As always, doctors of theology and other biblical experts insist that the story of Yeshûa (Jesus) in the desert deals with his body and not with His Consciousness. He not only has been starving for 40 days, but, simultaneously, has been tempted by some imaginary entity called the devil.
God's word, they say, must be taken literally.
Yet, Yeshûa's 40 days of "fast" had nothing to do with His diet, but with cleansing of His mind, His Consciousness, from the conditioning of the illusion of reality in which He grew up (and we live to this day). For Yeshûa, the body was of questionable little concern. It was not the cause; it was the result of the state of Consciousness. Higher Consciousness. Not that generated by our mind.
Yeshûa was born into, and inherited, the view of reality, which we, the so-called Christians, (in spite of our scientists,) regard, to this day, as real. He needed to cleanse his vision. His perception of reality.
He felt the need to raise his consciousness from His ego to the Consciousness of Higher Self.
For us this truth, believe it or not, only came during the last few decades. Albert Einstein called the physical reality, illusory. However, with few exceptions, we continued our devolve from the Garden of Eden (which, BTW was also no more than a state of consciousness).
Our learned physicists have made it quite clear that the universe we regard as real is an illusion. That "matter" is made up of atoms that are so small as to be totally invisible to the human eyes. In fact, they are little more than nuclei of energy whose frequency of vibration has slowed down sufficiently for our primitive (also illusory) senses to perceive.
I prefer to think of our reality as a dream fulminating in our unconscious, which is that strange state of mind, where the ego generated by our brain and the Higher Self, which is the energy that created such activity, meet in realities not as yet recognized by us.
This is not to be confused with our subconscious, which is no more than a magnificent storage of our memories from the moment we began to be vaguely aware of our individuality. Let us not forget that such memories can stretch back to primordial times, when we exhibited the first signs of proactive behaviour to our environment. Until that time, our behaviour pattern, like the rest of nature, was only reactive.
Nevertheless, every single living species of flora and fauna is equipped with such memory storage. Not just genetically but as energies at the level of the subconscious.
For some reason our religious leaders refer to it as soul, assigning it the attribute of immortality. Nevertheless, only the energies that enhance the Phenomenal Universe enjoy such privilege, while those that do not are recycled in Black Holes. Memories which enhance the diversity of the Universe, like all energies, are indestructible yet malleable, and in that sense, immortal.
The difference between the human and the non-human soul is only its ability to be proactive, although that often leads it to perilous distortion of its purpose due to our incipient pride.
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Going back the the 40 days in the desert. Even with today's limited knowledge we know that man can only survive without food and water for 8 to 21 days. While Yeshûa soon learned to metamorphose the frequency of vibrations within our phenomenal reality, I strongly suspect that He went into the dessert to acquire this very ability. He would have starved to death if he waited 40 days for His first meal. And, as the Bible stipulates that He stayed in the desert, He must have suffered from a precarious lack of water. A dessert also symbolizes an absence of input from people living in an illusory reality.
Hence, His intend had nothing to do with any devil but with the temptation of the ego to be recognized in preference to the Higher Self. A weakness from which we all suffer to this day.
That's it in a nutshell.
Next week we shall continue trying to decipher other mysteries protected by the veil of symbolism. One day the experts will join us. For now enjoy my initial attempts to master the ancient secrets. They had nothing to do with religion, but the the nature of our reality.
It was a long journey to reach my present conclusions.
Below, the first steps I traveled.
BEYOND RELIGION
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What a pity that more of us don't go on a similar diet...
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