Personal Note on the Church as Healer Series

I do not call myself a Christian, except perhaps in the “Catholic” sense of Universal. If Christ is eternal, so must be the Christian message. If we can not see this (in comparing the religions of the world), then perhaps we have misunderstood the original message.

If the church denies the “perennial philosophy” and insists on reinventing the meaning of the ancient symbols the majesty of G-d will not be served.

‘Ehieh asher ehieh’ is the supreme mantra of the Hebrews – I am what I will be. Many times did Jesu say I AM and … so he was/is. We to as “gods” (small g) are to cultivate this I AM, and cultivate our perfection in the image and likeness of G-d.

The beauty of affirming I am love, joy, beauty, etc., all attributes of G-d and thus of ourselves, is that we get to release all the obscuring spirit-energy blockages that prevent that from being true. Yet the effort keeps us in growing into our true nature as G-d perceives it and Jesus encourages us.

The "I" (Great Self) of G-d, can be usefully described as holographic, each of us revealing, potentially, the unity (alaha) of that whole, while appearing separate. The “I-maker” (ahamcara) is the desire for uniqueness, differentiation of identity, which too is G-d's desire in the search for Self knowledge.

In this series I lay out a spiritual path of healing (omitting the details for this blog). For me they are one and the same. Yet I am not a system builder, but a model maker a guide through some landscapes of the spirit. The systems of “techniques”are already in place and ready for ones "personal touch" of adaptation. My quest is for the perennial philosophy (the eternal Christ) and as importantly the perennial practice; the core teachings of the wise (exemplified for me especially in Jesus).

I do not overly concern myself with healing the body. The body and the outer circumstances of the soul will take care of itself ... in time, if the Spirit (life energy) is cleaned and made holy, which is foremost an inner work.

To be sure there will be important differences of opinion in what I write, but a healthy Christian agnosticism is not a betrayal of the Faith. There is so much we may never know in our lives, but this is no reason to presuppose, as many religious do, that we can find all the answers in a single book. As St paul said; all scriptures may be suitable for edification, even if all are not equally valuable.

Among the scriptures I read from is the book of nature, the living creation. It is time for science and religion to put away their petty quibbles, as with the advent of Quantum theory, the scientist must become philosopher too and give up the rigid materialism, which has been its blinder, just like the literalism of the fundamentalist has been theirs.

I hope you will find reason in these pages as well as faith.

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