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The "Historical Jesus" Fallacy Revisited
Recently, I blogged some pieces about the issues to do with the historical Jesus, pointing out why in essence the whole concept is a distraction. The topic keeps coming back up, because with my interest in the Thomas Go… -
Stragglers
While the purpose of this site is to be an extension of my book Closing the Circle, and provide more material that was simply too detailed, or just too voluminous to be included in the book, I do feel compelled to mainta… -
Outside of Time and Space
The manifest world, the world of time and space, is increasingly being understood in the context of quantum mechanics as a holographic phenomenon in the mind, which connects very well with philosophical insights going al… -
Stevan Davies on Thomas Sayings in Mark, ctd. 0
Some time ago I discussed an article of Prof. Stevan Davies here, which provided some unique insight into the editorial process which turned Jesus into a Christian. Presently, I want to discuss Stevan Davies' second arti… -
All the Dumb Questions
Once when Krishnamurti was asked by a reporter what he would think of when the same question was asked for the umpteenth time, he said "tennis." This was late in his life, he might have been ninety at the time. By this t… -
Role Play, Empathy
I talked about role play in my last post, but there are many ways that we can engage in this, and you don't always have to act it out. One of the simple ways is empathy, truly allowing yourself to be in someone else's sh… -
Ascended Whatteh Whatteh?
In The Disappearance of the Universe, Gary Renard describes how his teachers, Arten and Pursah appeared in his life, when one day, when he woke up from deep meditation in his living room in Maine, they were just sitting … -
The Original or a Copy?
The central theme that always attracted me to the notion of the Thomas Gospel was the idea that it was closer to the original, than the later descriptions of Jesus which we know from the New Testament. I always like to m… -
Back to Basics
The other day I posted about the exact issues of how to mentally disentangle the Christian construct of Jesus from the Jesus of the Thomas gospel. This theme is very much in line with my recent discussion of the material… -
Logion 22 - the Intros and the Outros
As students of the Pursah version of the Thomas Gospel we noticed that she is skeptical of the authenticity of what I'm calling loosely the intros and the outros, the latter of which is really an insertion of some materi…
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