Monica,
I love your thoughts (but I always do) and agree with you about much of it.
I've personally been reading many gnostic texts and find soo much resonance in them and would also add those to the list of historical references to Jesus. The Gospel of Thomas is one of my favorites and stays away from all that 'I'm the only way, us vs. them (Jews) attitude.'
In regard to myth, I've been on a journey and realized that the details are never important in mythology, its the message. Also, in our age, myth is synonymous for false, and that is one of the greatest downfalls of the materialistic mindset of this world(/madness). (Also, In 'A Wanderer's Handbook' Carla wrote a great chapter on myths)
We only have this moment to live in and all else is varying different degrees of illusion, whether something 'literally' happened in the past is a moot point. We can't ever know while in the space/time. We only have myth to tell us what happened. Even people like presidents are myths because we only know what history books recorded and they are most likely biased by the writer. In this illusion, it is each one of us who choose what myths to accept or let go. All myths are truths and contain truth, it is never the literal facts that matter right here and now; it is how the myth of the past effects us that truly matters.
Does Jesus inspire you right now? Does the story of Heracles lift your spirit? Do the writings of Thoth call you to light? Do you feel Zeus has abandoned you? Do you feel enslaved to the desires of the ego?
Each of these myths can speak to you, if you will it. Choose your myths and create your own that apply to your story. The spirit knows the true value of myth, while the mind/ego wishes to write it all off as falsehood.
I love your thoughts (but I always do) and agree with you about much of it.
I've personally been reading many gnostic texts and find soo much resonance in them and would also add those to the list of historical references to Jesus. The Gospel of Thomas is one of my favorites and stays away from all that 'I'm the only way, us vs. them (Jews) attitude.'
In regard to myth, I've been on a journey and realized that the details are never important in mythology, its the message. Also, in our age, myth is synonymous for false, and that is one of the greatest downfalls of the materialistic mindset of this world(/madness). (Also, In 'A Wanderer's Handbook' Carla wrote a great chapter on myths)
We only have this moment to live in and all else is varying different degrees of illusion, whether something 'literally' happened in the past is a moot point. We can't ever know while in the space/time. We only have myth to tell us what happened. Even people like presidents are myths because we only know what history books recorded and they are most likely biased by the writer. In this illusion, it is each one of us who choose what myths to accept or let go. All myths are truths and contain truth, it is never the literal facts that matter right here and now; it is how the myth of the past effects us that truly matters.
Does Jesus inspire you right now? Does the story of Heracles lift your spirit? Do the writings of Thoth call you to light? Do you feel Zeus has abandoned you? Do you feel enslaved to the desires of the ego?
Each of these myths can speak to you, if you will it. Choose your myths and create your own that apply to your story. The spirit knows the true value of myth, while the mind/ego wishes to write it all off as falsehood.
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