Inner Anarchy Quotes

“We need anarchy! It’s time to revolt. Yes, anarchy! Not political anarchy, but inner anarchy, in which we topple, dethrone, defrock, kick out, and cast aside the current ruling ideas that are programmed inside us.”
― Jim Palmer, Inner Anarchy: Dethroning God and Jesus to Save Ourselves and the World

“What’s critical to understand is that you have access to that same eternal life-giving Spirit that powered Jesus. The words and actions of Jesus were originating from the same source. That same authority from which Jesus spoke and acted is in us.”
― Jim Palmer, Inner Anarchy: Dethroning God and Jesus to Save Ourselves and the World

“Jesus came two thousand years ago to demonstrate, testify, and bear witness to the truth, and that truth still stands. There is a heavenly Bethlehem within each of us, and the same Spirit that was in Jesus is in us—that is the true messiah that is to be birthed out of us to save the world! We are the priesthood, but instead of turning people toward the Spirit within, the Christian religion did and does the very thing Jesus exhorted his disciples not to do—build a religion around the physical human Jesus. Jesus stated unequivocally that his kingdom and authority were not rooted in this cosmos—the carnal and religious mental reasoning and mindsets of this world. This faulty cosmos thinking perpetuates the most primitive notions about God and Jesus.”
― Jim Palmer, Inner Anarchy: Dethroning God and Jesus to Save Ourselves and the World

“The misteaching of what Jesus meant by “repent” has kept people circling around in that cosmos of false beliefs and mindsets that lead nowhere.   The word Jesus actually used was metanoia. Meta means “beyond or outside,” while noia means “understanding.” Noia is derived from the Greek nous, which means “our minds.” In practical terms, metanoia means to “change the way we use our minds”—to think beyond the normal limits of the way we have been taught to reason. It implies that we haven’t been using our minds correctly. An example of this metanoia principle would be metaphysics. As mentioned, “meta” means outside or beyond, so metaphysics means outside the normal limits of physics. Likewise, metanoia is a spirit awareness that is beyond the normal reasoning of the mind, which is trained from birth to focus on our world. True metanoia is referencing our higher mind—the spirit.”
― Jim Palmer, Inner Anarchy: Dethroning God and Jesus to Save Ourselves and the World

“The Christian church has preached a powerless gospel that has led countless people into a religious maze that goes nowhere. They have handcuffed the masses to a false God. The Bible has been misinterpreted and misused by religious leaders who claim to have spiritual authority, giving this bankrupt system a false air of legitimacy and credibility. I’m not pointing the finger; I was one of them. I was sincere, but I was sincerely wrong.”
― Jim Palmer, Inner Anarchy: Dethroning God and Jesus to Save Ourselves and the World

“Jesus once said, “If the eyes are good, the whole body is full of light” (Matt. 6:22). Jesus was not talking about physical eyesight; he was speaking of spiritual vision—seeing through the discernment of the Spirit. He would also often say, “Whoever has ears, let him hear” (Matt. 11:15). Jesus was not talking about physical ears and the ability to hear audible sound; he was inviting people to listen in and through the spiritual realm within them.”
― Jim Palmer, Inner Anarchy: Dethroning God and Jesus to Save Ourselves and the World

“Jesus once said, “If the eyes are good, the whole body is full of light” (Matt. 6:22). Jesus was not talking about physical eyesight; he was speaking of spiritual vision—seeing through the discernment of the Spirit. He would also often say, “Whoever has ears, let him hear” (Matt.”
― Jim Palmer, Inner Anarchy: Dethroning God and Jesus to Save Ourselves and the World

“Jesus knew he was called to testify to the truth, and that even his death was necessary so humankind would understand that we needed to inherit his Spirit for ourselves. Though the reality of the eternal Spirit within us was a fact established before the foundation of the world, the death of Jesus awakens us to the need to claim it for ourselves. He died to the cosmos to pass over his Spirit to us. All that nature was passed over and is embedded in the depths of each of us, and is ready to be lifted up in and out of us.   If this reality was true before the foundation of the world, then why has the world continued down this path of suffering and destruction? Here’s why: there are 7 billion people on the planet—2.5 billion of them are Christians who have corrupted the truth of Jesus for themselves and, in the process, have alienated the other 4.5 billion people from even considering it! What all 7 billion of us need to do is stop thinking about Jesus as a religion and instead embrace his truth, which is to let our worldly selves die—namely, the false mindsets and ideologies ruling and destroying us from within—and rise up in that nature, Spirit, and life that we all share as our common spiritual inheritance.”
― Jim Palmer, Inner Anarchy: Dethroning God and Jesus to Save Ourselves and the World

“Christianity’s false understanding of the death of Jesus means there are only two ways of reaching the “heavenly dimension”—either by dying and being taken up to God or by Jesus bringing it down with him when he returns. Meanwhile, Jesus taught and demonstrated that this dimension—the heavenly powerhouse—is present right now within us! The whole box of tricks! For the past two thousand years, Christians should have been the ones opening that box. Instead, we’ve had it cemented shut! ”
― Jim Palmer, Inner Anarchy: Dethroning God and Jesus to Save Ourselves and the World

“So why did Jesus have to die? Jesus had to die because our eternal Father-Spirit wanted to wake us up to this reality: there is nothing and no one in this world that can save us. The only thing that has this power is the Spirit within us. Until we let all our human reasoning, all our worldly and religious attachments and dependencies, and all our cosmos mindsets and ideologies die, we are stuck. It is only the eternal Jesus that can save us, which is that eternal Spirit within us.”
― Jim Palmer, Inner Anarchy: Dethroning God and Jesus to Save Ourselves and the World

“And when I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw everyone to myself” (John 12:32). This was not a challenge for people to start a Jesus religion and go around the world trying to convert people to it. Jesus was saying that when the eternal Spirit—within him and us—is lifted up out of us into the world, then that eternal Spirit will be easily recognizable to us all and draw us together as one human family.”
― Jim Palmer, Inner Anarchy: Dethroning God and Jesus to Save Ourselves and the World

“But as tragic as the unjust and brutal murder of Jesus was, it created a demonstration that leads us to the truth. Jesus was aware of the significance of this, which is why he did not resist the events that ultimately led to his death. But to understand this significance, we must “see” what happened on a different level—in and through the Spirit.   Jesus himself said he was “in” this world but not “of” this world. In other words, Jesus operated within our time-space dimension that is governed by science, physics, and nature, but he was also part of a spiritual or SUPERnatural world or realm that is not limited by these laws. We are also part of that same realm! The same eternal Spirit that put Jesus there puts us there too. This is what Jesus meant when he said, “Repent (metanoia), for the kingdom of heaven is here.” You might remember that metanoia means to change the way we use our minds. In other words, Jesus was saying that the SUPERnatural realm—the kingdom of heaven—is accessible to us right now, but it requires us to connect to that higher dimension within us by changing the way we use our minds. We do this by thinking in and through those deeper feelings!   Does that sound a bit too naïve and simplistic to you? If so, then you are in the right place! Jesus said unless you put your old, fixated beliefs aside and open your mind like a little child, you cannot see that dimension, let alone get in. How do you connect with and access this heavenly powerhouse within the eternal Spirit? By being a Bible scholar or following a stringent routine of meditation and other spiritual disciplines? No! We simply open our minds, put aside mental limitations, and trust those deep feelings inside us. Then express these feelings between us! There is nothing too hard about that, is there? It’s just a matter of changing the way we use our minds, and then joy and freedom begin to flood us. ”
― Jim Palmer, Inner Anarchy: Dethroning God and Jesus to Save Ourselves and the World

“But what did we do? We killed him and then built a great, useless religion around him on the wrong level. We made the physical Jesus into a god and overlooked that he was really explaining and demonstrating the Spirit in him—the same that is in us! That was the “God,” not him! We didn’t listen to what he said. Anyone who tried to understand his path was severely dealt with by the religious people who claimed to represent him. What a mess! Still”
― Jim Palmer, Inner Anarchy: Dethroning God and Jesus to Save Ourselves and the World

“IF GOD AND JESUS ARE UP IN THE SKY SOMEWHERE, THERE IS NO HOPE FOR HUMANKIND.   We need them here and now. The Christian religion’s version of the salvation of the world is that the physical Jesus will someday return to earth and straighten everything out. Where is the logic in this? Jesus was already here once and the mess and misery of the world were not resolved. In fact, Jesus never said his mission was to single-handedly save the world. Instead, he said that his mission was to bear witness to and demonstrate the truth that would.   The colossal mistake of the Christian religion was building its salvation plan around the physical acts of Jesus in the world rather than what they meant in the spiritual realm—that is, in the “heavenly dimension” in us. It is an elevated state of mind. That is where we experience the reality.”
― Jim Palmer, Inner Anarchy: Dethroning God and Jesus to Save Ourselves and the World

“It is not the physical or bodily Jesus who is the messiah who will save the world, but the presence that filled Jesus and fills us too.”
― Jim Palmer, Inner Anarchy: Dethroning God and Jesus to Save Ourselves and the World

“The reasoning of our minds keeps us locked inside the powerless ideas, beliefs, mindsets, and ideologies of the cosmos. But when we turn to the deep feelings that bubble up from the life-giving Spirit within us, we are accessing and operating within a very different, powerful dimension—and this needs investigating. All those Father-like loving, forgiving, and protecting attributes that religion taught us to associate with a God located up in the sky are qualities of the life-giving Spirit within us. The power to save our world and create a new order is not up in the sky, but inside ourselves. We are carrying it around daily.”
― Jim Palmer, Inner Anarchy: Dethroning God and Jesus to Save Ourselves and the World

“God is Spirit. That Spirit is the source of life, freedom, harmony, power, and well-being. That Spirit is within you. It’s not located outside of you somewhere up in the sky; it is inside you—inside everyone! People have a hard time accepting that anything good, powerful, credible, or trustworthy could be inside them, because religion has convinced people that they are bad, powerless, and corrupt within themselves. This is a lie. Jesus never taught this.”
― Jim Palmer, Inner Anarchy: Dethroning God and Jesus to Save Ourselves and the World

“Taking what Jesus meant by metanoia, you could restate Jesus’ central message as follows: “The dimension and authority of heaven are here now, but it’s going to require you to shift from your typical way of reasoning to an inner awareness of the Spirit inside you.” ”
― Jim Palmer, Inner Anarchy: Dethroning God and Jesus to Save Ourselves and the World

“Consider one chair in particular to toss: our present human reality and how it does not line up with Jesus’ promise of a new world. We try every conceivable theological explanation to avoid admitting that something is desperately wrong, continuing to rely on some God in the sky who is going to bail us out.   In many respects we have never progressed past the most primitive notions of a God out there, somewhere up in the sky. It is the way our minds have been trained to think. That training encourages all our belief systems—worldly and religious—to become “deities,” ruling us from somewhere “out there” in the netherworld of our imaginations.   That training in the Christian religion has been the immovable stone, sealing off the secret within us that Jesus taught would save our world. Those who cling to that training stand in the doorway, not entering in themselves and blocking everyone else who is wishing to enter. This is tragic.   It is time to rebel and find that new world. Listen to that world. Follow that world. Express that world. It’s a very different world than this one, and it will open up a whole new reality if we will only begin to trust it. This is what Jesus taught, what he lived for, and what he died for. Jesus offered hope to anyone who wanted to discover that new world: “Seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened to you” (Matt. 7:7).”
― Jim Palmer, Inner Anarchy: Dethroning God and Jesus to Save Ourselves and the World

“Jesus was an inner anarchist. His central message was that another world was waiting to be born. The people confused this message with the notion that Jesus was somehow going to physically displace the ruling regime of the day and achieve political freedom. Jesus did not advocate the expulsion of religious or worldly leaders by the sword. Instead, he told people to find liberation inside themselves and then unlock the prison cells for everyone else to break free. ”
― Jim Palmer, Inner Anarchy: Dethroning God and Jesus to Save Ourselves and the World