Recent content by DerekhHikmah

Thank you, that is very nice. Yes, with regard to science and psychology, Yes Jung first got me thinking in terms that the ground of reality is actually, image/imaginal, and symbolic before it is embodied and material. And Jung had a number of essays on eastern spirituality that were very...

Yes, this is an important point that this discussion may start circling around. In Scripture, and also in the Qur'an from what I understand, there is a clear Creator/creation distinction. God is not simply one being inside the universe, nor one force within the space-time continuum. He...

It would completely flip my world upside down. I would have a hard time, to say the least. That is why your story touched me so deeply. For someone like me, so much of my life and identity is tied up in my faith. Again, I am not a physicist, but am I understanding correctly that what fascinates...

I'm sorry to hear that, 23 years is a long time, I can't imagine how it would be to go back into the world again after that long. Why subatomic physics in particular? What is it that draws you to it? You have had an interesting life story, and I am wondering if there is something underneath it...

Yes, but not like you. I have only been in the Western Hemisphere, Mexico and parts of South America. I would like to visit the middle east, Israel, and parts of Europe. Not sure if I will be able to make that happen though. It is interesting you had a gradual drifting away from Judaism, until...

I am wondering about your story. You must be older now if you moved to Israel in the late 60s. So you have seen a tremendous amount of change in the world, and I imagine you have changed a lot as well. You moved to Israel as a practicing Jew and believed to be living in significant even...

Suppose you never crossed paths with this Guru, do you think your faith in Judaism would eventually lose its grip on you as you got older? It is interesting though, because this Guru did provide powerful experiences for you, however you came to the conclusion on your own that his claims about...

Ok, this explains why you didn't feel the need to just abandon Theistic beliefs at the beginning. And I can see now how the experiences from following this Guru and the authority he must have carried got caught up in your theistic interpretation, and then I would suppose as your faith collapsed...

Yes, I certainly don't forget that. I am sorry to hear about your friend. I am glad you got to talk to him before he passed. And that is interesting about his burial place and Isaac Luria, I don't know where that is in Israel, but I am sure it is beautiful. mhmm. I understand how after leaving...

Yes, like the Shema, "You must place these words of mine on your heart and in your soul... and teach them to your sons, speaking of them when you sit in your house and when you walk on the road and when you lie down and when you get up." (Deuteronomy 11:18-19). But no I am not familiar with...

The lesson of the golden calf at Sinai. And to add to what you said, I like this part, "You will become to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation." Exodus 19:5. The highest honor there is, priestly work, mediating heaven and earth. Genesis 11 is the scattering of the nations from Babel. Then...

It is God’s name in Scripture — יהוה. "Jehovah" is simply the English form I use; I think it's probably closer than Yahweh, it may have been pronounced, Yahovah in ancient times, of course no one knows for sure now. I live in Middle America, its mostly various Christian denominations. So, if I...

I am interested in Hermeneutics as a spiritual discipline and science. I am also interested in the visionary elements of mystics, including Swedenborg, and the world of correspondences in his thought. I have read a good amount of his Arcana Coelestia, and a few other essays of his.

Yes, I am one of Jehovah's Witnesses. Explain that to me. I actually don't know anyone Jewish in person, explain this and how you reconciled Tanach with living in Israel in the 20th century. I am. Why were you believing them to be happening in our time? Was it because of the State of Israel...

Do you read much Swedenborg?