{"id":73,"date":"2008-11-24T05:38:52","date_gmt":"2008-11-24T12:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/?p=73"},"modified":"2015-03-13T09:43:24","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T13:43:24","slug":"world-bible-religions-of-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/2008\/11\/24\/world-bible-religions-of-man\/","title":{"rendered":"World Bible. Religions of Man."},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Moon<\/p><\/div>\n

It was as a young student in high school that I first encountered the scriptures of other peoples, in a class on world religions, which used The Portable World Bible<\/em>. Instead of historicism, I believe I got the real message, since I did the reading, of the writings themselves, the universalism at their core. And it may have been that I was fortunate in the teacher of the class, who may have introduced me to a new style and way of manhood. Looking back, I see an intellectual man, more sophisticated and nuanced in sensibility.<\/p>\n

And then, a year or two later, after more and wider reading, I took a college class that included Huston Smith’s The Religions of Man<\/em>. That book opened new vistas, ordered things in a new way for me, even as I couldn’t really relate to the instructor, dropping the course before the end. But I had the book. And read it.\u00a0 And re-read it. It was true to my experience. For soon, I had “gone off hiking into Baha’i.” But it was not “too quickly” of a decision. I had spent a few years reading and thinking about virtually every Baha’i book that had been published up until that time, 1976. I searched through several libraries from the suburbs to downtown Detroit to find them, and thought and prayed, prayed and thought, while continuing to read widely in the poets and literature.<\/p>\n

It was more than a decade later that I heard of Joseph Campbell, through Bill Moyers’ The Power of Myth <\/em>on PBS, another powerful influence, one I immediately recognized as true to my experience, re-watching it many times, reading some of his books. By 1982, while I was still in Japan, I had already begun to make notes for The Parliament of Poets<\/em>. Campbell’s work was startlingly congruent with where I already found myself to be, confirmed me in the direction I would take. But it wasn’t until about 1993 that I had written down, perhaps, I think now, as a result of his interview with Moyers, where I would travel.<\/p>\n

Frederick Glaysher<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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