
christian-mystics
conversion-of-paul
epistles
epistles-of-paul
gentile
gnostic
gnostic-gospels
gnosticism
gospel-of-john
grosticicm
historical-facts
historicity-of-paul
mystics
solomon
synoptic-gospels
tanakh
church
christ-myth-theory
historicity-of-jesus
paul
jewish
|
Richard Bauckham |