Of miraculous births and abominations
Poetry — not flabby cherubic verses in greetings cards but the dedicated study of poetic tradition — contains an antidote.
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Man, like every living being, is concerned about many things, above all about those which condition his very existence, such as food and shelter. But man, in contrast to other living beings, has spiritual concerns – cognitive, aesthetic, social, political. Some of them are urgent, often extremely urgent, and each of them as well as the vital concerns can claim ultimacy for a human life or the life of a group. If it claims ultimacy it demands the total surrender of him who accepts this claim, and it promises total fulfillment even if all other claims have to be subjected to it or rejected in its name.
and again:
It transcends both the drives of the nonrational unconsciousness and the structures of the rational conscious
Both quotes are from chapter 1, What Faith Is, of Paul Tillich‘s Dynamics of Faith.
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Mr. X:
September 30th, 2012 at 8:31 am
A YouTube clip about ‘Project Bluebeam’ that may be of interest to Zen readers, at the intersection of counterterrorism and the ‘supernatural’/’abominations’. While I don’t vouch for all of it, the commentator makes a very persuasive case that Al-Qaeda Abu Zabaydeh was ‘broken’ by ‘the Voice of Allah’ or an ‘angel’ appearing to him in his cell.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcYG3ZVHwU0
The ‘Allah’ appearance according to the YouTube clip author was a Project Bluebeam type hologram that was used to dupe Zabaydeh.