The Voices of Genesis: Listening to the Spirits on the Ecstatic Journey to Enlightenment in the Garden - Softcover

Brink, Nicholas E

Softcover

ISBN 10: 196009064X ISBN 13: 9781960090645

Publisher: Red Elixir, 2024

Synopsis

The seven stories of Genesis, of Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph, were passed down orally by the storytellers of antiquity before they were recorded in the Torah and Old Testament. Their metaphorical nature gives them a much deeper meaning than if they are listened to as literal history. We have forgotten how to listen to them as the ancients listened. A group of five of us listened in the state of ecstatic trance, trance that revealed their deeper meanings. The first revelation revealed what Eve learned from eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge, the dichotomy of good vs. evil. The endless list of such dichotomies with which we have lived for the last several thousand years: pain vs. comfort, love vs. hate, us vs. them, Israel vs. Palestine, etc., bring conflict and anguish to our controlling, patriarchal world. As we move into the New Age, we return to the matriarchal world of compassion and love, the world of such conflict dissolves, opening the gate for the return to the Garden of Eden.

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About the Author

NICHOLAS BRINK, Ph.D. is a past board member of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, past president of the American Association for the Study of Mental Imagery, a certified instructor of ecstatic trance, and the author of nine books: Grendel and His Mother; The Power of Ecstatic Trance, Baldr's Magic; Beowulf's Ecstatic Trance Magic, Trance Journeys of the Hunter-Gatherers, Ecstatic Soul Retrieval: Applying the Constructive Approach to Cognitive Therapy, Loki's Children, and Listening to the Spirits.

Edition details

• Publisher: Red Elixir
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 196009064X
• ISBN 13: 9781960090645
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 178