When Heaven Touches Earth

When Heaven Touches Earth

Glenda Green

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© Copyright 2012, Glenda Green

Revised second edition February 2012

Original Copyright © 2008 by Glenda Green

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Cover painting: When Heaven Touches Earth © Glenda Green, 2005

ISBN: 978-1-60414-536-6

First edition, first printing November 2008

Spiritis Publishing

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Sedona, AZ 86339

www.lovewithoutend.com

Other books by Glenda Green

Love Without End

The Keys of Jeshua

To the little bit of Heaven in us all

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. Our Miraculous Universe

2. Precognitions

3. Those Who Prepared the Way

4. Gunnar Glowstar

5. The Lamb and the Lion

6. Born of the Light

7. Life Goes On

8. The Heart’s Greater Vision

9. Remembering the Light

10. Apparitions of Christ

11. An Endless Journey

12. The Soul’s Eternal Light

Appendix 1: Documents and photos pertaining to the miracle

Appendix 2: Who’s Who in the history of mysticism

Books by Glenda Green

About the Author

~ Introduction ~

In many ways, this book is a companion to my first book, entitled "Love Without End, Jesus Speaks." In fact, four chapters in this new book were once Part I in the first edition of "Love Without End." Those chapters were removed two years ago from the "World Edition of Love Without End for three important reasons, the most practical being that I needed to make room for eighty-eight new text pages about Jesus without driving the cost up for my world-wide distribution team. It was simply a choice I had to make about relative value. The second reason is that Love Without End had become an international best seller, translated into seven languages. It was reaching cultures and people of diverse beliefs who were deeply interested in the teachings of Jesus, but had less interest in my personal anecdotes or the particulars of how I came to be the messenger of this contemporary missive. However, the most important reason is that there was much more substance behind my experience, which if expanded could shed more light on our mystical nature as human beings.

The mystical roots of Christianity (and the obscure history of those who kept it alive) are more relevant than ever to our contemporary search for spiritual direction and meaning. People all over the world are turning away from their orthodox roots, in all religions, and looking for a more personal direct experience with the Divine. This is almost inevitable as religious dogma loses some credibility against the expanded horizon of modern knowledge, research, and discovery. Religious atrocities of the past can no longer be justified or denied, nor the fallibility of clergy who abused their positions of trust. Yet, we must also not forget that all of our great movements toward freedom were preceded by periods of enlightenment in which our faith in man's higher nature was regenerated.

In most cases this elevation of consciousness came through our religious and spiritual venues. It would be a great mistake to forfeit the great treasures of our faith. It is as important to remember that in our spiritual quest, as much as in any other, the more valuable anything is to us, the more likely it will be exploited by villains and tyrants for their own dark ends.

When we react to something bad, it is often not to the thing itself, which we can strive to eliminate with intent and reason. What causes our reaction is that bad elements have appeared in something we need and value. Thus, our clear resolve is inhibited.

We are presented with choices and discernment even in our sacred pathways. Jesus was tempted many times in his mission on earth. Such challenges are presented in every age and context. However, at this time in history we have more power of choice than ever before. It has never been more important that all the choices be laid clearly before us.

I hope to show in this book how many wise men and women in the past faced a similar challenge to choose between dogma and a higher pathway of spiritual truth. Wisdom in every religious tradition has always come with a price and the requirement of mindful dedication to higher principles more than just ceremony, protocol, and conformity. Our imperative is to be discerning stewards of both our spiritual lives and collective potential.

A few days ago I made a new acquaintance who asked me what I was doing with my time. I answered that I was writing a book about the mystical nature of Christianity. Her reply was, Isn't that an oxymoron? After a little bit of inquiry I found that she had been raised in a family steeped in religious dogma and her spiritual growth was stifled until she later found a better source of inspiration. She was amazed to learn that Christianity had its roots in mysticism, and originally advocated direct experience with God, rather than formal doctrine offered by intercessors of the Church. In fact there was little need for theological conformity until Christianity was adopted by Rome in 425 as part of its culture. One thing my new friend and I agreed on is that man is essentially a spiritual being and will naturally seek or attain some kind of mystical experience if not conditioned to avoid it.

What you are about to read is a compilation of stories about Jesus' appearances to me, a short report of our conversations, and my personal evolution, from artist to mystic, with all the challenges of bringing those realizations into a modern way of life with no easy model for doing so. I have added my own research on the subject of mysticism. Most especially this book pays tribute to those who have lived and triumphed throughout history to demonstrate that this power is not only natural to us; but, it may well be the leading edge of our consciousness, appearing in countless ways beyond the more defined protocols of religious doctrine.

Personally, I believe that Jesus was referring to our innate and profoundly spiritual capacity to receive direct revelations from God, when he said: These things I do, you shall do and greater... (John 14:12) In our wishful hearts we might prefer to believe he was referring in that statement to charitable acts and moral behavior. However, in my decades of observation about human nature, I have come to see that, while love is innate to our nature, a higher encompassing love that leads to enlightenment is not. That comes only after much ego surrender, years of service to life and others, and dedication to the higher principles of humanity. Compassion is the fruit of our devotion to something greater than our self, not the starting point of that devotion. Despite the fact that Jeshua offered his life as an ultimate sacrifice, he never required sacrifice from others, only decency toward one’s fellow man and reunion with God. That was the pathway to fulfillment. In fact, mandates of sacrifice not chosen by one’s own higher nature could be stunting to spiritual growth. Awakening of consciousness and its vast potential—acknowledging our spiritual nature—that is the starting point.

Human beings, throughout the ages and in all cultures, have demonstrated an expanse and richness of consciousness that exceeds all other forms of life on earth. In this we have both an opportunity and a responsibility to connect all the dimensions of life as we know it. Many of those dimensions are best explored scientifically, while others can only be reached by the spirit.

Hopefully this book stands on its own as a testimony of our human spiritual nature in the midst of a technology driven modern world, which is often skeptical of anything it cannot weigh, measure, and sell. It is not necessary that you have read Love Without End, but if you have; and you wondered if there was more to the story, then this will answer many of your questions. If you have had a mystical experience yourself, whether an epiphany in life or a near-death experience, this may provide many insights for how you may relate those experiences to others. Most of all, if you have dreamed of how far you can pursue your own spiritual vision, and still live a lucid and socially relevant life, perhaps this will give you a model that is almost unavailable in contemporary literature, even with all the research into consciousness and spirituality.

For those of you who have discovered many fond realities in Love Without End and wanted to have a more tangible connection with them, the second edition of this book is enriched with color pictures of some special characters and moments as well as a special appendix of pictures and memorabilia of the events of 1992.

In his beautiful little work, The Lost Dimension, Hugh l'Anson Fausset wrote: To be human is to bring the Kingdom of Light down to earth and to raise up earth to heaven. This inspires us to think that perhaps the link we seek to a better life is actually within our own nature and being. As an artist, teacher, writer, and counselor, I have had marvelous glimpses of scalable reality that stretches further than we ever thought possible. May this book help you discover the greater portion of all that you are, as well as your own place in the link between Heaven and Earth.

~ Chapter 1 ~

Our Miraculous Universe

Have you ever been awestruck by the heavens at night, wondered what calls the butterflies into migration, or thought about the amazing power of love? If the answer is yes, then you have thought about our miraculous universe, which has not yet surrendered its mysteries to us. At such moments we are called away from our smallness and allowed to glimpse, if only for an instant, at the splendor of infinity.

Then, in a flash we lose the vision; not because the universe is jealous of what we have seen, but because we see it with different eyes. We shift and see the universe as a practical tool to assist our survival. And, so it is, the universe graciously reduces its scale that we may find comfort in what it provides for our immediate interests and needs.

Our universe is sublimely adaptable and coherent, yet its uncharted terrain is so great as to baffle our logical mind. No doubt, if all were known, we would think it quite simple. However, considering the richness and complexity of our experience it gives us, I somehow think we will never decrease our sense of awe in the face of infinity. It is probably no accident that we humans exist somewhere in the middle between giant Quasars and subatomic particles. This is no accident, because the perspective in both directions is from our own center of being!

How much of existence is united because we see it that way? How much appears to be unreal or chaotic because it exceeds the grasp of our understanding? How facile and creative is our consciousness in uniting the many venues for explaining reality? Will we try to explain the unknown with logic, or will we use creative imagery to summon a new reality?

Mankind lives an eternal paradox. We have been given the blessing of knowing that we are, and also the challenge of knowing we are part of something much greater than our self. Our interests, affections, and abilities sculpt our personal character, and yet we were given to know a larger ‘Self’ within the connections we have to one another and with nature. We are often stumped with how to explain our connection to the universe. We have explored it, researched it, written about it, speculated and dreamed about it, and often received answers of both a scientific and spiritual nature that we still do not understand.

In my mystical journey I have encountered other subtle qualities we normally do not see, which can be found in the dawn and the twilight moments of changing reality where a doorway opens that we may enter. Or, perhaps we will pass and pretend it was not there. Only in such fleeting glimpses are we able to see the whole of our own being in silhouette against the grandeur of the universe.

Regardless of the path we choose, or the reality we see, the amazing part of it all is how life coordinates, integrates, and synthesizes all of its parts into seamless harmony. Coherence, it seems, is the very goal of creation and consciousness. The universe does not require of us, or even offer to us, an understanding of all its mysteries. That is our curiosity alone. What it requires of us is an endless search and respect for coherence in all of life as we experience it and need to know it, along with our symbiotic response of bringing that coherence into our selves. In many ways, coherence is the base mechanic of what we call love. From another perspective it is the fiber and force of conscious evolution and personal responsibility.

To redeem any part of our life we only need to consider the greater whole to which we belong, and open