Who Is Yeshua?
This week wraps up the final episode of my conversation with Carissa Schumacher on Hold the Light podcast.
In case you are new here, I published my full conversation with Carissa on Episode 22. You can listen to it here: Carissa Schumacher on The Freedom
Transmissions, Creating Sacred Spaces, and Holding the Light.
Since that episode is one hour and twenty minutes, I decided to publish subsequent excerpts from that conversation that were more bite-sized, so to speak. Click below to listen to the first two in the series:
For my final excerpt live today, the topic at hand is: Who is Yeshua?
I wanted to hear directly from Carissa who — in addition to being a forensic psychic medium, an empathic intuitive, and a sacred ceremony facilitator — is a full body channel for Yeshua, with whom she co created the book, The Freedom Transmissions.
I imagine for many, you already have ideas, opinions, or judgements whenever you hear name Yeshua. I know that I did when I first started reading The Freedom Transmissions.
So, I asked Carissa: what is her definition of Yeshua?
You can listen to her answer on HOLD THE LIGHT.
Or, read the transcript below.
Carissa Schumacher on Hold the Light: Who is Yeshua?
Carissa: So for any, um, potentially Jews that are listening, the pronunciation in Hebrew and Aramaic is Yeshua (“Yeh-shoo-ah”), but he says that Yeshua (“Yesh-you-ah”) as well, just because it's a little bit easier to say. And it's so that can be used interchangeably, but ultimately Yeshua is the essence of the Universal Christ.
My experience of Yeshua's presence — and there are many different avatars that have many different essences — but Yeshua's specific essence is Peace.
Yeshua is Peace. He is the emanation of Peace. He is the comforter. Many people throughout history — and certainly within the Journey community and elsewhere — when they've experienced Yeshua's presence, be it in a dream, be it in a vision, there is this overwhelming peace in this sense of feeling completely seen, completely unconditionally loved.
No matter how much shadow, no matter how much light, His presence and energy brings about this feeling. And not just a feeling, it's so much more than that, but it brings about this knowing, this wisdom, that everything is going to be all right.
And when I say the words, “He's the essence of Universal Christ,” please note that I am not saying Jesus. Jesus was not His name. Jesus came from some of the Greek, uh, translations. Jesus is basically the translation of Yeshua. And … when He first came to me, I asked him, “What am I to call you? Am I to call you Jesus?” And He said, “No, that was not my name.”
And so [that] was a learning lesson for me because, of course, I did not grow up in a staunchly Christian household. I was able to explore many different religions at the time. I'm very grateful to my parents for giving me the space to be able to explore that. But He was very clear from the beginning [and] distinction that He is the essence of the Universal Christ.
Because in His life, in His one human life as Jesus, or Yeshua, through His death, through His experience of the death (the Friday), [and then] His transformation and transfiguration in the tomb (when He died and was placed in the tomb, and the tomb was reconfigured), and [then when] He was birthed out of the tomb, from the space of the womb, He did not emerge as a physical man anymore. He emerged through the presence of the Universal Christ. So His emergence after the crucifixion, the resurrection, was the emergence.
[Regarding] the Universal Christ essence, Richard Rohr has a wonderful book that he wrote about this. Richard Rohr, is he's a Franciscan monk or a Franciscan priest, and he wrote a wonderful book called The Universal Christ. Very often prior to giving someone a copy of The Freedom Transmissions. I will give them a copy of The Universal Christ first. Yeah, because it helps people to understand the difference between Jesus, the man, versus the essence of the Universal Christ. And even in the Bible there are certain distinctions between this, meaning that the first three Gospels by Matthew, Luke, and Mark, they refer, they focus a lot more on Jesus, the man, or Yeshua, the man.
This is what He said in His life, what He did in His life, but when we come to the Gospel of John, all of a sudden, John, the apostle or disciple, John, starts referring more to Yeshua as the Christ or the word or the comforter. So even biblically, there was an understanding of the progression from the man into the spirit and ultimately within His life.
And this is, this is what makes Yeshua distinct from almost any other divine being of higher consciousness that has lived on this earth. Everything that He did was through peace. There was no, even some of the other prophets, David, um, you know, Moses, even to a certain extent, there was everything that Yeshua did was through peace.
And not only that. He also gave us proof. He didn't just talk about the afterlife. He basically, He went first to show us that the path was real. He talks about this in The Freedom Transmissions. He walked through the Friday, the death. The Saturday, the tomb that then becomes the womb that we're birthed from into the Sunday, into the resurrection, he gave us proof.
With many people having witnessed His spirit essence in the aftermath of His death and crucifixion, even people that weren't Jewish at the time that saw him in the aftermath of the crucifixion, He gave us proof that we are not just ash. We are not just dust. We are not just clay. That there is a spirit that permeates us.
There is a spirit and a sovereignty inherent to every individual. Every life is of God. It is special and worthy of redemption, of forgiveness, and of love. So He didn't just talk about these things. He actually did it. He walked the talk through what he experienced throughout His passion. He is not the only way, but He created a pathway for us to be able to trust, even when our minds, our eyes tell us to look at the seen, that it is the unseen.
That is the true magic and beauty of our spirit, of our God self. And so when I say that Yeshua is peace, He is not just the essence of divine feminine love, creation, destruction, and He's not just more of the divine masculine truth. He is the marriage, the blending between love and truth, so that there is simplicity, so that there is that point of connection where we are living from the intersection, our origin of the vertical and the horizontal.
To hear my full conversation with Carissa Schumacher, be sure to listen to Episode 23.
Thanks, all. Keep holding the light.