Thanks, John. I also felt that the Christian religion did not represent Jesus well, so for decades I have been an unchurched follower of Jesus. I mostly identified with the Tao te Ching, so you and I both took an eastern turn out of conventional Christianity. In 2001 I wrote a theory of everything called A Simple Explanation of Absolute…
Thanks, John. I also felt that the Christian religion did not represent Jesus well, so for decades I have been an unchurched follower of Jesus. I mostly identified with the Tao te Ching, so you and I both took an eastern turn out of conventional Christianity. In 2001 I wrote a theory of everything called A Simple Explanation of Absolutely Everything that looks at all human endeavour, from science and math to all sorts of religious writing and cultural expression. I distilled from all of these great works a few simple precepts like the Golden Rule and fractal mathematics that appear to apply to everything from the spiritual on through physics and chemistry. People who are spiritual but non-religious seem to like it very much. Years later I read the Tripartite Tractate and it really clicked for me, the same way the Tao te Ching does. The refreshing thing about the Tripartite Tractate is that it appears to be the proto-Christianity of Jesus, prior to the Nicene Council's censorship. As a mature follower of Jesus, I can recognize this book as part of the gospel.
I find it very easy to read so far. I always found Carl Jung's work to be internally illuminated for me, also. You might have read The Tao of Physics at some point. I loved physics in college, and would walk across campus in 1976-1977 lost in musings. I always resolved that all truth must agree with all other truth, but I could not find professors interested in that, not even my excellent second-semester Engineering Physics professor.
Working my way through college, I had a friend at work whose wife was a midwife, and they had their children at home. I was captivated by this. Later in med school, doing my OB rotation at the same hospital where I had worked in the kitchen in college, I dared to do my presentation on "Spiritual Midwifery", a book you may well know. The OB/GYN attending/professor was wonderful, intellectually liberal, and was also board-certified in Psychiatry. I have never met anyone else like him. Anyway, he praised my presentation. Not the usual attitude, as you know.
Though I went into Family Practice, including OB, deliveries, and c-sections, I always embodied those same values. Our kids were all home & birth center births, though that was not a service I, myself could offer, except in the hospital birth-center which persisted for some years, but was later eliminated.
Thanks, John. I also felt that the Christian religion did not represent Jesus well, so for decades I have been an unchurched follower of Jesus. I mostly identified with the Tao te Ching, so you and I both took an eastern turn out of conventional Christianity. In 2001 I wrote a theory of everything called A Simple Explanation of Absolutely Everything that looks at all human endeavour, from science and math to all sorts of religious writing and cultural expression. I distilled from all of these great works a few simple precepts like the Golden Rule and fractal mathematics that appear to apply to everything from the spiritual on through physics and chemistry. People who are spiritual but non-religious seem to like it very much. Years later I read the Tripartite Tractate and it really clicked for me, the same way the Tao te Ching does. The refreshing thing about the Tripartite Tractate is that it appears to be the proto-Christianity of Jesus, prior to the Nicene Council's censorship. As a mature follower of Jesus, I can recognize this book as part of the gospel.
Thanks Cyd (I note your middle name). I am starting to read the Tripartate Tractate http://gnosis.org/naghamm/tripart.htm
I find it very easy to read so far. I always found Carl Jung's work to be internally illuminated for me, also. You might have read The Tao of Physics at some point. I loved physics in college, and would walk across campus in 1976-1977 lost in musings. I always resolved that all truth must agree with all other truth, but I could not find professors interested in that, not even my excellent second-semester Engineering Physics professor.
Working my way through college, I had a friend at work whose wife was a midwife, and they had their children at home. I was captivated by this. Later in med school, doing my OB rotation at the same hospital where I had worked in the kitchen in college, I dared to do my presentation on "Spiritual Midwifery", a book you may well know. The OB/GYN attending/professor was wonderful, intellectually liberal, and was also board-certified in Psychiatry. I have never met anyone else like him. Anyway, he praised my presentation. Not the usual attitude, as you know.
Though I went into Family Practice, including OB, deliveries, and c-sections, I always embodied those same values. Our kids were all home & birth center births, though that was not a service I, myself could offer, except in the hospital birth-center which persisted for some years, but was later eliminated.