After following “The Chosen” for five seasons and after have delved into deep symbolic themes I have to give my honest opinion. Watching the season five finale was somewhat disappointing because it really portrayed Jesus Christ in an “all too human” way when compared to the Gospels. I remember watching an interview of Dallas Jenkins on an episode of the Jordan Peterson podcast and I couldn’t help to notice how Jenkins shed a tear during the interview and how he emphasized that he always tried to emphasize the emotional valency in his productions. Psychologically speaking when a person is crying when speaking of Jesus’ name it usually signals a deep emotional connection to an internal complex that is loosened by the thought of love. The issue I have with this over emphasis on the emotional valency of the show is that the feeling function can be overused. Therefore I want to focus this article on the collective consciousness of rationality and the collective unconsciousness of feelings and their implications on belief.

All great movies are trying to make the viewer connect with the main character at a deeper level, using emotional cues and cinematic buildup to resolve deeper complexes within the character. As a viewer of any movie we analyze or intuit the psychology of the main character and we see their strengths and flaws that they often are blind to. We are actually also projecting a whole range of our own emotional qualities to the characters in a movie. It’s not obvious that a human being staring at millions of pictures combined with sound for an hour and a half can produce richness and fluency in the psyche and it can create strong emotional attachments and feelings. It is a fine line between art and propaganda because film directors have a lot of power in directing the psyche of the viewer and misleading it, while also coupling loose and strong associations that the viewer rarely is aware of. Sometimes it can even be about what the viewer does not notice in a movie because they have been desensitized to a fact and their latent inhibition will not stretch their intuitions further into symbolism as their is a wall of belief saying “of course that’s how it is.”

Because of modern society’s insistence on the rationality and unconscious belief in science, which for most people is a blind belief in authority, there are few people who actively read the Gospels with a symbolic lens with the goal of knowing one’s own true self. But if he or she is lucky enough to venture into one’s own strengths and flaws they will discover that all characters of all the stories they read, see or hear are projections of their own conscious and unconscious psyche. The main character of each story is the viewer, and this is a very obvious statement, but the consequences of the realization are incommensurable. Reading the Gospels can be very humbling, and perhaps many people find it hard to read themselves into the story of a perfect human being. “How can anyone become the character of Jesus?” is the question because many people find it hard to see their own value. Carl Jung saw Jesus as the archetype of the Self, which is the same concept as the soul. It is the higher being and one’s own true greatest potential.

In order to better understand my contention towards the depiction of Christ in “The Chosen” I also have to give some insight in how I view the human psyche.

In Jungian Psychology, the individual psyche consist of multiple conflicting and harmonizing fragments of personalities. This is not to mistake it for a pathological personality split in the psyche, but that the average person holds potentialities in the unconscious that are trying to be reconciled with the conscious mind. They are energetically loaded and either draining or giving energy depending on if there is a clear energy flow or a complex arises. The psyche needs a king to rule, and this goes for every human being. Being vague, indeterminate and not believing in any higher authority actually is blind self-corruption. 

Modern man is blinded into believing that all religious texts are propaganda, so they stay away from them to keep “safe”. They are not realizing that they have already been sold propaganda in the very fact that they believe that thousands of year old texts have nothing good to say about what human beings are and where we come from. They trust scientific institutions because they deliver seemingly rational explanations on the surface. Let me just put it bluntly, the things they state as scientific theories are just theories. And no, you have been deceived into believing that a scientific theory has a higher status somehow because it’s still scientific. Guess what? Adaptation has been proven, but evolving from one species of animals to another species of animals have NEVER been proven. Yet, evolution has been a mandatory part of the education system. The same goes for all of their supposed “theories”. 

We know water always finds its level, yet we are supposed to believe in pictures from the earth where water curves around a ball. 

We see that there are no force of pulling in free fall as there is 0 g-force as can be measured with an accelerometer, yet we are supposed to believe that gravity is spacetime curving, even though the explanation is from a formal science of mathematics and not naturally applicable to testing. As being part of the “slave” class, we are to blindly follow the “masters” as the authority of science and no one recognizes the blind belief they have in science, which is more blind than when the elites disguised themselves in the churches. Jesus knew about the “synagogue of satan” and these are the vipers that infiltrate the higher order institutions throughout history. They go where the people are convinced. Before it was the church, now because of too much corruption in the churches the people moved towards the state. Now, do you think the state is corrupt? There is really no argument needed to be done here as we all know the truth.

 This type of individual is unaware of which personality that rules him and he becomes blind to the energy of different archetypes ruling the conscious mind through subtle influence. A good example is that Jesus had twelve disciples, which represents twelve parts of Jesus as they also act on his behalf. We can go even deeper and see them as the twelve personalities of the zodiac signs and how they are traversed by twelve lunar cycles and twelve solar cycles, but inherently they are still speaking of the potential qualities of man. The psyche is projected at the stars, but the inherent quality of the actual influence of the heavenly luminaries are still unknown. Stars are definitely not material, and they are luminaries. I suggest researching Nikon P1000 cameras zooming into stars, and this will perhaps make you question the whole cosmology that you have been taught by education is a lie. 

“15 See that no one repays anyone evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to everyone. 16 Rejoice always, 17 pray without ceasing, 18 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. 19 Do not quench the Spirit. 20 Do not despise prophecies, 21 but test everything; hold fast what is good. 22 Abstain from every form of evil.” (1 Thessalonians 5:15-22.)

To stick to the topic, as Jesus is the thirteenth he is the soul that is part of each of the personalities and each personality have different times and cycles, yet they all come together in the bigger picture of Jesus. So, it is for all things created, because we all are part of a bigger picture. Yet, if we observe the microcosm there are clues to the macrocosm. We are kings of our own bodies, but like any good king, we have to earn that kingdom. No one will serve a corrupt or evil king and even a corrupt people can turn on a good king. The issue here is that our bodies will venture wars against ourselves if we become tyrannical and impose sudden uncomfortable shifts. This is why routines are actually necessary, and not just a modern smart choice. In this modern society we are so used to pumping the sensation function with entertainment and short pleasures that we are over stimulated to the point where we have issues being in a mental state of homeostasis. We create a button that needs to be pressed within us every so often, and if this button is not pressed at a certain countdown, we become anxious as we do not know what will happen to us if do not press it. This is the symbolic plot of one of the “Lost” episodes where they had a countdown on the island and they did not know what would happen if no one would press the button and they were afraid of not pressing it. It’s the same feeling you can get with the inner sensation function. We build an internal clock with our sensation function and this follows cycles as each personality shines forward at certain times, just as the seasons have different influences on our earth. There are times for sowing and there are times for reaping, but if we sow and reap at the same time, there is no growth.

If ancient true cosmology was analogous to the human body, the sun and moon are in the firmament hovering the level plane earth, just as the conscious and unconscious mind switches during the day and night. As Jesus is the “Son of Man”, he is more aligned with the point of perspective on our body (earth) as the sun, and therefore he is the conscious function and aware of what he is seeing. I would not account him for just being a “solar figure” because I think that is actually lessening his existence as he is actually an all pervading light, no matter the material circumstances. I know that people like to say “the sun of man” and say that it is obvious that Jesus is the sun like all the other stories, but it is not so. Jesus is a living God and the supreme God of all, yet we know him personally. The symbolic value we denote to the figure of Jesus Christ is actually only limited by our own mind and it holds endless potential. How can you imagine God, when you were created by him? We have a body, and we have to understand that our embodied perspective limits our ways of expressing truths of reality. The “Son of Man” has even been related to the sign “Aquarius”, which is interesting as a “water bearer” in the gospels, but I still think that any expression of who or what Jesus actually is becomes like trying to catch air with your fingers. He is the son of God and therefore he is the greatest potential possible. As we all hold divine souls we too share this potential, and just as greek orthodoxy are good at emphasizing, theosophy is possible. Also, “the sun of God” would be the light of God, and the light he brings is the soul, therefore Jesus is still analogous the soul even in that mentioning. It is often a reversal to think of material things when speaking of the spiritual world because they are opposites, yet united.

One of the biggest problems modern man has is his blindness to his own sensation function and his overestimation of his own thinking function. This is not merely a projection of my own psyche, but a call to reflection of the collective mind, which Jung also pointed out several times (See Jung’s “Psychology and Religion”). The conception we hold of the collective is our own conception of our relating function. This is usually the anima for a man, but the social aspect of relating is where we hold our value hierarchy. How we treat other people is directly correlated with how we treat ourselves, and this is where the anima as a relating function to one’s inner self is also the same functioning to other people. Standardized education and entertainment values material values and sensational experiences because they are instantaneous and easy to relate to. The problem is that human beings loose their meta perspective, which is necessary to decouple and introspect, exactly so humans do not become vehicles of sensation. One of the internal conflicts we have is by expressing our own souls in reality, and when we see instantaneous reactions to our body’s sensorial aspects react directly to reality, we become engaged because we minimize friction between matter and spirit. From the moment we are born we learn and adapt as we minimize the friction between our intentions and our imprint on the world. Seeing kids play is often them repeating simple games and meta-games they invent, not to play the games better, but to better understand the experience between their should and matter, which they are emphasizing by engaging in play. The soul is part of the most divine in creation, and that spark of creation within us always seek balance between love and wisdom and this is where engagement in play actually becomes a vehicle for the soul to create spaces within small interactions. Play becomes a sharp abstraction vehicle either consciously or unconsciously and this is where this engagement can be mislead by only viewing the sensation function as its goal. No function should be a goal, because it would be a self-referential loop. What instead is the goal, is one’s own soul, as you know that you are the one engaging with the world, and not the world engaging with you.

To wrap it all up and relate it back to “The Chosen” series here are some final contentions.

What discourages me especially is Dallas Jenkins’ insistence on emphasizing Jesus’s emotional outbursts and his choice of portraying Christ as sobbing and crying constantly the day where he was to be betrayed by Judas and that Dallas did not counterweigh all the sobbing with spiritual victories. For instance, Jesus’ transfiguration was never shown earlier in the series, where Jesus face would be as the sun and his clothes as increasingly bright light. The transfiguration would be a celebratory transformation as his spirit would come to the world. I guess the angle “The Chosen” tried to focus on was to make the Gospels more relatable, and unfortunately I just think that crying and sobbing is too human. Although it is natural, it is not the function we need to overemphasize to understand suffering. I can easily say that I am projecting my own psyche on to the collective here, but I do think that the collective has an inferior feeling function and entertainment industries have taken advantage of it for years by depicting strong emotional moments that really only serves the purpose of sobbing. Jung himself and any jungian analysts practically would agree with me at the point that modern people are too rational thinking and therefore the collective unconscious is filled with an inferior feeling function. I do not know with certainty that is what “The Chosen” is doing, but I can’t help to notice the pattern of trying to downgrade any notion of spirituality that overcomes evil and sorrow no matter what is somewhat downplayed to a character becoming a “prey” or “victim”. Jesus was the strongest figure alive, although he understood the suffering he would not overemphasize his feeling function. Reading the Gospel it did say that he was in deep sorrow, but this is because he knew of the betrayal of Judas internally. The suffering already started there for him. They did not align his suffering with his knowing of the event. Perhaps I am too impatient and reading too much into the scenes they chose to portray. Perhaps I’m just tired of entertainment discouraging people instead of lifting them up spiritually. 

This victimhood overlayed upon strong characters becomes an oxymoron and I do not know why they cannot show strong spiritual moments of the Gospels like Jesus’ transfiguration, but the entertainment can easily show an Avengers movie filled with science fiction that completely goes extreme on the spiritual stuff without ever mentioning the good side of spirituality. It’s like that they can show strong spirituality, but it can only be in their imaginary super characters that have no ground in reality. Spirituality in the mainstream entertainment industry is more satanic, as it’s used as a technology without any higher purpose. All great movies has a deep spiritual and symbolic value, but its truths are reversed and we never get to see anyone admitting to the fact that there is a spiritual side to life and we have obviously become blind to it. I am luckily no longer blind to it, but spirituality has become something tied to feeling more than the soul. I would say that the feeling and sensation functions have become hijacked to dull our own relations to them, so that we forget the goal is not to feel or see spiritual moments, the goal is to recognize that the very ability to see it or feel it actually proves its existence. The existence situated within the one beholding it. Modern science likes to emphasize the point in the fantasy like subtle reality of quantum physics about the observer changes the outcome of the experiment – To this I would add, does the experiment change the outcome of the observer? They can create a whole imaginary subtle realm of physicality, but they cannot recognize the mind of every man and woman is this reality. All these modern scientific theories are actually esoteric teachings of the mind. Take the atom, it is “adam”, and the electron is “eve”, which is split from the atom to create energy. This is a story of reality and not inherently reality. They will keep pumping subtle influences into how we perceive the world and they will use biblical truths in our face because they know nothing but deception. 

Test all things and hold truth firmly. Use not only the sword, but also the lance to differentiate between truth and deception.