Finding The Real Jesus Within Ourselves
Posted by Allen L Roland on April
3, 2015
To discover the real authentic Jesus, we must look
within ~ for there he is beneath the trappings of the institutional church who
replaced him with Christ and used him to preserve their empire; for there he is
within ourselves fully experienced in our capacity to fully love and empower others
and ourselves in the process; for there he is within our minds fully revealed
in our ability to fully understand that God is Love, the ultimate life force,
an evolutionary process with which we all participate as co-creators ~ just as
Jesus once did: Allen L
Roland, Ph.D
“All
great truths begin as blasphemies” George Bernard Shaw
To
find the Real Jesus we must first understand why have we never forgotten Jesus?
A rhetorical question because the obvious answer is that Jesus manifested a
deep love that is also deepest within each one of us.
To
find the real Jesus ~ one must completely surrender to love ~ for only then
will we be seeing through the heart; for only then will
we sense and begin to understand that Jesus was the ultimate rebel ~ an evolutionary forerunner and spokesperson
for a state of love and soul consciousness ( the Unified Field ) 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.
Rumi knew and wrote of this truth as
seen in his poetry ~ “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right
doing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that
grass the world is too full to talk about.” ~ Rumi
But
what about the resurrection myth and the millions of people who base their
faith on the resurrection stories, immaculate birth 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 ~ See short video
But it is far more believable that
Jesus appeared to his followers in an After-Death experience as millions of
people have since experienced, including myself. This is not unusual now ~ but it most certainly was over 2000 years
ago.
Gallup has revealed that over 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 shared a deep
loving connection (In my case, my mother
and my beloved 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 that lies deepest within ourselves.
As I mentioned, 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 .. See Memories
of my Mom
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 love and soul consciousness that exists not only beyond time
and space but also beneath their deepest fears.
It
makes sense that Jesus as a young child, after a normal birth, 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 himself ~ 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
empowerment.
It was then that he became Jesus
Christ, 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 a rebel, and most certainly a
threat to the establishment empire and the status quo ~ as he most certainly was 2000 years ago.
Indeed, Jesus was the ultimate rebel
but Jesus has been disguised, 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, Middle East Muslim
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 deepest
within ourselves to fully open our hearts and join him on the path or Way
of the heart.
It
is my contention that Jesus did not die for us (contrary to the Catholic church) but, instead 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 ~ in essence, 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.” See 7 minute video
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 and find 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 still 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.
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 ~ just as
Jesus did.
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 discover
that he was in relationship and used that love to perfect himself as many
of us have in relationship.
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 church and institutional myths.
But The Way is the lonely
path from the mind to the heart and it is indeed the hero’s path ~ for it will bring us face to face with
our deepest fears.
And it is the fuel for my heart
centered consultations with all my clients and especially combat veterans with
PTSD ~ who have faced their deepest
fears in combat and are now ready to embrace and defeat the fears of their
heart through love and gratefulness.
In
summary, to find the real Jesus, you must open your heart and fully surrender
to love ~ for when you walk in love, you will be walking with
Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, Gandhi, King and all the other great and noble souls
of this planet .
Happy Easter.
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Roland is a twin who was born in Boston, Massachusetts, survived a dysfunctional family, pursued and lived his dreams, including becoming a Navy supersonic carrier pilot, finding himself by fully opening his heart, writing three books, siring four children ~ and is still living his ultimate dream by making a difference from a place of love, celebration and service.
His Ph.D dissertation THE UNIFIED FIELD was chosen by Common Boundary and Noetic Science Institute, in their 1998 national dissertation contest, as one of the top three finalists for combining spirituality and psychology. His ongoing heart centered work as a consultant with veterans with PTSD, is the most satisfying work of his life. Allen's online newsletter, columns and radio broadcasts are committed to the truth ~ as he sees it ~ for only the truth is revolutionary.
Roland is a twin who was born in Boston, Massachusetts, survived a dysfunctional family, pursued and lived his dreams, including becoming a Navy supersonic carrier pilot, finding himself by fully opening his heart, writing three books, siring four children ~ and is still living his ultimate dream by making a difference from a place of love, celebration and service.
His Ph.D dissertation THE UNIFIED FIELD was chosen by Common Boundary and Noetic Science Institute, in their 1998 national dissertation contest, as one of the top three finalists for combining spirituality and psychology. His ongoing heart centered work as a consultant with veterans with PTSD, is the most satisfying work of his life. Allen's online newsletter, columns and radio broadcasts are committed to the truth ~ as he sees it ~ for only the truth is revolutionary.
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