Deepak Chopra
Jesus: A Story of Enlightenment by Deepak Chopra (UNABRIDGED], Audio CD, BBC Audiobooks America) the listen-ability of Chopra is well known and this fine audio production of this fictional life of Jesus is just fine. Jesus: A Story of Enlightenment by Deepak Chopra (HarperOne) The New York Times bestselling author of Buddha captures the extraordinary life of Jesus in this surprising, soul-stirring, and page-turning novel. Uncovering the transformational "lost years" that are not recounted in the New Testament, Deepak Chopra has imagined Jesus's path to enlightenment moving from obscurity to revolutionary, from doubt to miracles, and then beyond as the role of the long-awaited Messiah. As a teenager, Jesus has premonitions of his destiny, and by the end, as he arrives to be baptized in the River Jordan, he has accepted his fate, which combines extremes of light and darkness.
With his characteristic ability for imparting
profound spiritual insights through the power of storytelling,
Deepak Chopra's Jesus portrays the life of Christ as never
before, ultimately leading us closer to understanding the nature of
God and the soul. As the author shares, "I don't want the Jesus in
this book to be worshiped, much less to push him forward as
definitive. The events of the tale are pure fiction. But at a deeper
level, the Jesus in this book feels real because we've gotten a
glimpse into his mind. One flash of insight answers many prayers."
The Third Jesus: The Christ We Cannot Ignore by Deepak Chopra
(Harmony) (Paperback)
(Abridged
Audio CD) In The Third Jesus, bestselling author and
spiritual leader Deepak Chopra provides an answer to this question
that is both a challenge to current systems of belief and a fresh
perspective on what Jesus can teach us all, regardless of our
religious background. There is not one Jesus, Chopra writes, but
three.
First, there is the historical Jesus, the man who lived more than
two thousand years ago and whose teachings are the foundation of
Christian theology and thought. Next there is Jesus the Son of God,
who has come to embody an institutional religion with specific
dogma, a priesthood, and devout believers. And finally, there is the
third Jesus, the cosmic Christ, the spiritual guide whose teaching
embraces all humanity, not just the church built in his name. He
speaks to the individual who wants to find God as a personal
experience, to attain what some might call grace, or
God-consciousness, or enlightenment.
When we take Jesus literally, we are faced with the impossible. How
can we truly “love thy neighbor as thyself”? But when we see the
exhortations of Jesus as invitations to join him on a higher
spiritual plane, his words suddenly make sense.
Ultimately, Chopra argues, Christianity needs to overcome its
tendency to be exclusionary and refocus on being a religion of
personal insight and spiritual growth. In this way Jesus can be seen
for the universal teacher he truly is–someone whose teachings of
compassion, tolerance, and understanding can embrace and be embraced
by all of us.