tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637125351921336084.post5829333284798892309..comments2024-03-19T00:26:30.753-07:00Comments on The Jesus Blog: Jesus, Perception, and the Apocalyptic Imagination - Le DonneAnthony Le Donnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01282792648606976883noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637125351921336084.post-87883008435931908292013-09-22T21:58:08.261-07:002013-09-22T21:58:08.261-07:00Very insightful post.Very insightful post.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637125351921336084.post-31788161246158696792013-09-17T11:21:39.025-07:002013-09-17T11:21:39.025-07:00To my recollection, Craffert doesn't cite Grin...To my recollection, Craffert doesn't cite Grindall in the book - at least it isn't listed in the Bibliography. Funny thing happened this past Lent when I was teaching a series on the NT from the Native's point of view at a Presbyterian church in Jacksonville, Florida - I brought up the Grindall article at one of the sessions. Afterward, during "coffee hour," a fellow who was present in the class introduced himself as one of Grindall's colleagues when they both taught together at Florida State in the ANT department. Small world. Grindall passed away a few years ago.<br /><br />JackJackhttp://culturaljesus.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637125351921336084.post-89531935448069391452013-09-17T10:33:47.932-07:002013-09-17T10:33:47.932-07:00Thank you Jack. I have been interested in Craffert...Thank you Jack. I have been interested in Craffert's work on this for some time now. I'll have to pick it up. And thank you for the recommend on Grindall. Does Craffert cite Grindall?<br /><br />-anthonyAnthony Le Donnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01282792648606976883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637125351921336084.post-81379004826948276752013-09-17T07:19:07.201-07:002013-09-17T07:19:07.201-07:00Anthony,
This was a part of your book I really app...Anthony,<br />This was a part of your book I really appreciated. The idea of the "honing" of one's malleable perception is an important consideration if one is going to recognize the cultural distance between "us" historians and the worlds from out of which the texts we study emerge.<br /><br />I'm reminded of Pieter Craffert's illustration of the "Cycle of Meaning" in his Galilean Shaman book (p.174), especially the way one's experiences of the world are first catalyzed by mythic expressions (ritual, stories, memory[!], performance), and subsequently interpreted in a way that both reifies and (re)constructs the world(view) that, in turn, evokes the mythic expressions - and so on. A cycle of honing perception so that one's worldview constituted by "angels and demons" is constituted that way because one experiences such beings.<br /><br />Your readers may enjoy Bruce Grindall's captivating (and downright creepy!) ethnography in the Journal of Anthropological Research (39.1, 1983) "Into the Heart of Sisala Experience." In it, Grindall describes the "honing of his perception" over a length of time that culminated in his experience of a dead man coming back to life. The experience was so unnerving for Grindall that he wasn't able to write about it for many years after he experienced it.<br /><br />Cheers!<br />Jack<br />http://culturaljesus.wordpress.com/<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637125351921336084.post-6060548243709371152013-09-14T02:27:48.141-07:002013-09-14T02:27:48.141-07:00Please find a reference which is very much about t...Please find a reference which is very much about this topic, and which also addresses the topic of neuro-"theology" referring to the work of Andrew Newberg.<br />http://www.aboutadidam.org/lesser_alternatives/scientific_materialism/reductionism.html <br />Plus an essay which describes the narcissistic nature of most/ALL of what is now promoted as religion in todays world.<br />http://www.dabase.org/up-1-6.htm Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637125351921336084.post-88828641666046557072013-09-14T01:38:15.706-07:002013-09-14T01:38:15.706-07:00Further to the complexity of perception.
http://w...Further to the complexity of perception.<br /><br />http://www.sciencefriday.com/video/08/05/2011/where-s-the-octopus.html<br /><br />Your first viewing of this clip might be dramatically different than your second viewing (having the benefit of memory).Anthony Le Donnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01282792648606976883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637125351921336084.post-65894789598665600552013-09-13T18:55:07.498-07:002013-09-13T18:55:07.498-07:00Terrific post, Anthony. This is already a link in ...Terrific post, Anthony. This is already a link in MY next post.Larryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08976868079076669453noreply@blogger.com