In this article we are going to talk about the meaning and ramifications of Resurrection and I believe you will be pleasantly surprised. When people hear the word Resurrection, they often immediately think in terms of Jesus’ resurrection three days after he died on the cross some two thousand years ago. Of course, the word resurrection (and its derivatives) is actually a neutral word that refers to a great many things, for example, “There has been a great resurrection in interest among young people in the fashion of the 1980s”. Or “the attempt to resurrect interest in rebuilding the old theater failed and it was torn down.” Resurrection is one of the many words starting with RE, meaning a return to something by doing it again. Re-do, re-member, re-vise, re-veal, re-decide, re-store, re-turn, re-invent, re-peat, re-pay, re-fresh, re-calibrate, re-spond, re-form and many more words are all advising us to go back and do again in various guises. So, ‘Resurrect’, to use the short version, is to go back to something and re-experience it, bring it, perhaps change it a bit or freshen it up. Why would we want to do that? Because we feel that it may still have value. Maybe it could serve again, or bring back an approach that was better than the current one. Maybe we lost something when we discarded it before and it is worth bringing back. Why bring back something that re-mains a turd? No, we want to bring back something because it might be fun again like an old movie or bring back that look that we label re-tro because maybe some people miss it or maybe it was so ugly that it is actually cool again. You get the idea. There are all kinds of reasons to bring something back but mostly because we sense it still has value. You wouldn’t find may people wanting to resurrect the pony express, or whale blubber lamps and so on. Those would not longer hold value in any way.
What if we could resurrect or bring back a life changing transformative approach to life itself. Something completely forgotten, lost in the mists of time. What if bringing it back would be the easiest thing in the world and at the same time would create enormous controversy to the point that people would be perhaps killed for even attempting to talk about it. What could that be? Well let’s approach this obliquely and yes, let’s go back to the king of resurrections, that teacher that made the attempt to illustrate it long ago and was so thoroughly misunderstood that the truth of it was lost again for another two thousand years. Jesus was a man that completely understood that he was Consciousness expressing temporarily in the form of a man. He also knew that everything he looked at, heard, touched, and, smelled, and felt was also consciousness expressing as something in temporary physical form. In other words, he knew his local persona was impermanent but was occupied by something eternal and infinite. This is a classic definition of an enlightened being. As an enlightened being he knew that everything he experienced through his senses was automatically in alignment with him. Another way of saying this is that Spirit always recognizes Spirit everywhere and everything would then recognize him and be in alignment with him, re-ciprocally. There’s that Re syllable again. Jesus would often return to some core understandings, some essential knowing in his teachings, sermons that were always about the truth of how it is. The first one core teaching was “Watch me and see what I am doing and notice how I am being the way I am, and learn from this.” The second one was “Everything I can do you can do but even better.” Of course, he said a lot of other things too but these two teachings logically followed one another and were repeated often. He also mostly taught in parables and by example and of course he taught in the language of nomads, Aramaic, a language heavy on verbs that poorly translates to the languages of people in fixed habitations like Latin, Greek, and of course English, heavy on nouns. So, most of what he said was entirely mis-translated and then hopelessly distorted beyond that. It’s a wonder that any wisdom or accurate information survived but some did because it was meant to.
Jesus was the master of passionate parables and events, the symbolic and dramatic displays always designed as teachings, because he knew that the mostly illiterate people he was teaching would get far more out of a story or an event like the loaves and the fishes than a lecture. There is also the story of how he raised (resurrected) Lazarus from the dead temporarily to a make a point. The man Lazarus died shortly afterward so he was only resurrected for a short time. Why did he do this? Was it just a stunt. “Look what I can do, everyone. Ha ha.” Of course not. This was a symbolic allusion to the ability everyone has, not to raise the dead but to resurrect life. His death on the cross a short time later and his resurrection after three days was the same teaching all over again, not to illustrate raising the dead but to resurrect life. That is what we are all here to do on a daily basis. It is just that we forgot and continue to forget.
Now you are probably thinking. “Yes, but I still don’t get the point. What do you mean resurrect life and why is that important? Isn’t that happening by itself so what do I have to do about that?”
Jesus was a rare 7th level old soul, a transcendental soul who upon his crucifixion became the infinite soul. Infinite of course means without any limitation and it is usually paired with eternal, so infinite and eternal means no beginning, no end, and no spatial limitations. That would cover everything possible, everything and nothing. So now we know what his credentials were and what our credentials can and will be as well because, remember his other teaching, Anything I can do you can and will do, only better. What was he getting at?
Well basically he was talking about alignment. When the wheels on your car are in alignment it actually means they are all in alignment with each other and with the road so the ride is smooth, expending the least amount of energy for the maximum amount of travel. Pretty good. Now on the physical plane physicists have determined that gradually everything decays and randomness and disorder increasingly ensue leading to a loss of productivity. They call this process ‘entropy’ or ‘decreasing returns’ due to unpredictability and randomness. So, they would say that as you drive your car the wheels will have a tendency to go slowly out of alignment over time until you basically will be unable to drive your car over 1 mph. Now, while entropy can be used to describe the tendency of a system to move towards disorder, it’s a specific, measurable quantity related to the availability of energy within a system.
What does this have to do with Resurrection? Let’s see.
Let’s take this idea of alignment and translate it to being in alignment with Spirit. So, if we are in alignment with Spirit this is the same program, the least amount of energy expended for a maximum of travel. But over time, if the entropy has its way, we humans will slowly move out of alignment with Spirit just because of distractions (going over a pothole) and random stuff like trauma (flat tire), accidents, (car goes over curb) difficult circumstances (rough roads), and so on. Little by little we grind to a halt. That doesn’t mean Spirit is not there (the road is still there). We’re are just no longer in alignment in a way we can benefit from the system working and that does not feel good (bumpy unstable ride). So, we need to resurrect the experience of being in alignment with spirit and then the ride is smooth again and we can travel far with the least amount of struggle. Does that make sense?
So that brings up the question, how do we get back in alignment? How to we resurrect the experience of smooth running? It’s actually very easy but since we are so vulnerable to distraction it seems hard. To align the wheels and tires of a car is one thing but to align with Spirit is another and much easier because it requires no weights, cranks with wrenches, and so on. What it amounts to is this (hold onto your hat); 1. You cannot align with spirit very well if you don’t believe Spirit exists just like you cannot align your wheels with the road if you don’t believe there is a road. 2. Once you believe it, you will witness it in action. It is not just a theory or a hypothesis. It is an experience. You get out on the road and you say, “Damn, the road really is here.” You look around and notice that you are conscious and aware first. You are aware that you are alive. That is a good start. 3. You notice that when you are aware, you are in communication with everything you see, sense, feel, and perceive through all your senses. You feel the road under you, you see it ahead of you, you feel the changes as you go from pavement to dirt, gravel or snow. Your world is alive, active, and responsive to you and you to it. You begin to see that Spirit is in everything, that things are not divided up into having Spirit or not having Spirit. It’s all Spirit as are you and its one big dance including people, animals, plants, rocks, cities, oceans, mountains and so on, everything, no exceptions. Now you are once again in alignment and you have resurrected your proper relationship with Spirit. Everything begins to work. You are on the golden line. Things go well and you feel good. The ride feels great. That’s it, until you forget. Oops, time for an alignment again. Another resurrection. This process may need to take place many, many times a day until it is permanent and you don’t forget anymore. Just like Jesus implied, there is no death to resurrect from, you can resurrect life anytime, anyplace with the simple act of recognition.
So, our purpose is to resurrect Spirit in everything by acknowledging it, waking it up. Jesus teaching through his own resurrection was about resurrecting everything, the whole world, not just his body. Everything can be resurrected, and everybody is designed to do it.
Enjoy being an avatar.
José Stevens
José Luis Stevens, PhD is the president and co-founder (with wife Lena) of Power Path Seminars, an international school and consulting firm dedicated to the study and application of shamanism and indigenous wisdom to business and everyday life. José completed a ten-year apprenticeship with a Huichol (Wixarika) Maracame (Huichol shaman) in the Sierras of Central Mexico. In addition, he is studying with Shipibo shamans in the Peruvian Amazon and with Paqos (shamans) in the Andes in Peru. In 1983 he completed his doctoral dissertation at the California Institute of Integral Studies focusing on the interface between shamanism and western psychological counseling. Since then, he has studied cross-cultural shamanism around the world to distill the core elements of shamanic healing and practice. He is the author of twenty books and numerous articles including Encounters With Power, Awaken The Inner Shaman, The Power Path, Secrets of Shamanism, Transforming Your Dragons and How To Pray The Shaman’s Way.
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