My Spiritual Journey in One Picture

Setting the stage for the final stage of my deconstruction story

Greetings everyone,

I had hoped to push out Stage Six of my deconstruction story but hit a serious time snag. Plus, I am a notoriously slow writer.

Rather than rush it, I thought I would share an illustration that perfectly sums up my spiritual journey. It’s also a warm-up for the themes I’ll be discussing in the final stage.

Here is what I wrote in a Substack note about this picture.

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This simple illustration captures my spiritual journey.

I signed up for the dude on the left thirty years ago.

Then for twenty years, I studied and taught everything on the right, but believed I was mostly teaching people about the dude on the left.

That’s when I retired from the world on the right.

Now I just want to focus on the dude on the left, without any of the stuff on the right.

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To read the Jesus stories stripped of 2,000 years of theological baggage is one helluva spiritual trip, in a mind expanding way.

That’s where my journey has taken me, and that’s what I’m trying to process, think, and write about on my Substack.

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That’s all for now until I can get the next stage written.

Gustavo

Finally, I’d be curious to know if you agree with the message of the illustration? Why or why not?