The Man Who Did Not Wake Up - a podcast by Marshall Davis

In this episode I look at a person who is mentioned repeatedly in the first chapter of the Gospel of John: John the Baptist, not to be confused with John the apostle. I call him “the man who did not wake up.” We could call him the unChrist or the unBuddha. He was a popular preacher in his day and even considered a prophet by many including Jesus. But he never saw the Kingdom of God, which was Jesus’ term for nondual awareness.

I see him as an example of a spiritual seeker who never reached the spiritual goal that he sought, which was the Kingdom of God, Jesus’ term for nondual awareness. According to Jesus, John never made into the Kingdom. Jesus says of John “Truly I tell you, among those born of women there has risen no one greater than John the Baptist. Yet even the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.”

He also is an example of a devoutly religious person of today who approaches religions from a dualistic perspective.  John is a like the devout Christian who knows there is something more but has not found it yet. As the prologue says, John understood himself as not the Light but bearing witness to the Light. That is a good description of the traditional dualistic theistic Christian path where the Christ and the Christian are separate. In the Kingdom of God, the two are One.  

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