by Selima Gurtler | Jun 20, 2018 | Cross-Cultural Perception, Historical Interest, Non-Duality, Spiritual Text Analysis
PART III IN PART II, I GAVE YOU a few hooks to ponder the possible interpretation of the Resurrection of Jesus by (modern) Islam according to Ahmad. You can breathe – this will not be an academic essay – academia or Theology has nothing to do with God. I will...
by Selima Gurtler | Jun 16, 2018 | Cross-Cultural Perception, Historical Interest, Spiritual Text Analysis
PART II I LIKE THE FOLLOWING INTRODUCTION TO the first chapter of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad’s publication of 1899. Please note I have avoided all suffixes of Peace be on him in reference to holy prophets. It states: “Let it be noted that though Christians...
by Selima Gurtler | May 30, 2018 | Cross-Cultural Perception, Historical Interest, Spiritual Text Analysis
Part I IT MUST HAVE BEEN around 1968 when my father gave me a Qu’ran. I have written my name in fountain pen inside the front cover, underlined carefully with a ruler. My handwriting had adopted the Greek ‘e’ which I must have copied from one of my...
by Selima Gurtler | Apr 9, 2018 | Cross-Cultural Perception, Living as Pure Being, Non-Duality, Spiritual Text Analysis
I WANT TO RETURN TO A subject I was discussing at Easter which I omitted to address in my last post. I was contemplating the interview between Bernadette Roberts and Stephan Bodian and interpreting it from the EmW perspective, and so I will continue as before. Here is...
by Selima Gurtler | Apr 2, 2018 | Living as Pure Being, Spiritual Text Analysis
MY COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON TO YOU during this holiest if not much misunderstood event of the Christian calendar. I normally amble to the local Catholic church to pay my respects but there was no sign at all to say Mass was being celebrated yesterday – I have...
by Selima Gurtler | May 11, 2017 | Deep spiritual study, Living as Pure Being, Non-Duality, Spiritual Text Analysis
THE GREAT INDIAN SAGE RAMANA MAHARSHI, I UNDERSTAND, (and just because I do not have the exact wording to hand or where it was recorded (or in which language)), used to pose the question, “When the sense of the personal self collapses together with the energy of...
