Category: Spirituality

What Is The Age Of Science?

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Age of Science

The age of science is the knowledge revolution of the last four centuries.

The scientific revolution was characterized by four traumatic innovations:

  • Discovery of Truth
    A new method for the discovery of truth, which challenged ancestral tradition and folk wisdom by appeal to experimentation and evidence.
  • Origins
    Overthrow of the basic beliefs that most people cherished concerning the origins and nature of the universe, life, and people.
  • Information & Knowledge
    Never-ending surge of new information and knowledge about the world, which was too relentless and too complex for and single individual to master.
  • New Technologies
    Conceiving and producing of new technologies, which gave to humans the power that formerly belonged only to the gods.

Staying Sane in a Crazy World
Sherwin Wine

What Is Intimacy With The Divine Like?

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Intimacy with the Divine isn’t about joining a church. It’s not about knowing your religion’s doctrines, tenet by tenet. It’s not about knowing your holy writings, backward and forward, in their original language. It’s not about knowing the Divine as a theory or abstraction.

Intimacy with the Divine is more like making love than joining a club, hearing a lecture, or reading a book. There are simply some things we must experience for ourselves.

If Grace is True
Philip Gulley

Hellenization In The Mediterranean

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Mediterranean Hellenization

The fourth century BC conquests by Alexander the Great in the Middle East started the process of Hellenization throughout the eastern Mediterranean that would last long after formal Greek rule.

Practice of Hellenization

Hellenization is the practice of making the world Greek in terms of culture and thought. Hellenization spread quickly through language, religion, politics, law, theater, education, philosophy, cultural centers, trade, government, and most importantly, through local Greek city-states.

How Jesus Became Christian
Barrie Wilson

What Brings Happiness?

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What you are now is the result of what you were. What you will be tomorrow will be the result of what you are now…

No one can do more for you than your own purified mind – no parent, no relative, no friend, no one. A well-disciplined mind brings happiness.

Dhammapada

Mindfulness In Plain English
Bhante Gunaratana

What Is The Tao?

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The Tao that can be told
Is not the everlasting Tao
The name that can be named
Is not the everlasting name

Nameless is the virgin of all things
Named is the mother of all things
Free from desire we see subtleties
Not free we see only things

The two are the same
Yet arise as two
A oneness called dark
Dark beyond dark is
The doorway to all subtleties

Tao Te Ching

The Divine Feminine: Tao Te Ching
Rosemarie Andersdon