Thursday, February 10, 2005

What did Jesus Really Teach?


The feeling of having a very full screen is familiar to us. It just proves that you are alive, complete with goals, lifedesigns, and lifeplans!:)

The vox populi (popular interpretation) has a terrible rep for distortion or dilution. The only solution in sight is to make your nmessage so strong, so simple, so often repeated, that it requires no interpretations at all. Also, as people such as Jesus learned,to their chagrin, it is a better idea clearly to write down your ideas rather than simply speak them orally, trusting the notoriously bad memories of listeners.

It seems that people are by nature divisive. They often prefer bickering and conflict to the Way of peace. This is because, as we all know, we are living on a kindergarten planet.

Also, to make double-sure that you are not misunderstood, it is probablly good to do some even redundant writing. It is a spiritual teacher's worst nightmare that people in the future will misunderstand and misinterpret him/her. Also, despite the wonders ofJesus' teachings, and their deep beauty, it seems better to teach clearly rather than by the use of allegories, parables, and other systems that require interpretations. How much better the world would be if Jesus, in the officially accepted Bible, had said, "It does not matter what religion that you belong to, or what you believe about Me or My Father. The only thing that ever matters is that you love yourself and others." Maybe we would have been spared the lame-brained proliferations of religion, with all their bloody wars.

Or perhaps he could have said more clearly, "The ancient wargod of the Hebrews is not the same as the God of Love, peace, and forgiveness." How many literal and figurative "wars" would that have prevented?

Of course, we have only bits and pieces of the many teachings of Jesus. All the words of Jesus recorded in the Christian Scriptures could probably be read in three or four hours, and he preached, almost nonstop, for nearly four years! It really makes you wonder what the "official Bible," chosen by grumpy old men, left out!

I think that some of the truer teachings of Jesus are recoverable from the deep Unconscious. This has resulted in a six-hundred page book called The Mystic Gospels of Jesus the Christ. Please take a look at it, if you get time, on the website: loveministries.org It can be accessed, free, or downloaded, free.

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