the King is naked

1. normally perceived self

1.1. My perceived self is my work, we build it by listening to the perception of other people, firstly our families, and eventually our societies. So, the perceived self it is an unavoidable construction. The self that we normally relate to, we normally perceived.

1.2. That perceived self is accepted without question. The self that gets angry, depressed, sad. Caught in our perceived self, I am a loser, I am limited, I am not good enough, we feel it instantly.

1.3. the normally perceived self is the one who feels stuck, unable to expand, to grow to change, when you are feeling that way you are in your perceived self.

2. the King has no clothes

3. Power needs the illusion of the perceived self to count on our support and cooperation, we have to buy into the illusion of the normally perceived self

3.1. John has said to Herodes that he was naked, that all the power of the world could not compare to the power of His Living God, all of the sudden, he is naked,

3.2. a man that was naked but dressed in God has just told him that he was naked, that all of his power was an illusion

3.3. a situation leads you to a discovery that you have been always naked, offte when we feel powerless, no control, adrift, is a good moment to check to see if what you have always thought about yoursel is right

3.4. we do not need anything else that the divine self granted to us when we were born, that we put on Christ and

3.5. But That normally perceived self is not truly you, it is a concoction of our minds, to deal with the cards that life dealt you, but your true self was given by God to you the day you were born, that self shares of the divine self of God and its nature is love as we have learn the the story of Jesus

4. jackson and robert were baptized naked tradition of the church to come into the water naked you will come from one end of the pool drop all your clothes and jewelry all that signifies you station in life and you will come out on the other end of the pool and put on a white alb like the one i ware

4.1. Paul to Galatians You are all sons of God by faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, and there is neither male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.