What a fantastic channel this is with superb content.. Thank you.

"You might even say that the scientific life is not satisfying because of the science but because of what the science radiates." As a scientist (whatever that means), I completely agree.

Wonderful extension of your conversations with Rupert. Thank you for all the value you offer us, Mark.

Wonderful. Thank you SO much.

I am delighted with your speech and wonderful British accent. Thank you!

Really beautiful. Thank you 🙏

On this Sunday morning, I feel like I received a truly inspired sermon that was perfectly catered to my personal experience of transcendence

You radiate a rediscovered spiritual happiness,Mark.I am glad that you are a friend of Rupert Sheldrake and a student of the magnificent DBH!

Thanks for the video Mark. Your video gave me some great insights. I would love nothing more than a conversation between Bentley-Hart, John Vervaeke, and yourself. Hopefully that happens at some point.

“As the thoughts move in the mind of a man, so move the worlds of men and women in the mind of God, and make no confusion there, for there they had their birth, the offspring of his imagination. Man is but a thought of God.” -George MacDonald

This is great thanks. I love DBH, but I find him very difficult to read. This is really helpful in understanding this important work.

Beautiful!

Sat Chit Ananda - Thank you Mark

Sri RamaKrishna ❤❤

Very, very much appreciated this; I shall return to it. Thank you. DB Hart has been formative in my life and ministry. I have the book but have not started it yet, and I value deeply this extensive introduction. Looking forward to the text! I also take note of important and exciting (for me) points of intersection with Michel Henry's (French Phenomenologist) works, which also make masterful use of Meister Eckhart's writings. My favorite of Henry's texts is "I Am the Truth: Toward a Philosophy of Christianity." I am finding a very profitable interplay between Dr. John Behr, Michel Henry, and DB Hart: key themes appear common to these authors and teachers, and they all point toward my own academic fascination: theological anthropology. Thank you, Mark, for taking the time to offer such a wonderful and inspiring introduction to Hart's book!

Please turn the sound up. If Moses had descended from the mountain and made his pronouncements like that, we would all still be wandering around aimlessly in the wilderness.

It's really happening.

Mark,this is your best!Glad you seem happy.I know,or I think,that you have been through a tough time?

When suffering is explained away as "sweet suffering" it's always a subjective personal suffering. My personal suffering is never so great that it can't be managed. It's the suffering of a 6 year old child that is chained to a basement floor who's only human contact is when she is tortured and raped....THAT is the suffering that needs to be addressed. I don't think it can be properly explained. "God works in mysterious ways". And indeed many believers of karma may tell you that the 6 year old child brought it upon herself. The worst suffering in creation is not our own suffering. Edit: great work, Mark. I've listened to this twice and I enjoy so many of your other videos.

It seems like a paradox that we often have to spill so many words to arrive at this simple Vedantic Christian nugget. Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God. (ACIM) "simples innit" - Jesus Thanks for the vid Mark, the Number 7 bus journey is a trip with you in my ears.. Richard

Very interesting and helpful.Thank you for such a fluent and engaging commentary. I wonder if DBH gives any pointers as to how we, in our incipient divinity, can better deal practically with natural and human 'unlove' (sin) which is all over the news? What role for angels (if he acknowledges them)? If the 'unlove' originated with the 'bad' angels (and then us), how do we engage with the good ones and enlist their help? I guess by being more aware, and 'covering' with more love - as Paul says to Peter (1 Peter 5:8 and 4:8). Maybe I have to read the book! Thanks again for the review.

Douglas Harding always quotes the Christian mystics in his books. I had no idea Christianity was so spiritual before I started reading that guy.

The way of Jesus: blessed are we who mourn, who yearn for justice, who suffer for justice, who are poor in spirit (dissatisfied / duhkha) ; blessed are those who are meek, merciful, peacemakers and pure of heart (grateful / nirvana). Each of us has a cross. If we survive our crucifixion, we will be grateful.

Vedanta = One. Christianity = Love. Truth = One Love.

“For the world is--allow us the homely figure--the human being turned inside out. All that moves in the mind is symbolized in Nature. Or, to use another more philosophical, and certainly not less poetic figure, the world is a sensuous analysis of humanity, and hence an inexhaustible wardrobe for the clothing of human thought. Take any word expressive of emotion--take the word emotion itself--and you will find that its primary meaning is of the outer world. In the swaying of the woods, in the unrest of the "wavy plain," the imagination saw the picture of a well-known condition of the human mind; and hence the word emotion.” -George MacDonald

Working Bibliography on Vedantic Christianity Abhishtikananda/ Henri Le Saux - _Prayer_ and others Glenn Friesen - _Abhishiktananda: Christian Nondualism and Hindu Advaita_ Bede Griffiths - _Return to the Center_ and others Wayne Teasdale - _Bede Griffiths: An Introduction to His Interspiritual Thought_ Sara Grant - _Towards an Alternative Theology: Confessions of a Non-Dual Christian_ Brahmabandhav Upadhyay Richard De Smet, SJ - _Brahman & Person_ and others Francis Clooney, SJ - _Theology after Vedanta, Beyond Compare_ and others Cyprian Consiglio - _ Spirit, Soul, Body: Toward an Integral Christian Spirituality_ Bradley J Malkovsky - Divine Grace and Sankara Julius Lipner - _The Face of Truth_ and others Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad - _Divine Self, Human Self_ David Bentley Hart - _Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss, You Are Gods_ Daniel Soars - _The World and God are Not-Two_ Anantanand Rambachan - _Pathways to Hindu-Christian Dialogue_ Kalarikkal Poulose Aleaz - _Convergence of Advaita Vedanta and Eastern Christian Thought_ and others Arjun Chatterjee - _Essays on Vedanta and Western Philosophies: Vedanta as interpreted by Sri Aurobindo_

I think some First Temple theology might be necessary - if only to historicise the mystical and metaphysical

I wonder if he got this title from Psalm 82. There is that famous anecdote in John where Jesus is reprimanded by the dualistic Jewish orthodoxy for saying he is one with God, or a son of God. Then he refers them to their own law in Psalm 82 where it is stated that “I said, ‘You are “gods”; you are all sons of the Most High.’ 7 But you will die like mere mortals; you will fall like every other ruler" This is also the main message of Jesus, so he must have been fond of this verse. Realise your divine deathless Self Nature now.. or die like a mortal.. Also, it might come as a shock to some Christians that Jesus wasn't quite the egomaniac going around calling himself the 'only' begotten son of God, but the 'only' bit was likely added on later so that such a blasphemy never happened again. That seems obvious by his reference to Psalm 82 where it says you are all sons of the most high. . So some things don't change, because he was crucified primarily for blasphemy. Ooh ok, so I wrote too soon haha. it is indeed derived from that anecdote. Regarding this two tiered understanding: I've never understood that, maybe because my earliest understanding even at age 4 was that wherever I am, everything appears. Consciousness has to be present first for anything to appear, so how can you say this is Consciousness and this isn't. its simply not possible in truth. I never forgot that, so when I first heard of non duality quite young it was it was an easy conversion.

Mark it seems that you were talking previously about Christ somehow being seminal to the development of the individual ; how does this fit into the vedantic conception which seems to regard the dispelling of the 'false' sense of individuality as paramount?

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In regards to my previous comment with “human being turned inside out”…….here is The Song of Amerigan from The Book of Leinster; I am a wind in the sea (for depth) I am a sea-wave upon the land (for heaviness) I am the sound of the sea (for fearsomeness) I am a stag of seven combats (for strength) I am a hawk upon a cliff (for agility) I am a tear-drop of the sun (for purity) I am fair (i.e. there is no plant fairer than I) I am a boar for valour (for harshness) I am a salmon in a pool (for swiftness) I am a lake in a plain (for size) I am the excellence of arts (for beauty) I am a spear that wages battle with plunder. I am a god who froms subjects for a ruler Who explains the stones of the mountains? Who invokes the ages of the moon? Where lies the setting fo the sun? Who bears cattle from the house of Tethra? Who are the cattle of Tethra who laugh? What man, what god forms weapons? Indeed, then; I invoked a satirist… a satirist of wind. -R.A.S. MacAllister’s Translation

Once again i really enjoyed every minute of this talk. Have you ever considered doing a bible series looking at what the bible is trying to convey to us.

Then he never understood rabbi Yeshua in the first place, radical Torah observance not Torah abandonment - that was his teaching!

I'm am "eastern orthodox" but circles I run in would find this kind of discourse threatening. I find it to be akin to breathing air untouched by the machine. I have never read or heard a single Orthodox person I know mention DBH. I find that to be odd given how "prolific" people say his work is. This talk felt resonant to me and I want to venture down the rabbit hole. What work should I start with?

Fr. Alan Watts tried, as eloquently and profoundly as DBH, in books like _Behold the Spirit_ and _The Supreme Identity_, to preach the exact same kerygma to the Church over half a century ago when he was an Anglican priest. I guess the general consciousness of the world was yet too immature to accept this message en masse back then, but I believe it bears reminding the Body of Christ that DBH is neither the first nor the most articulate exponent of this view.

And how much scripture does he execute? And how does he miss translate the psalm? And how does david bellynn heart called himself anything

Shouldn’t it be spelled with a lowercase “g”

Who we are? Have you made the perennial mistake, right off the bat, Mark? Surely "what we are," is a prism of self-cross-examation if we want to follow Jesus in this 21st-century A.D. The Cosmos become Flesh is my Mystical experience of humanity's wisdom sayings & stories tradition. "I and the Father are One," of course. We are all children of Light & without the God-Star we would not exist, would we? Are you suffering the spiritual death of a blindingly obvious Reification Fallacy, Mark? Do you not get the meaning of the peerless Parable of the Sower? Do not understand how the Garden of Eden relates to your mind?

If all of us are gods is it so wrong to be ok with polytheism like Hinduism? All one God expressed in many Forms.

( Do Christians And Jews and "OTHER" non-Muslims go to Heaven? ) Quran 2:62 '' Those who believe (in the Quran) and those who follow the Jewish (scriptures) and the Christians and the Sabians->ANYAllah< Is The Protector Of Monasteries, Churches, Synagogues And The Mosques ) Quran 22:40 [They are] those who have been evicted from their homes without right - only because they say, " Our Lord is God " And were it not that God checks the people, some by means of others, there would have been demolished monasteries, churches, synagogues, and mosques in which the name of God is much mentioned. And God will surely support those who support Him. Indeed, God is Powerful and Exalted in Might. Note: Why did Allah protected Churches and Synagogues if they worship false Allah ? ( Why Are There So Many Different Religions In The World ? ) Quran 5 48 ''...... If God wanted He could have made all of you a single nation.( ie single religion ) But He willed otherwise in order to test you in what He has given you (ie Scriptures) therefore try to excel one another in good deeds. Ultimately you all shall return to God then He will show you the truth of those matters in which you '' >DISPUTE verb < not noun like other religions Islam mean "submission" to God ( The above verse saying is that God will not accept a religion from the >MUSLIM< and the Non-Muslims but total "submission" to God ) Question: How Can Muslim And the Non-Muslim "submit" to the God? Answer: Be kind to other human beings and Do not lie, Do not steal, Do not cheat, Do not hurt others, Do not be prideful and Do the charity work. Note: If you obeyed all the ABOVE Allah-God's moral laws "YOU" submitted to God.( ie Islam mean "submission" to God ) The only people who will enter Paradise those who '' Submitted to God '' ( ie by Good Deeds ) God does NOT accept your religion of birth but only ''Your Total'' Submission to Him. ( God Allows Interfaith Marriages And Eat Food From the Christian And Jew And Vice Versa ) Quran 5:5 ''This day [all] good foods have been made lawful, and the food of those who were given the Scripture (ie Christian and Jew) is lawful for you and your food is lawful for them. And lawful in marriage are chaste women from among the believers (ie Muslim ) and chaste women from among those who were given the Scripture (ie Christian and Jew) before you, when you have given them their due compensation, desiring chastity not unlawful sexual intercourse or taking [secret] lovers. And whoever denies the faith - his work has become worthless and he in the Hereafter will be among the losers.'' Note: > Only < Islam allows interfaith marriages (>14 hundredsSame God< but They are >ALL Corrupt< more or less, some more than others from their original foundational teaching. The older religion are MORE corrupted than newer religion. Question to Muslim and Christian: Does God / Allah only answer your pray ? And God / Allah does not answer non Muslim / non Christian pray? Did Allah '' Canceled '' all other religions Judaism and Christianity? Quran 5:48 '' And We have revealed to you [O Muhammad] the Book in truth, confirming that which preceded it of the Scripture ( ie New and old Testament ) and as a criterion over it. So judge between them by what Allah has revealed and do not follow their inclinations away from what has come to you of the truth. >>>TO EACH OF YOU WE PRESCRIBED A LAW AND A METHODone nation>differ qualified < for to enter Paradise ) On the day of judgement God will ''NOT'' judge humanity bases on Sunni Muslim sect VS Shia Muslim sect ''NOR'' by Muslim VS non-Muslim >but< Doer of Goods VS Doer of Evils. '' YOUR " birth in the Muslim's family is NOT a > qualification < for to enter the Paradise. '' YOUR " religion / sect / foot long beard is NOT a > qualification < for to enter the Paradise. The > qualification < to enter Paradise is > Faith in God and Good Work

Total misrepresentation of the scripture totally ignorant of that verse