This is a short video that was recorded during my time in Jerusalem with Jordan Peterson. I discuss the moment where Christ prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane and what it meant in t...
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Jason Scott Montoya @JasonSMontoya
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Jul 25, 2023
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"Sleep is a stand-in for death, it's a little death. So Jesus is saying, stay alive, stay awake, stay connected to my attention. Christ goes up to the garden and gives his attention to God... they fall asleep, they fall into death." - Jonathan Pageau
"Jesus goes back down 3 times to see his disciples sleeping, not connected, not remembering what is happening at the top of the mountain. This is a little version of the golden calf story with Moses." - JP
"The betrayal brings about the scattering, the breakdown of the body's cohesion; another image of death itself. " - JP
Re: Naked boy fleeing > "His clothes are removed (contrasted with Adam and Even being clothed). His nakedness is a nakedness of shame. He's exposing his cowardness symbolic of the disciple's inability to stay connected with Christ."