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“I cannot prove Jesus… Only "by the fruits will you know," says Jesus (Matthew 7:16-20). People who are properly aligned with Love and Light will always see in good ways that are not obvious to the rest of us, and we still call that enlightenment.”

“This is for me a very helpful meaning for the resurrection of Jesus, which might be better described as Jesus's universalization,… Jesus was always objectively the Universal Christ, but now his significance for humanity and for us was made ubiquitous, personal, and attractive for those willing to meet Reality through him. Many do meet Divine Reality without this shortcut, and we must be honest about that.”

“Christians usually called this the "glorified body," and it is indeed similar to what Hindus and Buddhists sometimes call the "subtle body." Both traditions pictured this by what became the halo or aura, and Christians placed it around all "saints" to show that they already participated in the one shared Light.”

“My personal belief is that Jesus's own human mind knew his full divine identity only after his resurrection. He had to live his life with the same faith that we must live, and also "grow in wisdom, age, and grace" (Luke 2:40), just as we do. Jesus was "not incapable of feeling our weakness with us, but has been put to the test in exactly the same way as we ourselves" (Hebrews 4:15b)…”

“Every time you choose love or positively connect with someone or something, you are in touch with the Divine Personality. You do not even need to call it "God"— God does not seem to care at all. It is equally important to say that to negatively connect, to hate, fear, or oppose, is not to meet the Divine Personality.”

“Human anthropology matches a di vine theology. How is that for one Great Ecosystem? If one's theology (view of God) does not significantly change one's anthropology (view of humanity), it is largely what we call a "head trip." ”

“It will really help you, Christian or not, if you can begin to see Jesus and Christ—as coming out of Reality, naming it, giving it a face, not appearing to Reality from another world. There is no group to join here, no need to sign on the dotted line, only a generous moment of recognition that the Inner and the Outer are one and he the same our inner meaning and Christ's outer meaning, if you will.”

“The…issue…is not whether Jesus did or did not physically rise from the dead, which supposedly proves the truth of the Christian religion if you agree, and disproves it if you disagree. No scientific proof is ever likely to be possible. Besides, our endless attempts to prove a supernatural event are misguided from the start, because neither Christ nor Jesus is outside of our natural reality in the first place.”

“The ungenerous mind does not like the wedding banquet. It prefers a dualistic courtroom scene as its metaphor for the end of time, which is why Matthew's end-times sheep-and-goats parable is what most people remember, even though they do not follow its actual message about care for the poor, and remember only the scary verdict at the end. … Scared people remember threats and do not hear invitations!”

“All who hold any kind of unexplainable hope believe in resurrection, whether they are formal Christians or not, and even if they don't believe Jesus was physically raised from the dead. I have met such people from all kinds of backgrounds, religious and nonreligious. I do, however, believe in the physical resurrection of Jesus… If matter is inhabited by God, then matter is somehow eternal…”

“God could not wait for modern science to give history hope. It was enough to believe that Jesus "was raised from the dead," somehow planting the hope and possibility of resurrection in our deepest unconscious. Jesus's first incarnate life, his passing over into death, and his resurrection into the ongoing Christ life is the archetypal model for the entire pattern of creation.”

“We must point out these almost hidden but fully corporate understandings in Paul, since most Western dualistic minds have been preconditioned to read his letters in a purely anthropocentric and individualistic way. This is neither good nor new. It is the same old story line of secular society with some religious frosting on top.”