On 9/29/05 9:21 PM, "akasha_108" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thank you for the name lama ole -- i just pulled stuff off his site.
>
> I was intrigued by his take on gods and religions. Or my take on his,
> is that the gods of major religions may not be the same ONE. But
> rather a spectrum of major devas -- which in all mythologies -- are a
> mixed bag of compassion, wrath, lust and dazzle. It makes things like
> the old testement, various puranas, greek and norse myths, islam, etc
> make more sense. Per this model, these scriptures are not gross
> misinterpretations of deep symbolic representations of Wholeness, but
> rather, kind of on target descriptors of warring regional gods with
> distinct personalities.
Yep. For example it's fairly well know which regional gods IHVH/Jehovah and
Allah came from. Heck old Jehovah even used to have a wife. Raphael Patai's
_The Hebrew Goddess_ is a real eye opener if this kind of thing is new to
you.
> Well its a model. More research and thought necessary to see if it has
> legs.
I take it you mean to see if the "it's not all one god" thang is true? One
thing is interesting, once you get to practices which induce experiences of
these various dimensions you find out ALL the other dimensions have their
diversity too. Yogis who take this to it's limit are capable of grokking the
deep racial memories of our species and therefore can even grok the place in
consciousness where ancient cave drawings were coming from. Armed with such
a broad perspective, I'm sure they would tell you the god world is as varied
as our own (human) world. Monotheism liked to impose a kind of "brand-name
exclusivity" on their worshippers--"no other gods before me", etc. Jealous
gods...just great... Work on your jealousy and then get back to me, ok god?
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