Post by Dave on Jan 8, 2024 2:25:17 GMT -5
Genesis, Zen and Quantum Physics – Jeff Benner
R" Yes I read that book, it's a weird book?
What are the verse would you discuss
What does it mean concerning Jeff's religious views do you think?
Jeff Brenner is both 100% Jewish and 100% Gnostic
You will not like or agree with most everything he says
What are the verse would you discuss
Gen 1:1 pg 16 – God is beyond description
But turning to the ZOHAR – the first thing to come forth = Ayn Soph – (Gnostic Sophia)
It is the totality of creation – (Gnostic – she is the ALL)
She is – without borders – without definition – (Christian omnipresent)
Such language supports a description of the Big Bang – (agree)
Pg 17 – the idea that everything is made of the stuff of God
Jewish kabbalish – you see a bus go by – you could say Hi God
Gnostic – crack open a rock – and I am there
Gen 1:1 – god fattened Himself – to be the medium / ether / matrix of all creation
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Gen 1:2 pg 24 a problem in translation – what did ancient man mean
Hayah – the essence of a bring
Pg 25 to the ancient Hebrew water was considered chaos (because its unknown)
All the power – all the raw materials for the world were all jumbled together in chaos
Light atoms and dark atoms all mixed together
And God was both
Nebular Hypothises - Imanual Kant 1754
Pg 26 darkness / choshek – is more than just absence of light – it must be something man can feel
Pg 26 kavod = heaveness
Pg 27 the Glory of God = the heaviness of darkness / choshek
Pg 25 1 Kings 8:12 God lives in the dark cloud – Isa 45:7 tov and ra – God did it
God is associated with both light and dark / tov and ra
We don’t like to think of God as being involved with things WE consider negative – but there is nothing outside of God – or outside of Ayn Sop
Without chaos we could not appreciate order
Without darkness we couldn’t appreciate the light
What does it mean concerning Jeff's religious views do you think?
Jeff Brenner is both 100% Jewish and 100% Gnostic
Jeff Brenner is a Kabbalistic Jewish mystic
You will not like or agree with most everything he says
What are the verse would you discuss
Gen 1:3 – the LIGHT
Pg 30 again the verb hayah = to reveal – to illuminate
pg 32 God is the light
Dave – This is the first time God revealed Himself within His creation
The story of Day 1 separation of the light from the darkness parallels – every other day of creation
Dave
Gen 1:1 beginning
Gen 1:2 ignorance – corruption
Gen 1:3 light – salvation
Gen 1:4 separation
Dave – this cycle repeated over and over = age after age
Pg32 James Maxwell – the base ether / matrix / medium of all creation = the EM Spectrum
Pg 33 Thomas Young double slit experiment
Light travel through a vacuum as a wave – immeasurable
But measurable as a particle when it interacts with another object – we only measure the force of impact
Pg 34 Phillip Lenard 1899 / Max Planl 1900 / Einstein 1904
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Pg 37 matter= “virtual protons” and immeasurable electrons all based on an EM Spectrum
We live in a holographic universe – this physical world is an illusion
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Gen 1:5 pg 38 – E=mc2
God is the ligh and the darkness
God is the creator and the destroyer
The division between the two art artificial
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More than once throughout the book I have highlighted -
adam and Eve and their short sojourn in utopia
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Gen 1:21 pg 82 – nefesh of chayah
Tananim – probably something large and reptilian
Pg 83 the cooperation between plants ans animals
The utilization of each others waste
Plants – toxic atm to oxygen
Animals breathe the air and eat the plants - then fertilize new plants
EVERYTHING IN BALANCE
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Gen 2:7 pg 196 - adam is created as a dicotomy - infused with both tov and and ra
Gnostic - man is created as a duality (yester tov)+(yester ra)
Chayim = LIFE / existance
Animals chayim is of the earth and return to the earth
Animals live only by (yester ra) and they cannot change - or change their behaviour - they are programmed
Chayim with man - is from God - we are a dulality - (yestr ra - like animals)+(yester tov - from God)
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Gen 3:1 pg 166 – we will not translate it ‘serpent’ because that would be too limiting
We do not know what type of creature it is
We know it was unique within creation
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Gen 3:6 - I have no notes - BUT Gen 3:5 I have many pgs 172-174
Last two sentences - the consequence - it moved adam from a place of partnership with God to antagonistic with all the world - the world we live in
Correct - our real struggle - man vrs world
all the world - Eph 6:12
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Gen 3:14 pg 195 Both Ish (man) and Isha (woman) are now grounded from their spiritual heights
Serpent = dragon – (Rev 12)
The nechash could literally be the earth itself - (Gnostic world)
aphar = dust = a multitude – the serpent we eat a multitude of Eve’s seed
Interesting – I thought only Islam teaches the Jinn FEED on human emotions / fear
What does it mean concerning Jeff's religious views do you think?
Jeff Brenner is both 100% Jewish and 100% Gnostic
Jeff Brenner is a Kabbalistic Jewish mystic
You will not like or agree with most everything he says
What are the verse would you discuss