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Wisdom of the Shamans: What the Ancient Masters Can Teach Us about Love and Life
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Edwards saw himself as the first, or lead, priest amongst a priesthood of all believers. The stick was there to raise all up to the speed of priesthood, giving them direct access (an awakening) to the sacred.
Andrew Root • The Pastor in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #2): Ministry to People Who No Longer Need a God
Christianity is an ego-preservation narrative. The very conception of an afterlife is a defense mechanism for eternal continuation of the self. If the entry ticket into Heaven is as simple as believing in Christ, then it enables a believer to go their whole life without actually living like Christ. While Christian myth helped us move from the pagan
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The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide: Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred Journeys
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Ginsberg was actually after a new spirituality, seeking a mysticism without a personal God. This was a spirituality bound in never growing up but forever remaining youthful.
Andrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
I know this mother. She sleeps beside me every night. She prays at a Pentecostal church in Lagos every Wednesday. She is awake in Rio, heart whirring, until the door clicks and the light goes out. She keeps prescriptions filled in Los Angeles like a sacramental fight against the darkness. . . . Her name is Monica. She is legion.
