tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18968172.post4044968010630884058..comments2023-11-03T01:13:22.719-07:00Comments on The Rabbi Is IN with Rabbi Rami: Surrounded by BooksUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18968172.post-87969649495713121922011-06-16T15:45:52.378-07:002011-06-16T15:45:52.378-07:00I really like what you found in 'John' (ie...I really like what you found in 'John' (ie in Rami M. Shapiro, “Listening to Jesus with An Ear For God") but when I myself read 'John', I mostly find these childish arguments between "Jesus" and "the Jews", that sound like any conversation that ever was between someone who's found God vs people who've stuffed their heads so far up into some religion that they can't pull them out to look...<br /><br />So, how do you filter this stuff?<br /><br />I mean, I've had the insight you were talking about, but when I go looking for it in 'John', all that I find is the stuff that gets in the way!<br /><br />& I still think, that's the one insight that (no matter how much it sometimes confuses me, at least!) has the potential to rescue people from the sufferings of Job (which led him, in the end, to say, "I'd heard of You via hearsay, but now I _see_ You.")<br /><br />But then God Godself had no other way (it seems) of conveying "It" to Job. (& consider our contemporaries, muddling toward It in "the best of all possible ways". But having a rough time, none the less! Will we be given a better way to get people There before "we" collectively do ourselves serious harm, as keeps looking so imminent?)forresthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13861950371962268402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18968172.post-13916982979330862382011-05-19T04:32:04.712-07:002011-05-19T04:32:04.712-07:00Still think you might want to take a look at Seyye...Still think you might want to take a look at Seyyed Nasr's Knowledge and the Sacred, especially Chapter 4 on Scientia Sacra. Who knows...Gail Wigginhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02199380216643442206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18968172.post-22938899222162748322011-05-18T05:04:43.256-07:002011-05-18T05:04:43.256-07:00I have the same addiction! And the same problem of...I have the same addiction! And the same problem of wanting to read what I've bought but actually referring back to the same set of books over and over. At least my addiction isn't as bad as one of my friends -- eight 6-ft tall bookshelves double-stacked (one set pushed back with another set in front). I feel sad for her books -- how can you know what you have if they are hidden?<br /><br />Some of my favorites - Rabbi Rami Shapiro (you!), Gregg Braden, Ernest Holmes, Deepak Chopra among others.<br /><br />Thank you for sharing your list of "needs"!Karenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16585472329507632766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18968172.post-71154813278580024822011-05-17T07:03:38.830-07:002011-05-17T07:03:38.830-07:00But you are a Rabbi! Of course to read is to be.But you are a Rabbi! Of course to read is to be.ableisersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15034777220774966172noreply@blogger.com