Student of Jesus,
Follower of Christ.
These are not the same thing. And understanding the difference has changed everything about how I live, how I do business, and how I treat people.
Student of Jesus.
Follower of Christ.
These are two distinct things — and the distinction matters deeply to me.
Jesus was a man. A real, historical human being who walked, taught, healed, and spoke truths so profound they are still reverberating two thousand years later. I study him — his words, his method, his radical love, his courage. The Sermon on the Mount. The parables. The way he treated the outcast and challenged the powerful. I take his teachings as seriously as any scholar takes their subject.
Christ is something larger. The Christ is the divine consciousness — the eternal spiritual nature that lives within all of us, regardless of religion, culture, or creed. It is what mystics across every tradition have pointed toward. What Rumi called the Beloved. What the Vedic tradition calls Atman. What quantum physicists increasingly suspect underlies the fabric of reality itself.
I follow that. I study Jesus to understand it better.
- The life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth
- The evolution of human consciousness across civilizations
- Comparative religion — Buddhism, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Sufism
- Consciousness research, out-of-body experience, near-death studies
- Biblical theology — Old and New Testament in depth
- The intersection of science, mysticism, and faith
- What it means to live according to these principles — not just study them
Who is Jesus Christ?
This is the question I keep returning to. Not as a theological exercise — but as a lived, daily inquiry.
Was Jesus God? Was he a prophet? Was he the most spiritually evolved human who ever lived? Was the Christ consciousness something he embodied more fully than any other being in recorded history? I don’t claim to have the final answer. But I believe asking the question honestly — without fear, without dogma — is itself an act of faith.
My 13-book spiritual fiction series, The SonFlower and the Bear, is my creative attempt to explore these questions in narrative form. It is not theology. It is not scripture. It is a deeply personal exploration of what I believe, what I wonder, and what I hope.