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Saltmeister, I agree. Does anyone know how to contact Avi to let him know he's being readmitted on probation...or whatever? I don't have his e-mail address. For all I know, he's found another forum to liven up with his multiple personalities and may not even be lurking here. I disappear...

Quote: Originally Posted by PsychedelicDragon However over time, as power centers grew, religion was hijacked in many cultures to serve the interests of those in power, until among many religions, all that was left was the rituals that have lost their original meaning. Oh, good greif, not...

Thomas, The arrogance and judgmentalism implicit in that statement go beyond even what I've come to expect from you. Just who elected YOU the arbiter of what is and is not "authentic spiritual development"? It flat-out terrifies me to think what a dead end the rest of my life would have been...

Chris, I know about most of the the other stuff, but I didn't realize you got divorced. When did that happen? It must have been fairly recently, because I was last around here in last November, which really all that long ago. However, we didn't exchange any PMs or e-mails, and I was also...

Snoopy, Awwwww....that's terrible! I really like Avi and I'll miss him. As I recall, he only did the multiple ID thing as a joke and never intended anything malicious with it. I guess he's just too much of an incurable Trickster type for his own good. --Linda

Psychedelic Dragon, Wow...You really ARE a newbie!!! I'm not, although I haven't been around for a few months until today. I don't disagree with anything you said in your post. I have the same high opinion of the Gospel of Thomas you do, and the same low (or lower) opinion of the Council...

Everyone, I'm kicking this old thread to make it easier for someone to find the past incarnation notes I posted here back in November. I just sent him the link to the first one, which is on page 12 of this thread. I've been thinking about coming back to this forum anyway, so maybe that's...

Yeah, well...I guess some people are still feeling the aftershocks from the Shabbetai Tsvi debacle...seems like kind of a knee-jerk reaction at this point. That's what Gershom Scholem says, but quite frankly I could NEVER see the connection between the Jacob Frank antinomian types and the early...

Nick, I'm not sure how old you are, but I came of age in the 1960s when the "new" values of the sexual revolution were just beginning to manifest. It didn't happen overnight but it still happened pretty fast--I'd say over a period of about five years, from about 1960 to 1965. Probably the...

HUH??? Why would anyone even WANT that? Guess I'll have to read the articles to find out! I'd find that very unsatisfying and imagine most other people would feel the same way. --Linda

Dauer, That's interesting, and isn't the usual presentation of the Vilna Gaon at all. I didn't know he was a mystic until I read your post. But I guess "rationalist" doesn't mean the same thing in a religious context that it does in a secular context. I'm saying that based on my recent...

Re: The testimony of the early church as toward the correct interpretation of our bib Penelope, Oh yes, you should definitely take her seriously! You think ET's communicate with just anyone? I happen to know they are very picky about who they communicate with. It sounds as though in...

Avi, This is a much better link. In fact, there is no comparison with the one I cited in my previous note. I downloaded the thesis and read the first few pages, and I can already see where the author is headed and why. In a nutshell: ALL 19th Century thinking is so permeated with racism...

Hi Bruce, Avi, Please don't trust anything from this source--not on Theosophy or anything else. For comparison, check out the section on Wicca. It's horrible! There is the same snarky tone as the section on Theosophy. Worse than that, the author quotes from second- and third-rate sources as...

Good one! :) And all too true, unfortunately. I guess Falwell, Robertson et al. haven't done much for the reputation of Christianity over the long run. --Linda

BB, Yeah, I think we can agree on that! But there seem to be places where the Bible is neutral, not making any kind value judgment either way. When we're told for example that "Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians," presumably including their religious and magical practices...

Re: The testimony of the early church as toward the correct interpretation of our bib Penelope, AHA! I knew it! :) Well, yeah...I guess you could call it nonsense writing--some of it, anyway. But there are concepts in Kabbalah are unique, that I haven't found anywhere else and that I...

Penelope, I really don't know what to say after reading that! It's incredibly well written--the details really grab and hold the reader's attention. BUT I kept hoping against hope that it would come out some other way! You seem to have a very "dark" and ironic imagination, much more so than...

Re: The testimony of the early church as toward the correct interpretation of our bib I write fiction, Linda, for fun. My personality is often ... whatever character I am most inside at that particular moment. Sometimes this character, I'm inside of, even has an 'Intuitive' personality. (So...

BB, That's an incredibly good article. Thank you for posting it. I can totally relate to this part: Getting back to my own Reform roots: My first spiritual teacher was my confirmation class teacher, a 22-year old rabbinical student named Bernard King. As a Reform rabbi Bernie has achieved...