ReInterpreting “Christ Is Risen!”

“Christ is Risen!”

Yes. I agree, full-heartedly.

It’s Easter Sunday, and I am giving thought to all I now believe (in comparison to all the symbolism and teachings I had once embraced upon this day).

As a young child, I didn’t feel an intimate connection to Jesus because of the way he was portrayed within my Catholic church. I wasn’t comfortable in the tales of pain, betrayal, and continuous struggle. As authentically loving as he and his actions were, he always seemed to be fighting the harsh world in one way or another.

However, I was very connected to his spiritual Light that was housed within the tabernacle (as we were told). That’s where I would direct my conversations with him.

As I awakened into divine sight, 15 years ago, I began to recognize a Jesus that was compassionate, loving, and beautiful beyond description. When he appeared, he always appeared without grandeur, standing directly next to the soul he was accompanying. He would hold their hand and let them know, telepathically, that he walked with them.

He wanted every soul to know that they were precious to him.

This is why Jesus is dear to so many. They feel his love enveloping them and washing away all guilt, fear, loss, and questioning. In his Love, all becomes healed!

Over these past 15 years, my understanding of the crucifixion has expanded a lot, but I have not shared my expanded points of view because I don’t wish to challenge anyone’s belief system.

However, after my recent journey to southern France, I can see that “raising our awareness” is what Jesus was teaching us by “rising” on the 3rd day. He was showing us the way, through all of the density and illusion-based reality.

I say “illusion-based reality” because the body and the physical experience distracts us from our greatest truth.

We are no less divinely connected, supported, and loved because we are in human form.

When our Heart is fully activated and employed, we ascend beyond the density, the distraction, and the challenge. We become Christ Consciousness embodied.

Wait. Let me start more simply.

Jesus came to remind us of who we are. He came to awaken LOVE upon this earth plane! He came to defy all appearance of struggle, lack, and loss. He came to seed a path of compassionate, coCreative, harmony and Peace.

As with all divine BEings, he could not force this peaceful path upon us. He could only BE the inspiration, the mentor, and the role model for us to emulate.

He came to ignite the Light, within and throughout.

He never meant to do it all for us. That would disempower our individual potential. He came to ignite the Light within our souls, to remind us of what can be.

But still, it was our CHOICE to embrace this path of peace, fully and completely.

After ages of participating in conflict, self-preservation, and survival, it would be difficult for humanity to reclaim their personal power. But those with eyes to see, ears to hear, and hearts to know, will always recognize the gifts of transformation and new birth he shares.

Jesus came to help us reclaim our personal power! This reminds us that we are responsible for our every thought, action, and experience. 

For so long, we (as a people) had been re-acting to the situations that were building in our external world. We were feeling like pawns in a game of chess, surviving by strategy or by luck.

He reminded us that we never need to compromise our personal truth. No matter how imposing this world appears, our faith could easily shift reality and manifest miracles.

The flame of divine consciousness lives within each of us. If we feel separate from our own sacred truth, that flame humbles itself to a mere flicker of light.

It never can be extinguished — but it can douse itself in forgetfulness.

When we feel connected, supported, and divinely loved in all ways, that same flame can grow and expand to BE THE LIGHT in manifest form. It can free us from all shadow, separation, and lack.

When we are connected, we feel all universal source moving with us and through us. We live in graceful harmony with all life.

I believe that this is how Jesus walked. The light within was fully awakened! And although he could witness the separation we felt, he did not accept this sense of separation as his own. He could see through the illusion. 

Simply said, he was not governed by what appeared. He was able to shape, shift, and morph the physical and tangible, to align with his will. This can only be done through the heart-space, where no doubt or hesitation exists.

He wasn’t trying to prove himself. He was showing the way!

If you agree with all this, can you also agree that he did not identify with fear and pain as we did?

He could see clearly! He knew that his body was a sacred vehicle for divine expression. He knew that all fear and pain were manifestations of someone who was denying their own greatness.

If we knew that we were always united with God and Source, could any human experience truly separate us from that divine knowing? Fear and pain can only exist in an illusion-based consciuosness.

Jesus was never the “body.” He is Spirit embodied, to bring enLightenment.

He came to remind us that the Divine can live within the physical plane, without compromising their divinity — so he could not know physical pain, unless he chose to align with it.

Now, let’s reMember that he came to remind us of how we can potentially live (in peace and love). But he loved us so much that he wished to honor our free-will choices, no matter what they would be.

He came to mirror our greatest potential and our harshest truth. He portrayed a fully Christed human soul, showing us our greatest potential — and then he allowed that pristine body to experience brutal betrayal and persecution so that we could visibly see what we do to our own Christed selves each day.

The pain and fear we connect to (when thinking of the crucifixion) is our own pain and fear embodied. We place our own insecurities upon him. This is not Jesus’s pain and fear! He was beyond that. He was never separate from Divine Consciousness. He was never separate from God’s Light.

I believe he was in a higher state of consciousness. Any pain he would have known would have been for humanity, as he witnessed the brutality in which they participated. But even that comment is from MY egoic sense of injustice. Jesus didn’t judge! He only knew LOVE in all moments. Even for his captors and persecutors, he know only love.

Authentic, uncompromising love.

I do believe that his body experienced the crucifixion. But we’ve established that Jesus was not his body, so I believe he consciously ascended from his body upon the cross.

His eternal Spirit did not die!

Upon that cross, he ascended beyond the plane of duality and physicality. 

In my opinion, once that ascension took place, he was able to easily move through the interdimensional realms as he chooses. This includes the physical realm, since our bodies are only a manifestation of light.

He proved this to us when he arose on the 3rd day, defying all identity with the body that had died!

People always ask if he died on the cross. I say “No”.

Jesus was not his body, so his death can only be a perception.

But in order for us to recognize that he is not his body, a death of the physical had to happen.

His body experienced death, but that death was only in appearance. For all who have eyes to see, he showed himself in perfect body and spirit three days later. This tells us, don’t be distracted by that which appears.

Jesus says these words to me now, as I write.

By understanding that the body is no more than a manifestation of our own creation, we see that we can pick it up or lay it down as often as we desire.

And this is why I see Jesus continuing on after the crucifixion. He could move through the physical plane by manifesting a physical body upon demand (much as we imagine the angels doing to work miracles). His teachings moved to the secretly held mystery schools. His presence was made known to an enLightened few.

It wasn’t to hide his truth from the masses. It was to hold his truth pure for the Wisdom Keepers throughout the ages.

To those who have eyes to see, he will always come.

We, now, are the Wisdom Keepers of our generation. We, now, are being asked to trust our instincts above all indoctrinated truth.

For myself, I’m amazed that I remained quiet for so long. My story is filled with so much more LOVE than I had ever been taught. So, why hide? It’s time to be heard.

Suddenly, “Christ is Risen” reminds me that the LIGHT within my own soul is ready to RISE from the shadows of forgetfulness.

Thank You, Jesus! For guiding the way, and never questioning the love within me.

© Alania Starhawk 2017