Editor's Note: This sort of personal theology and expression of belief is not the usual stuff of news and opinion on OEN. In publishing this article OEN neither endorses nor commends the concepts expressed. But in a time when the world is racked by violence and political unrest fostered by dogmatic believers in various religions, it seems appropriate to invite readers to examine and rethink their beliefs. Take what you like and leave the rest.
This arresting picture of Jesus as a revolutionary, imitating the style of the famous poster of 1960s fighter Che Guevara, was produced as an advertising poster encouraging people to go to church during Easter 1999.
Jesus was divinely human ~ a determined revolutionary and 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: Allen L Roland
Jesus was divinely human a determined revolutionary and an evolutionary forerunner for a state of love and soul consciousness which is also deepest within each one of us. A state of consciousness that exists beyond time and space and is one in the same with the experience of an after death and near death experience. As such, Jesus was experienced after he died by those closest to him because that deep unconditional love and state of soul consciousness existed also within his closest followers.
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 with. Another important point in Gallup's study was that the major factor associated with contacting 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 altruism.
My own mother appeared to me the night she suddenly and unexpectantly died ~ some 3000 miles away ~ and 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 weeks prior to her death which can be summed up in this one paragraph: 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.
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 a Newsweek poll ( Is GOD Real / April 2007 ) 78% of Americans believe Jesus rose from the dead; 75% say that he was sent to earth to absolve mankind of its sins; 81% say they are Christians which is now the world's largest faith with 2 billion believers or roughly 33% of the earth's population.
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 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 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. My faith is not blindly based on a literal belief in the church, bible, the virgin birth and the resurrection stories.
However, with the acceptance of a Unified Field of love and soul consciousness, which exists beyond time and space, the bible, virgin birth and the resurrection stories assume symbolic, not literal significance.
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