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For millennia, sacred scriptures have played a crucial role in shaping societies, economies, cultures, languages, religions, politics, civilizations, and empires.
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2,604 wordsFor thousands of years Sacred Scriptures that played a pivotal role in shaping societies economies cultures languages religions politics civilizations and Empires they have provided epic narratives to help us on our journeys of identity exploration of ideas and nurturing relationships from the bhagavad-gita to the canonical Semitic scriptures like the Holy Bible and the Holy Quran to lesser known scriptures and Gnostic manuscripts often deemed apocryphal by Orthodox religious authorities Humanity has negotiated navigated and even contested its relationship with the Divine and each other through these sacred texts each of these books without exception were compiled and collected after its principal author or authors had long Departed the Earthly Realm what began as face-to-face chest to chest highly situated oral Communications rooted in embodied organic relationships became fixed and detached words removed from their original context as a result these words became disembodied decontextualized and quite frankly incomplete even if the words of God's chosen ones were recorded verbatim there was and is still something missing the written word is inherently incomplete when it comes to c…
