Absorbing the Ocean into the Drop

In the last issue I noted some of the tortured ways that have been adduced to account for Jesus being alive after the Passion. Faced with a host of conflicting views such as these, and conscious of the conflicting character of the resurrection accounts in the New Testament, we can nevertheless scarcely fail to learn a lot about the significance of the Event they claim to tell us about.

When I was growing up, the predominant focus in popular Christian piety had been the passion and death of Jesus. It was largely seen in terms of his atonement to God for our sins. Against this background it is hardly surprising that guilt and repentance became the dominant religious attitudes before God.

In the 1940s and 1950s theologians in Europe began to stress that surely the really important things about Jesus was not the suffering and passion, but the Resurrection. Popular piety started to follow this view, but in many regions of the world this theological stress had little effect. Guilt, rather than the joy in the triumph of Jesus through the resurrection, still remains the dominant religious attitude today.

Choose to Love Your Self

Many people are victims of chronic pain, illness, and premature death. They have been brainwashed by pharmaceutical companies to focus on eradicating symptoms, rather than taking responsibility for their health and getting to the root cause.

As many people know, this view of eradicating symptoms will lead to further suffering. For example, as reported in major media throughout the United States in the spring of 2004, the USFDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research sent a letter to drug manufacturers requesting label changes on antidepressants warning of possible suicide, worsening depression, anxiety, and panic attacks in adults and children. Ten of the most often prescribed antidepressants were on the list: Prozac (also sold generically as fluoxetine), Zoloft, Paxil, Luvox, Celexa, Lexapro, Wellbutrin, Effexor, Serzone, and Remeron.

The human body as a mechanism has evolved to maintain balance and heal itself. It is when we are disconnected from the body’s vitalistic essence that the body begins to break down and speak with symptoms.