OK, before I knew about, or even heard about the whole astral projection/ metaphysical area in general, I was a pretty religiuous christian. This was only because I never questioned anything anyone said, I was told something, and I just believed it, because I had heard it all my life. Everything that happened in the Bible, I believed actually physically happened in real life. But once I started going through my age of questioning things, whether it was parents, society, religion, ect ( you guys know what I'm talking about ), I began to wonder, how all the stuff in the Bible could have possibly have happened. I mean, isn't it odd that all of this happened a long time ago, and the only evidence of Jesus or God is in written documents? We are taught to have Faith, but what is this Faith based on? How could Jesus have physically fed 5,000 people with just a few loaves of bread and some fish? How come there isn't any physical evidence of Jesus' miracles, or God's power? How come God chose to reveal himself so long ago, and all of a sudden stopped. If he is so loving, why doesn't he just come out and say it? Why does God have to be so secretive? He's always mysterious. Why can't anyone perform miracles anymore? These are just a fraction of the thousands of questions I would ponder to myself. It wasn't necessarily enjoyable either. I felt like with this new sense of reasoning that I was losing all the love I had felt before with thinking there was a being somewhere that was listening to my every prayer, and making sure I was safe all the time. I began to wonder, once being exposed to murder, and death, disease, poverty, and everything that is evil in the world, how God could be so loving. I know this is an age old philosophical question " why is there good and evil in the world ", but it had a deeper meaning to me. I felt my faith starting to crumble, I had to sit through church thinking that almost every other word the priest said didn't really happen. Around this time is when I first learned about meditation. The teachings of various guru's and spiritual teachers had a strange sense of meaning and appeal to me, almost how I felt with the faith that I had before. The teachings of self knowledge and truth, high awareness, becoming one with the vibrations of the universe/ other dimensions, and so on. Everything that had to be said about meditation, and it's teachings, I absorbed like a sponge. I was constantly searching for new knowledge, to fill the hole that I had lost with my faith in the Bible. Everything started to make sense once I began to actually practice meditating. I could understand the teachings more. I began to discover things in my mind that I had never known before. It was almost like there were doors in my mind that were locked, and I had suddenly discovered the key. As I progressed in meditation, I began to realize how much I had missed out on not knowing. I realized that there was more truth, and knowledge that I got out of one solid good meditation session, than one mass. I started to get into astral projection, and here is where I am to day, but I'm getting ahead of myself, before that, I started putting things together. OK, I began to look at the Bible from a different view, because I now don't view the world in the same way as I did before I started meditating, it's almost like I took a filter off of my brain, and I finally view everything differently. I don't remember how I used to view it, I just know it was a lot more different than I view it today, it was almost like I was in some program, like the matrix, haha. Anyway, I started to play with the idea that what if Jesus was the son of God, but in a different sense. I think I got the idea from the Islam actually, the idea that Muhammad was a prophet. I think one day I was just thinking about this, and the meaning of the word "prophet". I think maybe the foundation of my thinking came from the Higher Balance company modules. A friend of mine (thank you Tom, and Eric ; ) ) lent me a few of his. The first thing that came to my attention was the theory of different frequencies of meditation. As explained in the modules, there are an infinite number of doors leading to higher states of consciousness, but it isn't easy to get to this. Some people may spend an entire life just visiting to one of these doors, which may be at a low level, not realizing that there is in infinite amount of higher doors waiting to be opened. Eventually, if you are very good at meditation, and have mastered it, you are able to unlock the highest levels of doors that there are ( I know I said infinite, just pretend, :D ). At the highest level of these doors, or the highest frequency of thought, your are able to achieve enlightenment, or being able to be at the same frequency as God/ the energy of the universe/ Allah/ the ultimate energy/ w/e you call God. You are able to bring back knowledge from this frequency back to earth. Now, it may be a little hard to get across to people, because for someone to translate something that awesome into the puny 100,000 words that exists in language, that might be a little hard? Which is were I came to my first theory, maybe this is why Jesus talked in parables? Now I am getting ahead of myself again by not explaining why I thought Jesus was enlightened, but I will explain that in a second. The only way Jesus could bring the knowledge his mind had learned from the highest frequency of thought, was to explain it in terms in which people could understand it in... so stories. OK, so one of the things that I am still not convinced about is Mary being a virgin, giving birth to Christ. I think this is fictional portion of the bible that someone added in, to make Jesus' story seem more incredible, I mean it was, but this was just added to spice things up. OK, the same way people tell old wives tales/ fairy tales. The Bible was a collection of oral stories, so probably eventually, things got a little stretched or added to give the story of Jesus a little zest. Just in the same way as your grandpa would stretch his stories a little, " traveled 30 miles to school" ect. Every tall tale comes about from a story that is orally passed down over time, until it becomes so absurd, that it isn't considered true anymore. Now, I'm not saying the Bible is a tall tale, I'm saying some parts follow the same theory as what I just described. Another thing that the Bible may have that misleades people is the fact that people spoke differently than we do know, back when it was written. I mean, come on, it was 2,000 bloody years ago! Of course they would speak differently, and have different slang/ dialect than we do. Even are parents say funny words that were slang around their time, but not now. Who says "groovy" or "far out" anymore? Anyway, the point that I am trying to make is that Many things in the Bible could have been worded in maybe a more poetic, metaphorical/ literary form. Just how modern poets use different phrases for describing things such as, instead of saying " the sun ", one might say " a great sphere of burning anger", as an example. So when whoever wrote the Bible would say something like " Jesus is the Son of God", they might not have literally meant that he was. OK, so Jesus grew up, and was probably introduced to meditation/ astral projection at a young age, just how some of us in this forum were. Now meditation has been around for ages, as most of you know, in the east, for thousands of years. So, Jesus probably became very good at it, maybe he was a natural, maybe he was just practiced a lot. He was probably a fast learner, sought enlightenment, and eventually, as I said before, probably unlocked the highest doors, and entered the highest frequency, or the frequency of God/ the energy of the universe. This is probably why he talked about being so close to God, because in a sense he was. He was at the same frequency as this Being of Universal Energy, that he probably felt as if he was almost the Song of God. He probably used the word " God", because that's the word that people were familiar with, but he ultimately meant this higher energy. Jesus spoke poetically, and a lot of the stuff he said, probably was not meant to be taken literally, rather thought about by people, so they might become closer to this higher frequency, or for them to be able to seek inner truth and knowledge by wondering about these things Jesus said. When Jesus would pray for very long times, he was probably meditating, and trying to unlock more doors of consciousness, eventually reaching the highest frequency. So yes, Jesus was enlightened. A lot of things he did were probably stretched over the years, but who knows, maybe with his enlightenment came the power of telekinesis ;)? maybe that had to do with some of his miracles. Now, I am sure that what Jesus learned through meditation was the knowledge of compassion and goodness, and he tried to get this message across to his audiences. When he talked about being in heaven with his Father, he was relating the relationship of a father, something familiar so the people could understand, with the feeling of happiness, or what he described as heaven. He preached through goodness that one would be able to experience life, which is the meaning of life, because with goodness comes in return goodness from other people, making life full of more experiences (at least that's my theory, and it's worked so far :D ). Now the thing I have been interested in is about Jesus' Resurrection? Now, today is Easter, so I was thinking about it. OK, I know there was a post somewhere in the OBE general discussion session about what if you were so good at projecting, that when you died, and you found yourself leaving your body, if you could just fly back into your body, and not die? Now, this probably isn't true, but maybe since Jesus was enlightened, that when he died on the cross, he was able to find his body, and enter it again, because maybe he still needed to get one more thing across about enlightenment before he finally went to rest? Or so people would believe it more? This is a kind of far fetched theory, but, it could be possible I guess if you think about it. Well, so that is my basic theory on Jesus and most of the Bible. But through meditation, and this new sense of faith, but in a different way, I am able to enjoy mass again, but in a different way. I am able to enjoy it more in thinking that Jesus was more of a guru, bringing back his knowledge to help people achieve inner truth. Maybe through having gone to this awesome frequency of all knowing, maybe he planned this all so that the Bible would be written, and people like me would come up with these theories and maybe think differently about the world and life. Maybe he wanted to keep the real meaning hidden and twisted in the poetic language of the Bible, not revealing the real meaning, because if it were all spelled out for us, it wouldn't make us think. Maybe the Bible is a very valuable thinking tool, and it's interesting because it's almost like I made a big circle in my faith, starting back at the beginning, but with a different sense of faith. Now not scared of death, or life, through meditation. I know this is an extremely long post, and I've been sitting here for quit some time, but if you are here at the bottom, scrolling down to check to see how long this sucker actually is, please just give a little time up, maybe on a rainy day or, a boring day at work just read it, or at least skim it to actually maybe change your perspective on Christianity? This is just my theory, and it could probably be explained better, and there's a lot more that I could say, haha, but these are just some main points that I wanted to talk about. I feel better actually getting this on the forums, and please post what you think, or discussions, or comments!
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR READING!
TONY