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Journals of a Mormon Mystic: Tips on Reading the Book of Mormon Effectively
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Journals of a Mormon Mystic. Tuesday, August 12, 2014. Tips on Reading the Book of Mormon Effectively. 1 Don't let yourself get attached to. Any one interpretation of the book, even if it's an orthodox one:. This first one might seem a little counter-intuitive. One might ask: aren't there definitive, true. Ways of understanding the Book of Mormon? Saying that you should regard the Book of Mormon as a positively a-historical. Reading the text as a fiction or as an allegory also constitute. Like any creatu...
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Journals of a Mormon Mystic: June 2015
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Journals of a Mormon Mystic. No posts. Show all posts. No posts. Show all posts. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Hi, Im Christian. Im aspiring to be both a Mormon mystic and an Aspergers Syndrome advocate. And yes, that does mean that I am both a Mormon and an aspie, but Im proud of both monikers. In case youre curious: Im a National Merit Scholar, my play The Box. 160;my favorite in that genre, and he deserves more attention). View my complete profile. My Body Awareness Workout. Adam S. Miller. Visions and ...
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Journals of a Mormon Mystic: March 2015
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Journals of a Mormon Mystic. Tuesday, March 24, 2015. However, there is more to be said on this topic. For instance, I think it's important to talk about exactly why. But notice something here: you. Space and time. Though you may see objects that occupy a space and occur at a time, I can only infer the actual existence of space and time. For instance, is it true for colors or shapes or tones? Thus, the forms of space, time, colors, sounds, and shapes are all means by which. Blue, squareness exists in all...
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Journals of a Mormon Mystic: Letters to a Doubter: On Gender and Sexuality
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Journals of a Mormon Mystic. Tuesday, July 1, 2014. Letters to a Doubter: On Gender and Sexuality. As a side note, I am very aware that I am a straight male and of all the privilege that comes with that status. In what follows I will talk about issues proper to women and LGBT individuals, but know that I don't have firsthand experience of the issues they commonly face. In the case that your experience goes against what I say here, I defer to your judgment and experience. My dear friend,. Knowing all this...
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Journals of a Mormon Mystic: Observations on the Book of Mormon, Part 1
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Journals of a Mormon Mystic. Friday, December 27, 2013. Observations on the Book of Mormon, Part 1. As you can probably tell, I've taken another extended leave of absence from this blog, and I am only just now returning to it. But that's OK, because I'll make up for it by giving you guys some really interesting tidbits about the Book of Mormon. Text and its reading experience, I hope to more fully convince the reader that it is as amazing as I know it to be. 1 Reading the Book of Mormon. If they have con...
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Journals of a Mormon Mystic: May 2015
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Journals of a Mormon Mystic. Thursday, May 28, 2015. Peter Breaks Through: The Mystical in Peter Pan. Since before I can remember, J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan. And Phaethon burns up; The Doctor can't stop dying and regenerating; Michael Jackson, Mozart, and countless other young prodigies die young and tragically. The puer] must be weak on earth, because it is not at home on earth. He beginnings of things are. So the new dies easily because it is not born in the. But where does Peter, the puer, call home?
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Journals of a Mormon Mystic: Thoughts on the Sabbath
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Journals of a Mormon Mystic. Monday, August 10, 2015. Thoughts on the Sabbath. Last Sunday, I had the pleasure of hearing a Sacrament Meeting talk about the importance of the Sabbath. And it made me think: while I haven't always been the best Sabbath-day observer, I have read some very interesting things over the last few years about the idea of Sunday as a day of worship. One of them is from philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein's notebooks, as collected in the book Culture and Value. Or Secrets of Heaven.
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Journals of a Mormon Mystic: April 2015
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Journals of a Mormon Mystic. Thursday, April 30, 2015. If I'm to stick to my beliefs that both Joseph Smith's and Swedenborg's claims are true, then the Book of Mormon would have to fall into Swedenborg's system of symbolic interpretation. So, I've decided to test that idea, with the hypothesis that the Book of Mormon will reveal deeper and more profound truths if I interpret it with Swedenborg's hermeneutic lens. Also, please be wary of getting too attached to this interpretation. As I mentioned in ...
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Journals of a Mormon Mystic: The Little Prince, The Alchemist, and the Promptings of the Spirit
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Journals of a Mormon Mystic. Wednesday, May 30, 2012. The Little Prince, The Alchemist, and the Promptings of the Spirit. And try to see what they have to say on the aforementioned subject. We begin with the Little Prince. A novella written by Antoine de Saint-Exupery in 1943, is easily a candidate for my favorite book of all time. I say this because it is, so to speak, insightfully dense: it has the most insights into spirituality or human experience per page of any book I have ever read. Coming as a co...
