Jesus of India
His Unknown Years and Travels
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The screenplay is currently being written by a writer/director who is passionate about the book. Financing for the project is also in the works. Stay tuned. The Alternative to The Passion is coming!
Jesus of India (100K words). This work falls in the category, religious or historical fiction. It is a deeply spiritual book, breaking taboos that have kept Jesus locked in a theological prison. Two thousand years is long enough. This novel is an attempt to break all the locks on who and what Jesus was. It is not an attempt to denigrate Jesus, although many will proclaim otherwise. The intention of the author is to open the gates of critical thinking outside theological boxes. First, Maury Lee insists, Jesus needs to be taken out of the box, then perhaps, we will find where he fits in our lives. This is not just a biblical novel, though it may seem like one. This is a spiritual journey, taken by an author through the vehicle of a traveling Jesus. It is a serious work. If you cry, that’s good. If you laugh, that’s good. If Jesus takes on new meaning for you, he may get his prison break.Jesus of India brings the religious philosophies of the East and the West together through an account of Jesus’ childhood and training in the Near and Far East. The final third of the novel is a loose rendering of the New Testament Gospel from a non-dual perspective. This new understanding of the life and teaching of Jesus, shows that his message was at its core, essentially the same as that of the Buddha, the Sufi mystics, and the Eastern gurus. Sri Nissargadatta Maharaj, Paramahansa Yogananda, Ramana, and many other Eastern sages, claim and know Jesus as one of their own. The West has yet to come off its pedestal and claim the Eastern sages as one with Jesus.
Is the public ready for a work such as this? The October 13, 1998 issue of Time Magazine shows a blond, white male in Indian garb with the title, AMERICA’S FASCINATION WITH BUDDHISM. Random House is still publishing under their Value Press, The Greatest Story Ever Told. A search online for Jesus in India, brings up 1,960,000 pages on this subject. This subject is hot! A few years ago there were only two or three such sites. Isn’t it time a new story of Jesus’ life were told, where Jesus is a wandering student and teacher, not all that different from the Buddha--a mystic, a real human? Jesus of India, takes the reader on this adventure, sharing Jesus’ childhood in Alexandria Egypt, where he studies at the Great Library and learns meditation from Buddhist monks. We follow him along the Silk Road to Kashmir, India, and China, where he studies further.
After becoming enlightened in India, Jesus vows to take spiritual enlightenment to his own people, returning to Israel, full of the perennial philosophy. In Israel, Jesus brings the great non dual message of enlightenment to all. It is not new to the Jews, but lost. The reader viscerally experiences Jesus’ frustration at not being understood. The religious elite persecute him. By corrupting his message, the dry brained clergy regain control. The rest is history.
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About the Author
Maury Lee was raised on three continents. Deeply sensitive to cultural beliefs and myths, he absorbed the themes, looking for the universals. Raised by Christian fundamentalists while living among Stone Age natives, proved a daunting task. Hypocrisy stared him in the face from a very early age. His psyche was, as the saying goes, firmly “in the tigers mouth.” With a degree in Creative Writing and a Masters in Counseling, his pen scripts a broad and bold stroke. He claims a triple PhD. in late night reading, and brings it all to hand in this immensely challenging novel. He has uniquely presented, a deeply spiritual novel that transcends belief and exposes a universal mystical core. This novel takes you on a journey with the young Jesus to Alexandria, Egypt, down the Silk Road to India and Tibet, and back to Israel. The Greatest Story has never been told like this.