Mike, You've got a point there. I can think of a passage where I believe it was Abram who struggled with an unknown heavenly entity through the night and won. He asked, "what is your name?"
It was at this time, as I recall, he was renamed Abraham and was granted the destiny of having descendants as many as the stars in the sky. There's also the story of Jacob's dream about a ladder to heaven. The ladder could be interpreted as the various chakras in the human body, which signify the various states of consciousness, culminating in a heavenly state which can correspond to cosmic consciousness or brahman consciousness. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mdixon.6569@...> wrote : The Bible is loaded with personal experiences of pure awareness, so said Maharishi. He had one group read the pslams at one point on our six month course. Personally, I had never read the Bible until a few years ago. When I did, it knocked my socks off! The pages were full of experiences I had been having all along for years in meditation. The Bible expresses many of these events as happening on the gross physical plain of existence when in fact many were inner experiences in awareness. On Sunday, May 18, 2014 10:12 AM, "jr_esq@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> wrote: Mike, That's a good point too. So, one can say that this was the experience that Moses had in Mount Zion, in symbolic language. And, the principles he cognized as necessary for the development of consciousness are the Ten Commandments that were etched in stone. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mdixon.6569@...> wrote : The burning bush was an experience, while absorbed in pure awareness. On Sunday, May 18, 2014 1:04 AM, salyavin808 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <jr_esq@...> wrote : He may have predated MMY by discussing consciousness as basis of all knowledge in the Bible passage: "I AM WHO AM" Popeye saw the wisdom of that too.... I don't believe the Hebrews knew what he was trying to convey back then. But most people today don't know either. The burning bush that he used as a writing symbolism could be interpreted as the burnt offering to the Self or Yahweh, or the thoughts that are burnt by the mantra during meditation. Or maybe the eternal flame of unity consciousness? What do you think? I think you should stop making wild leaps in the dark and trying to find connections where there aren't any. Personally...
