With the crowning of a new pope this Easter within a morally disintegrating Catholic Church, which is torn by sexual abuse and corruption, it's time for a new look at the very human and unchained Jesus, the populist rebel with a timeless cause ~ love one another or perish: Allen L Roland
"All great truths
begin as blasphemies" George
Bernard Shaw
As I wrote last Easter, I personally do not think of Jesus
as meek and mild but instead as a determined and compassionate revolutionary ~ an
evolutionary forerunner for a state of love and soul consciousness which is
also deepest within each one of us. Only the church as an institution
stands in the way of this common innate connection and empowering knowledge.
To
many devout Catholics or far right christians, a very human and unchained (from
the church) Jesus would be the ultimate blasphemy ~ but I maintain that it
is a great truth which has long been sensed by millions throughout the
world.
To
discover the real Jesus ~ one must completely surrender to love ~ for only then
will you be seeing through the heart; for only then will you sense and begin to
understand that Jesus was the ultimate rebel ~ an evolutionary forerunner
and spokesperson for a state of love and soul consciousness that lies deepest
within us all. A state of consciousness that he surrendered to and found
during his undocumented years from 12 to 30 years old and most probably during
his travels to India.
But
what about the resurrection myth and the millions of people who base their
faith on the resurrection stories and other myths?
Is
it possible that Jesus was still alive when taken into the tomb and was stolen
away by his followers and later appeared. BBC explores that possibility in
this excellent 9 minute video entitled Jesus in Kashmir, India ~
Or is it possible
that Jesus appeared to his followers as an After-Death experience as millions
of people have experienced, including myself. This is not unusual now but it
certainly was 2000 years ago.
Gallup has revealed
that nearly half of all Americans believe that they have been in contact with
someone who has died ~ usually a dead spouse or sibling who they had a deep
loving connection. Another important point in Gallup's study was that the
major factor associated with contacting and experiencing the dead was a belief
in a loving God, rather than a judgmental one.
In that sense, Jesus
represents the transition from an externalized old testament God of wrath and
judgment to an internalized new testament god of love and a state of soul
consciousness.
My own mother
appeared to me the night she suddenly and unexpectedly died in 1987 ~ some 3000
miles away. Not only did she tell me how deeply she loved me but she also said
that she knew what I knew ~ Allen, I Know, Allen, I Know ..
I had sent her a copy
of my Unified Field Theory some months prior
to her death which can best be summed up in this one statement ~ The basic
underlying and uniting force of the Universe is a psychic energy field of love
and soul consciousness ( The Unified Field )
which lies not only beyond time and space but ALSO beneath our deepest
fears and whose principle property is the universal urge to unite.
So my mother appeared
to me, much like Jesus did with his followers, and told me that she was now in
that same state of unconditional love and soul consciousness which I call The Unified Field, thus
~ Allen, I Know, Allen, I Know ..
Did Jesus not do the
very same thing when he appeared to his followers after his death ~ proving
to them that the kingdom of heaven was within them and a state of consciousness
that exists beyond time and space.
It makes sense that
Jesus as a young child sensed his destiny and traveled elsewhere in a quest to
not only find himself but to get in sync with his destiny. Several authors have
claimed to have found proof of the existence of manuscripts in India and Tibet
that support the belief that Jesus was in India during this time in his life.
Some assert that Jesus lived the life of a Buddhist and taught Buddhist ideals
to his disciples. Their work follows in the
footsteps of the Oxford New Testament scholar Barnett Hillman Streeter, who
established in the 1930s that the moral teaching of the Buddha has four remarkable resemblances
to the Sermon on the Mount.
So let’s say that
Jesus, like many of us, was originally looking outside for God and true meaning
in his life and towards the end of those 18 years realized that what he was
externally looking for was instead deepest within him ~ a love, a state of
soul consciousness and a kingdom of heaven so deep that it existed beyond time
and space and it was calling him to service.
Imagine him returning
home armed with this burning cause ~ a heartfelt knowledge and eager to share
this truth with friends, neighbors and disciples and then also imagine his
shock of witnessing the decadent Roman culture and externalized world that
existed at that time ~ which eventually became threatened by his teachings
and rebelled against his message of love, inner freedom and individual power.
It was then that
Jesus became Jesus, the unorthodox revolutionary, spreading his message of love
and touching a loving chord that has never been forgotten because it also
exists deepest within each one of us ~ regardless of how well hidden it is
under blankets of unworthiness and self-doubt.
Today, Jesus would be
considered not only a rebel, if not a terrorist, and most certainly a
threat to the establishment and the status quo ~ as he most certainly was 2000
years ago.
Indeed, Jesus was a
rebel with a cause but Jesus has been misused and misinterpreted for thousands
of years and is still being misunderstood under the current banner of
Christianity.
Substitute the word
emperor with the Pope and you get the current big picture of how Christianity
has been misused
and with 80% of the American military being Christian ~ are we not still
fighting the crusades against the media labeled primitive, fanatically religious,
hateful Middle East Terrorists ~ when in reality they are our brothers and
sisters barely surviving in illegally occupied and economically ravaged
countries.
So much for
Christianity, let’s get back to Jesus ~ the ultimate rebel for love who still
calls to us from deep within to open our hearts and find ‘ The Way of
the heart '.
It is my contention
that Jesus did not die for us (contrary to the Catholic church) but,
instead he lived for us for he was indeed a determined revolutionary and an
evolutionary forerunner for a state of love and soul consciousness which is
also deepest within each one of us ( the Unified Field ) ~ a state of love and soul consciousness that exists beyond time
and space and is one in the same with the experience of an after death and near
death experience.
Dr. Eben Alexander,
in his bestselling book Proof of Heaven writes about his near death experience
and says the same thing ~ it's all about love;
Proof of
Heaven, p. 71
~ “If I had to boil this entire message down to one sentence, it would run
this way:“You are loved.” And
if I had to boil it down further, to just one word, it would (of course) be
simply: Love.
Love is without doubt, the basis of everything. Not some abstract, hard-to-fathom kind of love, but the day-to-day kind that everyone knows - the kind of love we feel when we look at our spouse and our children, or even our animals. In its purest and most powerful form, this love is not jealous or selfish, but unconditional. This is the reality of realities, the incomprehensibly glorious truth of truths that lives and breathes at the core of everything that exists or that ever will exist, and no remotely accurate understanding of who and what we are can be achieved by anyone who does not know it, and embody it in all of their actions. Not much of a scientific insight? Well, I beg to differ. I’m back from that place, and nothing could convince me that this is not only the single most important scientific truth as well.”
Love is without doubt, the basis of everything. Not some abstract, hard-to-fathom kind of love, but the day-to-day kind that everyone knows - the kind of love we feel when we look at our spouse and our children, or even our animals. In its purest and most powerful form, this love is not jealous or selfish, but unconditional. This is the reality of realities, the incomprehensibly glorious truth of truths that lives and breathes at the core of everything that exists or that ever will exist, and no remotely accurate understanding of who and what we are can be achieved by anyone who does not know it, and embody it in all of their actions. Not much of a scientific insight? Well, I beg to differ. I’m back from that place, and nothing could convince me that this is not only the single most important scientific truth as well.”
3 Minute video ~ How Dr. Eben
Alexander's near death experience affected his life (Oprah) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqvHUH_i_t4
The controversial Catholic theologian Hans Kung in his thought provoking book On Being A Christian has helped to demythologize the bible by attempting to rediscover the true Jesus:
" Against all
tendencies to deify Jesus, it must constantly be stressed today that he was
wholly and entirely man with all the consequences of this (capacity for
suffering, fear, loneliness, insecurity, temptations, doubts, possibility for error ) Not merely
man but true man.
"
Jesus was
a definitive threat to the establishment and they, in essence, eventually
killed the messenger
~ just
like they did with Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.
For those of you who
are waiting for Christ's return, I will tell you to look within, for it is
there that he resides in our deepest propensity to unite with and love one
another ~ and we all have a part to play in that
loving plan.
Jesus wasn't just a
rebel. He was the ultimate rebel. And now his call, "Follow me,"
seems a whole lot more radical because what he really means is go inside,
open your heart and find and travel the path or WAY of your heart.
81% of Americans say
they are Christians which is now the world's largest faith ~ with 2 billion
believers or roughly 33% of the earth's population. Newsweek reveals that 75%
of them say that Jesus was sent to earth to absolve mankind of its sins.
Let's get something
straight.
Jesus was not sent from anywhere for Jesus was divinely human ~ no
different than you or myself at birth ~ and the humanizing of Jesus is an
essential step in the journey towards taking responsibility for that same love
deepest within each one of us.
As such, the natural birth of Jesus and the loving relationship
of Jesus and Mary Magdalene completely humanizes Jesus, takes him off the
unreachable pedestal the Catholic Church and others have put him on ~ and
makes him finally accessible to the world through love and Relationship.
As such it also
places women, ( the divine feminine ) as symbolized by Mary
Magdalene, in their rightful place at the right of Jesus ~ and certainly
on more than equal footing with men.
Teilhard de Chardin said it
beautifully ~ The only right love is that between couples whose passion
leads them both, one through the other, to a higher possession of their
being..... Union, the true upward union in the spirit, ends by establishing the
elements it dominates in their own perfection.
We all have a
personal covenant with Jesus in our capacity to unconditionally love one
another as he manifested that love in his life. It is my potential to love
as Jesus loved that fills me with faith ~ not the immaculate conception,
resurrection story and other myths.
And it is the fuel
for my heart centered transformational work as a therapist with all my clients.
When you walk in
love, you walk with Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, Gandhi, King and all the other
great souls of our planet ~ Happy Easter.
Allen L Roland
Freelance Alternative Press Online columnist and psychotherapist Allen L Roland is available for comments, interviews, speaking engagements and private Skype consultations (allen@allenroland.com )
Allen
L Roland is a practicing psychotherapist, author and
lecturer who also shares a daily political and social commentary on his web log and
website allenroland.com He also
guest hosts a monthly national radio show TRUTHTALK on www.conscioustalk.net
