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Are We Clever Monkeys or Immortal Souls | Tim Freke | TEDxBerkeley

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But science has shown that 98% of the atoms in my body are replaced every year. Indeed, there isn't a single atom in my body today that was part of my body 10 years ago. My body isn't 52 years old, it's 10 years old at most!

Tim Freke,

The Mystery Experience

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Unividuality Through The Jesus Myth

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A Post Where I Mock Tim Freke and I Don't Feel Bad About It

Alright alright, Time Freke might not be a bad guy. Who knows. Seems kinda weird self-help-y half appropriating whatever mystic tradition he feels like to benefit his own world view. Whatever. He might be nice.

This is a post where I compare his translation to Salaman Clement's much better (not perfect) but much better translation of the Corpus.

I might get a little mean. Trust me though it'll be fun.

The translations I'm comparing are Tim Freke and Peter Candy's The Hermetica The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs, and Clement Salaman's The Way of Hermes.

Let's start with Freke, at the beginning. Here Freke introduces our narrator Hermes and his initiatory guide who is... not the titular Poimandres? But the Way-Guide!

Bad start Tim! Really weird way to translate Nous. Also you're translating to Atum to make yourself seem cooler and more mystic. You can say God bro. We're talking a philosophy in the mix with the likes of Neoplatonism and Epicureanism (okay the Corpus probably predates both those things but the ideas were already out there), the monad as an idea is well established by this point. Whether the text is referring to the neoplatonic monad or a more Christian influenced God we don't know! Not for certain. But we do know that what you call the Supreme Mind is *of* God. Weird that you're not mentioning that.

Here's Clement

Ahhh here we go. The Nous *of* the supreme. The Mind of God as a manifest being who is separate but a part of the whole! This is what we like to see. Thanks Clement. Sounds like you've actually read some contemporaneous thinkers to the Hermetists.

Back to Tim

Here Tim boils down a lot of really complex and frankly beautiful ideas into a sort of intellectual sludge that I assume he thought would be easier for his readers. But in so doing he destroys any significant metaphysical insight someone could actually gain from the text.

Clement?

Ah here we go. A fiery demiurge, and androgyne Adam. This is the shit we come here for. This is the stuff that made this period of spiritual thought truly interesting. So much stuff getting mixed in together! Platonic thought! Christian themes and ideas! Planetary deities! A healthy dash of what would later be called gnostic by some!

There's so much depth here the compaction simply eradicates.

Okay one more comparison this post is already really long.

It's worth noting that Freke skips over ALMOST THE ENTIRETY OF THE REMAINING BOOK 1

Anyways. Here's Hermes dialogue with Asclepius in Book 2 Except Freke eradicates Asclepius from this portion of the narrative to... simplify? I guess?

Now, that's a lot of talking without making in actual points beyond a handwave to ineffability. So here's the passage I presume he was translating actually making clear and precise metaphysical claims about the nature of God.

Rather than ineffability, Clements translation retains the dialogue between the two figures to make a very clear syllogism on the nature of the divine as bodiless.

Not some apophatic rambling but actual statements about the nature of things! A universe with traits that can be observed and discussed!

Anyway this is all to say Tim Freke's a goofball please read something else. I know I rambled a lot here but it's quite late. For more Hermetic stumbling shoot me an ask. I'm going to bed.

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End of Week 56: Book 📘56 Completed🙂: Lucid Living – Tim Freke

"We are so wrapped up in our opinions about life that we mistake our own make-believe world for reality—just like when we’re dreaming."

Tim claims we all are dreaming, while we feel we are living reality, and he suggests by changing our perspective, and change the way we think, we can transform our experience of living.

Tim leads readers through seven powerful insights that will work together to wake you up from the sleeping sickness that keeps you unconscious in the life-dream in less than 50 pages book.

Few 🔑Points –

• Now Is All You Know - Your experience of this moment is not a belief that can be questioned. It is a self-evident certainty. Your experience of this moment is all you can be absolutely sure of.

• Being One is Loving All – When we assume, we are just separate individuals, we act in our limited self-interest, regardless of the suffering we may cause others. The illusion of separateness leads to selfishness and suffering.

• When we realize that separateness is an illusion, we understand that conflict is never between us and them, but always us against us.

Few 📌Quotes-

1) You can doubt all beliefs that are based on your memories of the past, because memory is fallible.

2) Your experience of this moment is not a belief that can be questioned. It is a self-evident certainty.

3) When we assume, we are just separate individuals, we act in our limited self-interest, regardless of the suffering we may cause others.

For Book Summary Visit My Blog –

https://myreadforchange.com/lucid-living-book-summary-i-tim-freke/

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Week 56: Book 56: Lucid Living – Tim Freke

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LOOKING BACK AND FORWARD: An informal chat