[Thespiritexpress] Fwd: Christmas Eve Reflection: Creating Heaven on Earth

[roz at mcn.org]

>> Thanks, dear Marc! This is so beautiful!
Love, Roz


Something so inspiring on this Christmas eve.
>> from our dear brother Tomas ~
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>> ~ m. 🙏🌟
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>> Dearest Relatives,
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>> I share with you this night, some thoughts on Christmas Eve...
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>> Long, long ago in the Middle East three wise men were guided by spirit
>> to follow a star leading them to Bethlehem where they came upon a
>> newborn child. There lay Yeshua ben Joseph, whose life and death was
>> destined to reignite the light of faith, hope and love in a dark time of
>> human suffering. Years after his death Jesus came to be called “Christ”,
>> a word that comes from the Greek word Christos, meaning “anointed one.”
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>> Hundreds of prophetic passages in the Old Testament refer to a coming
>> Messiah, a savior, an anointed one, who who would come to redeem the
>> Jewish People and usher in the Kingdom of God. Ancient Israel thought
>> their Messiah would come with military might to deliver them from
>> decades of captivity to Roman rule and pagan kings. But the religion of
>> Christianity that grew up after the death of Jesus in its New Testament
>> offered a different kind of deliverance — a spiritual deliverance based
>> on what Jesus taught and how he lived which is all about a consciousness
>> of infinite, unconditional love.
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>> So while Jesus was Jewish, a rabbi who knew nothing about Christianity
>> because it did not exist while he was alive, a radical rabbi whose
>> teachings about love upset both the Jewish power structure of the time
>> and the Roman rulers of the land of Palestine, and the celebration of
>> his birth, Christmas, is a Christian holy day, what Jesus was all about
>> is for all of us, all of humanity, Christians, Jews, atheists, all
>> people. It is about a consciousness that knows “the Kingdom of Heaven is
>> within” and that “ the way to the Father is through me”, meaning not
>> Jesus the man but the function of living in and from infinite
>> unconditional love that is for giving and that is the essence of our
>> being. In other words, Christ Consciousness refers to a function of
>> consciousness whose only focus is love and only love, love that is for
>> giving, freely to all, with no conditions or strings.
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>> There came a time in my life, a Jewish man brought up in a secular
>> family for whom the only meaning of Christmas was about the exchange of
>> material gifts to family and friends, that I was to learn about Christ
>> Consciousness in a very personal way that changed my understanding of
>> Christmas. When I was twenty years old in a second story Victorian flat
>> three blocks away from the corner of Haight and Ashbury I swallowed a
>> tab of LSD dissolved in a glass of water. Shortly thereafter my mind
>> dissolved into a visionary state that blew out the fusebox of my
>> understanding of reality and of my own identity. In my vision I saw
>> Jesus being crucified calling out not for vengeance but for love;
>> “Forgive them Father, they know not what they do!” For the first time in
>> my life I consciously experienced unconditional love, love that was
>> being sent out to the perpetrators of his pain from an understanding and
>> compassion that they were asleep in a dream of separation and should be
>> forgiven for what they were doing, not punished, but instead filled with
>> love.
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>> Fifteen years later sitting by a fire with Huichol Indian People in an
>> all night ceremony in the high desert of backcountry Mexico another
>> vision of Christ emerged in a visionary state. Again I saw Jesus being
>> crucified on the cross. This timei saw that each time I or someone else
>> made a negative judgment about their being or the being or someone else,
>> another spike was driven into the body of Jesus and he cried out in
>> pain. The vision continued. It showed me that each time I, or anyone
>> else, caught the negative judgment in awareness and made the decision to
>> let it go, to release it, a spike fell out of Jesus’ body and a beatific
>> light burst forth from his being that illuminated the desert night with
>> blissful gratitude.
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>> To me, more than fifty years after that first reality-dissolving vision,
>> the real meaning, the real medicine of what is to be celebrated at
>> Christmas is about opening ourselves to the love that we are, releasing
>> negative judgments about our own being and the being of others, and
>> living the love that we are as Jesus in his life demonstrated with the
>> consciousness that I witnessed and felt in the visions I was gifted by
>> grace to experience. Christmas is about remembering, rebirthing and
>> honoring and loving the holy wholeness of ourselves and “all our
>> relations”, seeing and raising the spark of divinity, the seed, the
>> son-light of the Father Sun within us all as Children of the Starlight
>> Ohana, to Fullest Blossoming and Greatest Good for All with Peace on
>> Earth.
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>> My wish and prayer for you, for all of us on this Christas Eve night, is
>> to do what the three wise men of old did, follow the shinning star to
>> birth within ourselves, and out into the darkness of the world, the
>> Christ Consciousness of Infinite Light and Love whose only function is
>> to Live Love Now. May we all do the inner polishing work that allows for
>> greater shinning of the Divinity that we are helping to create a new
>> “Kingdom” of Heaven on Earth", a peaceful, just, harmonious, beautiful,
>> healthy and happy Win Win World For All.
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>> Merry, joyful Christmas Medicine to All and to All a Good Night.
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>> Tomás
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