Jesus: A Story Of Enlightenment

I finished reading "Jesus: A Story Of Enlightenment" by Deepak Chopra.

ABOUT THE BOOK

The book speculates the story of the Messiah-to-be during what might be called his early "Wanderjahr." And wander he does. We meet Jesus consulting with a guru on an icy mountaintop in what seems like Tibet. He gets caught up with armed Jewish zealots, dallies with the Essenes (who collected the Dead Sea Scrolls) and eventually achieves a oneness with God.

"There are no facts to tell us what happened to the young Jesus during his “lost years” between the Nativity story and the day he appears at the River Jordan, age thirty, to be baptized. The book describes an extraordinary youth who discovers, step by step, that he is the awaited Messiah. This is a journey into the realm of miracles and, in the end, complete enlightenment. It’s been a long time—perhaps as far back as Thomas Jefferson—that Americans seriously considered Jesus, not as the Son of God, but as an enlightened teacher. It puts sacredness in human terms and how enlightenment unfolds from promising beginnings, not full divinity. In an age when Jesus threatens to become the exclusive property of fervent, literal-minded devotees, we have an urgent need to bring him back, not as the savior, but as a savior—one who won his own salvation before promising it to the world." - Deepak Chopra