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The fossil is real. The living thing is gone.
Across every culture and century, ordinary people have encountered something they could barely survive, and left its impression behind: Noah and the flood, Moses, Mohammed trembling after the cave, the Buddha, Joseph Smith, Jesus, the Way of the Dao, even Nikola Tesla "retrieving rather than discovering" and Aleister Crowley's "love under will." The Fossil, the Egg, and the Fire reads these figures as fossils: real evidence of one divine force, pressed into human history.
Then it turns to you. Inherited belief, it argues, is an egg, and the shell is "not a prison. A mercy." It protects you until you're ready, and it can't be broken from the outside. You cannot hatch another person's egg. The grandmother praying for you is not your enemy. And the fire waiting beyond the shell is real.
Inside:
• The Fossilized God: prophets, mystics, and visionaries as evidence of the same fire
• Mankind's Egg: a four-part guide to growing inside belief, waking up, and why hatching can't be forced
• Unfamiliar Heaven: short parables on surrender and the will of God
For the spiritual but not religious, for anyone in or after faith deconstruction, and for readers of perennial philosophy and comparative mysticism. It's neither angry at religion nor bound by it, and it's short enough to read in an evening.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The fossil is real. The living thing is gone. Across every culture and century, ordinary people have encountered something they could barely survive, and left its impression behind: Noah and the flood, Moses, Mohammed trembling after the cave, the Buddha, Joseph Smith, Jesus, the Way of the Dao, even Nikola Tesla "retrieving rather than discovering" and Aleister Crowley's "love under will." The Fossil, the Egg, and the Fire reads these figures as fossils: real evidence of one divine force, pressed into human history. Then it turns to you. Inherited belief, it argues, is an egg, and the shell is "not a prison. A mercy." It protects you until you're ready, and it can't be broken from the outside. You cannot hatch another person's egg. The grandmother praying for you is not your enemy. And the fire waiting beyond the shell is real. Inside: - The Fossilized God: prophets, mystics, and visionaries as evidence of the same fire- Mankind's Egg: a four-part guide to growing inside belief, waking up, and why hatching can't be forced- Unfamiliar Heaven: short parables on surrender and the will of God For the spiritual but not religious, for anyone in or after faith deconstruction, and for readers of perennial philosophy and comparative mysticism. It's neither angry at religion nor bound by it, and it's short enough to read in an evening. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9798160416045
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