Simply Jesus

    Who or what is Jesus?  I am not going to give all the answers or even my answer.  I had a friend who thought a lot about Jesus, and so I will give one of his answers.
     Bob was (is) an Episcopalian and a one time deacon in the Liberal Catholic Church.  He had studied all kinds of psychology and spirituality.  He could write volumes on what Jesus might or might not have been.  He told me that every church had a Jesus.  A thoughtform or egregore that answered the prayers of the church members as best it could.  He told me that he could see these thoughtforms.  Like the one he saw at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in NYC.  Bob said it appeared in the form of a giant white dove that hovered over the congregation during a Christmas celebration.
    He also told me that these local thoughtforms were part of larger thoughtforms.  A parish thoughtform was part of a diocese thoughtform, which was part of a denominational thoughtform which was part of a unversal thoughtform for everything labeled Christianity.  Like a very confusing federal form of governance.
    I think there something to what Bob told me.  There is a scripture that says we live, move and have our being in Jesus.  So why not?  Many layers, but still simply Jesus.

The Illuminati

     Supposedly this is the group of people that controls the world.  The trilateral commission.  The Bilderberg group.  The Council on Foreign Relations.  I happen to think there is something to this.  As to how much control the secret rulers exert over the world is any one's guess.
     But if these or this group(s) want to dispel the rumors of worldwide domination, simple, just hold open meetings.  Publish the transcripts.  Or leave us to wonder.

Faith Healers Great and Small

    I think faith healers have a gift of healing.  I don't think it is as large as people want it to be and I don't dismiss it like some skeptics do.
     I liked Oral Roberts.  I would have never sent him a dime.  But I appreciated his ministry.  The problem comes when he claims or is pushed into healings he can't accomplish.  Let's say I can heal colds.  One touch from me and your child's cold vanishes.  The family down the street brings their child and expects me to heal it from cancer.  So we put on a show and pretend that the cancer is in remission.  This works for awhile.  Then the child dies.  This we do not publicize.  That would just bring people down, beside I can still heal colds and we all have bills to pay.  So the legend continues.
     I guess my real problem with faith healers is that they don't know or deny they are practicing energy healing.  They would have to redefine Christianity and allow that other religions are just as valid as  it is.
    So it is up to us to put all the pieces of the puzzle together.  Individual  people sorting things out for themselves.  So yes I believe in faith healing.  I believe in a lot more.  I believe in your ability to think for yourselves.

Guru

     I like my gurus dead.  They are a lot easier to deal with that way.
     Live gurus tend to contradict themselves.  They tend to have that human characteristic of making mistakes.  A dead guru you can deify.  You can reinterpret their seeming contradictions for a new time and generation.  You can talk to their spirits and ask for clarifications.  Dead gurus give you time to think and react.  Dead gurus allow you to grow out of their shadows.  And when you stand in your own light, you can put the guru back on the shelf for safe keeping.  Yes, dead gurus are the best.