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jivatman,

the i ching - how interesting. i just decided last week to go to the bookstore and perhaps buy a copy.

i have the gita, but have never read it. i have started it a couple of times.


the point of this post was somewhat of a criticism of the ra group for being very ethnocentric for the somewhat limited concepts of western christianity.

i am wondering here by ra group - do you mean the people who channeled ra or do you mean the group speaking as "i am ra."

(though the gospel of thomas, perhaps the oldest gospel, a gospel of sayings from jesus, by itself is very good)

i was just mentioning the gospel of thomas on another thread...
i am interested to know what sorts of questions you have. not because i have answers, but to see how someone else's mind works on these things.

this is also, btw, an example of how a religion should evolve. note how the catholic church brutally murdered the knights exemplar, and all other non-catholic sects.

sigh. for some reason, western spirituality seems particularly prone to negative influences.

and these (protestant) are obviously not mystic traditions.
yes, you're right there. i consider the reformation to be a fizzled one. mostly it was just a rebellion against tyranny. so far as i can tell they had just one important, mystical revelation, and that is to trust one's own judgment and not have a mediator between the person and god.