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Mysticism Notes 2

Posted on January 7, 2013 by ehurst

One of the hardest habits to break is taking too seriously your human perceptions. That’s because the hardest truth to grasp is how this world is one big lie. Paul wrote several different places in his letters that human sorrow … Continue reading →

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Mysticism Notes 1

Posted on January 6, 2013 by ehurst

Mysticism is the assumption your mind is neither capable of handling everything, nor even the most important things, but that some other faculty in a higher realm must be the center of ultimate decision making. Law is for the flesh. … Continue reading →

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Peter's Mysticism

Posted on December 29, 2012 by ehurst

Peter was executed in Rome roughly 67 AD. His letter to the Jewish Christians in modern Turkey was at least a couple of years before that, so far as we can tell. Peter was in Rome working with John Mark; … Continue reading →

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Mysticism and Disentanglement

Posted on May 2, 2012 by ehurst

One of my provisional Three Pillars of Christian Mysticism is disentanglement. Try to keep in mind, I don’t take seriously the particular way I think about this, in the sense I promote those three key points — “pillars” — as … Continue reading →

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Our Mysticism Is Not As Their Mysticism

Posted on February 15, 2012 by ehurst

Mysticism includes a whole range of things, not simply the practice of Transcendental Meditation. There will always be movements within a larger whole of any demographic. The mere existence of a thing which can be labeled “a demographic” requires acknowledging … Continue reading →

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Mysticism: East versus West

Posted on November 4, 2010 by ehurst

Take a look at the standard definitions of the term “mysticism”. These are generally accepted in academic circles as proper meaning for the term in communicating with others in the English language. Note the emphasis on non-rational means to apprehension. … Continue reading →

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Christian Mysticism: Esoteric and Elite?

Posted on October 19, 2010 by ehurst

No, utterly open and free — but admittedly very hard to swallow. I continue to test my vision of a biblical faith community against the world I see around me today. I test it because I don’t pretend my vision … Continue reading →

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Christian Mysticism and Poverty

Posted on June 20, 2010 by ehurst

I’m poor. It’s popular to say that, but I could show you the numbers indicating my household income is just above the point where I qualify for food stamps. We have been pretty much exempt from state and federal taxes … Continue reading →

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Mysticism: The Thing Itself

Posted on March 7, 2010 by ehurst

For thousands of years, time uncounted, humanity got on just fine under mystical assumptions. I reject the notion modern Western rationalism is any improvement at all. The whole question is answered too often from the circular logic which assumes Western … Continue reading →

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