We sat down to breakfast in an upmarket Bed &Breakfast outside of Barrington Tops National Park, and engaged cheerfully with an attractive couple,
Mary, and – well, his name later. In a conversation punctuated by she massaging his knee (an old footy injury perhaps?) and he gazing into her dark eyes,
we learn that that they are both vegans – water with a rice milk chaser was a bit of a giveaway – that they live in Queensland, and that they are conducting ‘seminars’ in NSW.
The seminars they say, are the source of their income.
He refers vaguely to a wall-hitting relationship breakdown in the past, and a subsequent journey into a search for the meaning
of life and a quest to synthesise the best of all spiritual philosophies. The seminars, he says, are about spirituality. Fair enough.
A spiritual base is unquestionably a good thing and he is articulate, sounds rational, and even charismatic.
Then he suggests that if our body, mind, and soul are in harmony, water is all that we would really need for sustenance.
And a further idea; when we die we don’t change at all, we just simply exist in another dimension searching for . . . well, searching for truth.
As a breakfast discussion it certainly beats the usual traveller exchanges outside a long drop in a national park,
but there is also the beginning of a breakfast association with fruit loops.
At about this point in the discussion our host cum breakfast chef, who is within earshot, started rattling frying pans in the kitchen and singing to himself.
Hardly divine intervention, but a sufficient distraction. Mary got up to pay the bill, but not before giving us a copy of a DVD that apparently outlines
‘his’ philosophy - “There’s a confronting revelation at around the 11 minute mark”, she says, “and you have to make sure you get through that.” ‘He’ gives us
his business card, including a website address. They depart in their ‘donkey’, a late model Commodore.
We watched the DVD some weeks later. The revelation is that our breakfast companion is Jesus.
It’s a live recording and the audience is not visible. Following the revelation, an audience member asks,
“Can you speak Aramaic?” Jesus evades the question with a forced grin - “It is spoken” he says. “That’s not what I asked.
Can you speak it?” No, Jesus can’t speak it. He says that his current incarnation relies on recovered memories,
and language is not a memory that he has yet recovered.
Let’s not get into the vagaries of memory, but certainly this Jesus didn’t enjoy the question.
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