BOOKS: "The Experience of God"

Simon Kidd reviews the book "The Experience of God" by David Bentley Hart:

"The Experience of God is divided into three main parts, with a preceding ten-page ‘Introduction’ detailing David Bentley Hart’s motive for writing it. He explains that recent heated debates about the existence of God indicate a fundamental confusion about the subject. In some ways the book is a challenge to atheists to be clear about what it is that they don’t believe, a task DBH has undertaken at greater length in his 2009 Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies, also published by Yale.

"This is a book of philosophy, rather than theology, and at its core is the tradition of ‘classical theism’. Stemming from Plato and Aristotle, this tradition was developed in the early Christian centuries by the ‘Fathers of the Church’ as well as pagans like Plotinus, reaching its apogee in the writings of the medieval philosopher-theologians of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. Apart from the ‘Religions of the Book’, DBH says that the definition of God that he is offering is one that can be found in ‘Vedantic and Bhaktic Hinduism, Sikhism, various late antique paganisms [and] even applies in many respects to various Mahayana formulations of, say, the Buddha Consciousness or the Buddha Nature, or even to the earliest Buddhist conception of the Unconditioned, or to certain aspects of the Tao’ (4). This universalism is also captured in the book’s subtitle, since ‘being, consciousness, bliss’ are translations of the Sanskrit ‘sat, chit, ananda’, which are usually combined into the portmanteau ‘Satchitananda’ (with variant spellings), a term referring to the ultimate reality, Brahman (see Wikipedia: ‘Satchitananda’). The Sanskrit terms are used explicitly in Part Two.

Read the entire review of The Experience of God

NDE: Tricia Barker's Conversations With Near-Death Experiencers: Episode #2

A very interesting interview with Peter Panagore, a person who had a very interesting an unusual near death experience, in that he was invited to STAY in heaven, but, of his own free will, decided to go back to earth, an experience that he truly regrets making!   He has some tremendous wisdom to share, highly recommended!

2018-12-28  [P-B]

NDE: God Grants Favor

Friday, August 17, 2018


Length: 00:15:11

A really interesting and fun NDE report.  The woman died from drowning when she was just 20 years old, and had an amazing experience meeting God!

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PRAYER: This Is YOUR Finest Hour! | Mike Bickle

Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Length 00:41:39

Mike Bickle appears on Sid Roth's "It's Supernatural" and talks about one of the greatest prophets of God in modern times: Bob Jones.  Mike has been one of the biggest champions of the overwhelming power of God's love that I have ever known.

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Alan Watts - Improving Yourself

The Zen philosopher Alan Watts on how to improve yourself.

The most important question: "Can I improve ME?"




Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was a British philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and populariser of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience. Born in Chislehursjt, England, he moved to the United States in 1938 and began Zen training in New York.

information -> transformation -> formation