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Questions for personal reflection (and, if you wish, communal discussion on our Course Forum):
1. What does hope mean to you? How do you experience hope, and how does hope play a part in your daily spiritual walk? How can we safeguard and nurture hope, given the tremendous social and environmental problems we are facing today? How can hope equip us to meaningfully respond to the problems of our time?
2. Do you agree with the author that pre-Christian and non-Christian wisdom teachers like Zarathustra (Zoroastrianism), Buddha (Buddhism) and Mani (Manichaeism) offered an essentially dualistic message (by helping us to understanding the difference between the serpent’s venom and the tears of the Virgin)? Why or why not? Can the argument be made that Biblical teachers, from Moses to Elijah to Jesus to Paul, similarly illuminated a present-day dualism by their teachings, even if this is meant to prepare us for an eschatological nonduality?
3. Our author thinks that we need a new summary of spiritual wisdom in the tradition of the Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus and the Major Arcana of the Tarot. What do you think such a “wisdom summary” would look like? How could it be meaningful for the people of our time (especially young people) and the generations to come, especially given that the communications revolution of our time (the Internet, computers, smartphones, etc.) represent as radical a break with the past as the invention of movable type signified at the dawn of the Renaissance?
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