Guest guest Posted May 12, 1999 Report Share Posted May 12, 1999 Gene: Thanks for your recent input and kind and helpful comments. I certainly agree with your reply to Amanda. As children, we all to some degree sacrificed our beautiful and God/dess-connected natural selves for fear of displeasing our parents and other authority figures, whose love and protection were conditional. Jesus understood this universal tragedy, which is why he placed such an emphasis on the value of children. In fact, I believe that Jesus lost and then was able to reclaim his own inner child, which explains his statement in the gnostic gospel of Thomas, "my mother gave me falsehood but my true Mother gave me life". Unfortunately, the "poisonous pedagogy" that Alice Bailey has vigorously attacked in her numerous books is certainly as rampant today as it was in Jesus' time, and the irony is that it is the church that purportedly serves Jesus that is a major contributor. To me, it is incredible that the Christian church strayed so far from Jesus' actual teachings. A lot of "good, Christian folk" would do well to ponder the meaning of Jesu s' words directed to a I intend to do what I can to educate as many as I can about this soul murder. I will read the book you suggested (The Guru Papers). Thank you. I had to look up the "Foursquare" Christian church (there aren't any in my part of Canada). It seems to be strongly fundamentalist. I'm glad that there is at least one anti-authoritarian pastor in this church but I imagine he still tells his flock what they must believe in order to be "saved". The only way to permanently reclaim the "Kingdom of God" within is back through the pain. It seems that we must fully grieve what we lost in childhood, but before we can do that, we have to understand what happened to us. This means being willing to question very deeply our relationship with our parents /caregivers and the influence of whatever religious upbringing we may have had. This takes courage. The thought of facing painful truth is scary but it must be done. The rewards are certainly worth the effort, for our sakes and for the sakes of our children and children's children. Love, Rob http://www.go.com ______ ____ Get your Free GO Network Email address at http://mail.go.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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