BACKGROUND:
The Jewish people had been praying for the arrival of a savior for hundreds of years.
First, the Egyptians had placed them under political control (slaves as spoils of war and financial indebtedness). Then the Greek and Phoenician (cousins of the Hebrews) traders had come to dominate the economic and literary system. The Greek language became the price of inclusion in the larger society. Only there, could one hope to have access to wealth to buy one's freedom, or power to encourage political change.

The Romans had politically conquered the region.
Now, the laws, rights, and taxes were set by politicians in Rome and enforced by foreign military troops and governors sent to the region. Prophets had earlier warned the Jews that they would lose their political freedom for their repeated turning away from Spiritual Guidance and denial of God. They had also foretold that a savior would be born who would free the Jews from political and economic enslavement.

Everyone expected that this savior would be a military leader who would lead an armed rebellion against the Romans. Both before and after Jesus, there were individuals who assumed this role and were happily supported by enough Jews to result in notable political anarchy and much bloodshed.

SUPERNATURAL ALIGNMENTS:
A huge comet, possibly the largest known in recorded human history, was present in the sky over the Earth for almost a week. It had the influence of making the night as light as an overcast day. It had been expected by the Sumerian astronomers and other scholars to the east of modern day Israel. These men were also familiar with astrology, a related discipline all considered together at that time. They knew of the old prophesies and together with the calculations they made, there was an expectation of something miraculous.

A young woman and an old man were also expecting something miraculous. They had been Spiritually Guided to marry some months earlier. The man was considered too old to father a child. The woman was a virgin. From the Eastern perspective, she was unique biologically and literally one in a million. And keep in mind that the worldwide human population at that time numbered in the millions, not billions.

Mary, the woman, was a hermaphrodite: she had both male and female genitals. Although there are many examples of this in modern times, most such persons are not biologically formed enough to self-impregnate themselves. It has been a centuries old tradition in Tibet that whenever such a woman gives birth, her son would be the next spiritual leader for the community. Cultures influenced by Western views of biological homogeneity have usually either destroyed the infant at birth, or, genitally mutilated it to force it to become solely female or male. This continues today in North American hospitals and worldwide. Mary became pregnant. She gave birth during the passage of the comet.

Entertainment, for the majority of people in the region, consisted in telling stories. These ranged in content all the way from verifiable fact, to personal experience, to second and third person accounts of historical events, to spurious explanations of strange events, to exaggerated recounts of mundane occurrences, to gossip and hearsay, to fantasies constructed to explain or take advantage of basic human fears.

A good storyteller was one who presented his or her information in a way that the audience could understand and with enough drama, mystery, and excitement to keep their attention. Some people earned their overnight lodging and their meals by telling stories. Some provided more public entertainment on the streets of towns during the day and evening. Presentation had little to do with whether a story bordered on fact or fantasy.

Herod, a king ruled the region with the blessing of the Roman Empire in exchange for a share of taxes and an acceptance of Roman political guidelines. This king knew of the prophesies and heard rumors about the stories which the travelling teachers had spread throughout the region in their recent and short visit. He was very fearful that this infant would grow up to mount a military rebellion against him. He issued a law requiring that all male infants that would be near to the age of Jesus be taken from their parents by the courts and executed in order to preserve the security of the state, and his power.

Obeying Spiritual Guidance, the infant Jesus was taken out of the region and escaped the legal culling of male babies. Because of the political significance accorded to his birth, and later emphasized when friends and scholars would refer to him as the Messiah (Hebrew for "savior"), he would always be treated as someone to be worshipped, or, someone to be feared. Many years after his death, the writers in the Roman Empire would translate his name from the Hebrew "Messiah" to the Greek "Christ."

The Basic Personality of Jesus attracted him strongly to be interested in religion, spirituality, social and political affairs, and justice --- with a strong degree of independence and flexibility of thought. Consequently, at a young age, he spent as much time in the synagogue (Jewish religious school-temple) reading and studying everything he could. The injustices which he could hear expressed by those around him were great in number. He was also aware of the persecution taken against other youth who would have been his age at infancy. He tried greatly to reach an understanding of the political reality and how it seemed at odds with the economic, social, and spiritual realities.

An uncle of Jesus, according to Roman and shipping records, was a prominent exporter-importer for the region. He had trading ships and caravans which travelled from Spain through southern Europe and North Africa, through the Middle East, and perhaps as far as India. Jesus, as a worker-apprentice travelled on some of these trips and met people from many cultures and a range of customs unlike those of his orthodox Jewish friends. Eventually, he settled as a professional carpenter in Palestine-Israel.

Jesus continued his religious studies and life awareness training.
One day, he attended a religious ceremony being held by a relative named John. Here, people with an interest in religion and spirituality were invited to accept the Gift of communication with their Higher Self by acknowledging their humility before God and making a commitment to follow the Guidance of this Spiritual Guide, as a mouthpiece of God, before any other leader. Political, social, economic, racial, religious and family leaders would all come second. Jesus chose to accept this Gift. This change into a new life of Spiritual freedom and direction was symbolically expressed by his submergence in water and his taking an oath. His countenance changed immediately to express the joy of the decision.

As soon as Jesus made contact with his Higher Self, his Ego, SuperEgo, and Unconscious expressions began to oppose this connection. As the spiritual mission of Jesus was of an urgency, like most such missions, he was immediately Guided to go into the desert and learn to manage the expressions of his identity in favor of a team effort. This had long been an accepted strategy undertaken by the most motivated in many cultures who were seeking dependable Spiritual Contact.

So Jesus went.
He placed his identity expressions at the greatest of urgencies and rebellious strengths by fasting for a long time, often noted as 40 days. In classical Arabic, 40 is used to convey the meanings of very long, very large, very many. In the then current and previous mass culture most people were illiterate, tribal, and herding nomads. The numeral 40 would represent an number beyond those they would commonly use.

Jesus' Ego, like any strong ego, was only concerned for the survival and pleasure of the physical body. It now tempted Jesus with conscious rationalizations that if he were now Guided, to use this great thing called Guidance to turn the stones around him into food: work magic. Show me you are better than I? I dare you. Jesus was prepared. He responded back in his self-talk that people did not just have bodies; they also had a spiritual nature. By following Higher Self Guidance, it would be revealed to him what he needed. Since the Ego cannot understand things spiritual, it could not respond with yet more wise excuses, and it accepted the leadership of the Personal Spirit of Jesus.

Jesus' Reptilian Unconscious was very grieved by this state of physical instability and life sustaining challenge. Aware that it could not win except by eliciting past habits, it resorted to the familiar strategy of win-at-all-costs. If the commitment of Jesus Personal Spirit was to follow the Guidance of his Higher Self, then it was time to show Its stuff or get lost. The Reptilian response was one of --- I'm going to die at this rate so I have nothing to lose by challenging Jesus' Higher Self to please me with magic which will bring everything back to "normal", or end this misery of frustration and anxiety of waiting to die. So it challenged Jesus with feelings of invincibility or death --- hoping that jesus would come to his senses and dump this Guidance bit. And Jesus reminded himself that it is irreverent to play god and tempt God as if you were an equal to do your bidding. And returning to a state of Reverence and No-Emotion, Jesus Unconscious became patient.

Jesus' SuperEgo now took its turn at trying to overturn Jesus Personal Spirit commitment to Holy Spirit Guidance. It gave Jesus images of social power such that he would rule all the kingdoms of the world if he would renounce this foolishness of Spiritual Guidance and follow its Machiavellian ways of deception and manipulation. And Jesus shamed his SuperEgo for its hypocrisy of suggesting social goodness being brought to the world through the use of political power to restrict, confine, and manage others. Revealed for what it was, his SuperEgo shrank and acknowledged the leadership of Jesus Personal Spirit.

The above types of challenges to Jesus' decision to commit to choosing and following his Higher Self would continue. And he would remain steady and trusting in accessing his Higher Self, often through private prayer, and of expressing courage and calm through his actions. He would invite and ask others to assist him. He would learn from his Guidance as he practiced. At first, he would only share his good news of Higher Self Guidance with the Jews. Then, when a gentile challenged him to ask for Guidance and tell her why non-Jews could not also hear the news, he asked, and received Guidance that the news was for all peoples. And he changed.

The orthodox Jewish culture is very ethnocentric
Like a number of other cultures which have become SuperEgo dominated, it views itself as privileged and special before all others. It holds itself aloof from other cultures and frequently expresses its intolerance of them by following one set of rules and values for its own members, and another set for strangers and foreigners. There are few state-organized cultures which have not assumed this Super-Ego position. Jesus was familiar with other cultures and other people. His ethnic traditions discouraged him from interacting with them. His Spiritual Guidance challenged him to treat all people equally.

Jesus began his ministry: sharing the news.
His mission would be to tell as many as would listen that they also could learn how to receive Spiritual Guidance as he had. It was hard and it required great self-discipline, but it was possible. And with it they would become part of miracles even as he continued to be and others could see. If they received and chose to follow the Guidance that came from God, they would be participating in life as if they were agents of God --- as if they were Daughters and Sons of God. For as long as they were following such Guidance, they were expressing God's will for the world.

In a world in which worship and reverence were commonly expressed for human leaders, material and sensual desires, power, and authority --- the message of Jesus was too simple and too unworkable for most to understand. How could they forgo everything they had been taught and everything that they had sacrificed for and guarded against --- for this invisible idealism? The proof would be in the living of what one believed in.

First, he sold or gave away all of value that he had, as Guided.
He would tell others that it would be almost impossible for them to become Spiritually Guided as long as they were tempted to gain and keep personal material possessions and wealth.

Secondly, he gave up his carpentry profession.
He became a homeless itinerant, going where his Guidance directed him, staying as long as It Guided, doing what It Guided, moving on as it Guided. He set about helping people to better appreciate their spiritual guidance alternatives, to recover from illnesses, to be more caring for each other. His healing skills can easily be repeated today by chiropractors, chemists, and herbal practitioners. Such skills were largely unknown in the Roman colony so many considered them miracles. Many times, his deeds would be discounted because of his low economic status. If it were not for the later recording of the memory of a few friends and team-members a lifetime after his death, we would have little record of his existence.

The difficulties of the human identity resisting Spiritual Guidance were well known to him. He had studied and practiced for most of his 30 years of life to reach Spiritual Guidance. Now that he had it, and from his experiences with those around him, he quickly concluded that children represented more hope than adults for an improved future directed by a greater degree of Spiritual Guidance. Adults were encumbered with energy blocks plus the social imprinting and political norms of their society. Children were more flexible in thought and action with the expressions of their identity beginning to form and less focused on the values of physical reality: wealth, power, stability, acceptance, opulence. Children were more able to consider his concepts without simply defending against them because they were different. So, he encouraged his team to be especially considerate of children.

He would understand the workings of the bureaucracies and institutions, later, when he became politically and socially persecuted. He would encourage people to protest quietly and assertively rather than with force through revolution and military opposition. They would listen for awhile. But frustrated when political changes did not arise and from the humility of his execution, they would mount a military uprising against the Romans within 40 years. As he had warned, the Romans would slaughter the Jews and destroy their temple. One general would comment on the battle that the battleground was three feet deep in blood and bodies.

He would be able to accept, with sadness, how his mission --- of necessity --- would take him into conflict with the church he was brought up in. He knew, as institutions and people are slow to change and quick to defend, that he would have to accept unjust legal indictments against him, or, renounce the Spiritual Guidance he received. Accused in fear, convicted in jealousy, sentenced in greed for power, and taunted on the cross by proud soldiers --- he would ask his Higher Self if indeed he must accept this experience and die. Acknowledging the yes reply, he would never raise the question again.

Every action remembered and recorded of his life following his commitment to follow Holy Spirit Guidance, resulted in his confronting the social and political status quo. Prejudice towards the poor, afflicted, other races, prostitutes, women, laborers --- were all addressed by his actions. The comfortable acceptance of the secular existence of the day of simply following orders to get a paycheck rather than ever questioning the ethical basis of the work and actions involved were unacceptable to his Spiritual Guidance and Basic Personality. He expressed anger at frauds and scams perpetrated by the administrators of his own temple. He chastised dishonest tax collectors and called for people to share rather than hoard.

He attempted to coach his team by sharing with them what he had learned.
He treated them as equals and encouraged them not to keep falling into the easy and well trained habit of the culture of treating him like a leader. He acknowledged and offered to share his skills. His disciple team-members would demonstrate their weaknesses from time to time as they were challenged by their identity expressions to deny Spiritual Guidance.

Three of his team would betray Higher Self Guidance and Jesus.
All would do so without malice. All would do so from lack of self-management. One's Ego would raise his aggressiveness and his sword to cut off the ear of a policeman sent to arrest Jesus. A second's Unconscious, for fear of imprisonment and torture, would deny knowing Jesus so as to escape the frustration, hazard, and shame that had come to be associated with this social rebel. A third, would be consumed by his well-intentioned SuperEgo which assumed that Jesus was just being shy of power and that once given the public visibility in the courts and the media that he deserved, Jesus would be vindicated --- and accepted, as a new social, religious and political figure. Jesus understood the motivations of each, warned them beforehand, and accepted what he understood could happen.