Opening, revealing..appearing

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I have notice that whenever I have studied something (Taoism for example) and then went back and read the bible and/or catachisis it is so much more enlightening. I see things I never realized before, pick up on messages never noticed before.

This year has been very busy for me. I have read about Mayan Cosmology, the Nag Hammadi library, review Taoism, and studied a ton of information about mysticism (Earth based, Buddism, Christian, etc). Spent a lot of time pondering it all. Lots of meditation and prayer and more and more thought...

Now I have begun to go back and read the bible (and catachism) and it is like I mentioned above, only times 10!!

I have always believed that all the various religions/disciplines shine light on each other and for me it continues to be proven through my experiences.


Have you experienced an enlightening in one area/discipline/religion after studying another?

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Oh man, it's much worse than that. It's exponential. Every time I learn something new, I try to apply it to everything else that I can.

When I learn something new about geology, I try to apply it to Taoism, Hinduism, Jungian psychology, everything else I have ever learned and vice versa. Similar for anything else I ever learn; it not only ADDS to each other but actually MULTIPLIES with each other!


And the more you learn, the more knowledge you already have to compare and contrast the new ideas to, and so the new ideas become increasingly and increasingly educational to you as they are exposed and combined with all your other knowledge, even when it's seemingly trivial to other people! You will hear a most obvious and common sense 3-word sentence and think, "Oh my god! Epiphany!", simply because you can simultaneously derive so many connotations from the word, from so many different perspectives and considering so many different things!

That is why the 3-word (maybe technically 2-word) statement "everything is everything" trips me out so bad. It blows my mind, how obvious it is, yet how infinitely incomprehensible it truly is.

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How many of us do this?

How many people "make the rounds" if you will, by either studying something new or reviewing something they have studied years ago and then go back to each area of interest and see if they can pick up a deeper/clearer understanding or maybe even pick up on something that went unnoticed before???

It is so easy to find one area to focus most of your energy on and just let everything else go (even things once treasured, once enjoyed so much, once loved...), to just abandon it all.
I have always thought why drop this for that, when both are beneficial...both are of great value.

How many of us have either set aside a religion/discipline or an area of study or even thrown it away?