Review of The Jesus Trilogy by Gina Lake
Review by Dwight Zavitz
Let me begin this review by saying that I had a bias against this book before I read it. As a Christian pastor I tend to be skeptical of modern books that purport to be dictated by Jesus. However, some years ago I read and reread A Course in Miracles and had to admit that whatever my bias, it contained great and powerful truths. And I would certainly say the same of this trilogy scribed by Gina Lake. In fact, I found this book to be an amazing synthesis of eastern and western spirituality and profound psychological insight.
The great philosopher and psychologist Carl Jung has written that Christ is still the living archetype at the heart of the western psyche. He also wrote that the “Christian myth” needed to be expanded and adapted from its ancient form into forms that speak to modern people. Gina Lake’s Jesus does this in a wonderful way. The trilogies’ insights into the sources of suffering and the way to happiness seem to me to be right on target. And the chapter on relationships is the best thing on how to improve our love relationships that I have ever read.
When I read a book that deeply affects me, I take notes on the insights it yields. I did this as I read The Jesus Trilogy on my Kindle. I found myself underlining and bookmarking nearly every page! No joke! And I took nearly 30 pages of notes on “key” insights. This is an amazing book of deep wisdom. Now I would like to share all of those insights with you, but time and space prevent that. Let me just list a few that spoke most powerfully to me:
The key to sanity and happiness in life is following Thy Will (God’s will, the Tao, the Flow) and not my will (the ego).
The ego imprisons us in desires and suffering.
3. Surrendering our ego (my will) and aligning with the Higher Power (Thy Will, God, the Tao) is paradoxically what sets us free to experience joy and peace and happiness in life. (Note: perhaps this parallels the self-emptying of kenosis in the Christian tradition, no-self in Buddhism, and Atman knowing itself as Brahman in Hindu thought.)
4. When we experience the letting go of ego noted above, we realize our oneness with the Divine as children of God. This is the purpose of life!
5. Life is perfect just as it is and we are perfect just as we are. All of us. All the time. Things are unfolding just as they should be. Even our sins and mistakes are ways that we learn though suffering.
6. We have free will and thus to power to change our lives and our destiny as we choose and attract love and peace into our lives and reject the poor choices of our ego desires that attract fear and suffering.
7. We become what we choose — either loving and peaceful, or fearful and suffering. We co-create our world as either a place of love and peace or a place of fear and suffering. (Note: This parallels the insights of A Course in Miracles and the work of writers like Gerald Jampolsky.)
8. Powerful tools for transformation from my will to Thy Will include meditation and self-inquiry because they quiet the go and allow the True Self to emerge and take control.
9. Our ego conditioning from childhood and the pressures of social conformity are the creators of our ego and they drive us to continue to make choices that cause us to suffer.
10. By choosing Thy Will and our true self over my will and the ego, we can gradually jettison our conditioning and attain freedom and peace of mind.
11. We can do this by meditation and self-inquiry and by making the unconscious conditioning conscious so that we can examine it and allow our true self to reprogram us.
12. By the above process we can conquer our suffering, sad “stories,” and relationship and family dramas, and find peace and joy in life. Thus we don’t have to remain prisoners of the past or of our future fears. We can rejoice in freedom in the present.
Well I could to on and on, but let me stop here and suggest that The Jesus Trilogy is, in my opinion, a valuable source of insight as we participate, willingly or not, in what historian Arnold Toynbee called the great moment in human history as the wisdom of the east and the wisdom of the west merge in the grand synthesis that is now in process. Information like that contained in this book is capable of helping to create the transformation of consciousness that must happen if we and our species are to survive and live lives of peace, joy, and wisdom in the decades to come. Only a few brave souls in the western Christian tradition have been willing to speak out about the importance of this great synthesis. One great example is theologian Paul Knitter (Without Buddha I Could Not a Christian, and The Myth of Religious Superiority.). But such voices are few and far between in the modern wilderness of both Christian and Islamic fundamentalism.
In conclusion, I would simply say that whatever the source of the material contained in The Jesus Trilogy, it is certainly profoundly insightful and potentially life-changing. And since we are all ultimately “one in Christ,” I am willing to say that if the Christ Spirit is still speaking to us now, I believe He would say things very much like the teachings contained in this trilogy that bears his name. Bravo! And many thanks to Gina Like!
Reviewed by Dwight L. Zavitz, Jr
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This book reveals how full of Christ you are by pointing to your Self. I love how we can love our Selves and have it be the least egotistical thing. For a long time I felt Holy Spirit reveal to me to love My Self. I figured if God tells me to love my Self it's more "egotistical" to say no God I couldn't. I'm just a worm". So I started purposefully loving my self and what's cool is as I did I began to see Jesus (who I really love!!!!!) shining through everyone I saw. This was an experience 1 showing me the power of my thoughts and 2 that Gods will (vision) is greater and overarching for everyone. Also I saw people as Christ they began to see themselves and me as Christ. Just a big Christ party! This book Jesus trilogy does just that. Opens my eyes to see Jesus in the ordinary and re encourages me to expand deeper into love and lose the definitions I needed to support my God experience and allows the Holy Spirit to Be the I Am beyond words ("written word brings death but spirit breathes and brings life abundantly".) this is Spirit. I feel like the early church was flowing in this revelation and as it says in the Bible the prophets longed to peer into things Now revealed. Well Now is the acceptable time and Now is Being revealed. Now Is... Being Revealed. Let's be. Thanks Jesus and Gina for Being light so I can share in it too! Blessings. Gonna start a reread now' Stay classy
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