054 - The true origins of Jesus - the myth behind the man with Colm Holland

Hello and welcome back to the Multidimensional Evolution Podcast with me Kim McCaul. After a hiatus I am looking forward to bringing you some more interesting conversation in 2023. Episode 54 will kick the year off with a returning guest in Colm Holland. I spoke with Colm on episode 38 in 2020 about his books The Secret of the Alchemist. If you listened to that episode you may recall that I had some hesitation about speaking with Colm then because of my misgivings about Christianity, a religion that shaped Colm’s early life and I found still echoed in his book. In the end I was glad to have had a really interesting conversation with Colm about his fascinating life trajectory and his move from church based Christianity to the study of alchemy and Jungian psychology to guide his life path.

It seems only fitting that Colm has now introduced me to a book he has edited on behalf of the deceased author Geoff Roberts that questions the very foundations of the Christian origin story.

No matter where you stand on the story of Jesus - whether you believe in the historical character, believe that there is a spiritual Christ, agree with Geoff Robert’s that the entire story was plagiarised from other existing stories or something in-between. There is no denying that few narratives have shaped human history and consciousness as dramatically as the story of Christianity. Even if you are an atheist, a Muslim or a Buddhist, in one way or another Christianity will have impacted you. Our calendars and global festivities are shaped around alleged life events of Jesus Christ and the world’s pre-eminent super power prides itself on being a “Christian nation”, a concept that clearly means different things to different people. So I think understanding it’s historic origins is an extremely valuable pursuit. One question I find intriguing is why it is Jesus of Nazareth and not someone like his much better documented contemporary Apollonius of Tyana who has ended up becoming the figure head for this world defining cult? What is it about this story that has led it to shape the minds and cultures of billions of consciousnesses over the past 2 millennia? Could it be true that our history has been shaped entirely by a fiction? This is the question we explore in this conversation.

And just a note on something I omitted to clarify during the interview. Colm occasionally references Q. Because in recent years the letter Q has come to be associated in much public discourse with the Qanon movement, it is worth pointing out that in biblical studies the letter Q is derived from the German word Quelle for source, ie it relates to the original source of information. Having clarified that it is also fun to point out that the foundations of Christianity and Qanon actually share quite a few qualitative parallels, but that is a whole other topic.

For now I hope you enjoy this conversation.

Find out more about Colm and his work here: https://www.colmholland.com

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