In a dream a few years ago, Jesus called me up on the phone and asked me
to help him out. "The second coming isn't going so well," he told me.
I met Jesus in a cave in Jerusalem, where he was talking to a mother,
her baby, and a group of middle-easterners. Jesus was lecturing the
group on how the best way to envision him was not as a man dying on the
cross but as a baby. As the sun began to rise outside the cave, Jesus
said that the essence of Christianity is in morning (or it might have
been in "mourning").
It was revealed that the reason that Jesus
was having so much trouble in his second coming was an evil priest that
had allied himself with the devil. Jesus, Samo Hung (Jackie Chan's
foster brother from the movie Meals on Wheels), and I encountered this
priest and the Devil in an airport mall. After trying to hide from the
devil, a fight broke out between Jesus and the priest. We entered what
Jesus called "prayer time," where our fighting skills could be improved
by, for example, wishing that we worked harder in elementary school gym
class or that we had remembered to bring a knife.
That's right: in the second coming, Jesus uses Kung Fu to fight alongside Samo Hung against the Devil.
The
meaning of Jesus' sermon at the beginning of the dream, or at least
what I remember of it, has since shaped how I view Christianity in the
waking world. The material world, according to his sermon, is a
mother's womb, and each of us is the child. All of the disasters and
torment in the world are just birthing pains in the process of humanity
being born into a higher spiritual state. Jesus is the first soul to be
truly born out of this world, but we will all one day grow up to be
spiritual adults like him.
This model of Christianity works
particularly well with the Latin American worship of the Virgin Mary.
By entering into the womb of Mary (the Catholic Church or spiritual life
in itself), we can eventually be born again as lesser Christs.
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