Have you ever read a book and then read it again like 20 years later? How were you changed from one reading to the next? What did you understand from the second reading that you did not from the first?
We change all the time. Evolution is not just something to believe in or something that happens to us but the reality of our very existence. The richness of the Jesus Story is that it is about change, a (r)evolution in consciousness from which we become not a whole new person, but more fully ourselves. This whole bit about the Resurrection, from Jesus not being recognized to his saying, “Don’t cling to me,” is an invitation to be in our own journey of transformation.
The questions that we might be asking ourselves are: What is it that I need to let go of? What limiting beliefs control me? In what ways am I a stranger to myself? There are others, of course, each one particular to our own experience, but the call to transform is universal.
Two books to check out if you are into some heady reading:
Edward Edinger’s Ego and Archetype & The Christian Archetype: A Jungian Commentary on the Life of Christ.
Thanks for listening!