My Caravan of Dream

Hey There Guys

How are you ?  Somone had asked me what are my views on christianity beings a christian and I wanted to put them here maybe spark some conversation. I have to say though that my experiences with christianity arent based on mindless repetition of rituals but of a life long inquiry and experience, and it has been a unique journey for me .

Where do I start?  I gues its only rightful that I start with my conception of Jesus the Christ.  To me Jesus was a man a human beign like you and I who through successive lives and trials and tribulations reached and attained the status of the CHRIST, i.e. the annointed one. I am checking my window for some hooded peopel coming to burn me, not the KKK but some over zealous catholics.

His mission was unique and he came for everyone. In other words Jesus like Mohommed like all enlightened beings dont belong to anyone they may come admist a certain group of people, but that has nothing to do with the universality of their message.

I feel that anyone who would aspire to be a christ, that means annointed with the light of enlightenment and communion with God is a Christian, the same way I feel that anyone who can most humble submitted themselves to God is a true muslim.  How many people have been declared Saints in both Islam and Christianity. Take a look into it.

For those many years someone so important to so many of us just vanished ( I always found this dubious) Jesus had gone to India, Tibet, Egypt Greece and a few other specific places to commune with the certain “masters”, and when he returned back to start hsi ministry came with a new means of  giving to us the most sacred of teaching of the old in a new way adapted for the specific time and place and circumtances and people.

Of course thanks to some councils emperors and wars Christianity sort of split into two various camps, churchianity and Christianity. By churchianity I mean I follow age old rituals and those who dont I put to death or burn. The church and its practices are what is more important than inwardly discovering jesus and communing with him as he guides you on a path to being a Christed one yourself.

Rudolph Otto talked about the evolution of religion I forget where, btu basically there are three stages and I will paraphrase of course because this isnt a scholarly work, and of course ass soem comments of my own

1. Initial experience -  One person experiences who the religion centers about occur. there is no hierarchical structure to religion at this point. The followers are taught by direct experience through the person, Jesus and the apostles ( sounds like an indie group) , Mohammed & Abu Bakr & Ali.
2. Cult Phase – There are a few followers maybe even different communitties  of followers and there are different heads of each community. each head of the communitiyes represents a direct chain of initiation into the mysteries from the souce.  There is a hierearchical structure but its not the focus  the focus is on the teaching itself, the expereinces through to which the follower cna ascend or better yet transcend his present state.
3. Religion – here in this third stage we are the farthest away from the original source of the truth, and the religion  is  defined by the hierarchy not by the transmission of teachings. The most important thing is the group, the community of followers. of course this religion breaks down into various sects here or group each vying for power to control the mind and of the totally of its followers. This can be a pretty violent stage.

This is where we are nowas christians. Its christians against the world, guidance counselors are writing book about why many young girls are leaving the christian faith and turning towards islam or some other religion.  Some christians feel that evangelizing and supplanting age old culutral traditions with their conception of jesus is quite  alright. I have even heard a woman who watched some whirling dervishes say that her heart went out to them because obvious during the dance and practices of the sama , these poor man adn women are possesed by Satan and his Legion.

To be continued……………….

Dave