Is There a Spiritual Eye?

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In the ancient Greek East and really in most cultures before the modern age, there's also this other thing. The noose is the word that the Greeks use for and it really translates as spiritual eye or spiritual reason. What they're trying to say is his eyes are closed, his spiritual eye is closed, or it has a cataract, and they're not seeing clearly. So if there is a spiritual eye, for the last 300 years, we've closed it or we've not been asked to use it. And I think this explains a lot of what's going on is that the way what we used to call wisdom is not evident to people.

John Heers is the Co-Founder and Director of the First Things Foundation, and the host of the podcast, Why Are We Talking About Rabbits?

The First Things Foundation is a non-profit organization that takes young people from the “new world” of the West to the “old world” of developing countries where they immerse, learn the language, and connect with local entrepreneurs and helps empower them to spur organic, ground-up development in their communities. They have active projects in Guatemala, Sierra Leone, the Georgia Republic, Ethiopia, and Appalachia near and dear to me here in the Rust Belt of the United States.

John has a Master's Degree in History from Columbia University. Previous to First Things Foundation, John worked overseas serving the Peace Corps as a water resource manager in Mali, oversaw emergency relief in the Georgian Republic, and taught history for 9 years in South Bronx and Harlem in New York City and Haiti.

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