Podcast Now Available: Loaves Without The Fishes in Early Christian Writings Today on Spiritual Awakening Radio With James Bean



When describing the story from the gospels about Jesus Feeding the Five Thousand, the Miraculous Feeding of the Multitude, the early church father Irenaeus, writing between 180 and 188 AD, doesn’t mention anything about fish, only bread! The historian Eusebius, Arnobius, and some other early Christian writings also never mention “fishes with the loaves”,… Continue

"The nature of the soul (atman) draws us upwards and inwards and establishes us in our own true nature. Returning to our origins involves turning inward: withdrawal of consciousness from the senses and the sense objects in order to go upward from the darkness to the realms of Light and Sound. [We experience this phenomenon of withdrawal as we pass from waking consciousness to deep sleep.] Another way to express…

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PODCAST: Dr. Will Tuttle, Author of, The World Peace Diet (Vegan): 

https://Medium.com/spiritual-awakening-radio-podcasts/de83b9e79d69



Spiritual Awakening Radio explores the world of spirituality, comparative religion, world scriptures and other books, East and West,…

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PODCAST: A Vegan Conversation with Sunny Mueller of Vegetarian House and Loving Hut, Part One: A Vision For A Peaceful Vegan Planet, Part 1 of 2 on Spiritual Awakening Radio:

https://medium.com/spiritual-awakening-radio-podcasts/f779e16db11b

PODCAST: A Vegan Conversation with Sunny Mueller of Vegetarian House and Loving Hut, Part Two: A Vision For A Peaceful Vegan Planet, Part 2 of 2 on Spiritual…

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Spiritual paths that have officially gone vegan are still quite rare. Many following paths or traditional schools of yoga based in India remain lacto-vegetarian. But things are slowly improving with a few vegan Buddhists, Hindus, Sikhs, and Jains getting organized these days. I follow a Bhakti path of Inner Light and Sound Meditation founded by Sant Kabir. One branch of this has now gone vegan, so there is hope for positive change. Also, it should be said that many individuals within all…

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The Vegan Evolution, by Angel Flinn

The vegan ideal embodies the highest of spiritual and ethical aspirations – non-violence, harmlessness, reverence for life, and the cultivation of compassion toward the innocent. It is cause for celebration that we are blessed with the ability to bring such noble…

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Famous Vegans - Coretta Scott King and Dexter Scott King

Dexter Scott King was vegan and during a 1995 interview with the Vegetarian Times, he mentioned that his mother had become vegan too.

"On January 30, 1988, my twenty-seventh birthday, I became a strict vegetarian. I developed a passion for health and nutrition. My diet consists of fruits, vegetables, grains, nuts and legumes only, and has for the past 15 years now."

- Dexter Scott King

From his memoir Growing…

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"There are versions of the Gospels in which Jesus directly denounced the eating of meat. One such version is the Evangelion Da-mepharreshe, also called the Old Syriac Gospels. Syriac is a dialect of Aramaic, the language in which Jesus spoke. Two manuscripts of the Old Syriac Gospels exist: the Syriac Sinaiticus and the Curetonian Gospels. The Syriac Sinaiticus was found in the St. Catherine Monastery on Mt. Sinai in Egypt in 1892, and the Curetonian Gospels were brought from the Wadi…

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Taking Off the Heavy Load Through Meditation -- Kabir



Unfettered meditation

brings jiva mukti (liberation):

Your heavy load is taken off.

Welcome Him in your heart,

so you will not be born…

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Uncovering A Vegetarian Jesus at the Beginning of Christianity

By James Bean

NOTE: Also see my companion article: Evidence That Jesus and The Original Aramaic Christians Were Vegetarians: https://medium.com/sant-mat-meditation-and-spirituality/b8784ac42506

Gnostic groups are generally described as being…

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