Tag: veil of forgetting
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The Ethiopian Bible says Heaven is Not what the Church Teaches
In the Ethiopian vision, heaven is not a distant place above the world but a sacred reality woven into everyday life. This belief is reflected in Lalibela, where churches were carved downward into living rock rather than built upward, symbolizing the discovery of God’s presence within creation rather than escape from it. Ethiopia’s spiritual imagination…
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The Kingdom Is Within You: Awakening to the One Infinite Creator
How Can We Know Ourselves? One of the most profound instructions attributed to Jesus is found in the Gospel of Thomas: “Know yourselves.” At first glance, the instruction seems simple. But what does it actually mean? Most of us spend our lives getting to know our careers, families, hobbies, opinions, and the world around us.…
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God is Infinite Intelligence: Science, Ancient Wisdom, and the Law of One
Listening to Neil deGrasse Tyson, who is an astrophysicist, author, and science communicator known for making complex scientific ideas understandable to the public. His commentaries about God opened the door to many ideas and questions in my own mind—not because he was necessarily presenting a spiritual explanation, but, in his view, because science, when taken…
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Reincarnation: From Ancient Wisdom to the Law of One
Reincarnation is one of humanity’s oldest spiritual ideas: the belief that death is not the end of consciousness, but a transition. The body falls away, while the deeper self continues—learning, healing, and eventually returning to experience another life. Although different traditions use different language, many describe life as a school for the soul. We are…