Thanks, Jan. Great read. I am not like many people who will appreciate this article, as I went through a deconstructing faith process and ended up back where I started. Having grown up non-religious with Atheistic parents, I found myself always conscious of a larger sense of order. Even as a young teen, it seemed like something was behind it all. In high school, I encountered someone my age whose life had been radically changed by his faith in Jesus, and that led me into my own faith.
However, after walking in that faith and becoming a Pastor, life hit me hard, and I began to deconstruct what I believed and why. In the end, I came to one question. Is Jesus who the Bible says he is? Take away all the religion, dogma, religious violence perpetrated by man, theology, and whatever else you can come up with to avoid it; it really comes down to that one question. Nothing more, nothing less. His claims are so extreme that, as one person put it, Jesus was either a liar, a lunatic, or the Lord. Not a good man, nice guy, or prophet. The latter is just self-delusion and avoidance mechanisms.
Regarding our growing understanding of consciousness as primal energy, the Bible hints at it in Colossians 1:17, when speaking of Jesus. "He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together." This verse does not tell us how he holds it all together, just as much of the Bible does not explain scientific reality in many forms. If the form of energy, consciousness that we are discovering is this layer of how it is held altogether, then it in no way weakens the question above.
C.S. Lewis, Josh McDowell, Lee Strobel, and others have all done the hard work of researching the evidence around that question. They set out to prove the answer was no, and ended up with a yes. Jesus is who the Bible says he is. Even after all of the deconstructing that I went through, I came back to yes. I love to dialogue around that, and welcome that from anyone interested.
Thanks for the hard work. Your stuff is always engaging.
Great work! I love it! The monks kept saying that science was only part of the answer. That it cannot explain why we are here and what is going on. But once you actually explain scientifically everything in our light universe you can better understand God and God's domain. Why this is important is because only when we combine a spiritual Renaissance and a knowledge Renaissance can we reach wisdom. Otherwise we will just use more science to roll the dice on global experiments and we've seen how that's turning out and we will continue to use more science to lord over people. That is not loving. That's why this second stage of Jesus had to go through this complicated procedure of waiting 2,000 years. Try reading my article about the deep roots of this paradigm shift, and then read my article: guess what just happened. I think you'll find it exciting cuz it really adds teeth to your article but also eliminates the need for Blind Faith so that this can actually sweep as a living miracle across the land.
“The kid born in rural Alabama in 1980 is Baptist with the same inevitability that the kid born in Tehran that year is Muslim and the kid born in Mumbai is Hindu.”
Except when your parents don’t believe in religion. Believe it’s all for control. Called the baptist bat shit crazy. Hated the Catholics and the Jews. Hated satanist.
I got my ass beat for sneaking my brother and sister off to church.
Eventually, we grew up and went our separate ways. Brother is all into the 666, sister doesn’t care, and I’m still trying to figure it all out.
I’m starting to think we were engineered by higher beings. It’s the only thing that makes sense. We call them gods.
Excellent. My second Saturn return happened this week. I didn’t need to look at the last ~ 29 years in review, just its last square (with Uranus in Taurus) and approaching my solar return next month, I’m grounded and inspired (!).
I told my husband, who’s supportive of high-ordered metaphysics and astrology, it’s finally getting good. I’ve invested the 10,000 hours (last 7 years) to BEGIN to understand this evolving consciousness shift and I’m seeing it demonstrated in upgraded guides.
The Solar Return moon, ‘last year’ was ~ 15 degrees of Aquarius. My daughter is full-bore Aquarian conceived at my Uranus opposition. This last year, I’ve felt the dispassion and extreme rationality this sign carries.
I’m moving into a 9H, SR moon at 4 degrees Cancer, semi-sextile radix Jupiter and SR Mars exact trine to natal Uranus. I’m looking forward to my spiritual upgrade and meeting new guides. (Nod and bow, in lieu of an appropriate emoji).
Thank you sincerely and significantly, for your integrity in service.
Love it! I used to say to people that Christian nations produce Christians and Muslim nations produce Muslims and people didn't really like that. You are a breath of fresh air. You should read my article about the deep roots of this paradigm shift, and then read my article titled: guess what just happened. It kind of makes it clear that we need a spiritual Renaissance to go with a knowledge Renaissance or we won't achieve wisdom. We will simply roll the dice on science and do more toxic things or we will use it to lord over each other.
Thanks, Jan. Great read. I am not like many people who will appreciate this article, as I went through a deconstructing faith process and ended up back where I started. Having grown up non-religious with Atheistic parents, I found myself always conscious of a larger sense of order. Even as a young teen, it seemed like something was behind it all. In high school, I encountered someone my age whose life had been radically changed by his faith in Jesus, and that led me into my own faith.
However, after walking in that faith and becoming a Pastor, life hit me hard, and I began to deconstruct what I believed and why. In the end, I came to one question. Is Jesus who the Bible says he is? Take away all the religion, dogma, religious violence perpetrated by man, theology, and whatever else you can come up with to avoid it; it really comes down to that one question. Nothing more, nothing less. His claims are so extreme that, as one person put it, Jesus was either a liar, a lunatic, or the Lord. Not a good man, nice guy, or prophet. The latter is just self-delusion and avoidance mechanisms.
Regarding our growing understanding of consciousness as primal energy, the Bible hints at it in Colossians 1:17, when speaking of Jesus. "He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together." This verse does not tell us how he holds it all together, just as much of the Bible does not explain scientific reality in many forms. If the form of energy, consciousness that we are discovering is this layer of how it is held altogether, then it in no way weakens the question above.
C.S. Lewis, Josh McDowell, Lee Strobel, and others have all done the hard work of researching the evidence around that question. They set out to prove the answer was no, and ended up with a yes. Jesus is who the Bible says he is. Even after all of the deconstructing that I went through, I came back to yes. I love to dialogue around that, and welcome that from anyone interested.
Thanks for the hard work. Your stuff is always engaging.
Thanks Michael, valuable comment!
Great work! I love it! The monks kept saying that science was only part of the answer. That it cannot explain why we are here and what is going on. But once you actually explain scientifically everything in our light universe you can better understand God and God's domain. Why this is important is because only when we combine a spiritual Renaissance and a knowledge Renaissance can we reach wisdom. Otherwise we will just use more science to roll the dice on global experiments and we've seen how that's turning out and we will continue to use more science to lord over people. That is not loving. That's why this second stage of Jesus had to go through this complicated procedure of waiting 2,000 years. Try reading my article about the deep roots of this paradigm shift, and then read my article: guess what just happened. I think you'll find it exciting cuz it really adds teeth to your article but also eliminates the need for Blind Faith so that this can actually sweep as a living miracle across the land.
This is really good, will need to read several times over!
“The kid born in rural Alabama in 1980 is Baptist with the same inevitability that the kid born in Tehran that year is Muslim and the kid born in Mumbai is Hindu.”
Except when your parents don’t believe in religion. Believe it’s all for control. Called the baptist bat shit crazy. Hated the Catholics and the Jews. Hated satanist.
I got my ass beat for sneaking my brother and sister off to church.
Eventually, we grew up and went our separate ways. Brother is all into the 666, sister doesn’t care, and I’m still trying to figure it all out.
I’m starting to think we were engineered by higher beings. It’s the only thing that makes sense. We call them gods.
Excellent. My second Saturn return happened this week. I didn’t need to look at the last ~ 29 years in review, just its last square (with Uranus in Taurus) and approaching my solar return next month, I’m grounded and inspired (!).
I told my husband, who’s supportive of high-ordered metaphysics and astrology, it’s finally getting good. I’ve invested the 10,000 hours (last 7 years) to BEGIN to understand this evolving consciousness shift and I’m seeing it demonstrated in upgraded guides.
The Solar Return moon, ‘last year’ was ~ 15 degrees of Aquarius. My daughter is full-bore Aquarian conceived at my Uranus opposition. This last year, I’ve felt the dispassion and extreme rationality this sign carries.
I’m moving into a 9H, SR moon at 4 degrees Cancer, semi-sextile radix Jupiter and SR Mars exact trine to natal Uranus. I’m looking forward to my spiritual upgrade and meeting new guides. (Nod and bow, in lieu of an appropriate emoji).
Thank you sincerely and significantly, for your integrity in service.
Love it! I used to say to people that Christian nations produce Christians and Muslim nations produce Muslims and people didn't really like that. You are a breath of fresh air. You should read my article about the deep roots of this paradigm shift, and then read my article titled: guess what just happened. It kind of makes it clear that we need a spiritual Renaissance to go with a knowledge Renaissance or we won't achieve wisdom. We will simply roll the dice on science and do more toxic things or we will use it to lord over each other.