THE RESURRECTION EXPLAINED
Jesus, the man, was in a state of soul consciousness that exists beyond time and space and also deepest within us all; Allen L Roland
Jesus was divinely human ~ 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 a state of consciousness that is one in the same with the experience of an after death ( experiencing a loved one who has passed on ) or near death experience.
Let me explain ~
When you fully open your heart ~ you enter a realm of soul consciousness where you realize you are part of something far greater than yourself. A realm of consciousness that exists beyond time and space but also, once again, deepest within ourselves.
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 .
Jesus was in a state of soul consciousness which is why we have never forgotten him ~ but that same state of soul consciousness exists deepest within ourselves if we will but fully surrender to love.
We all once knew this great truth as children ~ which explains the Jesus parable " Unless you become like little children, you will never know the kingdom of heaven " ~ for we all, indeed, did experience this state of soul consciousness as a child before we emotionally shut down and entered a self-protective cocoon of ego consciousness.
That state of soul consciousness is not unusual now but it certainly was 2000 years ago.
The near and after death experience is proof of that state of consciousness that exists beyond time and space.
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 transistion from an externalized old testament God of wrath and judgment to an internalized new testament god of love and altruism.
My own mother physically appeared to me the night she suddenly and unexpectantly died in 1987 ~ 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.
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 knew what I knew ~ for she was now in that same state of unconditional love and soul consciousness which I call The Unified Field.
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 new Newsweek poll, 78% of Americans believe Jesus rose from the dead; 75% say that he was sent to earth to absolve mankind of its sins. The Catholic church has thus accomplished its mission of putting Jesus on an unreachable pedestal .
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.
But 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 process towards our taking responsibility for that same love deepest within each one of us.
For 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 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.
For example, could not the resurrection stories be symbolic of the fact that the love of Jesus can never die and is deepest within each one of us ?
This is why we have never forgotten him ~ much like I have never forgotten my grandfather who also unconditionally loved me.
Could not the virgin birth be symbolic of the fact that each one of us came from and are born in a state of love and soul consciousness ~ regardless if we were wanted or not.
There is no such thing as an ugly soul ~ but there are many maimed and wounded ones.
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 diefy 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 err ) Not merely man but true man .
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 and love one another .
But if a man says, " I Love God ", while hating his brother , he is a liar. If he does not love the brother whom he has seen, it cannot be that he loves God whom he has not seen .
I John 4: 19-20
Thus in our current search and groping for our roots and beginnings ~ we will eventually rescue Jesus from the church, and the pedestal they have put him on, and discover Jesus ( The Man ) and finally realize that The Christ is the love that is deepest within each one of us.
HAPPY EASTER
Allen L Roland
