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from Jesus:
This issue is essential for
a large percentage of the people who find this website. Many people
recognize that there is truth on this website. However, they also find
some teachings on this website that they cannot currently accept. If
this applies to you, I can assure you that you are not alone in this
experience. The question now becomes how you deal with this situation?
As a beginning, let me ask you to consider the situation from my perspective.
I have asked a person to create this website for the specific purpose
of bringing forth spiritual teachings that can help people attain a
higher understanding. The ultimate goal is to inspire people to anchor
themselves on the spiritual path that will gradually lead them to the
full Christ consciousness that I demonstrated 2,000 years ago.
As I explain throughout this website, most people on this planet are
trapped in a lower state of consciousness in which many of their beliefs
and viewpoints are affected or dominated by relative ideas that spring
from the duality of the carnal mind. In other words, most people have
been brought up with a set of beliefs and ideas that are out of alignment
with the truth and the reality of God. This has caused most people to
build a sense of identity as being limited, mortal human beings. This
sense of identity is out of alignment with the reality of God, namely
that every soul is a spiritual being with the potential to win immortal
life through the Christ consciousness.
My role as a spiritual teacher, and indeed the purpose for this website,
is to help people go through a transformation in consciousness. This
is first and foremost a transformation of people’s sense of identity,
so that they grow out of the limited sense of identity as being mortal
human beings and gradually come to accept a new sense of identity as
being immortal spiritual beings. This then is the goal. Everything on
this website is designed to help the greatest possible number of people
attain that growth, that transformation of identity.
Please take note of the basic mechanism involved. To attain a true sense
of identity, you must let go of the limited sense of identity you currently
have. This means that you must let go of the ideas and beliefs that
make up your limited sense of identity. How can I help you change your
sense of identity? I must help you see beyond the limited beliefs that
make up your current sense of identity. To do that, I must speak the
truth, even if it is in opposition to your current beliefs.
I cannot help you build a true sense of identity by affirming beliefs
that are out of alignment with the truth and the reality of God. This
simply is not possible. If you are to become a Christed being, you must
let go of every aspect of your sense of identity that is out of alignment
with the truth of God. There are no exceptions to this. It is not possible
to take a false belief with you into the kingdom of heaven. That is
why I said that he who is willing to lose his life - meaning his mortal
sense of identity - for my sake - for the sake of attaining Christ consciousness
- shall find it, meaning that he or she shall find immortal life in
the Christ consciousness.
I now ask you to consider that this website is available to every human
being on this planet with access to a computer. If you take a quick
look at humanity, it should not be difficult to see that people are
at many different levels of consciousness. Therefore, many of the people
who find this website do not have the same background or the same beliefs
that you have. My point is that this website was not made specifically
for you or for people who share your background and your beliefs. I
am attempting to reach out to the greatest possible number of people,
and I am simply asking you to respect the fact that in order to reach
the greatest number of people I cannot tailor the teachings on this
website to your personal beliefs or what makes you feel comfortable.
Do you see my point? I am not asking you to agree with everything on
this website. I am asking you to respect the fact that what might seem
uncomfortable or offensive to you could still be at teaching that will
help another soul let go of an illusion and rise to a higher level on
the spiritual path. Should I abstain from helping that other soul in
order to avoid making you feel uncomfortable, or are you willing to
let me speak the truth that will help another, even if it does make
you feel uncomfortable?
Now let me take this to another level. It should not be difficult to
see that I seek to inspire people to anchor themselves on the spiritual
path that leads you from your current state of consciousness to the
Christ consciousness. I consistently portray this as a gradual path
that consists of many stages and many individual steps. This is most
clearly expressed in my discourse on the levels of spiritual
development.
The people who find this website are at different levels of the spiritual
path. Right now, you are at a particular level on your personal path.
You are facing certain tests, certain initiations, and to pass them
you need a certain spiritual teaching. Once you go beyond this level,
you will face other tests and other initiations and you will need a
higher teaching. This is compatible to what you see in the educational
systems of the world. You do not teach advanced algebra to students
in kindergarten. You take a gradual approach, and my point is that a
kindergarten student is not ready to deal with the knowledge that will
be released at the college level.
On this website I am trying to release teachings for a broad range of
students. I realize that there are many people in the world, especially
many orthodox Christians, who will not be able to accept the basic idea
of this website or many of the individual teachings found on it. They
are simply not at a level of their personal path where I can reach them
through this website. I also realize that there are certain students
that have passed beyond the teachings I am releasing on this website.
So I am not trying to reach everyone, but I am trying to reach a relatively
broad spectrum. My point is that there are certain teachings on this
website that some people might not be ready for. The consequence is
that many people find some teachings that ring true in their hearts
but they find other teachings that they simply cannot deal with at their
current level of consciousness. So once again, how do you handle that
situation?
The most immature response is that people take the one teaching that
they cannot deal with and use it as an excuse for rejecting everything
else found on this website. Many orthodox Christians, especially fundamentalist
Christians, immediately fall into this pattern when they find this website.
A much more mature response is to realize that at your current level
of the spiritual path, you don't have to deal with that particular teaching.
In other words, you don't need to make a decision with your outer mind
concerning whether you should accept or reject the teaching. Instead,
you can decide not to make a decision about the teaching. You can put
it on the shelf and continue to walk your personal path until at some
future time you feel an inner prompting to take the teaching off the
shelf.
This is a perfectly legitimate approach. You simply recognize the fact
that the spiritual path is a gradual process and that there are ideas
that you don't need to deal with at your current level. So you put them
on the shelf until some future time when you are ready. While this is
a valid approach, it is only legitimate up to a point. You need to be
aware that there is a fine line between putting something on the shelf
and going into denial about the necessity to consider the teaching.
In other words, if you are in the third grade, you can go into the school
library and find a book on math for the senior year of high school.
Obviously, you are not ready to read that book. Nevertheless, if you
get to senior year of high school and still refuse to read the book,
then you will limit your education and possibly flunk the exam.
I encourage you to continue to study the teachings on this website that
you can deal with. If you cannot currently deal with my teachings on
a particular topic, then it might be legitimate for you to put them
aside for now. Yet be aware of the fact that at some point in the future
you will need to consider them again.
Let me also mention that this website is meant to inspire people to
close the circle and enter into a more direct relationship with me as
their spiritual teacher. This is an inner relationship, where you work
with me independently of this website, as I explain elsewhere.
Yet the main requirement for entering this personal relationship is
that you must come to a point where you are willing to consider my teachings
even if they go beyond or contradict your current beliefs. If you are
not willing to let me challenge your current beliefs, you are not ready
for this closer relationship.
Please don’t misunderstand this. It is perfectly acceptable for
you to come to this website and “cherry-pick,” meaning that
you study the teachings that appeal to you and ignore others. Yet if
you desire a closer personal relationship with me, you must be willing
to let me challenge any of your current beliefs. I am not hereby saying
that you have to let go of all of your current beliefs. I am saying
you must be willing to let go of any of those beliefs as you get direction
from within. If you have a belief that you are not willing to have challenged,
then you are simply not ready for this personal relationship with me.
I will then patiently wait until you are ready, but be aware that no
soul has forever to come home.
My goal for this website
is to help souls grow. In order to help you grow, I must help you abandon
your incorrect or incomplete beliefs. If you feel emotionally attached
to some of those beliefs, then I might have to challenge your beliefs
even if it makes you feel uncomfortable. My goal for this website is
not to make you feel comfortable. My goal is to help you grow.
If this requires me to challenge your beliefs and make you feel uncomfortable
for a time, then I am perfectly willing to do that, as I was perfectly
willing to challenge the scribes and the Pharisees 2,000 years ago.
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