Jesus was the first new age guru

After years of searching, learning and growing spiritually I came to a realization one day when reading the bible on a hunch that I had. I asked myself the question, what if we really misunderstood what Jesus was teaching? My hunch was confirmed when I started looking in depth at the gospels. I realized that Jesus was the first new age guru!

I was a person that grew up in a family that was deeply religious. Many in my extended family believed that the bible and its teachings were the word of God. They believed that the bible was whole, without error and the ultimate dissertation on salvation. I know that the people in my family were just like many in your family and many families around the world when it came to Christian beliefs and what it meant to be a Christian.

When I was young I believed as I was taught by my family. I didn’t learn what it meant to be Christian for me. As I grew older a number of things about how I was taught just did not sit well with me. I turned away from Christianity and religion in general. I felt religious dogma was destructive to humanity.

No religious dogma has encompassed all of mankind. Every religion had many things that were similar, but of course the differences were highlighted and if you did not subscribe to the belief you were an outsider and therefore condemned in some fashion. I know this to be true specifically of Christianity because that is what I grew up being taught and what ultimately destroyed familial bonds. People were passionate about their Jesus in my family.

It got so bad in my family that you could get excommunicated for as little as eating a snickers on Sunday! (at the right time eating a snickers can be a spiritual experience) We weren’t even catholic! Ok, I’m kidding about that, but it was pretty bad. We could not have a family picnic without somebody arguing over how the food was blessed. Me and the other kids just wanted to eat! Knowing “MY JESUS” was a serious thing in my family.

With that said I have reread the gospels and the professed teachings of Jesus and realized that Jesus was teaching in many ways on the law of attraction and other new age concepts! Until recently there was not a lot of mainstream literature on the law of attraction and other new age concepts like reincarnation, channeling and our multi-dimensional existence. Channeling was not something Jesus spoke on specifically but the bible is full of references to channeled information. See Moses and the burning bush as one example of channeling your higher self.

I have no doubt that Jesus and his teachings were the tip of the iceberg as far as what we consider new age thought in this day and age. He was misunderstood often by the people of his times. Even his disciples did not always understand what Jesus was trying to teach. This was because in many instances Jesus was teaching his lesson in parables. He would oftentimes speak figuratively. I will reference the New International Version bible because for me it is easy to understand and in today’s English. I swear my family thought the King James Version of the bible was the holiest translation because of the word “thou”. I think it was because Charlton Hesston used it so cool in the movie “The Ten Commandments”.

In the New International Version bible John 16:25 Jesus says to his disciples , “Though I have been speaking figuratively, a time is coming when I will no longer use this kind of language but will tell you plainly about my father.”

If Jesus was speaking to the people and his disciples figuratively, then what was the message underneath? Jesus in many instances was misunderstood by the disciples. Until lately we did not have any other teaching in the mainstream literature to analyze what Jesus was teaching. Jesus had many instances when he spoke about the law of attraction in a figurative sense.

In Mathew 12:35 Jesus says, “The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him.”

In other words what you put out is what you get back. Classic law of attraction! Once you look at things from the view of what is described in new age teachings you can unlock the codes of Jesus. The message is not literal. I hope that you will visit and expound on your take of the new age and the original guru, Jesus of Nazareth.

Are you a brave soul?

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