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Putting Puzzle Pieces Together
Putting Puzzle Pieces Together Suppose you thought that you had a past life in which you perished, by one of the methods in the Nazi repertoire, during the run-up years that culminated in the Holocaust. I mean, suppose you entertained … Continue reading
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Tagged Abigail L. Rosenthal’s A Good Look at Evil, Authentic listening, Case histories, Chabad, Chabad rabbi, documentary hypothesis, Emotional fatigue, experimental psychology, False memories, Holocaust non-survivors, Intellectual giants, Jewish mysticism, loving the soul, Memory series, midrash, naturalistic explanations, neshama, ousting a predator, Past and present life, past life memories, past lives, Pastoral care, physicalism, Reform movement, reform rabbi, reincarnation, righteous combat, Spiritual crisis, Spiritual fatigue, Sudden weakness, Suffering of the righteous, The Jewish soul, The missing piece, women’s dignity
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Did My Story Just Get Longer?
Did My Story Just Get Longer? In recent days, I’ve felt that it’s time for philosophy — the discipline, with its history and skills — to step up, as it did in days past. To identify and negotiate the great … Continue reading
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Tagged 1930s in Germany, Abigail L. Rosenthal's "A Good Look at Evil", author and book, children's Holocaust memories, clues to past life, culture and personal choice, dialectical life, Edith Wyschogrod, evil agent, German Jews, German Jews in hiding, God and the Covenant, God and the Jews, Holocaust non-survivors, intelligence of evil, learning who one is, life adventures, life review, living one’s story, love of wisdom, many lives, narrative continuity, narrative view, out of body experience, past life regression, past-life dislocations, past-life memories, personal identity, philosophy in culture, Plato's dialogues, reincarnation, scope of the Holocaust, sealed trucks in Holocaust, self-congratulation, self-correction, understanding evil, understanding the good life, woman philosopher, zeitgeist and anti-semitism, Zyklon B
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