12-26-2016, 03:28 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-26-2016, 05:07 PM by Eric the Green.)
The decadent in show business have gone down to an early death for decades. I was not a fan of George Michael, but Elton John was.
It is possible to live longer, by taking better care of ourselves. Some fall early anyway, from various causes.
On Christmas we celebrate someone who, it is said, rose from the dead and ascended. His death on the cross was intentional, on the part of himself. He asked Judas to betray him, and told his disciples in advance what was going to happen to him. 3 days after he was crucified, so it is said, he appeared first to the lady who may have been his wife, then to his other disciples, and doubting Thomas put his fingers through the holes in Jesus' hand where the nails on the cross had been, and Thomas was convinced.
There may have been others, in places like India, who have done this. Philosopher Henri Bergson prophecized that death would be overcome. In the 1990s, James Redfield wrote a book that was #1 on the bestseller list for months, called The Celestine Prophecy, which told of the secret held in Peru of the possibility of ascension.
The New Age culture, in which this book is an icon, is likely all but forgotten by the people on this board. But beneath the traditional secularist consensus in the blue and purple states, and the traditional religious consensus in the red states (and within all the states, the corresponding areas too), the New Age culture is there for those who wish to explore and pay attention to it. And it harkens back to and revives the esoteric aspects within all religions and cultures.
Did Jesus survive death? Did he even exist? We know that the plaque from his cross that proclaimed him the King of the Jews exists. Relics of his life were kept and treasured. We have the eyewitness accounts of his followers, and many sources for his sayings. My opinion is that only a very enlightened and spiritual being could have been the source of these sayings. Healing miracles were common in his time, and still happen today. People, including people I have known, have reported visitations from Jesus. We know the Virgin Mary appears to people too. Jesus apparently exists as a spiritual being from the other side, and may be able to be in many places at once, and even perhaps incarnate again at the same time. At a more basic level, Jesus is not a separate being from us. The Christ is the essential spiritual aspect of our being within each of us. And the same applies to The Buddha, according to Buddhists.
Jesus showed the way to ascension and survival of death. He was the prophet of the Old Age, in Western Civilization, but on the esoteric level, he is a prophet of the New Age too.
Merry Christmas! May the Christ be reborn again in us in this season.
You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.
-George Michael
It is possible to live longer, by taking better care of ourselves. Some fall early anyway, from various causes.
On Christmas we celebrate someone who, it is said, rose from the dead and ascended. His death on the cross was intentional, on the part of himself. He asked Judas to betray him, and told his disciples in advance what was going to happen to him. 3 days after he was crucified, so it is said, he appeared first to the lady who may have been his wife, then to his other disciples, and doubting Thomas put his fingers through the holes in Jesus' hand where the nails on the cross had been, and Thomas was convinced.
There may have been others, in places like India, who have done this. Philosopher Henri Bergson prophecized that death would be overcome. In the 1990s, James Redfield wrote a book that was #1 on the bestseller list for months, called The Celestine Prophecy, which told of the secret held in Peru of the possibility of ascension.
The New Age culture, in which this book is an icon, is likely all but forgotten by the people on this board. But beneath the traditional secularist consensus in the blue and purple states, and the traditional religious consensus in the red states (and within all the states, the corresponding areas too), the New Age culture is there for those who wish to explore and pay attention to it. And it harkens back to and revives the esoteric aspects within all religions and cultures.
Did Jesus survive death? Did he even exist? We know that the plaque from his cross that proclaimed him the King of the Jews exists. Relics of his life were kept and treasured. We have the eyewitness accounts of his followers, and many sources for his sayings. My opinion is that only a very enlightened and spiritual being could have been the source of these sayings. Healing miracles were common in his time, and still happen today. People, including people I have known, have reported visitations from Jesus. We know the Virgin Mary appears to people too. Jesus apparently exists as a spiritual being from the other side, and may be able to be in many places at once, and even perhaps incarnate again at the same time. At a more basic level, Jesus is not a separate being from us. The Christ is the essential spiritual aspect of our being within each of us. And the same applies to The Buddha, according to Buddhists.
Jesus showed the way to ascension and survival of death. He was the prophet of the Old Age, in Western Civilization, but on the esoteric level, he is a prophet of the New Age too.
Merry Christmas! May the Christ be reborn again in us in this season.
You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.
-George Michael