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The Advaita Show #50 – Tim Freke, Gospel of the Second Coming
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April 6, 2009Vale Ramesh Balsekar
October 6, 2009Hey folks
I promised to post this interview up many months ago but totally forgot! I recorded this for my G’Day World show but though you might all enjoy it as well.
Tim Freke is the co-author (with his writing partner Peter Gandy) of many books about the Jesus myth – including THE JESUS MYSTERIES and THE LAUGHING JESUS. I chatted with him recently about one of their books “The Gospel of the Second Coming”, a marvelous book that manages to combine humour and insight – it explains the Jesus myth as a Gnostic parable. As Tim points out during our chat – nobody really thinks there was an historical “good Samaritan” or “prodigal son”. They are understood to be parables. Tim explains that the whole Jesus story is a series of parables wrapped up in another parable – the parable of Jesus himself.
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4 Comments
Cameron,.
Each and every realized being in XXth century and earlier treated (and interpreted) Jesus as their EQUAL – real (and realized) master, teacher, guru…
Period. Everything else is irrelevant. Of course, 1. history gets mythologized and 2. myths become history. Both tendencies are in place in case of every Master.
And this is not the point – the point is once again:
Each and every realized being in XXth century and earlier treated (and interpreted) Jesus as their EQUAL – real (and realized) master, teacher, guru…
Regards
Vira
I haven’t been here in ages!
Good to see the old silly vague uninformed comments!!
How about a goofy comment… I’m gonna listen to this show real soon, sounds interesting indeed. I don’t mean my “soon” the same way Cameron uses such words as ‘soon’ or ‘recently’ 😉 Adverbs of time is what they are. I have a book in my closet that I will read one day after reading my 20 other unread books, it’s by Robert Price “Jesus is dead” — similar topic I guess.
Now if Vira should still be here, hey, Vira, be honest with yourself: Could it be you’re idolizing Jesus a bit — else why would it be important to you whether he was a historical figure or not? I mean important in the sense that you WANT him to be historical. Really, what are you saying? You’re ascribing authority to those other realized masters who are entitled to give Jesus the seal of approval? I’ve heard that Michael Jackson, when he expressed disagreement, often used to add, “I’m saying it with love!” I’m saying it with love too. It doesn’t matter if Jesus was historical because Jesus is alive in you and me. Also, each and every realized master in history treated EVERYONE ELSE as their EQUAL! Yet if you WANT to idolize Jesus or anyone else it’s fine of course.
Hey, Cameron.
Good to see you still podcasting.
Enjoyed the Tim Freke interview.
THX.