What follows are 18 reflections on the words and teachings of the Christian gospels. While commentary has been written for two thousand years on these texts, in the recent past a new light has been shown on Western religious
thought. In America it came from people like Emerson and Whitman and Aldous Huxley looking toward the transcendental. We have been given Indian spiritual insights through English speaking Hindu monks, like Vivekananda, as he addressed his “Sisters and brothers of America.” This influx has allowed
new perspectives on gospel texts that, as Huxley argued, suffer from “a kind of reverential insensibility, a stupor of the spirit, an inward deafness to the meaning of the sacred words.”
