While a chapter in  one of my books summarized religions of the world ,  I studied up for this feat by reading  Religion for Dummies .  As such, accepting artificial intelligence sources as superior to my brain, a good part of my posting today will draw from Google AI Overview.  What is that?  Read  Wikipedia . What inspired me about Searching for Awe, was my reading today about  Rosh Hashanah , the Ten Days of Repentance which culminates in Yom Kippur, which this year will begin at sundown on October 1, and extend to nightfall on October 2, a period of 25 hours. This is also Hebrew year 5786, which began on the evening of 22September2025, the first day of Rosh Hashanah.  Note that when you subtract 2025 from that number, 3781 BCE is the calculated date of creation.  But understand that these numbers are more a chronological reckoning based on early interpretations.   Watch this video about the meaning and warning about the yea...

Nine years ago when I moved from Heaven to Purgatory--yes, I'm the first to be so demoted--I posted: COULD 15 CRAIGSIDE BE PURGATORY? That photo is of both where I came from, on the right, and where I now live.  To quote from that article about why I thought I was in purgatory: The people here are all nice, but, perhaps not perfectly purified, especially me. We're located next door to 2101 Craigside, where   my apartment is close to Heaven . Except for my ocean view side, we are surrounded by graveyards (by the way, that tennis court and pool belongs to 2101 Craigside, where my penthouse apartment will soon be back on sale): Since then I've written about Purgatory on numerous occasions, always on Sundays.  To again quote from  one of these postings in 2016 : You ask, how do I know so much about the laws of Purgatory.  Simple, I just made them up.  However, if anyone out there in the ether can send me verifiable proof of any house rules associated with Purga...