A NEW RELIGION
  • Intro
  • A) Seven Themes
    • I. Relating to the above
    • 2. The Premise
    • 3. You know the truth
    • 4. There is meaning
    • 5. Appreciation and humility
    • 6. Help
    • 7. Living
    • A) Commentary
  • B) Realizations
    • 1. Realizations Introduction
    • 2. Aspects
    • 3. Roots of the New Religion
    • 4. My journey just to God
    • 5. Meditation and talking to God
    • 6. Christianity
    • 7. Judaism and Islam
    • 8. Local Indigenous and Eastern traditions
    • 9. New Age Individualism Isolation Evolution Devolution
    • 10. Gravitational Bands and The American Indian
    • 11. Transcendentalism and Deism
    • B) Commentary
  • C) Information
    • 1. Three Religions Judaism Rosenzweig History Torah 1.A thru E
    • 2. Three Religions Judaism Evidence 1.F thu L
    • 3. Three Religions Moses Torah Exodus 2.A thru C
    • 4. Three Religions Judaism Exodus Mythicism 2.D thu E
    • 5. Christianity Intro Versions Timing Sources 3.A thru C
    • 6. Christianity Arguments For and Against 3. D. thru J
    • 7. Christianity. Mythicist - Atwill 3. K thru L
    • 8. Islam-Sadar Ali Bukhsh-4.A thru C
    • 9. Islam: Hussein, Ali essays - Pro/con research 4.D thru K
    • 10. Islam: Nevo, Koren, Spencer 4.L. thru P
    • 11. Islam: Spencer, Mizrachi, Lewis, 4.Q thru U. 5. Summary
    • C) Commentary
  • General Comments
  • Wisdom/Truths
  • Contact
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Wisdom/Truths

Various writings and poetry from sages and thinkers from the past and present with some emphasis upon Judaic   sources are shown.  The purpose is to enliven and stimulate our spiritual sensibilities on many levels.  This is one..  While 'A New Religion' seeks to relate to the above in a fresh way, these writings are part of the soil that can nourish this effort..

Silence

3/31/2019

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Silence

How is a wholeness shaped from all the attractions, directions, words, outlooks, attitudes, and inner propensities that together constitutes a single identity with so many facets?

The Torah needs not only words. It is a secret language of holiness, where all existence and reflections of life hide among the letters and the spaces. Torah teaches a person to seek out not only words, but the space between the words as well—that while silence in which there are no forms, no choices to make, nothing subtracted, a silence that comprises a broad and open quietude in which the colors settle alongside one another and become one, through a permitted sparsity.

Silence is an expression of faith, containing the doubt that softens all convictions and kneads all possibilities int one. A ralm of quiet is necessary for the journey of Torah and for the journey of the individual through life.It creates an opening to sense some great container to which things slowly are reconciled, in a manner beyond intellectual acuity, beyond cognition, and it finds res and wholeness.

The quiet is an open space that is always present within, as Nahman of Bratzlav taught, “When a question about God comes upon you, be silent, and through that silence your thoughts themselves will provide you with the answer to your problem: (Sefer Hamiddot, Faith, &15). Like any other precious thing to the world, silence too can be used for unsavory purposes. It is not a safe haven from reality. Silence is not a spiritual program of inactivity, of randomness, of justifying everything. Silence is a power plant fo the souls suffering from the work of attempting to contain all that one has experienced, a station that seeks rest to enable the mind to feel at one with itself and then take action in the world. A person should speak little: and out of the multiplicity that lies in confusion and doubt, within that silence, the which needs to be will rise to improve the world.

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  • Intro
  • A) Seven Themes
    • I. Relating to the above
    • 2. The Premise
    • 3. You know the truth
    • 4. There is meaning
    • 5. Appreciation and humility
    • 6. Help
    • 7. Living
    • A) Commentary
  • B) Realizations
    • 1. Realizations Introduction
    • 2. Aspects
    • 3. Roots of the New Religion
    • 4. My journey just to God
    • 5. Meditation and talking to God
    • 6. Christianity
    • 7. Judaism and Islam
    • 8. Local Indigenous and Eastern traditions
    • 9. New Age Individualism Isolation Evolution Devolution
    • 10. Gravitational Bands and The American Indian
    • 11. Transcendentalism and Deism
    • B) Commentary
  • C) Information
    • 1. Three Religions Judaism Rosenzweig History Torah 1.A thru E
    • 2. Three Religions Judaism Evidence 1.F thu L
    • 3. Three Religions Moses Torah Exodus 2.A thru C
    • 4. Three Religions Judaism Exodus Mythicism 2.D thu E
    • 5. Christianity Intro Versions Timing Sources 3.A thru C
    • 6. Christianity Arguments For and Against 3. D. thru J
    • 7. Christianity. Mythicist - Atwill 3. K thru L
    • 8. Islam-Sadar Ali Bukhsh-4.A thru C
    • 9. Islam: Hussein, Ali essays - Pro/con research 4.D thru K
    • 10. Islam: Nevo, Koren, Spencer 4.L. thru P
    • 11. Islam: Spencer, Mizrachi, Lewis, 4.Q thru U. 5. Summary
    • C) Commentary
  • General Comments
  • Wisdom/Truths
  • Contact