Zeena Schreck believes that the right-hand path and the left-hand path have traditionally had the same end goal; it is only the method that is different and the fact that adepts on the left-hand path seek liberation in this life.
--About Zeena Schreck by Malin Fitger 'Contemporary notions of Kundalini, its background and role within new Western religiosity,' University of Stockholm, 2004
Tags: buddhism magic spirituality liberation action theology initiation magick taking-action revolutionary self-examination shamanism subversion outcasts taboos sorcery tantra dissident women-warriors materialism-versus-spiritualism left-hand-path zeena-schreck magick-and-faith spiritual-transformation spiritual-journey jivanmukti tantric-buddhism vamamarga taboo-breaking
One of the biggest dangers on the left-hand path, according to Zeena, is that the initiate often adheres to the need of ‘maintaining his personality’, even when consciousness expands beyond every known border. The left-hand path requires, [...] that certain aspects of the self dies, something which she believes to be elucidated in the tantric death symbolism.
--About Zeena Schreck by Malin Fitger 'Contemporary notions of Kundalini, its background and role within new Western religiosity,' University of Stockholm, 2004
Tags: buddhism death magic spirituality liberation action theology initiation magick taking-action revolutionary self-examination shamanism subversion outcasts taboos sorcery tantra renunciation self-identity dissident women-warriors materialism-versus-spiritualism left-hand-path zeena-schreck magick-and-faith spiritual-transformation spiritual-journey jivanmukti tantric-buddhism vamamarga taboo-breaking death-symbolism
Kundalini means, according to Zeena ‘She Who is Hidden,’ and points to the dormant goddess in every human being’s body. While the kundalini force is found in muladharachakra, she hypnotizes humans, like maya herself, and renders them slaves to the illusory. Kundalini can only awaken people if she travels up along the spine.'
--About Zeena Schreck by Malin Fitger 'Contemporary notions of Kundalini, its background and role within new Western religiosity,' University of Stockholm, 2004
Tags: buddhism magic spirituality liberation action theology yoga initiation magick taking-action shamanism outcasts tantra women-warriors left-hand-path zeena-schreck ecstacy magick-and-faith spiritual-transformation spiritual-journey jivanmukti tantric-buddhism vamamarga kundalini kundaliniyoga
For the humanists, whatever authority Scripture might possess derived from the original texts in their original languages, rather than from the Vulgate, which was increasingly recognized as unreliable and inaccurate. In that the catholic church continued to insist that the Vulgate was a doctrinally normative translation, a tension inevitably developed between humanist biblical scholarship and catholic theology...Through immediate access to the original text in the original language, the theologian could wrestle directly with the 'Word of God,' unhindered by 'filters' of glosses and commentaries that placed the views of previous interpreters between the exegete and the text. For the Reformers, 'sacred philology' provided the key by means of which the theologian could break free from the confines of medieval exegesis and return ad fontes to the title deeds of the Christian faith rather than their medieval expressions, to forge once more the authentic theology of the early church.
Tags: scripture bible theology catholic-church reformation medieval-church vulgate
Those who hold to the Christian faith see law as an ultimate order of the universe. It is the invariable factor in a variable world, the unchanging order in a changing universe. Law for the Christian is thus absolute, final, and an aspect of God's creation and a manifestation of His nature. In terms of this, the Christian can hold that right is right, and wrong is wrong, that good and evil are unchanging moral categories rather than relative terms.
From an evolutionary perspective, however, we have a very different concept of law. The universe is evolving, and the one constant factor is change. It is impossible therefore to speak of any absolute law. The universe has evolved by means of chance variations, and no law has any ultimacy or absolute truth. As a result when we talk about law, we are talking about social customs or mores and about statistical averages. Social customs change, and what was law to the ancient Gauls is not law to the modern Frenchmen. We can expect men's ideas of law to change as their societies change and evolve. Moreover, statistics give us an average and a mean which determine normality, and our ideas of law are governed by what is customary and socially accepted.
Tags: society law evolution theology authority ultimates theonomy presuppositionalism
Here I stand, so help me God, I can do no other. With the greater consciousness of the issues involved comes a lesser assurance that an alternative is possible.
Gordon H. ClarkTags: free-will christianity theology reformation
Truth is, something exists, and everything exists for a reason. Regardless if the reason is known or unknown, knowable or unknowable, reason exists and can be named.
John K. BrownTags: reason god spirituality epistemology theology metaphysics
Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts. God designed your body's plumbing system. God designed an ostrich. If He didn't do it, He permitted a drunken angel to do it. Empirical facts can add significantly to the meaning of "being godlike".
Peter KreeftTags: christianity god theology god-is-a-comedian
Love isn’t self-centered, even at the supreme scale.
John K. BrownTags: love god spirituality theology metaphysics
Metagapism is the belief that love is the ultimate reality, literally god and the one shared soul, and the source, nature and destiny of all.
John K. BrownTags: love reality philosophy god soul spirituality epistemology theology metaphysics
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