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Message from William C. Kiefert, August, 2002.

The three original books offered on GnosticChristianity.com represent thousands of years worth of scholarly research, and in my opinion, they are essential to understanding the authentic Jesus and the future of enlightened religion. Together, they clearly relate how Jesus revealed a principle of logic which is, like Newton’s theory of gravity, “true” for everyone everywhere regardless of religious or philosophical persuasions. When knowledge (Gnosis) of that principle is global, all stand to be empowered to live the “good life” Paul promises in Eph. 2:9-10 dbv.

I also would like to share with you my feeling that the times demand the dissemination of Jesus’ logos/logic teachings, at times to the detriment of editorial perfection; for that, I beg your pardon. Corrected editions will be available as time and circumstances allow. I have included a synopsis of the key ideas of Jesus’ teachings in the Appendix of all of my interpretations of biblical text. This will help readers better understand Jesus’ teachings from the Gnostic Christian perspective.

These books are truly unique in that they are written in the same Gnostic Christian mindset found in the writings of Jesus, John, Paul and others.

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The Practical Side of Heaven: Chapter Three, Part Two: Familiar Five Stage Models

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The Practical Side of Heaven: Chapter Three, Part Two: Familiar Five Stage Models

The use of a stage model is widespread among Western psychologists and other writers on human development. A stage model analyzes growth in terms of “an invariant sequence of discrete and increasingly complex developmental stages, whereby no stage can be passed over and each higher stage implies or presupposes the previous stages. This does not exclude regressions, overlaps, arrested developments and the like.” This suggests that higher stages cannot be understood in terms of the lower ones, but the lower stages can be clarified in terms of higher ones. It is possible for someone, under economic and political pressures, and certainly under conditions of war and similar stress, to slip back into an earlier stage.

Some writers have analyzed the stages of human development in terms of history, morality, spirituality, and a hierarchy of needs. Our system is different. We will characterize human growth in terms of five stages of rational development. Virtually absent in the infant, the capacity to reason reaches only rudimentary levels in the earliest period of life. An early expression of reason may be found in our ability to make rational but conscienceless choices. A further development is when conscience is added to our reasoning. In a still later stage, reason will develop the capacity to completely transcend judgmental either/or thinking and attain the capacity for non-judgment, acceptance, love, peace, wisdom. In the final stage of reason, we might be called “fully human” or “enlightened.”

The Relationship Between Morality & Rational Development

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The Practical Side of Heaven: Chapter Three, Part One: The Relationship Between Morality & Rational Development

Our psychic processes are made up, to a large extent, of reflection, doubts, experiments, all of which are almost completely foreign to the unconscious, instinctive mind of primitive man. It is the growth of consciousness which we must thank for the existence of problems; they are the Danaan gift of civilization. It is just man’s turning away from instinct–his opposing himself to instinct–that creates consciousness. Instinct is nature and seeks to perpetuate nature, whereas consciousness can only seek culture or its denial.

Our human development has been commonly analyzed in terms of five stages. At each of these stages, a different human nature emerges. What is “natural” for us at Stage I is not “natural” when we are at Stage III, for example. And the converse is equally true:

The Practical Side of Heaven: Chapter Two, Part Thirteen: The Failure of Either/Or Reasoning In Our Everyday Lives

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Chapter Two, Part Thirteen: The Failure of Either/Or Reasoning In Our Everyday Lives

There are families who are devastated today because their children have AIDS. They contracted this disease through blood transfusions. And these children are not alone. Many adults, too, now bear the effects of contaminated blood. Years ago the companies which processed and sold blood were aware of the presence of the hepatitis virus in their blood supply. But since it could take as long as thirty or forty years for hepatitis to kill its victims, the blood companies made the decision that the risk was not worth the cost of sterilizing the blood. Little did they know that in their blood supply was also the dreaded AIDS virus. Had the companies sterilized the blood, the AIDS virus would have been killed along with the hepatitis virus. But the blood companies decided that it would cut too deeply into their profits to do the procedure.

The Practical Side of Heaven: Chapter Two, Part Twelve: Can Civilization Survive Another Three Thousand Years of Judgmental Logic?

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Judgmental laws of logic are at work in our everyday lives on a scale that dwarfs the effects of even laws of mathematics. The effects of mathematical laws, for example, are in most every manmade product, from the family car to the ink used to print these words. Our laws of logic, however, act as the standards for what we think is reasonable or pure nonsense, morally, socially, sexually, politically, economically, and even mathematically. Without laws of logic, civilization would not exist.

Philosopher Francis Bacon and many others, however, have recognized that our present laws of logic are judgmental and can, therefore, harm rather than help us.

“The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions, than to help to search out the truth. So it does more harm than good.”

The new sciences have also revealed that our logic cannot describe certain natural phenomena. To understand all the facts of nature, we need, as scientist Wolfgang Pauli said, a “new conception of reality,” one which accepts the “irrationality of rationality.” Or, as I would say, a new conception of reality not limited to traditional laws of logic.

The Practical Side of Heaven: Chapter Two, Part Ten: Does Humanity Have More Than One Nature?

Chapter Two, Part Ten: Does Humanity Have More Than One Nature?

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I will take time here to argue that humanity is a class that has more than one nature. It is important to do this because later we will see that Jesus used this same argument to justify nonjudgmental logic. The point is that Jesus’ system of nonjudgmental logic is based on the credibility that some classes—namely humanity—have more than one nature. This makes nonjudgmental logic not only desirable, but a logical necessity. Think about it. How could anyone prove that humanity has but one nature? Human nature is a subjective concept, not an object that can be analyzed.

Plato wrote in the Republic that “we are accustomed to posit a single form for each group of many things to which we give the same name.” This implies that human beings share a single nature. We want to challenge this assumption. Later we will see that this same challenge justifies Jesus’ logic teachings.

The Practical Side of Heaven: Chapter Two, Part Eight: The Three “Basic” Laws of Logic and How They Affect Reasoning

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Chapter Two, Part Eight: The Three “Basic” Laws of Logic and How They Affect Reasoning

The three basic laws of logic are:
. The Law of Identity.
. The Law of Non-Contradiction.
. The Law of Excluded Middle.

The law of identity institutionalizes the prevailing theory of nature stating that every member of a class, say class X, has the same nature as every other member of that class. From this we can conclude that every member of that class is, by nature, X, and only X. In symbolic terms, this simply means that X is X.

As obvious as X is X may appear, its consequences are not. The law of identity justifies generalizations, and therefore, the concept that reasoning in terms of absolutes and certainty is logical. If everyone agrees that X is X and only X, it is reasonable to generalize, and be absolutely certain, that every X is X.

The Practical Side of Heaven: Chapter Two, Part Seven: What is the Assumption Upon Which Logic Rests?

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Chapter Two, Part Seven: What is the Assumption Upon Which Logic Rests?

Many consider Plato’s Theory of Noncontradiction, “the axiom [or basic assumption beneath] … all logic” ; namely “the same thing clearly cannot act or be acted upon in the same part or in the same relation to the same thing at the same time, in contrary ways: and therefore whenever this contradiction occurs in things apparently the same, we know that they are really not the same but different.”

Plato’s theory seems self-evident, but shortly we will see that it is not.

Introduction to Bnei Baruch, Rav Michael Laitman and Kaballah.info

Kabbalah.info is the largest source of authentic Kabbalah wisdom available on the internet. It provides more than one million unique visitors per month with an encyclopedic variety of authentic Kabbalah content in 26 languages. Over seventy percent of the traffic originates in the US and Canada.

Rav Michael Laitman, Professor of Ontology and Theory of Knowledge, PhD in Philosophy and Kabbalah, and MSc in Medical Bio-Cybernetics, established Bnei Baruch in 1991, following the passing of his teacher, Rav Baruch Shalom HaLevi Ashlag (The Rabash). Rav Laitman

Meta-Intelligence: A guided tour with Peter Diamandis

Engineer, physician, entrepreneur and best-selling author Peter Diamandis.

In this landmark TEDx talk published in 2017, Peter Diamandis discusses the human-scale transformation driving our evolutionary next step into “Meta-Intelligence.” In our highly connected future – we will more easily share thoughts, knowledge and actions. Peter explains the four driving forces and four steps transforming humanity.

Named one of the world’s 50 greatest leaders by Fortune Magazine in 2014, Peter is the founder and executive chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation, which leads the world in designing and operating large-scale incentive competitions.