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Different Easter traditions around the world
The significance of Easter eggs and bunnies in modern culture
The importance of the holiday in the Christian faith
From circular to linear time
The axial revolution, manifested in Judea, led to the development of a religion that presents time as a form of cosmic history. As a narrative with an open feature. In which you participate alongside God in the realization of that ideal.
This progress is charged actualized through faith in this linear version of time. This idea was groundbreaking: it looked at the time as an infinite progression, rather than the circular time of the shaman traditions (Hindus are another example).
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Faith as a sense of direction
Today we look at the early Jewish faith as a "belief in silly things". But that misses the mark, as it focuses on the supernatural part of the narrative.
Faith was a sense of progression, at an individual level but more importantly at a macro level. Faith allowed a person t...
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Myths as symbolic truths
Myths are not widely believed false stories about the ancient past. They are symbolic stories about perennial patterns that are always with us. Myths describe deep truths presented in a narative that allows sharing them.
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The focus of this one is to look at the Judean myths and their advancement of the human psyche.
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