Bible or Buy-Bull?
5/27/08 Daniel Karslake, write, director and producer of “For The Bible Tells Me So” joins Meria today. Does the bible really condemn homosexuality? This movie won 10 awards so far; choosing between religion and suicide; bible used to create “the other” for centuries; literalists (also capitalists) pick and choose scripture; 1 suicide every 5 hours!; Dick Gephardt’s reaction to his outed daughter; Cheney & his daughter; the word “abomination”- original meaning “against ritual”; does your religion separate you from your children? James Dobson’s Focus on the Family -compares gays to Nazi’s (lots of blood on his head); Why was Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed? Using the bible to subjugate women; the 2 stories of Eve; Is your god inclusive or exclusive?
Steven Hairfield
5/20/08 Meria interviews Author, Teacher Steven Hairfield, PhD on his latest work : A Metaphysical Interpretation of the Bible”. Albert Einstein’s view of god, Jews, and the Bible; Who is Issa? Is the bible metaphysical? If the creator is perfect isn’t all creation perfect? Who wrote the bible? 5 editors who picked and chose; Jew -mixed thinking; what did virgin mean? Jesus a reiki master; created in equality – equal to the creator; witnessing the birth of our own divine nature; Buddha on “god”; dream interpretations; astrology and the bible; are you in your right brain? control or free thinking; the book of Ezekiel; UFO’s and aliens in the bible; detachment; blame game; are we already in 2012? Is infinity true? A very lively enjoyable chat for sure.
Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D.
5/11/08 Meria interviews Jean Shinoda Bolen, MD, author, teacher, psychiatrist, Clinical Professor of psychiatry at Univ of California, San Francisco this Mother’s Day on her latest book “Urgent Message From Mother, Gather the Women, Save the World”. Critical mass now needed; THE message from Mother Earth; women must bring their gifts forward and create peace; from patriarchy to real change; before god was goddess; overpopulation; fratricidal wars; Rwanda as Cain & Abel repeat; difference between male and female brains; women’s conversations vs. men’s; exceptional men; www.standingwomen.org; Nelson Mandela a terrorist?; what would women spend the world’s purse on? microloans; women over fifty need to give back; spirituality unites people of the world; how to recognize your “assignment” when it comes along; crones don’t whine; wisdom and compassion and so much more.
