I use Star Chart (listed in above link) just for funzies. I like it. I used it to spot the recent Saturn-Jupiter conjunction for my brood. I use iP...

Repetition?

No. In my experience, it wasn't the mysticism that was damaging. It was poor interpretation of the experience that was damaging. Freud thought so....

Sounds a bit mechanical...but anyway.... Meh. It’s an analogy presented as part of a rational defense. The life is in the interaction. "It"?...

Religion serves as the graphic user interface for the psyche. For example, Apple may have different icons and superficial organization (religion) than...

Of course.

I’d forgotten. Nothing to ask then, I guess.

My Anima informed me in my dreams that my old religion was dead in me and asked me what I wanted her to enliven next. I chose Thelema. There’s alwa...

Clarification: “Proponents of some ideologies I personally despise...”

@shiva And here I thought everyone was British. I really intended to communicate the idea that we all have different roles, not so much the idea ...

“We couldn't all be cowboys,So some of us are clowns.And some of us are dancers on the midway.We roam from town to town.I hope that everybody can find...

It was interesting. If I take it seriously, then it diverges a little from what I expected from Maat. I was expecting more of a harsher Libra vibe - V...

It's too late. I already believe it. Hmm.. Wikipedia says there were both Protestant and Catholic-run "Magdalene Laundries." Interestingly, their...

Scandalous. Because you take John's Revelation prophetically? Or? I'd hear more of this. Also scandalous. Haven't had a chance to read it yet. Is...

Jesus "breaking bread" with his disciples comes from a Jewish tradition before meals. You pray over a loaf of bread, break it, then pass it around the...

Can i get an Amen! ? Now, do you denounce Jesus and accept the Beast ? "With every head bowed and every eye closed, as the choir begins to sing....

Yeah, I can’t live with all that. Seems a shame.

Well, I do agree that he didn't discover anything but merely tried to "Science-ify" spiritual phenomena and practices. Yes, synchronicity is just a fa...

Not having much experience with you, I may have misread some of this. I retract the "juvenile." My apologies. I'm not gonna answer all of this line...

Uncertain how that’s defined. He did have a near-death experience where someone who had passed before him told him that he had more work to do. T...

Effective? What it looks like to me? If your experiment is made up of random people assigned a random treatment, not so impressive. If you measure peo...

Really..? Hmh.. Interesting. Well, I'm no Jungian scholar, but I've read a few of his denser works as well as the common ones. I appreciate his wor...

Psh... Putting words in my mouth, ad hominen, juvenile iconoclasm. Yawn. You're in time-out, grumpy-pants.

Ugh.. I am cursed with typos.

I think they tripped way too hard on the "Thou shalt have no other gods before me" bit. But I remember when the light when on that the people worshi...

You're right. "Teenage temper tantrum" is a much more comprehensive, unbiased, and scholarly assessment. Meanwhile, the grownups are doing the hard...

Well, you’re on a tear. Individuation isn’t just a teenage thing though. Few people do the work of that.

Individuation. In the style of Jung.

Maybe “sheep” is a developmental stage. Some make it past, some don’t.

Yeah, all the cool people. [sarcasm] Do you think Jesus' view of sheep was only positive? I wonder. I've heard a preacher say basically, "Yeah, sh...

Jesus referred to his followers as “sheep.” Just saying.

Ohh.. You mean on *this* thread. I thought you were talking about on the Jesus thread. Umm... No. I'm fine. I don't see anything wrong with it. ...

Lol. Emotionally, maybe so. I’m pretty much always like this though. Ogres have layers.

Wow... Very much so. Thanks for that.

No actually, I meant it’s a perfect example of the female-becoming-male language as in the final saying in the Gospel of Thomas. I guess I need to e...

Um, this sentence doesn't make sense (to me), but I was not being cynical. The "no difference" clause is well known; there is an alternative theory ab...

Lol. Cynic much? Masters be mastering. Thomas sounds made up to me. It sounds pseudo-mystical. There are a few passages, like those you quoted, t...

By the way, I didn’t start this thread to expound my thoughts on the matter. I have no agenda but to learn.

I don’t know what to call the hypothesized oral tradition that would have preceded the written medieval qabalah period. But that’s what I was referrin...

After looking again, I must confess I spend most of the time wondering what Thomas’ Jesus means in the first place. i do think the following passag...

They found some scrolls that had been hidden for preservation against early Catholic persecution. There were texts like the Gospel of Thomas that r...

I’m really interested in the gnostic-gospel version of this question. However, I’ve only read the Gospel of Thomas a few times and not with that quest...

I’ve had the same thoughts.

Dom. That’s why it hurts. They’re the same people.

[brief intermission] Jesus. It took a long time to read this whole thread. My apologies for coming in late and going through some repetitious t...

“Invoke often.”

I’m not certain either of those statements is correct. Regardless, that was Jesus’ primary instruction.

This is why I referred to Christianity as a sort of bhakti religion. Devotion is the method. Devotion to God and devotion to one's neighbor, seeing...

Don’t forget Luke’s version, where the promise of fulfillment in heaven is more explicit. Luke 6:20-26 Maybe take those scissors out for this ver...