In order to heal ourselves, we need more than just a good diet, regular exercise program, enough sleep or vitamins. All those things are great, critical and important. But we also need healthy relationships, a healthy professional life, a healthy creative life, a healthy spiritual life, a healthy sex life, a healthy financial life and a healthy environment. In essence, we need a healthy mind. Medical literature has copious data proving that all of those things are essential.
The proponents of ‘Intelligent Design’ assert that natural selection could not create irreducibly complex systems because the system would function only when all parts are appropriately assembled. Such a system could not evolve through a long-term process of natural selection. This, apparently, sounds a very resilient argument. But the problem is that it is constantly proved wrong!
Because our souls yearn for justice, because we so desperately want to believe that God will be fair to us, we often fasten our hopes on the idea that life in this world is not the only reality. Somewhere beyond this life is another world where “the last shall be first” and those whose lives were cut short here on earth will be reunited with those they loved, and will spend eternity with them.
It is clear from the evidence of the Amarna Letters that, had he consented to use violence, Akhenaton could easily have stemmed the tide of events and saved the Egyptian empire. Akhenaton seems to be the one king in history who, for the sake of a philosophy, actually lost a great empire.
Akhenaton realized that the city of Thebes that clung to its patron god Amon was not the place where the first seeds of truth could be sown. Perhaps, somewhere down the Nile, in an out-of-the-way spot a new city could be founded— the capital of a new State, which could one day become the model of a new world.
he Egyptians had worshiped Isis with especial fondness and piety. They created her jewelled images as this Mother of God since she gave birth to god Horus, the god of the sun. Her tonsured priests praised and worshipped her. In the midwinter of each year, when the annual rebirth of the sun was celebrated (December 25), the temples of Horus (god of the sun), presented Isis in holy effigy nursing, in a stable, the infant Horus, whom she had miraculously conceived.
In all likelihood, the “Holy Stares” was another instance of “pious fraud”. Marble was not a common building material in the Roman province of Judea. The palace was originally built by King Herod, who would not have used marble. Besides, the Romans had thoroughly destroyed Jerusalem in 70 CE. And it is highly unlikely for Helena to have located the steps some 250 years later.
The story of Jesus Christ does not actually take place on the Earth. It lies up above in the starry night sky. The entire story is an allegory rooted in the annual movement of the Sun (of God) through the 12 Zodiacal constellations as conceived by ancient astrology.
The Zodiac represented the complete story of the life of “God’s Sun.” Since the vertical and horizontal lines quartering the Zodiac made the symbol of the cross, it may be said that the life of “God’s Sun” was on “the Cross.”
In spite of the painstaking efforts of the Jewish scribes to weave a seamless tapestry of monotheistic history, traces of the original polytheism remain embedded in their texts.