Jesus: The Big Picture
Who was the real person Jesus?
Many of us believe that part or all of his soul still lives on -- but who is he, really, and how could we connect in the best highest way we can with him? How can we see through the fog of partial reflected images (a lot like some Escher prints) to the truest, living person still there? (Many of those funhouse reflections of him are truly ugly.) On this day (December 25), it is natural that we meditate deeply and connect as best we can to the true living Jesus. This meditation is an important part of our connection to the rest of humanity today as well.
The full Jesus story I have seen is one of a human living on this earth, who worked hard to elevate his own spirit, and connect with “our Father in Heaven.”
The Chinese have stories of many “risen gods”, like Ehrlang, who grew spiritually enough that they live on in the “City of Heaven“. We would be fools not to learn all we can from him, and build a better connection, even as we do the same with Buddha and their entire circle, which itself connects higher and further.
The spirit of Jesus also has his avatars, living on this earth, capable of “partial gating” to him. And his reflections in the realm of spirit also include the great archetype “Baby Jesus”, whom we should never neglect either, but today I will not make that connection in this post.
Jesus warned us that many would come in his name, and try to sell us horrible, destructive distortions of him. In truth, while he COULD see into details and precision far beyond most of us on earth, he could also see that the evolution of human souls is a complex business, taking time to make real. When they asked why he spoke so much in parables, he said that there would come a time in the future when we could be more explicit, but it would take time for us to get that far.
My most spiritual Christmas Experience This Year
Obstacles on the Path
My truest, most authentic spiritual Christmas ceremony this year was in the Caribbean, on December 19 at Coci Beach on St. Thomas. See the cover photo of our Christmas Caribbean album for one part, one aspect of that great experience.
Like many great events, it was preceded by ups and downs which were very discouraging, which required me to remember how many things require time and patience and detours to attain. That is also a very important spiritual principle, related to the multithread nature of our existence even in the living spiritual worlds we are part of, demanding an understanding of how time and mind actually work.
On the Holland America cruise arranged by my wife Ludmila, we were supposed to visit St. John’s that day. Just once, we visited St. Johns before, to the ocean natural heritage site which had snorkeling far better than any other place I had ever seen, even in the Pacific. That too was a spiritual experience, where for one hour I could just let go and fully immerse myself in the very rich variety of life. Connecting so deeply with life and nature, I later studied the new science and learned a lot more. I became a “sea creature" so completely that I needed about a half hour to recover from sea sickness when I emerged to the beach and stood on land. But this time, HAL cancelled all the tours to go there, because risky storms endangered the schedule of return. Ludmila found a way we could get there anyway, but because I had brought the wrong passport by accident, a delay in reaching the ship would have endangered my being allowed back in the US in time for dentist appointment the next day. These ducks really did line up to say “No St. Johns this time. "
The tour/travel speaker on HAL described St. Thomas.. in a way which didn't sound promising. There are historic sites we had visited before, not much interest that day. The best they knew was Coci beach and Coral World. But when we were at Coci beach in a past year, all we saw were a few very small fish. Coral World was a small expensive museum of no real interest. So we took a local group taxi to Coci beach, and I did carry a snorkel in my back pack, but did not expect to use it, especially after our son complained about water leakage and I did not have floats or such.
Manifestation of The Spirit
BUT THEN…
After a brief basic physical exercise (underwater swimming), I walked up to my neck in the warm clear water. I found a clear spot with no other people or even small fish around.
I decided to try to repeat a new five-movement qi gong exercise we were taught on the ship on the two previous days: “opening the heart.” (I do not see it on the web, but https://qigong.com/the-basic-movements-of-qigong-exercises/ may be similar). I had seen simpler qi gong exercises before, as introductions to tai qi classes which I found very useful to physical health and spiritual connection both, but this was the first time I had seen five whole movements including this one.
And then, when I tried “opening the heart”.. immediately a giant school of moderate to large fish (like the moderate fish in the picture) swam right at me, flanked by Barracuda to the left and right.
After I returned to the beach, Ludmila persuaded me to try to use MY snorkel mask (which did not leak) and go to deeper water, past the rocks on our right, into the large cove between the rocks and the floating buoys blocking access to Coral World.
It was like St. John’s all over again! Not as many types of coral, but many enough, like fans, brain coral, bushy things, and others. AND… a setting where I could just let go,
for two rounds of about 10/15 minutes each, and enter a true Buddhist-like state of
no being”, really merging my being with nature, more even than I could at St. John’s.
Postscript on Science to Detect Qi
On the discussion list of Yeshua ben-David (who works hard to channel the spirits of love and peace, and uses the water more than I do in more ways), I have discussed the serious science to TEST my hypothesis that we might actually be able to SEE the “dark matter” force fields behind qi, right here in our solar system:
This past week I owe great thanks to my wife for encouraging me to probe the literature more deeply on what needs to be done. A crucial starting point may be found in:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abm9928
Axion dark matter: How to see it? | Science Advances
I apologize for the fuzzy enthusiasm I echoed months ago about tabletop axial Higgs detectors.
The new literature (including papers which cite this one and its companion paper) goes much further, and has huge implications for those of us who care about the relation between science and spirit, or about the future internet and its impacts on the human soul.
It also has huge implications for those who want to cling like fundamentalists to the good old version of the standard model of physics. Anyone serious about either of these viewpoints needs to study this definitive new paper.
I have expressed uncertainty and ignorance about many, many things. When my wife asks what I am most certain of, in these realms, different from conventional wisdom, I point to two things:
(1) That we humans (and some others) are deeply connected as parts of a larger living system, our local noosphere, which is made up more of dark matter than of ordinary familiar "QED matter".
(2) That qi is real, and essential in many ways to our future, also based on dark matter.
If I am right, SEEING the distribution and flow of dark matter here in our solar system is incredibly important. If I am wrong, the experiments should be done to disillusion folks like me, and find a better foundation. Narcissistic drunks play word games to decide such issues, but science -- like sanity and honesty --demands we try to find out.
If I am right, such detectors and detector systems based on them could be integrated into new internet and AGI design, to provide the kind of feedback we need to make the new internet a truly people-centered and environment-friendly system, unlike the scary alternative possibilities we see in movies like Matrix Resurrections.
One impressive new finding in this paper is the report that dark matter is much more dense in our galaxy than in intergalactic space. What of our solar system itself? Let us find out.
Is interaction with dark matter as difficult as they say, or is it like detecting radio signals which is much easier when we have a system designed or evolved to have the special kind of structure needed? Let us first get data to see what it looks like!
