JESUS: The Trance-Breaker
The media is absolutely preoccupied with Jesus. Everywhere you turn, there is another, often weird, story or comment about Jesus. Jesus is being quoted, idolized, put down, questioned, distorted, but not ignored. Is he a savior, a teacher, a prophet, or just a figment of imagination. Some go so far as to say he never existed as a historical figure, that he was a concoction of Jewish sages, invented to compete with other godmen of the time.
But whatever may be said about him, Jesus represents a human archetypal reality that we cannot afford to ignore except to our own loss. I think Emma Curtis Hopkins had it right when she said “Jesus is the only completely unhypnotized man in the history of the world.” The mission impossible of Jesus, then, was to break the human trance, to free us from the collective hypnosis of victimization. Because of our human dilemma, he will draw all men unto his truth discovery. He came to the truth in himself and nothing less will do for us as well. His clarity means that our clarity is also possible. You and I can speed up our liberation from unconsciousness if we understand the initiations he went through. Through intregrity in his own life rituals he demonstrated how we too can be winners over our own anxiety-ridden trance-stories.
The Good News that Jesus Christ brings to our attention is that we can be liberated from our blindness, our bondage, our suffering, our broken-heartedness, our poverty, our beliefs in evil, illness, old age and death. His discovery is the way, the truth and the life. His discovery was that only the Infinite Good exists. A few other wise men had discovered parts of this good news, but none of them realized it to the extent of resurrection. Jesus discovery, however, is not exclusive. Each of us can and must discover immortality within just as he did. This immortality is hidden by our trance state. Jesus is the trance-breaker. You can be and do the same. That is our major purpose here.
But whatever may be said about him, Jesus represents a human archetypal reality that we cannot afford to ignore except to our own loss. I think Emma Curtis Hopkins had it right when she said “Jesus is the only completely unhypnotized man in the history of the world.” The mission impossible of Jesus, then, was to break the human trance, to free us from the collective hypnosis of victimization. Because of our human dilemma, he will draw all men unto his truth discovery. He came to the truth in himself and nothing less will do for us as well. His clarity means that our clarity is also possible. You and I can speed up our liberation from unconsciousness if we understand the initiations he went through. Through intregrity in his own life rituals he demonstrated how we too can be winners over our own anxiety-ridden trance-stories.
The Good News that Jesus Christ brings to our attention is that we can be liberated from our blindness, our bondage, our suffering, our broken-heartedness, our poverty, our beliefs in evil, illness, old age and death. His discovery is the way, the truth and the life. His discovery was that only the Infinite Good exists. A few other wise men had discovered parts of this good news, but none of them realized it to the extent of resurrection. Jesus discovery, however, is not exclusive. Each of us can and must discover immortality within just as he did. This immortality is hidden by our trance state. Jesus is the trance-breaker. You can be and do the same. That is our major purpose here.
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