The Jews of old called him a heretic and an impostor, the Christians consider him to be the unique son of God, and the Muslims revere him as a great prophet. But who was Jesus and what was his state of consciousness?

When we are born into this world, we arrive with a certain amount of residual expertise which has been accumulated via the genes of our ancestors. Coupled with this is the encoded personal information of consciousness from previous lives or incarnations – our continuing soul identities or spiritual ‘egos’ if you like. One way of connecting to spiritual life involves the art of remembering the lessons of the past experiences of ourselves and those who came before us, and then gathering all that information into the present day practice of our thoughts, words and deeds, thereby consciously evolving.

Jesus is one of the best known examples in human history of somebody who embodied what is called the unity consciousness or oneness, whose ‘teachings’ we can all learn from. He was a human being just like you and me, and yet someone who was able to connect with the greater potentials of human ‘beingness’. He was and is not unique, for the ability that he awakened in himself is inherent in all people, yet few recognize and realize the potential. The example he provided, as with other ‘prophets’ or ‘masters’ was one that serves to remind us of the human paradox – which repeatedly shows us that what we may seemingly become - is that which we already are - which is interconnected spiritual beings capable of sharing one unified sate of consciousness.

He was and is not unique, for the ability that he awakened in himself is inherent in all people, yet few recognize and realize the potential.

Greatly misunderstood and misrepresented over the past two millennia, the teachings of Jesus contain the foundational tenets of spiritual wisdom, and yet many in the world have failed to grasp the transformational power of his message.

The Bible is one collection of man’s understanding of the word, the logos, the emanations from universal consciousness. Many of the New Testament stories and teachings are allegories or symbolic parables containing not just one or two, but multi-layered meanings. The full message of these stories lies beyond the words, touching the reader in alignment with their present individual understanding, perhaps ‘revealing’ something more to them, thereby expanding their consciousness further. The Gospel of John for example, seems particularly full of this type of encoded messaging, and the method in which it resonates with us is something that I call positive interchange. When applied to the written word, the theory of positive interchange allows for the exchange of residual higher consciousness from beyond the informational value of the words, thus revealing or sharing a deeper awareness of their meaning at a higher ‘frequency’. The same principle is contained within all sacred or mystical books and writings, be it the Upanishads, the Zend-Avesta, the Bhagavad-Gita and many others. They all contain messages which become more revealed through the deepening of our awareness.

Another notable fact we can recognize on reading the Bible is that the ‘God’ of the Old Testament was a ‘God’ of war and revenge, who was selfish and altogether quite frightening. The later ‘God’ of Jesus was a ‘God’ of peace and forgiveness who openly shared his love with all people of diverse backgrounds. So the two versions of ‘God’ are poles apart, but they serve to record the development of the spiritual consciousness of mankind, revealing the evolved understanding of Jesus.