The Return Project: 2.0: The Galilean Shaman Stretching to larger perspectives! That is what our conversation is about, right? During this holiday season, I launched a fresh inquiry in this blog into the question: who is Jesus? For over four decades I have been cautious about this question after having my fingers burned in […]
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The Return Project: Recently, Judith and I visited about the subject of “Who Is Jesus?” over breakfast , and she said,”When I met you in 1973, you were already talking excitedly about Jesus and Buddha as shamans. You claimed that the church and its scholars had missed perhaps the essential point of Jesus’ life and
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THE RETURN PROJECT: Who is the Wandering Galilean? Here is my proposal: Jesus is a Galilean Shaman whose main work was and is to return humans to the cycle of life. Let’s see how I reached this hypothesis—contrary to the mainstream as it is– since it could have very important ramifications for planet Earth. Nearly
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This whole war on Christmas drama leads me to a paradoxical chuckle. A fair number of Christians feel like left-leaning folk use government regulation to abolish their spiritual interpretation of their religion Really? Let me catch my breath here before I get too deeply into the drama. Actually, people who are sensitive to some kind
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As an adolescent I discovered the miracle of sweat ceremonies. Beset with the crossfires of testosterone and family upheaval, I found relief, purification, and clarity in improvised sweat ceremonies. Then, as a young adult I embarked on a practice with the Earthtribe that for over thirty years has blessed me and many of you with
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Nelson Mandela is now free to speak in a way that was not possible before his death. Death is just a word that describes a process. Another word is transition. Another, sojourn. Another, extended retreat to the Unseen. In any case grandfather Nelson is now speaking to us from the ancestral domain. You may have
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The Copernican Revolution constituted a paradigm shift from a view that saw Earth as stationary and at the center of the universe. This powerful pivot in human thinking began in 1543 in the Western world with Copernicus’ assertion that the Sun not the Earth is the center of the solar system. It was hotly contested
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Ours is an Era of the Return. We live in a transitional 21st century. This chapter in Earth’s narrative tumbles humans headlong from the industrial, to the informational, and to the virtual until, at this very moment, Nature bends back on the spiral and beckons us to return to herself in primal utterances of weather
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