The Homiletic study and teachings of the Midrash, Talmud and
New Testament gospel (aggadah) are so vital to the Christian belief structure
that to explain these stories is to seemingly speak from a higher plane of
reality.
Even if you don’t understand the historical and spiritual
significance, you still get truth by design even if you’re clueless to the deeper
meaning of the scriptures narrative.
What is meant to be literal and what is meant to point to
something spiritual is not always clear and how it could apply to everyone individually
and for a people (Nation).
Putting aside our differences of opinion with beliefs about
the afterlife, the nature of the divine, and religious rituals we can all gain
life lessons from ancient scriptures, Histories and philosophy.
The higher plans of reality are the focal point for most all
paranormal and supernatural philosophies. Most of the terminology and
definitions come down to us from ancient knowledge however through open and
liberated thought we now have abstract terminology and the freedom to explore
and share the possibilities openly and unrestricted allowing for the diversity
we see in modernity.
It does not matter if you’re a Christian, Muslim, Buddhist or
Wiccan a priest, witch or something in between there is valuable life lessons
to be learned from the world’s religions.
Most all religions have a common theme, the differences
between the world of parapsychology and organized religion is who wields the rights
to “legally” harness the outlined abilities (Priest vs. witch etc.) inherent in
all mankind.
Forging a yoke upon those of us who are kept in the dark or
are not capable of understanding the deeper meaning to an obviously spiritual
existence seems to be the ambition of the gods (mythology) and governments
alike throughout history.
It is my express
opinion that the understanding of the higher plains of reality has been
deliberately obfuscated to the mental enslavement of mankind for the sole
purpose of confinement and containment of ideals less savory to the elite and
there regional and/or global agendas, but that’s me!
History explains all too well that the ancients and sages
had a good grip on the spiritual aspect of a physical existence; they easily
separated this reality from the next (afterlife) to the benefit of both laws
and structured existence in the physical world and what was to be expected for
the journey and residence of the heavenly realm.
There are many different ways to be spiritual; people and
common ground are what bring everything together. We all share a common history
and in most ways a common culture.
Life is about the people you’re with, a sense of community
with those around you; nothing else matters nearly as much.
Spirituality
reminds us that we are not alone in our thinking and experiences.
"It is not if one believes, it is how one believes that
guides the footsteps of life". As we open our minds to what seems to be a new
paradigm of the paranormal and supernatural possibilities we must remember that
there is nothing new under the sun (Ecclesiastes 1:9) and if one studies the
origins of the supernatural and seeks to understand the paranormal all he/she
has to do is pay attention to the documented history of mankind and replace
what was deliberately removed or yet to be re- discovered from the texts passed
down to us from our ancestors.
By Mark T. Varricchio
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