Glenda Green - When Heaven Touches Earth

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Copyright 2012, Glenda Green

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Cover painting: When Heaven TouchesEarth Glenda Green, 2005

ISBN: 978-1-60414-536-6

First edition, first printing November2008

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Love WithoutEnd

The Keys ofJeshua

In many ways, this book is a companion to myfirst book, entitled Love Without End, Jesus Speaks. Infact, four chapters in this new book were once Part I in the firstedition of Love Without End. Those chapters were removedtwo years ago from the World Edition of Love Without Endfor three important reasons, the most practical being that I neededto make room for eighty-eight new text pages about Jesus withoutdriving the cost up for my world-wide distribution team. It wassimply a choice I had to make about relative value. The secondreason is that Love Without End had become aninternational best seller, translated into seven languages. It wasreaching cultures and people of diverse beliefs who were deeplyinterested in the teachings of Jesus, but had less interest in mypersonal anecdotes or the particulars of how I came to be themessenger of this contemporary missive. However, the most importantreason is that there was much more substance behind my experience,which if expanded could shed more light on our mystical nature ashuman beings.

The mystical roots of Christianity (and theobscure history of those who kept it alive) are more relevant thanever to our contemporary search for spiritual direction andmeaning. People all over the world are turning away from theirorthodox roots, in all religions, and looking for a more personaldirect experience with the Divine. This is almost inevitable asreligious dogma loses some credibility against the expanded horizonof modern knowledge, research, and discovery. Religious atrocitiesof the past can no longer be justified or denied, nor thefallibility of clergy who abused their positions of trust. Yet, wemust also not forget that all of our great movements toward freedomwere preceded by periods of enlightenment in which our faith inman's higher nature was regenerated.

In most cases this elevation of consciousnesscame through our religious and spiritual venues. It would be agreat mistake to forfeit the great treasures of our faith. It is asimportant to remember that in our spiritual quest, as much as inany other, the more valuable anything is to us, the more likely itwill be exploited by villains and tyrants for their own darkends.

When we react to something bad, it is oftennot to the thing itself, which we can strive to eliminate withintent and reason. What causes our reaction is that bad elementshave appeared in something we need and value. Thus, our clearresolve is inhibited.

We are presented with choices and discernmenteven in our sacred pathways. Jesus was tempted many times in hismission on earth. Such challenges are presented in every age andcontext. However, at this time in history we have more power ofchoice than ever before. It has never been more important that allthe choices be laid clearly before us.

I hope to show in this book how many wise menand women in the past faced a similar challenge to choose betweendogma and a higher pathway of spiritual truth. Wisdom in everyreligious tradition has always come with a price and therequirement of mindful dedication to higher principles more thanjust ceremony, protocol, and conformity. Our imperative is to bediscerning stewards of both our spiritual lives and collectivepotential.

A few days ago I made a new acquaintance whoasked me what I was doing with my time. I answered that I waswriting a book about the mystical nature of Christianity. Her replywas, Isn't that an oxymoron? After a little bit of inquiry Ifound that she had been raised in a family steeped in religiousdogma and her spiritual growth was stifled until she later found abetter source of inspiration. She was amazed to learn thatChristianity had its roots in mysticism, and originally advocateddirect experience with God, rather than formal doctrine offered byintercessors of the Church. In fact there was little need fortheological conformity until Christianity was adopted by Rome in425 as part of its culture. One thing my new friend and I agreed onis that man is essentially a spiritual being and will naturallyseek or attain some kind of mystical experience if not conditionedto avoid it.

What you are about to read is a compilationof stories about Jesus' appearances to me, a short report of ourconversations, and my personal evolution, from artist to mystic,with all the challenges of bringing those realizations into amodern way of life with no easy model for doing so. I have added myown research on the subject of mysticism. Most especially this bookpays tribute to those who have lived and triumphed throughouthistory to demonstrate that this power is not only natural to us;but, it may well be the leading edge of our consciousness,appearing in countless ways beyond the more defined protocols ofreligious doctrine.

Personally, I believe that Jesus wasreferring to our innate and profoundly spiritual capacity toreceive direct revelations from God, when he said: These things Ido, you shall do and greater... (John 14:12) In our wishful heartswe might prefer to believe he was referring in that statement tocharitable acts and moral behavior. However, in my decades ofobservation about human nature, I have come to see that, while loveis innate to our nature, a higher encompassing love that leads toenlightenment is not. That comes only after much ego surrender,years of service to life and others, and dedication to the higherprinciples of humanity. Compassion is the fruit of our devotion tosomething greater than our self, not the starting point of thatdevotion. Despite the fact that Jeshua offered his life as anultimate sacrifice, he never required sacrifice from others, onlydecency toward ones fellow man and reunion with God. That was thepathway to fulfillment. In fact, mandates of sacrifice not chosenby ones own higher nature could be stunting to spiritual growth.Awakening of consciousness and its vast potentialacknowledging ourspiritual naturethat is the starting point.

Human beings, throughout the ages and in allcultures, have demonstrated an expanse and richness ofconsciousness that exceeds all other forms of life on earth. Inthis we have both an opportunity and a responsibility to connectall the dimensions of life as we know it. Many of those dimensionsare best explored scientifically, while others can only be reachedby the spirit.