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a very ancient form of Aramaic was the language he grew up speaking, and
because of the nature of his integrity that shines through all his
writings, many people much prefer his biblical interpretation to any
other, including PMH Atwater who recommends it highly.]
Lamsa,
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Lamsa grew up in a part of the world still steeped in the virtually
unchanged
customs and Aramaic language familiar to Jesus' and those of his
time. Lamsa eventually learned, much to his dismay, how the idiom
of this culture had been badly misinterpreted, which had caused no small
measure of misunderstanding concerning both the Old and New
Testaments. This became his life work, to
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assumptions and distortions of these texts.]
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and biographical treatise cherished by many Rudolf Steiner admirers and students.
This spiritual feast of a book speaks directly to the entelechy [one’s
deeply personal individuality or high Self] and is thus
soul-reverberating.
Especially when Lievegoed introduces
Friedrich Wilhelm Hardenberg, aka Novalis, is the heart truly inflamed.
He tells the story of Hardenberg as a young man, about 22 years
old, who merely sees and falls instantly in love with a 12-year-old [!]
girl, and formally asks for her hand in marriage.
Her name was Sophie von Kuhn [circa 1794].
Lievegoed says, “It is not easy to get a good picture of her,
of this extraordinary being. What
is certain is that she made a deep impression on everybody who was
acquainted with her. All
describe her as a heavenly creature, an enchantingly innocent soul, who
in her gaze suggested great depth of soul.”
The shock of her death precipitated Hardenberg’s piercing of
the veils into the Eternal Vastnesses beyond this worldly life.
Sophie becomes, like Dante’s Beatrice, the sublime motivating
inspiration that focuses his life. Short
life also – he only lives 3-4 more years himself.
The author describes the poet Novalis’ [meaning ‘he who clears new land, and
sows’] “Hymns to the Night” as the "precipitate of the
process the poet experienced as a result of the death of his beloved.
He himself experienced the crossing of the threshold inwardly.
. . Clothed in the
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Lievegoed,
Bernard. Developing Communities.
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Forming Curative Communities
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Lievegoed,
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learn more. .. It's 'on my list' -- if it's not on yours
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ranking of 1,743, which is VERY good!]
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[NOTE: This book won a Pulitzer Prize.
That's no small feat, but in this case, it is all the more amazing
because of the subject, and therefore says all the more for the
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and of his work. This is the first book I read about the
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young Hungarians in search of inner meaning at a time of outer upheaval
-- the holocaust -- who encountered luminous forces that helped them
find new direction and hope in their shattered lives. These
forces, which came to be known as angels, accompanied them for
seventeen perilous months, until three of them met their deaths in Nazi
concentration camps. Only Gitta Mallasz survived to bring
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Laughing Tree Press, Columbia, CA, 2001. [From
the back cover:
Are
You an Emotional Genius? All of your emotions -- especially your
strongest and most difficult feelings -- are storehouses of unlimited
energy. For instance, your rage can give you superhuman
strength, your fear can save you from certain death, and your shame
and depression can bring you to a complete (and often necessary)
halt. Imagine what you could accomplish if -- instead of
repressing your emotions and losing your energy, or expressing them
haphazardly and losing your way -- you could marshal their energies
and use them to increase your awareness, heal your relationships and
address your deepest wounds. In her groundbreaking new work,
empath Karla McLaren leads you on a step-by-step journey out of
emotional confusion and suffering, and helps you discover your soul's
deepest language and your own innate Emotional Genius. (Publisher)
... Karla's disarmingly straightforward style and her ability to
clearly translate the ancient, nonverbal language of the emotions so
that the rest of us can understand it and eventually translate it for
ourselves has changed my life -- and the realizations and insights
just keep coming. Everyone I've given it to has been blown
away. This work is a miracle. (Jon Butcher --
Chicago, IL)]
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We all delight
inn reading about medical miracles. Dr. Lewis Mehl-Madrona, a
highly trained practitioner of integrative medicine [[MD]] and Native
American healing, gives us inspiring stories along with insightful
analyses of them so that we can apply their lessons to our own
lives. (Andrew Weil, MD, author of 8 Weeks to Optimum health)
Native American healers expect miracles and prepare in all ways
possible for them to occur. In modern medicine, miraculous
recoveries are discarded from studies as anomalous cases that will
taint the otherwise orderly results. Yet this small group of
"miracle" patients has everything to teach us about healing
and survival.
Coyote Healing distills the common elements in miracle cures to help
people start their own healing journey. Looking at a hundred
cases of individuals who experienced miracle cures and examining the
energies, attributes, and teachings implicit within the Four
Directions and how they relate to body-mind healing, Dr. Mehl-Madrona
reveals that survivors found purpose and meaning in their
life-threatening illness; peaceful acceptance was key to their
healing. Coyote Healing also tells of another kind of miracle --
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transformation, preparing us for what lies ahead whether we live or
die. Using his celebrated process work with body signals and
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how we can communicate with comatose individuals and reveals that they
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one of those 'if I could have only 3 books, this would definitely be one
of them.' Such a treasure! One of my spiritual mentors from
years ago had herself been a longtime-student under the guidance of the
inimitable Paramahamsa Yogananda as well as this man, Akhoy Kumar
Mozumdar. She deeply respected both, but interestingly, she
said if she could have only picked one to work with, it would have been
Mozumdar! This compassionate and joyous person had a gift of
genius for rendering the most difficult spiritual / social issues into
elegant, practical simplicity. Another of his students has said
that Mozumdar [who, like a number of well-known Hindus, had a special
reverence for the Christ] had "that perfect transparency that is a
combination of what they say are the outstanding qualities of Gandhi,
humility and confidence -- humility in the outer and perfect confidence
in the inner." If I'm down or mired in my 'schtuff' like a fly
entangled in a spider web, immersing myself in Mozumdar's approachable
wisdom and glorious spirit, never fails to make my heart soar even while
it provides the perfect answer I need at the moment with whatever is
challenging me.]
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the United Nations and its work from its earliest decades, including as
Assistant Secretary General under Secretary General U Thant. He
was one of the early prophetic visionaries to recognize a global
humanitarian movement and its implications in the worldwide -- perhaps
we could say evolutionary -- development of humanity. From the
inside flap on the hardcover:
Robert Muller, who has been called the
philosopher of the United Nations and its prophet of hope, believes
the world can -- and will -- become a better place to live. His
many years at the United Nations have convinced him that there is a
growing movement, even in the seemingly endless conflict between
nations, toward a brotherhood of all peoples. He sees the
dawning of a global age.
Here is his blueprint for just that, a framework for an ever-evolving
humanity, reaching toward fulfillment and happiness, grounded in the
enlightened pragmatism of Teilhard de Chardin. He contends that
the nations of the world are, sometimes in spite of themselves,
overcoming their narrowness and working together for true peace and
respect among all peoples. He cites as proof of this emerging
pattern, world conferences on: disarmament, ecology, the aged
and the hungry, and the great distances we have come in perceiving the
international scope of these problems. Simply the existence of
the United Nations, as the first gathering place of representatives
from all countries, is heartening evidence that beneath the worst
jingoist bluster lie the natural impulses of fraternity and
understanding. He also appeals to the world's religions to
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birthright of us all -- the right to live in peace.]
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