awakening a certainty of Self in an uncertain world

Good Friday, April 7, 2023

Hi Dear Wonderful Soul,

It’s been called the Greatest Story Ever Told and sadly, the story, as great and beautiful as it is, distracts from finding within our own soul the purpose of the story.

Holy Week is probably the most complex of all religious stories. If you want to go beyond the story to its living meaning, choose one aspect of the story and find a question to ask about it. 

This is my 76^th Easter. Until my 42^nd Easter, my relationship to the events of Holy Week were pretty superficial and only had to do with what the New Testament and religion told me, with one very personal exception: my son was born on Good Friday when I was 34. Three years later I enrolled my son in nursery school and my daughter in 2nd grade in the Waldorf School of Princeton and I met anthroposophy and my spiritual life began to wake up to the importance of asking living questions. 

Living questions are the ones that can't be killed by a globally correct answer! Living questions seed more questions and awaken Imaginations, Inspirations, and Intuitions that come alive in your soul.

What is your living Easter Question?

 I still remember my son asking me when he was 8 or 9, “Why is Good Friday good?” Now that is an example of a living Easter Question. 

I encourage you to find a 9 year old in your soul and listen for their Easter Question. Don’t answer this question out of your religious beliefs. Just receive the question in your wondering soul, your imaginative heart. 

I had a powerful Easter heart imagination yesterday. I am sitting in a church on Good Friday and a man comes and sits beside me. His Presence defies description. He turns to me and asks His Easter Questions “What is happening here? What is this about?” 

If Jesus Christ looked you in your heart and asked you to share the meaning of the events of Holy Week, what would you say? Would you tell Him the story He lived or what lives in your heart? 

Do you see that Easter is so much more than religious belief, religious practice, It is not about a story of historical events or a ritual. Easter is about you and your incarnating I. It is not about celebrating and worshiping. It is about your living soul. 

I share some thoughts, imaginations, and questions to inspire your Inner Easter question on my Substack page https://lynnjericho.substack.com/. 

Here are links to the first three essays. 

A New Consciousness of Self - Understanding Jesus-Consciousness and Christ-Consciousness

The Moods of the Night: Maundy Thursday 

Bearing False Witness: Good Friday

Tomorrow will bring thoughts on Holy Saturday to inspire your Easter Question. And Sunday will bring Imaginations of the Resurrection which will raise up new understandings and deeper questions. These will show up in your inbox if you subscribe to my Substack page. (You can unsubscribe at anytime.) 

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GoS tentative topics for 2023 are Intimacy, Levels of Will, Imagination/Inspiration/Intuition, Sophia/Christ, Karma, Destiny, Grief.

EQUANIMITY/REVERENCE

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Thank you for your attention. 

Please share these thoughts with others.

Lynn Jericho

lynnjericho@imagineself.com

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