This book is recorded conversations (on film, via skype, zoom) with people who spontaneously claim to be “seeing” “hearing” or otherwise getting information from someone they identify as Jesus. Some claim to have “seen him before” “never seen him before” or “they don’t believe in him” but are somehow accessing him. People who report being disturbed by him “showing up” burst into tears, can’t breathe, or in some cases are “dumbstruck” (literally can’t speak) by seeing, hearing someone not there - while not under hypnosis or any imaginable consciousness altered reason.
But the consistency of content is what drew me to the reports.
People who’ve never considered his story, people who had a firm belief in what they thought was his story - reporting (consistently) an “alternate version of events.” People who “used to believe in religion” but no longer do, people who go to church weekly who claim to be startled at hearing something different than they’ve been told (“I always felt this to be the case, but I’ve never heard it before”). His story doesn’t change, but the people who tell it do.
That’s why it’s a story that has never been told.
I’m a writer/director of theatrical motion pictures. I’ve written and/or directed eight feature films, including “Limit Up” and “You Can’t Hurry Love.” I’ve written 10 “best-selling books” (kindle in their genre) about the research of what people say under hypnosis about the afterlife, and recently books with the help of a medium talking directly to folks I knew no longer on the planet, (“Backstage Pass to the Flipside” 1, 2 and 3 with Jennifer Shaffer). I’ve written miniseries for HBO (“The De Medicis” – unproduced) and other film companies. I’ve written scripts for major film studios (including David Kirkpatrick, our trusty foreword fellow) worked on the feature films of Robert Towne (“Personal Best”) and Phillip Noyce (“Salt.”) It’s not like I’m seeking this line of investigation… it literally fell into my lap.
While filming people under hypnosis or not under hypnosis, “seeing” or “hearing” from Jesus started to become more frequent in the footage. At first it was disconcerting. People not under hypnosis saying “I’m seeing Jesus. I don’t know why I’m seeing him because I don’t believe in him!” Eventually I took the leap; “Well, can we ask him a question?”
To my chagrin the answers “he gave” weaved a different story of his life. A story that had echoes of “The Life of St. Issa” as well as other tales of his “survival” from the crucifixion. These consistent yet contrary stories challenged my conception of who he was, challenged my ideas of what consciousness might be, and basically challenge my existence in more ways than one. I published a number of those interviews in “Hacking the Afterlife” but recently while writing “Architecture of the Afterlife” I’ve had more people claim he was “showing up.” And the more he showed up, the more stories he told about his path and journey that mirrored the previous ones. And finally, the author, former studio exec David Kirkpatrick suggested “letting him speak.”
Needless to say, there’s no way to prove they are his words or it’s him speaking. However, what he says is consistent, what he says is contrary to the mythology of him. Allow me to say that again; every time he shows up, he recounts the same contrary story about his life, which is an alternate version of the “Greatest Story Ever Told.” When asked why he was interested in "telling an alternate version of his life" he's reportedly said on more than one occasion: "It's not alternate if it's true." In this book you’ll hear a linear story about the alpha and omega as told by him and those who reportedly knew him.
I've been reluctant to share this story for years; I offer these pages to help people make a DIRECT connection with him. He's not gone; he's just not here. I encourage everyone to ask him on their own.
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“These accounts do not prove that Jesus exists,” writes Richard Martini. “They don’t prove that people who claim to see or hear from Jesus, actually have done so. But the idea that so many different people, from different walks of life, could have come up with the same scenarios, which are in direct conflict with the story of his lifetime as told by centuries is beyond me to comprehend.” In their autobiographical admissions, some of the great thinkers of the modern world —Albert Einstein, Carl Jung, and Joseph Campbell—shrunk from the Christian ethos, after being initially enraptured by it—all of them, interestingly, had Catholic educations. Yes, even Einstein. They did not shrink because of Jesus’s central message of unconditional love, or the gold-belled rituals of Catholicism, but for the grim orthodoxy of the system built around it. As the Victorian poet, Algernon Swinburne, wrote, “The world has grown grey from thy breath”. A thought-leader of modern psychology, Carl Jung, found the Christian religion at odds with itself. On one hand, there was the simple beauty of Jesus’s compassion; on the other hand, there was the dark stridency of religious dogma. “Secretly, his (Jesus’s) love and kindness,” writes Jung, “appeared doubtful to me, chiefly because the people who talked most about dear Lord Jesus wore black frock coats and shiny black boots which reminded me of burials.” Mythologist, Joseph Campbell, goes even further. In his conversations with Michael Tomes of New Dimensions Radio, he says, “The problem with Christianity is that the myth of Jesus has been shut and locked for centuries. By Church authority, the text of the Bible is inerrant. Even the contradictions are viewed as truth. A myth must be able to respond to the evolving consciousness of the people.”
