Jesus In India

All who try to find in the New Testament the story of what happened in Jesus’ life between the ages of 12 and 30 are inevitably sorely disappointed. Those years are not covered.

Two prominent Catholic scholars at Georgetown University confirm this in JESUS IN INDIA. Catholics call that period of Jesus’ life “The Missing Years” or “The Hidden Years.”


New concepts of the historic person of Jesus of Nazareth are emerging from studies of ancient texts discovered since the 1940’s in the Holy Land and Egypt.

It begins with a former Fundamentalist from Texas, ousted from his provincial church for asking too many questions. “If God wanted you to know about that, it would have been in the Bible,” he is told, “—so stick to worrying about your own salvation.”
But that’s not good enough for Edward T. Martin, and thus begins a seeker’s quest across 4000 miles of India in search of answers about where Jesus was during the “Hidden Years” from ages 12 to 30.
The New Testament is silent on those years, however in India there is an ancient tradition that young Jesus joined a caravan and took the Silk Road to the East, where He lived with both Hindus and Buddhists before returning to begin His ministry. To what extent are these traditions based on evidence, and why does the “Pope” of Hinduism now insist that Jesus was in India? Why does Professor Elaine Pagels of Princeton University, a world-renowned Biblical scholar, say we cannot rule this out? Scholars and religious authorities are joined in this film by the Dalai Lama and an Apostolic Nuncio of Pope John Paul II.

You will hear all sides, and you will be shocked and surprised by some of the answers offered for the Bible’s silence about JESUS IN INDIA.

JESUS IN INDIA is from the director whose latest motion picture won the Saturn Award for Best DVD of 2006 and also the international fan-based Rondo Award for Best Independent Genre Film.

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The Internal Observer

"The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed"~ Teilhard de Chardin

The Internal Observer is a powerful tool for self-improvement and personal development. The Internal Observer is an aspect of the Self, the part of the psyche capable of self-observation, evaluation and reasoning. During our journey through life, we face different situations that are both challenges and learning experiences. Many times our paths seem to reach a crossroads. At these moments, the only resource to be accessed comes straight from the Light and the knowledge of ones own soul.

Through developing and installing an Internal Observer we widen our personal ability to be self-reflective and therefore enabling ourselves to be more aware of our environment, interactions and relationships.

The Humanity Healing Network is offering series of free classes to help you achieve Self-Mastery in your life. The Internal Observer is one of the tools you will learn.

"The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world."~ Deepak Chopra

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Financial Crisis ?!

Times are challenging and it is easy to become immobilized by fear.

Rather than focusing on the existing financial crisis, how do you pull some empowering meaning out of current events and find the serenity and strength you need to deal with what’s going on in today’s world?

See what the wise ones have to say on this subject.

Tony Robbins On How To Deal With Stress In Economic Crisis
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pas4DOwdCX0

Tony Robbins : The Power of Crisis (in all areas of life)
http://thepowerofcrisis.com/

Abraham On The World Financial Crisis - Esther & Jerry Hicks
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