The Third Jesus: The Christ We Cannot Ignore | 
|  | | | Title: | The Third Jesus: The Christ We Cannot Ignore | | Author: | Deepak Chopra | | Publisher: | Harmony | | Type: | Book / Hardcover | | Publication Date: | 19 February, 2008 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0307338312 / 9780307338310 | | List Price: | $24.00 | | You Save: | $7.68 | | Amazon Price: | $16.32 | |
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Who is Jesus Christ?
In The Third Jesus, bestselling author and spiritual leader Deepak Chopra provides an answer to this question that is both a challenge to current systems of belief and a fresh perspective on what Jesus can teach us all, regardless of our religious background. There is not one Jesus, Chopra writes, but three.
First, there is the historical Jesus, the man who lived more than two thousand years ago and whose teachings are the foundation of Christian theology and thought. Next there is Jesus the Son of God, who has come to embody an institutional religion with specific dogma, a priesthood, and devout believers. And finally, there is the third Jesus, the cosmic Christ, the spiritual guide whose teaching embraces all humanity, not just the church built in his name. He speaks to the individual who wants to find God as a personal experience, to attain what some might call grace, or God-consciousness, or enlightenment.
When we take Jesus literally, we are faced with the impossible. How can we truly “love thy neighbor as thyself”? But when we see the exhortations of Jesus as invitations to join him on a higher spiritual plane, his words suddenly make sense.
Ultimately, Chopra argues, Christianity needs to overcome its tendency to be exclusionary and refocus on being a religion of personal insight and spiritual growth. In this way Jesus can be seen for the universal teacher he truly is–someone whose teachings of compassion, tolerance, and understanding can embrace and be embraced by all of us.
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• Great Instruction On How To Make It Through The Wide Gate. 01 June, 2008
There are books that help people understand the subject they are written about and there are books that obscure the truth. The easiest way to spot the ones that obscure the truth are the ones that contradict themselves. To write about Jesus using the Bible as its source and then to discredit that source is a blatant contradiction.
The new perspective on Jesus is not even new, but is a veil to obscure the rest Jesus. This is another book among many that allow people to call themselves christians without having to be christians. Being a christian is not easy. Finding your way through the narrow gate is difficult and treacherous. If your path is smooth, wide, straight and easy; you'll find your walk through the wide gate without ado.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A3UA3N5UUME1TM
• Chopra And Jesus 18 June, 2008
Finally after covering every possible subject related to God and the spiritual path, Chopra finally takes on his relationship with Jesus. This is a wonderfully written account of his own struggle with the Jesus he encountered in school as a youth, then following his own cultural spiritual path as an adult, and eventually spiraling around to encounter Jesus in a whole new way. For those who are looking to find a new look at Jesus rather than the picture portrayed by the historical church, Chopra provides some insight. This is well worth the read for "worn-out" Christians as well as those of other faiths who intuitively are drawn to the wisdom of Jesus, but can't relate to the tainted version presented by some factions of the Christian faith. This book was so refreshing to me that I bought a copy for a friend's birthday as I didn't want to pass on my own copy. Its a keeper.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A3T6QLTAWJA5BU
• Insightfull 18 June, 2008
I like to feel led by Jesus's teaching. I think this book really explains what was going though his head, and how we might attempt to be like (close) to him.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1N1TP9IDMOPCK
• Conscious Love 22 June, 2008
What I like most about any book that Deepak writes is his depth of wisdom and his committment to living a contemplative life. One clear sign of this wisdom is his appreciation and agility in being able to contemplate his subject from multiple points of view. Thus, whatever he concludes is born out of this desire for a deep and broad understanding...an intuition to the wholeness of Spirit.
I was raised Catholic, well educated and inspired by the story of God, Paradise, Jesus and his profound love and sacrifice for all Being. A few priests and nuns were also inspiring. Yet for myself and many other baby boomers, the religious culture of our time barely registered on any scale of true Love, Peace or Wisdom. Far more important than what we are told to believe when we are young and open is the energy signature of the environment in which the teaching happens. Unfortunately, our modern Western model of a sane and loving world viewed from within our organized religions offers very little for those of us with precocious natures. We need more than platitudes, dogmas, rules of engagement sourced in fear and hypocracies that anyone with a modicum of insight can plainly see.
I believe that Deepak is more credible than most spiritual teachers in that he appears truly interested in your spiritual unfolding and fulfillment. He is also wise enough to perceive that there are significant resistences and challenges to the heightening of the human awareness of the Christ Consciousness or any enlightened state of being. Deepak has clearly brought Jesus into his own unfolding through his research, contemplation and sharing. Yes...this book is Deepak's interpretation of the meaning and purpose of the Jesus story, the Jesus life and Christ Consciousness. He writes it as he sees and intuits it. I for one, simply resonate with his insight and inspiration. He offers many practical ways that every lover of Jesus can explore their own state of consciousness in a context inspired by Jesus himself, as far as we can know him from the past. No one can make dogma (past) out of wisdom or love (Presence). All Truth is alive and flowing throughout each moment of life and the form of life changes as we unfold. Anyone who is willing to inspire and add to this unfoldment has my deepest admiration for their efforts. I can also consciously appreciate the sign of our times that is found in the merging of the spiritual wisdoms from East and West. Common sense should never go unnoticed. The Third Jesus has added to my appreciation and love for the Spirit we call Jesus. For this I am deeply grateful.
Sundance Burke, Author Free Spirit: A Guide to Enlightened Being
- Reviewed by customer ID: A39KDUABIS2190
• Enlighten Yourself 03 June, 2008
I was raised a Christian and still attend a Christian church on occasion. But if anyone who truly wants to understand and believe in Jesus they must first ask themselves why the Holy Bible leaves out the 13 years of Jesus' life. You simply can not leave out half of his life if you are going to chronicle the life and teachings of the Savior of the world. It simply states he went to the East to study. As if it was unimportant somehow. If you want to know about the 13 missing years I suggest "Googling" +Jesus +Issa or +Jesus +Isha (There are two spellings). I hope it would not be too disturbing for Christians to find out that Jesus went to the East to study Buddhism and Hinduism. That's probably why the "Bible Writers" left that part out. After all if Jesus studied and practiced Buddhism and Hindu Yoga why shouldn't we all.
The "Son of God" was not the man Jesus but the "Christ Consciousness" that he was endowed with. He was "one" with the Christ Consciousness so when Jesus spoke he was also speaking as Christ. So when he would say things like "I am The Light, The Way, and The Truth." it was Christ speaking not just Jesus. We can all tap into the Christ Consciousness but not to the degree of Jesus, and that is Chopra's point. Others have made full contact with the Christ Consciousness and have gone by the names Buddha and Krishna, and others.
I find it troublesome that so many people who call themselves Christians believe that theirs is the "one correct" religion and that everybody else has got it all wrong somehow. While Buddhist and Hindu practitioners are open and accepting of all religions as long as they are based on love and compassion. More than one reviewer has tried to make the argument that Chopra has no business writing a book on Jesus because he does not practice Christianity. I'm sure Mr. Chopra would argue he does practice Christianity, just in a different way.
I have a much closer relationship with Christ and God through regular meditation than I ever did going to weekly church services. I no longer follow the Christian doctrines because for me I believe Jesus came here to teach us how to live with one another and how to find God and be with him in our daily lives. Not just to die for my sins. And I do not believe that we are separated from Christ and God (They are "Up" in Heaven and we are "Down" here on Earth). I believe like Jesus taught that the "Kingdom of Heaven is Within" and that we are all endowed with a part of God's Light and God's Love within us and we just need to look inside and find it and nurture it. And that is the point of view that this book takes. It tries to explain, from maybe a different point of view, what Jesus was trying to teach us. How any one could have a problem with that is beyond me.
If you are interested in this book, and I hope you are, you should also take a look at Paramahansa Yogananda's "The Second Coming of Christ".
May you walk on the Path of Enlightenment and your Journey end in the Light.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A2WZH3GEO6VCNN
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