4-5-20 Deliver Us From Delusion Notes

Deliver Us From Delusion HO

 

Sources:

Engaging The Powers: Discernment and Resistance in a World of Domination by Walter Wink

The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan

 

What Really Happened On Palm Sunday?:

John 12:13

  • 13 So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him,

Mark 11:8

  • Many people spread their cloaks on the road, and others spread leafy branches that they had cut in the fields. 

Matthew 21:8

  • A very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road, and others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road. 

Luke 19:36

  • 36 As he rode along, people kept spreading their cloaks on the road. 

 

“People would not be so acquiescent in their own oppression unless they were caught in a powerful delusion. Delude is from the Latin Deludere, “to play”…to defraud; to befool the mind of judgment so as to cause what is false to be accepted as true.”
Engaging the Powers pg. 88

 

“At an early age, we learn punishment and reward and form an image of perfection in order to try to be good enough to get the reward. We live by an image of how we should be in order to be accepted by everybody else and our fear of being rejected becomes the fear of not being good enough.” The Four Agreements – Don Miguel Ruiz

 

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”

Demon Haunted World