YouTube: Discerning the Mystical Thread
Last week we looked at The Hidden Jesus. I suggested that throughout the Gospel accounts, there’s an Orthodox, larger-than-life presentation of Jesus and then there’s the man behind it. In thinking about the man, I’m talking about the thought processes that set him apart, that made his teachings unique. We don’t really know who that person was. We like to think we know. But all we really know is what’s been passed down to us through tradition, which has become the mainstream Christian thought. There’s a stream of ideas that run through his teachings that strongly suggest he didn’t make himself the central focus, as both the mainstream and New Thought Christian communities do today. His focus was on his listener’s oneness with God – the kingdom of God within the individual. I like to call this stream of ideas, the mystical thread. To recognize this thread of ideas, we have to be willing to lay aside much of what we think we know. …