“I am the one who lived among you and whom you knew as Jesus. I am not the Jesus of church tradition. Nor am I the Jesus of religious scripture. I am Jeshua ben Joseph. I lived as a man of flesh and blood. I reached Christ consciousness before you, but I was supported by powers far greater than those you know today. My coming was a cosmic event, and I gave myself to that event.”
This is how one of my favorite books begins—Pamela Kribbe’s The Jeshua Channelings. It is the book through which I was first able to understand the spiritual tradition of the West—Christianity—not as a religion, but as:
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the field of consciousness to which all we humans belong;
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the soul of humanity;
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the spiritual alchemy of love, which alone can resolve the problem of the duality of life in matter; and
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an evolution of God’s creation.
After reading it, I began to actively study Jung’s analytical psychology, which further helped me understand Christianity through the concept of individuation. The more I read Jung, the more I trusted Pamela Kribbe’s writing, because in essence, they say the same thing: it is necessary to unite the opposites within ourselves, for this is the path to inner wholeness. We do this by enduring inner conflicts and through the energy of love, for it is precisely this love that is the alchemical gold.
This eased my discomfort that, as a psychotherapist and a woman of science, I was reading “channelings” and even “believing” them. Because the truth is, I don’t believe in channelings. What I believe in is my own judgment of how much a text is written in sync with the criteria for mental health and its potential to help a person find greater harmony within themselves, as well as build harmonious relationships with others.
If you decide to read this book, you won’t find a single sentence that makes you feel small or sinful. You may, however, find many sentences that speak of:
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understanding (the opposite of judgment, guilt, and blame);
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taking responsibility for one’s emotional needs and caring for them (working with the “inner child”);
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releasing the neurotic part of suffering (the resistance to the inevitable part of suffering);
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moving beyond duality through the energy of love (integration of the Shadow, our dark side);
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the transformation of the Ego (“individuation” as a process of “becoming Christ-like”).
For a long time, I didn’t understand why this book was not addressed to all people, but only to the so-called “lightworkers.” Isn’t Christianity for everyone, rather than just some of us? Over time, however, I began to understand—we humans really are different in our readiness to take the narrow and steep path described in the Bible: “For many are called, but few are chosen.“ Because this path is saturated with much suffering that, at first glance, appears deeply irrational (the so-called “dense pain-body,” Eckhart Tolle). If, however, we view this suffering in the context of God’s redemption through man, we begin to understand it and transform it into the glue that unites the opposites—love, the alchemical gold.
Therefore, I recommend Pamela Kribbe’s book to anyone who finds it difficult to understand the Christian religion. My critical thinking feels a genuine horror toward the fanaticism of religious faith, but it can understand what Christianity means as a “myth that lives in the collective unconscious of man.” I believe that the best way to understand Christianity is to read Jung’s books, which use scientific argumentation to show why Christ is an Archetype of Self. Jung, however, is too complex and difficult to read, unlike this book, whose subtitle is Christ Consciousness in a New Era.
And so, if you want to understand why love is the only means to achieve inner wholeness, read this book by all means!
Kamelia Hadjiyska
