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Acquiring Jewish Existence
“You have the Jewish essence,” I was once told by a friend. “But you don’t have Jewish existence.” The verdict had been pronounced by my late friend Milton Schubin, who was then a partner in a powerful New … Continue reading
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Tagged academic fight, academic job fight, antisemitism as an illness that breaks out, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn College of CUNY, chasing ghosts, common sense and the occult, family in high places, finding water with a dowser, flight from the Jewish assignment, global fight against global antisemitism, God as old man with white beard, grandfather looking like God, Henry M. Rosenthal's philosophy students, Israeli family, Jewish calendar holidays, Jewish calendar year, Jewish existence, Jewish existence as frightening, Jewish in life habits, Jewish in the head, Jewish life method, Jewish ritual observance, Jewish ritual practices, Jewish time in history, Jewish time in recorded history, Jewish wariness re the occult, Judaism as a field of practices, Judaism as a way of life, keeping a kosher diet, leaving the rabbinate, legal advice, legal fight, living the Jewish assignment, looking up to your grandfather, Milton Schubin, mixed signals, Nazi use of sealed trucks, New York law firm, occult experience as destabilizing, Oct 8, Oct 8 global antisemitism, out of body experience, out-of-body view of global antisemitism, out-of-body vision, past life memory, past lives, philosophy students, pre-Holocaust killings, pro bono legal advice, rabbinic descent, Rav Tsair, remembering a past life, resisting fear, seeing hate from above, spiritualism, teacher-student friendship, the Jewish essence, the occult and its dangers, the occult and moral danger, the occult and psychological danger, the occult and spiritual danger, the run-up to the Holocaust, understanding Judaism conceptually, understanding Judaism existentially, understanding Judaism experientially, wariness and skepticism, wariness re the occult
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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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Was It A Past Life?
Was It A Past Life? By now there are many cases on record of individuals recalling previous lifetimes. A person under hypnosis will seem to remember incidents that occurred under conditions quite different from those obtaining in that person’s present … Continue reading
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Tagged AAR president, Abigail L. Rosenthal's "A Good Look at Evil", American Academy of Religion, anomalies, anti-semitism, anti-semitism's return, Austrian S.S., breast cancer, Brendan Larvor's Lakatos: An Introduction, children's past lives, covenantal obligation, death experience, death vision, Edith Wyschogrod, emblem and fact, emblematic experience, empirical evidence, excisional biopsy, Germany in the 1930s, Holocaust, hypnotic regression, Imre Lakatos, informers, laws of nature, materialist/mechanist model, medical empathy, medical tatoo, Nazi gas chambers, Nazi killing techniques, out of body experience, paradigm, past life, past life confirmation, past life regression as treatment, radiation treatment, refuting instance, reincarnation, reincarnation evidence, return of the repressed, scientific evidence, scientific theories, sealed trucks, Shoah, theoretical anomalies, Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, trucks in the Shoah, woman GYN, Zyklon B
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Do Miracles Happen?
Do Miracles Happen? Occasionally something occurs that you or I might be tempted to call “a miracle.” But: what follows when you try to talk about a “miracle” that you think might have happened to you? Despite the Establishment Clause … Continue reading
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Tagged "Freddie's lost his cool", A.J. Ayer, accepted views, altruism, Analytic philosophy, Anglophone philosophy, annihilation of consciousness, anthologies of religion, Atheism, atheist, atheist anxieties, belief system, body as mechanism, brain damage, brain death, British Humanist Association, brute features of humanity, chance as explanatory, Darwinism, definition of miracles, established religion, Establishment Clause, evolutionary biology, felt futility, First Amendment, fruitful outcome, getting nowhere, heart death, human refinement, identity theory, improbable events, laws of nature, laws of probability, life after death, life deceits, light on the meaning, logical positivism, meaning of life, meaningful events, meaninglessness, mental clatter, mind is brain, miracles, N.D.E., natural selection, near death experience, non-conformism, noticing a miracle, O.B.E., objectivity, origin of space and time, out of body experience, out of the closet, perceiving a miracle, philosophical failure, philosophical success, private experience, randomness, Rationalist Press Association, reductionism, religious doctrine, religious tolerance, role of chance, secular humanism, seeing God, selling the Brooklyn Bridge, sense data, social conformism, social dissent, social excommunication, social isolation, South Place Ethical Society, stopping to listen, stopping to look, Sunday Telegraph, supernatural event, survival drive, synchronicity, synchronous events, target of ridicule, The Big Bang, the material world, the objective world, the selfish gene, theory of evolution, US Constitution, what's a miracle?
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