Kal Kaplan on a Biblical Approach to Mental Health

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This community is intended to provide a forum for dialogue between religious and secular psychological/psychiatric thought around the contrasts between classical Greek and Biblical world views.

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Neil - Very high regards and blessings to you too!!! :) :) :)
18 hours ago
Hi Everyone...Kal, I am also grateful to be here with you guys...though I don't participate as much as i would like, I feel that there is a very evolved group of people here, and such collaboration of hearts is a blessing. Pieter, regarding what ...
yesterday
Hi All! I'm quickly scribbling a reply in the early morning hours - will reply to all posts over weekend, God willing. There's a book I want to discuss with you and would appreciate your opinion. Some will consider it highly controversial. Tal sa...
on Thursday
Hi Kal, Neil, Tal, YES, I've used "hijacking" because the hellenized church actually did hijack God's eternal purposes not ignorantly, but by purposeful theological (mis)interpretation, through the gradual introduction of "replacement theology" e...
on Wednesday
Kal, Romulus, Tal, Pieter Just too much happening to keep up with all. So good to hear from you again, Romulus and Tal. This has been a wonderful blessing to get to know you, a guy in Romania with so much zeal it is a wonder, and a young lady in ...
on Wednesday
Tal, Pieter, Romulus, Neil, I feel so blessed to share this website with you. We are trying earnestly to break ground in this endeavor from all sides and locations, Israel, South Africa, Hungary, Canada and the United States, to name a few. And w...
on Wednesday
"Christians have been taught the Church is the Bride of Christ. This is only partially true, (and therefore false). For the Bride of Christ is not the Church, the Bride of Christ is the New Jerusalem." Hi Neil and ye ALL, whom I miss SOOOOOOOOOO...
November 1
This also explains why the world blames Jews and Israel for all that is wrong...because the world subconsciously senses this...that the method that can correct the hatred, separation and violence, and bring peace and Love to the world is in this p...
October 31
 

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Pieter Uys

Mystical magic in many styles

Kabbalah Music: Songs of the Jewish Mystics
Laura Wetzler

Audio CD (April 21, 2002)
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Nervy Girl Records

This collection of meditations, devotions and ecstacies from around the globe, mostly sung in Hebrew and English, also contains songs in Ladino, Lugandan, Yiddish and Aramaic. Wetzler was assisted by an outstanding group of musicians to create an impressive and varied album. It opens with the intense Wa-eda Ma, one of the oldest notated pieces of synagogue mus… Continue

Posted by Pieter Uys on October 26, 2009 at 2:29pm

Pieter Uys

Praise Him with drum & dance!

Tehillim [ORIGINAL RECORDING REISSUED]
Steve Reich (Composer), Steve Reich and Musicians (Performer)

Orchestra: Vocal Ensemble, Instrumental Ensemble
Conductor: George Manahan
Audio CD
Number of Discs: 1
Label: ECM New Series

This music unleashes a torrent of hope & tangible power. Still in the minimalist tradition, it may initially sound repetitive but careful listening will reveal subtle and intriguing variations and shifting textures that become more prominent the more familiar o… Continue

Posted by Pieter Uys on October 26, 2009 at 2:22pm

Pieter Uys

The redemptive experience

The Gnostic Jung and the Seven Sermons to the Dead

by Stephan Hoeller

Paperback: 239 pages
Publisher: Quest Books; 1st edition (January 25, 1989)
ISBN-10: 083560568X
ISBN-13: 978-0835605687

Many decades later Jung commented thus upon these sermons: "All my work, all my creative activity, has come from those initial fantasies ... everything that I accomplished in later life was already contained in them ..."

The seven sermons deal with the self as the androgynous being Abraxas,… Continue

Posted by Pieter Uys on October 25, 2009 at 3:20pm

Pieter Uys

The rediscovery of ancient wisdom

Gnosticism: New Light on the Ancient Tradition of Inner Knowing

Stephen A Hoeller

Paperback: 220 pages
Publisher: Quest Books; 1 edition (August 25, 2002)
ISBN-10: 0835608166
ISBN-13: 978-0835608169

Side by side with Christianity, the Gnostic tradition had its origins 2000 years ago in the Middle East. The main difference between the two is that Christianity focuses on faith whilst Gnosticism seeks a state of consciousness in which the divine can be directly experienced. Hoeller's exce… Continue

Posted by Pieter Uys on October 25, 2009 at 3:10pm

Pieter Uys

Adequate introduction to ancient Christian traditions

The Gnostic Gospels

by Elaine Pagels

Paperback: 182 pages
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN-10: 0679724532
ISBN-13: 978-0679724537

This brief but informative study of the cluster of beliefs known as Gnosticism and its differences with Ecclesiastical Christianity is recommended. Until the 1945 discovery of the Nag Hammadi manuscripts very few Gnostic texts were known and those were mostly quotes in hostile treatises attacking these belief systems. Overall there was greater diversity in Christiani… Continue

Posted by Pieter Uys on October 25, 2009 at 3:00pm

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Nancy A Norman

Online course registration for Spring is open

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Melissa McCutcheon

Real Hope, Real Validation 1 Reply

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