The Sufi Path is a process of amanesis (remembrance, realization). In pre-eternity, God asked the spirits: Alastu bi Rabikum (Am I not your Lord)? When we come into this material existence, we forget about pre-eternity and the task of life is to remember our way back to the truth concerning the nature of our essential relationship with God. This process of remembering or recollecting is known as amanesis.
Friday, July 26, 2019
Sufi Reverberations Podcast - Episode #32 - Anab Whitehouse
Hello. The Greek word for "remembrance, reminiscence, recollection" is Anamnesis (a term made famous by Plato: "knowledge is anamnesis"), but not "Amanesis"
Best wishes to you and your family, Elias Benis Greece
I appreciate your input, and I acknowledge the truth of what you have said. I knew what the proper term was many years ago when I first started this blog and made a conscious decision at that time to coin my own word which both played off the original Greek word, as well as was somewhat easier to pronounce -- at least for the limited sensibilities of English-speaking individuals such as myself. The beauty of a living language is that one can derive a word etymologically from a given historical source and, then, modulate things as one likes. The fact that my word induced you to remember the original word indicates that there was a certain amount of method in the madness with which I took some liberties with the Greek language as I transitioned an idea into a English form.
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Hello. The Greek word for "remembrance, reminiscence, recollection" is Anamnesis (a term made famous by Plato: "knowledge is anamnesis"), but not "Amanesis"
Best wishes to you and your family,
Elias Benis
Greece
I appreciate your input, and I acknowledge the truth of what you have said. I knew what the proper term was many years ago when I first started this blog and made a conscious decision at that time to coin my own word which both played off the original Greek word, as well as was somewhat easier to pronounce -- at least for the limited sensibilities of English-speaking individuals such as myself. The beauty of a living language is that one can derive a word etymologically from a given historical source and, then, modulate things as one likes. The fact that my word induced you to remember the original word indicates that there was a certain amount of method in the madness with which I took some liberties with the Greek language as I transitioned an idea into a English form.
Fair enough. Madness is always welcome.
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