I love that this thread popped up again b/c I’ve been reading this and thought it might fit here. It’s an explorative translation of the Lord’s Prayer and the Beatitudes from the Aramaic taking out the Greek middleman.
The author goes line by line offering multiple possibilites of translations for each line with notes on the Ancient Middle Eastern roots, cultural understanding and context, and mystical tradition. It’s breathing new life into old words for me.
Thank you Melissa, it looks pretty delightful… 
If projected to today’s middle east it will be something like:
The Pharisees = Iranian Shiite Clerics / Catholic Church
The Sadducees = Saudis family / Gulf Emir / Global Elite
The Zealots = Zionist, ISIS, Hamas, Hezbollah using religion as people rallying tools to attain a self-centered political agenda, they don’t work well with each others and despised each others, the closest in graduation through STS path.
The Essenes = Sufis, Yogi Mystics… ascetic way of life, meditate, fasting etc…
Personally; Many of Jesus parable starting to make sense to me once I’m exposed to Sufis and Yogic philosophy… (ie: forgive and you shall be forgiven = Karma law, Parable of Prodigal Son = Mokhsa)
interesting parallels. Quid… definitely both humorous and on point… so perhaps not so humorous, but still.
Beautiful Sufis dance here,… a bit Bollywood but still… lol
There’s a Sufi practice of swirling dance, invented by Rumi, still actively practiced in Turkey today.
It’s another technique of meditation, a way / mean to unify with “The One”, or in Ra’s lingo a mean to opening up the gateway and connecting to the infinite intelligence.
It seems that this phenomenon has something to do with positive dissociation thanks to spinning - a detachment from mundane emotions and thoughts. And additional energy released from the rotating energy centers due to this movement, finding an outlet from the top of the head.
ah so great…
I looked for the word “panacea” and found this
thread. The intuitive idea behind that is this.
The one infinite creator as panacea to infinite
suffering. If you get it, it’s profound.
Experiences of pain can seem like near death
episodes that irreparably change a person.
With the peak states of pain, can come a desire
to end the pain or put a stop to it by any means.
Some people consider euthanasia as the
humane alternative, a merciful exit to beloved
pets or elders who chronically suffer, and by
that pain condition may be in some regards
disabled from helping to the degrees of
quality they hold themselves to.
This might tie into Don Elkin’s death as some
merciful creative act of self euthanasia, as
alternative to ongoing pain and suffering.
Suicide may not always be martyrdom.
Could Don be the next Jesus? If wanderers
went out and found him, like the Panchen Lama,
and he pierced the veil, like the Dalai Lama -
I wonder! Isn’t reincarnation better than
ressurection?
Not quite…
I remind you that Nelson Mandela was designated as a terrorist during apartheid South Africa and the ANC (his party) as a terrorist organisation…
I searched for Paul McCarthy’s song Let It Be,
and found this thread. It’s interesting Nelson
Mandela was mentioned here also but I didn’t
stumble across it until after writing about the
Mandela Effect elsewhere. So it’s a weave.
I reflect that on October.7 there was a music
festival, with some theme of peace. One
artist I look toward as an ambassador so
is Ellyanna - a Palestinian/Chilean/Christian/Musician
who creates evolved functional information in the
form of musical complexity. She played at the
Austin City Limits music festival recently and
left a powerful impression upon many attending.
As if her music is a carrier wave of something
important, a collective vibe of love power -
no matter what language she sings in.
Regardless of opinions and positions of Oct. 7, which was essentially a prison break, given that Gaza is an open air prison, no-one can dispute the fact that Oct. 7 has placed the issue of Palestinian liberation front and center on the world stage, where it belongs.
That is a good thing. If anyone followed the BRICS summit in the last couple of days, and listened to the speeches of Putin, Xi and other world leaders, then it’s clear that Palestinian liberation will remain a top priority for BRICS nations.