NTI does not teach about a physical resurrection of Jesus’ body. That isn’t a comment on whether there was or wasn’t a physical resurrection. As we have already learned:

When the conditions are right, consciousness manifests as a temporary appearance within consciousness. That temporary appearance could be a flower, a baby, a disease, or an appearance that appears to defy the laws of our world. When the basics of the creative principle are understood, it is seen that temporary manifestation occurs because the conditions come together in a way to create that appearance.

NTI Mark is written to provide helpful symbols. Our role is to derive meaning from its symbols, and then live from the example provided by those symbols. So NTI Mark points within instead of towards manifestation.

We need to look within in order to find our way through the purification stage. We surrender within as we merge with consciousness, and the final death of the ego, which is also the final awakening, is an experience that occurs within.

Here is a related scripture from the Bible. It is provided for your own contemplation:

Now when [Jesus] was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, He answered them and said, “The kingdom of God does not come with observation; nor will they say, ‘See here!’ or ‘See there!’ For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you.”

Then He said to the disciples, “The days will come when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it. And they will say to you, ‘Look here!’ or ‘Look there!’ Do not go after them or follow them. For as the lightning that flashes out of one part under heaven shines to the other part under heaven, so also the Son of Man will be in His day. ~ Luke 17:20-25, NKJV

Today’s reading provides a contrast between the unhealed mind, the healed mind, and the mind that is somewhere between the two. The reason for the contrast is to help us see that there are no facts in the world. Everything seen and experienced is dependent on the mind seeing it and experiencing it.

A fact is “a thing that is indisputably the case.” An example of a fact might be, “Crucifixion is a slow and tortuous means of execution.” At least, most people would agree that is a fact. However, today’s reading describes the experience of the healed mind during crucifixion as “wholly joyous.” (Also, the Bible tells us that Jesus’ body died fairly quickly, instead of slowly.)

In today’s reading, the unhealed mind sees darkness and suffering as it observes the crucifixion. The healed mind is wholly joyous, and the mind that is “somewhere between the complete knowledge of the healed mind and the unfettered blindness of the unhealed mind” experiences reverence and gratitude. Yet, all eyes looked on the same scene.

What is the lesson for us?

Everything that you see and experience,
you see and experience through the filter of your mind.
~ NTI Luke

Allow yourself to realize there are no facts in the world; nothing is “indisputably the case.” Accept that the way you see and understand is the way you  see and understand based on your current state of mind. You are not right about what you see. What you see is right about you; it witnesses to your state of mind.

Your perception is like a school report card. It reports on your state of mind. Aside from that, it has no meaning at all, since what you see is not a fact. Others see it differently.

Contemplate today’s tip deeply. The more you accept that what you see witnesses to your state of mind, the more prepared you are for healing (purification). The more you believe that what you see is a fact, the more likely you are to stay at your current vibrational level.

In the last couple of days, we’ve paid attention to lower and higher vibrational choices. In today’s reading, you will also notice individuals making lower and higher vibrational choices. However, yesterday’s tip said:

Reality transcends all vibrations and all experience.

Today, we will get a sense for reality.

In NTI Mark, Jesus goes through initial purification, clearing away many beliefs and much of his conditioning, during the 40-days and 40-nights in the desert. NTI Mark doesn’t go into detail about Jesus’ initial purification. The majority of NTI Mark is focused on the phase that follows purification, which is called “merging” in NTI. Merging is the process of awakening to consciousness as Self.

The merging process can be gradual or it can be abrupt. In NTI, Jesus experiences a gradual merging, which occurs between the initial purification in the desert and the night of his arrest. The practices that facilitate Jesus’ merging are discernment, kindness and surrender. Jesus also took time for private contemplation and meditation.

In the Garden of Gethsemane, just prior to Jesus’ arrest, fear drives Jesus to surrender more deeply than ever before. On that night, Jesus surrenders his sense of self-existence, which is known as “will.” This surrender was the final death of the ego. It was also awakening beyond consciousness to absolute reality, which is the First Principle of God. To think of Jesus as a man after this point is a mistake. He is no longer a man. He is life-awareness.

There are a few sentences in today’s reading that give hints about the life-awareness that appears as Jesus. Instead of seeing the physical scene directly, it is moved by the highest vibration of code although it is simultaneously beyond that vibration.

For example, Jesus does not see men bullying him. He sees love desiring love. He does not see crucifixion. He is “fully consumed with love and gratitude and reality.”

As the scribe of NTI, I experienced a vision of Jesus on the cross. In that vision, I was Jesus. In other words, the awareness that I refer to as “I” saw through the eyes of the Jesus-body and knew the realization that was known. Let me describe that vision to you:

I was hanging on the cross, meaning the body was hanging on the cross. The body’s eyes still saw in the same way they have always seen, so the body saw soldiers casting lots for clothing; a woman known as “my mother” bent over in agony and surrounded by friends; men dressed in priests’ robes discussing what they saw; some angry faces, and rocks being thrown. The body also saw people going in and out of Jerusalem through a nearby gate, going about their normal day’s activities. This is what the body saw.

However, I was not connected to the body’s sight at all. There was no mind thinking about or interpreting what the body saw. It is fair to say there was no focus on these sights, just as you typically put no attention on many unimportant sights and sounds that your senses pick up on everyday.

My awareness was completely filled with love-gratitude-joy as one thing, not three. And I knew reality, which was nothing that the body sensed. Although the body’s eyes saw physical sights, I was not aware of those things; the body was aware of those things. A scene was present, but I was not part of that scene. I wasn’t aware of “I” or “me,” and I wasn’t aware that there was no “I” or “me.” Those concepts were non-existent. There were no concepts and no thinking. There was only direct knowing (as contrasted with indirect knowing, which isn’t knowing at all).

That is as far as I can go in describing the vision. I knew the vision was a taste of full enlightenment, and I knew enlightenment had no relationship to this world. As Bernadette Roberts described it, “It is a different dimension entirely.”