...ELIGIOUS DIMENSION by DONALD BROADRIBB With contributions by Marilyn Holly and Norma Lyons Second Edition Published by the Author York, Western Austra... ... Ltd.] in 1995. This second edition, with text reset, various emendations, and new index, is published by the Author, Donald Broadribb, owner of the p... .... ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The authors are grateful for permission to use material from the following: Joseph Epes Brown (ed.), The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk’s ... ...in Eranos 24-1955, © Eranos Foundation, Ascona, Switzerland. The quotation from this paper that appears in the text is reprinted with kind permission ... ...Westerners continue to list themselves on the census forms as Christian or Jewish, but for many people these terms have come to lose nearly all meanin... ...people as much as things. This is more or less what Martin Buber, a modern Jewish writer, meant when he spoke of changing one’s perception of the worl... ...s of religion. WHAT IS RELIGION? 9 10 same era, as well as with organized Arab religious movements, and with a very old, long-standing Mesopotamian r... ...ut were relatively independent of each other. Much the same is true of the Arab culture of the period. Mesopotamian religion was, like the Egyptian, o... ...on, 1961. 15. As described in such literature as the Bible, in the book of Exodus. THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION 12 The third major influence at this time ...

...nstruction. Whether as children we were taught at a church Sunday school or some other religious institution, or weabsorbed simple social assumptions from the culture we live in, none of us grow up in a religious vacuum. Through most of history the majority of people appear to have been reasonably satisfied with the religious culture which went hand in hand with their soci...

...of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human... ............................................. 230 The Welfare State is moral from a self-centered point of view ........................................... ...elf-centered point of view .......................................... 232 From a self centered point of view it is immoral ............................. ...eded to take back their homeland through guerrilla warfare. After all, the Arabs were only caretaking Israel until the Jews returned. Since Balfour t... ...en add the belief that Jesus is God, and that the Bible is true--both the Jewish scriptures and the New Testament scriptures, then my religious belie... ...ically. If, as a Muslim, I accept the belief in the same God, which in the Arabic language is Allah, and the sanctity of the first born son of Abraha... ...d you believe that it starts at birth we both hold only opinions. The old Jewish concept was that life started when the child 49 was born. The C... ...r shellfish in Leviticus 11:7-12 and keeping three feasts for the Lord in Exodus 23:14 yet vengeful behavior was seen as a necessary Mosaic command ... ...ou will do such an evil thing again.‘ Witch burning is allowed because of Exodus 22 verse 18, ‗Do not allow a sorceress to live.‘ So capital punish...

...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyss...

... - “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia — 1 BOOK 7 OUR V... .................................................... 8 COMPARISON WITH INDIA AND BANGLADESH ............................................................... ... Arriving in Indus It was not far from Singaling to Indus. Just a five hour flight on Singapore Airlines, st... ... the Southeast Asian part of the world--but what a universe of difference. From one of the three most advanced countries on the planet to a Third Wor... ...an give you a glimpse of ours, but ours are worse. ―India has more arable land that any country but yours, but it can barely feed itself. Sma... ... of Western culture since at least the days of the Greeks and Romans. The Jewish, Christian and Muslim religions may not have reduced the activity, ... ...th divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch.‘ And Exodus in saying in 22:18 that ‗Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live‘ giv... ...bly stupid and prejudicial. The Sikh turban is totally different from any Arab turban, and the chance of anyone living in America being connected wi... ...tachment to the Golden Rule. Just look at the Catholic Italian mafia, the Jewish Defense League, and the Tamil Tigers. So many in religion are concer...

...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyss...

...rosary beads between his fingers, crossed himself in the supplicant tradition, and kissed the crucifix as he closed his eyes and began to recite out-... ...e Holy Mysteries of the Rosary. His nightly reverie, before bed, calmed him and connected his soul to the sublime obedience of God. During these m... ...pen. Startled, he watched with curious astonishment as a purple mist emanated from the Tabernacle on the altar where the Holy Eucharist was kept. A ... ...st – a presence with form and face. An indescribable harmonic rhythm pulsated from an 4 J.Cross/Artemis iridescent, glowing white and purple tr... ...was the first American Pope in history, and more importantly the first one of Jewish decent, except for maybe the first few of course. So, if tradit... ...ancis was not only a recently appointed American Cardinal, but that he was of Jewish decent who had been adopted by Catholic parents: the Lira dropp... ...ed the Angel of Death taking the lives of the first-born Egyptians before the Exodus. It was written like it was a natural event, that somehow, felt ... ...geologist, specializing in finding oil. Soule’ was a genius at it. All of the Arab countries and many U.S. oil companies had hired him, and paid him... ...t Hussein was fanatical. If he couldn't defeat Iran, he wanted to control the Arab world and all of its oil resources. He had tried fiercely to tal...

...The Pope receives a vision that includes the names of four men: a U.S. Senator, a covert military intelligence agent, a priest from a small parish, and the head of the Italian mafia. These men form an alliance to eliminate the drug cartels of the world to save the children of the future against the backdrop of political power struggle. ...

...k cascaded across the red, soft cushion. He gently entwined the ebony rosary beads between his fingers, crossed himself in the supplicant tradition, and kissed the crucifix as he closed his eyes and began to recite out-loud the Five Holy Mysteries of the Rosary. His nightly reverie, before bed, calmed him and connected his soul to the sublime obedience of God. During ...

...09 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the titl... ... Chapter 5: Modern Humans: Pgs 267-299 The Transition from Hunter-gatherers to Settlements ... ...nce Pg 265 Memory and Wisdom Chapter Five: Modern Humans: The Transition from Hunter-gatherers to Settlements. Pg 267 Modern Humans before C... ...dead evil Pg 1766 How the Undead Fool the Living Pg 1767 The Undead and the Jewish Religion Pg 1767 Flies on the Wall Pg 1768 Ritual Sacrifice ... ...t makes a fire to keep themselves safe during the night from predators. That exodus from an ecosystem: a flat plain designed for walkers, where the... ...to be practiced, their cultures were poisoned, twisted, etc. One reason why Jewish Culture has survived intact for so long is that it has had more ... ... has yet to make an ecological comeback. These first cities also created the Arabian Desert. They and their farms; turned green, lush ecosystems i... ... The Effect of Civilization on Humans 460 we would not have 90% of all the arable land on earth totally destroyed and covered by concrete and asph... ... 737 prophets and were enslaved twice; and only after the third exodus; were they banished forever from a land of milk and honey; whic...

...The Path of Splitness is a major non fiction work of 1,868 pages: This is the latest revised version. The book analyzes and explains: 1: The origins of our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic aspects and dynamics of the Organic Universe and Organic Life. 3: The origins of modern humans going back 25 million years...

...Chapter 1: The Universe. Pgs 1-112 How the Universe came into being. Chapter 2: Life Pgs 113-131 Structural dynamics of the Universe and Life Chapter 3: Hominids Pgs 132-187 A: How we evolved into Humans Pgs 188-222 B: Summary of Hominid-Human Development Chapter 4: Modern Human Dynamics Pgs 223-266 Hum...