January 2018 Book Club

   January 10, 2018
   John Michael Greer
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   This week's  post is  the seventh  of a  monthly series  of open-discussion
   posts focusing on books I've written.  Our theme for the present is Mystery
   Teachings from the Living Earth, and  this week we're discussing "The Sixth
   Law: The Law  of the Planes" (pp.  63-72). I'd like to ask  readers to keep
   their  questions and  comments focused  on that  chapter and  the ideas  it
   contains;  there'll be  other opportunities  for general  questions in  due
   time.

   Here's the Sixth Law, as it appears in the book:

   Everything in  existence exists and functions  on one of several  planes of
   being or is composed of things from  more than one plane acting together as
   a whole system. These planes are  discrete, not continuous, and the passage
   of  influences  from  one  plane  to another  can  take  place  only  under
   conditions defined by the relationship of the planes involved.

   The rest of this section of the book expands on the concept this definition
   sketches out.  This is  another challenging  idea for  a great  many people
   these days, partly because the idea  of multiple planes of being is foreign
   to our modern  habits of thought, but partly also  because one relationship
   between planes-the relationship  between mind and matter-has  been made far
   harder  to understand  than  it should  be by  the  pervasive influence  of
   the  superstitious  modern  belief  in  materialism.  Questions?  Comments?
   Discussions? Have at it-subject, of course, to the usual rules.