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Jiang's term for a great poem's function as an opening into the universe, monad, or heavens that lets readers create and reconnect new realities.
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Jiang's term for a great poem's function as an opening into the universe, monad, or heavens that lets readers create and reconnect new realities.
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A cave, ritual site, artist, singer, or storyteller as a channel between material and spirit worlds.
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A natural passage between the human world and the spirit world, modeled by the womb, burial, and the cave.
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The Iliad is both created by inspiration from the universe and functions as a portal into the universe itself.
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Jiang defines poetry as a portal to the divine and as the basis of all civilization.
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Jiang says the poet is a portal for God to speak with the universe and with the human audience.
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Jesus becomes a democratic portal into the divine: common people can remember and recite him even if they cannot read Homer or Dante.
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In this model, the Pharaoh's mummy is not incidental: the sacred body is the portal or mechanism through which Egyptians communicate with the ascended Pharaoh and channel his power on earth.
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Ancestor skulls, Ice Age cave paintings, and early temples become evidence of a broad human pattern: religious worship builds portals that connect the spirit world and this world.
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The lecture proposes a symmetry between birth and burial: souls enter from darkness through the mother's womb and return to the original world through burial in darkness.
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"...created because of inspiration from the universe, but it's also a portal into the universe itself. And this is what allows for new creations,..."
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"...monad, that when you observed it, you created into yourself, a portal into the monad, the universe, the heavens, that allow you to create..."
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"...help us ourselves connect to the divine. Okay? Poetry is a portal to the divine. This is clear, right, guys? All right, so we'll..."
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"...He's a chat. He's just channeling God, okay? He's just a portal for God to speak with the universe, with us. Poets are the..."
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"this this is something that i will discuss next class is all right and i i know this is hard to understand but i'll..."
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"...spark reflected in you okay the these great books are a portal into the divine the problem though is most people cannot read the..."
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"divine whereas before um you have to access the vine through poetry okay all right so um the life of jesus okay so again..."
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"in 1945 in a place called nak hamadi okay this is in egypt we discovered lots of books with sayings of jesus that we..."
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"...world connect with the material world? Well, through caves, right, through portals, rivers, caves, mountaintops. And that's why these places were considered appropriate sites..."
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"The stars, the caves are portals into the spirit world, and that's why you celebrate them, okay? And how are they painting the caves?..."
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"...doing this out of our own will, we are only a portal or a mechanism or a channel for the divine to communicate with..."
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"...a star or a sun, right? The body then becomes a portal or a mechanism for you to communicate with the Pharaoh while he's..."
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A source-grounded reading of Homer as civilizational engine: the Iliad trains Greeks to fight with speeches, poetry projects movies onto the world, language controls time and space, and the poet becomes the flame through...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's Jesus lecture: Christianity begins as a pile of impossible doctrines, the historical Jesus is thinner and stranger, the Gospel of Thomas makes him a poet-prophet of the divine spark,...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's dawn-of-humanity lecture: Darwinism becomes a rival theology, cave art becomes a portal, speech begins as song, and modern society is accused of socializing people out of empathy.
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A source-grounded reading of the Great Pyramid as Egypt's Manhattan Project: a divine battery, a state economy, and a wager that a sacred body could control the Nile, unify Egypt, and make peace eternal.
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