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Introduction and Definitions; Managing the Spiritual Neighborhood
Description
The grandson of Polish-Lithuanian immigrants, Alexander Gabis spent the first years of his life in a four-family tenement in East Cambridge, Massachusetts. Early on the family moved to Arlington Heights in the Boston suburbs where Gabis attended public schools and enjoyed a typical baby-boomer upbringing. A child of the sixties, Gabis was drawn to the spiritual regeneration movement of that era at a time when a sea change was taking place in man's understanding of his true nature.
In his younger years Gabis had visions of a greater good; a cosmic force that would envelop humanity. Beings from a higher plane would gather people up and extricate us from the disorder of the lower world. As time went on, the vision took a more concrete form. It turned out that such beings did exist, and were accessible if you knew how to recognize them. In fact, it was possible to interact with higher beings; to move in the same realms where they circulated. The finiteness of life could be transcended; a person could become immortal while still in an earthly body
Gabis gives the credit for the these realizations to his practice of Eastern self-development techniques (e.g., Transcendental Meditation), and before that, to his interest in mathematics. He says that the most important knowledge he took away from his college studies (at Tufts and then U.Mass/Boston) is that the universe corresponds to the way one thinks; that there is the connection between the logical and the physical. But the bigger revelation came later, when he discovered ways to connect spiritual existence to the seemingly unrelated fields of community work, civics and crime prevention. In the same way that modern physics linked the scientist to the phenomenon being studied, Gabis saw the means by which the societal observer participated in social
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- Alexander Gabis
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- Fairfield IA
- US 52556
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- +1.3014490402
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