For a little more context, if you are interested, you should read The Essene Christ, by Clary Upton Ewing. You'll find a lot more context to what Im saying there, as this isnt exactly the best medium for relaying such a lengthy topic of discourse.
Likewise, Simon J. Joseph writes quite a bit on the subject, as does a number of other scholars.
Also, you ever listen to Tool? Read the lyrics of most of the songs in their Lateralus album, they frequently speak of concepts originated by the essene movement.
Curt Cobain also spoke of a lot of essene mythos. "I light my candles in a daze, cuz i found God" harkens on Revelation Chapter 3, when Christ is writing to the 7 churches in Asia, denoted as the 7 lampstands of heaven, which are allegory to the 7 chakral elements of the endocrine system within our body explored in Yoga.
Its a lot more prevalent in modern pop culture than you would think, but then again these tunes are just so catchy, so maybe you never really listened to or understood the lyrics our modern bards are alluding to.
The Matrix is essentially built on the spiritual conceptualization originated from Essene thought aside from the whole physical world outside of the digital world envelope. All spirituality essentially points to the fact that the body is merely a vessel of experience for the spirit.
Most of our great Enlightenment thinkers came to agree as well. Look at the spiritual underpinnings of Jung, Newton, Sir Francis Bacon, Benjamin Franklin, Freud, Einstein, Descartes; almost all of them subscribed to modern pivots of Essene thought; but then again the allure of thinking ourselves as history's greats when we've accomplished little if anything of significance is an alluring trap of the Ego. What do they know anyways? They never slayed Trakanon and got pixels, they merely laid the foreground for the esoteric conceptualization Everquest was built on.
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03-28-2020, 04:44 AM
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