Mountains Pt 2 - Portals, Stargates, Liminal Spaces and Thin Places (CTDW Episode 20.2)

Many Christians in our modern age frequently synchronistically conflate the western materialist veil with the clear reality of thin places— found and expressed in other cultures’ texts; but also found very clearly in the Bible itself!

While this idea has gained more acceptance amongst those in the West in more recent years, it is often misguided and mixed with many other esoteric traditions and understandings.

Today we are further exploring sacred mountains. Both those that are sacred to the Judeo-Christian religious worldview, as well as those that are not.

Mountains have long stood as a place to meet with the gods and the divine. This is true across all traditions. This, of course, makes perfect sense— mountains are the closest places on earth to the heavens. In fact, this proximity was the purpose of all Ziggurats, as well.

In today’s episode, we uncover some ideas and concepts around mountains and their importance to many cultures around the world in relation to the heavenly. This is the second part of 2 due to the quantity of information we discovered. Come find out why mountains hold so much significance to us even today on this 2nd part of this episode of The Christian Theological Dark Web.

01:30 - Mount Hermon 05:15 - Mount Sinai 09:15 - Mount of Transfiguration 15:00 - We don't Take the Opposition Seriously 19:45 - Tibetans and Mount Meru 27:15 - Angor Thom 31:00 - Hopi and Navajo Cosmology 33:15 - Sedona Vortices 34:15 - Buddha 40:00 - What the Buddha Experienced 43:45 - Precision is Important 49:45 - Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem 55:30 - Closing Stories References:

1. The Holy Bible
2. Angor Thom, Tibetan Cosmological Ideas and Hopi and Navajo Cosmology - Sacred Landscapes The Threshold Between Worlds, A.T. Mann and Lynn Davis
3. Mandalas - Tibetan Art , Amy Heller