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Physician-assisted suicide: the case for legalization
In Canada, if you are a competent adult, then you have the legal as well as the moral right to insist that life-support be withheld or withdrawn, even if this will result in your immediate death.
If, however, you are suffering irremediably but are not dependent on technology to keep you alive then you may be stuck. Instructions to "pull the plug" provide a merciful exit from unbearable suffering only if you happen to be "lucky" enough to require life-support.
There are other permissible escape routes from a prolonged and painful process of dying. You can, for example, legally choose to refuse all food and fluids, thereby starving yourself to death.
Or you can choose "terminal sedation" — the administration of drugs that will make you unconscious until you die. Typically, when this happens, tube feeding and hydration will be also be withdrawn.
Susan Griffiths was not dependent upon life support and, for understandable reasons, she did not find the prospect of a lingering death (from starvation/dehydration) appealing.
Griffiths' preference was to end her life quickly and painlessly at a time of her own choosing, with the assistance of a physician.
However, because physician-assisted suicide (PAS) is still illegal in Canada, she was forced to leave her Winnipeg home in order to travel, at great effort and expense, to Switzerland.
At the Dignitas Clinic in Zurich, on April 25, 2013, she will receive assistance to hasten her death. Switzerland, along with a number of other European countries (including Belgium and the Netherlands) and several American states (Oregon, Washington State and Montana) have legalized assisted suicide, subject to careful safeguards.
Alarmingly, under Canadian law, it is possible that Susan's daughter, Natasha, who accompanied her, could be prosecuted for the crime of "assisted suicide."
The Lee Carter case, currently before the B.C. Court of Appeal and heading ultimately to the Supreme Court of Canada, will decide that issue along with the constitutional right of Canadians to receive PAS in defined circumstances.
Susan has publicized her choice in an effort to make something morally significant of her death. She hopes to generate public debate on the desirability of legalizing PAS.
We owe her an informed and reasonable debate on the benefits and risks of legalizing PAS in Canada. My comments are offered as a small contribution to that debate and as a tribute to Susan's generous spirit and remarkable courage.
Canadian public opinion on this issue is strongly supportive of law reform. For more than two decades, we have been telling pollsters that we favour eliminating the Criminal Code prohibition against assisted dying. The percentage of those who favour regulation rather than prohibition ranges between two-thirds and three-quarters. Although a vociferous minority opposes legalization – mostly on religious grounds or because of "slippery slope" fears - there are very few controversial social issues about which Canadians are so remarkably united.
For Susan Griffiths, as for Sue Rodriguez (1993) and Gloria Taylor (2012), respect for the principle of individual autonomy is of central importance. People should be free to decide upon their own fate. When an important life choice concerns a private matter and when the individual making that choice is rational, informed and acting voluntarily on the basis of her authentic (or true) values then the state should not interfere.
ALS patient Gloria Taylor, one of the plaintiffs in the Lee Carter case, puts the point eloquently:
"What I want is to be able to die in a manner that is consistent with the way that I lived my life. I want to be able to exercise control and die with dignity and with my sense of self and personal integrity intact. I want to be able to experience my death as part of my life and part of my expression of that life. I do not want the manner of my death to undermine the values that I lived my life in accordance with …"
Those opposed to de-criminalization of PAS often base their opposition on the authority of the Bible or some other holy text. But we are a pluralistic, multi-cultural and multi-faith secular society. Appeals to religious authority no longer cut the mustard.
For this reason, contemporary opposition to PAS mostly eschews appeals to holy scripture and relies instead on the argument that if we respect the liberty of some individuals to choose assisted death we will thereby expose the ill and frail to an increased risk of abuse or exploitation. This is commonly labeled "the slippery slope argument."
At the time Rodriguez was decided (1993), no other country had yet decriminalized PAS and, in consequence, there were few studies to confirm or to disconfirm the slopist fears.
Today, we possess ample data showing that slippery slope fears are unwarranted. Briefly, here is what the data show.
According to Linda Ganzini, an Oregonian psychiatrist who has done many studies of PAS in Oregon and in the Netherlands:
"We found that rates of assisted dying in Oregon and in the Netherlands showed no evidence of heightened risk for the elderly, women, the uninsured, (inapplicable in the Netherlands, where all are insured), people with low educational status, the poor, the physically disabled or chronically ill, minors, people with psychiatric illnesses, including depression, or racial or ethnic minorities, compared with background populations."
Indeed, the safeguards in Oregon (and other jurisdictions) are so careful that, arguably, the disabled or otherwise vulnerable people are better protected by a regulated system than by one which entirely prohibits PAS. In Oregon, the criteria are public and decisions are made in the open by doctors who are accountable.
We know that PAS occurs in Canada, but since it occurs in the dark, with no safeguards, the risk of abuse is greater.
Critics predicted if PAS were decriminalized, we would quickly become the kind of society in which disabled or otherwise vulnerable people would be bumped off by the state to save money on palliative care.
Ironically, the opposite has happened. Places that have legalized PAS have some of the best palliative care in the world.
Moreover, what the data from Oregon shows is the number of people who access assisted dying is small and has shown little or no tendency to increase over time.
Between 1997, when PAS became legal in Oregon, and the end of 2004, a total of only 208 patients used the act to end their lives.
During this period, the number of patients using the act increased during the first six years and fell slightly in the seventh year. But, out of approximately 30,000 annual deaths in Oregon, PAS accounted for only one in every 800, according 2005 figures from the Oregon Department of Health and Human Services.
The most recent data available from the Netherlands shows 2.8 per cent of deaths in 2010 resulted from euthanasia. This rate is comparable with those in 1995 and 2001.
That is, there has been no significant increase in the number of deaths from euthanasia over this fifteen year period of time. Moreover, distribution of sex, age and diagnosis were stable between 1990 and 2010.
The great majority of people who seek PAS are dying from metastatic cancer. Some, like Susan Griffiths, have terminal degenerative diseases. Most have access to and are receiving good quality palliative care but nevertheless are suffering greatly.
I will conclude by listing some of the legal safeguards for PAS applications in Oregon to convey a sense of how it is possible to allow patients the right to a dignified death while still protecting those who may be vulnerable to harm.
"The patient must be 18 years of age or older, resident in Oregon, the patient's request must be made at least three times (two oral and one written) over a period of 15 days, with two witnesses to the written request. Both the attending and a second physician consultant must confirm that the patient has a disease that, within reasonable judgement will cause death within six months, that the patient is capable of making and communicating health care decisions, that the patient has been informed of all feasible alternatives, including hospice and comfort care and that the decision is voluntary. If depression or some other psychiatric disorder is suspected then either physician shall refer the patient to a psychiatrist or psychologist. PAS cannot then be administered until a mental health professional certifies that the patient is not suffering from a psychiatric disorder or depression which causes impaired judgement. VAE* is explicitly precluded as is PAS by advance directive. There is also a reporting requirement. Information about cases which fall under the Death with Dignity Act (DWDA) must be reported publicly on an annual basis."
*VAE stands for voluntary active euthanasia
Arthur Schafer is the director of the Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics at the University of Manitoba. This is his essay in favour of the legalization of assisted suicide in Canada. Ruth Enns, the author of A voice unheard: The Latimer case and people with disabilities, has written an essay opposing the legalization of assisted suicide in Canada. These essays were written in accompaniment with CBC's coverage of Winnipegger Susan Griffiths' choice to travel to Europe to end her life .


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Southwest Airlines is taking a sumo-sized media flogging from a man who says he was refused a seat on one of their flights because he was told he's too fat.
Emery Orto and his wife flew Southwest from Chicago to Vegas to celebrate her 62nd birthday. Getting there was fine, but on the way back, Orto says he was stopped on the ramp after giving an agent his boarding pass and told he couldn't get on the plane, the Southtown Star reported.
The agent came up behind Orto and wanted to know if the 350-pound, 6-foot man could sit in his seat with the armrests folded down, Orto told the Southtown Star.
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"The airline employee then told me, 'You're not going to fly on this plane today.' I said, 'What did you just say?' and she said, 'You're not flying on this plane today,'" Orto told the paper.
The agent quickly found herself talking to a pissed off 350-pound man, as Orto freely admits. When the agent threatened him with arrest, Orto and his wife calmed down -- but they were still unable even to get their bags off the plane.
Phil Kadner, who wrote the article for the Southtown, made a great point to a Southwest spokeswoman who was trying to defend the airline's actions:
I asked the spokeswoman how she would've reacted if someone told her that she couldn't get on a flight for which she had purchased a ticket.
"I don't know," she said.
I suggested that anyone stopped on a gangway and told they would not be allowed to board a plane likely would react by raising their voice and shouting. The spokeswoman accused me of attempting to put words in her mouth.
The spokeswoman claims Orto was given the option of buying an additional seat for half price, but Orto says that never happened. Turned away from the plane, he and his wife found a sympathetic Southwest employee who Orto says escourted them to the United Airlines counter, where they bought two tickets for $400 a pop.
According to the stats he gave the newspaper, Orto is well into the morbidly obese category. But Southwest's policy on forcing fat passengers to buy an extra seat is based on whether they can fit into one seat with the arm rests down -- not on how they look. Southwest isn't the only airline with a policy like this. If Orto's story checks out, it seems that if Southwest wants to avoid alienating a third of the people in this country who are obese, they should be a bit more discreet in how they enforce their rule.

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|Thirty years ago, in 1974, long before Balkan music was discovered on the major music scene, Papazov started his revolution with his Trakija Band. At the time he could hardly have known that he was creating a new movement, later known as wedding band music, a mix of Bulgarian and Balkan folk with contemporary elements. His work changed the face of Bulgarian and world music and developed it in new directions. No wonder his fans around the world call him the King of Wedding Band Music. In reference to his amazing talent, Bulgarians call him the Aga (the Master). And Papazov really is part of the best moments of their lives. His music resounds not only at major concert venues, but also at the important days of their lives, their weddings and family celebrations.
His new album Fairground is a source of what we all love so much: a tender, lyrical and crazily exuberant mix of bright sounds, beautiful melodies, improvisations in half-tones and rhythms, so lovingly created that it draws from our hearts what we cherish most. Here Ivo plays with his wife - the singer Maria Karafizieva - and his old friends from the Trakija Band: Nesho Neshev on accordion, Vasil Denev on keyboards and Salif Ali on drums. But shades of modern Bulgarian music also appear in the form of master musicians like Stoyan Yankulov on tupan drum and percussion, Ateshhan Husseinov on guitar, Vasil Parmakov on piano, Ivo Zvezdomirov and Stefan Marinov on bass.
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SET 1: Punch You in the Eye, Farmhouse, Water in the Sky > Bathtub Gin, Back on the Train[1], If You Need a Fool[1], I'm Blue, I'm Lonesome[1], Beauty of My Dreams[1], The Moma Dance > Reba, Chalk Dust Torture
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Set 1: Llama, Guelah Papyrus, Rift, Stash, Reba, My Friend, My Friend[1], Uncle Pen, Sample in a Jar, I Didn't Know[2], David Bowie[3]
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Excuse the indentations in my forehead, that's where I've been banging my head hard against my desk.
I've been reading the "Beer Styles" section in the just-published 2014 edition of the Good Beer Guide. Ron Pattinson gave a comprehensive triple kicking last year to the effectively identical section in the 2013 GBG, and yet this year the GBG's claims about the history of British beer styles are still just as horribly, awfully wrong. It's as if nothing Ron, or I, or other researchers into the history of beer have written over the past ten to 15 years or so had ever existed: a stew of errors, misinterpretations, myths, erroneous assumptions and factually baseless inventions. All of the errors, frankly, even before Ron gave them a good pounding back in 2012, were heartily demolished (apologies for the sound of my own trumpet) in my book Amber Gold and Black, published three years ago (and which sprang, as it happens, from a series of articles published in Camra's own What's Brewing on the history of beer styles). But since the GBG sells far more every year than AG&B has, that's many thousands of beer lovers being fed gross inaccuracies about the history of the beers they drink, and only a few thousand getting the truth.
What exactly is the Campaign for Real Ale Good Beer Guide getting wrong? Let's begin with its insistence that "pale ale" and "bitter" are different products, which leads to the nonsensical statement (p29, last paragraph) that "From the early years of the 20th century, Bitter began to overtake pale ale in popularity, and as a result pale ale became mainly a bottled product." This is completely wrong, and a total misunderstanding, as I pointed out back in 2007 here. From the moment that bitter beers started to become popular in Britain, around the beginning of the 1840s, "bitter beer" and "pale ale" were used by brewers and commentators as synonyms. There never was any difference between the two. Why did "pale ale" come to be appended as a name mostly to the bottled version of bitter? Because generally in the 19th century brewers called the drink in the brewery "pale ale", and that's the name they put on their bottle labels, but in the pub drinkers called this new drink "bitter", to differentiate it from the older, sweeter, but still (then) pale mild ales.
The section also claims that pale ale was invented because IPA was "considered too bitter for the domestic market" – total made-up rubbish, there is no evidence anywhere for this, and if IPA was "too bitter for the domestic market", why did so many brewers advertise an IPA as part of their line-up? The weaker pale ales, below IPAs in brewers' price lists, simply reflected 19th century brewers' practice of selling two, three or four examples of each beer type, ale (that is, old-fashioned lightly hopped ale), porter/stout and the newer bitter/pale ale, at different "price points" (to use a modern expression) for different budgets. Thus, for example, the Aylesbury Brewery Company in 1899 sold four grades of pale ale, BA (for Bitter Ale), at the IPA "price point" of one shilling and sixpence a gallon (almost all "IPAs" sold at 1s 6d), BA No 2 at 1s 2d a gallon, BPA at one shilling a gallon and AK at 10 pence a gallon; four grades of mild ales, from XXXX at 1s 6d to XA at 10d; and three black beers, from Double Stout at 1s 6d to Porter at 1s. Shepherd Neame two years earlier was calling all its four grades of bitter beers "India Pale Ale", from "Stock KK India Pale Ale" at 1s 8d a gallon through East India Pale Ales Nos 1 and 2 at 1s 4d and 1s a gallon to East India Pale Ale AK (sic) at 11d a gallon.
That brings us to the section on IPA itself. There's the usual canard about the original IPAs being "strong in alcohol" to survive the journey east, although as Ron P has shown conclusively, at around 6 to 6.5 per cent alcohol by volume, 19th century IPAs were in the middle of the contemporary strength range, and weaker than 19th century milds. The GBG also asserts that India Pale Ale "changed the face of brewing in the 19th century", and "the new technologies of the Industrial Revolution enabled brewers to use pale malts to fashion beers that were pale bronze in colour." Wrong again – for a start, pale ale was around from at least the second half of the 17th century, a good hundred years before the Industrial Revolution began, as I showed in 2009. Second, almost ALL beers called "ale" in the 18th and 19th century were made from pale malt, as Ron Pattinson has comprehensively demonstrated with extracts from actual brewers' records, which led eventually to "ale" meaning any malt liquor pale in colour, with "beer" restricted to the dark kinds, stout and porter, something I wrote about here. So in appearance, IPA wasn't new at all. What it was, was the first bitter, well-hopped pale ale, as opposed to older sorts of pale ale that, following the style of malt liquors in Britain of the post-1710s "ale" type, were hopped (unlike the original unhopped ales) but less-hopped than "beers" such as porter and stout, and which were sold either "mild" (fresh) or "old" (aged).
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Today was one of those supercalifragilistic days a genealogist gets every so often. Contact was established with one of my missing "Minneapolis cousins." Of course she wasn't missing at all, just minding her own business in Denver and having a life. It's hard to say which of us was more thrilled. I found her by googling and then hours of checking forum messages. Being distracted by the forum's interesting content did not speed things up. It's 18 years since I saw her; 1989 was the last time I visited Minneapolis (time flies even when you stand still).
The preliminary catching up had its sad moments, speaking of time. Both her father and her uncle, the sons of my dear "Uncle" Peter, have died in the past few years. Her brother has taken over their family business. Kaylynn has the red hair and family similarity to me and my brothers in our youth. She also reminds me of my cousin Heather Dougall Miller, now sadly gone too. The colouring is also popping up among our grandchildren. I was told the red hair has been inherited from our Campbell ancestors ... but more on that another time.
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That's wonderful news!
- Saturday, 14 April, 2007
Hello Brenda!
I am Kaylynn's sister, Susan - I guess that makes me your cousin too, smile. I would love to correspond and cannot find your email address. Here is my email address: email@example.com
If you get a chance, I would love to hear from you. I am fascinated with my Scottishness and very interested to know more about us.
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- Saturday, 28 July, 2007
This is great info to know.
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Every spring in Japan, families with sons display miniature samurai armor. The armor, called yoroi (鎧), or samurai helmet, called "kabuto" (兜), are for Children's Day. Families want their sons to grow up strong and healthy. It's a Japanese tradition.
Starting March 1, Disney, never one to shy from merchandising, is offering a "Disney Pure Silver Kabuto" for a mere ¥250,000 (US$2,680), putting it on the pricey end of the miniature samurai armor scale.
As Japanese site IT Media notes, Mickey Mouse's silhoutte appears throughout the helmet's design.
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The Xbox One is a substantial piece of hardware, especially if it's sitting near a PS4 and/or Wii U for comparison. So it shouldn't surprise you to see people hard at work trying to make the thing smaller.
This is an Xbox One laptop. With a built-in screen and a slimmer form, it "shrinks" the console down to something that's 2" thick when closed. Not bad considering much of that is space is being taken up by the screen, and not the console.
It's got all the ports and functionality of a regular Xbox One. And...that might also be the biggest problem with it.
The laptop still needs the Xbox One's large power brick. And the Kinect is still there, lurking around, only now it's got nowhere obvious to sit.
So an "A" for effort, then.
22" Xbox One Laptop [YouTube, via technabob]


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Even as markets deal with the infantile reaction to Ben Bernanke's awkward comments about the end of QE, one thing is clear: The economy, however shaky, continues to improve.
And despite record bond fund outflows and high-profile hemorrhaging at famous equity firms, bank loan funds continue to thrive. Investors poured nearly $15 billion into bank loan mutual funds in the first quarter of 2013, according to Morningstar.
"There are two reasons you're hearing about them," says Mark Okada (left), chief investment officer of Highland Capital and portfolio manager for the Highland Floating Rate Opportunities Fund (HFRAX). "The first is ongoing concern about monetary policy and interest rate risk across the portfolio. The second is that in an improving economy, investors need access to that economy, and it's something the asset class offers."
As to the former, Okada says it protects against downside risk from interest rates. Short-term rates are "not going up anytime soon," he argues, meaning attendant coupons won't rise, either. And when long-term rates begin to rise, the asset class typically outperforms fixed income.
As to the latter, because it's below-investment-grade debt, it depends on the health of the underlying issuer, the particular industry and, hence, the overall economy. Below investment grade also translates to bigger spreads and more room for investors to maneuver, Okada adds.
"As the economy improves, they're getting a credit spread that's built into the asset class. So why is the asset class good?" he rhetorically asks. "How else can you get access to the improving economy? Equities are volatile; high-yield bonds have a spread premium, but it's low and it's largely offset by interest rate risk. Bank loan funds take interest rate risk off the table and don't have the volatility of equities, high-yield bonds and certainly not emerging-market debt."
Okada notes that surprisingly, "there's no upside in bank loan funds." Value comes from a return of principal plus the coupon, so the key is to identify problems before they happen (which is pretty much every manager's objective and easier said than done).
"What we've learned is that if a credit analyst is covering less than 30 issues, they know those issues and are on top of them," he says. "It's counterintuitive, but we add alpha and beat the market because we sell better than anybody else, rather than looking to buy at the right time."
The key is those 30 issues. Many more and the only thing the investor captures is downside risk.
"At a certain point, diversification is not your friend," Okada concludes. "You might not believe it, but a concentrated portfolio is actually less risky because it's about better issues, not more issues."
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First Open Source Geospatial Laboratory in Croatia is located at University of Zagreb, Faculty of Geodesy. Our mission is to follow OSGeo/ICA Memorandum of Understanding by supporting development of open-source geospatial software technologies, training and expertise.
The lab is run by members of Faculty of Geodesy and is strongly connected with partners (see Collaboration and People).
Our goal is to provide training, education and to support development of open source geospatial software as well as free geospatial data. We work to create opportunities for academia, industry and government in open source GIS to support OSGeo Labs mission "Making geospatial education and opportunities accessible to all".
Find more on OSGeo Labs mission and resources.
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The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) and the International Cartographic Association (ICA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for developing global open source GIS software and data collaborations for academic, industrial, and government organizations. The MoU aims to provide expertise and support for the establishment of Open Source Geospatial Laboratories and Research Centres across the world for development of open-source geospatial software technologies and training. Laboratories are being established in Asia, Europe, Africa, the Americas and Australasia which will act as nodes for future expansion of the worldwide network.
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The next most subtle or inward of the Four Worlds is the World of Yetzirah
danica wrote:I think I saw one typing errorThe next most subtle or inward of the Four Worlds is the World of Yetzirah
you probably ment more subtle here?
AvshalomBinyamin wrote:Yes, it's overall very clear, without being remedial. I especially liked the last sentence in the Yetzirah paragraph. It says a lot in very little space.
IMO the second paragraph could use some elaboration. For someone who isn't already familiar with the four worlds, it seems like it would be a little confusing - which order are the worlds being listed? what is meant by emerging? why is the plane of the creator the fourth world and not the creative world?
the atlas itch wrote:I wish you made a clearer distinction between Briah and Atziluth in terms of the "Creative" aspect (same observation as AB above)
The term "archetype" always brings Jung to mind and, by extension, I associate the Jungian archetypal realm with Daath. How is the archetypal world of Atziluth different from this popular understanding of "archetypes"?
I would like to know whether these Four Worlds represent the totality of all attainable reality or the totality of reality attainable for a human being.
It would be nice to see a clear explanation of the causal relationship between these Worlds (i.e. in order to cause change in Assiah, you must stimulate the plane Yetzirah or higher, etc)
You describe the Four Worlds as "progressively rarified strata of existence". This description evokes a hierarchical relationship between the Four Worlds.
Hence, as you write, "most humans have lived their entire lives oblivious to this stratum of consciousness [Briah]", but have the capacity to wake up into this Creative World. These descriptions reinforce the traditional hierarchical model of the Four Worlds.
But isn't it equally correct to conceive of the here and now as a mixture of the Four Worlds and the ascent up the Tree be conceived as a shutting down the influences of the various worlds via meditation or whatever?
However, as I read your introduction, it seems you are suggesting the ascent up the Tree opens up new and hitherto unknown realities to the aspirant rather than already-present realities in the background coming to the forefront of consciousness. It would help if this point was clarified.
Along similar lines, in the Kabbalistic Theory of Emanations, each sephiroth is composed of the emanations of the preceding higher sephiroths and can the same theory be applied to the relationship between the Four Worlds?
What is the difference between the four elements of the Tetragrammaton and the four elements of the Microcosm?
Jim Eshelman wrote:Thanks for both of these. - Let me ask you (though probably you've already implicitly answered above), do you think the subequent paragraphs resolve this? Or do they leave the reader hanging too long? (I have a kinda easy fix for it that has some compositional awkwardnesses, but I'm sure it can be handled.)
The three densest of these worlds have Hebrew names that mean (starting with the densest) "making," "forming," and "creating" (which essentially means "conceiving"). The fourth world is the plane of the creator. One can grasp, intuitively, how each denser world emerges out of the more rarified, abstract world above; formation emerges out of creation/conception, and making/action is subsequent to formation.
gurugeorge wrote:Great stuff, very clear and concise. One thing I'd say though, for a total beginner of a sceptical bent, the notion of a "world" might be a stumbling block (wtf does he mean by "world"???). What's the Hebrew word being translated as "world"? Maybe a short paragraph about that?
AvshalomBinyamin wrote:Really cool! (I was going to ask if you were going to make that connection at some point, but forgot to mention it)... I always like the OT tie-ins to the subject (so many of us started judeo/christian, 'rebelled' and then rediscovered our origins from a different perspective, so the tie-ins are always a bit mind-opening)
Jim Eshelman wrote:Though a more extreme and lengthy rewrite, what do you think of taking the second paragraph down this road?
The names of these Worlds trace to Isaiah 43:7, where God (YHVH) is credited as saying, "All that is called in my Name: for to my Glory I have created it (BRAThYV), I have formed it (YTzRThYV), and I have made it (OShYThYV)." Thus, the final three of the four Worlds (expressed in the letters of the Divine Name YHVH, and beginning with the densest) are titled OShYH, Assiah, "action or making;" YTzRH, Yetzirah, "formation;" and BRYAH, Briah, "creation" (which essentially means "conceiving"). The fourth world, Atziluth, is the plane of the creator.
Veronica wrote:Is it the world of tangible matter?
Is that where the other worlds can materialize?
As someone who has no real understanding of this subject I found your intro very helpful, but I did also wonder why do you divide into four worlds?
How does seeing these four worlds aid us?
Can these four worlds be parralled to humanities overall development, or of a humans physcial developement?
How do these worlds help us relate to the Tree?
just some extra question.
Thank you very much for sharing this BTW, I found it very interesting and helpful:)
Alrah wrote:Just one question... what makes the higher worlds 'high, and lower worlds 'low'? I'm sure some of the more well read people on eastern philosophy coming into the subject would want to know that, as the eastern schools do away the hierarchy.
there is currenly no argument that can shore up the four worlds hierarchy except for: 'this is the way it is', which just looks like the usual excuse for any hierarchy on earth
Jim Eshelman wrote:Alrah wrote:Just one question... what makes the higher worlds 'high, and lower worlds 'low'? I'm sure some of the more well read people on eastern philosophy coming into the subject would want to know that, as the eastern schools do away the hierarchy.
The most honest answer is: Convention. The history of it, I'm sure, is as simple as "God is up, Earth is down."
In modern times we could address it in terms of vibratory rates. "Higher" means "higher rate of vibration." This matches all observations I can think of and, in particular, the more-vs.-less rarified scale.
There is also the standard occult teaching that by "higher" we mean "inner," and by "lower" we mean "outer."
Jim Eshelman wrote:Thank you very much for this.
The three densest of these worlds have Hebrew names that mean "making," which emerges from "forming," which in turn comes from "creating" (which essentially means "conceiving"). The fourth world is the plane of the creator.
The densest of these worlds has a Hebrew name that means "making." This world has its source in the more subtle world of "forming," which in turn derives from the still more subtle world of "creating." The world of "creating" (which essentially means "conceiving") emerges from the fourth and highest world, that of pure spiritual essense, or the plane of the creator.
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