I wanted to get this out before the kings and solomon paper because it was closer to my brain right now. As usual I took a different approach. Will get the paper I am missing in this coming week. Thank all of you for a wonderful class and expereince. Am enjoying reading the posts though finding commenting difficult because they don't post. See all of you soon enough! Much Love. Les
Lets just pretend for a moment that we are blindly ignorant, that we have no sense of reason and that there is no path to life for meaning. We are just robots functioning, moving from point A to point B, in a lifeless gesture of existence. We are fed, famous, financed and fondled. Everything that is necessary for a happy and successful life is already demonstrating in our lives and there is no cause for concern. This is the life of Job up until the question/doubt moment. But the plot thickens and Job, harkens to doubt, questioning his righteousness and forcing his awareness to rise up (or go deeper introspectively---which ever suits you). It is this moment that alters his experience.
As children, maybe up until the age of six, we really don’t have a sense of need. Our parents have supplied us with those things that have given us the ability to have a high sense of satisfaction and security (though we might now know this at this age). We go on about our days with our ritualistic performances, playing, bathing, eating, sleeping, and feeling secure in our family unit. (Can you see any resemblance to Job?) A young consciousness, obeying the ritual and sacramental laws just as the child obeys the order and directives of the parents (up to a certain age). Then all of a sudden, what is it in the child that pushes him/her into that stage of inquiry? Or that stage that appears to be rebellious? Is it anger? Not usually. Is it self-esteem? Not typically at the age. Is it hatred? Life has been good up to now. So what is it?
Well, Bildad offers us a key: “the great desire of the partially awakened intellect to contend and strive for that which appears right to it…” But hasn’t the child felt fulfilled, satisfied? Something shifted. “the judgments and decisions are being founded more in outer appearances than in Truth.” The child is starting to have more thoughts of its own, seeking desires that can no longer be satisfied with the status of the norm that the parents provide. There is a longing for deeper satisfaction, something internal is rising up to meet normality and questioning its relevance. So what happens?
Satan happens. The state of mind of the child has shifted away form the parents and has begun to believe in its own sufficiency independent of its creative source---the parents! This Satanic event is common place within each of us just as it was with Job. The desire to move beyond the status quo and to create or achieve greater, whether that be in consciousness or in effect (same thing right?) the puffed up sense of ego steps forward. But something typically happens at this stage…the temptation has a foe!
Zopar shows us where we have limited thoughts. Here we have our own doubts and how those doubts are propelled by imaginary reasoning. This opponent we face is enraged (just like our parents get at this point when we seek our independence) and hostile, quick to point our every flaw the error of the child’s ways, however, as reasonable as Zopar may be, the child cannot understand his faults while the parent is pointing to what is wrong.
Why does Job act this way? What course of reasoning does he take? He points to stars, and speaks of the heavens and of the power of God. Here is what is most important is that something has awoken with him. He cannot see the Truth as of yet, but he starts to get some awareness (which is why he begins to tell his friends how they cannot know his pain). He has “a faint awareness of the Truth that God is always brooding over the earth and bringing about the fulfilling of the natural processes” and this is what begins to bring him some satisfaction and his mind begins to move away from his condition.
But does he recant?
Only after he sees the light and believes that others may suffer if he comes into his enlightenment. His saving grace is that he loses his self-pity and calls for God to be graceful and merciful to his friends (those thoughts about himself that compelled him to doubt---his three friends).
The story is really about us having compassion and demanding that forgiveness be enforced within the individual consciousness. It is about growing into the right-full stage of seeing that no suffering should be imposed by us or by our thoughts toward any one thing. It is Keren-happuch! We are using the “elevating power of light” seeing “spiritual beauty”, and knowing the “Truth”, that all Life is “a beautiful soul expressing in a beautiful character.”
For me this is great in the intellect, but it is more difficult to practice. I find the ways of Job a continual process for me as I move towards greater revelation of what ministry holds for me and what I hold for it in my consciousness. Being a minister is a huge call, and is something that calls me to compassion and integrity, to being that center for Spirit to emanate and express through meunencumbered. I seek for Jobs daughters to have a larger expression in my consciousness so that I may be “refined and established in the true Christ righteousness.”
Ezekiel is a crazy discourse of constant “on this day the Lord said that to me.”
This Lord that I sense here is really the same battle that Job was having. Job had all the despair and nothing changes here except for the receiver. Who is God mad at? Why all this judgment and destruction? What is the purpose of the foretelling of doom?
I find myself unable to understand much of what is in Ezekiel because it is scattered and is not timelined in a reasonable fashion. But I can look up the words, the names. What do I find?
It all deals with the errors of thought! Darkened consciousness not yet brought to the light. Desires! Woah! I always thought God is in favor of our desires…that it brought pleasure to the soul of man to express God through our desires. These people were destroyed for their desires. They weren’t worshiping correctly. But if God is an unconditionally loving God, would it really need our recognition? No it must be some petty egotistical, miniscule proto-power incapable of knowing anything other than itself. (just a play on words there but maybe you can find the simile).
We serve our thoughts about a thing. The message is the petty desires of the flesh, and those of the argumentative mind (the mind that wants to argue for its limitation), is what leads us astray (out of our sense of wholeness and completeness). It really doesn’t matter what we think, or what we desire, it only matters what we think about those things and those thoughts that really determine if we are serving God or serving man’s image of himself/herself. I know we talked about this in class, “whom will you serve today?” I believe the follow up to that would be, “Man cannot serve two masters, either he will love the one and hate the other…” and I believe that Ezekiel is really trying to tell us to get with the program.
So to move away from the metaphysics of it and to move toward the relevance for me is, “Am I all the way in or all the way out?” There is no half-stepping to ministry! The power of God within me is that capable success, that wisdom to provide, that energy to ensure, and that love to always deliver the light where there appears to be darkness.
I get that our bodies must be well maintained and that our minds must be filled with the Spirit of the Divine, and the ongoing practice of meditation and prayer, mixed with a vision for a world that works for everyone, is mandatory. I see the importance of always testing the word that I hear against some sacred text to find its validity, and that all there really needs to be is imagination to create the new.
I can’t say as yet that I can imagine what ministry I may proceed with, but what I can say is that I am quite certain God has some genius within us all, and that we all possess some gift that the world has been waiting for, and when we give it, we shall rebuild the temple and re-establish the Holy City.
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Metaphysical Bible I
Joyce Kinzel
10/17/09
My Thoughts on
1 & 2 Kings and Song of Solomon
1 & 2 KINGS
The books of Kings tell us about the establishment of the lineage and leadership of the kings Israel and Judea. Through these stories metaphysically we see developing a belief omnipresence of God and a belief unity rather than separation. Humankind is constantly learning by trial and error.
David starts out as a common shepherd who was a poet. He was able to soothe King Saul painful headaches through his music. This shows how the power of love can quell pain and discord. David, which means the beloved, was promised by God that his descendants would rule Jerusalem forever. David represented the divine love in human consciousness. David was a beloved king. He was flawed and always brought back to God.
Through the efforts of his mother Bathsheba and the prophet Nathan, Solomon was anointed king, while David was still alive. Metaphysically the name Solomon is when in consciousness the soul unifies wisdom and love.
Solomon had quite a reign, which included eliminating his enemies, the building of the temple, reorganized the country and 700 wives and 300 concubines. Solomon also recognized the importance of the divine feminine. He was also a man with legendary wisdom and judgment.
Solomon represents a journey of the soul that as it opens up to wisdom it evolves in consciousness. Our quality of life improves when we are open to giving and receiving love. When we let the ego out maneuver our spiritual side, we become vulnerable to the world of appearances.
As discussed in class the triune nature developed during this time:
wisdom – strength – beauty
spirit – soul – body
thinking – willing – feeling
SONG OF SOLOMON
The Song of Solomon is a collection love poems. They are about human love with all of its passion and deep emotion between and man and a woman. These poems have been attributed to King Solomon; however, it is very unlikely that he or any one poet wrote them.
I believe the only way they could have been included in the Old Testament was as an allegory. The allegory is talking about God and his people, god was the bridegroom and Israel was the bride.
From a metaphysical perspective, as we discussed in class, this is about loving others and ourselves as a regular spiritual practice. It is always seeing the divine in yourself and in your world.
Joyce Kinzel
10/17/09
My Thoughts on
1 & 2 Kings and Song of Solomon
1 & 2 KINGS
The books of Kings tell us about the establishment of the lineage and leadership of the kings Israel and Judea. Through these stories metaphysically we see developing a belief omnipresence of God and a belief unity rather than separation. Humankind is constantly learning by trial and error.
David starts out as a common shepherd who was a poet. He was able to soothe King Saul painful headaches through his music. This shows how the power of love can quell pain and discord. David, which means the beloved, was promised by God that his descendants would rule Jerusalem forever. David represented the divine love in human consciousness. David was a beloved king. He was flawed and always brought back to God.
Through the efforts of his mother Bathsheba and the prophet Nathan, Solomon was anointed king, while David was still alive. Metaphysically the name Solomon is when in consciousness the soul unifies wisdom and love.
Solomon had quite a reign, which included eliminating his enemies, the building of the temple, reorganized the country and 700 wives and 300 concubines. Solomon also recognized the importance of the divine feminine. He was also a man with legendary wisdom and judgment.
Solomon represents a journey of the soul that as it opens up to wisdom it evolves in consciousness. Our quality of life improves when we are open to giving and receiving love. When we let the ego out maneuver our spiritual side, we become vulnerable to the world of appearances.
As discussed in class the triune nature developed during this time:
wisdom – strength – beauty
spirit – soul – body
thinking – willing – feeling
SONG OF SOLOMON
The Song of Solomon is a collection love poems. They are about human love with all of its passion and deep emotion between and man and a woman. These poems have been attributed to King Solomon; however, it is very unlikely that he or any one poet wrote them.
I believe the only way they could have been included in the Old Testament was as an allegory. The allegory is talking about God and his people, god was the bridegroom and Israel was the bride.
From a metaphysical perspective, as we discussed in class, this is about loving others and ourselves as a regular spiritual practice. It is always seeing the divine in yourself and in your world.
Friday, October 16, 2009
Judith P. Pando
Metaphysical Bible I
The Song of Solomon
Finding the Divine Feminine in the Hebrew Bible
According to Ernest Holmes, Divine Companionship is defined as: “Man’s re-enacts the Divine Nature, and makes use of the same Laws that God uses. We find in man the same androgynous nature that we find in God. This nature we call his objective and subjective faculties. His objective mentality impregnates his subjective with ideas; and in turn the subjective, gathering force and energy, projects these ideas into forms.”
The name Solomon is related to the Hebrew ‘shalom’ meaning ‘peace’. Shalom means the kind of peace that comes from being in harmony with God and with all of humankind. Shalom implies wholeness. Solomon was King David’s son and successor. In a dream, he prayed to God for wisdom; “Give thy servant therefore an understanding mind to govern thy people that I may discern between good and evil…” And God was pleased with this request and granted it; “Behold, I give you a wise and discerning mind, so that none like you has been before and none like you shall arise after you. I give you also what you have not asked, both riches and honor, so that no other king shall compare with you, all your days.” So the story goes that Solomon was wise, and accomplished many great deeds. He built the Temple and placed the Arc of the Covenant inside. The Arc of the Covenant, according to Fillmore represents “The sum total of man’s conscious understanding of Truth, combined with faith affirmations and loyalty within and without to the principles of Truth.” And two cherubim spread their wings over the place of the arc and covered it. This according to our beloved instructor represented the joining together of the male and female principle guarding and birthing the Truth principle. It is an embrace, also representing the joining together of the love of God and Israel.
I see in Solomon that androgynous nature that Dr. Holmes speaks of. He uses his intuition to ask God for that quality, wisdom, so that he can serve from a place of desiring the highest good for himself and all the people of his kingdom. He did not ask for power or strength or for all his enemies to be destroyed, but for wisdom. He surrounded himself with women. He loved women and integrated the symbols of the goddess in much of what he created. It was said that Solomon had 1000 wives and concubines. These wives were from different lands and had different ideas about God. The introduction of the different ways of being influenced Solomon. This caused the people of Israel to believe that Solomon had turned away from the Lord God of Israel; a breaking of the covenant. One wonders, however, whether the inclusion of the different ways of thinking may have actually increased Solomon’s wisdom, it represents inclusion, which is contrary to the thinking of the time which was tribal.
The Song of Solomon poetically tells a love story between a man and a woman. Shulamite is the Hebrew form of Solomon. They both mean wholeness and wholeness is a result of knowing both our masculine and feminine sides. Solomon and Shulamite can be thought of as two aspects of the same person. In this Song, love and emotions are very important; it speaks to the heart. The imagery in the Song is archetypal; the man and the woman to join together to form completeness. Yet, Solomon and Shulamite is one person finding completeness within him/her by marrying the outer, masculine to the inner feminine aspect. The Song can also be seen as a metaphor for our relationship with the Divine. Once we awaken to the Divine Love that is already there within us, we can become a vehicle for Love to come through us. Love transcends all flaws in the beloved. This is the way God Loves, unconditionally, flaws and all.
Ernest Holmes describes the masculine principle as “The Assertive Principle of Being; the Self-Conscious, Self-Propelling Power of Spirit.” The Feminine Principle is the Universal Soul; the Womb of Nature and the Holy Mother. Both of these divine elements are within each and every person. Both of are represented in the myths and legends of the Hebrew Bible. We are complete within ourselves when these two powers are well integrated. Having said that, I agree with my classmates that, if one reads the Hebrew Bible literally is overwhelmingly male orientated. One must dig and study to find the female principle.
Oppressive interpretations of the Bible do kill, literally. You’ll find no denial of that here. Massive injustice has been and continues to be done in the name of the Bible . . . . Meanwhile the Bible is also about the beauty and goodness of creation itself; about the ancient human struggle for freedom and liberation; about frustration with violence and injustice throughout the generations; and about experiences of exultation, expectation, and inspiration that can sustain the human quest for wisdom, justice, and peace.
—JOHN A. BUEHRENS, Understanding the Bible: An Introduction for Skeptics,
Seekers, and Religious Liberals
To understand why the Bible is written in this manner would involve looking into the historical context, as well as gathering anthropological information among other modalities of study, which is beyond the scope of this class. Sharon Coggan, PhD who is teaching the World Religion class this quarter suggests that God manifests Itself in ways that humankind can understand and relate to at the level of their development. In the case of the desert pastoral nomads, they needed a Warrior God to protect them and to defeat their enemies. This may be one of the reasons why the text seems so violent and unattractive to us today. We need a loving God who will protect us from ourselves.
Metaphysical Bible I
The Song of Solomon
Finding the Divine Feminine in the Hebrew Bible
According to Ernest Holmes, Divine Companionship is defined as: “Man’s re-enacts the Divine Nature, and makes use of the same Laws that God uses. We find in man the same androgynous nature that we find in God. This nature we call his objective and subjective faculties. His objective mentality impregnates his subjective with ideas; and in turn the subjective, gathering force and energy, projects these ideas into forms.”
The name Solomon is related to the Hebrew ‘shalom’ meaning ‘peace’. Shalom means the kind of peace that comes from being in harmony with God and with all of humankind. Shalom implies wholeness. Solomon was King David’s son and successor. In a dream, he prayed to God for wisdom; “Give thy servant therefore an understanding mind to govern thy people that I may discern between good and evil…” And God was pleased with this request and granted it; “Behold, I give you a wise and discerning mind, so that none like you has been before and none like you shall arise after you. I give you also what you have not asked, both riches and honor, so that no other king shall compare with you, all your days.” So the story goes that Solomon was wise, and accomplished many great deeds. He built the Temple and placed the Arc of the Covenant inside. The Arc of the Covenant, according to Fillmore represents “The sum total of man’s conscious understanding of Truth, combined with faith affirmations and loyalty within and without to the principles of Truth.” And two cherubim spread their wings over the place of the arc and covered it. This according to our beloved instructor represented the joining together of the male and female principle guarding and birthing the Truth principle. It is an embrace, also representing the joining together of the love of God and Israel.
I see in Solomon that androgynous nature that Dr. Holmes speaks of. He uses his intuition to ask God for that quality, wisdom, so that he can serve from a place of desiring the highest good for himself and all the people of his kingdom. He did not ask for power or strength or for all his enemies to be destroyed, but for wisdom. He surrounded himself with women. He loved women and integrated the symbols of the goddess in much of what he created. It was said that Solomon had 1000 wives and concubines. These wives were from different lands and had different ideas about God. The introduction of the different ways of being influenced Solomon. This caused the people of Israel to believe that Solomon had turned away from the Lord God of Israel; a breaking of the covenant. One wonders, however, whether the inclusion of the different ways of thinking may have actually increased Solomon’s wisdom, it represents inclusion, which is contrary to the thinking of the time which was tribal.
The Song of Solomon poetically tells a love story between a man and a woman. Shulamite is the Hebrew form of Solomon. They both mean wholeness and wholeness is a result of knowing both our masculine and feminine sides. Solomon and Shulamite can be thought of as two aspects of the same person. In this Song, love and emotions are very important; it speaks to the heart. The imagery in the Song is archetypal; the man and the woman to join together to form completeness. Yet, Solomon and Shulamite is one person finding completeness within him/her by marrying the outer, masculine to the inner feminine aspect. The Song can also be seen as a metaphor for our relationship with the Divine. Once we awaken to the Divine Love that is already there within us, we can become a vehicle for Love to come through us. Love transcends all flaws in the beloved. This is the way God Loves, unconditionally, flaws and all.
Ernest Holmes describes the masculine principle as “The Assertive Principle of Being; the Self-Conscious, Self-Propelling Power of Spirit.” The Feminine Principle is the Universal Soul; the Womb of Nature and the Holy Mother. Both of these divine elements are within each and every person. Both of are represented in the myths and legends of the Hebrew Bible. We are complete within ourselves when these two powers are well integrated. Having said that, I agree with my classmates that, if one reads the Hebrew Bible literally is overwhelmingly male orientated. One must dig and study to find the female principle.
Oppressive interpretations of the Bible do kill, literally. You’ll find no denial of that here. Massive injustice has been and continues to be done in the name of the Bible . . . . Meanwhile the Bible is also about the beauty and goodness of creation itself; about the ancient human struggle for freedom and liberation; about frustration with violence and injustice throughout the generations; and about experiences of exultation, expectation, and inspiration that can sustain the human quest for wisdom, justice, and peace.
—JOHN A. BUEHRENS, Understanding the Bible: An Introduction for Skeptics,
Seekers, and Religious Liberals
To understand why the Bible is written in this manner would involve looking into the historical context, as well as gathering anthropological information among other modalities of study, which is beyond the scope of this class. Sharon Coggan, PhD who is teaching the World Religion class this quarter suggests that God manifests Itself in ways that humankind can understand and relate to at the level of their development. In the case of the desert pastoral nomads, they needed a Warrior God to protect them and to defeat their enemies. This may be one of the reasons why the text seems so violent and unattractive to us today. We need a loving God who will protect us from ourselves.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
The Job in Me
I am compelled to get this out on paper as it is swimming around in my head in pieces that don’t fit. I want them to fit. I am a slave to making things fit. I have voices in my head much like Job’s “friends”. I identify with Job’s pride in that I think I know how spirituality should be taught and experienced. Of course sometimes I know that I know nothing too. When I speak very long to my Mother as she tells me how God is angry and quotes from the bible to demonstrate it, I get a voice telling me I have superior knowledge and am therefore superior to her. My other voice tells me that that belief is pride and we are equals in the eyes of God. Another voice tells me to look for punishment for my pride and that it will come to me well deserved. I treat on that thought and start the cycle over again. On and on it goes and I feel like I am on a merry-go-round getting nauseous and hoping to be thrown to safety soon. Having read and studied the story of Job it has rarely left my mind these last two weeks. I go from self aggrandizement to absolute humility all in a matter of minutes.
In the past my false beliefs have brought conditions to me that others in my family experience after I hear about them. My mother was looking at a photo on my mantle and my broadsword that was leaning against the fireplace fell on her foot and broke her toe. My toe hurt for months and I was nowhere near the sword. My father only spoke of amputees and his admiration for them all my life and I became an amputee. Soon I told my family not to express any more maladies to me. As I matured I seemed to have healed that tendency of manifesting conditions I only heard about. I have a voice in my head this week telling me that is not true that I am still maintaining that false belief.
This week I began feeling pain in my breast. I went to the gynocologist and could not bear even the lightest touch on any part of my female anatomy. My thoughts went to the treatment and beliefs of females in Biblical times. A voice in my head told me I was too aggressive and that I needed to learn and demonstrate the suppressed demeanor required of my gender throughout history. More voices, more conflicting thoughts. Now I am facing the upcoming ultrasound appointments for my uterus and my breasts. The fear that Job experienced I am now entertaining. I ask his questions of "what did I do, why me, I love God afterall". One voice tells me I am whole and complete and the other tells me this is the punishment I well deserve for my pride along with my other faults. Another voice tells me my false beliefs have taken over again and they are too powerful for me to overcome. Another voice tells me it is my fear that is my enemy. Another voice tells me that there is only one Power and that all else is a projection of my fear. False Evidence Appearing Real. Another voice tells me I have until the date of the ultrasounds to change my mind and release my false beliefs or all is lost. Once the ultra sound finds conditions I have collapsed only that possibility to the exclusion of all others. Another voice tells me that too is a false belief and one befitting a victim in kingdom one. I feel there is a lesson for me to learn and I am in too remedial a life experience class to learn it this lifetime. Another victim thought.
This is my present experience of Job in my life. It is affecting me deeply. It is not a pleasant experience but certainly has my attention.
In the past my false beliefs have brought conditions to me that others in my family experience after I hear about them. My mother was looking at a photo on my mantle and my broadsword that was leaning against the fireplace fell on her foot and broke her toe. My toe hurt for months and I was nowhere near the sword. My father only spoke of amputees and his admiration for them all my life and I became an amputee. Soon I told my family not to express any more maladies to me. As I matured I seemed to have healed that tendency of manifesting conditions I only heard about. I have a voice in my head this week telling me that is not true that I am still maintaining that false belief.
This week I began feeling pain in my breast. I went to the gynocologist and could not bear even the lightest touch on any part of my female anatomy. My thoughts went to the treatment and beliefs of females in Biblical times. A voice in my head told me I was too aggressive and that I needed to learn and demonstrate the suppressed demeanor required of my gender throughout history. More voices, more conflicting thoughts. Now I am facing the upcoming ultrasound appointments for my uterus and my breasts. The fear that Job experienced I am now entertaining. I ask his questions of "what did I do, why me, I love God afterall". One voice tells me I am whole and complete and the other tells me this is the punishment I well deserve for my pride along with my other faults. Another voice tells me my false beliefs have taken over again and they are too powerful for me to overcome. Another voice tells me it is my fear that is my enemy. Another voice tells me that there is only one Power and that all else is a projection of my fear. False Evidence Appearing Real. Another voice tells me I have until the date of the ultrasounds to change my mind and release my false beliefs or all is lost. Once the ultra sound finds conditions I have collapsed only that possibility to the exclusion of all others. Another voice tells me that too is a false belief and one befitting a victim in kingdom one. I feel there is a lesson for me to learn and I am in too remedial a life experience class to learn it this lifetime. Another victim thought.
This is my present experience of Job in my life. It is affecting me deeply. It is not a pleasant experience but certainly has my attention.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Just checking in, please find 2nd paper
I am back from Italy and I haven't seen the previous paper I sent to Rev. Guy from Italy. I couldn't get this blog site in english while in Italy so I asked Rev. Guy to post for me which he agreed. I am home now and will post myself. I apologize for the delay but here is my second paper. I got the homework from Joyce and Joanne and will be listening to the class prior to Saturday's class. Wanted everyone to know that I missed them, but had a good time anyway! Here is the paper on Jacob.
Regional Class: Metaphysical Bible I
Instructor: Rev. Guy Williams
Holmes Institute
Los Angeles Campus
Interpretation of the Story of Jacob, Hebrew Bible
Prepared by: Les DeMarco, RScP
As I study the story, I keep trying to place historical content into a theme, forgetting that the allegory of this is in relevance to me personally through interpretation.
So how might I reinterpret this?
Where do I see myself as Jacob (unfolding consciousness), moving from the darkness of ignorance (Egypt) towards a realized spiritual awareness (Haran)?
But as the story begins, I ask myself, “What am I holding on to that can hinder me or keep me stuck so that I feel a sense of separation (Luz) while the desire is waning to create unity (Nebojath) through this struggle?”
The narrative is more like this:
“I have fallen asleep, wandering through the vast ethers of mental anguish and trickery. The arguments I have had with myself linger on as memories, sometimes comforting me and at other times leaving me scared to death. I tremble, and feel as if I must awaken from this dream. My head hurts! It feels like I am sleeping on the tombstones of past existence, struggling to understand my place in life; the life my parents may have dreamed for me; the hopes I have had for myself; and the imprisonment of having to live with the life that now exists outside this holy nightmare.
Somehow, I see a ladder in the distance, a way to climb out from under this vision that is held by me and for me. The ideas flood my brain (descending the ladder) and stimulate my body (ascending the ladder) and I am in ecstasy with this stolen mirage. I watch as each idea demonstrates a more powerful experience of life. I see the movement in harmonious patterns; the vision keeps expanding and with it, as the Spirit moves within me, the ideas fall like rain into the fertile soil of my desires. I see the glorious exchange of love and wisdom, as they dance together in force and companionship. I find the tombstones of existence now exalted into holy sacrament, as the new moment arises to reveal its power and abundance. I claim the inheritance that is mine on this earthly plane and accept the intertwined activity of thought (mental) and action (body), reveling in the instances of seeming discord. For I know the power of Spirit is endless and purposeful. I want to speak of this life, this dream, but ears struggle to hear my voice. The truth falls on the hopeful and the angry, and some are satisfied.
Those that are my family (the hungry, the needy, the sleeping, the angry, the listless and the helpless) cling to me and multiply, as the caress of divine inspiration moves through me. Something stirs within them, as the light of understanding moves them toward self-discovery. Those of my family that have been born of the Truth, spread out into the fields of illusion bringing with them realization and hope. A new family is born and becomes the descendants of Love.
As I awake from my dream, I am taken captive by a stranger, yet I struggle in my slumber to overcome. I wrestle with indecision and uncertainty as to the future of my ministry. Suddenly I am victorious! My mind is clear, yet the stain of my injury lingers on and I walk vicariously between two worlds. Those that knew me before the dream no longer recognize me, and those upon whom my eyes now gaze know me by a different name.”
Though the version in the Hebrew Bible is told in a fashion that lends itself to many interpretations, faith is by far the continuous theme. There is faith in Rebekkah by Jacob. Faith in Laban that Jacob will finally get the wife he desires. Faith in God. Faith in Jacob’s ancestry. Faith in his dreams. Faith that he is safe to speak his dream. Faith that Rachael will have children. Faith that God will entreat Rachael. It goes on and on. There is much else to this story as well, but I figured one theme is enough to bring forward.
For me as a minister, I feel that to continue to trust Divine Inspiration is the fruit of my faith. This inner calling must have a way to demonstrate itself or it cannot be of God (Universal Consciousness). The idea in this story, fear versus trust, applies to me personally in that I have now become keenly aware of what fear looks like and how I act (show up in the world) when I move from a place of fear. Though I don’t always have a clear view of the activity of trust, or should I say, what the outcome of my faith might demonstrate, there is no doubt in my mind of the power of the Mind of God or my use of it!
Regional Class: Metaphysical Bible I
Instructor: Rev. Guy Williams
Holmes Institute
Los Angeles Campus
Interpretation of the Story of Jacob, Hebrew Bible
Prepared by: Les DeMarco, RScP
As I study the story, I keep trying to place historical content into a theme, forgetting that the allegory of this is in relevance to me personally through interpretation.
So how might I reinterpret this?
Where do I see myself as Jacob (unfolding consciousness), moving from the darkness of ignorance (Egypt) towards a realized spiritual awareness (Haran)?
But as the story begins, I ask myself, “What am I holding on to that can hinder me or keep me stuck so that I feel a sense of separation (Luz) while the desire is waning to create unity (Nebojath) through this struggle?”
The narrative is more like this:
“I have fallen asleep, wandering through the vast ethers of mental anguish and trickery. The arguments I have had with myself linger on as memories, sometimes comforting me and at other times leaving me scared to death. I tremble, and feel as if I must awaken from this dream. My head hurts! It feels like I am sleeping on the tombstones of past existence, struggling to understand my place in life; the life my parents may have dreamed for me; the hopes I have had for myself; and the imprisonment of having to live with the life that now exists outside this holy nightmare.
Somehow, I see a ladder in the distance, a way to climb out from under this vision that is held by me and for me. The ideas flood my brain (descending the ladder) and stimulate my body (ascending the ladder) and I am in ecstasy with this stolen mirage. I watch as each idea demonstrates a more powerful experience of life. I see the movement in harmonious patterns; the vision keeps expanding and with it, as the Spirit moves within me, the ideas fall like rain into the fertile soil of my desires. I see the glorious exchange of love and wisdom, as they dance together in force and companionship. I find the tombstones of existence now exalted into holy sacrament, as the new moment arises to reveal its power and abundance. I claim the inheritance that is mine on this earthly plane and accept the intertwined activity of thought (mental) and action (body), reveling in the instances of seeming discord. For I know the power of Spirit is endless and purposeful. I want to speak of this life, this dream, but ears struggle to hear my voice. The truth falls on the hopeful and the angry, and some are satisfied.
Those that are my family (the hungry, the needy, the sleeping, the angry, the listless and the helpless) cling to me and multiply, as the caress of divine inspiration moves through me. Something stirs within them, as the light of understanding moves them toward self-discovery. Those of my family that have been born of the Truth, spread out into the fields of illusion bringing with them realization and hope. A new family is born and becomes the descendants of Love.
As I awake from my dream, I am taken captive by a stranger, yet I struggle in my slumber to overcome. I wrestle with indecision and uncertainty as to the future of my ministry. Suddenly I am victorious! My mind is clear, yet the stain of my injury lingers on and I walk vicariously between two worlds. Those that knew me before the dream no longer recognize me, and those upon whom my eyes now gaze know me by a different name.”
Though the version in the Hebrew Bible is told in a fashion that lends itself to many interpretations, faith is by far the continuous theme. There is faith in Rebekkah by Jacob. Faith in Laban that Jacob will finally get the wife he desires. Faith in God. Faith in Jacob’s ancestry. Faith in his dreams. Faith that he is safe to speak his dream. Faith that Rachael will have children. Faith that God will entreat Rachael. It goes on and on. There is much else to this story as well, but I figured one theme is enough to bring forward.
For me as a minister, I feel that to continue to trust Divine Inspiration is the fruit of my faith. This inner calling must have a way to demonstrate itself or it cannot be of God (Universal Consciousness). The idea in this story, fear versus trust, applies to me personally in that I have now become keenly aware of what fear looks like and how I act (show up in the world) when I move from a place of fear. Though I don’t always have a clear view of the activity of trust, or should I say, what the outcome of my faith might demonstrate, there is no doubt in my mind of the power of the Mind of God or my use of it!
Friday, October 9, 2009
Metaphysical Interpretation of Kings and the Song of Solomon.
Kings 1 and 11 is a story of the evolution of Kings. It is the story of the evolution of leadership. Belief in unity and the omnipresence of God and the equality of all men brings more peace and abundance than separation and inequality. The soul learns through trial and error but it continues to advance with a few slips backwards. The Song of Solomon expresses this as well.
Once again we see the theme that the second son is the wiser and is the son that becomes more prominent in the story.
Bathsheba is the favorite wife and we see that she represents stolen waters which are always sweeter. Solomon’s numerous wives represent his thoughts. The good thoughts multiply therefore he has a thousand wives. His abundance is unlimited.
Rev. Guy explains that fulfillment of ourselves is only one thought away. I love that.
David represents the fulfillment of God’s promise to Abraham that Abraham’s descendents will be kings forever. Our king David is risen from being a shepherd, someone who was also a poet and was able to sooth the king with his music and poetry when the king was suffering from what may have been migraine headaches. It appears all our leaders in the Bible are raised from lower positions in life. Moses and Jacob and Joseph are some we have read about.
David means “The Beloved”. Solomon means “Wisdom”. This journey of the soul indeed guides the beloved and as it attains wisdom we evolve and advance. The temple is a demonstration in consciousness. The demonstration is of wisdom, strength, and beauty. The wisdom inspires us, the strength sustains us and the beauty adorns. The quality of life is improved. When we are open to giving and receiving then love awakens in us.
When Solomon lets his ego reign over his spiritual side his kingdom and his temple becomes vulnerable.
Nathan, the prophet, represents guidance and keeps giving to the beloved just as we are always receiving guidance each on our own path. The gift is our intuition. We need only listen for it and will know how to live. Ignoring it and following only the ego can be treacherous and dangerous. We find this to be demonstrated in the Song of Solomon as well.
The Song of Solomon is a sweet story of man’s experience of loving God. At first there is the fresh experience of new young love, involved in the physical sensations and always in the honeymoon mode. It becomes obsessed with its seeming imperfections and has self esteem inner conflicts. This prevents total immersion in the pure love it seeks to experience. God sees only man’s perfection and loves him/her completely. In the next section the soul matures to the middle stage and becomes aware of the pull of the material world. It becomes less involved with spiritual contact and experiences separation. It feels as though it can stand alone and be self sufficient. It flounders alone. Sadness ensues and the sense of loss becomes overwhelming. It begins to seek to reunite with its source. Emptiness brings it to the brink of desperation. It is in crisis. This is the moment of another awakening. It searches and cries out and follows through on the awakening urge to make connection again. Ego is released and intuition is heard again. Separation dissipates and gladness ensues as it awakens and reunites and basks in the knowledge of Oneness. Muriel pointed out that it is a sort of treatment which I am beginning to see as well.
Once again we see the theme that the second son is the wiser and is the son that becomes more prominent in the story.
Bathsheba is the favorite wife and we see that she represents stolen waters which are always sweeter. Solomon’s numerous wives represent his thoughts. The good thoughts multiply therefore he has a thousand wives. His abundance is unlimited.
Rev. Guy explains that fulfillment of ourselves is only one thought away. I love that.
David represents the fulfillment of God’s promise to Abraham that Abraham’s descendents will be kings forever. Our king David is risen from being a shepherd, someone who was also a poet and was able to sooth the king with his music and poetry when the king was suffering from what may have been migraine headaches. It appears all our leaders in the Bible are raised from lower positions in life. Moses and Jacob and Joseph are some we have read about.
David means “The Beloved”. Solomon means “Wisdom”. This journey of the soul indeed guides the beloved and as it attains wisdom we evolve and advance. The temple is a demonstration in consciousness. The demonstration is of wisdom, strength, and beauty. The wisdom inspires us, the strength sustains us and the beauty adorns. The quality of life is improved. When we are open to giving and receiving then love awakens in us.
When Solomon lets his ego reign over his spiritual side his kingdom and his temple becomes vulnerable.
Nathan, the prophet, represents guidance and keeps giving to the beloved just as we are always receiving guidance each on our own path. The gift is our intuition. We need only listen for it and will know how to live. Ignoring it and following only the ego can be treacherous and dangerous. We find this to be demonstrated in the Song of Solomon as well.
The Song of Solomon is a sweet story of man’s experience of loving God. At first there is the fresh experience of new young love, involved in the physical sensations and always in the honeymoon mode. It becomes obsessed with its seeming imperfections and has self esteem inner conflicts. This prevents total immersion in the pure love it seeks to experience. God sees only man’s perfection and loves him/her completely. In the next section the soul matures to the middle stage and becomes aware of the pull of the material world. It becomes less involved with spiritual contact and experiences separation. It feels as though it can stand alone and be self sufficient. It flounders alone. Sadness ensues and the sense of loss becomes overwhelming. It begins to seek to reunite with its source. Emptiness brings it to the brink of desperation. It is in crisis. This is the moment of another awakening. It searches and cries out and follows through on the awakening urge to make connection again. Ego is released and intuition is heard again. Separation dissipates and gladness ensues as it awakens and reunites and basks in the knowledge of Oneness. Muriel pointed out that it is a sort of treatment which I am beginning to see as well.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Jacob
Metaphysical Bible I
Joyce Kinzel
10/6/09
Jacob and his twin brother Esau were born after 20 years of marriage to Isaac and Rebecca. They were grandsons of Abraham and Sarah. Rebecca was extremely uncomfortable during the pregnancy and would ask why she was suffering. She was told that twins were fighting in her womb. They would continue to fight their whole lives. She was also told that the older would serve the younger. When Rebecca gave birth, the first child was red and hairy all over. The second child was holding to the heel of the first. The first was named Esau and the second Jacob.
As they grew up the boys developed very different natures. Esau became a hunter and outdoor person. Jacob was a simple man, a “dweller in tents.” Isaac favored Esau and Rebecca favored Jacob.
When the boys were about 15, Esau sold his birthright to Jacob for a bowl of lentil stew, because he was famished. Esau was a hunter; he found pleasure in the animal world. The cravings of the lower nature are in ascendancy, so Esau gives up his birthright appease his hunger. Because nature evolves first and then the spiritual, after survival needs are met. The mental must overcome the physical.
The story of Jacob and Esau is one of evolving consciousness. Jacob and Esau represent the mental and animal consciousness in humans. Esau represents the animal nature which came first in humans. Most people allow the animal nature to rule their consciousness. As humans evolve the animal nature must be evolved by a higher consciousness. Jacob is the “supplanter” or higher consciousness.
When Isaac was blind and old, he wanted to give his blessing to Esau. He sent Esau out to trap some savory game and then prepare it for him. Once he ate the game, he would bless Esau. Rebecca overhead the conversation and then she remembered what she had been told before the twins were born, that the older son would serve the younger one. So she had Jacob bring her two goats and she cooked them the way Isaac loved.
When she told Jacob to take food to Isaac in place of Esau, he protested that Isaac would recognize him and curse him. Rebecca told him the curse would be on her. She then dressed him in Esau’s garments and laid goatskins on his arms and neck to simulate hairy skin.
So Jacob went to Isaac’s room. Isaac was surprised Esau was back so soon. Isaac was confused, because he felt the skin of Esau and heard the voice of Jacob. He asked. “Are you my son, Esau?” Jacob simply said, “I am.” Isaac ate the food and then blessed Jacob.
Shortly after Jacob was blessed, Esau returned to prepare his food. Isaac was shocked at the deception, but he did not change the blessing. Esau was devastated by the deception and he begged for his own blessing.
By their deception this is what Jacob and Rebecca created a moving forward of consciousness. With the deception of Isaac they got him to acknowledge the mind as higher consciousness.
Jacob and Rebecca’s apparent duplicity in what they did to Esau, when looked at in the light of spiritual evolvement, the incident loses its charge. What is happening here is the evolvement of the soul under the guidance of God. We must always move forward to meet and over come all limitations.
Esau had total hatred for his brother for taking away both his birthright and his blessing. He vowed to kill Jacob after Isaac died. When Rebecca found out she sent Jacob to her brother Laban’s house in Haran, until Esau cooled down. She convinced Isaac that she did not want Jacob to marry a local Canaanite girl, because they were idol worshippers.
When Jacob was near Luz on his way to Haran, a high place in consciousness, it represents the mind moving into a higher state of consciousness. There he lays his head on three stones as a pillow and according to the Metaphysical Bible Dictionary, “At ‘a certain place’ in consciousness the understanding is un-illumined. He had a dream of a ladder reaching into heaven, with angels going up and down it. He heard God’s voice from the top of the latter giving him many blessings. The ladder represents the step by step realization of the Truth. “The pure thoughts ascend and descend in consciousness,” according to the dictionary. God is the “I AM” and the highest place in consciousness. The “Truth” thoughts of the mind become seeds and bless the earth.
God is always with us and we must eventually come into divine consciousness. God is an omnipresent principle. The body is the temple of God and the mind is the way to God.
When Jacob woke up to continue his journey, he changed the name of this place from Luz, which means separation, to Bethel which signifies the “house of God.” By changing the name of Luz to Bethel Jacob brings unity.
According to the Metaphysical Bible Dictionary in Chapter 28:20-22, “represents the first attempt of an enlightened mind to covenant with God and trust Spirit for all things. Keeping the law of giving and receiving is recognized as a step in spiritual development.”
At Haran Jacob met Laban’s youngest daughter Rachel (migrating). He fell in love immediately and after a month asked to marry her. In return he would work for Laban for seven years. After seven years he asked for Rachel, Laban deceived him by giving him the older sister Leah (human soul) as his veiled bride.
Laban justified it by saying in his country younger daughters did not marry before older ones. However, he did agree to give Rachel in marriage if Jacob worked another seven years. So Jacob married Rachel also and worked another seven years. Jacob’s marriage to Rachel represents unification of the love principle in its higher aspects.
With Laban Jacob grew rapidly in spiritual understanding. After his son Joseph is born, he decides its time to return to his parent’s house. Laban did not want him to go because he had prospered with Jacob. Laban wanted to know what he could pay him; Jacob proposed that all the spotted, speckled and brown goats and sheep in Laban’s flock become his. Jacob’s herds increase and he became very wealthy. When it was noticed that Jacob was taking a larger portion of the flocks, Laban’s attitude began to change. God then told Jacob that they needed to leave, so they do so without telling Laban. A very angry Laban pursed Jacob for seven days. Right before he caught up to Jacob, God appeared to Laban and warned him not to say anything good or bad to Jacob.
On his way back to Canaan before reuniting with Esau, Jacob in a dream wrestles with a being. The wrestled until daybreak. When the being realized he could not overpower Jacob, he touched his thigh and Jacob developed a limp. Jacob would not let the being go until he blest him. So the being declared that Jacob would now be known as Israel (the one who has power with God and man). The metaphysical significance of the name change is according to the Metaphysical Bible Dictionary is: “the mind controls the body through the nerves, and a great nerve, the sciatic, runs down the leg through the hollow of the thigh. The will acts directly through this nerve and when the individual, through his mentality or understanding, exercises his I AM power upon a natural man in an attempt to make unity between Spirit and the divine-natural, there is a letting go of the human will. A great light of understanding breaks in the struggling soul when it discovers that there is a divine-natural body, and it clings to the inner life and strength and eventually brings it to the surface in perpetual vigor.”
Jacob asks the being for its name and it refuses to give it. Afterward Jacob names the place Peniel (face of god) and said, “I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.”
In the reunion of Jacob and Esau, it is the rejoining of mind and body so divine law can be fulfilled. After the mind and body are reconciled, they share the gifts of the Spirit.
The story now focuses on Joseph in Egypt and he saves his family. Jacob’s final years were spent in Egypt with his twelve sons. Jacob died at the age of 147 after giving his last words to his sons. Joseph, with the Pharaoh’s permission embalmed Jacob and led a huge state funeral back to Canaan.
This is a story about the evolution of consciousness.
Joyce Kinzel
10/6/09
Jacob and his twin brother Esau were born after 20 years of marriage to Isaac and Rebecca. They were grandsons of Abraham and Sarah. Rebecca was extremely uncomfortable during the pregnancy and would ask why she was suffering. She was told that twins were fighting in her womb. They would continue to fight their whole lives. She was also told that the older would serve the younger. When Rebecca gave birth, the first child was red and hairy all over. The second child was holding to the heel of the first. The first was named Esau and the second Jacob.
As they grew up the boys developed very different natures. Esau became a hunter and outdoor person. Jacob was a simple man, a “dweller in tents.” Isaac favored Esau and Rebecca favored Jacob.
When the boys were about 15, Esau sold his birthright to Jacob for a bowl of lentil stew, because he was famished. Esau was a hunter; he found pleasure in the animal world. The cravings of the lower nature are in ascendancy, so Esau gives up his birthright appease his hunger. Because nature evolves first and then the spiritual, after survival needs are met. The mental must overcome the physical.
The story of Jacob and Esau is one of evolving consciousness. Jacob and Esau represent the mental and animal consciousness in humans. Esau represents the animal nature which came first in humans. Most people allow the animal nature to rule their consciousness. As humans evolve the animal nature must be evolved by a higher consciousness. Jacob is the “supplanter” or higher consciousness.
When Isaac was blind and old, he wanted to give his blessing to Esau. He sent Esau out to trap some savory game and then prepare it for him. Once he ate the game, he would bless Esau. Rebecca overhead the conversation and then she remembered what she had been told before the twins were born, that the older son would serve the younger one. So she had Jacob bring her two goats and she cooked them the way Isaac loved.
When she told Jacob to take food to Isaac in place of Esau, he protested that Isaac would recognize him and curse him. Rebecca told him the curse would be on her. She then dressed him in Esau’s garments and laid goatskins on his arms and neck to simulate hairy skin.
So Jacob went to Isaac’s room. Isaac was surprised Esau was back so soon. Isaac was confused, because he felt the skin of Esau and heard the voice of Jacob. He asked. “Are you my son, Esau?” Jacob simply said, “I am.” Isaac ate the food and then blessed Jacob.
Shortly after Jacob was blessed, Esau returned to prepare his food. Isaac was shocked at the deception, but he did not change the blessing. Esau was devastated by the deception and he begged for his own blessing.
By their deception this is what Jacob and Rebecca created a moving forward of consciousness. With the deception of Isaac they got him to acknowledge the mind as higher consciousness.
Jacob and Rebecca’s apparent duplicity in what they did to Esau, when looked at in the light of spiritual evolvement, the incident loses its charge. What is happening here is the evolvement of the soul under the guidance of God. We must always move forward to meet and over come all limitations.
Esau had total hatred for his brother for taking away both his birthright and his blessing. He vowed to kill Jacob after Isaac died. When Rebecca found out she sent Jacob to her brother Laban’s house in Haran, until Esau cooled down. She convinced Isaac that she did not want Jacob to marry a local Canaanite girl, because they were idol worshippers.
When Jacob was near Luz on his way to Haran, a high place in consciousness, it represents the mind moving into a higher state of consciousness. There he lays his head on three stones as a pillow and according to the Metaphysical Bible Dictionary, “At ‘a certain place’ in consciousness the understanding is un-illumined. He had a dream of a ladder reaching into heaven, with angels going up and down it. He heard God’s voice from the top of the latter giving him many blessings. The ladder represents the step by step realization of the Truth. “The pure thoughts ascend and descend in consciousness,” according to the dictionary. God is the “I AM” and the highest place in consciousness. The “Truth” thoughts of the mind become seeds and bless the earth.
God is always with us and we must eventually come into divine consciousness. God is an omnipresent principle. The body is the temple of God and the mind is the way to God.
When Jacob woke up to continue his journey, he changed the name of this place from Luz, which means separation, to Bethel which signifies the “house of God.” By changing the name of Luz to Bethel Jacob brings unity.
According to the Metaphysical Bible Dictionary in Chapter 28:20-22, “represents the first attempt of an enlightened mind to covenant with God and trust Spirit for all things. Keeping the law of giving and receiving is recognized as a step in spiritual development.”
At Haran Jacob met Laban’s youngest daughter Rachel (migrating). He fell in love immediately and after a month asked to marry her. In return he would work for Laban for seven years. After seven years he asked for Rachel, Laban deceived him by giving him the older sister Leah (human soul) as his veiled bride.
Laban justified it by saying in his country younger daughters did not marry before older ones. However, he did agree to give Rachel in marriage if Jacob worked another seven years. So Jacob married Rachel also and worked another seven years. Jacob’s marriage to Rachel represents unification of the love principle in its higher aspects.
With Laban Jacob grew rapidly in spiritual understanding. After his son Joseph is born, he decides its time to return to his parent’s house. Laban did not want him to go because he had prospered with Jacob. Laban wanted to know what he could pay him; Jacob proposed that all the spotted, speckled and brown goats and sheep in Laban’s flock become his. Jacob’s herds increase and he became very wealthy. When it was noticed that Jacob was taking a larger portion of the flocks, Laban’s attitude began to change. God then told Jacob that they needed to leave, so they do so without telling Laban. A very angry Laban pursed Jacob for seven days. Right before he caught up to Jacob, God appeared to Laban and warned him not to say anything good or bad to Jacob.
On his way back to Canaan before reuniting with Esau, Jacob in a dream wrestles with a being. The wrestled until daybreak. When the being realized he could not overpower Jacob, he touched his thigh and Jacob developed a limp. Jacob would not let the being go until he blest him. So the being declared that Jacob would now be known as Israel (the one who has power with God and man). The metaphysical significance of the name change is according to the Metaphysical Bible Dictionary is: “the mind controls the body through the nerves, and a great nerve, the sciatic, runs down the leg through the hollow of the thigh. The will acts directly through this nerve and when the individual, through his mentality or understanding, exercises his I AM power upon a natural man in an attempt to make unity between Spirit and the divine-natural, there is a letting go of the human will. A great light of understanding breaks in the struggling soul when it discovers that there is a divine-natural body, and it clings to the inner life and strength and eventually brings it to the surface in perpetual vigor.”
Jacob asks the being for its name and it refuses to give it. Afterward Jacob names the place Peniel (face of god) and said, “I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.”
In the reunion of Jacob and Esau, it is the rejoining of mind and body so divine law can be fulfilled. After the mind and body are reconciled, they share the gifts of the Spirit.
The story now focuses on Joseph in Egypt and he saves his family. Jacob’s final years were spent in Egypt with his twelve sons. Jacob died at the age of 147 after giving his last words to his sons. Joseph, with the Pharaoh’s permission embalmed Jacob and led a huge state funeral back to Canaan.
This is a story about the evolution of consciousness.
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