The Genesis Meditations: A Shared Practice of Peace for Christians, Jews, and MuslimsQuest Books, 2003 - 277 pages This book teaches how Jesus actually may have meditated and recreates the step-by-step examples the reader can follow. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
CHAPTER ONEGENESIS NOW THE BEGINNING | 13 |
CHAPTER THREELIVING CREATION LOST | 53 |
POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS | 89 |
INTRODUCTION | 101 |
CHAPTER SIXTHE GREAT DARK | 119 |
CHAPTER SEVENFIRST LIGHT | 135 |
CHAPTER EIGHTTHE DANCE OF HOLY WISDOM | 153 |
CHAPTER NINETHE CALL OF ABUNDANCE | 169 |
CHAPTER TENFIRST HUMAN | 185 |
CHAPTER ELEVENFALLING | 201 |
Common terms and phrases
Abraham Adam ahead Allah ancient Aramaic Peshitta awareness b'reshith become beginning Biblical blessed breath called caravan centuries C.E. chapter Common Era consciousness cosmos created creation story creative darkness early Christianity earth elohim everything existence experience feel Genesis Rabbah Gospel of Thomas Greek Hadith happened heart heaven Hochmah Holy Wisdom Ibn Al-Arabi individual word meanings interpretation Islamic Jesus Jewish mysticism John Judaism Kabbalah Kabbalists language later Lex Hixon light literal translations living creation Logion look Meister Eckhart midrash modern movement Muhammad Muslim myth nature One-and-Many one's original divine image original meditation Peshitta Primal Human primordial prophets Quran rabbis religion rendered ritual Roman Rumi Sacred Unity scholars scripture sefirot Semitic Semitic language sense Sepher Yitzerah soul sound spiritual practice Storyteller Sufi Sufism Syriac tell things Torah tradition universe usually translated various vision worldview