...THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION by DONALD BROADRIBB With contributions by Marilyn H... ...horus by Millennium Books [an imprint of E.J. Dwyer (Australia) Pty. Ltd.] in 1995. This second edition, with text reset, various emendations, and new... ...ex, is published by the Author, Donald Broadribb, owner of the publication rights. Copyright © 1995 and 2006 by Donald Broadribb. Typeset in Times New... ...publication rights. Copyright © 1995 and 2006 by Donald Broadribb. Typeset in Times New Roman and Futura, using the program Mellel, with an Apple iMac... ...th an Apple iMac. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The authors are grateful for permission to use material from the following: Joseph Epes Brown (ed.), The Sacred Pi... ...Harper Collins Publishers Inc., New York, 1972. Every effort has been made to trace and obtain permission from the copyright holders of material quote... ...yone else could experience that same voice, and sadly I feared that he was right. 1 1. Socrates is reported by Plato as claiming that at times he sens... ...ndividuals on earth, and also to intercede with God on behalf of those who petition them. But although there are as many female saints as male, and no... ... people felt that the orendas must be correctly approached with rituals of petition and gratitude to ensure success, or else they would be angry and c...

...ction. Whether as children we were taught at a church Sunday school or some other religious institution, or weabsorbed simple social assumptions from the culture we live in, none of us grow up in a religious vacuum. Through most of history the majority of people appear to have been reasonably satisfied with the religious culture which went hand in hand with their social st...