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Dear Friends
Following up on our Gnostic journey . . . in the discourse of the seers and the knowers, those who saw and see through the eye of the heart . . . know that I would like to introduce you to John Lash and his new book, to be published very soon. Click in on the picture to go to his main site, see the links:
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The transition from a Pagan civilization of great antiquity to our Christianized one is historically denoted as “The Dark Ages.” Why “dark”? What was lost?
Not in His Image tells the story of that loss. It exposes the most massive campaign of cultural genocide in human history. It probes—as no other book before it—the hidden roots of the ecological crisis that now threatens life on the planet.
This investigation leads deep into the realm of the predator reality in which we now live, engulfed and lost to the point of either denial or impotent fury. And it shows how predators and prey have become locked into a vicious cycle of collusion.
Not in His Image describes the rich spiritual world of pre-Christian classical Europe—the Pagan Mysteries, the Great Goddess, Gnosis, the myths of Sophia and Gaia—and its future as a force for rebalancing our lives and reconnecting to the earth. In his riveting account of who the Gnostics really were and what they were protesting against, John Lash identifies who we once were, and what has become of our original genius.
He describes the decisive arc of history from the dawn of the Christian Era to the present moment of global terror, a trajectory driven faith-based violence and fundamentalist politics.
No scholar has yet plumbed the depths of the Nag Hammadi Library for the profound cosmological myth of our origins and our intimate bond with Gaia, the living planet.
The Gnostic story of the Wisdom Goddess, Sophia, is directly counterpoised to the one Christianity and other monotheistic religions teach us.
It explains why a species made in the image of the Father God cannot live peacefully on earth. In Sophia we discover the true foundations of deep ecology.
For those of us perplexed by the state of the world and the plight of the planet, Not in His Image gives us back our true story, a myth to guide us beyond faith-based violence toward a sacred ecological path for the future.
John Lamb Lash, a true heir to Mircea Eliade, is the foremost exponent of the power of myth to shape our lives and history itself. He is a cofounder and principal author of Metahistory.org, a site sponsored by the Marion Institute.
He has written a number of books including The Seeker’s Handbook (Crown), Twins and the Double (Thames & Hudson), The Hero—Manhood and Power (Thames & Hudson), and Quest for the Zodiac (Starhenge Books). The author lives in Europe.
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The Cache
"John's Views" is a cache of writings by John Lash, co-founder and principal author of Metahistory.org. A resume of John's published writings can be found below. Contributions from other authors are presented in Invited Views.
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This page is a portal to an ever-expanding collection of writings that delineate the human situation in metahistorical terms. The subject matter is diverse, but one abiding concern informs all the material: to assess the value of beliefs, observe how they drive behavior, and discern if they might be insane and inhumane.
The Peace Eye
The peace eye must be invoked when beliefs are put into question, because our attachment to what we believe is so visceral that any challenge may trigger a violent response. Blind identification with beliefs to be a primary symptom of what Wilhelm Reich called "the emotional plague." This is a widespread social epidemic and a psychospiritual disease, rampant in our time.
Irrational behavior is driven by beliefs that gain in power as those who hold them become more and more dissociated from genuine, embodied knowledge. Reich detected the lethal form of the plague in mystical and militaristic behaviors, especially when they are combined. As we enter the 21st century, religious zeal combined with military (i.e., fascist and terrorist) motives is setting up an endgame scenario for the human species. The time for belief-change is now or never.
If we cannot openly challenge beliefs — those we ourselves hold, as well as those held by others — we stand at risk of being enslaved by them, and manipulated by those who would impose them for sinister purposes. 2400 years ago Socrates said that the unexamined life is not worth living. Equally so, it could be said that the unexamined belief is not worth holding.
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Much more over at: http://metahistory.org/views_home.php
See this page as it is filled with inherent links for you.
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Post Script by St.Clair:
Remember I explained in my 2012-2048 CODEX dispatches -- see the link below -- that as a human being and as an astrologer I sense that if now we do not question "what is what" in our restricted Saturn-Neptune "reality 2006/2007", with Pluto transforming and revealing "it" in the Galactic Center, then we are not really ready to move on into the quantum leap which is also known as the paradigm shift.
With or without us knowing what is what, it will now happen, and I trust the links I showed you in the past weeks as back ground documents to my book Zen of Stars will have prompted you to begin your own journey into the unknown . . .
Now we have barely a few more moments left to move into this point knowingly and willingly, so as to break the cycle -- as we approach the quantum field of the Buddha Full Moon . . . this is a subtle moment without much fanfare, but it is nonetheless an important wave to catch and to surf on through to reach the other side . . .
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See http://ZenofStars.org/Inspirations.htm -
There is a chart discussion of Krishnamurti . . .
(see if you can find the icon that depicts it)
TIME PROVIDES NO SOLUTION
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More by John Lash is explained here:
Serving Freedom
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