Seeking Greater Light Articles

Exploring the Symbolic Significance of the Tree of Life, Serpent, and Kundalini

Perhaps I don't really understand what happened in the Garden of Eden. It's always seemed a confusing story -- Eve choosing the gift of knowledge by eating the symbolic fruit. Why do we attribute the light bringer of greater knowledge to the evil one? In ancient...

How bugs, war, and Ben Franklin’s joke led to Daylight Saving Time

Once again it's "Spring forward one hour" until we can "fall back one hour" in the Fall. When your government makes a law, no matter how it's justified, it sticks, like taxes.  And this one was updated not too long ago (just like taxes), so we have more weeks of the...

Did Benjamin Franklin start Daylight Saving Time?

Did Benjamin Franklin start Daylight Saving Time? The U.S. government extended it to eight months in 2007 (March to November). At one time the government said it saved energy. But that theory is not holding up anymore. Indiana found that we use more energy during...
A visionary man

A visionary man

I don't think it's a coincidence that the Nephite prophet, Mormon, chose to open the Book of Mormon with the story of...

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The Mother of Life

The Mother of Life

  I listened to Hugh Nibley this morning and found this morsel of light about the Mother of Life. Nibley relates...

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I’m not a saint

I’m not a saint

No, I'm not confessing to anything I've done, but I'm not comfortable with being called a "Saint." In fact, I'm a...

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Moses and Easter

Moses and Easter

Passover. Moses and Easter. I remember the day I finally put it together -- the meaning of the word Passover -- how...

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Exiled theme

A recurrent theme in Biblical history is a people exiled from their homeland. If you think about it, when we're born...

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