Quote from ShoeshineBoy:
Johnny,
You've got to come up with some basis for making all these outlandish claims, esp. on a science thread. You can't claim to be Buddha, Jesus and whoever else all rolled into one w/o at least a little evidence.
Did you just wake up one morning and say, "I'm omniscient today! Wow! That's cool" Or were you listening to George Harrison and an epiphay hit you? Or did someone channel that you were God's gift to mankind? Or did it happen in an OOB when you realized you were incarnate?
Seriously
Nothing unusual going on here except an actual resurrection sequence.
Consider this phase one of four...what some here might call the "boring" phase. There hasn't been any turning of water into wine yet...but stay tuned!
This phase parallels the boy Jesus arguing in the temple with the scribes and pharisees.
There's nothing going on except an attraction to the truth, and a certain amount of joy in sharing what is being found. There is also a certain amount of weariness with the confused state of the status quo, and an unwillingness to continue on that path.
The fact is, I am not the teacher here. I am the student. I am sitting in the front row, observing. Sometimes, my brothers listen in and get something from what is shared. That's great. It's not my main concern.
The only identity I take seriously is that I am the Son of God. My path to that awareness is similar to Jesus', and partly fueled by his learning accomplishments. So he is credited for the extraordinary nature of my "outlandish claims".
What does it matter except that it works as a learning tool. Does anyone question why Samuel Clemens writes as Mark Twain? Does it matter why an English aristocrat had to use a fake personage, "Shakespeare", in order to publish the wisdom of his playwrites? Does anyone care that Shakespeare was actually an actor who acted as if he was the playwright?
The identity "Son of God" does not make me special. In fact, it makes me the same as everyone. All other names are for special status, which I am in the process of renouncing as meaningless. And this is because special status is what gives rise to this world...something I no longer want.
The name of Jesus is the symbol of the process of awakening, and a demonstration of what will become a "typical" resurrection/waking process, though not the same for everyone.
And what faced him is the same as faces everyone. At what point do you simply withdraw faith in a fake identity, and put it in something real? What does that look like? How do people respond to that? Does it matter how they respond? Not really.
There will always be someone who sees Jesus as just the stonemason's son from Galilee. Or just a boy debating with scribes and pharisees in the temple. At what point does a "Jesus" go from seeing himself as a mamas boy [read: mother nature] to the Son of God? It's always a matter of identity. What matters is what you think of yourself.
I am one not content to see the learning accomplishments of Jesus wasted on an ungrateful crowd. I can't change the crowd, but I can change myself, that is, my thinking about myself. That's the only way I can give Light to the crowd.
The teacher-grasshopper status is temporary. The "crowd" are my brothers as equals. All differentials exist in time only, and equality is only a few decisions away at any moment.
"Jesus"
