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For me, the best answer to these issues was given by Alan Watts in his classic book, The Two Hands of God. It is a survey of the world's major religions in regard to "good" and "evil," as well as an original -- yet simple -- answer to the perplexing…
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I am very pleased with the intelligent discussion of this issue. Sadly, I can not imagine this type of discussion being held among members of the "conservative" religious bodies in the United States that are gaining members. The "progressive" religi…
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About Stanley Krippner

From the biography section of the Stanley Krippner website:

Stanley Krippner, Ph.D., professor of psychology at Saybrook Graduate School, San Francisco, is a Fellow in three APA divisions, and former president of two divisions (30 and 32). Formerly, he was director of the Kent State University Child Study Center, Kent OH, and the Maimonides Medical Center Dream Research Laboratory, Brooklyn NY.
He is co-author of Extraordinary Dreams (SUNY, 2002) and co-editor of Varieties of Anomalous Experience: Examining the Scientific Evidence (APA, 2000) and The Psychological Impact of War on Civilians: An International Perspective (Greenwood, 2003).
Krippner has conducted workshops and seminars on dreams and/or hypnosis in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Cuba, Cyprus, Ecuador, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, Micronesia, the Netherlands, Panama, the Philippines, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Venezuela, and at the four congresses of the Interamerican Psychological Association.
He is a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Indian Psychology and Revista Argentina de Psicologia Paranormal, and the advisory board for International School for Psychotherapy, Counseling, and Group Leadership (St. Petersburg) and the Czech Unitaria (Prague).
He holds faculty appointments at the Universidade Holistica Internacional (Brasilia) and the Instituto de Medicina y Tecnologia Avanzada de la Conducta (Ciudad Juarez). He has given invited addresses for the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Russian Academy of Pedagogical Sciences, and the School for Diplomatic Studies, Montevideo, Uruguay. He is a Fellow of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, and has published cross-cultural studies on spiritual content in dreams.

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At 10:37am on September 13, 2009, Arz Ezm said…
what my belief in your eyes Dr. Stanley? tell me, Thanks.
At 6:40pm on August 19, 2009, RevLGKing said…
Stanley, this thought just came to me today: G0D and GOD.

Take note of the zero, 0, in the first acronym. Or, to be more specific, instead of 0, I could use, Ø--the null.

G0D in the microcosm
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In the first acronym I have in mind G0D as the no-thing from which all things come--creatio ex nihilo, the creation out of nothing as understood by theist theologians.

GOD in the macrocosm
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In the second acronym, GOD, I use the O to indicate the the totality, the wholeness, of being, towards which all things, with our creative help, are processing. Check out the work of the philosopher and mathematician, Alfred North Whitehead:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/whitehead/

BTW, have you heard of what Seth Lloyd, at MIT is doing? His latest book is about PROGRAMMING THE COSMOS.
http://www.randomhouse.com/kvpa/lloyd/
It looks like that--if we are wise enough to grasp the concept--we are partners with G0D/GOD.
At 10:01pm on July 6, 2009, RevLGKing said…
REDEFINING THE DIVINE

As I understand it, this forum is about REDIFINING GOD. One participant asks:"One question in my mind is, does god also exist apart from, or transcendent from, the natural universe?" I ask: Why do we not use a very special word to express a very unique concept?

WITHOUT JUDGMENT

Keep in mind that I respect all sincerely held beliefs about the god hypothesis. The following is strictly my opinion. I offer it without any intention of being doctrinaire. I simply want to get away from thinking in terms of an objective being--masculine, or feminine--occupying space and time.

Therefore, rather than use the noun, 'God'--found and defined in our dictionaries--I prefer to use the acronym, GOD, which stands for all Goodness, all Order and all Desirable Design. Or I could use G0D. Note the '0', zero, not 'O'. Sometimes, when writing within the context of science, I like to use the acronym, GØD. The mathematical symbol, Ø, null, stands for the set without numbers. I assume it stands for that which is infinitely small and/or infinitely large.


G0D is that which is without borders, without dimensions, and, as the great inventor, Nicola Tesla, put it, "without properties". G0D, the no thing is the source of all things.

Check out John 4: 7-30--the story of Jesus and the Samaritan Woman. Here Jesus defines God as "Spirit", not 'a' spirit. The Greek for Spirit is 'pneuma'--which literally means air, wind, breath. In Jesus day air was a thing of great mystery, not unlike what we have in mind, today, when we think about the vacuum of infinite space into which the universe is expanding.

GOD IS SPIRIT

In John 3--the story of Nicodemus--Jesus equates 'pneuma' (Spirit) with coming to conscious awareness of self--being born again, enlightened, raised to consciousness, inspired. As a GOD-filled person himself (Son of GOD) he called all, male and female, willing to listen, to be at one with him. See John 17:20-25.
At 12:38pm on March 16, 2009, rapster said…
Dr, Krippner.

In response to our brief correspondence over a year ago, I just finished reading 2 Doug Boyd books, and the reference to you therein reminded me to follow-up from my initial inquiry a year ago (which had initially arisen during a brief conversation in ABQ. at the Grateful Dead symposium in 2008) where I had asked if you might still have any contacts or recommendations regarding my interest in seeking a genuine Native American Medicine person.

Is it still a relavent avenue to pursue your assistant Steve Hart for this information, as you had suggested below ? It was foolish of me to wait over a full year on this.

"....At 1:12pm on February 22, 2008, Stanley Krippner said… Give me a clue. Did I recommend a man or woman? A shaman or a medium or a channeler? I would suggest you write my assistant Steve Hart shart@saybrook.edu and ask for my list of "healers" from around the US...... "

Thank you for your time on this.
Ed Rapp in NJ
At 3:28pm on December 29, 2008, RevLGKing said…
Dr. Brain? LOL!!! Yeah, I wish we had an edit feature here.

Dr. Krippner, you say, "... the Bible does not mention hypnosis."
But the Greek New Testament does use the word 'hypnos', sleep, in Matthew 26: 43.

Interestingly, in Acts 10:10 and 11:5, the King James version, the Bible also uses the word 'trance' (the Greek word is 'ekstasis'--meaning to stand outside oneself.)

Initially, Peter was not as open to the Gentiles as was Paul. After being criticized by Paul for being his narrow world-view, Peter apparently agreed to go and pray about it. In Acts it is said that his prayer was so deep that he fell into trance. In this state Peter gained the insight to start being universal in his outlook.

In Acts 22:17, Paul tells us that it was in the trance state that he was inspired to reach out to the Gentiles.

THE TRANCE AND CONSCIOUSNESS
IMO, the trance state is one of full consciousness, or awareness, which enables us to understand the nature of the ego and help it become a servant rather than the destructive master of our total behaviour.

In, A NEW EARTH--Awakening to Your Life's Purpose, Eckhart Tolle (The Power of the Now) writes about how urgent it is for human kind to to arise to this new kind of consciousness. We MUST awaken for our madness or we will destroy the world.

As Mark Twain put it: "When we remember that we are all mad, all mysteries disappear and life is explained."
At 12:27pm on December 28, 2008, Stanley Krippner said…
PS: I meant to write Dr. Braid, not Dr. Brain.
At 12:27pm on December 28, 2008, Stanley Krippner said…
Rev King asks about hypnosis. In the first place hypnosis is not "mind control." All hypnosis, in my opinion, is basically self-hypnosis. In the second place, the Bible does not mention hypnosis. The word was not coined until Dr. Brain came along, as you note. Once again, your fundamentalist Christian friends act out of ignorance. Find yourself some other friends; there are plenty of Christians I know who think the way that you do, and who are better suited to handle to critical spiritual problems that face the world today.
At 12:00am on December 28, 2008, Sidian M.S. Jones said…
Stanley, I contacted Karl Wolf about these Project Disclosure videos that were just uploaded to RG. It's highly compelling material.
Are you familiar with whoever is managing Project Disclosure?
At 9:53pm on December 27, 2008, RevLGKing said…
ABOUT MY INTEREST IN HYPNOSIS
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Often I have often been asked by fundamentalist Christians to defend my interest in hypnosis: Doesn't the Bible condemn this sort of mind control? It sounds so weird. I don't like the thought of others getting control of my mind."

People having real problems will say: "Please, help me. Take over my mind. No one could possible make me feel worse than I now feel. Go ahead, have a go!"

Both comments above show a great misunderstanding of what it is all about.
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To throw some light on the issue I always point out that Dr. James Braid, a surgeon--who invented the word hypnosis (based on the Greek for sleep), in 1843--later admitted that 'hypnosis' was a misnomer. It really did not describe what he later discovered the phenomenon to be all about--our coming to consciousness. He wrote that he wanted to change the name to 'monoideism'--the ability to focus on, pay attention to, one idea. He was more interested in helping people wake up to the power within them, not in putting them to sleep (hypnos). I sometimes like to refer to this awakening of the spirit, or state of being born-again, as pneumatherapy--healing of the spirit to heal the psyche (mind) and the soma (body)

And speaking of awakening to, or knowing, the truth which which Jesus said would make us free points to a growing interest in an early group of Christians known as
THE GNOSTICS
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With the modern emphasis on the value of science, and its pursuit of provable knowledge, the ancients Gnostics would be very much at home in modern times. They put a great deal of emphasis on the value of knowledge. Recent discoveries made by scholars regarding Gnosticism has given us a greater appreciation of the value of gnostic ideas. For them, knowledge--such as comes from spiritual insight--rather than faith, was the key to life's mysteries. I like to think of a sighted faith, not a blind one.

AUTONOSIS
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In the light of this, perhaps, instead of hypnosis, a good word for the process of reaching consciousness would be, 'autonosis'--a self-induced state of consciousness in which we are open to receive all the knowledge we need to be at-one-ment with GOD.
At 5:54pm on December 26, 2008, Stanley Krippner said…
April originally interviewed me for a more mainstream publication. But the interview was too wild for them, and they turned it down. Then we went to Shaman's Drum and they picked it right up.
 
 

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