It has been said that Jesus was the only completely unhypnotized man in the history of the world. In
Forty days alone in the desert enabled Jesus to travel to the core of existence itself. Layer upon layer of the collective unconscious mind had to be traversed and cut through. Thousands of stories and images of good news/bad news scenarios didn’t cut it. Finally he reached the Very Good that had been lost since Genesis 1:31, the bedrock of reality. Once he reached that level of consciousness, he could not be tempted by anything the world had to offer. He knew that mankind was enslaved by the external symbols of pleasure, fame and power, which shortly fail to satisfy.
He emerged from the desert full of light. He went to the temple in his home town and announced his mission to bring the good news he had found to the world (Luke 4). They handed him the scrolls of scripture and he read from Isaiah 62: “The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he has sent me to proclaim release to the captives, recovery of sight to the blind, to see free those who are downtrodden, and to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.” He was electrifying! He announced what he had found at the very center of existence: the infinite and unequivocal good news. He didn’t get that from society, from the learned, from the libraries, from the politicians and priests, because they didn’t know it.
This announcement angered his listeners when he told them that to qualify for the good news you have to be aware that you are poor, imprisoned, broken-hearted, downtrodden, blind, or grief-stricken. Our whole ego belief system in the story of good and evil has to be falling apart before we are open to the infinite good news. He had come to the chief problem of man: that we have been deceived, mis-educated, brain-washed, misled, falsely indoctrinated, conditioned, and hypnotized. We are ignorant of the truth. We look but we don’t see. We are in a state of amnesia. A complete turn-about is required. Outward behavior won’t cut it. We have to become like a little child, innocent open and without knowledge or we cannot find the Kingdom of Heaven. Is that good news? Not to the ego. Everyone wants to think he or she is right, that we know the score, that we are educated, modern, up-to-date, well-read, computer-literate, good people. The problem is god and other people. The good news is that we are mistaken, asleep in our common sense view of reality, and for the most part we don’t want to be disturbed. Jesus was the Great Disturber. The Grand Inquisitor asked “Jesus, why do you disturb us!” The very crises that come in our lives make us open to the possibility of seeing the false story of good versus evil that makes us poor, imprisoned, blind, starving, broken-hearted and asleep. Infinite Good News now becomes possible.
He emerged from the desert full of light. He went to the temple in his home town and announced his mission to bring the good news he had found to the world (Luke 4). They handed him the scrolls of scripture and he read from Isaiah 62: “The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he has sent me to proclaim release to the captives, recovery of sight to the blind, to see free those who are downtrodden, and to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.” He was electrifying! He announced what he had found at the very center of existence: the infinite and unequivocal good news. He didn’t get that from society, from the learned, from the libraries, from the politicians and priests, because they didn’t know it.
This announcement angered his listeners when he told them that to qualify for the good news you have to be aware that you are poor, imprisoned, broken-hearted, downtrodden, blind, or grief-stricken. Our whole ego belief system in the story of good and evil has to be falling apart before we are open to the infinite good news. He had come to the chief problem of man: that we have been deceived, mis-educated, brain-washed, misled, falsely indoctrinated, conditioned, and hypnotized. We are ignorant of the truth. We look but we don’t see. We are in a state of amnesia. A complete turn-about is required. Outward behavior won’t cut it. We have to become like a little child, innocent open and without knowledge or we cannot find the Kingdom of Heaven. Is that good news? Not to the ego. Everyone wants to think he or she is right, that we know the score, that we are educated, modern, up-to-date, well-read, computer-literate, good people. The problem is god and other people. The good news is that we are mistaken, asleep in our common sense view of reality, and for the most part we don’t want to be disturbed. Jesus was the Great Disturber. The Grand Inquisitor asked “Jesus, why do you disturb us!” The very crises that come in our lives make us open to the possibility of seeing the false story of good versus evil that makes us poor, imprisoned, blind, starving, broken-hearted and asleep. Infinite Good News now becomes possible.
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