A Story of Christianity & It’s True Origins, Earlier than The Delivery of Jesus Christ – Collective Evolution

One of many issues that all the time intrigues me is the historic foundation for sure philosophical and metaphysical ideas. We regularly merely take with no consideration that the memes or concepts of our time have all the time been the idea for “truth” – and in our scientific age that may be an enormous distortion.

I keep in mind once I learn A New Earth and Oprah hosted Eckhart Tolle in a webcast sequence, and many individuals calling in questioned at his references to the parables of Jesus, and whether or not there was a reference to Christianity.

Oprah tried to mushy pedal the truth that Eckhart’s educating is secular, which is problematic for fundamentalist Christians – however is there a connection going additional again?

One in every of my favourite concepts from Eckhart’s work is his interpretation of the notion of the “Kingdom of Heaven” not as “someplace else” or within the sky, however slightly as a state of being ensuing from questioning, and in the end not believing your ideas.

Within the 20^th century a serious discovery was the Lifeless Sea Scrolls and comparable paperwork that exposed the Gnostic Gospels – a special set of historic interpretations of the teachings of Jesus, that checked out sin as believing your ideas – and resisting what's with psychological battle and turmoil.

This resistance and struggling would, after all, be the alternative of the “Kingdom of Heaven”.

In The Gnostic Mystery by Randy Davila, the writer weaves an fascinating thriller round such a newly found scroll and likewise takes the chance to summarize this discovery of an historic Christian doctrine as a psychological educating alongside the identical traces – the researcher within the e book says that the important thing to Gnosticism was nonresistance to actuality, and struggling was seen within the educating as the results of combating what's and hypothesizing alternate realities that “weren’t”.

This made me consider Gurdjieff, who was ever mysterious and veiled in his claims concerning the supply of his educating–which additionally included deep bodily and psychological inquiry into the character of thought. Gurdjieff posited the existence of three brains that have to work harmoniously to be able to connect with larger knowledge and recommended that trendy people are asleep and oblivious to their true nature.

However along with mentioning a map to “pre-sand” Egypt which fueled his journey to the pyramids (the place he labored as a information) Gurdjieff would recommend that his educating was the “true” Christianity – previous the lifetime of Jesus, in addition to the Egypt of the pharaohs with its supply in “prehistory.”

Whereas a lot of Gurdjieff’s ideology will be seen as “Eastern” and he could have traveled to India and Tibet, a deeper have a look at his cosmology and organic notions recommend that what he dropped at gentle could have been the unique and undistorted educating of a superior civilization that ultimately gave method to each Egyptian and Meso-American cultures that tried to protect its scientific knowledge.

A contemporary thinker and scholar who writes in depth about Gurdjieff in relation to trendy points, Jacob Needleman probes this facet of the educating in his e book, Lost Christianity.

On this e book Needleman engages with a scholar and monk whose analysis has taken him deeply into the sources of Jap Orthodoxy and extra esoteric interpretations of scripture. Needleman writes:

“What has been lost everywhere in the life of man is the confrontation within oneself of the two fundamental forces of the cosmic order: the movement of creation and the movement of return, the outer and the inner. The whole of what is known as “progress” within the trendy world could also be broadly characterised as an imbalanced consideration to the outward-directed power of life, mixed with a false identification of the “inner” because the realm of thought and emotion. The ideas and feelings which are given the title of ‘inwardness” truly serve, as has been proven, the motion outward and degradation of psychic vitality. In Christian phrases, that is “flesh.” Ideas and feelings should not the soul.” (222)

What this means is that the unique “pre-Christian” educating was about internal energetic data and the invention of man’s true nature by means of deep inquiry and concrete expertise.

The quote above truly suggests the Advaita inquiry of Neti Neti – “not this, not this” – within the pursuit of actuality and the ensuing recognition that what “I am” as not my ideas, not my feelings, and never my sensations; the physique is skilled as yet one more “external” object to 1’s true being.

That is certainly a really timeless notion of fact that we now might even see as “eastern” or “mystical,” however one which has been preserved in tales for the reason that daybreak of time. Joseph Campbell introduced many of those tales to gentle in his work (which impressed the Star Wars movies) and one can discover extra info in Bernardo Kastrup’s newest e book, More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief.

Bernardo, who additionally wrote Why Materialism is Baloney eschews the low hanging fruit of fundamentalist non secular dogma to probe extra deeply the sources of knowledge in our psyche and in our historic heritage of fantasy that recommend connection to larger energies and influences.

In fact science itself has given us the idea for this – we all know that we use wifi (wi-fi) transmission of vitality daily and our laptop software program encodes energetic conceptual intentions and produces outcomes with out human intervention – suggesting that psychological vitality and fact doesn't want a bodily basis to be able to “exist.”

Along with these linked efforts to unearth the sources of knowledge which will have been misplaced, the precise historic civilizations that trendy historical past appears to keep away from even mentioning are lined books like Chariots of the Gods, by Erik von Daniken and extra lately in Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth’s Lost Civilization by Graham Hancock.

It might be that we're on the verge of rewriting not solely our historical past of science and faith, however in truth the historical past of the origin of our species as we join these numerous dots and rethink even the idea of religions we have now all the time taken with no consideration: Judaism (with the Kabala and its mystical elements) and Christianity as being sourced not within the teachings of Jesus, however within the historic historical past of mankind itself.