From Homer to Christ

Here is a good effort to bring together some themes that are mostly rare in Christian environments, but should be more known.

Shallowness regarding higher influences is a disease among the average church Christians. The Village of Morality protects itself by scorning any influences that might contribute to awakening an individual. Yet it's rare to awaken given any type of environment, positive or negative.

Once an individual begins to 'see' that influences reside in an ascending hierarchy and can begin to discern the higher from the lower and then doesn't become content to remain at one level of that hierarchy (a common human perverseness) and sees that to climb up that hierarchy he has to both engage influences that are just beyond his current level of understanding and just outside his current interests (and see that the higher the influence the more rare it is and the more effort of directed attention it requires to be engaged) then that individual has become 'dangerous.' And a Christian really should be dangerous.

Here's another good page from the same teacher.