When Will Jesus Come Back?

To be fully honest, the idea crossed my mind to use Jesus as a case study to talk about the "savior" syndrome in more detail, but I consciously avoided going there in my last reflection for some reason.

Well, until now. I guess this is exactly where I am going with this one, right in.

Just thinking about it still amuses me deeply inside. So, frankly, I have no idea what I'll end up writing about just yet on this topic, but the energy of it has a very funny quality so far.

For many different cultures, Jesus has probably won big time the title of the best "savior" you can even think of. More than two thousand years after, we are still grateful to him for trying to "save" us. Some still believe he can or that he does.

No one is sure about exactly what he was or is saving them from, but many are still giving him their precious energy, time, and sometimes even their own resources to thank him or to ask him for a special favor.

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Jesus is probably the best "marketing" figure history has ever known. Energetically speaking, he is a very impressive "banker." His investment still pays off. Just his name, his brand, and his reputation are probably still one of the biggest markets in the world today.

He has managed to create an egregore (a collective thought-form or consciousness created by multiple individuals focused on the same concept) of new beliefs with such power and clarity that people are willingly feeding it with their personal energies and still believe he is their "savior"... even if the guy himself has been retired who knows where for centuries now.

If everything is just energy and vibration in this reality, well then, of course Jesus is still very much "alive." With so much raw power in his mental and emotional space coming from us without even asking for it, he most likely would not be able to die even if he tried very hard.

Can you imagine how much free power and high-quality energy he still gets from the system he created ages ago without doing anything in particular since?

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He might be himself very confused why it's still happening and why he is even still preached today. It's the exact opposite of what he was trying to teach us. His main message was to make you understand something super simple: that you don't actually need a "savior."

You have unlimited access to creative potential yourself already; you don't need any intermediary to reach ultimate salvation. This is what he was teaching people around him in its essence from the beginning.

Consider his words to the disciples when they marveled at his abilities: "Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these." This wasn't the statement of someone who wanted perpetual dependency, but rather a teacher expecting his students to surpass him.

So, why would you still call him or want him to be your "savior"?

He must be very disappointed to be put in a role or an expectation he was specifically advocating you would not need if you listened to what he was saying for real.

Do you understand that his teachings became his own prison... because of you? By you, I mean the ones who still keep him "alive" for things he has absolutely nothing to do with, never wanted, or has never said himself.

This isn't to dismiss the genuine comfort and meaning many find in their relationship with Jesus. For countless individuals throughout history, this connection has provided strength during suffering and guidance during confusion. That lived experience deserves respect, even while questioning whether it fully embodies the original teaching or not.

The Christ-level consciousness is still a very powerful and real thing. This is not what I am talking about in here.

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Let's say I want to be a powerful teacher and I am telling you that my main goal in life is to teach you to do yourself what I already know how to do. I want you to become all-powerful so you don't need anyone to "save" you anymore.

Do you think a teacher would be very happy, self-accomplished, and proud of himself if centuries after his death you still don't get the true essence of his actual teaching?

You still don't have your freedom or power back. You are still a naive student of life here that calls him your "savior" for some mysteriously obscure reasons.

Even he probably doesn't understand himself why you keep doing it so passionately and with such commitment.

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All the energy you give to him in your thoughts, emotions, actions, and prayers, you could be using to empower your own self. Instead of glorifying the completely messed-up egregore of a long-ago dead man, you could be learning how to embody a similar quality of awareness and consciousness he had.

What might this look like in practice? Perhaps:

• Directly addressing suffering around you rather than praying for divine intervention or seeking for a savior of some sort

• Taking responsibility for your own spiritual growth through contemplative practices and your own lived experiences in the real world

• Building communities based on mutual empowerment rather than hierarchical authority or on opinions of some self-declared supremacy of sophisticated artificially manufactured religious beliefs

• Recognizing and developing your own capacity for compassion, wisdom, and healing

You could see Jesus as your magical "savior" and wait for his majestic comeback for another couple of centuries. Or you might start perceiving him for who he actually was: an extremely powerful teacher who told you exactly what to do to reach transcendence and eternal salvation by yourself.

Jesus would probably prefer if we had forgotten about him a long time ago. Because that would mean that we have evolved and understood something new since. Even if he were to reincarnate in the modern world, what do you want him to do?

He still will not be able to save you. He will probably repeat the exact same thing he taught you last time he was around. But he is probably tired of repeating the same stuff over and over again, so maybe this is why he prefers to stay quiet and not show up publicly anymore.

Being a teacher for students who simply don't want to learn anything substantial is incredibly frustrating.

No reasonable teacher wants to be some sort of all-powerful "savior" for his students forever. It just makes no sense. A true teacher wants to see his students become even more savvy and even more advanced than he was. Because this would actually prove he is a good teacher.

But if all his students are still poor victims that need his guidance or want to be saved by him to just go about their normal boring lives like adults, he would probably seriously start questioning his teaching abilities at some point.

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This creates an interesting paradox for sincere disciples. The more completely you follow Jesus's actual teachings, the less you need to focus on Jesus himself. The most successful student would eventually outgrow dependence on the teacher - not through rejection, but through complete integration of the teaching.

If I were a teacher, I personally would not enjoy very much being retired for so long knowing that not a single student had ever reached my level of mastery or understanding even if they all still glorify me, respect me and love me so much. My entire career of a teacher would mean absolutely nothing to me.

I would most likely be very upset and sad to be considered a miraculous "savior" still in this ignorant world if I had previously literally put myself on a cross to make you better understand I am not.

Jesus was just showing off his badass "superpowers" to you mainly to inspire you to learn them faster and better. He was embodying in real time what he was trying to teach to prove to you what you can be and become yourself as well.

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If you were a student that actually took time to properly understand his wild but quite simple wisdom, you would probably not be talking about him anymore, let alone give him your precious energy or personal time.

You would let him rest in peace wherever and whenever he is right now. You would move on and be more curious about the present moment and your current reality.

And you would probably have a lot of fun becoming an even better and more powerful creator today than he was at some point (or not). After all, you just know about him based on some very questionable historical facts you have heard somewhere or read in some old books found in very mysterious ways.

Even now, some might still believe they have some sort of personal relationship with Jesus, but little do they know. What they feel, perceive, and feed from is their own energy pool they themselves created around the concept of Jesus.

At this point, it has very little to do with the guy himself or his teachings. It's just a very sophisticated man-made political and power system of astonishing quantity of virtually free self-generating energy that was created around him by people who saw an opportunity to become the spiritual "saviors" to others.

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So where does this leave us? Perhaps the most authentic way to honor Jesus's teaching is neither to reject him entirely nor to worship him blindly, but to embody the principles he lived by:

1. Question authority, even religious authority (as he did with the Pharisees)

2. Seek direct experience of the divine rather than relying solely on intermediaries

3. Recognize your own capacity for transformation and healing

4. Empower others to discover their inherent wholeness

This approach doesn't require abandoning Jesus as a source of wisdom, but it does mean transforming your relationship with that wisdom from dependency to responsible partnership. It means becoming a co-creator rather than a perpetual preacher of very smart dead people.

The question then becomes not "When will Jesus come back?" but rather "When will I recognize that what I've been seeking externally has been within me all along?" Perhaps that recognition is the true second coming - not a physical return, but an awakening of Christ consciousness within each person who is ready to claim their own divine nature and creative potential.