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Newsletter Nr. 896
Amsterdam, September 26th, 2020


THE ORACLE OF UNKNOWING - The "High Priest" of Huntington Beach - Responds to Brad Reynolds - DAVID LANE

I realize that Brad Reynolds has coupled Frank and I together in his John White inspired rejoinder, but I think it is best for me to respond individually and let Frank provide his own response. Though I enjoyed reading “Unenlightened Science: A View on Things, Not God,” I found too much of it had the earmarks of theological apologetics. The following focuses on those parts that deal directly with me and I have tended to skip over the long sections where Brad Reynolds sermonizes about his Adi Da influenced teachings and provides us with a set of New Age homilies.

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THE DESCENT OF THE AVATAR - Confusing Personal Theology with Transcendental Cosmology - DAVID LANE

John White has provided us with a delightful reframing of Hindu mythology focusing on evolution and the nine (in the future to be ten) avatars and what they represent for ever increasing levels of consciousness. White's thesis, even if deeply questionable, is exceptionally clear and he states it up front in the very first sentence in his essay, “Human history is a process of ascent to godhead.”

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http://www.integralworld.net/lane265.html