Recent content by mchang

I understand your position, not sure I agree. thanks brian

I think it is important to mankind even now. Mircea Eliade wrote about the Axis Mundi, center. Center in the universe and center within each of us. The tree of life is in the center of the garden. I believe the tree of life is a metaphor for the energetic place within each of us where we...

What do you th8ink it is? thanks brian

I don't think ti is history, I think it is a metaphorical story created to pass down how we got the way we are and how we can return to where we came, energetically. Wise men created this and only taught the truth of it to initiates. People on the outside would never understand it. Many still...

Oneness I was at church the other day, I must admit a non-traditional one, and the two things that jumped out at me from the sermon, were the use of the words ‘centeredness’ and ‘oneness.’ Afterwards, I wondered if my understanding of the meaning of these terms was similar to what they mean to...

It is my belief original sin is a reference to unresolved experiences we carry with us from lifetime to lifetime. Think of things that have traumatized you or hurt your feelings that are unresolved. Unresolved meaning we have not processed our feelings in a healthy way finding forgiveness for...

I don't think we can look at the origin story of Genesis and compare it to other parts of the Bible written who knows how many 100's or 1000's of years later by people that may or may not have understood what the book of Genesis was saying through it's metaphors. In my opinion, no way to...

Well said. How about all the accumulated unresolved stuff we carry with us from lifetime to lifetime that gets in the way of our connection with our higher power, God. brian

I agree it is both, we just don't have the training and inside knowledge to understand it today. Hopefully we will someday. Ancient groups of wise men that knew the secrets created metaphoric stories to verbally pass down the wisdom, but like and group of 'monks' you had to be an initiate to...

I am not trying to put words in your mouth, I don't want to argue. Brian

Muhammad: can't remember is original sin mentioned in the story I referenced? Could original sin be the unresolved stuff we carry with us from lifetime to lifetime? I also think it is a place within each of us and the story is what we need to return to this place within. I see the serpent...

It's must be pretty important if this is what the ancients thought they should save for future generations. Do you think the garden of eden was/is a physical location on earth? thanks brian

Do you think the story in Genesis, from the beginning up to Adam and Eve being escorted out of the garden, is historical fact handed down through the generations or do you think it is a metaphor for something? If you think it is a metaphor what do you think the metaphor means? thanks brian

Wil: The answer to this question has so many layers. I don't believe it exists in a modern or ancient text that we know of, and I don't believe it is my construction. it is what I was taught. I am 69, in spring of 1997 I began meditating to deal with a difficult work situation I had put...

here is an image of the referenced Compass. thanks brian