🌌 Opening Reflection
“I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
— John 14:6
But what if this was never meant as a threat — but as an invitation?
What if Jesus wasn’t saying, “Worship me to escape,” but “Become like me to awaken”?
Today, we ask: what does it truly mean to be a good person in a world of ego, empire, and illusion?
This is not a lesson of guilt. It is a path of remembrance — a return to the original call: that we are all children of the Divine, each capable of embodying the love, courage, and consciousness that Jesus modeled.
✨ I. The Gnostic Path: Becoming, Not Believing
Teaching: Early Christian Gnostics — such as those who followed the Gospel of Thomas — didn’t see Jesus as a distant savior. They saw him as a mirror.
He was not the gatekeeper of heaven — he was the pattern.
“If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you.”
— Gospel of Thomas, Saying 70
Perspective: Gnosticism teaches that the divine spark lives within each of us. Jesus’ purpose was to awaken it — not monopolize it. To follow him is to become him in spirit and action.
Connection: In our time, this message is often distorted. Power structures ask us to worship Jesus while ignoring his way of life. War-makers call themselves Christian. Billionaires are treated as prophets. But Jesus overturned tables, broke bread with outcasts, and said the meek, not the mighty, shall inherit the Earth.
Practice: In your next cannabis meditation, ask:
Where in my life am I worshiping Jesus instead of walking with him?
What would it mean to embody love, courage, and truth today?
🌿 II. Animism and the Sacred Mirror of Nature
Teaching: Indigenous animist traditions see all life — tree, stone, river, human — as alive and interrelated. The Earth is not a resource; it is a relative.
Jesus often taught outdoors, using nature as metaphor: lilies of the field, mustard seeds, vines and branches. He spoke to the soul through the soil.
Perspective: To be like Christ is to live in harmony — not hierarchy. To see the sacred in all things, not just sanctuaries.
Connection: A person who walks the path of the Christos — the anointed — walks gently. Listens deeply. They do not exploit the Earth or dominate others in his name. They serve.
Prompt: Offer cannabis as sacred incense to the land this week. As you smoke or anoint, whisper gratitude to the Earth. Let her remind you: You are already sacred. You only need to remember.
🧠 III. The Inner Work: Psychoanalysis, Shadow, and Selfhood
Teaching: Carl Jung wrote that Jesus symbolized the Self — the integrated whole of conscious and unconscious being. To become like Christ is to individuate: to face your wounds, know your shadow, and integrate the rejected parts of your soul.
Perspective: Healing is not pretending to be good. It is becoming whole.
Jesus did not deny pain — he walked into it. He wept. He raged. He felt alone. But he never abandoned love.
Connection: We are taught to hide our flaws, wear moral masks, and fear failure. But Christ’s story says: Your wounds are not disqualifications — they are doorways.
Prompt: Journal under the influence of cannabis or in contemplative stillness:
Where am I pretending to be good instead of becoming whole?
What part of me — angry, ashamed, afraid — needs to be seen with compassion?
🔥 IV. False Prophets and the Idol of Power
Teaching: Jesus warned of false prophets — those who come in his name but serve empire, ego, and exclusion.
Today, many claim Christianity while embracing war, greed, and hierarchy. They have mistaken the Demiurge — the false god of control — for the true Source.
Perspective: Gnosis reveals that control and cruelty are not divine. The true God is found in love, liberation, and inner awakening.
Connection: Following the rich, the cruel, the powerful — believing they will lead us to salvation — is the great lie of empire. To reach the Father, we must reject their path and return to the radical truth of compassion.
Prompt: Light a candle with intention and speak this aloud:
I release the illusion that wealth is wisdom, that power is proof, and that cruelty is courage. I follow the path of healing, not harming — becoming, not bowing.
🌱 Integration & Possibility
What could change if we truly believed this?
If we stopped worshipping Jesus and started becoming like him?
We would feed, not fear, the poor.
We would heal the land, not plunder it.
We would forgive, not dominate.
We would walk gently, speak truthfully, and live freely.
And in doing so — we would come to the Father.
Not through belief, but through transformation.
✨ Closing Blessing
May you remember what was never lost.
May you become the Christ you were always meant to be.
