AWE
Julia Hanessian
June 23, 2024
Jesus was awe. Awe-inspiring. Awe-some. Jesus was Inspired.
I like to think of Jesus as non-gendered. Like me. Like you. Like us.
We come here to echo Jesus’s awesomeness. We come to break bread, drink “wine” in honor of the awe Jesus inspired, an event that we recreate because of Jesus’s authenticity.
Knowing and naming his knowing. This leads me to so many questions… but the most important one that has surfaced is: How do we create Big and Little people that are like Jesus?
We don’t have Jesus DNA to replicate so that route isn’t possible… so we have to focus on the social, environmental, psychological and inter-relational factors, as they are communicated through ancient texts, and try to recreate them. Identifying factors within these areas helps us recognize, honor, and grow our inner knowing in a more authentic and powerful way.
God calls us to grow the powerful knowing that Jesus had within ourselves, and in those around us.
We need to have the courage to actualize knowing, like Jesus did.
What are the parameters? The relational and biological systems, that create the inner ecology of deep knowing. Intuition. Creative thought. The components of ego & self that make us able to potentiate our intuition?
How can we create the environment, or ‘container,’ in which Jesus-like psychology will thrive and grow within us? What were Jesus’s different psychological frameworks as a healer, as a martyr, as a friend, that are evidenced in the Bible, and other ancient texts?
These are confounding questions with no easy answer. But I think it is important to do what we can to try and understand.
For me, it is important to approach this question through the intersection of my work as a social worker, specifically through the lens of attachment & connection science and my spiritual work here, and throughout my life.
I want to identify these resonating patterns that facilitate the spiritual/emotional/psychological state of Jesus potential:
I want to create healers.
I want to create empaths.
I want to create change makers.
I want to create artists that challenge the fundamentals of existence, help us redefine our society, how we interact with our earth, animals, each other so that we may survive, we may thrive as a species.
Religion is dying.
The framework of connection and empathy that is taught through Jesus lessons are reaching fewer and fewer.
We have to act to take this Jesus knowledge, and that of other prophets, to a new space, one that names a new prophetic vision.
New visionaries.
I am feeling called to help create an incubator for the study of and creation of visionaries.
We have to do what we can to break down these principles that Jesus brought us, the ones that are the guiding principles of our lives, in ways that people can easily understand, and apply them….
Who knows! Maybe even make them cool!
Because if there is one thing we know, it is that people follow relaxed joy, or in today’s parlance, cool. They follow the cool. The light. The joy. And the way. And in this pursuit of “cool,” they find like-minded souls that are ready and willing to grow goodness.
Essentially, they find God.
We need to work to shift our collective consciousness to a higher level.
And honestly, I think we are being called to be part of that ascension.
An ascension towards clarity. This profound sense of purpose to potentiate small supportive communities that move and act in real ways, in accordance to the real values that are held by the members of the community. I have experienced urgency around this mission over the past year. I felt obligated to respond. I identified spaces where I could create an even larger community of dynamic and powerful like minds.
And so, these thoughts and concepts have led me to our next adventures. Earlier this year I applied to many Master’s and Ph.D. programs. I got in to two: the Master’s of Ministry at a California university and the Ph.D. program for Social Work at Yeshiva University. I was waitlisted for Yeshiva University, which delays my enrollment a year, which happens to work perfectly, as I can pursue the Master’s of Science in Ministry first, and then go on to New York to attend Yeshiva University.
So. Big Changes.
This August the girls and I are moving to California so that we can make dreams come true. So we can potentiate ourselves to the fullest. Just as Jesus did.
But make no mistake: receiving this call has felt like more than a lot. I have asked myself, and God: Why? Why this change? Why this change so soon?
What I have received through visions and divine clarity is that, for whatever extremely inconvenient reason (and trust me, I feel this), the time is now.
It’s now. I asked for time, trust me. But the Spirit’s response was: NOW.
God’s wisdom – go figure?
But when I take a step back, I realize that truly, I have been slowly building towards this my whole life. To be free enough, as Jesus was, when he reached a certain age – free enough, to truly fly and deeply and authentically challenge the way things are. Shake up complacent hearts. Follow The Way. Jesus’s way.
A couple months ago Ava found an old photo album. She gave it to me, asking if the girl in it was me. It was an album with various pictures of me as a kid up until the age of 11 or so – Isabelle’s age. And tucked into this album was a dream I had written in which I described having a vision of my ideal life. It spoke of how happy and intellectually stimulated I was and there was a strong sense that in my happiness and joy I was living in my purpose.
I want to pause here for a moment because Joy, joy and happiness, are the most profound barometers of whether you are in the right place — doing the right things — with the right people — at the right time.
Joy is why I come to church.
Joy is why I recreate on the water.
Joy is why I write. Sculpt. Paint.
Joy is why I sing.
The Dali Lama talks a lot about the importance of joy to raise the vibration of not only your own mental state, the state of our collect consciousness. He notes that:
Joy and excitement is our compass towards God’s light actualizing through you.
So find joy!!!
Push yourself outside your comfort zone, try new things, make new connections, read new books, take in new music, do it all — until you find joy!
The joy of this place has pushed me far further down my path to actualizing my inner knowing, my purpose, more than anything else.
I thank you for that.
For you.
For being those Jesus beings, that have inspired joy in me, and my children!
For working tirelessly through the highs and lows with tremendous devotion to me, as well as the collective, in the hope that it will produce hearts and minds that will actualize God’s will.
Thank you.
It’s working.