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Great Minds think Alike
By Alan Domvillie
From The Warrington Guardian
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Great minds think alike Why didn't God send a plague on
the Nazis at the time of the Holocaust? Why is it that it in the most
affluent nations on Earth one in three are on anti-depressants? Are the
10 Commandments still relevant in the 21st century?
Since the days of the patriarchs we have constantly been seeking answers
to questions and deep down we know we are never going to get
most. of them.
But that shouldnt stop us from taking a stab at them. After all
thats the basis of philosophy and reasoning and Lent and the Feast
of the Passover are ideal moments to consider higher matters. Two great
thinkers of our time. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach and the controversial
paranormalist Un
Geller, could hardly have come from different cultures and standpoints
though they have been great friends for years — and in their correspondence
over two years they have discussed a whole raft of questions that have
caused mankind to look into the self since, as the “Camelot” song goes,
~‘the whole rigmarole began.” Now we are able to be privy to their musings
and conclusions thanks to the publication of Confessions of a Rabbi and
a Psychic.
The bearded rabbi is a wise, open-minded sceptic who trusts his dagger
eyes and religious instincts; Un, also a Jew, is the anti-establishment
man who performs seemingly impossible
feats of metal-bending and who honestly admits he hasnt found a
single explanation for so much that he knows to be true. At one
point, Un writes that he feels a terrific flow of energy flowing between
himself and Shmuley; it is something that the reader of any faith or none
at all can
also share. As we grow older we become mature but, writes Shmuley,
substitute that for cynical, untrusting, manipulative and scheming.
It is the innocents who still inherit the Garden of Eden, he says
Why our children of course.
The average child smiles 74 times a day, the average adult only
nine.
Confessions of a Rabbi and a Psychic:
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