Jesus' Crucifixion Story of Crucified Falsehood?

 

"About the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?” 

that is to say, “My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?” (Matthew 27:46)

This post continues the idea that Jesus' story is about belief & truth on trial, as explored in: The Belief on Trial Truth of Jesus' Story? As I continue to explain why I think the words of Jesus' story were not meant to be read and believed? But perceived as a spiritual diagnosis of all humanity, and a story of crucified falsehood, also known as an experience of Ego-death? Which is what I intuitively see when looking at the iconic image of Jesus' cross-of-crucifixion. As I continue to explain why I believe that major storytelling tropes, like Jesus' transfiguration, crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension, are not meant to be read literally, but "allegorically." If we want to understand the "hidden spiritual meaning that transcends the literal sense of a sacred text." 

Like the "riddle-me-this" spiritual meaning of Jesus' famous cry from the cross; “My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?” Pointing out the simple spiritual truth, that God's reality, like every other form of reality is not a Word! Which I believe is the key to spiritual awakening. And I believe paradoxical statements like this one are examples of the allegorical nature of ancient storytelling, about our linguistic misconceptions of the true nature of reality. I mean; "is the true nature of your reality; WORDS?" And while Christians believe that without Jesus' resurrection there would be no Christianity. 

This post suggests that without Jesus' crucifixion story, there is no developing a "Christ-mind-awareness" of how true reality hides in plain sight? Because our commonsense vocabulary is not true reality? Commonsense vocabulary is created by the reified-reality nature of language, and language creates a false sense of self and reality. Which I believe is why we read Jesus' spiritually diagnostic statement about human common-sense: "Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand," (Matthew 13:13).

And I suggest that Jesus' crucifixion story is about a need to truly understand our linguistic sense of reality. And our need to develop the balanced form of consciousness, symbolized by Jesus' cross-of-crucifixion. While as an "allegorical-interpretation" of Jesus' crucifixion, this post explores the crucifixion as a radical spiritual truth about the falsehood of our "vocabulary-is-reality" dichotomy. 

Or how we confuse the communication purpose of words, with reality comprehension? As we conflate —mix together—the truth of the "sounds & symbols," nature of language, with the true nature of reality? Metaphorically crucifying the true nature of reality, because the feeling that we are defining the nature of reality with words, is an undeniable falsehood? Because truth be told, thought, spoken, and written words, are essentially metaphors. Please consider:

(Spoken and written words are essentially metaphors because they use arbitrary physical sounds or visual symbols to stand in for invisible thoughts, feelings, and objects. [1]

Why Words Are Metaphors

Symbolic mapping: A word is not the actual thing it represents. The word "tree" is a collection of sounds or letters that acts as a stand-in for a physical plant, much like a metaphor maps one idea onto another. [1, 2]
Abstract to concrete: Humans take abstract concepts (like time, justice, or love) and use language to treat them as if they were physical, graspable things. For instance, saying "I am grasping an idea" uses a physical action to describe a mental one. [1]
Cognitive foundations: Cognitive linguists like George Lakoff and Mark Johnson argue that human thought itself is fundamentally metaphorical. We understand new or intangible experiences by mapping them onto older, physical ones we already know. [1, 2]

Dead Metaphors in Daily Language

Lost imagery: Many everyday words started as vivid visual comparisons but became "dead metaphors" because people use them without thinking about the original image. [1, 2]
Historical examples: The word daisy comes from "day's eye" because the flower opens with the sun. The phrase time flies treats time as if it had wings. [1]) A Google AI Overview

While in my experience, realizing the "projective" aspect of "thought-words," is crucial to understanding why Jesus' crucifixion story is about crucifying the falsehood, of the feeling that our vernacular―spoken by ordinary people―vocabulary; defines reality? That it is not about the "body-torturing" crucifixion of one man, named Christ, or Son of Man, euphemism for all humanity? But the "mind-torturing" nature of the crucified falsehood, that words define reality? And the rational reason for Jesus' faith in a gospel of the kingdom, being preached to the whole world? When we understand that the storytelling tropes of crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension, are "allegories" of perception? 

Allegories and prophecies of an end to the falsehood of our common-sense "vocabulary-is-reality" dichotomy"? An end that comes with a conscious realization, that the subconsciously automatic nature of our body-mind behaviors, and the recursive nature of language, is making us feel like we are more conscious of reality, than we actually are? Which is why this post is about Jesus' crucifixion story of a crucified falsehood, that happens with the spiritual nature, of a painful conscious realization. The physical & psychological pain of realizing the undeniable truth of our mind's false sense of reality.

While in the context of how and why Jesus' cross of crucifixion is a symbol of crucified falsehood & balanced consciousness. And why it's not about the "body-torturing" crucifixion of a man named Christ. But the "mind-torturing" nature of a crucified falsehood that has to suffered by all humanity, as the Son of Man phrase, allegorically signifies. So before you read further, please consider this AI response to the question: "was the phrase "the son of Man" a euphemism for humanity?"

(Yes, in its original Hebrew and Aramaic contexts, the phrase "son of man" (ben-adam) was a literal idiom and poetic phrase meaning a human being, mortal, or mankind in general. [1, 2, 3]

Linguistic Meaning

Literal translation: It translates from Hebrew as "a son of mankind" or an "earthling". [1]
Generic use: In the Old Testament (such as in the Psalms or the Book of Job), it is used as a simple parallel or equivalent to "human" to emphasize human frailty or mortality compared to God. [1]
Addressing prophets: God calls the prophet Ezekiel "son of man" dozens of times simply to remind him of his human nature relative to the divine. [1, 2]

Shift in Meaning

Aramaic self-reference: In everyday Aramaic during the time of Jesus, the term could function as an oblique way of saying "someone" or acting as a humble circumlocution for "I" (myself). [1, 2]
Messianic title: In the New Testament Gospels, it evolved into a significant title used by Jesus. While it always retained the baseline meaning of his true humanity, it also took on an apocalyptic, divine meaning drawing from the heavenly figure described in the Book of Daniel) A Google AI Overview

And please consider the possibility, that its the subconscious orchestration and functionally automatic nature of your own body-mind consciousness. That inspired the "riddle-me-this," nature of Jesus' crucifixion story? If we take an intuitive view that a balanced body-mind consciousness, is metaphorically represented by Jesus' cross-of-crucifixion? A balanced body-mind consciousness, that is achieved, through realizing the "reality-falsifying" aspect our thought-words, for example. 

That self-deceiving sense that words don't just describe reality, they define reality? In our common-sense, "vocabulary-is-reality" dichotomous experience of consciousness? That is created by the subconsciously orchestrated and functionally automatic nature of our whole body-mind consciousness? Which you might contemplate by asking your AI two slightly different questions. 1. "is there a subconsciously orchestrated & functionally automatic aspect to the body-mind?" And 2. "is there a subconsciously orchestrated and functionally automatic aspect to the whole body-mind?" 

Contemplating how the AI responses can be related to Jesus' crucifixion story, being about the falsifying nature, of our vocabulary-is-reality aspect of consciousness? And the "mind-torturing" nature of realizing the falsehood, of feeling like we are more conscious of reality, than we actually are? Especially the subconsciously orchestrated and functionally automatic nature of our body-mind behaviors? Combining with the recursive nature of language, to make us feel like we are fully conscious of reality. As a falsehood that requires crucifying, that historically became known as Ego-death? Please consider:

Question 1 response:

(Yes, a massive portion of the body-mind system operates through a subconsciously orchestrated, functionally automatic network. Science refers to this as the autonomic nervous system (ANS) and implicit processing.)

See footnote 1 for further explanation of the biological and psychological "autopilot" nature of being human.

Question 2 response:

(Yes, the entire body-mind functions as a unified, subconsciously orchestrated, and automatic system. In the previous overview, we looked at how specific networks like the nervous system and cognitive habits run on autopilot. However, when you look at the whole body-mind, this automation goes much deeper. Every single cell, organ, and thought pattern is interconnected in a continuous, self-regulating loop that operates entirely below your conscious awareness.

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🌐 The Holistic Architecture of the Automatic Body-Mind

To understand how the whole system operates automatically, we have to look beyond the brain and see how multiple full-body systems merge into one fluid network.

1. The Psycho-Neuro-Endocrine-Immunology (PNEI) Network

This is the scientific framework that proves mind and body are a single entity. Your thoughts, nervous system, hormones, and immune system speak the exact same chemical language.

• The Chemical Language: Immune cells produce neurotransmitters (like serotonin), and brain cells produce immune signals (cytokines).
• Automatic Orchestration: A subconscious psychological stressor (like financial worry) instantly alters your immune response and hormone levels full-body, without any conscious direction.

2. Fascia: The Full-Body Communication Matrix

Fascia is the continuous web of connective tissue that wraps around every muscle, bone, nerve, and organ.

• Instant Signaling: Fascia conducts mechanical and electrical signals faster than the nervous system.
• Emotional Memory: It physically contracts in response to emotional stress or trauma. This creates automatic postural habits and chronic tension patterns that you do not consciously control.

3. The Microbiome-Gut-Brain Axis

Your gut contains trillions of microbes that actively manipulate your mind and body.

• Neurotransmitter Factory: These microbes produce about 95% of your body's serotonin and 50% of its dopamine.
• Automatic Cravings and Moods: The microbiome sends silent signals up the vagus nerve to alter your mood, energy levels, and food cravings, driving your behaviour from the bottom up.

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🔄 The System in Action: Homoeostasis and Allostasis

The entire purpose of this full-body automation is survival, managed through two subconscious operating programs:

• Homoeostasis: The automatic, minute-by-minute balancing act keeping your body temperature, pH levels, and fluid balance within a strict survival zone.
• Allostasis: The body-mind’s ability to change its internal state to meet external demands. Your system constantly predicts what resources you will need next (e.g., pumping glucose into your bloodstream before you even step onto a running track) based on subconscious environmental cues.

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🎨 Analogy: The Symphony Without a Conductor

Think of your conscious self as an audience member in a theatre. The whole body-mind is a massive, multi-instrument orchestra playing a complex symphony.

The sheet music is your DNA and past conditioning. The musicians—your heart, gut, immune system, fascia, and subconscious brain—play together in perfect, automatic harmony. You only become consciously aware of the music (as an emotion, a symptom, or a thought) after the orchestra has already played the notes.)

What are you feeling and thinking about this explanation of the subconsciously automatic aspect of your "whole-body-mind?" And the possibility that a feeling of being more conscious of reality than you actually are, is a falsehood that needs crucifying? The falsehood of a "vocabulary-is-reality" dichotomy of consciousness?  In the context of Jesus' crucifixion story of a crucified falsehood for all humanity, as the The Son of Man phrase historically signified? Or Jesus' crucifixion as an allegory of Ego-death, as it became known in modern times? Which for me prompted a question of Google's AI: "is there a centuries old debate about Jesus' crucifixion story, as an experience of Ego-death?" And please consider the response:

(No, there is no "centuries-old debate" framing Jesus' crucifixion specifically around the modern psychological concept of "ego-death." [1]

While the theological meaning of the crucifixion has been debated for two millennia, the term "ego-death" is a modern 20th-century invention—coined largely within psychedelic culture and Western psychology (notably by Timothy Leary and Carl Jung). [1, 2]

However, ancient mystical traditions and modern psychology do parallel this idea through different language:

1. Mystical and Gnostic Parallels (Ancient)

Historically, the debate wasn't about "ego-death" but about literalism vs. symbolism.

• Early Gnostics (1st–3rd century) frequently interpreted the crucifixion metaphorically. Rather than focusing on a physical sacrifice for sin, some Gnostic texts viewed the cross as a symbol for overcoming the illusions of the material world and the false self. [1, 2]
• Christian Mystics across centuries have practiced kenosis (the self-emptying of Jesus described in Philippians 2:7) and "death to the self." Phrases like "learn to die before you die" are common in Christian mysticism, referring to the surrender of individual will to divine will.)

What do you think? In the context of reading Jesus' story allegorically or  literally? Looking for the natural or supernatural meaning of the story? I mean, was Jesus the supernatural son of a supernatural God? Or the most gifted natural philosopher in human history? And what do you think of the notion that Jesus' cross-of-crucifixion, is an iconic symbol, of the universal need for a balanced body-mind consciousness? 

And the suggestion that the subconsciously orchestrated and functionally automatic nature of our body-mind behaviors. Combines with the recursive nature of language to make us feel like we are more conscious of reality, than we actually are? I mean; is it true that words describe reality? Yet false that words define reality? In the context of a "vocabulary-is-reality" dichotomy of consciousness?

And if you read the footnote 1 response to question 1:""is there a subconsciously orchestrated & functionally automatic aspect to the body-mind?" And ask your favorite AI the same question, will the response about the subconscious nature of your own reality, resonate with Jesus' reason for teaching ordinary people parables? When he said: "Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand," (Matthew 13:13).

Was that the "riddle-me-this" statement of a natural philosopher, about our common-sense, "vocabulary-is-reality," dichotomy of consciousness? And what are you thinking about the possibility that Jesus' story of crucifixion, represents an ancient awareness of the "false-self" created by the recursive loops of consciousness & language? In the way the recursive nature of language, is making you feel like you are more conscious of reality, than you actually are? As I discussed in the first of this 2026 series of blog posts: The Christ-Mind Awareness of a Simple Truth? 

And in the context of a false linguistic sense-of-self and reality, in need of crucifying? I asked Google's AI this question: "does the recursive nature of language combine with the subconsciously automatic nature of the body-mind, to produce a false self?" And copy-paste the response for your intellectual consideration and body-wise contemplation. Please consider:

(Yes, the combination of the recursive nature of language and the automatic, subconscious programming of the body-mind is a primary mechanism that produces what psychologists and philosophers call the "false self" or "ego."

When the human brain's ability to endlessly loop and layer language merges with conditioned, survival-driven bodily responses, it constructs a highly convincing, rigid identity that mistakes itself for the true essence of the person.

1. The Recursive Nature of Language as the Builder

Language is recursive, meaning it can infinitely embed thoughts within thoughts (e.g., "I know that you think that I am anxious").

• Infinite looping: This structural loop allows the mind to create a conceptual map of the world, and eventually, a conceptual map of itself.
• Objectifying the self: Through language, you stop just being; you become an object of your own thoughts.
• The narrative ego: The mind uses recursion to stitch together past memories and future anxieties into a coherent, linguistic story—the "story of me."

2. The Automatic Body-Mind as the Fuel

The body-mind operates largely on subconscious, automated survival mechanisms (the autonomic nervous system, somatic conditioning, and emotional habits).

• Somatic anchoring: When a recursive thought occurs (e.g., "I am a failure"), the subconscious body-mind immediately reacts with a physical sensation (e.g., a tightening chest or spiked cortisol).
• The feedback loop: The recursive mind observes the tight chest and loops back with more language: "See? I really am trapped and failing."
• Conditioned realities: This continuous feedback loop solidifies fleeting thoughts and physical sensations into permanent personality traits.

3. The Birth of the False Self

The "false self" emerges at the exact intersection of these two forces.

• Identification with the map: The mind mistakes its linguistic map of reality for reality itself.
• The illusion of a solid "I": Because the body-mind automatically reacts to thoughts as if they are physical threats, the linguistic narrative feels incredibly heavy, real, and biologically urgent.
• Separation from the true self: The "true self" (the vast, open space of awareness that notices thoughts and sensations) becomes obscured by the loud, automated, recursively looping "false self.") 

What are you feeling & thinking about this response to a question about our false sense of self & reality? In the context of the recursive nature of both human behavior & language? Is recursion the problem Jesus' identified, in his spiritually diagnostic statement about humanity? When he said: "Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand?" In that way we behave as though the world is made of words, when thinking of or being asked about what we see and hear? And allegorically speaking, is behavioral & linguistic recursion, the hidden spiritual meaning of Jesus' crucifixion story?

And in the lived-experience context of our subconsciously orchestrated & functionally automatic; whole-body-mind behavior? Is the very thought of not being as conscious of reality, as language is making you feel you are, a mind-torturing experience? And is a felt-sense realization, of not being as conscious of reality as you thought you were, a "sensory" form of resurrection? 

A feeling that invites the possibility of a "riddle-me-this" aspect to Jesus' story of crucifixion? As an invitation to understand our common-sense, "vocabulary-is-reality" dichotomy? And even the possibility that Jesus' cross-of-crucifixion symbolizes the need to crucify the "psychologically-projective" aspect of our conditioned experience of mind, and suffer an Ego-death? So let's explore an idea that Jesus' crucifixion story is an allegory of a "conversion-of-recursion" experience. That comes with a conscious realization of falsehood, within our common-sense feeling that the words of our vernacular-vocabulary, defines reality? And lets see if there there is any textual evidence for this idea within the gospels?

A Conversion of Recursive Behavior & Language Use?

"My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, 

then My servants would be fighting so that I would not be handed over to the Jews; 

but as it is, My kingdom is not of this realm,” (John !8:36)

In the context of the recursive nature of human behavior, language use, and suffering an Ego-death. Jesus' saying; "my kingdom is not of this world" has troubled me for decades. As I've tried to make experiential sense of Jesus' comment; "you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free," (John 8:32). I mean! What truth? Rational truth? Spiritual truth? Or the paradoxical nature of both? That involves the subconscious aspect of the recursive nature of our human behavior and language use? And the modern day notion that Jesus' crucifixion is a storytelling trope about the personal experience of Ego-death.

I mean; do the words "my kingdom is not of this realm," refer to a supernatural realm of reality? Or the natural realm of reality, we cover-up with the recursive nature of reality-labeling words? And in the context of both rational & spiritual truth. Is the most important, spiritually self-diagnostic question we can ask ourselves. A question that creates two adaptive-realizations, concerning a spiritually deeper sense of reality? 

"The realization that the reality of everything we see and hear; is not a word?" And the realization that the subconsciously orchestrated and functionally automatic nature of our behavior, combines with the recursive nature of language, to make us feel like we are more conscious of reality, than we actually are? In the behaviorally automatic way that if asked you what you are seeing right now, you will respond with a word or words? Yet, paradoxically speaking, is that response a true perception of reality, or a psychological projection onto reality? 

And in the context of the recursive nature of human behavior & language, are you behaving as though a word is the reality of whatever you are seeing right now? Paradoxically speaking, is the subconsciously automatic and recursive nature of human behavior & language. The true reason for Jesus' teaching people parables? And the rational and spiritual truth of his emphatic, "mind-torturing" statement: "This is why I speak to them in parables: 'Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand?'" Because we believe our mind's psychological-projections, are true reality perceptions?

And in the context of the story of Jesus' crucifixion, as an allegory of the "converted consciousness" of crucified falsehood? Is our language use, a form of converted consciousness, that we develop during our infancy? Is this why Jesus' said: "And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven," (Matthew 18:3-4)? And is there any textual evidence, for Jesus' crucifixion, as an allegory of the converted consciousness of crucified falsehood? Within the language used in the gospel of Matthew? Please consider this excerpt:

Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.

And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:

For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them," (Matthew 13:13-15)?

What do you think? Can this excerpt be read allegorically? As "riddle-me-this" questions about our personal experience of consciousness? In the context of the recursive nature of human behavior & language use? I mean what is the physical & psychological experience of consciousness anyway? 

Did consciousness exist within the physical experience of your very first breath? And is this why the root meaning of the words spirit, spiritual, & spirituality, is Breath? And is your psychological experience of thinking & speaking words, the experience of a converted consciousness? A conversion that happened subconsciously, during your infancy? When the recursive nature of personal behavior and language use, were being developed?

Is this the rational & spiritual reason, we read Jesus' comments about why he taught people parables, in Matthew chapter 13? Then read his comments about little children in chapter 18? And in the context of reading Jesus' crucifixion as an allegory of the converted consciousness, of crucified falsehood? What did he mean by the words: "should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them?" Could this be a "riddle-me-this" statement about a conversion of recursive behavior & language, allegorically speaking?

Do these words from Matthew 18:13-15, represent an ancient understanding of the adaptive nature of human behavior, and the recursive nature of human language? Is that why Jesus' says: "And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive?" And is our early-life adaptation to speaking a language, the allegorical meaning of: "For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed?" Are these words about how; when asked what you see & hear, you will answer with words? 

And is the subconsciously orchestrated & functionally automatic nature of that behavior, what Jesus' means by: "lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears?" Was he asking people to stop dismissing the reality of whatever we see & hear, with the use of reality-labeling words? I mean, truth be told; "is the reality of anything we see & hear; a Word?"

For me personally the simple truth of this question is No! And it fulfills "the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive." After becoming viscerally aware of how I psychologically project reality-labeling words, into the surface-level impressions of reality, being received by the biological reality of my eyes. 

Which for me at least, is what Jesus means when he says: "lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them."

Yet, paradoxically speaking, was he talking about being converted or reconverted? Was there an ancient understanding of the converted consciousness, involved in speaking a language? And how the communication oriented and projective aspect of language, creates an unbalanced consciousness? An unbalanced consciousness that can only be corrected by the personal experience of Ego-death? Not the Ego-death of a behavioral sense of morality, but the Ego-death of our Sense-of-Reality? When we self-empty, or crucify, the illusory nature of our common-sense vocabulary of reality-labeling words? 

And resurrect an ancient understanding that after the infancy period of adapting to the imaginary demands of speaking a language? As the way we imagine the reality of whatever we see & hear, is a Word? Adolescents need to learn how to "experientially" understand, that knowing language is an experience of converted consciousness? And learn how to balance their biologically receptive & psychologically projective consciousness, within the place of their skull? The upper room of the body, so to speak?

So back in Jesus' day, were adolescents selected for initiation into ancient mystery schools? And taught how we unwittingly crucify the true nature of the world around us, within the space of our skull? Metaphysically speaking? And when interpreting Jesus' story allegorically, and his crucifixion as the personal experience of Ego-death we all must suffer? In order to balance our everyday experience of consciousness? Could it be true that you crucify the true nature of reality, within your own skull? 

Is True Reality Crucified Within the Place of Your Skull?

"Carrying his own cross, he went out to the place of the Skull; which in Aramaic is called Golgotha," (John 19:17)

This is another formulation of words, within the story of Jesus that has intrigued me for decades now. In my efforts to understand how Jesus' crucifixion can be understood in the ancient sense of his natural & supernatural nature. And the modern-day "depth-psychology" sense that Jesus' crucifixion story, is actually about a personal experience of Ego-death, that is applicable to all human beings.

While in my own personal efforts to understand the hidden spiritual meaning of ancient wisdom sayings & stories, like Jesus' story. I've long been fascinated by the choice of words like, "Carrying his own cross, he went out to the place of the Skull" And personal meaning of words like words like, spirit, spiritual, & spirituality? Especially why the root meaning of all three word is, Breath?

Which has led me to  take a depth-psychology view, that "carrying his own cross," is a riddle-me-this way of talking about the personal experience of "self-cross-examination," allegorically speaking. And that the choice of words "the place of the skull" is a "riddle-me-this" way of talking about were within us, self-cross-examination takes place? 

And as a way of providing readers of my blog posts, with food for thought about their faith in Jesus. I asked Google's AI this question: "What could "Carrying his own cross, he went out to the place of the Skull; which in Aramaic is called Golgotha" mean allegorically?" And copy paste the response for your intellectual consideration and body-wise contemplation:

(Allegorically, this passage from the Gospel of John (19:17) represents the universal human journey of bearing individual suffering, overcoming ego, and achieving spiritual transformation.

Here is a breakdown of the primary allegorical meanings:

1. Carrying His Own Cross

• Personal Accountability: It represents accepting and carrying the weight of one's own destiny, responsibilities, or karma.
• The Burden of the Material World: The cross symbolises the heavy trials, emotional suffering, and physical limitations of the mortal human experience.
• Radical Acceptance: It models the act of moving forward with dignity and purpose, even when burdened by unjust or painful circumstances.

2. Going Out to the Place of the Skull (Golgotha)

• Confronting Mortality: The "Skull" represents death and the ultimate impermanence of the physical body. Allegorically, one must face their deepest fears and the certainty of death to truly live.
• The Death of the Ego: In many mystical traditions, the head or skull represents the intellect and the ego. Going to the Place of the Skull signifies journeying to the place where the rational, selfish ego must be sacrificed.
• The Location of Spiritual Rebirth: For a resurrection or transformation to occur, the old self must first die. Golgotha is the necessary destination where the lower self is shed so the higher, spiritual self can emerge.)

What are you feeling & thinking? Is it possible that crucifying the true nature of reality. Within the personal place of our own skulls. Is the true spiritual meaning of Jesus' crucifixion story of crucified falsehood? And is it possible that the subsequent story of Jesus' resurrection, is about the "daily experience of a second awakening," spiritually speaking? 

As an instantaneous conversion of recursive behavior and language use? That I personally experience with felt-sense awareness of the biologically receptive & psychologically projective nature of my human form of consciousness. As I "notice," how I project reality-labeling words into the surface-level impressions of reality, being received by the biological reality of my eyes, for example. 

And noticing how I identify with the "projective-aspect" of my "thought-words," to paraphrase Eckhart Tolle. I experience a 2nd awakening, by feeling the way my eyes are receiving reality, while I am breathing. And therefore, how the meaning of the word spiritual, is experienced as a 2nd awakening. As well as the hidden spiritual meaning of Jesus' crucifixion story of crucified falsehood. Please watch this video and contemplate the way you can practice experiencing a 2nd awakening every day:

And as I finish this post, continuing this series theme of good news that can be preached to the whole world. About the cryptically wise meaning of the words "and then the end will come?" Through a conscious realization about our personal experience of perceptual confusion? Enabling an increasingly urgent need to balance humanity's biologically receptive & psychologically projective, experience of consciousness. So that the prophecies of the end of our species perceptual-confusion, may come to world-wide fruition.

I can only hope that I've provided some useful food for thought and body-wise contemplation about the historical purpose of the Jesus' story. The possibility of experiencing a second coming of your mind, by learning to embody the simple ruth of Jesus' resurrection philosophy? Please let me know what you feel and think about this blog post, in the historical context of truth, goodness, & beauty.

Best wishes,

David Bates.

Footnotes:

1. (Yes, a massive portion of the body-mind system operates through a subconsciously orchestrated, functionally automatic network. Science refers to this as the autonomic nervous system (ANS) and implicit processing.

Here is how this automatic orchestration functions across different dimensions of your biology and psychology.

🧬 The Biological Autopilot (The ANS)

Your brain and body constantly communicate without your conscious permission to keep you alive.

• The Sympathetic Network: Turns on your "fight-or-flight" survival mechanisms during stress. It instantly spikes your heart rate and redirects blood to your muscles.
• The Parasympathetic Network: Triggers your "rest-and-digest" response. It automatically lowers your heart rate, heals tissue, and manages digestion.
• Organ Orchestration: You do not have to consciously remind your lungs to breathe, your stomach to secrete acid, or your liver to filter toxins.

🧠 The Psychological Autopilot (Implicit Processing)

The brain relies on automatic mental shortcuts to save energy, processing millions of pieces of data every second below your conscious awareness.

• Implicit Memory: This allows you to ride a bicycle, tie your shoes, or drive a car without consciously thinking about every muscle movement.
• Neuroception: Coined by neuroscientist Dr. Stephen Porges, this is your nervous system's subconscious scanning of your environment for signs of safety or danger.
• Predictive Coding: Your brain functions as a prediction machine. It continuously matches sensory data against past experiences to automatically guess what will happen next, shaping your perception before you even register it.

🔄 The Bi-Directional Loop (Body-Mind Feedback)

The subconscious automation is not just the brain commanding the body; it is a continuous loop.

• Somatopsychic: Physical states automatically alter your thoughts. For example, poor gut health or shallow breathing sends distress signals to the brain, which your subconscious translates into feelings of anxiety.
• Psychosomatic: Chronic mental stress or unexpressed emotions automatically manifest as physical tension, digestive issues, or systemic inflammation.