Thank you for all the videos. I’ve been slowly going through your playlists. Should the stories of the Old Testament be looked at the same way as the New Testament? It is a middle eastern honor/shame culture?
Thank you for watching! Yes and yes. The first reading of all Scripture is circum-Mediterranean culture where the core cultural values are honor and shame.
May I ask which Christian tradition or stream of faith you feel most connected with? I promise this is not a loaded question; I’m genuinely curious. You seem to have an appreciation for certain ancient Christian traditions (such as the church calendar), but in other areas, you have some very different views. I’m interested in how your theology developed and who influenced it. Thanks!
You are in one right now. Human beings wander in and out of different levels many times a day: sleep, waking consciousness, daydreaming, road trance, fantasy, and so on. As Pilch explains, cognitive neuroscientists and anthropologists call these different levels of awareness altered states of consciousness (ASC). In general, they agree that at all times and in all places people have been capable of and actually entered a variety of altered states of consciousness. The potential to shift, voluntarily or involuntarily between different states of consciousness is a function of the universal human nervous system. All people have to cope with different states of consciousness in one way or another all the time! Are you referring to the more "exciting" states, like trances, visions, sky-journeys, etc? There are ways to induce these without eating, smoking, or injecting anything dubious.
Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for all the videos. I’ve been slowly going through your playlists. Should the stories of the Old Testament be looked at the same way as the New Testament? It is a middle eastern honor/shame culture?
Thank you for watching! Yes and yes. The first reading of all Scripture is circum-Mediterranean culture where the core cultural values are honor and shame.
May I ask which Christian tradition or stream of faith you feel most connected with?
I promise this is not a loaded question; I’m genuinely curious. You seem to have an appreciation for certain ancient Christian traditions (such as the church calendar), but in other areas, you have some very different views. I’m interested in how your theology developed and who influenced it. Thanks!
How do you enter ASCs?
You are in one right now. Human beings wander in and out of different levels many times a day: sleep, waking consciousness, daydreaming, road trance, fantasy, and so on.
As Pilch explains, cognitive neuroscientists and anthropologists call these different levels of awareness altered states of consciousness (ASC). In general, they agree that at all times and in all places people have been capable of and actually entered a variety of altered states of consciousness. The potential to shift, voluntarily or involuntarily between different states of consciousness is a function of the universal human nervous system. All people have to cope with different states of consciousness in one way or another all the time!
Are you referring to the more "exciting" states, like trances, visions, sky-journeys, etc? There are ways to induce these without eating, smoking, or injecting anything dubious.
Try a round of wim hof method breathwork.
It's a story made up by the followers of Yeshua.