--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Premanand Paul Mason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jesus is said to have travelled to India mainly along the 'Hippie > trail', but perhaps by boat on an earlier occasion - apparently it > was relatively easy to travel there by this method in those days. > 'Jesus Lived in India' also lights on some other interesting > subjects too, namely the place of the Turin Shroud in the story of > Jesus (the contention is that it is authentic, but that because it > seems to prove Jesus was still alive when wrapped in the shroud, > it has been deemed a fake - the author has supplied a lot of > compelling evidence). Also the topic of the 'Promised Land' is > raised, offering Kashmir as the location of at least some of > the 'Lost Tribes'. > > Also related to the story of Jesus is the legendary assertion that > Jesus visited England with his uncle, who came here on business. > He is supposed to have landed at what is now called St. Michaels > Mount, near Penzance in Cornwall and travelled up to Glastonbury > (no, not to the festival - it has not been going THAT long).
All of these trips are fascinating. I live in the middle of a hotbed of them, the south of France, which just teems with Magdalene sects and Jesus-was-here sects and even sects within larger sects, like the ones one finds in the Catholic Church. But there are two elements to almost all of them that I find off-putting. If you feel out the "vibe" surrounding most of these trips, most of the time you'll feel two things. The first is "We know the truth and no one else does." The second is "We're special because we know the truth and no one else does." That's one reason I keep recommending Christopher Moore's "Lamb." It has no agenda, other than exploring the story of Christ in a new way, and enabling people to actually laugh along the Way. It's fiction, but very well-researched fiction, based on studying many of the books that have been mentioned here in this thread, and better, on studying the core texts of Buddhism, Taoism, and Hinduism. Chris put in a couple of years of travel and study writing it. But at the end, it's FUNNY. It is a marvelous explor- ation of what Christ's life might have been like, but with absolutely NONE of that "We know the truth and are really, really *special* because we know it" vibe. I find that to be a remarkable achievement. Would that more spiritual books could achieve it. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
