EPISODE 413

Was Jesus a Myth? With Sean O’Laoire

Most people believe in Jesus as a savior who shared parables, performed miracles and died for our sins during his brief life.

But is that really true?

For the longest time, Paul had tried to connect with Jesus yet came up empty until recently when his soul led him to Jesus, the man not of the Bible.

Paul and Sean O’Laoire examine the life of Jesus from very different and complementary perspectives that may encourage you to reconsider what you think about myth and the Bible this week on Spirit Gym.

Learn more about Sean at his Spirits in Spacesuits website. Find him on social media via Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.

SHOW NOTES

11:05 Epistemology, ontology and cosmology.

15:28 Was Jesus a product of Jesus mythicism (Christ myth theory)?

19:38 What modern historians DO agree on about the life of Jesus.

31:08 The difference between wisdom and knowledge.

34:56 Mythish: Sacred wisdom shared in story form.

40:20 The use of metaphor.

52:09 “When power becomes available, morality goes out the window.”

1:05:30 Prosopon.

1:17:27 A cohort of souls.

1:27:11 Sean is one of few people Paul thinks about the most, especially when he gets very irritated at Christianity.

1:38:13 Paul spent many years tracking Jesus and only experienced emptiness, until he recently connected with Jesus, the man not of the Bible.

1:42:54 What really happened to Jesus after the crucifixion.

1:45:35 What is evil?

1:46:34 Did Jesus practice a religion?

1:49:45 How Paul brought alchemy into his teachings.

1:54:16 Awe.

2:01:47 Why one minister taught kids at his church to fear God.

2:11:13 “We volunteer to be here right now.”

RESOURCES & FURTHER READING

Setting God Free: Moving Beyond the Caricature We’ve Created in Our Own Image by Sean O’Laoire

Noosphere

Teleology

Dr. Walter Russell’s Home Study Course Third Edition (FREE PDF link)

The work of Bart Ehrman, Paramahansa Yogananda, Thomas Aquinas, Stanislav Grof and Elie Wiesel

Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility by James Carse

The Religious Case Against Belief by James Carse

Streams of Wisdom by Dustin DiPerna and Ken Wilbur

The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe by Jeremy Lent

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Music Credit: Meet Your Heroes (444Hz), Composed, mixed, mastered and produced by Michael RB Schwartz of Brave Bear Music

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