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This one is all about growing past mediocre ways of reading your story.

Join us to discuss together

• the idea from Mike Herrera that "Mediocrity is a Mind Killer."
• how most faith leaders only know their sacred text on a very simple level.
• why striving for great ideas about ancient literature unlocks it for you.
• a similar observation from Rumi, that conventional opinion kills your soul.
• Mark's encouragement that you are safe to DIG. SIT. and WONDER. here in the TEXT AND ROCK community.

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The sound of hoofbeats leaving a monastery
where all is timed and measured.
You are that rider.

--Rumi, Hoofbeats

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This one is a quick dive into where Egyptian mythology comes from, and how it is different than literature in the broader ancient world.

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• how we don't really get literary works that lay out Egypt's mythology.
• mythical timelines that run across the ancient Egyptian world.
• Pyramid texts, and coffin texts, and hieroglyphs Oh My!
• how pyramids are miniature maps of the cosmos... it's pretty sweet!
• a story from Dr. Nili Fox that changed how I saw ancient literature forever.

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See the world 
from a handstand--
upside down.

--The Dirty Heads
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This one is an intro to the bonkers-ness (is that a word?) that is ancient Egypt and why it matters to you and your tradition.

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• why Herodotus says Egypt is the gift of the NILE.
• chaos (isfet) and order (ma'at) in the ancient Near East.
• cosmic waters and creation if you're down to clown.
• a little riff on time in Egypt and in the broader ANE.
• how we have to puzzle piece together Egyptian mythology...

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So how do you measure the worth of a man
In wealth or strength or size?
In how much he gained or how much he gave?
The answer will come
The answer will come to him who tries
To look at his life through heaven's eyes

--PRINCE OF EGYPT
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This one is all about how to cultivate WONDER in your heart. It's the third of three episodes on the core values of the Text and Rock world, taken from some new videos in our facebook group.

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• the Midrashic story of Shimon and Reuven and the Yom Suf.
• how we can mis the miracle of life when we fail to have wonder.
• how wonder has two parts, gratitude and curiosity.
• A little revisit to Dr. Heschel's remark about knowledge and wonder.

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Only LOVE is real. Only LOVE is real.
I crush everything else based in ignorance and fear.

--MC YOGI.
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This one is all about how to SIT with new ideas. It's the second of three episodes on the core values of the Text and Rock world, taken from some new videos in our facebook group. Puppy Moses ups his snoring game in this one... Puppy Moses = snoring par excellence!

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• how we can SIT with tough ideas instead of turning off.
• the idea that gods don't write texts. we do that.
• why your tradition may have to break your heart before it can heal you.
• the words of Zeno, that "well being is realized in small steps...but it is no small thing.
• why the posture of learning and listening is more powerful than that of teacher.

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Was the answer
in the question
all along?

--MXPX
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This one is the first of three episodes on the core values of the Text and Rock world, taken from some new videos in our facebook group. Listen for puppy Moses snoring... it's a hoot!

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Join us to discuss together

• what it means to be a person who digs through their tradition.
• how keeping things light allows the heart to go towards the heavy.
• how to excavate a text instead of reading it like a manual.
• the lovely University of Minnesota grad student I met a while back in Jerusalem.
• why so many of us own copies of our stories but SELDOM READ THEM.
• how to open the story again for the first time in a long time.

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If you are alone tonight,
you can come with us.
If you don't have friends or family
or people that you trust.
We will be your confidants,
your sisters and brothers--
we don't have much but we got each other.

--Got Each Other, The Interrupters
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This one is all about the beginning of KNOWLEDGE. It's not what you might think.

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• where Christianity fits into ancient Judaism.
• how finding truth one click away is sometimes better.
• why the modern assumption of skepticism only gets you so far.
• whether God was born in a cave in France, or we just finally noticed...
• how human intellectual evolution is like the Grand Canyon.

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While many men search for bliss
I see the vision, it's my interest
Intellect can only take you so far
Intuition is the way to live stars
Rid them from the lids we stay open
Cast my line into the ocean
Come up for air when I'm floating
Through the clouds an explosion
So rain down on the creation

--Black Heart, Matisyahu
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This one is all about the PAIN and GAIN of leaving common conception for bigger and better ideas about the divine and human thriving.

This one is actually two episodes...because Eric asks a great question just as we were wrapping up. So stay tuned after the credits TEXT AND ROCKERS!

Join us to discuss together

• another Swift-Footed Markilles poem called "You Have to Leave."
• why so many folks are having bigger and better ideas about God and human thriving.
• how no one is necessarily going to go or grow with you.
• The TEXT AND ROCKER MANTRA! ☠️☠️☠️
• Eric asks great question no the backend about testing and growth.

HERE is a link to the poem "YOU HAVE TO LEAVE."

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Because those are the borders of your old land.

It was human religion, 

collective gyration with no imagination,

that has not blessed nations and can’t speak pidgin.

--Swift-Footed Markilles

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This one is all about a different definition of God and God's goodness taken from the Stoics. How to align a good divinity with good fruit in your life.

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• Why Christian theology is ultimately derivative of Greek philosophy.
• the Four-Virtue, or Stoic, canon of virtues.
• What Jesus is doing when he says good trees bear good fruit.
• How extreme political leanings cancel out treating people with ethical justice.
• How you are a fish in a bowl, God is the water inside and outside the fish, and the water is LOVE.

Likewise every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit.
--Jesus 

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This one is all about what happens when we flip the arrow of revelation, so that humanity climbs a mountain and points to the divine... not the other way around. Just think on it. We'll help!

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• Mark and Eric's poetry and suitcase drum set world tour.  Almost. We're getting there Text and Rockers....
• A poem by Mark called "Arrows and Mountains."
• The danger of woodenly applying Iron Age laws to modern society.
• How the model of arrows and mountains from antiquity should be flipped.
• What happens when you make the switch in how you read the Bible, New Testament, Talmud, Quran, Upanishads, etc...

They say that if you climb up

the god will climb down 

and tell you how to run your town...

--Swift-footed Markilles
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We hope this discussion of what is ancient makes your tomorrow better!

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Be good to each other,

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