Yes, the journey out from fundamentalism allows us to tap into the information that we know, somehow, has aways been there. It takes a lot of fear to compound a false doctrine into our consciousness and over the truth. It is not easy to learn false doctrine, so it must be reinforced with lots of fear like a gap that forms in the fabric of our consciousness and the threads of falsehood are woven into us.
Some of the concepts that we have been taught have some truth within them so it becomes more palatable to swallow the hook. Like the concept of being saved...
We must save the body but it is not about going to heaven when we die - it is about recognizing that we exist in hell, now in this dimension of decay where the human condition suffers daily from a perception that we are separate from the Divine. And because reality is formed from our perception, we live as mortal beings in a prison built by our own doing.
John 1:1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2The same was in the beginning with God. 3All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4In him was life; and the life was the light of men. 5And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
We see Christ as an external savior whereas in fact we have Christ within and we were with God in the beginning. This is the knowledge of union that Jesus spoke of and prayed that we would see our "oneness." The darkness is the ego that did not comprehend the light that shines within us.
"All things were made by him..." We create our own reality and live within the walls of our prison seeing ourselves as victims rather than participants.
It is time for the understanding of our oneness with the Divine. It is time to see that we are co-creators of our lives. It is time to understand that we have preordained our awakening through difficulty - that we awaken and learn obedience through the things we suffer.
Hebrews 5:8 7During the days of Jesus’ life on earth, he offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the one who could save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission. 8Although he was a son, he learned obedience from what he suffered 9and, once made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him 10and was designated by God to be high priest in the order of Melchizedek.
Jesus is the pattern of divinity couched in human-hood, us. Therefore we must see his life as a pattern, a Melchizedek Priest who came to show us the way to the Father, that creative force that lies within all men. As he is Melchizedek, an immortal being, so are we...