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I came across an animated video with excerpts made from lectures by Alan Watts. It’s been excellently put together and I find it very interesting. Tip: do a search on youtube after more by Alan Watts.
Leaving you with a favorite quote from Alan Watts:
“The inability to accept the mystical experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. For in a civilization equipped with immense technological power, the sense of alienation between man and nature leads to the use of technology in a hostile spirit — to the “conquest” of nature instead of intelligent co-operation with nature.”
At this time so many people all over the world are celebrating Easter. To Christians it is a celebration of the resurrection of Christ and it marks the end of the period of Lent (fasting). To the Jews it is a commemoration of the time when the people of Israel left Egypt.
But all this happened so long ago. Most families today are perhaps more interested in the fact that it is a time when many are free from work. And in any way this is a time of celebration and joy!
Here in Scandinavia where I live, we see many painted eggs and easter bunnies this time of year. All originally symbols of fertility. Eggs are a natural symbol of birth and renewal. Bunnies; well, they do multiply very well don’t they? So you can say they make a good symbol of fertility too.
.. Somehow all this Easter stuff got me thinking of Jesus and what he spoke from the cross: “My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?”
Throughout Christianity this event has created much thought and speculations. Why did he utter these words? Why didn’t God save him and if he was the son of God; then why didn’t he save himself? Biblically it is generally accepted that Jesus took upon himself all of our sins and died so that we could be spared.
Maybe it was so, if you believe.
I believe Jesus was a human being that had Awaken. Perhaps even a Buddha. The words he cried out from the cross came from the depths of his humanity. A man who knew the Eternal, but still a man whose body was in great agony.
The last words he spoke after that were:
“I am thirsty. ”
“It is finished. ”
“Father, into Your hands I commit My Spirit.”
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