10 Master Teachers
Religions teach us to make this world a better place. Each of them attempts to build a consensus of co-existence and mutual understanding within their communities.
Moving beyond our individual beliefs about God teaches us to cooperate and make the world a more compassionate, loving, and peaceful place. Believing in God intellectually is worthless without knowing God exponentially. The source of creation, whether it is called, God, Allah, Yahweh, the big bang or energy: “IT” is what animates life and matter. “IT” cannot be measured or weighed or even calculated in time and space as we know it.
These ten images of master teachers lived and walked with humanity providing instruction for how to behave on the planet earth. What we believe can reflect how we interact. Our planet is in crisis and what humanity does in the next 4 decades will change our chances for survival.
These masters have left their methods and practices in layers throughout our societies. Their ideas can guide our way through the environmental crisis. Religion and philosophy gives guidance for our lives and the potential for the “I “ to become “We.”
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When we say, “our world”, the two words say little about the magnificent indefinable and unknowable potential for goodness and balance. Make your contribution count without destroying anything you did not create.
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17 Gods & Goddesses
Ganesha, the Sumerian worshipers, the Mayan corn god, the Aboriginal lightning god, Navaho sand paintings, God Tarnis, Gilgamesh, etc. have perhaps nothing visual in common but they are all images used for devotion and conduits to the spirit world. Their sacred reality is transmitted and recorded through symbolic language, a vast inheritance of intercultural archetypal iconography. Many images have survived time but for some, the meaning has been lost.
Choices for the “The Dialogue” focus on interfaith peacemaking that predate the birth of Christ. The selections reflect a fascination with cultures around the world on all five continents. The archetypal iconographic paintings represented are not all fully human and do include elements from the animal and spiritual kingdoms..