tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5074683.post9001060221007325555..comments2024-03-23T07:33:30.972+00:00Comments on Quodlibeta: The Trace of God by Joe HinmanJameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01594220073836613367noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5074683.post-4453977179557160762017-06-14T13:02:28.773+01:002017-06-14T13:02:28.773+01:00God Loves You – But Do You Believe It?
The media ...God Loves You – But Do You Believe It?<br /><br />The media have proclaimed, “God is Dead.” Individuals, too, have felt dismayed over His lack of public intervention in mass calamities and His apparent failure to respond to their pleas for personal help. Yet, God’s original expression of love for each of us—our immortal souls—has been hidden from us by religion, which seems to consider it to be competition for its human orthodoxy. Reincarnation and souls were common beliefs in Jesus’ day. That, of course, was more philosophical than empirical, which the soul has become today. However, in 553 CE, the Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian removed reincarnation and souls from Christian orthodoxy. <br />Consider that Abraham was born about 1800 BCE, Jesus was born about 4 BCE, and Muhammad was born in 571 CE. Yet, God’s gift of His spiritual intermediary—our souls—began at least 70 millennia ago! That was revealed through hypnotic past life regression of a woman, with a very advanced soul, who first incarnated on Earth at least that long ago. Furthermore, God still creates new souls in Heaven so that every newborn human has one!<br />Yet, for the past 1500 years, the concepts of reincarnation and souls have not appeared among religious teachings. So very few people know that they have a God-given soul. Those who do know, apologetically call it by some academic alternative—with two notable exceptions. They are the two eminent psychotherapists who accidentally found that traditional hypnotic regression—used for traumatic early childhood memories—could also reach back before birth. Serendipitously, psychiatrist Brian Weiss has since been able to heal traumatic past-life memories that caused present-life problems for thousands of his patients, which otherwise could not be treated with current methods. <br />The other psychotherapist, Michael Newton, had a patient in past-life hypnotic regression who fortuitously moved her trance beyond its past-life death scene and into her soul’s memories of the “life-between-lives” (i.e., Heaven). Hundreds of hypnotherapists around the world have now been trained at the Institute for Spiritual Regression, and have since documented thousands of sessions for patients and clients. Both psychotherapists therefore expanded the classical use of hypnotic regression and thereby established an empirical basis for the reality of the soul.<br />Other clinical phenomena now offer additional empirical evidence for the soul throughout human lifetimes, including its survival of mortal death and return to Heaven for future reincarnations. God naturally established an eternal “game plan,” so to speak, for His gifts of immortal souls, in which souls can both learn and help their human hosts on Earth. This may be why souls have been called “sparks of God.”<br />Yet, without the assistance of religion to acknowledge God’s gift of love and to help their followers realize, understand, and honor both God and their souls, this world’s increasing malevolence and disregard for one another may never be stopped. The book Religion Has No Monopoly on Death is a concise, very readable, and easily understood non-technical book that helps explain the significance of souls, and especially their survival of mortal death, in our troubled world today.<br /><br />wfpillowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14292012957767565425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5074683.post-75448851600898453322015-06-16T03:03:15.518+01:002015-06-16T03:03:15.518+01:00Thanks for you8r great review. One thing I make th...Thanks for you8r great review. One thing I make the point of the book neve3r gets addressed: the voluminous studies show the effects are real and vital. I think that answers all criticisms.Joseph Hinman (Metacrock)https://www.blogger.com/profile/06957529748541493998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5074683.post-54537203247577620012014-12-14T04:53:02.059+00:002014-12-14T04:53:02.059+00:00This reference describes the psycho-physical struc...This reference describes the psycho-physical structures of the human body-mind-complex and how they determine and limit the nature of ones experience. This is especially the case in the first 3 stages, where most of us "live". <br />Indeed our entire "culture", including all of its (mostly exoteric) religion conspires to reduce/limit us to the first 3 stages.<br /><br />www.aboutadidam.org/growth/seven_stages.html <br /><br />Plus multiple references to outshine your "normal" dreadful sanity<br /><br />http://spiralledlight.wordpress.com <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5074683.post-71841748155749988202014-09-19T22:22:02.069+01:002014-09-19T22:22:02.069+01:00Well, it's not really the first book. James...Well, it's not really the first book. James' The Variety of Religious Experience is pretty much essential, although a lot of the mystics themselves have lots to say about it. <br /><br />I would say that you shouldn't believe _because_ of a religious experience, and there are plenty of people who have astounding miracles happen right in their face and still don't. But I would say that it's a sign, a powerful indication that you should pay attention to, but mostly you should be looking where it's pointing, not at it.<br /><br />So don't feel bad about not having mystical experiences. It's a hindrance for some people who let it be, as the mystics themselves point out. (Boy, St. John of the Cross in The Ascent of Mt. Carmel can be pretty harsh about that temptation to want all mysticism all the time.)<br /><br />Logic is also a way to know God.Bansheehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12594214770417497135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5074683.post-21155803372936393392014-07-02T04:18:24.536+01:002014-07-02T04:18:24.536+01:00Hi James, I like what you have to say. It's fu...Hi James, I like what you have to say. It's funny to me that the reason that we all get together is to celebrate, worship and 'be with' God, but there seems to be all this manipulating and application on how people should operate as peoples of a faith. Like God was an automobile we get in, or a recipe we must follow. <br /><br />Experiences can be wild, out of the ordinary where there are miraculous healing, or 180 degree turn-arounds.<br /><br />But people are taught not to trust. Everything has to be explained. Mystical experiences are unexplainable. We live in two worlds, the internal and external. <br /><br />People are taught to jump to to the conclusion that it's mental illness, or the dairy you ate last night. People stop sharing their experiences.<br /><br />We live only half lives.Refuge JAMrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13730144594339872928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5074683.post-73164583995161785742014-06-28T03:50:33.922+01:002014-06-28T03:50:33.922+01:00Good review! I agree with you and Hinman that it&...Good review! I agree with you and Hinman that it's a good thing that these experiences are not limited to a single religious expression. I think God's mercy is far wider than that.Kristenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08252374623355509404noreply@blogger.com