Tag: Enlightenment
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Understanding the Resurrection of Jesus
New Testament scholar N. T. Wright provides one of the strongest intellectual defenses of the resurrection ever articulated from within serious historical scholarship rather than simple religious devotion. The core point is often misunderstood in modern discussions. Ancient people were not naïve. The Greeks, Romans, and Jews all understood death perfectly well. Writers from Homer…
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Beyond Religion: The Truth Found in Awareness
I no longer seek truth through the walls of religion, nations, or culture.I seek it in silence, in awareness, in the living presence flowing through all things. The Divine is not far away. It speaks through the quiet voice beneath fear, beneath ego, beneath the endless noise of the world.It is found in clarity of mind,…
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Gospel of Thomas sayings 13,14 and 15
The reflections on Sayings 13, 14, and 15 from the Gospel of Thomas are profound, drawing out the perennial threads of non-dual realization, inner authenticity, and recognition of the Unborn across so many wisdom traditions. They capture the radical essence of Thomas’s Jesus: not a figure demanding belief or ritual obedience, but one pointing relentlessly…
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Defining Spirituality
Spirituality is much like a newborn baby. First, we learn to sit up, then crawl, stand, walk, run, and talk. Becoming increasingly aware of our thoughts, emotions and actions are part of our spiritual evolution. The spiritual evolution for each person is unique. Each of us are a piece to a very large puzzle, each…
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Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East
Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East is an easy read six volume set by Baird T. Spalding. It is a treasure for anyone’s spiritual journey and the truth seeker. It is about a research party of eleven scientists that visited the Great Masters of the Himalayas in 1894 for three and…