What follows is a new idea for almost everyone, whether they are veteran LSD trippers or LSD virgins, and not many people will immediately accept this new idea, even if it is the truth. It's about Jesus Christ. What was he all about? I don't mean the many interpretations of others throughout history who talked about him and his teachings, but what he himself was talking about. You may be shocked to read this, but he was talking about the equivalent of LSD consciousness. What??? Yes, that's right!!!

Jesus Christ was, in effect, an acidhead!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Before you decide that such an idea is insane, check out a quote from John White. It's from pages 125-126 of Stanislav Grof's book, Human Survival and Consciousness Evolution:

"The kingdom is within us. Divinity is our birthright, our inheritance, nearer to us than hand and foot, but the eye will not see and the ear will not hear. Jesus called people to awaken, to change their ways, to repent. The very first words he spoke to humanity in his public ministry were, 'the time is fulfilled, and the Kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.' (Mark 1:14, Matthew 4:17) This is his central teaching and commandment."

"But notice the word, repent. Over the centuries, it has become misunderstood and mistranslated, so that today people think it merely means feeling sorry for their sins. This is an unfortunate debasement of Jesus' teaching. The Aramaic word that Jesus used is tob, meaning 'to return', 'to flow back into God.' The sense of this concept comes through best in the Greek word first used to translate it. That word is metanoia and, like tob, it means something far greater than merely feeling sorry for misbehavior. Metanoia has two etymological roots. Meta means 'to go beyond', 'to go higher than.' And noia comes from nous meaning 'mind.' The literal meaning of metanoia is literally 'going beyond or higher than the ordinary mental state.' In modern terms, it means transcending self-centered ego and becoming God-centered."

"This is the central experience Jesus sought for all people. This is the heart of Jesus' life and teaching, although it is now largely absent from the institutional Christian churches. Metanoia is that profound state of consciousness which mystical experience aims at-the state in which we transcend or dissolve all the barriers of ego and selfishness that separate us from God. It is the state of direct knowing, immediate perception of our total unity with God."

"Metanoia means a radical conversion experience, a transformation of self based on a new state of awareness, a new state of consciousness-higher consciousness. It means repentance in its most fundamental dimension-that of 'a turning about in the deepest seat of consciousness', as Lama Govinda phrases it. This turning-about is for the purpose of rebinding or re tieing ourselves to the divine source of our being-the source we have lost awareness of. This is what religion is all about. Re ligare: to tie back, to tie again. That is true repentance-when we 'get religion' in the sense of becoming aware of our inescapable ties to God, the creator, preserver and redeemer of the cosmos."

"When we rebound to God, the true meaning of sin becomes apparent. Sin means literally 'missing the mark.' Sin is not merely misbehavior. It is transgression of divine law or cosmic principle. It is a failure to be centered to God-to be 'off target.' Religion, then, is in its truest sense an instrument for awakening us to the evolutionary process of growth to godhead, which is the aim of all cosmic becoming. When we are guilty of sin, we are fundamentally missing the mark by failing to be God-conscious and all that it means for our behavior and thought."