RETHINKING THE HOLIDAYS
Choosing a mindful rather than a mindless season of joy
In A Course in Miracles it says religion and psychotherapy at their peak are the same thing: the healing of the mind. The only thing to be “saved” from is our own fear-based thinking, as that alone disrupts the harmony that is our natural state of being.
We’re rethinking everything today, and that’s a good thing. From rethinking politics to rethinking religion and spirituality to rethinking nature to rethinking education to rethinking our relationship to nature etc., our greatest power to change the world lies in our power to think about it differently.
The deeper meaning of Christmas lies not in the birth of a man who lived two thousand years ago, but in the rebirth of his spirit any moment when our hearts are opened up to love.
Rethinking Jesus, and other great religious figures as well, is part of a huge transformational process occurring in the world today. When he said, “My kingdom is not of this world,” he meant that his kingdom is in the realm of the psyche. The great spiritual scriptures are codes explaining the nature of our psyches, and we’re beginning to read them more deeply. Jesus works with us on the level of mind - guiding our thoughts from fear to love - and because mind is Cause and the world is Effect, he is a guide to transforming the world.
I hope THE MYSTIC JESUS: The Mind of Love adds some Light to your holidays, to your heart, and to your life. Despite the darkness that in many ways surrounds us now, there is a Light within that paves the way out it. That Light goes by many names, and Jesus is but one.
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‘Tis the season to be jolly, but we’re going to have to work on that:)
Let’s goooo!
Thank you for this beautiful reflection. Given our current political and social environment, I am finding it incredibly challenging to be loving, forgiving, and especially, peaceful in spirit. My husband and I are in such need of a miracle right now. However, my understanding is that unloving and fear-based thoughts deflect the very miracle we need and seek.
This kind of writing helps me reconnect with the divine inside myself.
We will check out your seminar offering. It may be a good use of part of our budgeted winter holiday savings.
I had my own epiphany moment yesterday .... after feeling so mad, so depressed, so helpless over how bold and arrogant these imbeciles who are running this country and are driving us over the cliff of Nuclear Argamendon and taking us all with them.
Bernie Sanders , along with 11 other senators tried in a vain attempt to pass a resolution to stop certain kinds of armlements from being given to Israel.
They were the only 12 senators out of 100 that voted to support it.
Why are the vast majority of Senators and I'm sure most of the House of Representatives sticking together so vehemently to escalate all these murderous wars around the globe in spite of the fact that the people whom they supposedly work for do not want them to .
Why do the Have's as some call them,so easily stick together to support their own causes while the Have-Nots cannot come together .... not on one single issue?
I have to say this.... but it is almost like we were born into this life... taken as hostages by our conquerors who holds us as slaves, and keeps our minds and will in cages to keep us suppressed just to serve their own will.
We seem utterly helpless to save ourselves from the evil which surrounds us.
Our oppressors know we are not driven by Greed and Power like them. And therfore we are not much seen in their higher echelons of corporations and government. They understand our weakness to shield ourselves from harm even if it means to the detriment of our fellow neighbors.
They reason that we are so inclined to hear the truth ...is that we readily succumb to believing a lie as long as it is hidden in a half truth of our liking.
As incarcerated detainees in their open air prison, we have become numb to their total lack of inhumanity in regards to Death and suffering. Why does God allow suffering here,?we are indoctrinated to ask ourselves from birth.
Does it not ever seem to occur to us that there is someone else here who is behind our sufferings.
It seems almost insane that the Pope, the Great World symbol of Spiritual Dogma... has just recently proclaimed that the unmercivable killings of tens of thousands of innocent people might have been premeditated.
Our own belligerent government officials tell us that the only countries who are standing up to this Evil ....Iran and Lebanon and Syria are deemed by our Inglorious leaders as our mortal enemies and must all be destroyed.
That the demonic servant of Evil ... Netanyahu... is the only one person who is telling the World the Truth... that he will continue this extermination until all his enemies are slayed under his Mighty Sword that has been given to him by us.
And all the High Courts of Man just look on... as the small contingency of the battered and laid to rest harbingers of news fill our minds and ears with words and sights of sufferings that we cannot even come close to comprehending.
And as all the Good People of the World cry out in a vain attempt for People to WAKE UP.
But even as they speak those solemn words.. they themselves feel the utter hopelessness of their pleas.
Because everyone already knows it will take a Miracle to save us.
Because everyone already knows, even if they hate to admit it.. we do not have the strength to accomplish this deed ourselves.
This is because we our made in the likeness of our Creator where we cannot even kill our own enemies without suffering ourselves.
And since we have been abducted and brought here to serve Evil under the pain of Death... which our Prison Guards weild so contemptuously and so complicity upon us.
So finally. I believe...
We must come to the dire reality that we must Ask/ Pray/ Petition our Creator for Help. He is the only one who can save us.
Nothing else will work. Forget our vanities and our ego's. We our Good People.. but goodness plays against us here. This is not like the Garden from whence we came... this is the desolate and ravaged land of good and evil.
How many deaths must we know ? How much civil disobedience must we endure, how much pepper spray must our eyes burn with.... before we realize that only God alone can save us and release us from this Hell Hole of Satan's Kingdom..
Just saying....
and God Help Us