Monday, June 30, 2008

What I see is in me

What I see is in me. What I see in others is before me. What I see is true. Who is anyone to question this. Who am I to question this. What I know is that anyone person and everyone I know who is alive has that ability to ask the question "who are they to see, know, believe and understand this."

This I know to be true.

Saturday, June 28, 2008

Bloodline-The Movie

I saw an incredible documentary tonight called Bloodline which involves a mans journey while seeking the physical truth to a more recently proposed question that has started to seep into the collective conscious and that is,  is there actual physical evidence to a marriage between the historical Jesus and Mary Magdalene?  Bruce Burgess,  who is the director of this documentary,  started this journey over three years ago.

There is so much to write about and my head is swimming with where to begin.  Perhaps I will do it in segments over time since I am still taking it all in.  I feel as if I have met someone who is on an honest search for truth and would rather rely on experiential witnessing of what his gut tells him is possibly the truth along with all of the technical data that is being gathered from the found evidence.  No arrogance or snobbery,  just honest research from digging hard and deep into an area where many people would fear to tread.

It was the coolest (I know not the best phrase but it seems so appropriate) experience for me on Wednesday to be at Healing Waters & Sacred Spaces while Bruce & Rene Barnett (producer of the film) gave a talk about there journey through there maze of discovery,  not just of the artifacts but of the people they met along the way that helped them in the way they either best knew how to or were able to in the form that was safest for them.  

I was partially freaking out Wednesday evening after the talk because I was so blown away knowing the "possibilities,"  and or implications of the findings.  Bruce is very humble about the need to make sure it does not get taken out of context.  He does not say that this is the real tomb of Mary Magdalene but definitely stays more on point about this is what has been found so far and these are the people he has talked with (possible Priory of Sion).  Why I was freaking out was because I just felt it in my bones and gut reaction as to his honesty and excitement about his finds that it felt as if I had hugged someone that has touched "real" history.  Important history if not some of the most important history that could possibly have been discovered.

Truth is always so much more important.  To let people see it before them and then they can decide for themselves after how they feel about it  and or if they believe it or not. 

This is a must see and here is the link:  http://.bloodline-themovie.com/

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Tag line for film "The Crucifixion" The Untold Story of Jesus

Historians, religious authorities, and theologians agree that there lived a man by the name of Jesus who was crucified on a cross 2000 years ago.

Many people alive today believe this man was and is the "Son of God."

In 1945 in Nag Hammadi Egypt, ancient scrolls found in earthenware jars shed new light on a different Jesus from the existing canonical bible. They tell us of a man that may or may not have been the actual "Son of God," but a man who knew what it meant to be God.

These scrolls have come to be known as the Gnostic Gospels.

Gnosis - Self knowledge, knowledge of self as god.

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Movie Title "The Crucifixion"- The Untold Story of Jesus

This idea for a movie came about last fall when talking with a friend of mine who happens to be in the movie industry as a screenwriter. Since then I have written almost a whole notebook filled with notes, ideas, and actual scenes pertaining to the story.

All the myths surrounding the Jesus figure in the canonical bible will not be used. Instead what will be used is the information gathered from the gnostic scriptures. Considering that the gnostic scriptures have not been manipulated for at least 1600 years, unlike the canonical bible that was put in to existence at the Council of Nicea in 325 AD, I would expect more accuracy as to what the historical Jesus actually said.

This is one of the most well known and important figures in western civilization if not the most important. Even if you do or don't believe this figure was who he was is irrelevant. It is the people that used the idea that the only way to "God" is through his "Son" and that you will only find Jesus in the Christian Church, have put fear in to people's minds that has kept them from understanding that every person can be there own god of there own universe. Its as if by keeping people fearful of a jealous god that has allowed the Christian churches to have control over people's minds so they can become slaves to the people who want control over them. People in our society seem to feel as if they have no control over there own lives that it is some other source that has control. This is what the mentality of Christian Churches have permeated into the structure of our society whether you believe in religion or not.

In reality after reading many segments of the Gnostic Gospels there is a different version of what the possible historical Jesus was saying and that is "Everyone [of you] who has known himself has seen it" - Dialogue of the Saviour. Further along Matthew persists in asking him questions, Jesus says that he does not know the answer himself, "nor have I heard about it, except from you."

The disciple who comes to know himself can discover, then, what even Jesus cannot teach. The Testimony of Truth says that the gnostic becomes a "disciple of his [own] mind," discovering that his own mind "is the father of the truth."

The Gospel of Philip explores further the relationship of experiential truth to verbal description. Religious language is one of internal transformation: whoever perceives divine reality "becomes what he sees";
....You saw the spirit, you became spirit. You saw Christ, you became Christ. You saw [the Father, you] shall become Father....you see yourself, and what you see you shall [become].

Whoever achieves gnosis (knowledge of self) becomes "no longer a Christian, but a Christ."

I remember reading this last fall when I started researching for my exhibit and realized that he was talking about what the dvd The Secret talks about-the Law of Attraction. Its as if he was self aware and wanted people to know they can be as well, not the only way towards salvation to god is to believe that Jesus was his son. If Jesus were alive today he would probably consider such ideas as heresy.

This story needs to be more of telling someone's spiritual journey and the history surrounding this person's journey and to making it more tangible to everyone and possibly why such knowledge of self awareness could have become harmful to the religions of the day, Judaism, Islam.

There is so much more to write but I have been suffering from an incredible migraine for the past two days and I almost thought I was going to have to take myself to the hospital last night because of it. I got it under control but it feels as if it is wanting to come back so I have to take control of it now.

Saturday, June 7, 2008

The Proposal



The proposal is out amongst several prospective venues.

Now it is time for the Universe to do its mo jo magic.

I will be posting the rest of the proposal in its final stage soon.  Very soon.