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Cargando... God: A Story of Revelationpor Deepak Chopra
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En esta obra, Deepak Chopra explora la evolución de Dios al capturar la vida de diez profetas, santos y místicos de la historia que tuvieron contacto con un poder divino y logra generar un retrato fascinante de un Dios en constante cambio. Nuestra creencia - y por lo tanto, Dios mismo- se transforma con cada siglo que pasa. Así, al sacar a la luz los momentos definitivos de nuestros sabios más influyentes, el autor revela lecciones universales sobre la verdadera naturaleza de Dios. En el Antiguo Testamento, Job experimentó algo completamente diferente de lo que vivió Pablo en el Nuevo Testamento; Sócrates persiguió un espíritu volátil casi irreconocible para la extraña voz que llamó a Rumi; y a pesar de que Shankara fue de pueblo en pueblo compartiendo la verdad sobre un dios que nada tenía que ver con aquel que guió a Anne Hutchinson, existe un patrón innegable en ambos relatos. Estos visionarios llevaron a la raza humana a explorar caminos desconocidos, y Chopra nos invita a revisitarlos. Desgarrador y estimulante para el alma y el corazón, Dios nos lleva al profundo y alterador entendimiento sobre la naturaleza de la creencia, el poder de la fe y el espíritu que vive dentro de todos nosotros. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Of course I don’t remember a lot of it; there’s the Old and New Testament figures, and Socrates and his girl—there are a lot of women figures, including I think two of the ten with woman leads, including one with two women conversing; one oppressed early modern scientist; a post-biblical Jew; an ancient and a modern Indian; Rumi. Deepak has written other spiritual works of fiction, including novels about some of the religion founders like Jesus, Buddha, and Mohammad, so this book is built around that, avoiding overlap and filling in gaps. It’s of course very impressionistic, just taking a leader or thinker here and there, and then picking it up a few hundred years later in a different country. He’s very diverse.
I guess the one that sticks with me the most is Rumi. I guess a lot of people have heard the ‘beyond ideas of wrong doing and right doing there is a field’ quote, or even read him superficially—I was one of these, but I can’t say I understood him. Reading about his life helped. The thing about Rumi is he was not polite. It all sounds very polite, hundreds of years later: revered dead trouble-makers. It sounds less polite, often, to trump up the living: it sounds like advertising. But those trouble makers of old, boy, they might have died young and violently like Shams of Tabriz, but boy, everybody loved them back then! They were elevated and pure, and against the greasy wheels of political and societal corruption, and they just loved people, and that’s a sure formula to develop a following—no! Universal acclaim!—in any century. Just look at the world, right. Just close your eyes, and, Really Look, and you’ll See.
Rumi is not polite. That’s exactly why he survives, and is worth something to history or whatever. Pure, but not polite.