Spiritual Turmoil

The other day I was watching the song 'Mary did you Know' on YouTube and the video showed scenes from 'The Passion of the Christ'. I couldn't watch it, it was just too heavy for me to see the Son of God humiliated that way. Unfortunately, the scenes are probably quite realistic. All the historic evidence suggest that the man Jesus  died a painful death, while the divine Christ rose on Eastern Sunday and when He rose all the tortures of the past were nothing but a faint memory. Why, I ask, do we humans need to undergo mental turmoil to advance to the next spiritual level? Is it really the karmic debt that we carry around, and did the Christ want to shoulder some of ours? Did Jesus the man just chose wrongly, did he misunderstood the signals of the Tao (His Father)?

 I have no answers to any of the questions, but I do observe that there is a lot of emotional turmoil in our spiritual community. Many spiritual path travelers face emotional upheaval, especially these days. Keep the faith my friend, the dark times somehow prepare you for your next spiritual break-through. As it is written in Psalm 23' "Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, You are with me." And it is then followed by "Surely your goodness and love will follow me and the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever."