A JEWISH PERSPECTIVE OF SAGES THROUGH THE AGES

As your intuitive powers grow well practiced at guiding the conscious portion of your mind to reshape and deepen your understanding of history, you may feel need to stand on a soap box, readying your voice to express a personal opinion that’s been so sincerely considered as to hope that others will view your position as gutsy without taking personal offense—and, with that said, I've decided to pen and post the following opinion, concerning sages through the ages, which may offer a different perspective from yours.:

Though your religious ideology (ideas absorbed, which develop into a belief system) may differ from mine, I hope we can agree to disagree when I express my personal opinion, which considers Jesus a sage, whose intuitive brilliance offered a humble stone cutter sound reason to evolve, over time,  into a compassionate leader of mankind as was true of the mindful genius of Moses, Solomon, and David, all of whom subscribed to the religious belief that no man rises above all others to God-like status, and while each of these magnificent leaders are classically revered as sages, whose enlightened mental processes far surpassed the polarizing, war-mongering side of human nature, none was perfect—in fact, the moment that I realized David (whose brilliance as a boy slew Goliath) grew up to embrace the role of leadership as the biblical king whose lust for Bathsheba sent her husband to the front lines of battle where he was killed, freeing the graces of this beautiful woman, impregnated with her monarch’s child, to continue to pleasure her lover—my jaw dropped to the ground in similar fashion as was true when I learned that Jesus was raised by Mary and Joseph to embrace the same religious beliefs that live and breathe within my heart, mind, spirit and soul, today.

In fact, I remember feeling shocked to the max upon learning that the messiah of the Christian world had been a Jewish boy, born in a manger in Bethlehem, who'd transitioned from stone cutter to learned rabbi whose flock was so mesmerized each time his words of wisdom quoted from The Old Testament as to grow into countless numbers of followers who would seek out his guidance, every where—so as to hear my voice exclaim aloud:

Jesus was Jewish?  Then why so much killing over religious differences for thousands of years?  I mean, seriously—if Jesus was resurrected, today, we’d surely hear him say:

What was with those lions feasting on Christians in Rome?  What was with the Crusades?  The Inquisition?  The Klan?  And then, after the war to end all wars, how was possible that leadership throughout the world sang hymns in praise of the Lord in church, eyes tightly closed to the fact that  children were literally being herded into boxcars of trains engineered to deliver terrorized families to camps where manhandled boys and girls (who'd been cruelly torn from the arms of parents who proved strong enough to be enslaved), found themselves cast amongst the elderly and ill, all of whom went up in smoke during the Holocaust?  Had the world gone so insane as to believe that Atomic warfare would keep the peace, forever?  And what am I to make of today's religious (?) fanatics, who strap explosives to the bodies of innocent children, today?  If, rather than absorbing need for each one of you to participate in effecting some positive aspect of lasting change throughout the world, your ancestors failed to do more than offer you lip service instead of offering you sound reason to seriously consider my words for thousands of years then can't you see that I was crucified in vain?  If not so much as one word stated in good faith during my lifetime has inspired your generation to embrace the brotherhood of humanity with courage, humility, forgiveness and love for one another, then—those of you who see me as your Lord—please heed my words, once and for all—take a time out to calm your minds so as to reconsider man’s inhumanity to man over thousands of years, and once your processor's connection to historical intelligence is intact, please get a grip on your egocentric emotional reactiveness so as to stop repeating horrific atrocities, generation after generation—in my name—and once the bullying portion of your processor has rebalanced so as to feel your think tank’s defensive, vindictive reactiveness recede, that's when leaders of nations will actually grow toward embracing the concept of two heads are better one so as to brainstorm effectively through long standing conflicts by way of acknowledging that our long range goal of world peace can not be realized until Christianity, Judaism and the Muslim faith has absorbed the know-how to calm the egocentric, power-struggling portion of our minds in favor of inspiring intuitive powers to emerge so naturally as to gain insight into historical hindsight so as to brighten our think tanks with foresight that proves so farsighted as to reform today's festering attitudes by way of choosing to embrace a universal sense of generosity of spirit beginning at home where families, brainstorming, together, to gain the emotional maturity to identify and heal subconscious wounds will actually be taking first steps toward repairing our war torn world.

And with that said, Jesus would discuss Tikkun Olam, a Jewish concept, which over thousands of years, rabbis continue to define as performing acts of kindness to repair the imperfections of our world.  In fact, Jesus would tell us that this phrase appears in the Mishnah, a body of timeless rabbinic teachings, which is often referenced when social, political and economic strategies to better the plight of the under dog are discussed.

Then, in hopes of having offered our thought processors sound reason to reflect over thousands of years more expansively than ever before, Jesus will ask us to talk amongst ourselves in hopes that his soliloquy may have inspired today's flock to reflect, at a glance, over the historical time line while the spirit of this sage, spying the spirit of Socrates, swooping down from on high in support of his old friend's plight, feels reason to lighten up as this pair of wise old souls (both of whom have been known to inspire youthful minds of future generations to re-ignite the eternal flame of hope by way of resurrecting and spreading yesteryear's words of wisdom throughout the world of tomorrow) gives each of their current disciples a thumbs up, right before they take off, winging high into the sky while we, both feet planted firmly on planet Earth, find ourselves choosing to open closed mindsets in hopes of listening to opinions other than our own when, much to our surprise, we hear Jesus and Socrates, both draped in white—no halos in sight—reaching toward the stars while belting out the courage of their convictions in unison:

We place our confidence in the hope that your self-help generation will continue to encourage each other to muster the patience necessary to effect monumental change for the better, which will continue to evolve ever so slowly with the birth of each next generation of well educated children, who will absorb an ever heightening degree of emotional intelligence than proved possible for generations, which had grown toward maturity, before, and with this mind bending ideology in mind will your processor and mine fall in line, over time, with the positively focused mindfulness of yesteryear’s sages, namely—Moses, Jesus, Socrates, as well as The Bard, Honest Abe, Gandhi and Dr. King—whose spirits inspire our well educated, intuitive intelligence to aspire to take courageous leaps of faith toward believing that as the historical time line moves naturally two cycles forward, one back, the best is yet to come—in fact, when we stop to think about it, here would be their watch words, today:

Moses:                 Let my people go, once and for all!

Jesus:                   Make love not war

Socrates:              Know both sides of thyself

The Bard:            To be self absorbed or to be ever more self aware, that is the question
Honest Abe:        You can fool some of the people, some of the time but not all, all of time
Gandhi:                Be the change you wish for the world

Dr. King:             I had a dream and the reality of evolution suggests that it is coming true—
Erma Bombeck:  If life is a bowl of cherries, why am I always in the pits pushing against
                            that damned glass ceiling?

(You didn't think I'd compile a list of sages without including a woman of wit, right???)

The more expansive our processors grow toward inclusion rather than exclusion of historical information, the less tomorrow's leadership will feel defensive need to power struggle to dominate the thoughts of others for this reason:  Deeper truth suggests that within our melting pot, each next generation of children is becoming better educated about embracing strangers in classrooms, made up of all colors, religious faiths and nationalities, as new friends, who, over time, will grow up to enrich each other's lives in so many ways that cooperative attitudes, learned at home, will create peace-keeping interchanges that will benefit one and all–more often than proved possible for their parents' generation, which was blind to how often lip service tarnished our most deeply valued democratic ideals— so, once again, here I am, feeling thankful that my think tank has grown so peaceable as to have repeatedly tapped into insight driven intuitive trains of thought, which proves necessary to developing the foresight to fully embrace the expansive nature of farsightedness that honors each personal experience, both sweet and sour, that makes up my history, which in turn, has served to inspire many of my loved ones to feel free to go, do and believe whatever their existential souls feel need to become—next  instead of power struggling, defensively, as if to love me is to become my clone ...

Just as wedding lists tend to grow out of hand
I am here to hand over
This fledgling list of sages so as to
Ask you to ask yourselves
Who would your think tank include?
Hmmm—how about ...

The President whose desk sign held leadership responsible:  The buck stops here

The President whose insight declared:  We have nothing to fear but fear itself

The President whose charisma charmed us:  Ask not what your country can do for you but
                                                                       what you can do for your country

The President who brashly bragged:  I'm really, really smart

Whoops!  Wrong list—he belongs on the list of leaders who
Are as blind and deaf to themselves as was true of
Evan Mecham, who was impeached

The First Lady who said:  Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events;
                                           small minds discuss people

The First Lady who offered this reflection:  If you bungle raising your children
                                                       I don't think whatever else you do matters very much."

Left on its own, my mind would back track through
Historical memory to make a point, pretty much forever, which
Is why my intuitive powers have grown ever more
Self aware of those times when my think tank has need to
Call a self disciplined line of control to draw
A complex train of thought, like today's, into a rest station, suggesting
My decision to wrap up this list of sages, whose names surfaced while
My power of intuition penned today's post, so
Last but not least here comes Helen Keller, whose
Insight and foresight serve to inspire one and all ...
"Life is either a great adventure or it is nothing"

PS
This next sage popped out of my memory too naturally to tuck her back before she's had her say:
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” “I freed thousands of slaves, and could have freed thousands more, if they had known they were slaves.”
                          —Harriet Tubman