Andrew Flaxman
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Spiritual Education in the Classics
Copyright©2002 by Andrew Flaxmanr Available online at www.classicinsights.com SPIRITUAL EDUCATION THROUGH CLASSIC INSIGHTS For hundreds of years, from all over the ancient world, kings and commoners traveled to Delphi to ask the Oracle of Apollo about the right course of action – whether to make war or seek peace, whether to marry one person or another. They brought rich offerings to the god and were sent on their way by the priests with riddling answers.
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Love as a Path of Spiritual Transformation
Suppose you had to explain what love is - as opposed to friendship, sexuality, loyalty, romance, etc. Like most people, you would probably be hard put to produce a satisfying characterization of love. If you make a list of all the words you associate with love, - and, ifrnfurthermore, you compare it with similar lists made by others -paradoxes are likely to stand out. For example, love is sometimes hailed as a love-hate tension, at other times as devoted surrender orrnthe ultimate freedom, then again as serene companionship; somer
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Understading the Modern Ego
"Two souls, alas! Cohabit in my breastr A contract one of them desires to severr The one like a rough love clingsr To the world with the tentacles of its sensesr The other lifts itself to Elysian Fieldsr Out of the mist on powerful wings.” (Goethe, Faust I, Sc.2, Louis MacNeice translation)
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Subconscious and Superconsciousness
It’s essential to be able to distinguish the difference between our subconscious experiences and our superconscious experiences. Subconscious experiences are related to the physical body whereas superconscious experiences consist of sense-free thinking. For example the concept of “circle” has no basis in our body but is an example of the first step into the superconscious, spirit world. These concepts do not belong to us. They belong to all Human Beings. Or think about words like “if” which have no material basis.
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