One phrase misunderstood divides humanity

When Jesus said that ‘I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me’  John 14:6 how do we really deeply receive the true meaning of this?  What does this statement mean on a deep level?  This has been received, we could say, by a world fallen from grace, a world steeped in the delusion of separation. A phenomenal world of separate objects and individual autonomous people rather than through the eyes of unity, rather than through the true seeing of Christ himself perhaps?  This one statement has perhaps been understood to mean that all other faiths and religions, if not Christian, are not true and not the way to God.  Is this perhaps a tragic misrepresentation of what Jesus actually was pointing to from his true, unitive seeing that has in effect created a mental psychological division of humanity that is not based on reality?

When Jesus was referring to himself as ‘I AM’ perhaps he meant the ‘True Self’, his deepest nature that is in harmony with God, that is released from the grip of personal ego identity, that is truly free, that is infinite, imperishable and unconquerable BECAUSE it is transcending the minds games and delusions altogether.  Did Jesus actually asked us to worship him? – or did he ask us to ‘follow’ him, do as he does?  See through his eyes of unity and love for all.  Or did he want us to in effect turn away from 70% of God’s human family because they come from a different land where the divine source of this universe is called by a different name?

Perhaps Jesus, with His I AM statements here, is pointing more to the divine spirit, the Christ light, the True Self, not the phenomenal person of Jesus only, beautiful and divine and pure of heart as He is.  Therefore when he says ‘through me’ he perhaps means through life, truth, my true universal nature in God, my spirit that is one with your spirit and that permeates everything.  Christ consciousness.  Existence itself, the temple of matter and spirit.  Is this ‘the way’, the light and life that is inevitably called by many different sacred names in different places temples and lands?  Perhaps this understanding could bring more unity and peace to our human family if we really considered this.  In Christ, in Love.