[Thespiritexpress] Christmas Eve Reflection: Creating Heaven on Earth

[lee michel alley]

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> On Dec 25, 2021, at 11:31 PM, Viktoria Zaita via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:
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> Thank you Marc!
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> Viktoria and Jorge
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> From: Roz via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org>
> To: Yasskin Marc <yasskin at mindspring.com>; thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org
> Sent: Sat, Dec 25, 2021 7:11 am
> Subject: Re: [Thespiritexpress] Fwd: Christmas Eve Reflection: Creating Heaven on Earth
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> >> Thanks, dear Marc! This is so beautiful!
> Love, Roz
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> 
> Something so inspiring on this Christmas eve.
> >> from our dear brother Tomas ~
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> >> ~ m. 🙏🌟
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> >> Dearest Relatives,
> >>
> >> I share with you this night, some thoughts on Christmas Eve...
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> 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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