A Wildly Sensual YAHWEH - Shircliff, Brian J

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Résumé :
A Wildly Sensual YAHWEH is Volume 0 of The Naked Path of Prophet series: The Bible is a very complicated book. It can inspire love and friendship. It can breed hate and genocide. As we approach a text like Genesis alone, we must come to know that there are competing voices there, different storycrafters and editors-through-the-centuries, all with very different points of view. Listen carefully to Genesis as scholars do and you'll come to know a distinctive gathering of storycrafting voices offering a similar, freeing viewpoint. Scholars used to call that 'voice' the Yahwist, or J for short. Today we have a better sense that it's many people telling stories in the same vein over the span of a few centuries. I call this gathering 'the band of YAH'...with their very queer way of understanding YAHWEH and YAHWEH's ecstatic people, the prophets, who have very different maps of reality than the priests and kings and authority-minded with their hierarchical and fascist mindsets. Greater than ever, as wars continue to break out and as we humans seem so intent on destroying our own chances for survival on Earth, we have dire need to disentangle fascist-motivations from love-motivations in every religion...indeed in every interaction. May we have the courage to respond with love...perhaps motivated by an ecstatic experience, YAHWEH....

Biographie:
Brian J. Shircliff is one of the original founding members of VITALITY Cincinnati in 2010. He taught religion and coached golf & swimming at St. Xavier High School (1997 - 2013) and taught religion at St. Ursula Academy (2018). Thanks to his excellent teachers, from the very beginning of his own teaching career, Brian realized that providing opportunities for people to share with one another stories and insights from texts and life was the very best way of education...a discovering together, a 'leading out' to new horizons. Everything is new again, or can be, every day through each of our rich perspectives shaped by imagination and sensation.He is fascinated by the impossible and incredibly important opportunity of trying to imagine or even guess at the human experiences that gave rise to ancient stories and traditions by reading the ancient texts and artifacts we have inherited...the inner basements within us ALL.As a somatic explorer and meditator, he directs programs at VITALITY and is excited to see graduates beginning their own small businesses through yoga, meditation, gardening, herbalism, sustainability, Movement Intelligence?, Healing Touch and more that they go on to invent.His college studies in Hebrew and Greek and French (and recently Sanskrit) have deepened his understandings of life, something for which he is profoundly grateful and hopes more people will explore with him.