Easter meanings

On the first Sunday in Lent, Jenni encouraged the congregation to ‘tuck up’ with the lenten story.

That’s a big ask for me.

I am a restless sleeper.

Liturgical calendars are not really my thing.

That’s not to say I haven’t pondered the meaning and implications of the Easter story.

In my late teens and early twenties my beliefs were totally ‘faith-based’. I spent many Saturday evenings in pre-mall Rundle Street handing out phamplets that made it crystal clear to each recipient that ‘Christ died for your sins.’

Now in my mid-eighties, I continue to toss and turn through periodic nocturnal ponderings trying to reconcile residual ‘faith-based’ beliefs with ‘evidence-based’ beliefs.

That’s not an easy task. I am well aware that ‘research-based’ evidence seldom affirms a truth— it simply points to the level of ‘probability’ that the results are likely to be true.

The study of Near Death Expriences (NDE’S) provides a new insight into the Biblical version of the ‘ressurection’ of Jesus. Let me try to unpack it as simply as possible.

In ‘quantum’ speak, what happens at death mirrors what happens in creation.

Simply put, in creation, ‘waves’ of possibility manifest as specific things (‘particles’).
In death particles become waves again.

These latent possibilities have always existed as ‘waves’ of energy that fill the universe.

The scientific name of this collective energy is ‘consciousness’— the ground of all being!

Waves become particular ‘things’ (matter) when ‘interrupted’ by observation or intent.

At birth, we remain seamlessly connected to consciousness— we are part of ‘oneness’.

At clinical death, as energies wane, the brain is longer able to codify and retain all that we have been and done — good or bad— and so particlulars revert into ‘waves’.

The evidence suggests that at death our lives ‘flash before us’.  We are judged not for our selfishness but by it— not by any external ‘God’ but by our harshest critic — ourselves!

The yardstick of such Judgement is love. It first appears as light —not just light but knowing—not just knowing but love —love made manifest and absolute, love that seeks no rewards and requests no penalty—love that simply is.

‘Good’ waves endure in resonance with loving consciousness— the rest just ‘falls away’.

So, for me, it seems probable that the death of the man Jesus followed the pattern.

His quality of life, thereby, in death, enriched, forever, the possibilites that we, and all humankind, can manifest in particular word and deed, either by our chosen intent, or by the cosmic tutoring that we glibly call ‘intuition’.

To me, Jesus’ comment: ‘I and the Father are one’, becomes a comprehensible truth for each of us if understood as, ‘I am eternally inseparable from the ‘oneness’ of the consciousness that created me’.

Words get in the way, don’t’ they? It seems more fruitful to focus on becoming more conscious of the consciousness that is the ground of all being.

~David