Re: What to Ask Proselytizing Christians (Single-Eye Awakening)

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[thomasmatus]

You cite the story in Luke about the two disciples walking with Jesus without recognizing him, but then you tack on two phrases, one that occupies another context in Luke & the other that is not in the Bible. Jesus did not appear to them as some sort of luminous spirit; Luke says he vanished from their sight. They said to one another, "Were not our hearts burning within us as he talked on the way?", an experience filtered through years of recognizing Jesus in the bread. Mysticism not literalism!

[0ThouArtThat0]

@thomasmatus Thank you for correcting me, Thomas! I'm not sure where I pulled that phrase from... maybe I was imagining Moses' experience with the burning bush, speaking with a sort of pre-incarnate angelic messenger of the Christ. The post-incarnate Christ recognized by the disciples at the end of Luke is no longer burning outside them (i.e., a luminous spirit), as for Moses, but within their own hearts.

what do you think?

[raw5069]

humans are the only creatures on earth that cover our nakeness, why ? when you find this simple truth your eyes will be opened and your ears to hear will be restored.

[KilshawInt]

Single Eye is Single I. Even our eyes are a reflection of the Galaxy, with a pupil as the event horizon towards the hidden and unseen source of infinite light and oneness. Healing or rescuing the earth is the process of re-creating the unity and love that is innate in all creation, it is joining the Heavens and the Earth, permanently bonding God with His creation.

[zencat]

Why would you make the same mistake the Church does and conclude that the events in the Bible be taken literally? It's impossible to even conclude that events taking place this instant are actually "happening", let alone the events of 2000 years ago. The Bible is a STORY that points to Awakening, just like the story of your life.

[fatherofaking]

@FixMeThin7

this is a test i have not been able to post

[circusOFprecision]

darn...sorry, I misquoted Jesus...

"You are the branches, I am the vine." There we go.

[circusOFprecision]

Wasn't Jesus' resurrection a reincarnation? His body was flesh, but different. Yet when the disciples recognized Jesus' spirit within, they were in shock. It was the actuality of what Jesus said..."I am the branches, you are the vine." The finality of salvation is to be reborn. It is bizarre, but I think there is some kind of extremely powerful truth within this, I just think it is difficult for us to grasp because of the separateness of the ego and it's familiarity with the temporal vessel now.

[circusOFprecision]

reincarnation...?

[thomasmatus]

Literalistic interpretations of the Bible are historically recent. Read Maximus the Confessor (7th cent.) and hear him excoriate readings that do not look beyond the letter. Paul affirmed that "the written code kills, but the spirit gives life" (II Cor. 3:6) in line with the rabbis who sought the spirit in and beyond the letter or written text. Yet I seek the spirit and eternal life from within my embodiment: not salvation from flesh but divinization of flesh, which Jesus resurrected manifests.