With
the emergence of a popular 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 lonely Jesus, the ultimate populist
rebel with a timeless cause ~ love one another ~ but who also deeply knew something that most people chose
not to be conscious of: Allen L Roland
"All great truths begin
as blasphemies" George Bernard Shaw
As I wrote the last few Easters, I personally do not think of Jesus as meek and mild but
instead as a determined and compassionate revolutionary ~ an evolutionary but
lonely forerunner for a state of love and soul consciousness which
we will all eventually surrender to. As
such, God is an evolutionary process with which we all participate as
co-creators. 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.
Why have we never forgotten Jesus? A rhetorical
question because the obvious answer is that he manifested a love that is also
deepest within each one of us.
But Jesus was also profoundly alone for he
knew something that very few people accepted or even acknowledged ~ which is
precisely how Carl Jung described loneliness ~ “Loneliness
does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to
communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain
views which others find inadmissible.”
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
age 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, including myself ~ usually a dead spouse or
sibling who they had a deep loving connection (In my case, my
mother and my twin) 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 of this Unified Field of love and soul
consciousness that I know and live ~ 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 in the form of a state of
soul 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 that 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 lonely
but 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 the ultimate rebel 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 lonely 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.”
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 gradually unfolding
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. In
September 2012, Harvard University divinity professor Karen L. King made a
stunning announcement, revealing the existence of an Egyptian papyrus fragment
that contains the first-known explicit reference to Jesus being married. The
fragile relic, measuring only 1.6 inches by 3.2 inches, appears to have been
cut from a larger document and contains eight incomplete lines of Coptic script
scribbled by a nubby pen. The fourth line of the text contains the words
“Jesus said to them, ‘My wife,” followed in the next line by “she is able to be
my disciple.”
And why not ? It makes total sense to me that
in the much needed process of humanizing Jesus, that we realize that he was
married and used that love to perfect himself.
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. But the
path is the lonely path from the mind to the heart and it is indeed the hero's
path.
And it is the fuel for my heart
centered work 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,
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(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
