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From: Roz via Thespiritexpress <<a href="mailto:thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org" class="">thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a>><br class="">
To: Yasskin Marc <<a href="mailto:yasskin@mindspring.com" class="">yasskin@mindspring.com</a>>; <a href="mailto:thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org" class="">thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a><br class="">
Sent: Sat, Dec 25, 2021 7:11 am<br class="">
Subject: Re: [Thespiritexpress] Fwd: Christmas Eve Reflection: Creating Heaven on Earth<br class="">
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<div dir="ltr" class="">>> Thanks, dear Marc! This is so beautiful!<br clear="none" class="">Love, Roz<br clear="none" class=""><br clear="none" class=""><br clear="none" class="">Something so inspiring on this Christmas eve.<br clear="none" class="">>> from our dear brother Tomas ~<br clear="none" class="">>><br clear="none" class="">>> ~ m. 🙏🌟<br clear="none" class="">>><br clear="none" class="">>><br clear="none" class="">>><br clear="none" class="">>><br clear="none" class="">>><br clear="none" class="">>><br clear="none" class="">>><br clear="none" class="">>><br clear="none" class="">>> Dearest Relatives,<br clear="none" class="">>><br clear="none" class="">>> I share with you this night, some thoughts on Christmas Eve...<br clear="none" class="">>><br clear="none" class="">>> Long, long ago in the Middle East three wise men were guided by spirit<br clear="none" class="">>> to follow a star leading them to Bethlehem where they came upon a<br clear="none" class="">>> newborn child. There lay Yeshua ben Joseph, whose life and death was<br clear="none" class="">>> destined to reignite the light of faith, hope and love in a dark time of<br clear="none" class="">>> human suffering. Years after his death Jesus came to be called “Christ”,<br clear="none" class="">>> a word that comes from the Greek word Christos, meaning “anointed one.”<br clear="none" class="">>><br clear="none" class="">>> Hundreds of prophetic passages in the Old Testament refer to a coming<br clear="none" class="">>> Messiah, a savior, an anointed one, who who would come to redeem the<br clear="none" class="">>> Jewish People and usher in the Kingdom of God. Ancient Israel thought<br clear="none" class="">>> their Messiah would come with military might to deliver them from<br clear="none" class="">>> decades of captivity to Roman rule and pagan kings. But the religion of<br clear="none" class="">>> Christianity that grew up after the death of Jesus in its New Testament<br clear="none" class="">>> offered a different kind of deliverance — a spiritual deliverance based<br clear="none" class="">>> on what Jesus taught and how he lived which is all about a consciousness<br clear="none" class="">>> of infinite, unconditional love.<br clear="none" class="">>><br clear="none" class="">>> So while Jesus was Jewish, a rabbi who knew nothing about Christianity<br clear="none" class="">>> because it did not exist while he was alive, a radical rabbi whose<br clear="none" class="">>> teachings about love upset both the Jewish power structure of the time<br clear="none" class="">>> and the Roman rulers of the land of Palestine, and the celebration of<br clear="none" class="">>> his birth, Christmas, is a Christian holy day, what Jesus was all about<br clear="none" class="">>> is for all of us, all of humanity, Christians, Jews, atheists, all<br clear="none" class="">>> people. It is about a consciousness that knows “the Kingdom of Heaven is<br clear="none" class="">>> within” and that “ the way to the Father is through me”, meaning not<br clear="none" class="">>> Jesus the man but the function of living in and from infinite<br clear="none" class="">>> unconditional love that is for giving and that is the essence of our<br clear="none" class="">>> being. In other words, Christ Consciousness refers to a function of<br clear="none" class="">>> consciousness whose only focus is love and only love, love that is for<br clear="none" class="">>> giving, freely to all, with no conditions or strings.<br clear="none" class="">>><br clear="none" class="">>> There came a time in my life, a Jewish man brought up in a secular<br clear="none" class="">>> family for whom the only meaning of Christmas was about the exchange of<br clear="none" class="">>> material gifts to family and friends, that I was to learn about Christ<br clear="none" class="">>> Consciousness in a very personal way that changed my understanding of<br clear="none" class="">>> Christmas. When I was twenty years old in a second story Victorian flat<br clear="none" class="">>> three blocks away from the corner of Haight and Ashbury I swallowed a<br clear="none" class="">>> tab of LSD dissolved in a glass of water. Shortly thereafter my mind<br clear="none" class="">>> dissolved into a visionary state that blew out the fusebox of my<br clear="none" class="">>> understanding of reality and of my own identity. In my vision I saw<br clear="none" class="">>> Jesus being crucified calling out not for vengeance but for love;<br clear="none" class="">>> “Forgive them Father, they know not what they do!” For the first time in<br clear="none" class="">>> my life I consciously experienced unconditional love, love that was<br clear="none" class="">>> being sent out to the perpetrators of his pain from an understanding and<br clear="none" class="">>> compassion that they were asleep in a dream of separation and should be<br clear="none" class="">>> forgiven for what they were doing, not punished, but instead filled with<br clear="none" class="">>> love.<br clear="none" class="">>><br clear="none" class="">>> Fifteen years later sitting by a fire with Huichol Indian People in an<br clear="none" class="">>> all night ceremony in the high desert of backcountry Mexico another<br clear="none" class="">>> vision of Christ emerged in a visionary state. Again I saw Jesus being<br clear="none" class="">>> crucified on the cross. This timei saw that each time I or someone else<br clear="none" class="">>> made a negative judgment about their being or the being or someone else,<br clear="none" class="">>> another spike was driven into the body of Jesus and he cried out in<br clear="none" class="">>> pain. The vision continued. It showed me that each time I, or anyone<br clear="none" class="">>> else, caught the negative judgment in awareness and made the decision to<br clear="none" class="">>> let it go, to release it, a spike fell out of Jesus’ body and a beatific<br clear="none" class="">>> light burst forth from his being that illuminated the desert night with<br clear="none" class="">>> blissful gratitude.<br clear="none" class="">>><br clear="none" class="">>> To me, more than fifty years after that first reality-dissolving vision,<br clear="none" class="">>> the real meaning, the real medicine of what is to be celebrated at<br clear="none" class="">>> Christmas is about opening ourselves to the love that we are, releasing<br clear="none" class="">>> negative judgments about our own being and the being of others, and<br clear="none" class="">>> living the love that we are as Jesus in his life demonstrated with the<br clear="none" class="">>> consciousness that I witnessed and felt in the visions I was gifted by<br clear="none" class="">>> grace to experience. Christmas is about remembering, rebirthing and<br clear="none" class="">>> honoring and loving the holy wholeness of ourselves and “all our<br clear="none" class="">>> relations”, seeing and raising the spark of divinity, the seed, the<br clear="none" class="">>> son-light of the Father Sun within us all as Children of the Starlight<br clear="none" class="">>> Ohana, to Fullest Blossoming and Greatest Good for All with Peace on<br clear="none" class="">>> Earth.<br clear="none" class="">>><br clear="none" class="">>> My wish and prayer for you, for all of us on this Christas Eve night, is<br clear="none" class="">>> to do what the three wise men of old did, follow the shinning star to<br clear="none" class="">>> birth within ourselves, and out into the darkness of the world, the<br clear="none" class="">>> Christ Consciousness of Infinite Light and Love whose only function is<br clear="none" class="">>> to Live Love Now. May we all do the inner polishing work that allows for<br clear="none" class="">>> greater shinning of the Divinity that we are helping to create a new<br clear="none" class="">>> “Kingdom” of Heaven on Earth", a peaceful, just, harmonious, beautiful,<br clear="none" class="">>> healthy and happy Win Win World For All.<br clear="none" class="">>><br clear="none" class="">>> Merry, joyful Christmas Medicine to All and to All a Good Night.<br clear="none" class="">>><br clear="none" class="">>><br clear="none" class="">>> Tomás<br clear="none" class="">>><br clear="none" class="">>><br clear="none" class="">>><br clear="none" class="">>> Unsubscribe<br clear="none" class="">>> <<a shape="rect" href="http://email.v.kajabimail.net/c/eJxlkMtq5DAQRb_G3gxuZJUe44UWE5JA1vkAUy6V05puy0aSA_33kfMggSCBrupF3cMLhutYbhu7h0PepRU9YS4tv2eCd7JXf7UCsKY9u3kCOw-gWfWkJaNEFkcABpQTz1ObQ-HPLqsGbQDaqzuXsuUG_jXysV7cttMF_-MUTrQuNUBrLEglVyl7PVgLykD95H3KlMJWwhobePTBN3Cve1mPAasaafIlbCNdA13GkpAuIb7UkpJ2rsl9f2-YcDAsB9Mh4tSpHqgqoTqN2pJGpaqnduGc8YXHzNFzGv1a3Uf3-rnngeIU-QuK52t45XQ7fH6v0wYnhex7KXV9lLAnoUiBMCTAkNXEjRK_JiZ3w1xtxJpcQvR5S9XEAaYt7rnC_PN030j4gbPiGyMu7D4mdbmsiedUGeZuS6vf6eDVeidm8gO8AbsOmh4" target="_blank" class="">http://email.v.kajabimail.net/c/eJxlkMtq5DAQRb_G3gxuZJUe44UWE5JA1vkAUy6V05puy0aSA_33kfMggSCBrupF3cMLhutYbhu7h0PepRU9YS4tv2eCd7JXf7UCsKY9u3kCOw-gWfWkJaNEFkcABpQTz1ObQ-HPLqsGbQDaqzuXsuUG_jXysV7cttMF_-MUTrQuNUBrLEglVyl7PVgLykD95H3KlMJWwhobePTBN3Cve1mPAasaafIlbCNdA13GkpAuIb7UkpJ2rsl9f2-YcDAsB9Mh4tSpHqgqoTqN2pJGpaqnduGc8YXHzNFzGv1a3Uf3-rnngeIU-QuK52t45XQ7fH6v0wYnhex7KXV9lLAnoUiBMCTAkNXEjRK_JiZ3w1xtxJpcQvR5S9XEAaYt7rnC_PN030j4gbPiGyMu7D4mdbmsiedUGeZuS6vf6eDVeidm8gO8AbsOmh4</a>><br clear="none" class="">>> | Sent by Dr. Tom Pinkson<br clear="none" class="">>> 27 Royal Court • San Rafael, California • 94901<br clear="none" class="">>><br clear="none" class="">><br clear="none" class="">> _______________________________________________<br clear="none" class="">> Thespiritexpress mailing list<br clear="none" class="">> <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org" href="mailto:Thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org" class="">Thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a><br clear="none" class="">> <a shape="rect" href="http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/thespiritexpress" target="_blank" class="">http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/thespiritexpress</a>
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