THE ALTERNATIVE GOSPEL
John Baldock
Written for readers of all religious persuasions, this new interpretation of the gospel story shows how the events described by the gospel writers - from the virgin birth of Jesus to his ascension - offer us expansive images of a cosmic process.
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"Collective wisdom goes straight down into our innermost parts – to our heart, or soul – from where, through 'hearing' the words with our inner ears, we may receive valuable insights into the nature of human being."
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"Profound self-knowledge is knowledge of God."
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"Actually there is only one single energy, one all-encompassing motivating force which lies at the root of our life's activity." Opening quotation, from a 1564 Preface to the Taoist text 'Can Tong Qi'
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"The Divine Will, Wisdom, the Spirit, the Word or Logos, or whatever else we like to call it, permeates the cosmos, giving it both form and life."
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"All is One."
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"What we are looking for lies within us. Or, as spiritual tradition tells us: 'What you are looking for is what is looking.'"
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"While each of us is a unique human being, we are all equal in essence."
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"Unconditional love is nondualistic. Like the Spirit from which it emanates, it is all-embracing, open-hearted and freely given."
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"In the One Reality there is only One Healer, One Teacher, to whom we all have free and instant access."
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"Interconnectedness permeates all things visible and invisible, and binds the Many inseparably to the One."
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"Collective or perennial wisdom is the foundation stone of all religious and spiritual traditions, through which it expresses itself in the form of universal truths."
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"The One manifests as the Many while never ceasing to be the One."
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"Myths give form to the wisdom and insights of the collective unconscious which, on emerging into the light of day, become our own inner wisdom reflected in the mirror of our conscious mind."
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"We are all invited to consummate our inherent oneness with Reality….Knowingly or not, we are all involved in our own process of self-realization, of spiritual expansion, all of the time."
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"The One Reality creates the diversity of the natural world without compromising its own unity."
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"The self (the individual human being) is an aspect of a greater Self (the Spirit or universal I AM)."
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"We cannot separate ourselves from the creative power of the Spirit. Whatever we do, wherever we go, the Spirit is there within us."
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"What each of us learns individually contributes to the learning process of humankind as a whole."
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"According to the principle of 'ask and you will receive', spiritual food is freely available to us all from within ourselves."
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"What we know of ourselves and the universe in which we live is an integral part of the One's own Self-revealing, Self-knowing state….The One knows itself through us – through our eyes, and ears, and minds, through our entire being."
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"When we are most in need, when we feel at our most powerless, or when we are at our most fearful, our spiritual essence will endeavour to make its presence known and reassure us that all will be well."
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"A sign of the continuing evolution of human consciousness is the re-emergence of our synthesizing mind from the shadows and our growing awareness of 'wholes' – not only in our increasing realization of the underlying interconnectedness of all things, but even in the endeavours of our conscious, analytical mind to find the ultimate Theory of Everything."
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"The life of a moment and the life of thousands of years, your life and the lives of all creatures seen and unseen, is one." Leo Tolstoy, 'Esarhaddon, King of Assyria'
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"The Will of God seeks to accomplish itself through our human will as the self-expression of our essence."
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"Direct experience of the One Reality is itself the One Teacher."
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