the karma of the Christ

Why doesn't anyone talk about the karmic repercussions of Christ's death?

 Jesus' sacrifice represents a transmutation of the world's bad karma into good karma, for even as we killed him, he forgave us.  He bore no ill will, and neutralized a critical mass of bad karma.  This act of karmic benevolence may be the reason we are still here.  Our own karma may have been leading to the end of the world on Dec. 21 2012, for all we know.

The Golden Age may have arrived nailed to a cross, I hope posterity remembers that...

of course, its not likely.  Christians aren't even allowed to know about karma, let alone discuss it.  Which is tragic, because the real purpose of Christ's death and resurrection may be only explained via the workings of karma.  Its especially awkward now that quantum physicists are starting to acknowledge that the perspective of the observer does indeed change the state of that being observed.

the law of karma in essence states that 'you get what you give.'  If you send out negativity, you get negativity.  if you send out positivity, you get positivity.  This is often inverted to an imperative statement:  "do unto others as you would have them do unto you."  Treat people like you would want to be treated, because what you put out into the world is what you get back from the world.  Jesus poured out mercy and compassion to  a world that showed him none, and as a consequence, he absorbed an enormous amount of bad karma and gave only loving-kindness in return.  He ate the bad karma of the world, so to speak.  Not all of it, of course - we still have a job to do - but enough to keep the planet from being consumed by flood, fire, asteroid, and solar flare.  In other words, the mercy of Christ (and ultimately God?) prevented calamity and allowed the peaceful birth of the fifth age.  We are now living in the aftermath of God's judgment, and He was merciful.  Thanks God!

This is just a theory of course.  But the teaching of the Buddha is scientific and empirically observable, which means that karma and reincarnation are scientific and empirically observable.  Jesus openly spoke of the workings of karma and reincarnation, but Christians banned such vocabulary from our lexicon for 2000 years.

So a lot of people are going to get very uncomfortable.

There's a quote from John Wesley: "If I preach a sermon and I'm not run out of town I wonder if I really preached the Gospel."  The Gospel of Christ overturned the power structure of the society,
existentially threatened the very existence of the ruling class, and gave us a view of reality far different from the view provided by our worldly masters.  A good sermon should do no less, right?

Jesus mentions reincarnation explicitly in chapter 17 of Matthew:  "But I say to you that Elijah has come already, and they did not know him but did to him whatever they wished. Likewise the Son of Man is also about to suffer at their hands.” ¹³ Then the disciples understood that He spoke to them of John the Baptist."

So... if Elijah came back as John the Baptist, that's reincarnation, isn't it?  A rose by any other name...  John was asked if he was indeed Elijah come again and refuted it, which means that he wasn't personally aware of reincarnation either, just like all the rest of us.  I guess he wasn't as enlightened as Christ, which makes sense, actually.  At any rate, John's refutation of his 'Elijah-ness'  merely expresses what we all know already - reincarnation isn't something we have a personal recollection of. 

But the Buddha knew about it, and so did Rishis of India, and so did the yoga adepts, and so did the indigenous shamans, and so did Jesus.  It's right there in the New Testament, we're just not allowed to talk about it.

Bummer.

Then there's the question of the third eye.  In Matthew 6:22 it reads:
"The light of the body is the eye: if therefore your eye be single, your whole body shall be full of light."

How does one's eye become single?  That sounds pretty open to interpretation, and there have been lots over the millennia.  But we need to keep in mind that 21st century science is painting a picture of reality as essentially mind-made, and the science which gives us access to this reality is the science of meditation.  And the science of meditation really does reveal an inner eye that closely correlates with the pituitary gland and/or the pineal gland.  In fact, the pineal gland is now known to contain rods and cones just like our eyes!  The pineal gland produces and releases a chemical known as DMT at birth, death, and near-death experiences, and the meditating traditions of Asia assert that DMT releases can be cultivated through deep meditation.  it is even referred to as 'awakening the light body' in esoteric texts. 

So there is a real possibility that Jesus was referring to meditation:  Be still and know that I Am God.  In 'light' of all the available data, this seems to be one of the most likely meanings behind such an overtly esoteric statement.

Karma, the third eye, reincarnation, meditation... who was this Jesus, anyway?  Sounds like he was teaching a bunch of Asian hippie garbage (which is starting to get verified scientifically).  Just the sort of thing the Church needs to put a stop to, right?  Remember, Jesus was killed by a ruling class comprising of bankers and priests.  Think they might have had anything to lose?